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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Salt Lake City Merchants Find Past
Month One of the Best in City's History
Several Local Dealers Say Last December Was 50 Per cent Ahead of the Same Month in the
Preceding Year—Ogden Dealers Make Similar Reports—Glen Bros.-Roberts Increases Staff
C A L T LAKE CITY, UTAH, January 4.—
Some of the Salt Lake City music houses re-
ported a big increase in business during De-
cember over the same month last year. There
were one or two, however, who said it was
none too good, the Christinas business so far
as they were personally concerned being rather
disappointing. One company said its December
business was 50 per cent ahead of December,
1922.
Business had been good in all depart-
ments. The sale of higher-priced phonographs
during the holidays was specially recorded.
Business Good in Ogden
Business was good in Ogden for the few
weeks preceding Christmas. Glen Bros.-Rob-
erts Piano Co., the Lyric Music Co. and others
all reported the market active. The former
company is putting more salesmen on the road.
O. L. Shepherd, who is at present with a Poca-
tello, Idaho, music company, will take care of
southern Idaho. Daniel Brian will make
Nevada, Wyoming and some parts of Idaho.
Mr. Brian has been with the company fifteen
years. Resident agents will also be established
at Evanston, Wyo., and Driggs, Idaho.
Other appointments made by the Glen Bros.-
Roberts Piano Co.'s Ogden store are as follows:
Mrs. Milton White, to take care of Ampico
department, and Miss Adelaide Ashton, Ogden
singer of note, in the record department.
Thomas J. Holland, sales manager and a direc-
tor of the company, said he was looking for big
things for 1924. Agriculture, mining, manu-
facturing and the tourist business are all going
to be good in their trade territory, he thought.
Mr. Holland said their Christmas business was
fine, but what was still better, it is holding up
well now that Christmas is over. The finishing
touches on the fine new building of this com-
pany have been put on and every one has
settled down to get business.
Contest Cup
A silver loving cup has been presented to the
L. D. S, U. music department by the Daynes-
Becbe Music Co. for the department of the
school that makes the best showing on Found-
ers' Day.
Defective wiring was given as the cause of
a small blaze in the Christmas window display
of the Glen Bros.-Roberts Piano Co.'s Salt Lake
City store. The timely presence of three or
four members of the staff prevented the flames
from spreading. About $200 worth of damage
was done.
The music department of the Bates Stores
Co., of Provo, is conducting a music contest
with Judge B. Tucker as the judge. The firm
has already sold sixty phonographs in connec-
tion with this contest.
The interest in band music keeps up. Clarence
J. Hawkins, of the L. D. S. School of Music,
has just been commissioned to organize a regi-
mental band for the One Hundred and Forty-
fifth Field Artillery. Every music house in this
city and Ogden reports more interest in band
and orchestra instruments at this time than in
anything else, with talking machines coining
second.
Col. Daynes a Grandfather
Col. Joseph J. Daynes, president and general
manager of the Daynes-Beebe Music Co., is a
grandfather, a son having been born to his son
Donald, treasurer and credit manager of the
well-known company. Mr. Daynes, Sr., is now
in California, where he will spend a week or
two looking after the company's interests there.
Mrs. Margie Larsen is an additional member
of the Lyric Music Co.'s staff, Ogden.
"Last Night on the Back Porch" is the big-
gest sheet music hit, according to the sheet
music department of the Glen Bros.-Roberts
Piano Co., Ogden. In sentimental songs, "The
World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" and "Roses
of Picardy" are leading, it was stated.
The Dixon-Taylor-Russell Co., of Provo, a
concern with a fine music department, is open-
ing a branch store at Springville, Utah County,
in the near future.
P. S. Heilbut, manager of the music depart-
ment of the Bates Stores Co., of Provo, has
been elected to an important office in the Provo
American Legion, after a spirited contest.
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
Merrill
Boston Made Since 1885
Uprights
Player-Pianos
ATTRACTS THE BETTER GLASS OF TRADE
One of the 3 Great Pianos of the National Line: Briggs, Merrill,
Norris & Hyde
National Piano Manufacturing Co.
Division of
CONWAY MUSICAL INDUSTRIES
661 Boylston Street, Boston
JANUARY 12,
1924
Weaver Piano Go. Dines
Its Veteran Factory Men
Dinner Given at Lafayette Club to Fourteen
Whose Terms of Service Have Ranged From
Twenty-five to Forty Years
YORK, PA., January 7.—On January 2 the Weaver
Piano Co., of this city, again expressed its
appreciation of the skilled piano builders who
had been associated with it for twenty years
or more by tendering them a banquet at the
Lafayette Club. There were fourteen present
who had been associated with the company for
from twenty-five to forty years each. These
were designated on the souvenir program and
menu card as "The Weaver Pioneers—The
Honored Guests." The next distinction was
"Invited Guests," among which there were
eighteen who had been associated with the com-
pany from twenty to twenty-five years. The
honors were not alone confined to the produc-
tion force, but the executives of the company
were also well represented. W. S. Bond, presi-
dent of the company, was in the first classifica-
tion, having been with the organization thirty-
two years; Walter L. Bond, treasurer of the
company, fifteen years, and Chauncey D. Bond,
assistant secretary and treasurer and factory
superintendent, fourteen years.
The banquet brought to light many interest-
ing facts regarding the loyalty and long asso-
ciation of many of the employes to and with
the Weaver organization. Three generations
of one family are to be found: Ferdinand Petry,
the father, has been with the organization
thirty-six years; John Petry, the son, thirty-
two years; Charles Petry, grandson, five years,
and Ellsworth Petry, another grandson, one
year. There are also a number of other fathers
and sons both working for the organization.
All the foremen, with one exception, have been
associated with the company over twenty years.
The Weaver business was established fifty-
three years ago and the company incorporated
forty-one years ago with a capital of $30,000.
This business has been built up steadily until
now it is stated the investment is over $1,000,-
000. The company manufactures pianos, player-
pianos, reproducing pianos and piano benches
and there have thus far been built by the com-
pany 89,843 instruments. The Weaver Piano
Co. also wholesales talking machines, etc.
Estey-Welte Corp. Holds
Its Annual Sales Meeting
Executive and Selling Organizations Meet in
New York to Plan Selling Campaign for the
Twelve Months of the Year
The sales and executive organizations of the
Estey-Welte Corp., New York City, held their
annual meeting on Thursday, December 27,
1923.
The first meeting of the session took
place at the Welte-Mignon salesrooms, 665 Fifth
avenue, at 4 o'clock, when the sales possibilities
of the original Welte-built Welte-Mignon in-
struments were discussed in open meeting. The
meeting then adjourned to the Old Colony Club
at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where dinner was
served, after which the meetings were continued.
Among those present were the following: G. W.
Gittins, R. H. Gittins, E. Fink, M. E. Burnham,
Hy Eilers, W. Vossler, O. C. Stone, A. Dal-
rymple, E. H. Vogel, Gene Gittins, George Mc-
Nally, Harry Stoehr, P. Whestler, Cary Wal-
radt and others.
Steinway Duo-Arts in Omaha
OMAHA, NEB., December 31.—The Oakford
Music Co. has had an especially fine business
during the holiday season in reproducing pianos
as well as grands and players. The company
handles the Steinway Duo-Art and has placed
thirty of these instruments in some of the finest
homes in the city during the past few months.