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Music Trade Review -- © mbsi.org, arcade-museum.com -- digitized with support from namm.org THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW 51 returned on Saturday from a trip to the Coast. He says that the entire Weet from the Missouri to the Pacific was never in bstter condition physically and that the purchasing ability of the Trade Improvement ContinuesGuylee Appointed Manager Twin City Branches of Cable Co. people is at top notch, although they are too Harry Schaaf to EuropeChicago Men ReturnStraube Business GoodMany Visitors timid as yet to exercise it a*s they would under Frazelle's Extended TripCash Williams' CommunicationF. W. Teeple Chats of Coast normal conditions. In California they are shityTripConditions Throughout the Pacific Coast Sound and the Outlook Is Good. ping the biggest citrus crop in the history of t h | State. There has also been a bumper crop off dealers whom they are selling. Last month they raisins, the grain crop was immense and thje Review Office: Telephones: j Central 414: shipped about 225 pianos, and from orders now farmers have been able to plant grain for next Automatic 8643. 195-197 Wabash Ave. (Special to The Review.) on hand they expect to considerably exceed this season under the most favorable circumstanced. Chicago, March 11, 1908. number in March. Nevertheless buying halts although there is f Although trade is by no means moving as Joseph T. Leimert, retail manager of the Cable gradual improvement. Conditions in San Frailr briskly as manufacturers on the whole would Company, returned last week from his Florida cisco are still quiet although steadily growing beijlike to see it, still there is a gradual improve- trip. ter, Los Angeles and Southern California make ment, as witnessed by the steady augmentation J. Howard Todd, of the Artistano depart- a very fair showing while the north coast cities of the working forces at the various factories. ment of the A. B. Chase Co., was a Chicago vis- are recovering with marked rapidity from the W. E. Guylee has been appointed manager of itor last week. He went from here to St. Louis. effects of the recent flurry and considering condithe Minneapolis and St. Paul branches of the The' application of Mrs. Elizabeth Bryant as tions are doing a really excellent piano business. Cable Company, with headquarters at the Minne- executrix of the estate of her husband, the late We are in the throes of another piano certifiapolis store. Mr. Guylee left on Monday of this John A. Bryant, for a receiver for the Jackson cate war. The F. G. Smith Piano Co. announced week to assume his new duties, 'accompanied by Trust & Savings Bank was denied Monday by in Sundays' dailies that the festive slips, o.f paper E. P. McPherson, of the company, who will spend Judge Ball in the Superior Court. It was de- are as "good as gold" with them. "We wjJJ take several days in the Twin Cities to see the new cided by the court that there was no immediate any piano certificate or coupon issued by any manager duly installed. Mr. Guylee has been necessity for the step. He instructed that the Chicago piano house, up to the face value of with the Cable Company, in Chicago, for the past motion should be denied without prejudice. The $100 in part paymentthe balance due payable seven years, and has for the past two years ,aq- bank was allowed thirty days in which tofilean in small monthly instalmentson any new sisted Mr. McPherson in looking after the brancji answer to the charges, after whch it will be piano or player-piano in our stock during the houses, besides taking charge of the promotion placed on the trial calendar. It will probably be month of March," the announcements said. department, arranging for concerts and tours in reached in about four months. exploitation of the Mason & Hamlin. He has proved T. E. Dougherty, president of the Schaeffer DEATH OF J. C. CAMPBELL, a capable man in every position he has occupied, Piano Mfg. Co., who is in the southwest on a and he has the confidence and best wishes of the combined pleasure and business trip, is expected One of the Founders of Kohler & Campbell officers of the company in his new position which home to-day. Passes Away in This CityClose of a Short comes in the nature of a distinct promotion. • and Successful Business Career. R. S. Howard, of R. S. Howard & Co., New Harry Schaaf, president of the house of Adam York, was In the city early this week on his way J. Calvin Campbell, one of the founders of Schaaf, accompanied by his bride and his sister, to the Coast. Miss Esther Schaaf, leave to-morrow for New Chicago has been blessed by visits from quite Kohler & Campbell, piano manufacturers of New York and will sail on Saturday for Naples on the a few well known piano dealers the past week. York, died at his residence, 312 West 99th street, North German Lloyd line. They will make the J. W. Jenkins, president of the J. W. Jenkins' this city on last Tuesday. The news of Mr. Mediterranean voyage, spending some time at Son's Music Co., of Kansas City, Mo., arrived in Campbell's death was not unexpected as for some all the principal points of interest, and will the city yesterday on his return from Florida time his health has been in a very precarious probably be gone for about three months. and eastern cities. He was met in Chicago by condition and the best expert medical skill did The United States Music Co., of this city, Mr. Clifford Jenkins, of the company. L. S. Sher- not hesitate to pronounce his case an incurable manufacturers of perforated music rolls for piano man, of the Sherman Music Co., of Butte, Mont., one. He had long been suffering from a kidney players, have increased their capital stock from was here the latter part of last week. Among trouble which recently developed dangerous ten$25,000 to $100,000. The company recently moved the other visitors were: Thad. Butler, president dencies, which compelled his absence from busitheir factory from Plymouth Place to new and of the Butler Music Co., Marion, Ind.; T. T. Berg, ness for some time past. J. Calvin Campbell commenced the business of larger quarters at Milwaukee and Western president of the Berg Piano Co., La Crosse. Wis.; piano manufacturing in this city with Charles avenues. George Jewell, of Rhinelander, Wis., and brother A. M. Wright, vice-president of the Mason & of dealer H. N. Jewell, of Antigo, same state; Kohler in 1890. The inceptive move of this conHamlin Piano Co., left on Thursday of last week John Polkenhorn, Darlington, Wis.; C. H. Ter- cern, which has become one of the greatest piano for the West. While he was not fully decided rell, Franklin, Ind., and V. Baum, of Baum & manufacturing houses in the world, was a very modest one, a single loft sufficing to answer all he expected to visit his friends on the Pacific Son, Ligonier, Ind. Coast before he returns. Bert Pond, secretary of the William Gerner purposes. Kohler & Campbell were young men Adam Schneider, of Julius Bauer & Co., re- Piano Co., was called to his old home Eau Claire, who had a definite object in view and they were turned Saturday from his trip to New Orleans, Wis., last week by the sad news of the death untiring in their energy, labored early and late undertaken with a number of his Chicago of his father, L. W. Pond, at the advanced age to build pianos to meet with the popular debrethren of the Knights of Columbus. They had of eighty-one. Mr. Pond, Sr., was one of the mand. That they succeeded is evidenced in the a special car, which they had all to themselves, pioneers of his city and was actively connected splendid business structure which has been and occupied it in lieu of a hotel while in New with the lumber industry in former years. He reared on the modest foundation started only a Orleans. The Mayor of New Orleans is a Knight, was the inventor of a patent broom device and of few years ago. Mr. Campbell had only reached and saw that seats were reserved for the party various machinery for the manufacture and hand- middle age, being only forty-four, when overtaken by death. He is survived by a widow, a on the grand stand for the pageant, and that ling of lumber. they were provided with invitations to the Rex F. H. Frazelle, western representative for Paul son, twelve years of age, and father and mother. and other balls. On the return trip they spent G. Mehlin & Sons, left his home at Toledo, Ohio, The funeral services occurred on Thursday at a day each at Birmingham, Mobile and Nash- the latter part of last week for an extended west- St. Michael's Church, 99th street and Amsterville and were entertained by the Knights in ern trip which will take him to the Coast. He dam avenue, interment being in Woodlawn. The each city. They were tendered a banquet at Bir- is going by the southern route making numerous Kohler & Campbell and allied factories were mingham, and came away thoroughly imbued stops by the way and will reach Spokane early in closed down on Thursday. with the enterprise and rapid growth of the May, returning via Helena, Mont., the Dakotas, F. W. REYNOLDS' SUCCESSFUL TRIP. young Chicago of the South. St. Paul and Minneapolis and Chicago. Prior to The Straube Piano Co. are well contented with leaving Mr. Frazelle closed a deal with the Frank W. Reynolds, the hustling salesman for the volume of business coming to hand, in view Toledo Yacht Club for Mehlin pianos which will Newby & Evans, returned the forepart of the of general conditions in the trade. President be furnished by the Whitney & Currier Co., the week from a three weeks' tour of the Middle J. F. Broderick recently celebrated the tenth an- Mehlin agents. West, New York State and Pennsylvania, and niversary of his connection with the company Cash Williams, of the Cash Williams Music while out closed two new agencies,one in New and the thirtieth anniversary of the founding ''•House, Hastings, Neb., writes the Chicago office York State and one in Pennsylvania, which will of the company. Mr. Broderick has placed the of The Review regarding the record being made mean increased sales of the concern's fine line Straube in the front ranks of reliable pianos by a saleswoman in his employ. She solicits the of instruments. Mr. Evans, in commenting on and is reaping the favorable results of his fore- farmers in territory contiguous to Hastings with business, stated that they had booked more orsight and energy. an outfit consisting solely of an order book and a ders since the first of March than during any W. B. Price, of the Price & Teeple Co., is on a catalog, yet she averaged eight pianos per month like period since the first of the year, which pleasure trip through the sunny South. in January and February at prices yielding a was, to say the least,, encouraging. The orders The H. P. Nelson Co. are making a trade goodly profit and securing in payment either were for special instruments in most instances, record that is really a wonder. They have not bankable paper or cash. Furthermore, Mr. Wil- viz.: in bird'seye maple and Circassian walnut. relaxed their efforts in the least in the past few liams is willing to wager that this same gentle months and find the demand for their pianos sales expert will average six pianos a month the Andrew Grant has resigned as salesman for the sufficient to keep the factory going at full tilt, year through. Old Colony Piano Co., Brockton, Mass., to go into and, moreover, they take pride in the class of F. W, Teeple, of the Price & Teeple Piano Co., business for himself.