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THE
BUSINESS IN BALTIMORE.
A Study of Local Conditions—Sanders & Stay-
man Have Good Weber Trade—Visits to
the Various Warerooms and Reports Gained
from Dealers.
(Special to The Review.)
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
The organ for the Church of the Messiah will
cost nearly $6,000, and the one for St. David's
Church will cost in the neighborhood of $10,000.
Another one of the Estey organs has also been
placed in Northminster Presbyterian Church,
Washington, D. C.
President G. Wright Nicols, of Sanders &
Stayman, will be among the local dealers who
will attend the convention of the Piano Dealers'
Association, in New York, June 8, 9 and 10. He
will be accompanied by his wife. After the con-
vention adjourns Mr. and Mrs. Nicols expect to
take a western trip. Their principal destination
will be Yellowstone Park. After viewing the
beauties of the park Mr. and Mrs. Nicols will
more than likely continue on a tour to the Pa-
cific Coast.
Another one of the local dealers who will go
to the dealers' convention is Manager J. H. Will-
iams, of the Charles M. Stieff house. He is away
this week on a business trip. Next week he will
go to southern Maryland and then on a northern
business trip before going to New York to be
present at the convention. The firm have done
a fair business during the week.
Manager Emil Levy, of the Gilbert Smith
Piano Co., reports that business has been quieter
than usual the past week. However, he believes
that this condition is only temporary and looks
for a rapid improvement.
R. Lertz & Son. agents for the Steinway, re-
port that business has been rather quiet. They
look for an improvement after the summer
months.
Business has also been a bit quieter than
usual with William Knabe & Co., according to
Manager Charles Keidel, Jr. Preparations that
are being made by people to get in their country
homes for the summer seem to be one of the
principal causes for the sudden falling off in the
trade during the past week.
Baltimore, Md., May 19, 1908.
The warm weather is beginning to show its
effect upon the local trade, which has been some-
what slower during the past week than for the
several weeks previous. This is a condition,
however, which the dealers look for each year
during the early spring and midsummer. They
are not disheartened, for they express the belief
that from all indications the business, as a
whole, during the warm weather, will equal, if
not surpass, that of the same period of last year.
They base their opinion on the change for the
better that has characterized the trade during
the past two months as compared with condi-
tions for the three or four months following the
financial depression. The dealers still stick to
their prophecy that after the presidential elec-
tion business will get back to the same flour-
ishing condition as that previous to last Oc-
tober.
Probably the busiest people of the week have
been Sanders & Stayman, local agents for the
Weber piano and the Estey organs. The firm
report that business with 'both of these instru-
ments has been exceptionally good all during the
present month. Weber pianos have sold well,
and to keep matters on the boom the firm have
been advertising the different styles of this
piano, the small grand, the baby grand and up-
rights, extensively in the local papers, and with
good results. The firm have just installed a
$3,500 Estey pipe organ in the Episcopal Church
of Our Saviour. This organ was used for the
first time during regular services last Sunday
Geo. H. Kennedy has opened a handsome store
and proved to be most satisfactory. The firm
also have orders for two more of these organs on Cortelyou Read, Platbush, N. Y., where he is
from the Episcopal Church of the Messiah and handling the Decker piano as his leader and a
St. David's Episcopal Church, both of this city. full line of talking machines.
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PREPARING FOR PROSPERITY.
New York
Central
Railroad Orders 2,000
Freight Cars for One of Its Divisions—Ex-
pects Heavy Shipping and Wants Them in
a Hurry.
An encouraging sign of returning prosperity
is evident in the fact that two thousand steel cars
have been ordered by the New York Central Rail-
road for its Pittsburg and Lake Erie Division.
The order had been placed with the Standard
Steel Car Co. last summer, and the cars were to
be delivered last fall. The order was held up by
the tight money market.
A Pittsburg & Lake Erie official says the cars
cannot be delivered too soon, as indications are
that a rapid revival is coming, and many rail-
roads will be caught unawares when called upon
for cars.
PRESIDENT NORRIS PLEASED
With
New Lindeman & Sons' Location.
L. W. P. Norris, president of Lindeman &
Sons Piano Co., stated that he was pleased with
his new location, and was sure that new trade
would be added as the weeks rolled by. The
salesrooms are centrally in the shopping dis-
trict and offers many advantages over the old
stand in West 23d street. With two large win-
dows for the display of pianos and a large store
floor for the arrangement of stock suits the firm's
requirements to a nicety. The new factory on
West 24th street, directly in the rear of the
salesrooms, will also enable the firm to increase
their output fully 25 per cent. The several floors
have been remodeled and every modern equip-
ment added to turn out goods expeditiously and
to meet the requirements of an exacting clientele.
The Bergh Piano Co., La Crosse, Wis., have
opened a branch store in Northwood, la., and
have installed uvo carloads of pianos in the
new wareronms.
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