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THE MUSIC TRADE
JOHN C. HAYNES CO. OUT.
After Jan. 1st Business Will be Merged With the
Oliver Ditson Co.—Charles C. Bobzin Will As-
sume Command—A Number of Retiremsnts.
[Special to The Review.]
Boston, Mass., Nov. 25, 1903.
The musical merchandise house of John
C. Haynes & Company, which for many
years have conducted a retail and whole-
sale business from Boston, will cease to ex-
ist after January 1st. The business will
thereafter be conducted as the musical mer-
chandise department of the Oliver Ditson
Co., the change to take effect when the
Oliver Ditson Co. will move into their new
quarters at 150 Tremont street.
Chas. C. Bobzin, who for many years has
been identified with the eastern interests of
Lyon & Healy, will assume charge of this
department. Mr. Bobzin is a man of wide
experience, admitted ability and as chief of
this department will have entire control.
Chas. C. Williams, who for many years
has been manager of the John C. Haynes
business will retire, also Geo. H. Brown,
who has been road representative for this
concern, and other men who have been con-
nected with John C. Haynes & Co.
An important announcement in connec-
tion with this move is that the new depart-
ment under Mr. Bobzin will discontinue
the lines heretofore carried by John C.
Haynes, such as the Bay State guitar and
others. In their place will be substituted
the entire line of the great firm of Lyon &
Healy, Chicago.
The same policy will control the New
York house of Chas. H. Ditson & Co., and
the Philadelphia house of J. E. Ditson &
Co., and in both of these stores the Lyon &
Healy brands will take precedence even to
the exclusion of all others.
REVIEW
In this connection John C. Haynes, the
head and front of the Oliver Ditson Co.,
and John C. Haynes & Co. said, to-day:
"From its foundation the firm of John
C. Haynes & Co. was always a part of the
Oliver Ditson Co. The only reason for
using a separate name for the Haynes con-
cern was because, when the Oliver Ditson
Co. (then called Oliver Ditson & Co.) pur-
chased the bankrupt stock of Elias Howe
from his trustees, in 1861, we were com-
pelled to conduct the Howe warerooms, on
Court street, separately and distinctly from
the Ditson warerooms. Since then we
have always conducted our musical mer-
chandise department in Boston under the
name of John C. Haynes & Co., while our
small goods as well as our publications
have been handled in New York and Phila-
delphia, respectively, by our branch
houses, known as Chas. H. Ditson & Co.
and J. E. Ditson & Co.
"After January 1st our entire business
will be under one roof for the first time in
the history of the Ditson concern. We
shall close the wholesale department of
John C. Hayes & Co., on Franklin street,
and remove it, with our retail small goods
department, to the new Oliver Ditson Co.'s
warerooms, No. 150 Tremont street, cor-
ner of West Street. There, on January
1st, the business of John C. Haynes & Co.
will be merged in that of the parent con-
cern, and we shall open a new set of books
for all our accounts in the name of Oliver
Ditson Co.
"In order to help their business and ours,
Messrs. Lyon & Healy, of Chicago, have
made the Oliver Ditson Co. sole agents in
the East for all the goods manufactured by
the great Chicago concern. Mr. Charles
N. Post, vice-president of Lyon & Healy,
came here, last week, to perfect this ar-
rangement. Mr. Charles C. Bobzin, east-
ern traveling representative of Lyon &
Healy, will become the manager of our
new musical merchandise department. It
will be known as the 'Musical Merchan-
dise Department of the Oliver Ditson Co.'
"Meanwhile the musical merchandise
departments in our New York and Phila-
delphia branches will be continued as
usual, and will handle exclusively in their
respective territories the goods made in
the Lyon & Healy factories.
"Mr. Bobzin is regarded by all parties
concerned in the new management as be-
ing the man best fitted for the position of
manager of our musical merchandise de-
partment, from which Mr. C. C Williams,
its present head, will retire on January 1st.
I am unable to tell you anything about
Mr. William's plans for the future. Mr.
Bobzin has been the eastern representa-
tive of the Lyon & Healy goods for many
years, with headquarters in Philadelphia,
but his house has consented to release
him. Mr. Bobzin has been in the music
business from the start. He went with
Lyon & Healy when a very young man,
and is familiar with every branch of the
trade.
"Lyon & Healy do an enormous general
music business and are noted as being the
largest importers of miscellaneous musical
instruments in the United States. The
house of Lyon & Healy was originally
started by Oliver Ditson & Co. in 1864, and
it is very fitting that the most cordial re-
lations should exist between the two
houses."
Chas. N. Post, vice-president of Lyon &
Healy with James F. Bowers were in The
Review office this week and related details
in connection with the new moves. It will
be seen at once that under the new order
of things it will mean an immense output
of Lyon & Healy goods in the eastern terri-
tory.
THE SALES OF
Black Diamond (:zJ and Bell Brand
Strings for all musical instruments have more than
doubled during the past year.
Every first-class wholesale dealer in musical mer-
chandise in America and Europe handles them*
All are delighted with the increase in their
string trade and are enthusiastic in their praises of
BLACR DIAMOND and BELL BRAND
and unanimously say they arc the BEST IN THE
WORLD and THEY SOUND DIFFERENT.
Owing to the greatly increased demand for these lines, dealers should place their orders
for the Holidays without delay, as we cannot guarantee to make immediate shipment.
APPLY TO YOUR JOBBER OR DIRECT TO US
NATIONAL MUSICAL STRING CO.,
LONDON.
PARIS.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J