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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Piano Co. factory, and make a number of side
trips—such as to Milwaukee, Minneapolis and
Many of the Younger Salesmen Will Probably Bs Conscripted, But No Serious Effect on General St. Paul.
Volume of Business Is Expected—Many Dealers Away on Vacations—News of the Week
During the absence of E. P. Andrew from
year it is quite noticeable that a great number the J. L. Hudson store, Harold Marshall is in
DETROIT, MICH., July 30.—There is so much
interest in the draft on the part of old and "of salesmen either went to New York or Chi- charge of the piano department.
The Michigan State Fair dates will be August
young that it has somewhat taken away interest cago on their vacation, spending a part of the
in business. Add to this the extreme warm time inspecting piano factories, interviewing 31 to September 9. Some half dozen firms will
weather—the hottest of the year—and you retail piano dealers and department managers. have piano exhibits at the fair.
Wallace
Brown, Brunswick
phonograph
wouldn't expect to apply the word "brisk" to This shows the great interest taken in their
the piano trade. Not only are young men be- work and the desire to know about their busi- dealer in Detroit, accompanied by his wife and
son, are touring the Adirondacks and the Berk-
tween the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one ness.
interested in the draft—especially the selective
This is the fifteenth consecutive season that shire Hills. They will be back about August 10.
A Detroit piano salesman recently in New
draft, but employers as well are interested be- Grinnell Bros.' own make pianos have been used
cause it is certain to affect their organization on the steamers of the White Star Line and York visited the store of the Aeolian Co. He
if they are employing male help in the draft at Tashmoo Park. In fact, Grinnell Bros.' reports: "They told me there that they were
ages. In some stores, particularly those having instruments, made in Detroit and Holly, are offering lucrative positions to women to sell
a Victrola department, the whole staff is in the used on the Belle Isle steamers, Put-in-Bay pianos. They wanted women over thirty years
draft. Granting that some will be exempt, it steamers, Sugar Island Park and Bois Blanc. old, because of the shortage of men. This firm
will still leave quite a hole to fill. The solu- This practically includes every steamboat line keeps a training school for salesmanship and
technical study."
tion is bound to be that young ladies will be out of Detroit.
hired to handle the sales. Fortunately, in the
E. P. Andrew, manager of the Hudson Piano
piano departments and piano stores older men store, his wife, and son, Ed Andrew, and wife, B. M. GRUNEWALD^ WAR SUFFERER
are employed who are beyond the draft age.
are now blazing the trail between Ludington Mystic Shrine Uniform Bars Him From Get-
In the opinion of a number of leading deal- and Bellaire, Mich., on Lake Michigan, where
ting a Much Needed Drink After Strenu-
ers, conscription even when it gets under way they will spend a few days fishing. They are
ous Drill—A Harrowing Hot Weather Tale
and the men start on their way to the training touring in Manager Andrew's automobile.
NEW ORLEANS, LA., July 30.—The friends of B.
camps, is not going to seriously affect such ' "Huckleberry Finn" and "On the Way to
industries as piano, Victrola, building, etc. It Waikiki" are the biggest music roll hits at the M. Grunewald, vice president of Louis Grune-
is their contention that the men who are drafted present time, according to Manager Hartwell, wald Co., Inc., this city, are having a hearty
will be single ones who are not keeping house, of the J. L. Hudson Co. music roll department. laugh at his expense as a result of his recent
who have no dependents, and hence are not He is making a strong campaign on "Huckle- initiation into the mysteries of the Mystic
the actual buyers of musical instruments. Later berry Finn," the words on the roll proving a Shrine. Mr. Grunewald was put on the drill
team in the local temple, and had occasion to
on probably when the second and third drafts good talking point.
are effective and the married men are called the
Miss Rose Goldenberg and Miss Sadie Si- answer a call for drill practice in uniform. The
piano business may be affected, but that's a long mons, of the J. L. Hudson piano store, spent uniform resembles in some respects the stand-
time off and who knows but what peace may last week in Chicago. They called on the Mel- ard militia uniform and when Mr. Grunewald
be declared by that time.
ville Clark Piano Co., and were royally enter- went to the Sazarac bar to get one of the
The word "vacation" is of the greatest im- tained by Tom Pletcher, general manager, and famous Sazarac drinks in an effort to relieve
his tired body and spirit, the barkeep looked
portance right now. Dealers are having their Charles Howes, traveling representative.
emplo) r es take their annual vacations now so
E. Hugh Smith, of the J. L. Hudson piano at the uniform and positively declined to serve
that every employe can be ready for an earnest department, expects to leave about August 18 him. The fact that . Mr. Grunewald, who has
co-operative fall business campaign starting the for his vacation, which will include a lake trip lived all his life in one of the wettest cities
first of September. Most dealers give their to Mackinac Island, the Soo and thence to in the United States, could not get a drink, is
people two weeks' vacation with full pay. This Chicago, where he will visit the Melville Clark looked upon as a huge joke by his friends.
DETROIT DEALERS INTERESTED IN EFFECTS OF WAR DRAFT
FIRST because they LAST
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