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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
Culled in California.
TRADE IN SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES—EASTERN VISITORS ON THE COAST
WILEY B. ALLEN'S NEW STORE—STRAY SHOTS.
San Francisco, July 10, 1896.
F one were to judge the general condi-
tion of trade by the inconsistent reports
of different houses, there would be a mis-
take in the summing up. . Some houses are
doing a good business in sales and" a poor
business in renting. With others it is
just the opposite. Doubtless renting is
livelier now than it has been for some
time, but $5 per month is the maximum
price, and a majority of the renting public
are disinclined to pay over $3 or $4. The
same condition is true in long-time sales,
many dealers being satisfied to take $10
down and $5 a month on standard pianos,
and this without any interest. Still the re-
vival in demand has some encouragement
for the trade. Of all the Coast, San Fran-
cisco is the best point, though the business
here runs by fits and starts, a good week
usually following a dull week. In the
Northwest, those who have pianos out on
installments are getting a good many of
them back. In Los Angeles, the trade
was very good up to three months ago,
but now it is at a standstill and collections
are hard to make.
The Emporium Department Store, which
it was supposed would drive half the hous-
es out of business, has not as yet had any
appreciable effects.
R. Ambuhl, of Chickering & Sons, is in
the city. He has been up through Utah
and the Northwest.
Leo Heerwagen, of Farrand & Votey's
organs, of New York, is expected here in a
couple of days.
The W. W. Kimball Company, of Chica-
go, have secured the store adjoining
their present quarters in the Marquam
building, Portland, Ore., and are cutting an
archway between the two stores to accom-
modate their increased stock.
Ralph Granger is having the plans pre-
pared for a music conservatory to be added
to his residence in the Paradise Valley,
near San Diego, Cal.
Louis Schmidt, a pioneer church organ-
ist and string musician, died suddenly on
vSutter street, San Francisco, July 3d. Few
musicians here were so well known as
•Schmidt, and of him, Herman Brandt, of
Thomas Orchestra, said he was the best
viola player in America^ He was born in
New York sixty-five years ago and found-
ed the San Francisco Conservatory in 1871.
Professor A. Fortunata, formerly solo B
flat cornet in the late Gilmore's band, who
recently left Montana, has located in Santa
Barbara, Cal.
TheNorthwestern Conservatory of Music
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held its annual concert in Spokane last week,
and presented an excellent program be-
fore a large audience. Carl Tiechert was
director.
Says the City of Mexico "Herald":
"Mrs. Mayo-Rhodes, the lovely American
singer, who is spending the summer months
in this city, has been enjoying some de-
lightful evenings among the homes in the
colony during the past week."
The Musicians' Union in San Francisco
has three interesting battles on its hands.
One is the letter carriers' band, and another,
the sailors on Uncle Sam's warships, now
in the harbor, who have entered the field
of competition with regular professionals.
The third disturbing factor is the Rus-
sian Band of fourteen pieces, which has
been permanently engaged by a local at-
traction. Committees have been appointed
to confer with these non-unionists, but it
is doubtful if they can be brought into the
fold.
The Wiley B. Allen Company has opened
a piano and organ salesroom in Oregon
City, Ore.
John C. Walling, manager of Sherman &
Clay's Oakland branch, entertained the em-
ployees and their friends at his residence
last week in honor of the anniversary of
his assuming charge of the company's bus-
iness there.
Gustav Heinrichs, who left San Francis-
co to accept a leading position with Theo-
dore Thomas, has again returned to his old
home and will conduct grand opera at the
Tivoli for a short season, after which he
will lead an orchestra at the Mechanics'
Fair, which will last a month. This fair,
by the way, will not prove a great attraction
to the dealers in small instruments, but the
organ and piano houses will likely make an
exhibit.
Action of the Association.
THE MEMBERS OF THE CHICAGO TRADE ASSOCI-
ATION PASS RESOLUTIONS OVER THE
DEATH OF I. N. CAMP.
trade he so long adorned, is dead. His
passing away came to us all as a personal
shock. We held him in the highest esteem
for his noble character, and felt that in him
was one of the bulwarks of the music trade.
We, the members of the Chicago Music
Trade Association, this day, in formal ses-
sion assembled, desire to express our gen-
uine sorrow over his sudden demise, in the
following preamble and resolutions:
Whereas, death has removed from us
Isaac N. Camp, the first president of this
association, and a commanding figure in
the music trade of the nation, whose pro-
gressive spirit and sturdy manhood have
gone far in shaping the commercial devel-
opment of the city of Chicago, and making
the music trade one of the greatest indus-
tries of this country. Every member of
this association felt a profound confidence
in his integrity, such admiration for his
business energy, and such trust in "his wis-
dom, that they selected him as their repre-
sentative on the World's Fair Directory, a
position which he filled with consummate
tact.
Whereas, from whichever point of view
we look at his life, whether as merchant,
as citizen, as an honest man, or as a warm-
hearted friend, whose encouragement and
material assistance were always ready for
those who deserved it, we find cause only
for highest commendation; therefore, be it
Resolved, that in the death of Isaac N.
Camp, the members of the music trade of
Chicago feel an individual grief, the edge of
which is lessened somewhat, by the thought
that his goodness, his many lovable traits,
and the influence of his exemplary char-
acter will be kept green in our memories to
strengthen, to broaden, and to inspire.
Resolved, that his death is as great a loss
to the city of Chicago as it is to the music
trade, and that he was no greater pillar of
the one than he was of the other.
Resolved, that we express to his widow
and his children in this way and in their
hour of poignant bereavement our genuine
grief at his unexpected end, and that these
resolutions be duly engrossed and presented
to his family as a token of our fond and
lasting remembrance of this good man.
Resolved, that the members of the music
trade of this city shall attend his funeral in
a body, at one o'clock to-morrow, in the
Union Park Congregational Church, Ash-
land and Washington Boulevards.
, Resolved, that this preamble and resolu-
tions be spread upon the records of this
association.
SPECIAL meeting of the Chicago
Music Trade Association was called
on Monday July, 13th, at the warerooms
of Lyon & Healy to take action on the
J. P. BYRNE,
death of I. N. Camp. C. H. MacDonald pre-
E. S. CONWAY,
sided. Through the courtesy of Mr. J. P.
E. A. POTTER,
Byrne, chairman of the committee on resolu-
Committee.
Chicago, July 13, 1896.
tions, we have received a copy of the resolu-
tions passed.
NEW piano warerooms have been opened
Isaac N. Camp, whose pure and earnest
life endeared him to every member of the in Hannibal, Mo., by B. G. Stinhouse.
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