Music Trade Review

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
WONDERS OF THE GOLDEN WEST—(Continued from page 4 ) .
Portland is a wonderful city, sound and substantial, business
is conducted there on a firm basis, and its music trade merchants
keenly alert to the wonderful possibilities of the Pacific-Northwest.
Take Tacoma, Seattle and Spokane—towns of recent vintage,
all bubbling and effervescing with nervous energy.
The musical development of the West has been in perfect
accord with development in other lines.
At the Panama-Pacific Exposition have been conducted a
series of musical entertainments which have delighted the visiting
throngs.
The educational features of the exposition have been par-
ticularly interesting, and it is after all upon the educational
features that the permanent value of an exposition rests. Whether
musical or industrial, the educational forces of great collective
expositions are those which remain and make an enduring success.
It is the broadening and widening powers of our great expo-
sitions, as we term them, fairs they were originally, because they
View of San Francisco Taken in 1857.
In the Northwest new industries, like the culture of fruit, the
opening" of the Alaskan trade, and a new tide of population, all
tend to stimulate the demand for pianos.
Los Angeles, witb her fruits, her flowers, in the center of a
rich oil district, is prosperous, and the history of this marvelous
development, surpassing any other part of the universe, is notice-
able everywbere.
It naturally follows that such a people should demand those
home accessories which are part and parcel of our modern civiliza-
tion and should require pianos and musical instruments.
Henry Eilers once told me years ago in my office, after he
had surveyed the trade situation in New York, that if New York-
ers used one-half the energy the Pacific Coast dealers exhibited
in the prosecution of their trade, they would be disposing of several
times the amount of pianos annually that they were then selling
New York. That was before the department stores had entered
in as large factors in this city.
San Francisco, the center of Pacific Coast trade, is a city of
unconquerable energy. All honor to the Queen of the West,
whose citizens have created an exposition which is conceded to
be the most beautiful ever built by the hand of man from a point
of architectural beauty and color effect. Not the largest, but a
wonderful combination of color and designs which fascinates the
eye and thrills the heart.
The development of San Francisco since the fire and earth-
quake—perhaps T should not say earthquake, although Willard
Vose, who was there, will always allude to the great devastation
which visited San Francisco as an earthquake and fire combined—
has been marvelous. Visitors who have not seen the city for a
period of years will be amazed at what progress has been made
there. They will enjoy the exposition, which, as a constructive
work, is an inspiration and a delight.
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Its Unique Position on the Bay, Looking Toward the Golden Gate,
Palace of Horticulture at the Panama-Pacific Exposition,
are a steady development of the old Oriental fairs of the East,
broadened until they encompass the products of the world and the
achievement of men in every division of science and art.
"Yet T doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs
And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the
suns."
The vision of the men
who journey to the Golden
West for the first time will be
materially broadened.