Music Trade Review
Issue: 1919 Vol. 69 N. 14 - Page 5
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OCTOBER
THE
4, 1919
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
SOUTHERN TOUR FOR POUND
BIG BUSINESS IN CINCINNATI
CHICAGO WORKERS WANT INCREASE
General Counsel of Music Industries Chamber
of Commerce to Tour Southern Atlantic States
—Attends Andrews' Opening in Buffalo
Demand for Musical Instruments Causes Local
Merchants to Scour the Market for Stock—
Association May Issue Monthly Bulletin
Unions in the Piano Industry Ask Employers
for Forty-four-hour Week and an Increase in
Wages—Manufacturers Standing Pat
George W. Pound, general counsel of the
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce, has
just completed arrangements for a tour of the
South Atlantic district in response to the urgent
request of the trade in that locality, following
the success of his recent coast-to-coast tour.
Mr. Pound will attend the International Trade
Conference at Atlantic City on October 20 and
will go to Richmond, where he will speak on
October 23. After Richmond Mr. Pound will
visit in order Norfolk, Va.; Charleston, S. C ;
Atlanta, Ga.; Jacksonville and Tampa, Fla.; Bir-
mingham, Ala.; Chattanooga and Memphis,
Tenn. The exact dates upon which Mr. Pound
will speak in the various cities will be announced
within the next few days and there is a possi-
bility that one or two other cities will be added
to the itinerary.
Mr. Pound this week went to Buffalo, where
he made the principal address at the formal
opening of the elaborate new quarters of W. D.
& C. N. Andrews, the prominent Victor whole-
salers in that city.- From Buffalo he goes to
Alton, 111., where he will make an address be-
fore the Board of Trade, that city, and will
also be the principal speaker at the State Con-
vention of Federated Women's Music Clubs.
CINCINNATI, (J., September 29.—Industrial un-
rest in the Middle West certainly has had no
effect upon the volume of business among ven-
ders of pianos and talking machines, the de-
mand during the month just brought to a close
being unusually great, almost comparing with a
rattling good December business.
Loud is the complaint of the piano merchant
who is shy goods. Stock credited with having
left Eastern points four weeks ago is yet to
arrive in Cincinnati. But the mails bring notices
of slight advances in the price of instruments as
they are being ordered, the boost being rive and
ten dollars a clip. Several communications of
this kind were received during the past week.
The John Church Co.'s factory will be put-
ting out its rirst piano since pre-war days with-
in another thirty days, but no effort has been
made to place a market price on same at this
time.
At the next meeting of the executive com-
mittee of the Piano Merchants' Association of
Ohio, to be held next month in Columbus, the
suggestion of the treasurer, Charles Yahrling,
Youngstown, on putting out a monthly bulle-
tin giving crisp notes on the doings of the
trade from an organization standpoint is to be
given consideration. The idea is to bring all
merchants in the State in close touch with the
doings of the officers and members and in this
manner enable all to realize the benefit of asso-
ciation team work. William R. Graul, president
of the State organization, favors making Colum-
bus the regular meeting place for the executive
committee, believing this would tend to bring
about a larger attendance, since the capital city
is centrally located. Mr. Graul reiterated his
determination to appoint a membership com-
mittee which would take in all parts of the State,
claiming that heretofore the work was mainly
done in the western part of Ohio to the neglect
of the eastern sections, which will be asked to
form local organizations and then affiliate with
the State association.
Captain Lucien Wulsin, of the Baldwin Co.,
returned last week from a vacation spent in
Chicago. K. G. Hereth, Indianapolis, and H. C.
Dickinson, Chicago, directors, visited head-
quarters during the close of the week.
The Vitanola, one of the newer phonographs,
is being handled locally by Heck & Co.
CHICAGO, 111., September 29.—The piano, or-
gan and musical instrument workers' joint
unions of Chicago and vicinity last week pre-
sented a set of demands to the local piano manu-
facturers, the demands being similar to those
presented to the New York piano manufacturers
by their local unions. The demands include a
forty-four-hour week, time and a half for over-
time, double time for Sunday and holiday work,
a minimum wage scale of $7 a day for finishers,
polishers and straight tuners; a minimum scale
of $8.50 a day for tuners and player repair men;
action regulators, $8; organ workers, $10;
straight player men, $7.
In a letter accompanying the demands Charles
Dold, the International president, stated that in
the event that the demands met with the dis-
approval of the piano manufacturers the work-
ers were willing to arbitrate the questions in-
volved. The local manufacturers have followed
the same plan as the New York manufacturers
and decided to stand pat and stick together,
refusing to recognize the union or to treat
with their workers other than as individuals.
KNABE GRAND FOR HOTEL GOTHAM
Prominent Hostelry Adds to Its Equipment of
Knabe Instruments—New Grand to Be Used
by the Hotel Orchestra in Musicales
A Style "C" Knabe Grand has just been pur-
chased by the Hotel Gotham, at Fifth avenue
and Fifty-fifth street, for use of the hotel or-
chestra. The Hotel Gotham, one of the most
exclusive hostelries in the city, is located im-
mediately opposite the Hotel St. Regis, and
caters to a following of distinctly high class.
The hotel has been equipped with Knabe pianos
for a number of years, and the instrument just
purchased is to be used in connection with the
elaborate series of musicales scheduled at the
hotel during the coming season.
AUGUST RUFF DIES SUDDENLY
August Ruff, father-in-law of Manager Fred
Doll, of the Doll & Sons piano warerooms, New
York, died suddenly last week of heart trouble
at his home, 52 West 120th street. Mr. Ruff
was seventy-two years of age and was active up
to the day of his death. The funeral was held
on Friday, September 26.
The American Piano Co. has declared a divi-
dend on its preferred stock of 1% Per cent.,
payable October 1.
FOTOPLAYER
for the finest
Motion Picture
Theatres
JOIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
It is just announced that the Sonora Phono-
graph Corp. and the Pathe Freres Phonograph
Co. have" become members of the Music Indus-
tries Chamber of Commerce, thus adding
strength to the talking machine division of the
Chamber. The Victor Talking Machine Co.
was elected to membership recently.
San Francisco
Chicago
New York
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trie World.
Rosenstein Piano Co. the Latest Concern to
Announce Rebuilding Operations
BALTIMOKE, MD,, September 30.—Baltimore
dealers continue to improve their establishments,
particularly in the North Howard street dis-
trict, and that thoroughfare is fast becoming the
musical center of the city. The latest concern to
announce building plans is the Rosenstein Piano
Co., 402 North Howard street. The entire
front of the company's building will be remod-
eled and the interior changed around to make
it a modern piano and talking machine estab-
lishment. Meanwhile the National Piano Co.
has completed and occupied its new quarters
and the new home of Charles M. Stieff, Inc., is
progressing rapidly.
At present the Rosenstein Co. has one show
window, but the new plans call for a double win-
dow effect with doors in the center. The entire
first floor will be devoted to talking machines
and music rolls and booths will line both sides
of the store with an office in the rear. The sec-
ond floor will be devoted to pianos and players.
Over the show windows on the first Moor the
plan provides for the placing of player-pianos
and talking machines, with a special arrange-
ment for throwing the music waves out on the
street. The company proposes to have music
echoing on the street at all times during the
day and on the evenings when the establishment
happens to be open. While the plans are
elaborate care has been taken to so arrange the
place as to make it welcome for persons in all
walks of life to feel at home when they enter.
F. W. FENTON DIES IN CHICAGO
Fred W. Fenton, who has been connected
with a number of retail houses in Chicago for a
number of years and whose last connection was
with the talking machine department of Lyon &
Healy, died last week at the age of forty-three
years. Funeral services were conducted by the
Masons. He leaves a widow.
BRARD WILL PLAY THE STEINWAY
AMERICAN PHOTO
PLAYER CO.
REMODELING IN BALTIMORE
Steinway & Sons were advised this week that
Magdeleine Brard, the noted French pianist,
had sailed from France in order to keep a series
of engagements in this country. Her first re-
cital will be held at Aeoftan Hall on October 11
and from there she will make a tour of the
country, using the Steinway piano exclusively.
PIANOS
Awarded first prize in many world compe-
titions during the past sixty years, the
Schomacker Piano is now daily receiving
first prizes of preference won by its superb
tone, wonderful breadth of expression and
structural beauty.
SCHOMACKER PIANO CO.
23d and Chestnut Sts.
Philadelphia, Pa.
ORGANS
E5TEY PIAND COMPANY NEW YDnK CITY
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OCTOBER
THE
4, 1919
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
SOUTHERN TOUR FOR POUND
BIG BUSINESS IN CINCINNATI
CHICAGO WORKERS WANT INCREASE
General Counsel of Music Industries Chamber
of Commerce to Tour Southern Atlantic States
—Attends Andrews' Opening in Buffalo
Demand for Musical Instruments Causes Local
Merchants to Scour the Market for Stock—
Association May Issue Monthly Bulletin
Unions in the Piano Industry Ask Employers
for Forty-four-hour Week and an Increase in
Wages—Manufacturers Standing Pat
George W. Pound, general counsel of the
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce, has
just completed arrangements for a tour of the
South Atlantic district in response to the urgent
request of the trade in that locality, following
the success of his recent coast-to-coast tour.
Mr. Pound will attend the International Trade
Conference at Atlantic City on October 20 and
will go to Richmond, where he will speak on
October 23. After Richmond Mr. Pound will
visit in order Norfolk, Va.; Charleston, S. C ;
Atlanta, Ga.; Jacksonville and Tampa, Fla.; Bir-
mingham, Ala.; Chattanooga and Memphis,
Tenn. The exact dates upon which Mr. Pound
will speak in the various cities will be announced
within the next few days and there is a possi-
bility that one or two other cities will be added
to the itinerary.
Mr. Pound this week went to Buffalo, where
he made the principal address at the formal
opening of the elaborate new quarters of W. D.
& C. N. Andrews, the prominent Victor whole-
salers in that city.- From Buffalo he goes to
Alton, 111., where he will make an address be-
fore the Board of Trade, that city, and will
also be the principal speaker at the State Con-
vention of Federated Women's Music Clubs.
CINCINNATI, (J., September 29.—Industrial un-
rest in the Middle West certainly has had no
effect upon the volume of business among ven-
ders of pianos and talking machines, the de-
mand during the month just brought to a close
being unusually great, almost comparing with a
rattling good December business.
Loud is the complaint of the piano merchant
who is shy goods. Stock credited with having
left Eastern points four weeks ago is yet to
arrive in Cincinnati. But the mails bring notices
of slight advances in the price of instruments as
they are being ordered, the boost being rive and
ten dollars a clip. Several communications of
this kind were received during the past week.
The John Church Co.'s factory will be put-
ting out its rirst piano since pre-war days with-
in another thirty days, but no effort has been
made to place a market price on same at this
time.
At the next meeting of the executive com-
mittee of the Piano Merchants' Association of
Ohio, to be held next month in Columbus, the
suggestion of the treasurer, Charles Yahrling,
Youngstown, on putting out a monthly bulle-
tin giving crisp notes on the doings of the
trade from an organization standpoint is to be
given consideration. The idea is to bring all
merchants in the State in close touch with the
doings of the officers and members and in this
manner enable all to realize the benefit of asso-
ciation team work. William R. Graul, president
of the State organization, favors making Colum-
bus the regular meeting place for the executive
committee, believing this would tend to bring
about a larger attendance, since the capital city
is centrally located. Mr. Graul reiterated his
determination to appoint a membership com-
mittee which would take in all parts of the State,
claiming that heretofore the work was mainly
done in the western part of Ohio to the neglect
of the eastern sections, which will be asked to
form local organizations and then affiliate with
the State association.
Captain Lucien Wulsin, of the Baldwin Co.,
returned last week from a vacation spent in
Chicago. K. G. Hereth, Indianapolis, and H. C.
Dickinson, Chicago, directors, visited head-
quarters during the close of the week.
The Vitanola, one of the newer phonographs,
is being handled locally by Heck & Co.
CHICAGO, 111., September 29.—The piano, or-
gan and musical instrument workers' joint
unions of Chicago and vicinity last week pre-
sented a set of demands to the local piano manu-
facturers, the demands being similar to those
presented to the New York piano manufacturers
by their local unions. The demands include a
forty-four-hour week, time and a half for over-
time, double time for Sunday and holiday work,
a minimum wage scale of $7 a day for finishers,
polishers and straight tuners; a minimum scale
of $8.50 a day for tuners and player repair men;
action regulators, $8; organ workers, $10;
straight player men, $7.
In a letter accompanying the demands Charles
Dold, the International president, stated that in
the event that the demands met with the dis-
approval of the piano manufacturers the work-
ers were willing to arbitrate the questions in-
volved. The local manufacturers have followed
the same plan as the New York manufacturers
and decided to stand pat and stick together,
refusing to recognize the union or to treat
with their workers other than as individuals.
KNABE GRAND FOR HOTEL GOTHAM
Prominent Hostelry Adds to Its Equipment of
Knabe Instruments—New Grand to Be Used
by the Hotel Orchestra in Musicales
A Style "C" Knabe Grand has just been pur-
chased by the Hotel Gotham, at Fifth avenue
and Fifty-fifth street, for use of the hotel or-
chestra. The Hotel Gotham, one of the most
exclusive hostelries in the city, is located im-
mediately opposite the Hotel St. Regis, and
caters to a following of distinctly high class.
The hotel has been equipped with Knabe pianos
for a number of years, and the instrument just
purchased is to be used in connection with the
elaborate series of musicales scheduled at the
hotel during the coming season.
AUGUST RUFF DIES SUDDENLY
August Ruff, father-in-law of Manager Fred
Doll, of the Doll & Sons piano warerooms, New
York, died suddenly last week of heart trouble
at his home, 52 West 120th street. Mr. Ruff
was seventy-two years of age and was active up
to the day of his death. The funeral was held
on Friday, September 26.
The American Piano Co. has declared a divi-
dend on its preferred stock of 1% Per cent.,
payable October 1.
FOTOPLAYER
for the finest
Motion Picture
Theatres
JOIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
It is just announced that the Sonora Phono-
graph Corp. and the Pathe Freres Phonograph
Co. have" become members of the Music Indus-
tries Chamber of Commerce, thus adding
strength to the talking machine division of the
Chamber. The Victor Talking Machine Co.
was elected to membership recently.
San Francisco
Chicago
New York
Zffie frest/cnout/i
muricalname
trie World.
Rosenstein Piano Co. the Latest Concern to
Announce Rebuilding Operations
BALTIMOKE, MD,, September 30.—Baltimore
dealers continue to improve their establishments,
particularly in the North Howard street dis-
trict, and that thoroughfare is fast becoming the
musical center of the city. The latest concern to
announce building plans is the Rosenstein Piano
Co., 402 North Howard street. The entire
front of the company's building will be remod-
eled and the interior changed around to make
it a modern piano and talking machine estab-
lishment. Meanwhile the National Piano Co.
has completed and occupied its new quarters
and the new home of Charles M. Stieff, Inc., is
progressing rapidly.
At present the Rosenstein Co. has one show
window, but the new plans call for a double win-
dow effect with doors in the center. The entire
first floor will be devoted to talking machines
and music rolls and booths will line both sides
of the store with an office in the rear. The sec-
ond floor will be devoted to pianos and players.
Over the show windows on the first Moor the
plan provides for the placing of player-pianos
and talking machines, with a special arrange-
ment for throwing the music waves out on the
street. The company proposes to have music
echoing on the street at all times during the
day and on the evenings when the establishment
happens to be open. While the plans are
elaborate care has been taken to so arrange the
place as to make it welcome for persons in all
walks of life to feel at home when they enter.
F. W. FENTON DIES IN CHICAGO
Fred W. Fenton, who has been connected
with a number of retail houses in Chicago for a
number of years and whose last connection was
with the talking machine department of Lyon &
Healy, died last week at the age of forty-three
years. Funeral services were conducted by the
Masons. He leaves a widow.
BRARD WILL PLAY THE STEINWAY
AMERICAN PHOTO
PLAYER CO.
REMODELING IN BALTIMORE
Steinway & Sons were advised this week that
Magdeleine Brard, the noted French pianist,
had sailed from France in order to keep a series
of engagements in this country. Her first re-
cital will be held at Aeoftan Hall on October 11
and from there she will make a tour of the
country, using the Steinway piano exclusively.
PIANOS
Awarded first prize in many world compe-
titions during the past sixty years, the
Schomacker Piano is now daily receiving
first prizes of preference won by its superb
tone, wonderful breadth of expression and
structural beauty.
SCHOMACKER PIANO CO.
23d and Chestnut Sts.
Philadelphia, Pa.
ORGANS
E5TEY PIAND COMPANY NEW YDnK CITY
tpfVA
p r e cer/arthe
r
doaiermt the7]rafh
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