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SEPTEMBER 6, 1924
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
St. Louis Music Trades Report Fair
Volume of Sales During Month of August
E. A. Kieselhorst Expected Back in St. Louis About September 25—Thiebes Piano Co. Opens
Musical Merchandise Department—Schlude New Retail Manager of Silverstone
LOUIS, MO., September 2.—August,
which started out somewhat bravely, achiev-
ing a measure of accomplishment and giving
fair promises, wearied in well doing toward its
end. The second half of the month was not as
good as the first half. In spite of that, though,
the month's business was fair, considering the
season and general conditions. Unusually hot
weather toward the close of the month may
have had something to do with the let-down.
For most of the downtown firms the month
was better than July and as good as August a
year ago, and there is, in the general return of
better feeling, justification for confidence that
September will show substantial improvement.
E. A. Kieselhorst, president of the Kiesel-
horst Piano Co., who has been gallivanting over
Europe, and who was last reported straddling
the mountains of Switzerland, now reports him-
self as having been through France, Belgium
and Holland and as sojourning in Germany,
from where he will sail September 10, and is
expected back in St. Louis about the 25th.
W. P. Geissler, manager of the Famous &
Barr Co. music department, is spending a ten
days' vacation touring to Chicago and Indiana
in his new Nash.
A. W. Hosier, manager of the Scruggs, Van-
dervoort & Barney music department, and Jack
Burke, his assistant, have returned from a two
weeks' trip to New York, where they visited
the Brambach, Sohmer and Estey factories, and
Boston, where they visited the Chickering fac-
tory. Substantial orders were placed for the
Fall and Winter.
J. H. King, of the Aeolian Co., has returned
from a vacation of fifteen days spent at Sulphur
Wells, Ky. He was accompanied by Mrs. King
and they motored the trip.
W. P. Chrisler, president of the Aeolian Co.
of Missouri, returned last week from attending
the funeral of his father in New York State,
and will leave in a few days for Cooperstown,
in that State, to bring back his family, who
have been spending the Summer there.
John Costello, manager of the Lehman Piano
Co., has returned from his vacation, which was
spent in taking a number of automobile trips
out of St. Louis.
The Thiebes Piano Co. has installed a com-
plete line of small musical merchandise, includ-
ing saxophones and stringed instruments.
L. M. Schlude has been appointed retail sales
manager of the Silverstone Music Co., succeed-
ing Paul Gold, who resigned to go with Lowen-
stein & Sons, Memphis, Tenn.
Mark Silverstone, president of the Silverstone
Music Co., returned Sunday from a trip to
Europe, on which he was accompanied by his
son, Julius.
William Eden, of the Gulbransen Co., Chi-
cago, was here last week.
N. C. Shannon, manager of the Wurlitzer Co.
branch at Louisville, Ky., stopped here on his
way back home after a vacation visit to Kansas
City and Wichita, accompanied by his wife and
children. He was formerly connected with the
St. Louis trade.
J. E. Kunkel, formerly of Kunkel Bros., is
now with the Aeolian Co. of Missouri.
July Employment Situation
in Piano and Organ Trade
week of September 8 to receive applications for
enrollments and answer inquiries relative to
the school program. The second school will
open in Cleveland, O., on September 22, with
E. J. Piquette as instructor. Mr. Piquette will
be located at the Statler Hotel, Cleveland, from
September 15 to receive applications and answer
inquiries.
Both the schools mentioned will follow the
regular program. The course of instruction will
cover practically one month and will be most
complete in every detail. Tuners and repair-
men who complete the course will be supplied
with certificates certifying to that fact, and it is
expected that in view of the success of previous
schools the registration will be unusually large.
At least the preliminary interest would indicate
that fact.
Some time ago it was announced that an Am-
pico school would be opened in Atlanta, Ga.,
during September, but owing to the great de-
mand for Ampico training from the North Cen-
tral States it has been necessary to delay the
opening of schools in the South until some time
later in the vear.
CT.
Government Reports Show Slight Decrease in
Employment in the Industry During Month
of July—Per Capita Earnings Increase
WASHINGTON, D. C, September 2.—Employment
in the piano and organ industry declined 5 per
cent in July as compared with the preceding
month, according to a survey of industrial con-
ditions throughout the country just completed
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, returns from
thirty-four establishments showing 6,375 persons
employed, as compared with 6,707 in June. The
weekly payroll, however, declined only 1.1 per
cent, from $182,900 in June to $180,921 in July.
As compared with July, 1923, there were 18.2
per cent fewer persons employed and the weekly
payroll was 12.4 per cent lower. Per capita
earnings of employes in the industry in July
were, however, 4.1 per cent greater than in June
and 7.1 per cent greater than in July of last
year, only one of fifty-two industries surveyed
being able to report a larger increase in. per
capita earnings from June to Ji'ly.
New Philpitt & Son Store
in St. Petersburg, Fla.
New Ampico Training School
for Toledo and Cleveland New Addition to Chain of Retail Music Stores
First of Fall Series to Be Opened in Toledo
on September 15 and in Cleveland on Septem-
ber 22 in Response to Urgent Demand
The service department of the American
Piano Co. announces that plans have been com-
pleted for the holding of two new Ampico train-
ing schools in the very successful series that
have been conducted during the past few months
under the direction of that department.
The first of these new schools will open in
Toledo on September 15, with C. L. Schneider
as instructor. Mr. Schneider will be located at
the Waldorf Hotel, Toledo, beginning with the
Operated by S. E. Philpitt & Son in Leading
Florida Cities Will Carry Full Line
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA., August 30.—S. Ernest
Philpitt, of Philpitt & Son, who conduct suc-
cessful music stores in Miami, Tampa, Orlando
and Jacksonville, Fla., has been in this city in
connection with opening up a new store at 444
Central avenue in the Hotel Poinsettia Building,
one of the best locations in the city.
Although the new store is only sixteen feet
wide it is 100 feet deep, and careful arrange-
ment has enabled Philpitt & Son to install a
new front with two large windows, one ten by
ten feet and the other ten by seven feet.
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