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THE MUSIC TRADE
Groppel, Sol N. Frank, R. P. Fleet, John Baling,
Harry D. Eastman, Joseph C. Degenhardt, Harry
Gerhold, D. Melamet, Harry Smith and Dr. Kon-
rad Uhlig.
Specially invited guests: Fred Weber, David
Frances, J. A. Claverie, Wallace G. Davis, H. R.
Thatcher, Captain G. W. Henry, George W.
Knapp and H. Thurn.
Otto Mehlin, of New York, of Paul G. Mehlin &
Sons, stopped off for a short visit to Mr. Kranz
to-day. He was on his way from Jamaica to
New York.
W. E. Harkess, who conducts a piano store in
Newark, N. J., was among Mr. Kranz's visitors
to-day. He was on a business trip.
William Knabe & Co. announce that business
has been only fair in consequence of the holi-
days. They are looking forward to better times
in the fall.
Manager J. H. Williams, of Charles M. Stieff,
announced that business has been rather slow
for several days, although the trade was brisk
the first part of last week.
George Stieff spent the holidays at Atlantic
City.
S. W. Ahalt has returned from his vacation,
which he spent at Atlantic City.
Frank Van Newkirk has left for a two weeks'
holiday.
Manager Emil Levy, of the Gilbert-Smith Piano
Co., agents for the Kimball piano, stated that the
holidays caused business to be a bit slower than
usual.
President G. Wright Nicols, of Sanders & Stay-
man, local representatives for the Weber piano,
has just arrived in Seattle, Wash., where he
will remain until the first of August. Mr. Nicols,
who is accompanied by Mrs. Nicols, will make
an extended tour of the Pacific coast before re-
turning home.
RESOLUTIONS ON CURRENCY
Passed by the Credit Men's Association at Their
Recent Convention in Denver.*
At the convention of the National Association
of Credit Men, held in Denver recently, attended
by 400 delegates, representing over 10,000 credit
men all over the country, a great deal of interest
was manifested in the currency bills now before
Congress, and the following resolutions adopted
concerning same:
"Whereas, The currency and banking system
of the country is at the foundation of our credit
system and upon the soundness of the currency
and banking law the safety of the country from
unwholesome expansions and disastrous reactions
largely depend, and
"Whereas, An intelligent and educated public
opinion regarding banking and currency is
requisite for the enactment of laws which shall
be In accord with sound reason and experience,
and
"Whereas, The National Association of Credit
Men recognizes that it is its duty to work for
the improvement of a system which so deeply
affects the credit interests of the business com-
munity, be it
"Resolved, That the National Association of
Credit Men shall continue its Special Currency
Committee under the name 'Special Banking and
Currency Committee' and arrange at the conven-
tion of 1909 by amendment to the constitution
to place the committee among its standing com-
mittees, and further be it
"Resolved, That the local associations be re-
quested to appoint banking and currency com-
mittees to consist of five members, three from the
merchant members and two from the banking
members, these committees to work in conjunc-
tion with the National Banking and Currency
Committee, to bring about a more thorough co-
operation between commercial and banking In-
terests to the end that there may be aroused a
sounder and more intelligent understanding of
currency and banking questions."
In addition to considering the currency ques-
tion the association decided to combat any move-
ment to repeal or abolish the present Bankruptcy
Law and heard reports from their legislative
REVIEW
committee regarding the laws governing con-
ditional sales and chattel mortgages in the vari-
ous States.
Frank K. Dolbeer, of the National Phonograph
Co., attended the convention.
you what we know about the pianos we sell." It
was certainly a clever and highly commendable
form of advertising and attracted much atten-
tion.
CAPITALISTS NOT ENTHUSIASTIC.
DEATH OF MRS. H. H. SCHLINGMAN.
Mrs. Harry H. Schlingman, president of the
Schumann Piano Co., Denver, Col., died last
week after an illness of nearly two years. Mrs.
Schlingman came to Denver about thirty years
ago, and it was largely through her personal
efforts that the Schumann Piano Co. rose to their
present high standing in the western trade.
According to reports from Tacoma, Wash,,
while plans for the piano factory building for the
Coops Piano Co., at Steilacoom, Wash., are rap-
idly being prepared, that concern has not re-
ceived the support anticipated from the Tacoma
capitalists, though the factory will be erected as
planned. The building will cost $75,000 and will
be enlarged as the needs of the business demand.
NEW BUILDING FOR BAILEY CO.
CALLERS AT ENGELHARDT & SONS.
The Bailey Co., the large Cleveland (O.) de-
partment store, have approved plans for a new
ten-story building on the site of their present
store, and the arrangements include a liberal
space for the piano department under the man-
agement of B. B. Goodman.
B. Grunewald, of the L. Grunewald Co., Ltd.,
New Orleans, La., was a caller at the salesrooms
of F. Engelhardt & Sons, Windsor Arcade, Fifth
avenue and 47th street, the fore part of the week,
and left a substantial order. Mr. Grunewald
stated that trade was just fair in his home city,
but the prospects for fall were most encouraging.
SPECIAL JULY 4TH DISPLAY.
The Chas. M. Stieff store in Washington, D. C,
had a very elaborate window display for the
Fourth of July. Several handsome Stieff pianos
were placed in the window and draped with
large flags, while smaller flags and imitation
firecrackers strewn about added to the attrac-
tiveness of the display.
T. P. CULLEY'S HEALTH.
STIRRING MILTON CAMPAIGN.
A. H. Kayton, of the Milton Piano Co., 55th
street and 12th avenue, is one of the busiest of
the local piano manufacturers these days, for
he is getting out several new and fetching de-
signs for fall and expects to do business with
the same from the "drop of the hat" during the
stirring campaign which he intends making.
The Milton piano is scoring handsomely in the
many marts where it has been recently intro-
duced.
After an illness of nine months, T. P. Culley,
representative for the W. W. Kimball Co., in
Washington, D. C, has almost, though not en-
JOHN LUDWIG ON SHORT TRIP.
tirely, recovered his health and visited the ware-
rooms for the first time last week. Mr. Culley's
John Ludwig, of the Claviola Co., manufac-
physicians state that at the present rate of turers of the Ludwig & Claviola player pianos,
progress he will be able to take up active duties spent the Fourth and the forepart of the week
in the fall.
at Asbury Park, N. J. During his stay he made
several calls upon customers along the Jersey
coast, and incidentally booked orders for in-
USHERS FOR FIFTH AVENUE.
struments to be shipped the first of next week.
The suggestion of Simon Brentano, the well- The Claviola player piano is meeting with marked
known publisher and bookseller, and member of success and dealers who recently placed the line
the executive committee of the Fifth Avenue on their floors are sending in duplicate orders,
Association, that ushers be employed by the busi- which is proof positive that the instrument meets
ness men on the avenue, to supplement the police every trade requirement.
service and direct such as need information re-
garding stores and other buildings on the ave-
MUSIC AS A THERAPEUTIC AGENT.
nue, has met with hearty response from many
firms, among them being several piano houses.
A London publication says that in music we
Aeolian and Knabe halls, on Fifth avenue, and have a valuable treatment which is not so very
Ditson's, the Estey Co., and the John Church expensive to try. In a few years' time we may
Co., located near it would be among those to have auto-musical music producers as common
profit by such an innovation.
as electric batteries in our professional instru-
ment equipment, and as frequently prescribed
as light, inhalation, or bath treatments. Music
EXPANSION WITH WINTER & SON.
as a medicine.
F. A. Winter £ Son, the piano dealers of Al-
toona, Pa., have taken over the second floor of
DEATH OF THOMAS ASH.
the Murray building, In which their store is
located, and will remodel same for use as piano
Thomas Ash, who for over twenty-five years
warerooms, an electric elevator being installed had been a dealer in pianos and organs In Tren-
to take up passengers and also pianos. The addi- ton, N. J., died in that city recently v at the age
tional space is needed to handle the constantly of sixty-five years. Mr. Ash was prominent as
an organist and choir master.
growing business of the house.
WOOD BROS.' CLEVER PUBLICITY.
PIANOS IN FLOODED DISTRICT.
Those dealers who think they can help their
own business by "knocking" their competitors
should profit by the example recently set by
Wood Bros., the well-known piano dealers of
Pittsfleld, Mass. This firm, not long ago, Issued
a booklet with a very handsome green cover, on
the front of which was printed: "What we
know about the business interests of our com-
petitors and the pianos they represent by those
old-timers, the Wood Bros." The recipient
naturally started to turn the pages in search of
the promised information, only to find them all
entirely blank, until on reaching the outside
of the back cover the eyes were greeted with the
following: "Now that you know what we know
about the other fellow's business, we want to tell
Owing to the heavy floods sweeping over a
large portion of Kansas City, Kan., including the
business section of the city, the local piano deal-
ers have been very busy rescuing instruments
and conveying them to places of safety. In some
instances residences were almost entirely sub-
merged and the pianos were saved by boats with
difficulty.
The partnership of J. L. Brown, Jr., and R. M.
Mount Ford, under the name of the Raton Music
Co., Raton, N. M., has been dissolved.
Joseph N. Courtade, manufacturer of piano-
forte supplies, and Mrs. Courtade spent the
"Fourth" at Atlantic City, N. J.