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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
APRIL 13, 1918
Hippodrome, which will seat about 4,000 people.
"Liberty Day" in Cleveland was the biggest
T. J. Dunnigan Opens Retail Store—May Co. Featuring Weil-Known Lines—Dreher Store Has demonstration in the city's history. The city
was one round of patriotic enthusiasm all day,
Liberty Loan Window—Talking Machine Dealers to Give Benefit in May
April 6, and far into the night, the parade re-
new period models of instruments, featuring the quiring over two hours to pass the reviewing
CLEVELAND, O., April 9.—Thomas J. Dunnigan,
Dreher's "Liberty Loan" stand in the Public Square. Secretary of the
who has been assistant manager of the piano Aeolian-Vocalion.
department of the May Co. for several years, window decorations are very attractive. They Navy Daniels reviewed the parade and spoke
has launched into business on his own account. are driving on the Grand Pianola, pointing out in the Central Armory during the afternoon.
Music played a big part in the demonstration.
Monday he announced that he had purchased the merits of the Duo-Art models.
the University Music Co.'s store, 1010 Euclid
Henry Dreher, of the B. Dreher's Sons Co., Every music, piano and talking machine store
avenue, near the Western Reserve University, in has returned from a trip to New York and in the city "did its bit" in window displays and
several piano men were on important sub-com-
the upper shopping section of Cleveland. This other Eastern cities.
store has a fine business and is largely patron-
Arrangements for the benefit the Talking mittees working up interest in the launching of
ized by students of the university. The store Machine Dealers' Association of Northern Ohio the third Liberty Loan of which Cleveland is
handles Cheney talking machines and records. propose to give for the Y. M. C. A. and Knights asked to take $55,000,000. More than $27,000,000
"I expect to put in a fine line of pianos next of Columbus, this city, early in May, are making was subscribed the opening day.
fall," said Mr. Dunnigan, "and will have other good headway. The affair promises to be one
Piano and talking machine men say that they
plans to announce to my friends."
of the spring's biggest musical events. Several do not anticipate any decrease in sales because
Mr. Dunnigan was located in Pittsburgh for phonograph stars have already consented to of the third loan. Some dealers say the busi-
two years as manager of the Boggs & Buhl de- give their services in singing. The arrangements ness will increase, as the war is making music-
partment store when it was controlled by the committee appointed by President Charles K. lovers and patriotism is encouraging the sale of
May Co. of this city, and when the May con- Bennett of the association will report in a few player-pianos and talking machines for home
cern sold the establishment Mr. Dunnigan re- days. The benefit may be held in the Keith use.
turned to Cleveland. He left the May Co.
Saturday.
EXCELLENT STIEFF PUBLICITY
BUSINESS CHANGE IN BUFFALO
Tt is understood that the piano department
business of this concern will be looked after Albert F. Koenig Buys Out Interest of L. B. Baltimore Piano Manufacturers Using Some
High-Grade Booklets to Feature Their Line
Adams in the Adams-Koenig Piano Co.—To
by others in charge of Manager Dan J. Nolan
Continue and Enlarge the Business
and that Mr. Dunnigan's duties will be dis-
BALTIMORE, MD., April 8.—That Chas. M. Stieff,
tributed to present employes.
Inc., are firm believers in the use of high-class
BUFFALO, N. Y., April 9.—Albert F. Koenig has
Mr. Dunnigan is organist for St. Ann's fash-
ionable church. He is widely known in Cleve- bought out the interests of L. B. Adams in the booklet work in the representation of their
land music circles and for a year was organist Adams-Koenig Piano Co. Mr. Koenig will con- pianos is well evidenced by the literature found
at St. Thomas Aquinas' church. He is very duct the business at the present store, 626 Main upon the tables at their headquarters at 9 North
popular with the trade and his friends assert street, and will follow the same policy which Liberty street, in this city, and in their sixteen
made the firm successful in the past seven branch warerooms throughout the country. One
he will make good in East Cleveland.
"A poor piano will usually keep in condition years. As in the past, Mr. Koenig will feature of two pieces of literature that stand out most
until you have paid for it, but seldom much the Hallet & Davis line. The Adams-Koenig conspicuously is a book of some sixty pages
longer; and not always that long. Think of Co. has always catered to the better class of entitled "indorsements." As its name would im-
the names you see on pianos in fine old homes. trade and has placed the Hallet & Davis pianos ply, it is chiefly composed of testimonial letters
Chickering, Henry F. Miller, Mehlin—names and players in many of the best homes of Buf- from many of the enthusiastic users of the Stieff
piano. The great majority of these indorsements
that have stood for musical excellence for years. falo.
"This business will be expanded and the sales come from large institutions of learning situated
Many of these noble pianos have been in use
for fifty years, or more, and are still sweet- force reorganized and increased," said Mr. Koe- in various sections of the country. The other
nig. "I have renewed the lease on the present is the Stieff catalog, attractively covered in
toned."
royal purple and artistically printed on fine
Thus spoke the sales manager of the May premises for several years. This is a very de- stock. The frontispiece is a very fine reproduc-
Co. in calling attention to sixty-three styles of sirable location."
tion in colors of the painting by Griffith B.
Chickering, Mehlin, Shoninger, Estey, Marshall
Coale entitled "The First Lesson." The book
& Wendell, Henry F. Miller, J. & C. Fischer,
HOLDING REMOVAL SALE
is chiefly devoted to a history of the Stieff piano
Apollo, Angelus, Armstrong, and Behr Bros.,
and a description of the large plant that produces
Mathushek & Sons Piano Co. is now holding these instruments. The various styles are de-
offered patrons by the firm.
"Pretty hard to beat this offering," remarked a removal sale at the warerooms long occupied scribed on separate sheets and are inserted in an
Dan J. Nolan, manager of the company's piano by them at Forty-seventh street and Broadway, envelope arrangement on the back cover.
preparatory to moving to their new quarters at
department.
The B. Dreher's Sons Co. are offering sixteen 37 West Thirty-seventh street, New York.
CLEVELAND PIANO TRADE SATISFIED WITH CONDITIONS
FOUR STARS IN SERVICE FLAG
To Save Yourself, You Must
Save Your Country
OUR factory, your store, your home, represent years.of
Y
labor, thought, saving and struggle. If they are threat-
ened, you spring to their defense with all your strength, all
your ingenuity and resourcefulness. They are the fruits of a
lifetime of effort, and must be protected and preserved at all
cost.
Your country represents the toil, the sacrifice, the struggle of
past generations of Americans. They won it by their valor;
they freely gave their lives, when called upon, to preserve its
integrity and its freedom; they have handed it down to you
as a priceless heritage and a sacred trust.
Can You Do Less for Your Country than You Would Do for Your Home?
To Save yourself, you must save your country
BUY LIBERTY BONDS!
by Kindler & Collins, Inc., 520 West 48th St., N. V.
James S. Gray Has Three Sons and a Son-in-
Law in the Service of Uncle Sam
ALBANY, N. Y., April 8.—James S. Gray, of
Boardman & Gray, well>-known piano manufac-
turers of this city, has the honor of having four
stars in his family service flag. Three of the
stars represent his songs, Bradley C. Gray, a
petty officer in the Yale Naval Reserve Training
School, New Haven; Sergeant Neil A. Gray and
Sergeant Emerson C. Gray, both of Troop B,
New York Cavalry, now in the Federal service,
and doing guard duty on the State Waterways.
The fourth star represents Major M. S. Damon,
Mr. Gray's son-in-law, also of the New York
Cavalry, and on guard duty in the State.
KROEGER USING TRADE ACCEPTANCE
The Kroeger Piano Co., of Stamford, Conn.,
adopted the trade acceptance on April 1.
When a sale is on a time settlement basis this
company requires that the trade acceptance shall
be mailed within ten days after the date of ship-
ment. Bearing on this new move Mr. Garrit-
son, president of the Kroeger Co., stated to a
representative of The Review: "We are firm
believers in the trade acceptance plan, and for
a long time have given earnest thought and
study to the way the trade acceptance idea has
been taken up and developed by leading indus-
trial institutions of the country."