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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
3, 1919
SATISFACTORY TRADE CONDITIONS IN PORTLAND, ORE.
Music Dealers Report Good Business, With Bigger Shipments of Instruments Arriving—Improve-
ments at Eilers House—Redecorating Many Stores—Talking Machine Men Meet
PORTLAND, ORE., April 26.—While the music
trade has not been unusually active it has been
good, and the arrival of several carloads of
pianos for the various iirms of the city, many of
them in great need of the instruments, has given
the dealers a feeling of confidence in the manu-
facturers and is an inspiration to go ahead and
sell.
The dealers have taken the opportunity dur-
ing the lu-ll in trade to clean up shop, and there
has been a great deal of paint and varnish—to
say nothing of soap and water—used in making
the good-looking stores of Portland better look-
ing than ever.
The piano houses have not been slow in as-
sisting the committee which has the Victory
Loan in charge. This committee asked G. F.
Johnson if he would visit the different music
houses and see if he could get $300 toward de-
fraying the advertising expenses of the loan.
Mr. Johnson visited every music store in the
city and in a very short time the amount was
o\ersubscribed.
J. C. Gallagher, of the Bush & Lane Co.,
states that player-pianos are gaining in popu-
larity at this house, in fact, everything is being
sold in greater and larger quantities than ever
before—pianos, player-pianos, Sonoras, etc.
Oregon Eilers Music House is making exten-
sive improvements. The talking machine de-
partment is being made one of the most com-
plete in town. A new secretary has been en-
gaged—W. Paul Bowling, from Birmingham,
Ala. Mr. Bowling, who is a pleasant, affable
gentleman, is well pleased with Portland, which
he expects to make his permanent home. Mr.
Bowling says they have sold two fine Chicker-
ing grands this week—have placed one in the
Multiiomah Hotel and one in the Oregon State
Agricultural College at Corvallis. More Chick-
ering grands are expected in this week, and there
will be no difficulty in disposing of them. The
small goods department of Eilers is doing a
fine business and the sheet music department,
under the management of Mrs. Grace McFall, is
the best of its kind in Portland.
The Wakefield Piano Co. is very short of
goods, only three pianos being left on the floor.
T. A. Tascherean, who is in charge during the
absence of Mr. Wakefield, who is in eastern Ore-
gon, said a carload of pianos is on the way now.
Three new salesmen are on the force, A. M.
Willis, C. H. Holdum and T. Barrett.
A good stock of used pianos is on hand at
the piano house of the Reed-French Co. A car-
load of Sterling pianos has just been received.
B. F. McCort, of this house, is being compli-
mented upon the success he has made of the
window decorations.
The piano parlor of the Reed-French Co.,
which is large and spacious, is being decorated
and carpeted and the whole store is keeping in
step with the other music stores of the city,
and there are no finer or handsomer stores to
be found on the Pacific Coast.
Foley & Van Dyke are shipping out the pianos
they receive about as fast as they are shipped
in. Four Hobart M. Cable pianos have been
sold during the week. Three weeks ago a car-
load of Hobart M. Cables was received by this
JANSSEN
The Most Talked About
Piano in the Trade
BEN H. JANSSEN
Manufacturer
82 Brown Place
New York
firm, and when The Review correspondent called
at the store there was only one upright and one
player left out of the lot.
Walter S. Gannon, representative of the Koh-
ler Industries, is in town. He expressed sur-
prise at the business activity of Portland. This
is Mr. Gannon's first visit for three years.
The talking machine dealers held the monthly
meeting at the Hazelwood restaurant on Wed-
nesday evening, April 16. It was the most suc-
cessful meeting ever held by the association.
Fifty-four were in attendance. After dinner,
which was served in a private room, the meeting
was addressed by G. F. Johnson, of the Johnson
Piano Co. The address was helpful and in-
spiring.
DISTRIBUTE 1919 KOHLER BONUS
Employes of the Kohler Industries, New York,
Received Bonus Checks This Week—One of
the Many Features of Welfare Work Con-
ducted by This Great Piano Organization
The first of three payments of the 1919 bonus
for continuous service was made to the employes
of the Kohler Industries on Wednesday, April
30. The amount distributed was approximately
$25,000.
This is the seventh year the fund has been in
operation and its pronounced success of the past
and the appreciation with which it is received
by the thousands of employes are- gratifying to
the board of governors of these industries. This
year the payments will be made in three instal-
ments instead of in a lump sum. The other two
instalments will be paid, one in September and
the other before Christmas.
The Kohler Industries are firm believers in
welfare activities. In addition to this continu-
ous service fund bonus plan, every employe is
given free life insurance protection, which
means that every man and woman in the em-
ploy of the industries, regardless of age, is in-
sured for $500 cash. This insurance is carried
and was effective to all employes of the Kohler
Industries who served under the colors. Then
there is a hospital room in the main factory
under the supervision of a doctor, where per-
sonal service and attention for all sick employes
may be obtained at any time. The safety first
movement, which has minimized accidents in the
various plants, is another feature conducted by
the welfare board. Each concern of the indus-
tries has a committee whose special work is to
devise ways and means of further protecting the
employes against accidents. These committees
meet in a body once a month, discuss the vari-
ous suggestions and adopt those that are most
practical. A suggestion plan is also in opera-
tion whereby employes may suggest improve-
ments which would facilitate or improve the
manufacture of pianos. Cash awards are made
each month for all practical ideas that are
worth adopting.
These are but a representative few of the many
features of the Kohler Industries welfare work,
which has always typified this large and suc-
cessful organization and which proves the fine
spirit which governs this institutipn. The ex-
ecutive officers of the Kohler Industries are all
interested in welfare work, which is operated
with extraordinary completeness and efficiency
in this large group of piano and player manufac-
turing concerns.
T. G. BAKER WITH SCHUBERT CO.
Thos. G. Baker became superintendent of the
Schubert Piano Co. last week, having assumed
his new duties on April 23.
Consult the universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
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597 E. 137th Street, New York