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INDIANAPOLIS TRADE GLEANINGS.
Trade Is Dull, But Dealers Look for Busy Fall—
Leading Houses Are Preparing for the Cam-
paign—Growth of Musical Taste in the Small
Towns—Movements of Piano Men.
(Special to The Review.)
Indianapolis, Ind., August 3, 1910.
There is no denying that this is the dull season
in the piano business in this city. There is not a
single dealer who will deny it. But all of the
dealers are sanguine over the prospects for the
coming year, and after the usual dullness of Au-
gust and September it is believed that trade will
set in, and that the record that will be made during
the coming year will be up to that of any previous
year for the last four or five years.
Generally speaking, the piano houses will start in
for the next season with better groundwork and bet-
ter equipment than they have ever had before. The
Wulschner-Stewart Co., the Aeolian Co., the King
Co., the Pearson house and the Story & Clark Co.
will be in newly decorated homes, and all will be
well prepared for the trade. It is noticeable also
that all of the dealers are hustling around to get
the very latest designs, and that all will start with
forces of salesmen that will be equal to the occasion.
Many business improvements in other lines have
taken place in Indianapolis, and the piano men have
merely kept pace with the crowd.
Music in the pubic schools has received more
attention in the last year than ever before, and it
is expected that this will be a more profitable line
than ever, particularly in the towns and smaller
cities of the State, where the teaching of music is
just having its inception.
W. H. Alfring, of the Aeolian Co., has been in
St. Louis for a short time, and will visit in New
York later in the fall. Last June was the second
best month in the fiscal year for the Aeolian Co.
A. O. Pouree, agent for the Starr Piano Co. at
Warsaw, was a caller at the local store of the Starr
Co. Manager Spain says business has been very
satisfactory for the last month. H. H. Francis and
O. L. Wright, traveling men, and formerly con-
nected with the Indianapolis store of the Starr
Co., were callers here recently.
The Wulschner-Stewart Co. are well pleased with
the summer business they have had in their new
home in North Pennsylvania street. The demand
for Chickering grands has been highly satisfactory.
11. J. Norris, manager of the Indianapolis store
of the Story & Clark Co., went to Chicago to
attend the annual dinner of the Story & Clark em-
ployes.
Will Carlin, who went to New York to be the
guest of R. B. Burgess of the Wegmaii Piano Co.,
has returned and is now at Lake Wawasee in In-
diana for a two weeks' fishing trip. Carlin &
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Lennox have been having a good Wegman and
Autopiano business.
Business has been pretty good with the Fuller-
Currens Piano Co. Several good Kimball and
Price & Teeple sales have been made, mostly the
higher-priced styles. An A. B. Chase piano was
placed by this firm at French Lick, Ind., being sold
to a banker there.
Earl Currens will return from Colorado about
September 1 to enter a college in Illinois-. He has
been living on a ranch during the summer.
The King Co. are conducting a successful re-
moval sale preparatory to occupying their new
home in the Indiana Pythian building.
F. H. Holland, of the A. B. Chase Co., was a
recent caller at the Fuller-Currens store.
lhc Pearson Piano House is well pleased with
the catalog of new designs of Krakauers that has
been received. George S. Withee, traveling repre-
sentative of the Krakauer Bros., was a caller at the
Pearson house.
John Pearson, of the Pearson Piano House, made
an automobile run to French Lick last week, ac-
companied by Mrs. Pearson.
HAINES BROS. POPULARITY
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Colleges and Conservatories Attested by
Sales of This Piano to Prominent Institu-
tions—Some Interesting Facts.
Some interesting facts appeared in the advertise-
ment of Wm. Knabe & Co. in the New York pa-
pers of Tuesday regarding the popularity of the
Haines Bros, pianos in conservatories and col-
leges. In this connection they say:
"During the past sixty days our sales of the
Haines Bros, piano (for which we are exclusive
agents in New York City) to conservatories and
colleges alone have gone within five of the two
hundred mark.
"Here is our sixty-day record, which speaks more
for the value of the Haines Bros, piano than any-
thing we can say: New England Conservatory of
Music, Boston, 10 (supplementary order for 30 in
1909); Shorter College, Rome, Ga., 50; Wesleyan
Female College, Macon, Ga., 42; Illinois Women's
College, Jackson, 111., 38; Virginia Christian Col-
lege, Lynchburg, Va., 10; University School of
Music, Lincoln, Neb., 15; Meridian Women's Col-
lege, Meridian, Miss., 30."
WIRELESS AT WANAMAKER'S.
Orders for Pianos and Specialties Now Carried
by Wanamaker Can Be P aced by Wireless.
The Wanamaker stores in New York and Phila-
delphia are about to be placed in connection with
ocean steamships by wireless telegraphy. Official
Marconi stations are now being installed in each
of the Wanamaker stores, so that passengers on
transatlantic steamers will be enabled to place
their orders for pianos and other specialties &s
readily as by mail or by telephone. The Wana-
maker wireless stations will also conduct a regular
commercial business.
The Wanamaker firm has obtained possession of
the building on the northeast corner of Broadway
and Eighth street. On account of leases then in
force, these premises were not available at the
time of the erection of the new Wanamaker Build-
ing, which covers the rest of the block. The cor-
ner has now been connected with the Wanamaker
store.
RENTED PIANO AND TRIED TO SELL IT.
(Special to The Review.)
Milwaukee, Wis., August 4, 1910.:
When B. L. McLane tried to dispose of a
Christman piano to the Flanner-Hafsoos Piano
Co., of this city for $65, the suspicions of the offi-
cers of the concern were aroused, and they notified
the police of the case. Detectives Sullivan and
Burns were instructed to investigate the matter,
and they went to McLane's boarding house at 603
Milwaukee street, where they put the man through
a severe questioning. He confessed to having pur-
chased the piano in Chicago, paying $10 as the first
installment. From Chicago the instrument was
shipped to Elgin, 111., and later to this city, where
he made the attempt to sell it. McLane will be
taken back to Chcago.
NARROW ESCAPE FROM BAD FIRE.
(Special to The Review.)
Milwaukee, August 4, 1910.
The store and factory of the Krieter Piano Co.,
of this city, were prevented from being seriously
damaged by a fire recently by the prompt work of
the city fire department. A box of rubbish in the
rear of the building became ignited," supposedly
from spontaneous combustion, and the blaze at once
commenced to spread. An alarm was immediately
turned in and the firemen soon made short work of
the fire.
TWO LIVE DEALERS IN PUTNAM, CONN.
(Special to The Review.)
Putnam, Conn., Aug. 2, 1910.
This city, which is also one of the biggest ship-
ping points in New England, has two enterprising
piano men, notably F. G. Letters and George E.
Shaw. Mr. Letters has an extensive wareroom,
handling the following instruments: McPhail,
Henry & S. G. Lindeman, Winter, Janssen, Regal
and the "Big 4" line pianos; also Estey organs.
Mr. Shaw is the Putnam distributer for Poole
pianos, as well as Edison and Victor talking ma-
chines, and is doing a fine business in this locality.
Constant and Rapid Progress
have placed
Winter & Co. Pianos
on a higher level than has previously been achieved in generations
WINTER & CO.
220 Southern Boulevard
New York City