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OUR FOREIGN^USTOMERS.
Pianos and Other Musical Instruments Shipped
Abroad from the Port of New York for the
Week Just Ended—An Interesting Array of
Musical Specialties for Foreign Countries.
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C, July 20, 1908.
The following were the exports of musical in-
struments and kindred lines from the port of
New York for the week just ended:
Auckland—15 cases organs, $1,015.
Belize—16 cases phonographs and material,
$486.
Berlin—4 cases phonographs and material,
$200.
Brussels—4 cases pianos and material, $587.
Cape Town—1 case pianos and material, $180;
6 cases organs and material, $260.
Callao—1 case musical instruments, $100.
Colon—2 cases pianos and material, $480; 2
cases phonograph goods, $123.
Copenhagen—6 cases organs, $128.
Gefle—16 cases organs and material, $1,250.
Guayaquil—5 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $152; 4 cases phonograph goods, $230.
Hamburg—1 case musical instruments, $280.
Havre—2 cases pianos and material, $300.
Karlstadt—3 cases organs and material, $132.
Kingston—4 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
rial, $321.
La Guayra—1 case organs, $218; 1 case organs
and material, $100; 1 case pianos and material,
$121.
Las Palinas—3 pkgs. talking machines and
material, $129.
Leipsic—6 cases organs and material, $273.
Demerara—3 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $216.
Liverpool—2 cases organs and material, $149.
London—6 cases organs and material, $237;
25 cases pianos and material, $3,640; 7 cases
piano players and material, $1,182; 23 pkgs. talk-
ing machines and material, $1,342; 8 pkgs. talk-
ing machines and material, $589; 12 cases organs,
$350.
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Madrid—2 cases piano players and material,
$383.
Manila—2 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
rial, $100.
Naples—2 cases pianos and material, $400.
Rio de Janeiro—19 pkgs. talking machines and
material, $1,653.
Rotterdam—1 case organs and material, $100.
St. Johns—1 case pianos and material, $105.
St. Petersburg—2 cases piano players and ma-
terial, $C05.
Sydney—16 cases organs, $2,052; 5 cases pianos
and material, $527; 2 cases piano players and
material, $642; 32 cases pianos and material,
$4,160; 16 pkgs. talking machines and material,
$6,000.
Tampico—10 cases pianos and material, $1,-
433; 5 cases organs and material, $148.
Trinidad—12 cases phonograph goods, $463.
Valparaiso—6 cases phonograph goods, $242.
Vera Cruz—80 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $1,746; 1 case musical instruments, $124.
Vienna—12 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
rial, $405.
auspices of the United Commercial Travelers and
the Travelers' Protective Association to "boom
prosperity," will be held at the Hotel Victoria
August 14-15. Some 5,000 traveling salesmen,
buyers and merchants are expected to attend
and join in the movement which the two asso-
ciations have started to help along the return
to normal business conditions. Many speeches
will be made and plans, suggestions and resolu-
tions offered.
F. 0. EVANS CO. IN NEW QUARTERS.
EARLY CO. BUY QUIST BUSINESS.
The P. O. Evans Co., who represent the Story
& Clark interests in Des Moines, la., have moved
from their old quarters to the Bwing building,
Ninth and Locust streets, where they have con-
siderably more room and better opportunities for
catering to their customers.
The Early Music Co., of Ft. Dodge, la., have
purchased the music business of Carl Quist, who
retires to give his entire attention to his band.
MORE CARS AT WORK.
Number of Those Idle Reduced by 9,800 in July.
The fortnightly report of the American Rail-
way Association on the number of idle cars in
the country, made public Monday last, for the
two weeks ended July 8, showed a further re-
duction in unemployed freight cars amounting
to about 9,800. This reduces the number of idle
freight cars in this country and Canada on the
lines reporting to the association to 303,042,
against 312,847 on June 24 and a maximum of
413,338 on April 29.
Since the end of April there have been five
STEFFENS WITH BROCKMEIER BROS. CO.
consecutive reductions in the number of idle
cars, each fortnightly report issued since the
C. T. Steffens has resigned from the Waltham beginning of May having shown a smaller num-
Piano Co., and has joined the forces of Brock- ber of idle cars than appeared in the preceding
meier Bros. Piano Co., which will soon be in- report. More than half, or 5,876, of the decrease
corporated with headquarters at Grand Rapids, in idle cars shown by yesterday's report were
Mich.
box cars.
MILLER HAS SCHAEFFER AGENCY.
TRAVELERS' PROSPERITY CONGRESS.
Theodore J. Miller, of Dixon, 111., has secured
the agency of the Schaeffer piano for that city
and locality.
The first session of the Commercial Travelers'
Interstate Congress, created under the joint
B. A. Bloomey has changed his location in
Manchester, N. H., to 834 Elm street.
Get in the right company to
handle the Player trade on a paying
basis. How? We can tell you.
Handle the Behning Player Piano.
This is the best player creation on
the market. Strong words, surely,
but we stand ready to prove the
correctness of every statement which
we make. The Behning has been
tried and tested in every possible
way, and it has not been found wanting in the remotest particular.
Now, you can increase your Player trade if you have the Behning in stock.
Write us before some other wide-awake dealer in your locality secures the agency.
We Can
Help Yout
Playe* T*acle
THE BEHNING PIANO COMPANY
Manufacturers Pianos and Piano Players
The block, 131st to 132d Street, Park Avenue
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