Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1904-01-21
REACHED MILLION MARK
The Growth and Achievements of
Eilers Piano House.

probably best illustrated by the growth
of Eilers Piano House, Portland's
leading and most popular wholesale
and retail piano and organ concern.
This business founded in 1897, and
which was commenced in Portland
in comparatively very small way,
has of late years grown into one of
the most extensive establishments Of
its kind in the United States.
More than 5000 instruments were
sold by Eilers Piano House in the
State of Oregon alone during the past
year, the record up to November 10
being 1886 Pianos, 1915 Organs, Z
Pipe Organs, and 100 Pianolas, a
total BUSINESS of S6l4, 1856 60, to which
must be added the total sales of the
Spokane and San Francisco establish
ments making the sales for the year
1908 quite little more than 81, 900,
900. In Portland Eilers Piano House
conducts beautiful retail establish
ment, occupying an entire quarter
block on the most prominent retail
thoroughfare of the ity(Washington
street,, and in addition to this a fine
warehouse and manufacturing plant
is maintained at the corner of Thir-
teepth and Marshall streets. Here side
tracks make it accessible to all the
railroads centering in Portland, and
careload shipments direct from the
Eastern factories are received at the
doors of the establishment and dis
tributed to large and evergrowing
wholesale trade throughout the Great
West. AS many as nine carloads of
pianos have been received during the
past month by Eilers Piano House in
single day, and there is not a
month even in the dullest season of
the year when less than 1S or 20 car
loads of pianos are handled here. The
influence of this house in the artistic
field is apparent everywhere The
State University of Oregon has just
recently been equipped with Coucert
Grand and Upright Pianos SO also the
State University of Idaho. the Agri-
cultural Colleges at Corvallis, Or. =,
and at Pullman, Wash, the Portland
Academy, and scores of public
schools, converts, theaters, colleges
aud halls throughout the West, to say
nothing of the hundreds of churches
that have been supplied with reed
and pipe organs, as well as pianos, by
the house of Eilers, A high apprecia-
tion of and demand for the highest
grade pianos has been created by
Eilers Piano Honse throughout the
state, and it is matter Of record
that in Oregon and Washington are
sold more highest grade, artistic
pianos per capita than in other sec.
tion of the United States The list
of over 30 American piano manufac.
turers whose instruments are sold by
Eilers Piano House, embraces the
most illustrious names in the trade,
such as the Chickering of Boston, the
Weber Of New York, the Kimball of
New York, the Vose, the Pianola,
etc, etc. The business is conducted
on strictly modern and broad guage
principles, absolute satisfaction is
guaranteed in every transaction,
great or small, and prices are main
tanned far below what is asked for
the same grades and quantities Of in
struments elsewhere. This under
price policy, coupled with the spirit
of liberality displayed, is the under
lying element of Eilers Piano Houses
growth and success. Mr. Hy. j.
EileTs is president of the House,
Mr.. Sam'l J.. Mccormick is the vice
president, Mr.. A. II. Eilers is secre-
tary and treasurer. Mr. G.. A.
Heidinger is the manager at Spokane,
Mr.. A. X. Pommer manages the San
Francisco end Of it, and Seattle is
looked after by Mr.. E. L. Larrimore.
All of these men have extensive ex-
perience in the piano and organ
trade having devoted lifetime to the
business, and they are alert pro-
gressive and of marked ability.
Established on the soundest fnan-
cial footing and under the soundest
efficient management Eilers Piano
House, great as it is at present is des.
tined to still greater development and
achievement.
The Eilers Piano House is now hold
ing sale in Grants Pass at Rotor.
mund's Drag Store. Pianos at sale
prices. as low as sl47
Will be here only few days longer.
Horning and DePuy's milk wagon
team took a lively spin down Sixth
street last Thursday afternoon.
Numerous attempts were made by
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in vain until they turned at the Lay
ton hotel corner and one horse went
down. This interferel with theiI
progress and they were finally stopped
at Clevenger's photo gallery. Mrs.
Geo. Cramer sitting in the carriage
was directly in the track Of tho runa-
ways as they turned the corner but
with rare presence Of mind did the
-one thing possible to escape-gave the
horse a cut with the whip and dashed
out ahead Of the runaways, tn ereby
saving herself from injury and the
carriage from ruin.
Theater goers who were fortunate
enough TO have witnessed SANDY
Bottom" last season will find renewed
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