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THE MUSIC TRADE
12
REVIEW
Milan—6 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $190.
Malta—1 case piano material, $200.
Home Trade League of America Organized
Naples—2 cases pianos and material, $575.
With a Half Million Retail Merchants for
Pernambuco—1 case piano material, $179; 1
This Purpose.
case piano-players and material, $135.
The Home Trade League of America, behind
Port au Prince—1 case organ material, $155.
which are over half a million Western retail
Rio de Janeiro—4 cases pianos and material,
merchants, has started an active campaign to $408; 3 pkgs. talking machines and material,
stop the ravages of the catalog houses. Jobbers $302.
and manufacturers are also enlisted in the fight
St. Kitts—9 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
against the mail order concerns.
terial, $130.
So many merchants in small communities have
St. Petersburg—9 pkgs. talking machines and
been driven to the wall by these concerns, and material, $461; 7 pkgs. talking machines and
so much money taken out of sections where it material, $536.
was really needed in circulation that a fight to
Sydney—15 cases pianos and material, $1,662.
the finish is said to be demanded and the League
Smyrna—1 case pianos and material, $143; 3
has been formed for that purpose.
cases organs and material, $115.
The battle will be waged in a systematic man-
Valencia—1 case piano material, $157; 2 cases
ner from the League headquarters in Chicago, organ material, $100.
state executive bodies of ten men each looking
Vera Cruz—2 cases pianos, $285; 4 cases or-
after local details. The states represented in gans, $106; 37 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
the Home Trade League of America are Illinois, terial, $1,877.
Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, Kansas and Minne-
Wellington—7 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
sota. The manager of the League is Alfred C. terial, $139.
Clark.
Yokohama—1 case organs and material, $100;
150 pkgs. talking machines and material, $4,639.
TO FIGHT CATALOG HOUSES.
PHILADELPHIA TRADE NOTES.
H. C. Pressey Trip to the Pacific Coast—To
Visit His Brother in Nebraska—Baldwin-
Weymann
Move—Drew
Moves to New
Quarters in the Quaker City.
Hiram C. Pressey, vice-president of the Lester
Piano Co., will shortly take an extended trip
through the West as far as the Pacific Coast, and
will not return until the middle of September.
On his way home he will visit his brother Henry,
who conducts an extensive farm in Custer
County, Nebraska, and will spend several days
shooting prairie chickens. Throughout the trip
Mr. Pressey will combine business with pleasure,
having the happy faculty of doing this success-
fully.
The negotiations under way with a view to
placing the D. H. Baldwin Co.'s line with H. A.
Weymann & Sons, as announced exclusively in
The Review of July 20, are about finished, and it
is said that the deal will be consummated and
the new line installed by September 1.
Charles E. Doddridge, who has looked after
the Baldwin interests in Philadelphia for some
time past will be in charge of that line in the
handsome
new Weymann headquarters at 1010
OUR FOREIGN CUSTOMERS.
Chestnut
street,
and is already at work on a
CONTINUING JAMESTOWN SHOW.
new series of Baldwin literature for the new rep-
Pianos and Other Musical Instruments Shipped
resentative.
Abroad from the Port of New York for the
W. J . Abbott Suggests Reopening Exposition
H. A. Weymann & Sons have proven themselves
Week Just Ended—An Interesting Array of
Next Year Leaving All Exhibits in Place in
progressive in every sense of the word, and both
Musical Specialties for Foreign Countries.
Meanwhile.
as regards the personnel of the firm and business
Willis J. Abbott, of Chicago and New York, be- location are well fitted to give the Baldwin line
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C, July 29, 1907. lieves he has solved the problem of making the a most satisfactory representation.
Joseph P. Drew, for several years located at
The following were the exports of musical in- Jamestown Exposition a success, his plan being
struments and kindred lines from the Port of to reopen the Exposition on or about June 1, 202 South 11th street, where he built up a very
next year, leaving the exhibits in place, and hav- successful business, has removed to more promi-
New York for the week just ended:
ing everything complete by that time. As the nently located and larger quarters at 10th and
Antwerp—1 case pianos, $400.
Barbadoes—4 cases pianos and material, $636. buildings are of substantial brick and cement Walnut streets, where the store and basement
Berlin—102 pkgs. talking machines and ma- construction they could easily remain for an in- will be occupied. Mr. Drew handles a large line
definite period without any danger of decay. Mr. of pianos, with the Stieff as leader, together
terial, $1,062; 5 cases music, $181.
Bristol—2 cases organ material, $125; 1 case Abbott cites as a precedent the New Orleans Ex- with small goods and sheet music.
position of 1884, which, after three months of
pianos and material, $280.
John J. Glynn, office manager for James &
Buenos Ayres—1 case organs, $130; 17 pkgs. failure, owing to incompleteness, was closed and Holmstrom, 23 East 14th street, is at Oneida
reopened
in
1885,
with
great
success,
great
crowds
talking machines, $1,379.
Lake,
Calcutta—10 pkgs. talking machines and ma- attending throughout. And at New Orleans the
buildings
were
of
the
flimsy
wooden
and
plaster
terial, $306.
construction.
Demerara—2 cases pianos and material, $316.
Gothenberg—7 cases organs and material, $710.
PEASE HONORS COOPERSTOWN.
Hamburg—2 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $150; 3 cases pianos and material, $85; 1
The Pease Piano Co. is distributing to cus-
case organs, $500.
Haines Bros.
Havana—52 pkgs. talking machine and ma- tomers copies of the "Cooperstown March," dedi-
terial, $1,253; 34 pkgs. talking machines and ma- cated to the centennial celebration now in prog-
ress at that place. It will be recalled that Coop-
terial, $397.
Havre—1 case musical instruments, $100; 14 erstown, N. Y., was the first home of the Pease
Piano Co., figuratively speaking, the first in-
pkgs. talking machines and material, $500.
Liverpool—1 pkg. talking machines and ma- strument having been built there in 1844. J. B.
terial, $200; 17 cases organs, $850; 3 cases mu- Cohen, manager of the Pease Piano Co.'s Brook-
lyn branch, is the composer of the march, and
Among the piano leaders
sic, $222.
London—163 pkgs. talking machines and ma- it has scored a Hit. The march, which has been
the
Haines Bros. Piano has
terial, $3,460; 2 cases pianos and material, $540; orchestrated, was played at Brighton Beach for
won and maintained a place
4 cases piano-players, $998; 6 cases organs, $228; several days, and an encore followed its rendi-
tion.
The
march
is
also
being
played
by
sev-
which
is a source of pride to the
1 pkg. talking machines and material, $100.
Manila—2 pkgs. talking machines and material, eral New York bands and orchestras, and is wel
manufacturers.
received.
$216.
PIANOS
PIANO MAKING IN CHICAGO.
The Standard of America
THE BEST IN THE WORLD
Simple, Durable and Absolutely Noiseless
NOT AFFECTED BY CLIMATE
The
N
ORRIS DATENT
OISELESSI EDALACTION
Annoyance and Expense
Saved Dealer and Purchaser
Mtnufactured and sold only by
Morris Noiseless Pedal Action Go.
ALBEIT F. MORRIS
3 Appleton Street,
CLIFTON H. NORRIS
Boston, Mass.
"Chicago as a Piano Producing Center" is the
title of an article written by George B. Arm-
strong appearing in the Chicago Magazine for
July. The article treats of piano making in
Chicago and gives facts relating to the growth
and development of that important industry in
the Western metropolis and in nearby points. It
is profusely illustrated with views of the great
piano producing plants of the West, and is inter-
estingly written.
FULTON'S BAND WINS HIGH HONORS.
James Fulton, of the Fulton Music Co., of
Waterbury, Conn., is the leader of the Fulton's
American Band, of that city, who in a local
contest came out winner over several other
bands considered excellent. When not drilling
the band Mr. Fulton helps sell the following line
of pianos: Sohmer, Stultz & Bauer, Jacob Bros,
and Shoninger.
It meets the demand of the
times, not only in tone and con-
struction, but in case design as
well. It is exceptionally attractive
to the eye and its lines will im-
prove the appearance of any music
room, whether in a Fifth Avenue
mansion or a winter hotel in
Florida.
Live dealers wanted.
HAINES BROS.
ROCHESTER, N. Y.
92 Fifth Ave.
NEW YORK
J
Republic Bldg
CHICAGO