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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
CAMPAIGN NOT AFFECTING TRADE.
Politics Have Little Bearing on General Con-
ditions in Northwest—Kimball Organ for
Auditorium to Cost $21,000—Cable Branches
Report Splendid Business—Everett Pianos
for Red Wing Seminary—Small Chickering
Grands Admired—Howard-Farwell's Fischer
Booklet—The Kroeger Piano a Success.
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TRADE CONDITIONS IN GERMANY.
WANAMAKER IN BOSTON.
Our Friends in the Fatherland Have Their
Troubles, Too.
Generally Stated That Wanamaker Has Opened
a Department Store in "The Hub," Which, of
Course, Will Have a Strong Piano Adjunct—
The Location Selected.
While hard at work making and selling goods,
German manufacturers take a keen interest in
the equally important question of getting paid for
them. The development of large retail establish-
ments in Germany has afforded opportunities for
(Special to The Review.)
impecunious traders to branch out upon a slim
Minneapolis and St. Paul, Oct. 10, 1904.
foundation
of cash (in some instances borrowed).
Rain Friday and Saturday cut down last
week's sales considerably, though the first part Why retailers who usually sell for cash should
of the week was quite satisfactory, indicating want credit is a question intelligently discussed
that October is likely to be the banner month of by the Osnabruck Chamber of Commerce in its
last annual report. The principle is laid down
the year so far.
For the first time in the history of a presiden- that it is a more business-like proceeding to take
tial campaign, politics is not affecting business. a loan and keep up cash payments to manufac-
Little interest apparently is manifested in the turers than to make the latter wait for their
national ticket, the chief interest centering in money. This argument, says "Music," is based
State politics, which is the hottest in years. on the presumption that a trader's credit should
Dealers say, however, that they have not noticed be at its best at home, where he is best known.
any hindrance to business on account of it.
Work on the $200,000 auditorium and music
SURVIVE FIRE AND FLOOD.
hall in Minneapolis is proceeding rapidly and it
is hoped to hold the first concert about December Keller & Sons' Pianos Have Strenuous Expe-
15. Some distinguished artists have been en-
riences and Are "Still in the Ring."
gaged for that performance. The orchestral or-
gan to be installed by the Kimball Co. will cost
The pianos of Henry Keller & Sons, 141st street
$21,000, instead of $18,500, the amount of the first and Rider avenue, meet with various adventures
contract.
by fire and flood and always emerge practically
The Cable branches in both cities report Octo- unscathed. Only a few months ago The Review
ber as opening very encouragingly, though the examined a Henry Keller & Sons piano saved
outlook in the country appears the most promis- from a flood at Paterson, where it stood more
ing. A. B. Hush, the Minneapolis manager, has than half immersed in water for more than a
returned from a two weeks' round-up of the vari- week without any real detriment. On Wednes-
ous sub-branches in this section, and he speaks day, during The Review's usual visit, another
very enthusiastically of conditions in the coun- instrument taken from a house burned during a
try.
recent terrific fire in this city, was brought in.
The Kimball Co. used considerable advertising So far as vital parts are concerned, it is to all
space last week to announce a special sale of new intents and purposes intact. Truly, in the next
and second-hand instruments in which prices catalogue of Henry Keller & Son, it might well be
were "slashed right and left."
pointed out that the firm's products are proof
W. J. Dyer & Bro.'s sale having resulted very against such emergencies as those just described,
satisfactorily, some special attention was devoted as well as against atmospheric changes and all
in the Sunday papers yesterday to their talking other fluctuations.
machine department which was enlarged during
the summer months. A heavy business in this KOHLER & CAMPBELL WORKING NIGHTS.
line is anticipated this fall.
S. W. Raudenbush & Co. have taken the agency
The latest Kohler & Campbell specialty, the
for the R. S. Howard piano. Mr. Howard has "Autopiano" has taken a firm hold on the market
been here on a visit and succeeded in making the and is now in steady demand. The Kohler &
deal indicated.
Campbell pianos are selling at a lively rate. Thf
The Brooks-Evans Piano Co. report the placing men are working overtime every night at the fac-
of two Everetts in the seminary at Red Wing, tory on current orders. When the extent of this
making six instruments of that make which they plant is considered this conveys a great deal.
have sold to that institution.
Mr. Keeley, Kohler & Campbell traveling repre-
Howard, Farwell & Co. report the receipt of a sentative, is on the road and making a good
number of small Chickering grands of which they record.
were entirely out. They have gotten up a tastily
arranged pamphlet extolling the merits of the
MR. DALRYMPLE'S NARROW ESCAPE.
Fischer grand which is being sent out to cus-
tomers.
A. Dalrymple, Estey ambassador, had a narrow
The Minneapolis Music Co. are highly pleased
with the Kroeger piano of which they took the escape on Thursday last while traveling on the
agency last summer, and say they have had Wabash line from St. Louis to Omaha. The
train, consisting of ten cars, drawn by two en-
splendid success with it.
W. J. Dyer, of St. Paul, returned home from gines, was met on the same track by another
train, similarly equipped. A difficulty at once
his European trip Saturday morning.
J. Frank Conover, of the Cable Company, made arose, as the trains were both proceeding at a
the Twin Cities a visit last week, remaining sev- high rate of speed. Full details as to the condi-
tion of the engineers, locomotives and coaches
eral days.
are not yet forthcoming, but Mr. Dalrymple, with
his usual good fortune, was, according to advices
RAYMOND PIANOS IN DEMAND.
received, not even stunned by the shock, which
The F. L. Raymond Piano Co., Cleveland, O., goes to show that he is not easily jarred.
are receiving gratifying evidences in the form of
orders which demonstrate the high position
Albert W. Kroeger, of the Kroeger Co., is trav-
which their instruments have won in the trade
world. The present year promises to be unusu- eling in the West in the firm's interests. He vis-
ally satisfactory with this concern, and their lat- ited St. Louis earlv in the week.
est styles evidently please a large clientele of
music lovers. The Raymond pianos are not only
attractively cased but contain a scale which is of
unusual excellence.
(Special to The Keview.j
Boston, Mass., Oct. 14, 1904.
There are the usual number of rumors afloat
about possible changes and innovations in the
trade, or that will affect it. The one which is
the most persistent and which bears evidence of
having the most "in it" is to the effect that John
Wanamaker is negotiating for the block on the
corner of Washington and Boylston streets,
where now .stands the Hotel Lexington and the
Pitts-Kimball Co. department store. Mr. Wana-
maker's right hand man, Mr. Woodford, has been
in Boston now since the middle of the summer,
and something is certainly doing, for Boston is
by no means a health resort. Wanamaker in Bos-
ton will mean a strong piano department.
SHIPPING THIRTY LUDWIGS DAILY.
The Ludwig output has once more reached nor-
mal proportions, in spite of the almost innumer-
able obstacles met with during the past few
months. John Ludwig, when asked on Wednes-
day for a report on trade conditions said: "We
are now shipping, as a rule, thirty pianos daily,
and although there are still many orders on our
books yet to be filled, we shall endeavor to keep
all of our dealers properly and promptly supplied
to meet daily requirements."
NEW STYLE WINTER PIANO COMING.
Winter & Co., Southern Boulevard and 136th
street, are preparing a new style in Winter &
Co. pianos—one that is likely to become even a
greater favorite than its predecessors, which is
saying a good deal. The case design, apart from
special panel features, might rightly be termed
semi-colonial. It will be ready early in Novem-
ber. The call for the Winter & Co. and Heller &
Co. pianos continues lively. Messrs. Preszberg
and Rogers are bofh on the road and meeting
with gratifying success.
PIANO PLAYING DEVOLOPS MUSCLE.
That piano playing develops the muscles of the
body, particularly those of the shoulder blades,
which are intimately related to the brain and
spine, was asserted by Mrs. Mary Gregory Mur-
ray, in an address this week before the Music
Teachers' Association in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Murray said that two physicians in New
York recently discovered by looking at the back
of a young woman as she was playing a piano
that she brought all the scapular muscles into
play, which had a tendency to strengthen the
brain and spine. Piano playing, Mrs. Murray
said, is physical culture in every sense of the
word.
DANIEL F. TREACY VISITING TRADE.
Daniel F. Treacy, of Davenport & Treacy, is
now in the East visiting piano dealers and other
friends of the firm. Orders for the "D and T"
pianos continue to arrive by almost every mail,
and orders by telegraph are not at all infrequent.
Visitors to the Krakauer headquarters this
week included John A. Fetterly, of the John A.
Fetterly Co., Dayton, O., and Messrs. Lincoln and
A. Vander Pyl, Boston.
BEHR BROS. & CO
NEW STYLE NEWBY & EVANS.
The new style 28, Newby & Evans upright, re-
ferred to in a recent issue of The Review, is
meeting with great favor.
PIANOS,
29th Street and I Ith Ave.,
NEW YORK.
HIGHEST STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE.