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THE
JULY 13, 1918
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
47
RESIN INDUSTRY AN ESSENTIAL
SUMMER TRADE IN SMALL GOODS
PURCHASE KOHLER & CHASE STOCK
War Industries Board Rules That Resin I s Nec-
essary to Help Win the War—Violinists As-
sured of Enough for Their Use
Warm Weather Brings With It Increased De-
mand for Musical Instruments of All Kinds—
Dealers Predict Prosperous Season
Sherman, Clay & Co. Take Over Several Small
Goods Lines Handled by That House—Rais-
ing Funds for Marine Band—Equipping New
Shipyard Band—Reception for Schwab
Violinists will be glad to know that the resin
industry has been deemed essential by the Gov-
ernment. While resin does not • play a very
great factor in the small goods trade, it still is
a most necessary adjunct for violinists, being, in
fact, one of those little things which are hardly
given a thought until they are missing. The
ruling of the War Industries Board anent resin,
which will insure a suffiicient supply being main-
tained for war purposes, and leave enough to
supply the violin trade as well, is as follows:
"The idea that the industry might be classed
as a non-essential arose from the calling of a
meeting of turpentine and resin producers by
Cliff Williams, Commissioner of Labor for
Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia and
Florida. This meeting was held in New Or-
leans on June 10. It was Commissioner Will-
iams' purpose in calling the meeting to discuss
with the producers labor conditions in the in-
dustry, and to determine whether there was any
surplus labor which might properly be released
for other work.
"Russell S. Hubbard, Chief of the Paint and
Pigment Section of the War Industries Board,
has been assured by Commissioner Williams
that he will not take any action that would lead
to the withdrawal from the industry of any labor
required to produce the needed supplies of these
commodities."
The advent of the summer season has brought
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., July 5.—Sherman, Clay
with it the usual increase in the demand for
small goods, and in fact dealers in almost every & Co. have bought out a part of the small goods
section of the country report that the demand department of Kohler & Chase. They have
for musical merchandise and accessories this taken over the Conn, Vega and Martin goods.
summer is greater than it has been for a number It is understood that Kohler & Chase intend to
of years. The American people are turning sell out this department as soon as possible to
more and more to the outdoor life as a means make more display room for the Soloelle.
of recreation in the summer, and this naturally
W. M. Ringen, formerly of Kohler & Chase
carries with it a need for portable musical in- and now in charge of band instruments and
struments to furnish music at the summer board- small goods at Sherman, Clay & Co., has been
ing houses, outdoor camps and on the beaches. busy working up a benefit concert and dance
The popularity of the ukulele does not seem in order to raise funds for the Marine Band.
to have diminished, despite the fact that the The affair was given at the Civic Auditorium on
"ukulele craze" a couple of years ago was so the evening of Saturday, June 29, and proved
strong that many dealers believed there would a great success". A total of $5,000 was raised
come a marked reaction, and that ukuleles would by the benefit and turned over to the band.
be a drug on the market. The ukelele factories
The Schaw-Batcher Shipbuilding Co., of
in Hawaii have been working to capacity for South San Francisco, has just organized a band
the past three years, and there are also several among its working men, which will be made up
factories in California and other parts of the of fifty instruments. Sherman, Clay & Co. are
country which are devoting either all or a large selling the instruments for this new band, which
part of their facilities to the manufacture of this may be ready to take part in the Labor Day
popular little stringed instrument, and yet the parade. Tn connection with working men bands,
supply has seemingly been unable to equal the when Charles Schwab, of the emergency fleet,
demand.
arrived in San Francisco on the afternoon of
Sherman, Clay & Co., the prominent Pacific July 2, an impromptu parade was formed of the
Coast music dealers, have had unusually good reception committee and led by the Union Iron
success with their banjukes, which are ukuleles Works Band in their overalls and with the
in banjo form. The banjuke gives a louder tone grease and dirt of toil still on their faces and
than the ukulele, is as easy to play, and is in hands, and a march was made to Mr. Schwab's
As they passed through the streets the
MORE INSTRUMENTS FOR THE BOYS many ways better for accompaniment to either hotel.
another instrument or to the voice than is the band received as much applause as the great
Hobbie Bros. Co. Conducts Two Weeks' Drive ukulele. The banjuke has won a host of friends, shipbuilder himself.
and considering the comparatively small time it
for Instruments for Soldiers and Sailors
has been on the market its success has been
Thomas Dwyer, of the Dwyer Piano Co.,
ROANOKE, VA., July 7.—The Hobbie Bros. Co., exceptional.
New Orleans, La., recently joined the National
of this city, recently conducted a two weeks'
Mandolins, guitars, banjos and similar instru- Army and is now in a training camp.
sale in connection with a drive for the securing ments are also in good demand, not only for
of musical instruments for soldiers and sailors vacation use but also for use for dancing, ban-
in training camps and abroad. The plan was jos and drums being in urgent demand for jazz
'OLD ANEW
featured in a number of advertisements in the band purposes. Band instruments of all kinds,
VIOLINS £ _ ^ * GRAND PRIZES
local newspapers, and provided that any cus- particularly fifes, clarinets, flutes and snare
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tomer who brought a second-hand portable mu- drums are actually scarce articles at the present
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sical instrument to the store would receive a time, due to the enormous demand for them for
OUR
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liberal allowance on the same towards the pur- military and semi-military bands. Viewing the
TALOOUES
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chase of a Francis Bacon piano or player-piano. situation as a whole, this summer promises to
The instruments turned in by the customers be one of the most prosperous that the small
were put in first-class condition by the concern, goods trade has ever seen.
and were then shipped to various army camps.
The drive was very successful, a large number
Consult the universal Want Directory of
of instruments being secured, and a number
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
AND
of piano sales were consummated as well.
free of charge for men who desire positions
of any kind.
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