Music Trade Review
Issue: 1912 Vol. 55 N. 14 - Page 11
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THE
FACING FREIGHT CONGESTION,
Music Trade of Detroit Figuring Some Way to
Escape Its Effects This Fall and Winter—
W. N. Nourse Retires from Piano Field—
Good Fellowship Club Meets—Leonard Davis
Entertains the Orphans—Harold Jarvis in
Railroad Wreck—Reunion of Starr Men—
Some Trade Visitors During the Week.
(Special to The Review.)
Detroit, Mich., Oct. 2, 1912.
Detroit is facing another congestion of freight
this winter, and the music trades folks are trying
to figure out some way to escape its effects. In
past years they have had pianos knocking around
in the freight yards at Toledo for several weeks
before being able to get them sent on to Detroit.
The only w.^y to get pianos here from the East in
the winter months, without trouble, seems to be
to order them shipped by one of the roads that
cross Canada. In that way the congestion at To-
ledo is avoided.
A coal shortage is bound to affect the piano
houses as well as all other Detroit business houses
this winter.. The car shortage is responsible for
this also. The railroad officials place the blame
on a lack of locomotives sufficient to move the
available cars.
Will N. Nourse, late of the Melville Clark Pi-
ano Co., and for many years connected with music
houses in Minneapolis, Spokane and Portland,
Ore., has removed himself from the piano busi-
ness rltogether. He resigned his position with the
Melville Clark Co. to become Detroit manager for
the Hand Corporation, of Grand Rapids, manu-
facturers of the Page Auto Hoist, which is a de-
vice for raising motor cars from the ground bod-
ily, in order to facilitate repairs.
The employes of Grinnell Brothers, who organ-
ized the Good Fellowship Club a few months rgo,
held their monthly meeting at the Charlevoix Ho-
tel last Thursday. About forty salesmen attended.
First they indulged in a dinner, then held a busi-
ness session at which sales and salesmanship were
discussed. The directorate of the company was
INCREASE YOUR
INCOME
Piano merchants, who have not
investigated the talking machine
field, will find that the subject
is one of deep interest to them
and they will also learn that talk-
ing machines constitute a line
which can be admirably blended
with piano selling.
The advance that has been
made in this special field has been
phenomenal and every dealer
who desires specific information
concming
talking
machines
should receive The Talking Ma-
chine World regularly.
This is the only publication in
America devoted exclusively to
the interests of the talking ma-
chine, and each issue contains a
vast fund of valuable information
which the talking machine job-
bers and dealers say is worth ten
times the cost of the paper to
to them.
You can receive the paper
regularly at a cost of $1.00 a year
and we know of no manner in
which $1.00 can be expended
which will supply as much valu-
able information.
EDWARD LYMAN BILL, Publisher,
No. 373 Fourth Avenue.
New York.
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
represented by I. L. Grinnell, A. A. Grinnell and
S. E. Clark.
Frank J. Bayley, of the Bayley Piano Co., is
chairman of the entertainment committee of
Friendship Lodge, F. and A. M., and in that ca-
pacity was the chief figure in an extensive smoker
on Monday, September 30. in the Masonic Tem-
ple. About a thousand jollifiers were present. Mr.
Bpyley is editor of Friendship Lodge's monthly
publication and very prominent in Masonic affairs.
Leonard Davis, manager of the Melville Clark
Piano Co.'s store, was the chief figure last Tues-
day in an entertainment for some twelve hundred
orphans. As chairmrn of the entertainment com-
mittee of the Wolverine Automobile Club, which
each year invites all the orphans in Detroit to
have an automobile ride and a dinner, he looked
after the little folks, who had a great time.
C. A. Grinnell was called to New York on busi-
ness the latter p^-rt of the week, but will be back
in time for the opening meeting of the Detroit
Music Trade Association, where he is scheduled
tc make an address.
Harold Jarvis, the noted Michigan tenor, whose
name has become so largely associated with that
of the Apollo in the last year through his exten-
sive use of the Apollo as accompanist at his pub-
lic appearances, was considerably cut up in a rail-
road wreck a few days ago. His injuries are not
regarded as serious, however.
A. L. Vernon, district manager of the Cleveland
store of the St?rr Piano Co., was a visitor at the
Detroit branch this week. C. A. La Roche, man-
ager of the player department of the Starr store
in Toledo, was a guest of J. W. Wheeler, man-
ager of the city sales department of the Detroit
branch of the Starr Co. They were cronies when
Mr. Wheeler was with the Toledo store. That
was during the regime of W. M. Robinson, who
is ?lso visiting the city, and the reunion of the
trio was a joyous one.
There were a number of other trade visitors
this week, enough to indicate the titith of the oft-
made assertions that neither the people nor the
business men devote more than a passing thought
to politics this year and are buying pianos ?nd
other things accessory to the trade. Among them
were Messrs. Arthur Wessell, of Wessell, Nickel
& Gross, New York; Dvorak, of Lyon & Healy;
Zimmerman, of the Krell-French Co., and Taylor,
of Freeborn G. Smith.
FEATURING THE^VOSE PIANO.
Qimbel Bros. Offer Famous Boston Piano at
Regular Price in Midst of Special Sale
Epidemic, and Through Strong Advertising
Close Many Sales.
The Vose piano is being featured strongly by the
piano department of Gimbel Bros., and owing to
the extensive and dignified advertising of that in-
strument the result is decidedly satisfying to
Manager Morgan. In view of the great amount
of special sale advertising appearing in the New
York papers during the past couple of weeks, it
was quite a shock to observe at the hea4 °* t^ e
Gimbel Bros. Vose advertisement, "The Artistic
Vose Piano Is Never Reduced in Price, for Only
a Fair Price Is Asked for It in the First Place."
The text emphasized the strong position main-
tained by the house of Vose & Sons and their
products in a thoroughly effective manner. Sev-
eral new shipments of Vose pianos are on the
floor at Gimbel Bros., and their appearance is
fully in keeping with the statements made in con-
nection with the instruments.
FLORIDA DEALERJMES SUDDENLY.
J. M. Clutter, one of the pioneer music dealers
in the western section of Florida, died suddenly at
his home in Pensacola last week. Mr. Clutter was
born in Kentucky seventy years ago and went to
Pensacola about thirty years ago.
E. A. Darling & Son have opened a piano store in
Oil City, Pa., with John O'Donnell as manager.
The concern will handle the Behning, Laffargue,
Chase & Baker, Ricca & Son, and other makes of
pianos.
11
Greater than ever
The wonderful im-
p r o v e m e n t s in the
Victor-Victrolas X, XI,
XIV, XVI make this
greatest of all musical
instruments greater than
ever before.
T h e s e four new
m o d e l s enable every
Victor dealer to give to
the public the greatest
values ever offered in
musical instruments.
The former styles of
these four Victor-Vic-
t r o l a s were a good
money's worth, but the
improvements make the
new models the very
limit of value, for there
has been no increase in
price.
With the holiday sea-
son c o m i n g on t h e
demand for these instru-
ments will reach unus-
ual p r o p o r t i o n s , and
promises to every Vic-
tor dealer the biggest
and most profitable fall
and winter ever experi-
enced in his entire busi-
ness career.
Victor Talking Machine Co.
Camden, N. J. t U. S. A.
Berliner Gramophone Co., Montreal,
Canadian Distributors.
Always use Victor Machines with Victor Records
and Victor Needles—the combination. There is
no other way to get the unequaled Victor tone.
THE
FACING FREIGHT CONGESTION,
Music Trade of Detroit Figuring Some Way to
Escape Its Effects This Fall and Winter—
W. N. Nourse Retires from Piano Field—
Good Fellowship Club Meets—Leonard Davis
Entertains the Orphans—Harold Jarvis in
Railroad Wreck—Reunion of Starr Men—
Some Trade Visitors During the Week.
(Special to The Review.)
Detroit, Mich., Oct. 2, 1912.
Detroit is facing another congestion of freight
this winter, and the music trades folks are trying
to figure out some way to escape its effects. In
past years they have had pianos knocking around
in the freight yards at Toledo for several weeks
before being able to get them sent on to Detroit.
The only w.^y to get pianos here from the East in
the winter months, without trouble, seems to be
to order them shipped by one of the roads that
cross Canada. In that way the congestion at To-
ledo is avoided.
A coal shortage is bound to affect the piano
houses as well as all other Detroit business houses
this winter.. The car shortage is responsible for
this also. The railroad officials place the blame
on a lack of locomotives sufficient to move the
available cars.
Will N. Nourse, late of the Melville Clark Pi-
ano Co., and for many years connected with music
houses in Minneapolis, Spokane and Portland,
Ore., has removed himself from the piano busi-
ness rltogether. He resigned his position with the
Melville Clark Co. to become Detroit manager for
the Hand Corporation, of Grand Rapids, manu-
facturers of the Page Auto Hoist, which is a de-
vice for raising motor cars from the ground bod-
ily, in order to facilitate repairs.
The employes of Grinnell Brothers, who organ-
ized the Good Fellowship Club a few months rgo,
held their monthly meeting at the Charlevoix Ho-
tel last Thursday. About forty salesmen attended.
First they indulged in a dinner, then held a busi-
ness session at which sales and salesmanship were
discussed. The directorate of the company was
INCREASE YOUR
INCOME
Piano merchants, who have not
investigated the talking machine
field, will find that the subject
is one of deep interest to them
and they will also learn that talk-
ing machines constitute a line
which can be admirably blended
with piano selling.
The advance that has been
made in this special field has been
phenomenal and every dealer
who desires specific information
concming
talking
machines
should receive The Talking Ma-
chine World regularly.
This is the only publication in
America devoted exclusively to
the interests of the talking ma-
chine, and each issue contains a
vast fund of valuable information
which the talking machine job-
bers and dealers say is worth ten
times the cost of the paper to
to them.
You can receive the paper
regularly at a cost of $1.00 a year
and we know of no manner in
which $1.00 can be expended
which will supply as much valu-
able information.
EDWARD LYMAN BILL, Publisher,
No. 373 Fourth Avenue.
New York.
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
represented by I. L. Grinnell, A. A. Grinnell and
S. E. Clark.
Frank J. Bayley, of the Bayley Piano Co., is
chairman of the entertainment committee of
Friendship Lodge, F. and A. M., and in that ca-
pacity was the chief figure in an extensive smoker
on Monday, September 30. in the Masonic Tem-
ple. About a thousand jollifiers were present. Mr.
Bpyley is editor of Friendship Lodge's monthly
publication and very prominent in Masonic affairs.
Leonard Davis, manager of the Melville Clark
Piano Co.'s store, was the chief figure last Tues-
day in an entertainment for some twelve hundred
orphans. As chairmrn of the entertainment com-
mittee of the Wolverine Automobile Club, which
each year invites all the orphans in Detroit to
have an automobile ride and a dinner, he looked
after the little folks, who had a great time.
C. A. Grinnell was called to New York on busi-
ness the latter p^-rt of the week, but will be back
in time for the opening meeting of the Detroit
Music Trade Association, where he is scheduled
tc make an address.
Harold Jarvis, the noted Michigan tenor, whose
name has become so largely associated with that
of the Apollo in the last year through his exten-
sive use of the Apollo as accompanist at his pub-
lic appearances, was considerably cut up in a rail-
road wreck a few days ago. His injuries are not
regarded as serious, however.
A. L. Vernon, district manager of the Cleveland
store of the St?rr Piano Co., was a visitor at the
Detroit branch this week. C. A. La Roche, man-
ager of the player department of the Starr store
in Toledo, was a guest of J. W. Wheeler, man-
ager of the city sales department of the Detroit
branch of the Starr Co. They were cronies when
Mr. Wheeler was with the Toledo store. That
was during the regime of W. M. Robinson, who
is ?lso visiting the city, and the reunion of the
trio was a joyous one.
There were a number of other trade visitors
this week, enough to indicate the titith of the oft-
made assertions that neither the people nor the
business men devote more than a passing thought
to politics this year and are buying pianos ?nd
other things accessory to the trade. Among them
were Messrs. Arthur Wessell, of Wessell, Nickel
& Gross, New York; Dvorak, of Lyon & Healy;
Zimmerman, of the Krell-French Co., and Taylor,
of Freeborn G. Smith.
FEATURING THE^VOSE PIANO.
Qimbel Bros. Offer Famous Boston Piano at
Regular Price in Midst of Special Sale
Epidemic, and Through Strong Advertising
Close Many Sales.
The Vose piano is being featured strongly by the
piano department of Gimbel Bros., and owing to
the extensive and dignified advertising of that in-
strument the result is decidedly satisfying to
Manager Morgan. In view of the great amount
of special sale advertising appearing in the New
York papers during the past couple of weeks, it
was quite a shock to observe at the hea4 °* t^ e
Gimbel Bros. Vose advertisement, "The Artistic
Vose Piano Is Never Reduced in Price, for Only
a Fair Price Is Asked for It in the First Place."
The text emphasized the strong position main-
tained by the house of Vose & Sons and their
products in a thoroughly effective manner. Sev-
eral new shipments of Vose pianos are on the
floor at Gimbel Bros., and their appearance is
fully in keeping with the statements made in con-
nection with the instruments.
FLORIDA DEALERJMES SUDDENLY.
J. M. Clutter, one of the pioneer music dealers
in the western section of Florida, died suddenly at
his home in Pensacola last week. Mr. Clutter was
born in Kentucky seventy years ago and went to
Pensacola about thirty years ago.
E. A. Darling & Son have opened a piano store in
Oil City, Pa., with John O'Donnell as manager.
The concern will handle the Behning, Laffargue,
Chase & Baker, Ricca & Son, and other makes of
pianos.
11
Greater than ever
The wonderful im-
p r o v e m e n t s in the
Victor-Victrolas X, XI,
XIV, XVI make this
greatest of all musical
instruments greater than
ever before.
T h e s e four new
m o d e l s enable every
Victor dealer to give to
the public the greatest
values ever offered in
musical instruments.
The former styles of
these four Victor-Vic-
t r o l a s were a good
money's worth, but the
improvements make the
new models the very
limit of value, for there
has been no increase in
price.
With the holiday sea-
son c o m i n g on t h e
demand for these instru-
ments will reach unus-
ual p r o p o r t i o n s , and
promises to every Vic-
tor dealer the biggest
and most profitable fall
and winter ever experi-
enced in his entire busi-
ness career.
Victor Talking Machine Co.
Camden, N. J. t U. S. A.
Berliner Gramophone Co., Montreal,
Canadian Distributors.
Always use Victor Machines with Victor Records
and Victor Needles—the combination. There is
no other way to get the unequaled Victor tone.
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