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The Music Trade Review
AUGUST 4, 1928
New Finance Corporation
Formed on Pacific Coast
Frank Anrys, Roy Miller and Several Other Associates in the Wiley
B. Allen Co. Organize Surety Finance Service
Corp.—Geneva Organ Is Installed
by a special orchestra which will be in at-
tendance. The annex, which was formerly the
Wiley B. Allen Co.'s store, ceases to be a music
house with the expiration of the lease, July 31.
Decline in Both Payrolls
and Employment in June
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 30.—A slight decline
both in employment and payroll totals in the
piano and organ manufacturing industry in
June is disclosed by a survey just completed by
the bureau of labor statistics of the Department
of Labor. Returns to the bureau from forty-
three manufacturing establishments showed
6,833 persons employed in June, against 6,938
in May, a drop of 1.5 per cent, while the aggre-
gate weekly payroll was $195,293, against $198,-
892, a drop of 1.8 per cent. Compared with
June, 1927, there were 13.4 per cent fewer per-
sons employed in the industry, and payroll
totals were 13.1 per cent less. Per capita earn-
ings of workers in the industry in June, al-
though 0.3 per cent less than in May, were 0.1
per cent greater than in the same month last
year.
AN FRANCISCO, CAL., July 29.—Frank Anrys, vice-president of the Wiley B. Allen Co. and
general manager of that company for the past twenty-five years, Roy Miller, secretary of the
company for five years and connected with the organization for over twenty years and several
of their associates of the Wiley B. Allen Co., have completed organization of a new finance com-
pany, and to-day are just getting settled in the offices they have opened at 1065-1066 Phelan
Building, this city. The name of the new company is the Surety Finance Service Corp., and
it will specialize in financing installment paper
of music dealers in northern California. The Sherman, Clay & Co.'s stores in San Francisco,
organizers of the new company are well known and Beeman P. Sibley, president of the Western
in the music trades on the Pacific Coast. Be- Piano Corp., have just returned from a long
sides being secretary of the Wiley B. Allen Co., trip on which they were accompanied by Mrs.
Mr. Miller is secretary of the Music Trades Pracht and Mrs. Sibley. They motored to
Crater Lake, Portland, Tacoma, ascended Mount
Association of Northern California.
Mr. Anrys and Mr. Miller expect to give the Rainier on horseback, went on to Harrison
Sandon-Anderson Moves
dealers personal service, and, in the trade, it Lake on the Canadian side and spent a week
is expected that the new company will prove in Victoria, B. C. At nearly every stopping
MANKATO, MINN., July 28.—The Sandon-Ander-
extremely popular, as the music merchants will place they golfed and also made a number of son Music Co., has opened in a new location in
know that their problems will be handled by visits to the trade. Mr. Pracht called at the the Mankato Bank Building, this city, and an-
men who are thoroughly familiar with the music Sherman, Clay & Co. branches, and, in Victoria, nouncement was made to-day that the third floor
visited the Fletcher Music Store, the Steinway of the building ft occupies will be remodeled
business in every detail.
The office of the Wiley B. Allen Co. is with dealer for Vancouver Island. Mr. Sibley called into a music studio and recital hall for Harold
that of the Surety Finance Service Corp. The on customers of the lines represented by the Orvis Ross, a well-known local musician. The
new corporation will be ready to do business Western Piano Corp. Mr. Pracht says that the formal opening of the new warerooms will be
beginning August 1, financing piano, talking general trend of opinion in the Northwest seems held during the current week.
machine and radio paper. All the incorporators to be that business is on the mend.
ot the new finance company are people who
George H. Leathurby, wholesale representa-
Jones Increases Space
have been interested in the Wiley B. Allen tive for the Coast for the Geneva residential
Co., or employed by it for a number of years. organ and the J. P. Seeburg organs and pianos,
DES MOINES, IA., July 31.—The Jones Piano Co.
Most of them started at the bottom in the says that the dealers are showing a great deal
organization and worked their way up.
of interest in all the new lines he is displaying. has recently leased new warerooms 915-917
Last Friday, Lieutenant Foley and h'is San He has received the Harp Celeste, the new Walnut street, this city, which will give this
Francisco Police Band, all Conn-equipped, met Seeburg harp for residence and also for orches- firm five times the space occupied in its old
"Jimmy" Walker, Mayor of New York, at the tral purposes, and Leathurby says that dealers store at 819 Walnut street. The Jones Piano
ferry here. After the proper salutations the are enthused over it. The facilities of the harp Co. carries the full American Piano Co. line in-
San Francisco Police Band, sixty strong, are extended by the two pedals, and the chimes cluding the Mason & Hamlin, Knabe and
played: "East Side, West Side." Foley had effect will add to the selling merits of the com- Chickering as well as the- Ampico. The firm
made his own orchestration of the Mayor of pact instrument. Another novelty just received was founded in 1893.
New York's composition. The band stayed for is the new race track, coin-operated Seeburg
two days with all the activities of Mayor piano. As the piano plays automatically, toy
Rich Music Store Moves
Walker, and it accompanied him and Mayor greyhounds, electrically operated, race around
Rolph, of San Francisco, to Salinas, to the the track, the one stopping just short of the
FITCHBURG, MASS., August 1.—The B. L. Rich
Rodeo. Mayor Walker said it was the finest winning post being the winner. The grey-
Music
Store, under the management of Mrs.
police band he had ever heard with one excep- hounds are numbered and tickets entitling the
Harriet
A. Wellington, has moved to a com-
winner
to
a
repetition
of
the
performance
are
tion, the exception being the Police Band of
pletely remodeled store at 356 Main street, this
given automatically.
New York City.
city.
The new Geneva organ, installed in the
These compliments to the San Francisco Po-
offices
of
the
G.
H.
Leathurby
Co.,
183
Golden
lice Band were very gratifying to Daniel Miller,
New Firm Chartered
president of the Conn San Francisco Co., as Gate avenue, is also being inspected with inter-
the facilities for gathering the band, practice est by a number of dealers. This organ plays
The Hurtt-Jones-Koeder Co., 110 Curt street,
rooms, etc., offered by the Conn San Francisco with orchestral organ roll as well as with the
Pekin, 111., has been incorporated with a capital
Co., first enabled Lieutenant Foley to start the regular player-piano roll.
The evening of July 31 will be marked by stock of $25,000, to manufacture and deal in
band. Mr. Miller is leaving late in August to
attend the annual conference of Conn dealers a big party in the Sherman, Clay & Co.'s annex. musical instruments. The incorporators are F.
and representatives at Elkhart, Ind. So far as Harald Pracht said to-day that all the employes L. Hurtt, H. G. Jones and T. K. Koeder.
Mr. Miller knows the only other- Coast Conn of Sherman, Clay & Co. and of the broadcasting
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
man planning to attend the dealers' conference station KFRC have been invited. The entire
evening's program will be broadcast over The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
is H. F. Mulholland, of Seattle.
Harald Pracht, piano, sales manager of the KFRC, including a concert and dance music free of charge for men who desire positions.
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