Music Trade Review
Issue: 1905 Vol. 40 N. 5 - Page 9
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
PIANO RELIEVES CAMP LIFE
In
the Philippines—The Story of This and
Other Matters Told by The Olangapo Opti-
mist in an Entertaining Way.
H. B. MORENUS' GOOD TRIP.
Optimistic Over Trade in the South—Some of
the Leading Dealers Upon Whom He Called.
(Special to The Review.)
Review Office, 36 La Salle St.,
Life for Uncle Sam's marines in the Philip-
Chicago, 111., Jan. 28. 1905.
pines is far from being all "beer and skittles"—
Howard B. Morenus, secretary of the Hobart
in fact, if The Olangapo Optimist is a truthful M. Cable Co., returned last week from a trio i.o
journal, it is mostly drills, parades and rain, Georgia and Alabama, where this house enjoys
with an occasional "hiking" expedition to vary an excellent trade. Mr. Morenus says that from
the monotony.
the manner in which the dealers are talking and
Olangapo is on the island of Luzon and The from the nature of the orders he brought back
Optimist is a weekly newspaper, typewritten and with him, he feels safe in predicting that this
mimeographed. "About Marines, for Marines will be one of the best years in point of organ
and by Marines," whose motto is "He laughs best
who laughs when he gets the chance."
The Optimist, as its name implies seeks to look
on the cheerful side of life as much as possible,
and persistently refuses to print anything dole-
ful or dreary in its columns. Even the never-
ending rain during the wet season is treated
jocularly by one of the many practical contrib-
utors to The Optimist.
This is what he has to say on the subject:
He wore a new hat,
A new campaign hat.
And the rain it came down the next day
And the day after that,
And the day after that.
The rain it has managed to stay.
And the day after that.
And the day after that,
Did the heavenly water-cart play.
And the day after that,
And the day after that.
The skies were yet gloomy and gray.
So the, day after that,
He took the new hat
And he fired it into the bay.
This effusion has become so popular that some
one set it to music, and the regimental band
frequently plays it.
Although described in the light, cheery style
with which The Optimist invests all its news
items, its description of the advent of a piano in
II. H. MIIHEMS.
the garrison gives a good idea of the dreary,
monotonous life the men lead for the most part sales that the South has ever had. Among the
when the piano caused so much of a stir. Here dealers he visited were E. E. Forbes, with stores
is what The Optimist says:
at Birmingham, Mobile, Anniston and Montgom-
"The Y. M. C. A. got their long-expected piano ery, Ala., and who has a big trade at all his
Friday. It was brought up from Cavite on the stores on both Burdett organs and Hobart M.
Wompatuck under the watchful care of Secre- Cable pianos; Carter & Dorough, of Valdosta, Ga.;
tary Glunz.
Jacksonville, Savannah and Tampa, known as
"The movement for getting a piano was set the largest dealers in reed organs in the world,
on foot last June, the association announcing and who are expanding their business wonder-
that if the marines contributed $150 gold they fully; J. B. Wister at Atlanta, a comparatively
would put to that sum the balance necessary to new house, are having excellent success with the
get a good piano. Many of the know-it-alls and Hobart M. Cable product. He also paid a. visit
told-you-sos scouted the idea. And when the to Phillips & Crew, of the same city, and on
piano in all its upright polished beauty did really Yeomans & Leete. of Savannah, both of whom
materialize, «and when the gleaming ivories were confirm the reports made by everyone of a good
pressed to give a sample of its tone, the marines business and bright prospects. Not only is the
flocked to see and to hear in their thousands. demand for Burdett organs such as to test the
For a piano is a luxury in this secluded spot. capacity of the Freeport factory to the utmost,
We had organs and harps and violins and all but the Hobart M. Cable piano factory at La
that, but no piano.
Porte is well employed, handling the orders for
"Fischer, of E, was among the first to get a pianos received from satisfied dealers all over
whack at the newcomer, and though his fingers the country.
are cramped by excessive work on his accroutre-
ments, and his soul warped by the limitations of
the organ on which he had thrummed so long C. KURTZMANN & CO.'S PROGRESS.
and well, yet he has the vital spark, and his
Elect Officers for the Year—To Build Piano
playing satisfied the audience."
POPPENBERG ENLARGES STORE.
Geo. H. Poppenberg, the well-known dealer, of
Buffalo, N. Y., has leased the adjoining store to
his present quarters in Main street, and thrown
the two stores into one. This gives him a front-
age of sixty feet with a depth of over two hun-
dred.
RUCKSTUHL IN PASSAIC.
Geo. Ruckstuhl, manufacturer of the Ruck-
stuhl piano, has leased the Kipp building on Main
avenue, Passaic, N. J., to which city he will re-
move from his present quarters in Rutherford.
that it will be a satisfactory one goes without
saying, for the high reputation of the Kurtzmann
piano will be strictly maintained.
In taking this step C. Kurtzmann & Co. meet
the demand for the interior player, which has
steadily grown within the past six months.
Those who have had the privilege of examining
the scale of the Kurtzmann new small grand are
free to admit that it will be a revelation in tone,
quality and evenness.
TWENTY=FIVE PER CENT. INCREASE
In the Business of the Melville Clark Piano Co.
for 1904 Over the Previous Year—Moving to
New Plant at De Kalb—C. H. Wagener
Expected.
(Special to The Heview.)
Review Office, 36 La Salle St..
Chicago, 111., Jan. 30, 1905.
The new factory of the Melville Clark Piano
Co. at DeKalb is practically complete, a great
deal of the large amount of new machinery is in
place ready to be belted up, the dry kilns have
been started up and the mill room will be in
partial operation next month. The transferring
of the entire manufacturing activities to DeKalb
will, of course, be gradual, in order that no inter-
ruption to business may occur, but within sixty
or ninety days at the most the factory here will
be vacated entirely, and wholesale warerooms
and the general offices opened somewhere in the
Wabash avenue district. The company is meet-
ing with remarkable success with their new in-
terior player, the Apollo piano.
The only difficulty so far being the impossi-
bility of turning them out rapidly enough with-
out interfering with the manufacture of Apollo
players. This will all be remedied in the new
plant, however, and the big 88-note interior
player, will then be turned out as rapidly as
consistent with the extraordinary care bestowed
upon every instrument which is being sent out.
The Melville Clark pianos made a new record
last year, the production showing an increase of
about 25 per cent, over that of 3 903.
Chas. H. Wagener, vice-president of the Mel-
ville Clark Piano Co., is due here from London,
where he made some big deals for the house.
Tom Pletcher, whose excellent sales record since
he joined the company's staff a few months ago,
has greatly pleased Mr. Clark, was at headquar-
ters for a few days, but left Wednesday for
Michigan.
NEW MONEY ORDER REQUIRED.
The Post Office Department Will Try to Devise
One That Cannot Be Forged.
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C . Jan 30. 1905.
Owing to the ingenuity of professional forgers,
the Post Office Department has been compelled to
change the present form of domestic money or-
ders. Postmaster-General Wynne to-day issued
an order directing W. E. Cochran, purchasing
agent; E. F. Kimball, superintendent of the
money order system, and W. J. Vickery, the chief
inspector, to devise a new money order blank
to enable the department to guard against the
alteration or raising of money orders. The
blanks now in use are printed on specially pre-
pared paper and are in the form of a check. They
took the place of what was known as the zig-zag
With Interior Player and a Small Grand.
form, in which the sum payable was also repre-
At the annual meeting of C. Kurtzmann & Co., sented in clipping the margin. The change, how-
held in Buffalo, N. Y., last week, the old officers ever, has proved anything but an improvement,
were re-elected, namely, Louis S. Kurtzmann, and fraud is more general now than at any time
president; I. E. Devereaux, vice-president; Jacob in the history of the postal service.
The precautions taken by the Government are
Hackenheimer, secretary, and Geo. H. Moes-
in the interests of the public, as Uuncle Sam can-
singer, treasurer.
The business report for the year was very sat- not lose in transactions of the kind in question.
isfactory. Among the plans for the new year A postal clerk who pays money on a fraudulent
are the building of a Kurtzmann piano with in- order is held responsible and must reimburse the
terior player, and the manufacture of a small Government. Persons who accept raised orders
in exchange are the losers and not the Govern-
grand. The scales and designs for the small
ment. Every effort will be made by the com-
grand have been perfected, and it is expected
that these instruments will be on the market at mittee of experts appointed by the Postmaster-
an early date. It is not yet announced what General to devise a blank form of money order
player will be used in the Kurtzmann piano, hut that will be fraud proof.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
PIANO RELIEVES CAMP LIFE
In
the Philippines—The Story of This and
Other Matters Told by The Olangapo Opti-
mist in an Entertaining Way.
H. B. MORENUS' GOOD TRIP.
Optimistic Over Trade in the South—Some of
the Leading Dealers Upon Whom He Called.
(Special to The Review.)
Review Office, 36 La Salle St.,
Life for Uncle Sam's marines in the Philip-
Chicago, 111., Jan. 28. 1905.
pines is far from being all "beer and skittles"—
Howard B. Morenus, secretary of the Hobart
in fact, if The Olangapo Optimist is a truthful M. Cable Co., returned last week from a trio i.o
journal, it is mostly drills, parades and rain, Georgia and Alabama, where this house enjoys
with an occasional "hiking" expedition to vary an excellent trade. Mr. Morenus says that from
the monotony.
the manner in which the dealers are talking and
Olangapo is on the island of Luzon and The from the nature of the orders he brought back
Optimist is a weekly newspaper, typewritten and with him, he feels safe in predicting that this
mimeographed. "About Marines, for Marines will be one of the best years in point of organ
and by Marines," whose motto is "He laughs best
who laughs when he gets the chance."
The Optimist, as its name implies seeks to look
on the cheerful side of life as much as possible,
and persistently refuses to print anything dole-
ful or dreary in its columns. Even the never-
ending rain during the wet season is treated
jocularly by one of the many practical contrib-
utors to The Optimist.
This is what he has to say on the subject:
He wore a new hat,
A new campaign hat.
And the rain it came down the next day
And the day after that,
And the day after that.
The rain it has managed to stay.
And the day after that.
And the day after that,
Did the heavenly water-cart play.
And the day after that,
And the day after that.
The skies were yet gloomy and gray.
So the, day after that,
He took the new hat
And he fired it into the bay.
This effusion has become so popular that some
one set it to music, and the regimental band
frequently plays it.
Although described in the light, cheery style
with which The Optimist invests all its news
items, its description of the advent of a piano in
II. H. MIIHEMS.
the garrison gives a good idea of the dreary,
monotonous life the men lead for the most part sales that the South has ever had. Among the
when the piano caused so much of a stir. Here dealers he visited were E. E. Forbes, with stores
is what The Optimist says:
at Birmingham, Mobile, Anniston and Montgom-
"The Y. M. C. A. got their long-expected piano ery, Ala., and who has a big trade at all his
Friday. It was brought up from Cavite on the stores on both Burdett organs and Hobart M.
Wompatuck under the watchful care of Secre- Cable pianos; Carter & Dorough, of Valdosta, Ga.;
tary Glunz.
Jacksonville, Savannah and Tampa, known as
"The movement for getting a piano was set the largest dealers in reed organs in the world,
on foot last June, the association announcing and who are expanding their business wonder-
that if the marines contributed $150 gold they fully; J. B. Wister at Atlanta, a comparatively
would put to that sum the balance necessary to new house, are having excellent success with the
get a good piano. Many of the know-it-alls and Hobart M. Cable product. He also paid a. visit
told-you-sos scouted the idea. And when the to Phillips & Crew, of the same city, and on
piano in all its upright polished beauty did really Yeomans & Leete. of Savannah, both of whom
materialize, «and when the gleaming ivories were confirm the reports made by everyone of a good
pressed to give a sample of its tone, the marines business and bright prospects. Not only is the
flocked to see and to hear in their thousands. demand for Burdett organs such as to test the
For a piano is a luxury in this secluded spot. capacity of the Freeport factory to the utmost,
We had organs and harps and violins and all but the Hobart M. Cable piano factory at La
that, but no piano.
Porte is well employed, handling the orders for
"Fischer, of E, was among the first to get a pianos received from satisfied dealers all over
whack at the newcomer, and though his fingers the country.
are cramped by excessive work on his accroutre-
ments, and his soul warped by the limitations of
the organ on which he had thrummed so long C. KURTZMANN & CO.'S PROGRESS.
and well, yet he has the vital spark, and his
Elect Officers for the Year—To Build Piano
playing satisfied the audience."
POPPENBERG ENLARGES STORE.
Geo. H. Poppenberg, the well-known dealer, of
Buffalo, N. Y., has leased the adjoining store to
his present quarters in Main street, and thrown
the two stores into one. This gives him a front-
age of sixty feet with a depth of over two hun-
dred.
RUCKSTUHL IN PASSAIC.
Geo. Ruckstuhl, manufacturer of the Ruck-
stuhl piano, has leased the Kipp building on Main
avenue, Passaic, N. J., to which city he will re-
move from his present quarters in Rutherford.
that it will be a satisfactory one goes without
saying, for the high reputation of the Kurtzmann
piano will be strictly maintained.
In taking this step C. Kurtzmann & Co. meet
the demand for the interior player, which has
steadily grown within the past six months.
Those who have had the privilege of examining
the scale of the Kurtzmann new small grand are
free to admit that it will be a revelation in tone,
quality and evenness.
TWENTY=FIVE PER CENT. INCREASE
In the Business of the Melville Clark Piano Co.
for 1904 Over the Previous Year—Moving to
New Plant at De Kalb—C. H. Wagener
Expected.
(Special to The Heview.)
Review Office, 36 La Salle St..
Chicago, 111., Jan. 30, 1905.
The new factory of the Melville Clark Piano
Co. at DeKalb is practically complete, a great
deal of the large amount of new machinery is in
place ready to be belted up, the dry kilns have
been started up and the mill room will be in
partial operation next month. The transferring
of the entire manufacturing activities to DeKalb
will, of course, be gradual, in order that no inter-
ruption to business may occur, but within sixty
or ninety days at the most the factory here will
be vacated entirely, and wholesale warerooms
and the general offices opened somewhere in the
Wabash avenue district. The company is meet-
ing with remarkable success with their new in-
terior player, the Apollo piano.
The only difficulty so far being the impossi-
bility of turning them out rapidly enough with-
out interfering with the manufacture of Apollo
players. This will all be remedied in the new
plant, however, and the big 88-note interior
player, will then be turned out as rapidly as
consistent with the extraordinary care bestowed
upon every instrument which is being sent out.
The Melville Clark pianos made a new record
last year, the production showing an increase of
about 25 per cent, over that of 3 903.
Chas. H. Wagener, vice-president of the Mel-
ville Clark Piano Co., is due here from London,
where he made some big deals for the house.
Tom Pletcher, whose excellent sales record since
he joined the company's staff a few months ago,
has greatly pleased Mr. Clark, was at headquar-
ters for a few days, but left Wednesday for
Michigan.
NEW MONEY ORDER REQUIRED.
The Post Office Department Will Try to Devise
One That Cannot Be Forged.
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C . Jan 30. 1905.
Owing to the ingenuity of professional forgers,
the Post Office Department has been compelled to
change the present form of domestic money or-
ders. Postmaster-General Wynne to-day issued
an order directing W. E. Cochran, purchasing
agent; E. F. Kimball, superintendent of the
money order system, and W. J. Vickery, the chief
inspector, to devise a new money order blank
to enable the department to guard against the
alteration or raising of money orders. The
blanks now in use are printed on specially pre-
pared paper and are in the form of a check. They
took the place of what was known as the zig-zag
With Interior Player and a Small Grand.
form, in which the sum payable was also repre-
At the annual meeting of C. Kurtzmann & Co., sented in clipping the margin. The change, how-
held in Buffalo, N. Y., last week, the old officers ever, has proved anything but an improvement,
were re-elected, namely, Louis S. Kurtzmann, and fraud is more general now than at any time
president; I. E. Devereaux, vice-president; Jacob in the history of the postal service.
The precautions taken by the Government are
Hackenheimer, secretary, and Geo. H. Moes-
in the interests of the public, as Uuncle Sam can-
singer, treasurer.
The business report for the year was very sat- not lose in transactions of the kind in question.
isfactory. Among the plans for the new year A postal clerk who pays money on a fraudulent
are the building of a Kurtzmann piano with in- order is held responsible and must reimburse the
terior player, and the manufacture of a small Government. Persons who accept raised orders
in exchange are the losers and not the Govern-
grand. The scales and designs for the small
ment. Every effort will be made by the com-
grand have been perfected, and it is expected
that these instruments will be on the market at mittee of experts appointed by the Postmaster-
an early date. It is not yet announced what General to devise a blank form of money order
player will be used in the Kurtzmann piano, hut that will be fraud proof.
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