Music Trade Review
Issue: 1916 Vol. 63 N. 11 - Page 10
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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for eighteen years was manager of the Otto
Wissner New York store, has been transferred
Return of Vacationists Increases Activity in the Music Trade Generally—Stultz & Bauer Doing to the Brooklyn warerooms.
Nice Business in New Headquarters—Loeser Department to Hold October Sale
Alterations are being made in the warerooms
With the waning of the infantile paralysis would be very large for all lines of business. recently taken over by the Chas. E. Gorham,
The piano salons of Frederick Loeser & Co.'s Co., Inc., 60 Flatbush avenue. While the Gor-
plague and the accompanying scare, conditions
in Brooklyn are improving. The return of vaca- department store are already making prepara- ham Co. took over the lease on September 1,
tionists and the summer residents from the tions for their October sale. This is the big- the changes now under way will not be com-
mountains and seashores has already increased gest sale of the year with the piano department pleted until the fifteenth of the month.
In announcing his staff for the talking ma-
sales; especially is this true in the music roll and its magnitude can be realized when it is
stated that there were 178 pianos sold on the chine department, Leslie H. West, manager of
and the talking machine record departments.
Stultz & Bauer's new warerooms at 63 Flat- first day of the sale last year. This seems to the Flatbush avenue warerooms for the Gor-
bush avenue has had a very satisfactory busi- be a record for piano dealers to shoot at. E. ham Co., stated that it would include William
ness since the recent opening. L,. A. Durra, Paul Hamilton, manager of the piano depart- Schrener, who has been connected with the
Donald
manager of the warerooms, is now arranging ment of the Loeser store, recently placed twelve Gorham sales staff for some time.
for a fall sales campaign and is gathering to- canvassers on his staff. The fall sales cam- Stewart and Henry Gregory will be new addi-
gether a sales staff for that purpose. Stultz & paign will be one of the most thorough ever tions to the sales department, and Arthur
Troutman will be appointed cashier.
Bauer arc featuring the De Luxe player grand inaugurated.
J. C. Francke, manager of the Hardman, Peck
Certain local conditions have no doubt held
and have given that instrument a very promi-
the volume of sales during the summer to a warerooms, returned September 5 from his lat-
nent position near the entrance of the store.
Alphonzo Smith, at 25 Flatbush avenue, is smaller figure than was considered normal in est vacation.
having the interior of his warerooms re-decorat- some quarters. In anticipation of a large fall
ed. The color scheme of the new decorations business and desiring to strengthen their sales
GORSUCH CO. CLOSES BRANCH
is mahogany and white, which, when finished, staff wherever possible to meet fall sales, Otto
The Gorsuch Piano Co., of 79 West Third
Wissner, Inc., have made some recent changes
will make the store very pleasing to the eye.
"Business continues good. The month of in their sales departments. J. C. Frazer, who street, Dayton, ()., recently moved its stock
August was the best in some years," said J. B. for a number of years has been sales manager of and fixtures to the home office at Springfield, O.
Cohen, manager of the Pease warerooms. Mr. the Brooklyn store, has been transferred to the The branch office had been operated for the
Cohen also stated he believed the fall business store at Bridgeport, Conn. L. Zitzman, who last year.
BROOKLYN PIANO TRADE SHOWING STEADY IMPROVEMENT
Style O Straube
Moderate Cost
Superlative Quality
Big
Winners
of Fall
Business
Dealers carrying the
right kind of goods are
going to make a big kill-
ing this Fall—that is
Style C Straube Player
Moderate Cost
Superlative Quality
IF they really have
the right combination.
Do you know the arftingements
we can make on these styles ?
Just write us for it
Straube Piano
Company
Hammond
Republic Bldg.
Style 15 Hammond Player
Indiana
Chicago
Style D Straube
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
10
for eighteen years was manager of the Otto
Wissner New York store, has been transferred
Return of Vacationists Increases Activity in the Music Trade Generally—Stultz & Bauer Doing to the Brooklyn warerooms.
Nice Business in New Headquarters—Loeser Department to Hold October Sale
Alterations are being made in the warerooms
With the waning of the infantile paralysis would be very large for all lines of business. recently taken over by the Chas. E. Gorham,
The piano salons of Frederick Loeser & Co.'s Co., Inc., 60 Flatbush avenue. While the Gor-
plague and the accompanying scare, conditions
in Brooklyn are improving. The return of vaca- department store are already making prepara- ham Co. took over the lease on September 1,
tionists and the summer residents from the tions for their October sale. This is the big- the changes now under way will not be com-
mountains and seashores has already increased gest sale of the year with the piano department pleted until the fifteenth of the month.
In announcing his staff for the talking ma-
sales; especially is this true in the music roll and its magnitude can be realized when it is
stated that there were 178 pianos sold on the chine department, Leslie H. West, manager of
and the talking machine record departments.
Stultz & Bauer's new warerooms at 63 Flat- first day of the sale last year. This seems to the Flatbush avenue warerooms for the Gor-
bush avenue has had a very satisfactory busi- be a record for piano dealers to shoot at. E. ham Co., stated that it would include William
ness since the recent opening. L,. A. Durra, Paul Hamilton, manager of the piano depart- Schrener, who has been connected with the
Donald
manager of the warerooms, is now arranging ment of the Loeser store, recently placed twelve Gorham sales staff for some time.
for a fall sales campaign and is gathering to- canvassers on his staff. The fall sales cam- Stewart and Henry Gregory will be new addi-
gether a sales staff for that purpose. Stultz & paign will be one of the most thorough ever tions to the sales department, and Arthur
Troutman will be appointed cashier.
Bauer arc featuring the De Luxe player grand inaugurated.
J. C. Francke, manager of the Hardman, Peck
Certain local conditions have no doubt held
and have given that instrument a very promi-
the volume of sales during the summer to a warerooms, returned September 5 from his lat-
nent position near the entrance of the store.
Alphonzo Smith, at 25 Flatbush avenue, is smaller figure than was considered normal in est vacation.
having the interior of his warerooms re-decorat- some quarters. In anticipation of a large fall
ed. The color scheme of the new decorations business and desiring to strengthen their sales
GORSUCH CO. CLOSES BRANCH
is mahogany and white, which, when finished, staff wherever possible to meet fall sales, Otto
The Gorsuch Piano Co., of 79 West Third
Wissner, Inc., have made some recent changes
will make the store very pleasing to the eye.
"Business continues good. The month of in their sales departments. J. C. Frazer, who street, Dayton, ()., recently moved its stock
August was the best in some years," said J. B. for a number of years has been sales manager of and fixtures to the home office at Springfield, O.
Cohen, manager of the Pease warerooms. Mr. the Brooklyn store, has been transferred to the The branch office had been operated for the
Cohen also stated he believed the fall business store at Bridgeport, Conn. L. Zitzman, who last year.
BROOKLYN PIANO TRADE SHOWING STEADY IMPROVEMENT
Style O Straube
Moderate Cost
Superlative Quality
Big
Winners
of Fall
Business
Dealers carrying the
right kind of goods are
going to make a big kill-
ing this Fall—that is
Style C Straube Player
Moderate Cost
Superlative Quality
IF they really have
the right combination.
Do you know the arftingements
we can make on these styles ?
Just write us for it
Straube Piano
Company
Hammond
Republic Bldg.
Style 15 Hammond Player
Indiana
Chicago
Style D Straube
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