Music Trade Review
Issue: 1912 Vol. 55 N. 10 - Page 9
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THE: MUSIC TRADE:
REVIEW
MILWAUKEE HOUSES TO EXHIBIT.
FREIGHT RATE BOOST BLOCKED.
BALTIMORE TRADE IMPROVING.
Piano Concerns to Have Booths at Household
Show in That City—Lines to Be Represented
—News of the Salesmen—Working Force at
Kreiter Plant Increased to 200 Men.
Move of the Interstate-Commerce Commission
Checkmates Move of the Transcontinental
Trunk Lines to Raise Rates to the West—
New Schedule Proposed for Coast to Coast
Shipments Would Open Way to New Inter-
mediate Charges—Interesting to Piano Men.
Fall Business Beginning to Make Its Appear-
ance—G. Wright Nicols Home from Northern
Trip—Peerless Automatic Pianos in Demand
News of the Week Summarized.
(Special to The Review.)
Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 3, 1912.
Milwaukee's first Household Show, which will
be held at the Auditorium, Sept. 9 to 16, and prom-
ises to be one of the biggest things of its kind
ever held in this city, will have two local piano
houses among its exhibitors. The Edmund Gram
Music house and the Milwaukee branch of the
F G. Smith Piano Co., under the direction of
Manager Elmer W. Keuper, will each have two
booths at the show, where a complete line of
grands, uprights and players will be shown, spe-
cial attention to be given to the player feature of
the exhibits. The Gram house will be represented
by several Steinways, Gram-Richtsteigs and the
Aeolian line, while the F. G. Smith house will
show a complete line of Bradbury, Webster and
llenning pianos and players. Ferullo's band will
play at the show and a record-breaking crowd is
expected.
George Gerber, prominent Milwaukee musician,
who is leader of several orchestras, has joined the
sales force of the Milwaukee branch of the F. G.
Smith Piano Co. Herman Goesch, a member of
the F. G. Smith sales force, is in Los Angeles, Cal.,
where he is attending the G. A. R. encampment
as leader of a drum corps.
An interesting sale was made this week by El-
mer W. Keuper, manager of the local store of the
F. G. Smith Piano Co., of a Smith & Barnes large
style upright to F. E. Simpson, superintendent of
the Kieckhefer Box Co.
The working force at the plant of th; Kreiter
Manufacturing Co., at Marinette, Wis., has been
increased to 200. The new Kreiter styles of up-
rights which are being turned out at the Marir.-
ette factory are meeting with a big sale, according
to Mr. Kreiter.
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C, Sept. 3, 1912.
The Interstate Commerce Commission has sus-
pended from September 2 until December 31 the
proposed increase in the freight rates on west-
bound commodity shipments over transcontinental
trunk lines from Eastern points to Pacific Coast
terminals.
These 'increases would have raised the freight on
transcontinental shipments of various commodities
from 5 to 75 cents a hundred pounds in certain
instances, but the real signicance of the effort to
raise these terminal rates lies in the fact that the
elevation of the rates once effective would enable
the trunk lines to boost any rates to intermediate
points in the West.
Under the decision of the commission in the so-
called Fourth Section cases, involving interpreta-
tion of the long and short haul amendment of the
Interstate Commerce act, the transcontinental trunk
lines are forbidden to charge rates on intermediate
points between Missouri River points and Pacific
Coast terminals higher than the terminal rates.
These roads, under that decision, may blanket the
rates to all points in that territory, and none of
these intermediate rates may be in excess of the
rate from Kansas City to San Francisco terminals.
Fixed Intermediate Rates.
The commission held in the Fourth Section cases
that rates to intermediate points in the West on
shipments originating in Chicago territory might
exceed the Chicago-San Francisco terminal rate not
more than 7 J /2 per cent., on shipments originating
in Pittsburgh territory the intermediate rates might
exceed the Pittsburgh-San Francisco rate not more
than 15 per cent., and shipments from that territory
to intermediate points might be charged not more
than 25 per cent, in excess of the rate from New
HEADS NORDHEIMER CO.
York to San Francisco terminals.
Transcontinental lines have never liked this zone
Albert Nordheimer Succeeds the Late Samuel
rate-fixing arrangement imposed by the commis-
Nordheimer as Fresident of Big Canadian
sion's fourth section orders. During the investi-
House—Value of Nordheimer Estate.
gation of the fourth section cases it was frankly
intimated that if the intermediate rates were dis-
Albert Nordheimer, who for a number of years
turbed it would ultimately become necessary on the
past has been managing director of the Nord-
heimer Piano & Music Co., Toronto, Ont, has transcontinental lines to raise their terminal rates
in order to recoup the losses which would be caused
been elected president of the company to succeed
by the reduction of intermediate rates.
his uncle, the late Samuel Nordheimer. Albert
Nordheimer has recently returned from Europe
and taken active charge of the business, with
NEW CLUETT & SONS BRANCH.
which he is well acquainted.
Cluett & Sons, the well-known piano dealers of
The estate of Samuel Nordheimer, according
Albany and Troy, N. Y., have opened a new branch
to figures offered by the Toronto General Trusts
store in the Paul Block, Charlotte and Elizabeth
Corporation, aggregates $1,546,552.47, exclusive of
streets, Utica, N. Y., where they have installed a
various properties and securities connected with
large line of pianos and other musical instruments.
marriage settlements.
(Special to The Review.)
Baltimore, Md., Sept. 2, 1912.
Most of the dealers remained closed to-day in
honor of Labor Day, while those few who did
go to the office did so for the purpose of finishing
up some left-over business from last week or to
consummate some outstanding deal. Quite a few
of the dealers and salesmen took advantage of the
extra day and enjoyed week-end trips to the sea-
shores and mountains.
Business is beginning to look bright and the re-
ports are very encouraging. Among the good
deals reported for the week was that of a $1,000
Steinway by Sanders & Stayman. This announce-
ment was made by President G. Wright Nicols,
and is especially pleasing to him for the reason
that it followed close on the heels of his return
from a most delightful trip of several weeks
throughout the State of New York and the New
England States, including stops along the coast of
Maine. Mr. Nicols while in New York State vis-
ited Cayuga and Lake Placid, and he said that the
entire trip was an excellent one and has prepared
him properly to do battle with the fall and winter
business problems. He looks for a good trade
during the coming seasons.
Manager Albert Bowden, of the talking ma-
chine department of Sanders & Stayman, is so-
journing for two weeks at Atlantic City, where
he is breaking many bowling records and enjoying
good swims and sails daily.
Ernest Panetti, of the sales force of the Charles
M. Stieff house, is back at his desk after a pleasant
two weeks' rest.
S. P. Walker, manager of the branch stores
for Charles M. Stieff, is away on a short business
trip.
E. Fred Colber, manager of the William Knabe
& Co. branch of the American Piano Co., has re-
turned from a delightful stay of several weeks at
Bensonhurst-by-the-Sea. Mr. Colber said that the
swimming and fishing were fine and that the trip
in general was a most invigorating one and has put
him in tiptop shape to cope with the rush of fall
and winter customers.
Peerless electric pianos are still having a good
run, according to statements given out by the Hub
Piano Co. local representatives.
Joseph M. Mann, proprietor of the Mann Piano
Co., Cable line representatives, reports a good
week with the Cable pianos and Inner-Players.
Mr. Mann is enjoying week-end trips to Ocean
City, Md., where his family is sojourning for the
summer.
TO SUE CITY FOR FLOOD DAMAGE.
The piano dealers of Denver, Colo., plan to com-
bine with other merchants of that city who suf-
fered loss by reason of the floods during July,
and sue the city for damages aggregating $20,000.
It is claimed that bridges built by the city acted
as dams and caused the floods. Approximately
$20,000 damage was done to pianos in the city
bv the water.
NEW AEOLIAN CO. BRANCH STORE.
The Aeolian Co. has made arrangements to open
a branch in the department store of Linn &
Scruggs, Decatur, 111. The new branch will be
under the management of L. E. Holley and a full
line of instruments will be carried.
PIANO MAN HOST TO CHILDREN.
S. L. Van Fosscn, a piano dealer of Beardstown,
111., recently proved himself a real philanthropist
by chartering a steamboat and barge and enter-
taining a thousand children on an excursion on the
Illinois River. Refreshments were also provided
on the trip by the piano man, and his generosity
was highly commended.
THE: MUSIC TRADE:
REVIEW
MILWAUKEE HOUSES TO EXHIBIT.
FREIGHT RATE BOOST BLOCKED.
BALTIMORE TRADE IMPROVING.
Piano Concerns to Have Booths at Household
Show in That City—Lines to Be Represented
—News of the Salesmen—Working Force at
Kreiter Plant Increased to 200 Men.
Move of the Interstate-Commerce Commission
Checkmates Move of the Transcontinental
Trunk Lines to Raise Rates to the West—
New Schedule Proposed for Coast to Coast
Shipments Would Open Way to New Inter-
mediate Charges—Interesting to Piano Men.
Fall Business Beginning to Make Its Appear-
ance—G. Wright Nicols Home from Northern
Trip—Peerless Automatic Pianos in Demand
News of the Week Summarized.
(Special to The Review.)
Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 3, 1912.
Milwaukee's first Household Show, which will
be held at the Auditorium, Sept. 9 to 16, and prom-
ises to be one of the biggest things of its kind
ever held in this city, will have two local piano
houses among its exhibitors. The Edmund Gram
Music house and the Milwaukee branch of the
F G. Smith Piano Co., under the direction of
Manager Elmer W. Keuper, will each have two
booths at the show, where a complete line of
grands, uprights and players will be shown, spe-
cial attention to be given to the player feature of
the exhibits. The Gram house will be represented
by several Steinways, Gram-Richtsteigs and the
Aeolian line, while the F. G. Smith house will
show a complete line of Bradbury, Webster and
llenning pianos and players. Ferullo's band will
play at the show and a record-breaking crowd is
expected.
George Gerber, prominent Milwaukee musician,
who is leader of several orchestras, has joined the
sales force of the Milwaukee branch of the F. G.
Smith Piano Co. Herman Goesch, a member of
the F. G. Smith sales force, is in Los Angeles, Cal.,
where he is attending the G. A. R. encampment
as leader of a drum corps.
An interesting sale was made this week by El-
mer W. Keuper, manager of the local store of the
F. G. Smith Piano Co., of a Smith & Barnes large
style upright to F. E. Simpson, superintendent of
the Kieckhefer Box Co.
The working force at the plant of th; Kreiter
Manufacturing Co., at Marinette, Wis., has been
increased to 200. The new Kreiter styles of up-
rights which are being turned out at the Marir.-
ette factory are meeting with a big sale, according
to Mr. Kreiter.
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C, Sept. 3, 1912.
The Interstate Commerce Commission has sus-
pended from September 2 until December 31 the
proposed increase in the freight rates on west-
bound commodity shipments over transcontinental
trunk lines from Eastern points to Pacific Coast
terminals.
These 'increases would have raised the freight on
transcontinental shipments of various commodities
from 5 to 75 cents a hundred pounds in certain
instances, but the real signicance of the effort to
raise these terminal rates lies in the fact that the
elevation of the rates once effective would enable
the trunk lines to boost any rates to intermediate
points in the West.
Under the decision of the commission in the so-
called Fourth Section cases, involving interpreta-
tion of the long and short haul amendment of the
Interstate Commerce act, the transcontinental trunk
lines are forbidden to charge rates on intermediate
points between Missouri River points and Pacific
Coast terminals higher than the terminal rates.
These roads, under that decision, may blanket the
rates to all points in that territory, and none of
these intermediate rates may be in excess of the
rate from Kansas City to San Francisco terminals.
Fixed Intermediate Rates.
The commission held in the Fourth Section cases
that rates to intermediate points in the West on
shipments originating in Chicago territory might
exceed the Chicago-San Francisco terminal rate not
more than 7 J /2 per cent., on shipments originating
in Pittsburgh territory the intermediate rates might
exceed the Pittsburgh-San Francisco rate not more
than 15 per cent., and shipments from that territory
to intermediate points might be charged not more
than 25 per cent, in excess of the rate from New
HEADS NORDHEIMER CO.
York to San Francisco terminals.
Transcontinental lines have never liked this zone
Albert Nordheimer Succeeds the Late Samuel
rate-fixing arrangement imposed by the commis-
Nordheimer as Fresident of Big Canadian
sion's fourth section orders. During the investi-
House—Value of Nordheimer Estate.
gation of the fourth section cases it was frankly
intimated that if the intermediate rates were dis-
Albert Nordheimer, who for a number of years
turbed it would ultimately become necessary on the
past has been managing director of the Nord-
heimer Piano & Music Co., Toronto, Ont, has transcontinental lines to raise their terminal rates
in order to recoup the losses which would be caused
been elected president of the company to succeed
by the reduction of intermediate rates.
his uncle, the late Samuel Nordheimer. Albert
Nordheimer has recently returned from Europe
and taken active charge of the business, with
NEW CLUETT & SONS BRANCH.
which he is well acquainted.
Cluett & Sons, the well-known piano dealers of
The estate of Samuel Nordheimer, according
Albany and Troy, N. Y., have opened a new branch
to figures offered by the Toronto General Trusts
store in the Paul Block, Charlotte and Elizabeth
Corporation, aggregates $1,546,552.47, exclusive of
streets, Utica, N. Y., where they have installed a
various properties and securities connected with
large line of pianos and other musical instruments.
marriage settlements.
(Special to The Review.)
Baltimore, Md., Sept. 2, 1912.
Most of the dealers remained closed to-day in
honor of Labor Day, while those few who did
go to the office did so for the purpose of finishing
up some left-over business from last week or to
consummate some outstanding deal. Quite a few
of the dealers and salesmen took advantage of the
extra day and enjoyed week-end trips to the sea-
shores and mountains.
Business is beginning to look bright and the re-
ports are very encouraging. Among the good
deals reported for the week was that of a $1,000
Steinway by Sanders & Stayman. This announce-
ment was made by President G. Wright Nicols,
and is especially pleasing to him for the reason
that it followed close on the heels of his return
from a most delightful trip of several weeks
throughout the State of New York and the New
England States, including stops along the coast of
Maine. Mr. Nicols while in New York State vis-
ited Cayuga and Lake Placid, and he said that the
entire trip was an excellent one and has prepared
him properly to do battle with the fall and winter
business problems. He looks for a good trade
during the coming seasons.
Manager Albert Bowden, of the talking ma-
chine department of Sanders & Stayman, is so-
journing for two weeks at Atlantic City, where
he is breaking many bowling records and enjoying
good swims and sails daily.
Ernest Panetti, of the sales force of the Charles
M. Stieff house, is back at his desk after a pleasant
two weeks' rest.
S. P. Walker, manager of the branch stores
for Charles M. Stieff, is away on a short business
trip.
E. Fred Colber, manager of the William Knabe
& Co. branch of the American Piano Co., has re-
turned from a delightful stay of several weeks at
Bensonhurst-by-the-Sea. Mr. Colber said that the
swimming and fishing were fine and that the trip
in general was a most invigorating one and has put
him in tiptop shape to cope with the rush of fall
and winter customers.
Peerless electric pianos are still having a good
run, according to statements given out by the Hub
Piano Co. local representatives.
Joseph M. Mann, proprietor of the Mann Piano
Co., Cable line representatives, reports a good
week with the Cable pianos and Inner-Players.
Mr. Mann is enjoying week-end trips to Ocean
City, Md., where his family is sojourning for the
summer.
TO SUE CITY FOR FLOOD DAMAGE.
The piano dealers of Denver, Colo., plan to com-
bine with other merchants of that city who suf-
fered loss by reason of the floods during July,
and sue the city for damages aggregating $20,000.
It is claimed that bridges built by the city acted
as dams and caused the floods. Approximately
$20,000 damage was done to pianos in the city
bv the water.
NEW AEOLIAN CO. BRANCH STORE.
The Aeolian Co. has made arrangements to open
a branch in the department store of Linn &
Scruggs, Decatur, 111. The new branch will be
under the management of L. E. Holley and a full
line of instruments will be carried.
PIANO MAN HOST TO CHILDREN.
S. L. Van Fosscn, a piano dealer of Beardstown,
111., recently proved himself a real philanthropist
by chartering a steamboat and barge and enter-
taining a thousand children on an excursion on the
Illinois River. Refreshments were also provided
on the trip by the piano man, and his generosity
was highly commended.
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