Music Trade Review
Issue: 1906 Vol. 43 N. 13 - Page 7
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THE: MUSIC TRADE: REVIEW
KNABE FLOATS IN JUBILEE OF GREATER BALTIMORE
Magnificent Showing Made by One of the Oldest Industrial
Institutions in
Baltimore—Eight
Floats in the Parade Showing the Process of Manufacturing Pianos —Display Cost About
$12,000—Proud Day for Knabe Employes and Baltimore.
tween a piano of 1836 and one of 1906.
The decorative color scheme of each one of
these floats was carried out in the oriole colors,
yellow and black, with the shield of Maryland
and the city of Baltimore at each end.
The float was drawn by four gray horses,
One of the many features of the Jubilee of
Greater Baltimore, which was celebrated last
week, was the big industrial parade given on
Tuesday, in which the firm of Wm. Knabe &
Co. came out with first honors. Their display
was the most striking in the parade, there be-
ing eight floats in all, the first float showing a
mammoth globe representing the world. En-
circling this was the Knabe trademark, "Knabe,
showing the making cf a piano from the time
it is started in the factory until it leaves there.
These floats carried at least eight or ten men,
working at their benches.
The second of these floats represented the
chaped in white, with the Knabe shield on the
sides, and each float was led by a workman
from the Knabe factory.
The outlay of this display was about $12,000,
which helped to make it surpass any other dis-
play in line.
COL. TREACY'S_PLEASANT TRIP
Through the Maritime Provinces of Canada—
Combines a Little Business With Much
Pleasure.
Upright Case Department. The third. Upright
Sounding Board, Stringing and Side-gluing De-
partment. The fourth, Plate Department. The
fifth. Grand Case and Grand Press Department,
the World's Best Piano." The continents were
painted in brown and the oceans and seas in
green, giving the appearance of a large library
Atlas. The float proper on which the globe
rested was a miniature reproduction of the fa-
Col. Daniel F. Treacy, president of the Daven-
port & Treacy Piano Co., who is again at the
business helm, after a most enjoyable vacation
fpent in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and New-
foundland, is most enthusiastic over his sojourn
in the maritime provinces of Canada. In St.
Johns, Newfoundland, he secured a very sub-
stantial order from Charles Hutton, who intends
to sell a good many Davenport & Treacy pianos
in that city, despite the duty of 40 per cent,
which exists. From St. Johns he visited Syd-
ney, C. B., and from there journeyed to Halifax,
where he noted a decided increase in the pros-
perity of the people, and thence to St. Johns,
New Brunswick, via Digby, where he visited the
annual exposition, where a good showing of
pianos was in evidence. In this city he also
secured a good order for Davenport & Treacy
pianos, and journeyed homeward by way of Bos-
ton. Mr. Treacy looks in splendid trim after his
outing, and well equipped for a busy fall season.
0LNEY CO.'S LATEST PURCHASE.
Sixth, Grand Regulating and Polishing Depart-
ment.
On the eighth float was a finished production
represented by one of the latest and best de-
signs of the Knabe Art Case. This was of Em-
pire design, and valued at $4,0Q0. In the middle
mous Knabe factory, showing the recent new
buildings.
Following this was a series of seven floats,
The Olney Music Co., of St. Joseph, Mo., have
purchased the branch houses of the Kimball
Co^, both at Hannibal and Louisiana, and have
taken charge of all the territory and the agen-
cies of the Kimball Co. in Northeast Missouri.
The Olney Music Co. is one of the largest con-
cerns of its kind in Missouri and handles in
addition to the Kimball pianos, the Kranich &
Bach, Fischer, A. B. Chase, McPhail, Smith &
Barnes, Price & Teeple, the Needham and other
instruments. Mr. Olney, who is at the head of
the Olney Co., is a banker of Kansas City, and is
one of the largest jobbers of pianos in the Cen-
tral West. The company have thirty or forty
branch houses in North Missouri, Iowa, Ne-
braska, Kansas and Oklahoma. The headquar-
ters of the company are located at St. Joseph.
SELECTED KUHTZMANN PIANOS.
From among a field of competitors Kurtzmann
pianos were purchased by the Westminster Col-
lege for Women, at New Wilmington, Pa., for
the music department, to the satisfaction of the
manufacturers, C. Kurtzmann & Co., Buffalo,
N. Y.
of this float was a Knabe Angelus Player, and
on the other end was the first piano made by
the House of Knabe, showing the contrast be-
Irving E. Devereaux, of C, Kurtzmann & Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y., during his recent trip West, as
usual, made a splendid record for his house,
booking many large orders for early shipment.
THE: MUSIC TRADE: REVIEW
KNABE FLOATS IN JUBILEE OF GREATER BALTIMORE
Magnificent Showing Made by One of the Oldest Industrial
Institutions in
Baltimore—Eight
Floats in the Parade Showing the Process of Manufacturing Pianos —Display Cost About
$12,000—Proud Day for Knabe Employes and Baltimore.
tween a piano of 1836 and one of 1906.
The decorative color scheme of each one of
these floats was carried out in the oriole colors,
yellow and black, with the shield of Maryland
and the city of Baltimore at each end.
The float was drawn by four gray horses,
One of the many features of the Jubilee of
Greater Baltimore, which was celebrated last
week, was the big industrial parade given on
Tuesday, in which the firm of Wm. Knabe &
Co. came out with first honors. Their display
was the most striking in the parade, there be-
ing eight floats in all, the first float showing a
mammoth globe representing the world. En-
circling this was the Knabe trademark, "Knabe,
showing the making cf a piano from the time
it is started in the factory until it leaves there.
These floats carried at least eight or ten men,
working at their benches.
The second of these floats represented the
chaped in white, with the Knabe shield on the
sides, and each float was led by a workman
from the Knabe factory.
The outlay of this display was about $12,000,
which helped to make it surpass any other dis-
play in line.
COL. TREACY'S_PLEASANT TRIP
Through the Maritime Provinces of Canada—
Combines a Little Business With Much
Pleasure.
Upright Case Department. The third. Upright
Sounding Board, Stringing and Side-gluing De-
partment. The fourth, Plate Department. The
fifth. Grand Case and Grand Press Department,
the World's Best Piano." The continents were
painted in brown and the oceans and seas in
green, giving the appearance of a large library
Atlas. The float proper on which the globe
rested was a miniature reproduction of the fa-
Col. Daniel F. Treacy, president of the Daven-
port & Treacy Piano Co., who is again at the
business helm, after a most enjoyable vacation
fpent in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and New-
foundland, is most enthusiastic over his sojourn
in the maritime provinces of Canada. In St.
Johns, Newfoundland, he secured a very sub-
stantial order from Charles Hutton, who intends
to sell a good many Davenport & Treacy pianos
in that city, despite the duty of 40 per cent,
which exists. From St. Johns he visited Syd-
ney, C. B., and from there journeyed to Halifax,
where he noted a decided increase in the pros-
perity of the people, and thence to St. Johns,
New Brunswick, via Digby, where he visited the
annual exposition, where a good showing of
pianos was in evidence. In this city he also
secured a good order for Davenport & Treacy
pianos, and journeyed homeward by way of Bos-
ton. Mr. Treacy looks in splendid trim after his
outing, and well equipped for a busy fall season.
0LNEY CO.'S LATEST PURCHASE.
Sixth, Grand Regulating and Polishing Depart-
ment.
On the eighth float was a finished production
represented by one of the latest and best de-
signs of the Knabe Art Case. This was of Em-
pire design, and valued at $4,0Q0. In the middle
mous Knabe factory, showing the recent new
buildings.
Following this was a series of seven floats,
The Olney Music Co., of St. Joseph, Mo., have
purchased the branch houses of the Kimball
Co^, both at Hannibal and Louisiana, and have
taken charge of all the territory and the agen-
cies of the Kimball Co. in Northeast Missouri.
The Olney Music Co. is one of the largest con-
cerns of its kind in Missouri and handles in
addition to the Kimball pianos, the Kranich &
Bach, Fischer, A. B. Chase, McPhail, Smith &
Barnes, Price & Teeple, the Needham and other
instruments. Mr. Olney, who is at the head of
the Olney Co., is a banker of Kansas City, and is
one of the largest jobbers of pianos in the Cen-
tral West. The company have thirty or forty
branch houses in North Missouri, Iowa, Ne-
braska, Kansas and Oklahoma. The headquar-
ters of the company are located at St. Joseph.
SELECTED KUHTZMANN PIANOS.
From among a field of competitors Kurtzmann
pianos were purchased by the Westminster Col-
lege for Women, at New Wilmington, Pa., for
the music department, to the satisfaction of the
manufacturers, C. Kurtzmann & Co., Buffalo,
N. Y.
of this float was a Knabe Angelus Player, and
on the other end was the first piano made by
the House of Knabe, showing the contrast be-
Irving E. Devereaux, of C, Kurtzmann & Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y., during his recent trip West, as
usual, made a splendid record for his house,
booking many large orders for early shipment.
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