Music Trade Review
Issue: 1913 Vol. 56 N. 10 - Page 9
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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
HANDLING HARDMAN, PECK & CO. LINE IN THE BRONX.
The Adams-Flanigan Co., Third and Westchester Avenues, Now Represent the Products of
Hardman, Peck & Co. in Its Well Equipped Establishment, with A. D. Gilmore in Charge.
In order to cater to the convenience of its building, and the warerooms have been decorated
many clients and possible customers in the Bronx
in a refined and attractive manner. The depart-
section of New York City, Hardman, Peck & Co., ment opened on Monday morning, and the pros-
433 Fifth avenue, New York, has established a pects are very bright for the closing of an excel-
distiibuting depot for Hardman-Peck products in lent business this month.
the prominent Bronx department store of the The Adams-Flanigan Co. is easily the largest
Adams-Flanigan Co., Third and Westchester ave- and most popular department store in the Bronx,
nues, New York.
and has made wonderful strides in the past year.
A complete line of instruments manufactured The company has been obliged to continually en-
by Hardman, Peck & Co., including the celebrated large its floor space and at the present time utilizes
Hardman, will be carried in stock, and the as much space as the average New York depart-
department is under the management of A. D. ment store.
Gilmore, well known in the retail piano trade.
The building is admirably located in the central
The headquarters of the piano department are part of the Bronx and is easily accessible from all
located on the third floor of the Adams-Flanigan parts of that borough.
NO SUCCESSOR TO N. M. CROSBY.
SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE GAIN.
In Four Years We Have Increased It by Nearly
Supervision of F. G. Smith Interests to Be Di-
$100,000,000.
vided Between F. G. Smith and Son—Head
of Firm Takes Rest After Shock of N. M.
(Special to The Review.)
Crosby's Death — Business Conditions Good.
Washington, D. C, March 2, 1913.
F. G. Smith, head of the F. G. Smith interests,
774 Fulton street, Brooklyn, was away the early
part of this week seeking a rest. The sudden death
of N. M. Crosby was a great shock to Mr. Smith
and after the funeral was over he felt the need
of a change.
F. G. Smith III, retail manager of the F. G.
Smith factory wareroom in Brooklyn, stated this
week that for the present there will be no change
in the personnel of the management. "The work
which Mr. Crosby was accustomed to oversee," he
said, "will be divided between my father and my-
self, while I shall also give some time to the re-
tail end, as I always have. It will mean, how-
ever, that I will be compelled to spend more time
in Leominster than heretofore and a great deal
of the detail work will fall on the force at Leom-
inster, where B. P. Steele, Mr. Crosby's nephew,
is located."
Mr. Smith is busy these days getting ready to
enter the order of Benedicts.
BUSINESS GROWS RAPIDLY.
After First Three Months F. H. Groves Piano
Co. Leases Four Extra Floors.
The F. H. Groves Piano Co., which recently en-
tered the retail field in Pittsburgh, Pa., has leased
the four upper floors in the building in which its
store is at present located, at 802 Liberty avenue.
The success of. the business during the first three
months of its establishment warranted the leasing
of the increased space.
At the close of their administration, State De-
partment officials point to the increase during the
last four years of trade with South America from
$277,000,000 in the calendar year 1909 to $373,-
000,000 in 1912.
Exports from this country increased during the
four years: To Chile, 140 per cent.; to Venezuela,
116 per cent.; to Brazil, 104 per cent.; to Colombia,
9-i per cent.; to Uruguay, 82 per cent.; to Argen-
tina, 41 per cent., and to Peru, 36 per cent.
In dollars the trade to Brazil shows the largest
increase, having jumped from $20,000,000 in 1909,
to $41,000,000 in 1912; in Argentina it was from
$30,000,000 to $51,000,000, in Chile from $7,000,000
to $15,000,000, and in Venezuela from $2,500,000
to $5,700,000.
Imports from these countries increased to much
larger totals, but not in so great a proportion as
the exports to them. From Brazil this country
imported in 1909 goods valued at $134,000,000; in
1912 at $173,000,000; from Argentina, $64,000,000
and $85,000,000; from Chile, $23,000,000 and $38,-
000,000; from Colombia, $12,000,000 and $21,000,-
000, and from Venezuela, $10,000,000 and $17,-
000,000.
EXHIBITING AT^FOOD SHOW.
Brooklyn Dealers Have Busy Two Weeks—
Pease, Hallet & Davis, Bradbury, Bjur Bros,
and Others Represented—J. C. Francke Feel-
ing in Good Trim Again After Illness.
Many Brooklyn piano dealers are interested for
the next two weeks in the Food Show and Indus-
trial Exposition which is being held in the 13th
Regiment Armory, Sumner and Putnam avenues.
Among the piano houses wlrch have exhibits are
F. G. Smith Piano Co., Hallet & Davis Piano Co.,
Five pianos and the office furniture of U. C. which will be represented by George J. Barton, of
Davis, a piano dealer of Morris, 111., were badly Brooklyn; G. R. Patterson, of Flatbush, and E. P.
damaged during a fire recently in an upper floor
Nelson, of Bay Ridge. The New York headquar-
of the building in which the piano store is located. ters of the company will also be represented. A
large space has been engaged, and the full Hallet
& Davis line and the Virtuolo will be shown.
Frederick Loeser & Co. have a comprehensive
display of Kranich & Bach, Bjur Bros., Estey,
Francis Bacon and Tremaine pianos and player-
pianos, besides a full line of Victrolas; the
Pease pianos are being exhibited by the Pease
PLano Co. in another booth. Souvenirs will be
given away during the continuance of the show,
and a general advertising campaign will be con-
Write for our special
ducted by each house represented. The show it-
Dealer's proposition.
self has been largely advertised and a large attend-
ance is expected.
Manager J. C. Francke, of the Hardman ware-
rooms, stated this week that the first of the year
they had a remarkably good trade and the demand
for the Autotone is very pronounced. Mr. Francke,
•who
was ill in January, is feeling quite fit again
711 Milwaukee Avenue,
CHICAGO
after a month's rest.
Wholesale Branches
The Sterling Piano Co. is showing the Victor
Minneapolis, Minn., and Atlanta, Ga.
line in its windows and daily demonstrations are
now being held.
PIANO DEALER SUFFERS FIRE LOSS.
M. Schulz C o .
Pianos and Player-Pianos
Highest Grade—Our Own Mechanism
M. S C H U L Z C O .
NEW STORE IN INDIANAPOLIS.
Sweetman Bros. Handling the Briggs and the
Norris & Hyde Pianos at 2176 North Illinois
Street, the Residential District.
(Special to The Review.)
Indianapolis, Ind-, March 6, 1913.
A new store has been opened by Sweetman
Brothers at 2176 North Illinois street. This ven-
ture of the Sweetmans is somewhat new in In-
dianapolis, as the store is in a residence district
in the north central part of the city. It is on
the border of a fashionable home section of the
city. The Briggs and Norris & Hyde pianos are
being handled by the Sweetmans. They also have
•A complete line of Victor and Columbia talking
machines and records.
FAVORS NEW EISNER BILL.
Merchants' Association Endorses Measure for
Extending Provisions of Penal Law in Rela-
tion to Misleading Advertising.
The executive committee of the Merchants' As-
sociation of New York has expressed itself as
strongly in favor of the bill recently introduced
in the Legislature by Assemblyman Eisner, and
extending the provisions of the penal law in re-
lation to untrue and misleading advertisements.
The committee has forwarded a strong letter to
Assemblyman P. J. McGrath, chairman of the
Codes Committee, before which the bill is pend-
ing, urging that the measure be passed and be-
come a law.
RAWLINS MUSIC^O. ORGANIZED.
The Ravvlings Music Co., of Newark, has been
incorporated under the laws of Ohio, those in-
terested being A. L. Rawlings, C. B. Rawlings, O.
Rawlings, L. J. Collier and W. Rawlings. The first
and second named members of the Rawlings fam-
ily are president and treasurer, respectively.
"Carl G. Trumble and Arthur Desnoyer have
opened a piano store in Jaickson, Mich., selling the
Baldwin and other lines of pianos.
THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
HANDLING HARDMAN, PECK & CO. LINE IN THE BRONX.
The Adams-Flanigan Co., Third and Westchester Avenues, Now Represent the Products of
Hardman, Peck & Co. in Its Well Equipped Establishment, with A. D. Gilmore in Charge.
In order to cater to the convenience of its building, and the warerooms have been decorated
many clients and possible customers in the Bronx
in a refined and attractive manner. The depart-
section of New York City, Hardman, Peck & Co., ment opened on Monday morning, and the pros-
433 Fifth avenue, New York, has established a pects are very bright for the closing of an excel-
distiibuting depot for Hardman-Peck products in lent business this month.
the prominent Bronx department store of the The Adams-Flanigan Co. is easily the largest
Adams-Flanigan Co., Third and Westchester ave- and most popular department store in the Bronx,
nues, New York.
and has made wonderful strides in the past year.
A complete line of instruments manufactured The company has been obliged to continually en-
by Hardman, Peck & Co., including the celebrated large its floor space and at the present time utilizes
Hardman, will be carried in stock, and the as much space as the average New York depart-
department is under the management of A. D. ment store.
Gilmore, well known in the retail piano trade.
The building is admirably located in the central
The headquarters of the piano department are part of the Bronx and is easily accessible from all
located on the third floor of the Adams-Flanigan parts of that borough.
NO SUCCESSOR TO N. M. CROSBY.
SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE GAIN.
In Four Years We Have Increased It by Nearly
Supervision of F. G. Smith Interests to Be Di-
$100,000,000.
vided Between F. G. Smith and Son—Head
of Firm Takes Rest After Shock of N. M.
(Special to The Review.)
Crosby's Death — Business Conditions Good.
Washington, D. C, March 2, 1913.
F. G. Smith, head of the F. G. Smith interests,
774 Fulton street, Brooklyn, was away the early
part of this week seeking a rest. The sudden death
of N. M. Crosby was a great shock to Mr. Smith
and after the funeral was over he felt the need
of a change.
F. G. Smith III, retail manager of the F. G.
Smith factory wareroom in Brooklyn, stated this
week that for the present there will be no change
in the personnel of the management. "The work
which Mr. Crosby was accustomed to oversee," he
said, "will be divided between my father and my-
self, while I shall also give some time to the re-
tail end, as I always have. It will mean, how-
ever, that I will be compelled to spend more time
in Leominster than heretofore and a great deal
of the detail work will fall on the force at Leom-
inster, where B. P. Steele, Mr. Crosby's nephew,
is located."
Mr. Smith is busy these days getting ready to
enter the order of Benedicts.
BUSINESS GROWS RAPIDLY.
After First Three Months F. H. Groves Piano
Co. Leases Four Extra Floors.
The F. H. Groves Piano Co., which recently en-
tered the retail field in Pittsburgh, Pa., has leased
the four upper floors in the building in which its
store is at present located, at 802 Liberty avenue.
The success of. the business during the first three
months of its establishment warranted the leasing
of the increased space.
At the close of their administration, State De-
partment officials point to the increase during the
last four years of trade with South America from
$277,000,000 in the calendar year 1909 to $373,-
000,000 in 1912.
Exports from this country increased during the
four years: To Chile, 140 per cent.; to Venezuela,
116 per cent.; to Brazil, 104 per cent.; to Colombia,
9-i per cent.; to Uruguay, 82 per cent.; to Argen-
tina, 41 per cent., and to Peru, 36 per cent.
In dollars the trade to Brazil shows the largest
increase, having jumped from $20,000,000 in 1909,
to $41,000,000 in 1912; in Argentina it was from
$30,000,000 to $51,000,000, in Chile from $7,000,000
to $15,000,000, and in Venezuela from $2,500,000
to $5,700,000.
Imports from these countries increased to much
larger totals, but not in so great a proportion as
the exports to them. From Brazil this country
imported in 1909 goods valued at $134,000,000; in
1912 at $173,000,000; from Argentina, $64,000,000
and $85,000,000; from Chile, $23,000,000 and $38,-
000,000; from Colombia, $12,000,000 and $21,000,-
000, and from Venezuela, $10,000,000 and $17,-
000,000.
EXHIBITING AT^FOOD SHOW.
Brooklyn Dealers Have Busy Two Weeks—
Pease, Hallet & Davis, Bradbury, Bjur Bros,
and Others Represented—J. C. Francke Feel-
ing in Good Trim Again After Illness.
Many Brooklyn piano dealers are interested for
the next two weeks in the Food Show and Indus-
trial Exposition which is being held in the 13th
Regiment Armory, Sumner and Putnam avenues.
Among the piano houses wlrch have exhibits are
F. G. Smith Piano Co., Hallet & Davis Piano Co.,
Five pianos and the office furniture of U. C. which will be represented by George J. Barton, of
Davis, a piano dealer of Morris, 111., were badly Brooklyn; G. R. Patterson, of Flatbush, and E. P.
damaged during a fire recently in an upper floor
Nelson, of Bay Ridge. The New York headquar-
of the building in which the piano store is located. ters of the company will also be represented. A
large space has been engaged, and the full Hallet
& Davis line and the Virtuolo will be shown.
Frederick Loeser & Co. have a comprehensive
display of Kranich & Bach, Bjur Bros., Estey,
Francis Bacon and Tremaine pianos and player-
pianos, besides a full line of Victrolas; the
Pease pianos are being exhibited by the Pease
PLano Co. in another booth. Souvenirs will be
given away during the continuance of the show,
and a general advertising campaign will be con-
Write for our special
ducted by each house represented. The show it-
Dealer's proposition.
self has been largely advertised and a large attend-
ance is expected.
Manager J. C. Francke, of the Hardman ware-
rooms, stated this week that the first of the year
they had a remarkably good trade and the demand
for the Autotone is very pronounced. Mr. Francke,
•who
was ill in January, is feeling quite fit again
711 Milwaukee Avenue,
CHICAGO
after a month's rest.
Wholesale Branches
The Sterling Piano Co. is showing the Victor
Minneapolis, Minn., and Atlanta, Ga.
line in its windows and daily demonstrations are
now being held.
PIANO DEALER SUFFERS FIRE LOSS.
M. Schulz C o .
Pianos and Player-Pianos
Highest Grade—Our Own Mechanism
M. S C H U L Z C O .
NEW STORE IN INDIANAPOLIS.
Sweetman Bros. Handling the Briggs and the
Norris & Hyde Pianos at 2176 North Illinois
Street, the Residential District.
(Special to The Review.)
Indianapolis, Ind-, March 6, 1913.
A new store has been opened by Sweetman
Brothers at 2176 North Illinois street. This ven-
ture of the Sweetmans is somewhat new in In-
dianapolis, as the store is in a residence district
in the north central part of the city. It is on
the border of a fashionable home section of the
city. The Briggs and Norris & Hyde pianos are
being handled by the Sweetmans. They also have
•A complete line of Victor and Columbia talking
machines and records.
FAVORS NEW EISNER BILL.
Merchants' Association Endorses Measure for
Extending Provisions of Penal Law in Rela-
tion to Misleading Advertising.
The executive committee of the Merchants' As-
sociation of New York has expressed itself as
strongly in favor of the bill recently introduced
in the Legislature by Assemblyman Eisner, and
extending the provisions of the penal law in re-
lation to untrue and misleading advertisements.
The committee has forwarded a strong letter to
Assemblyman P. J. McGrath, chairman of the
Codes Committee, before which the bill is pend-
ing, urging that the measure be passed and be-
come a law.
RAWLINS MUSIC^O. ORGANIZED.
The Ravvlings Music Co., of Newark, has been
incorporated under the laws of Ohio, those in-
terested being A. L. Rawlings, C. B. Rawlings, O.
Rawlings, L. J. Collier and W. Rawlings. The first
and second named members of the Rawlings fam-
ily are president and treasurer, respectively.
"Carl G. Trumble and Arthur Desnoyer have
opened a piano store in Jaickson, Mich., selling the
Baldwin and other lines of pianos.
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