The San Francisco call., 1904-11-22
MUSICAL.
We Y ANT OUR
MONEY BACK
We Had a Good Thing and We
Lost 1t, but There Are 9th
ers; Well Meet the Issue
WE NEED THE MONEY
We May Be Biting Off More
Than We Can Chew, but
Well Be There at the Finish
WE NEED THE MONEY


and one that we believe has never hereto
fore been made by any other piano con-
Germ in the United States, and which, no
doubt, the music trade will consider at
this time a reckless and risky thing to
90, but as cash cuts an important ngure
with us just now, we have dec1oed 10
make bid for 1t by venturing the most
nervy and apparently impossible thing
ever attempted by piano man-that OF
undertaking to sell at retail in ten days
$50 costly, new upright pianos for spot
cash; and in pursuance of which under
taking we wish to make the following
frank statement
Who has not heard Of name and fame
Of the beautiful Weber" piano? Well,
we have lost it,
We have lost the agency for the Weber
piano with its kindred makes-the
"Wheelock" and "Stuyvesant"-an we
want our money back.
For the past six months we have been
kept in suspense as to whether or not we
could retain the Weber agency.
The Aeolian Company, which built the
Pfanola piano player, and the WEBER
Company, who build the Weber pianos
consolidated their New York factory in
terests some months ago, and since
which time. it has been the policy OF the
company to combine their Pianola player
and the Weber piano with one dealer in a
city, where they had formerly been han
died bF two-for instance-The Pianola
has been handled for many years In san
Francisco by a friendly competitor or
ours, while we have handled the Weber
piano, and we are both willing that the
agencies should remain with each as
they are, and always have been. But the
com bination Of factory interests in the
D1f afI1 iGn ND
we, 1t seems are up against 1t.
The matter has been hanging fire for
six months, while we, with hopes Of re-
tanning the Weber agency, have bought
heavily of the Weber house, much more
so than we otherwise should have done,
bought Webers, Wheelocks and Stuyve-
sants-all built by the Weber people
bought and bought and kept buying. till
the walls of our wareroom are almost
bulging out with Webers, till we have
depleted our bank account, and turned
our pockets wrong side out, in order to
prove that we are good fellows, and
worthy factors to be reckoned with in
the field Of Weber agencies and still 1t
seems we have lost. WE'LL there are
others!
This may be telling tales out of
school, but facts are sometimes stubborn
things. and there is no use to be mealy
mouthed about it. or beating around the
bush. We have gone the limit, and now
we are going to buck" We are going to
back up We are going to unload. In
fact, we are going to jump from under
the load-going to cash in and take
new tack.
In order to Iiquidate past alliances, and
take immediate advantage of high-grade
agencies now open to US to take the
place of the Weber line" we shall need
in the neighborhood of $500 cash, and
we are going right out to get it. And
while we shall throw nearly a hundred
and thirty high-grade pianos, including
over sixty fine and costly Webers on the
market tomorrow at a scandalous price
to accomplish that object, it must not be
understood that we are going out of busi-
ness, for we are not, but quite to the con-
trary. To use an ugly phrase, we have
got our backs up" and are just going
into the business.
The house of Clark Wise & Co. has not
been in the habit of making periodical
fake piano sales. They have never en-
gagged in fake sale. nor never will. We
do not carry the class of goods that
could be profitably used for that pur-
pose
This is a bonafide square deal; a spot
cash piano sale of one of the finest and
highest grade pianos made in the world
the weber" recognized
by all great artists as the equal of any
thing in the piano line yet produced by
man; standing head and shoulders over
practically anything In it's class; recog-
MIXING no superior and but one possible
eoual-such is the ''Weber!"
And these are the pianos we shall offer
the public in this sale tomorrow for less
r.rfOo 0f ordinary nj
Many. many dollars beneath the dignity
of a Weber.
To here state that we propose to offer
these pianos at cost would be superfiu-
ous-a waste of words-for the mere
fact that we feel called upon to under
take the stupendous proposition of sell
ing 1870 costly pianos in ten days for spot
cash carries with it the implication that
we will do even worse than<that; for the
man would be considered insane who
would undertake to sell 130 costly pianos
in ten days for all cash, and at profit
The man who could do that, this earth
is his cabbage patch.
1t is sufficient to know, and for US to
say, that we intend, if It is possible. to
sell every piano of the Weber line now
in our warerooms within the next ten
days for cash. and that we do not expect
to emerge from this undertaking with a
dollar profit-in fact we are prepared to
lose any reasonable amount that may be
necessary to accomplish the object for
which this sale is inaugurated, and all
we ask of those who ever expect to own
SO fine a piano as the weber" is that
they give us an opportunity to show our.
good faith in the matter.
We have stood by the Weber plano for
a good many years in this city, and the
Weber piano has stood by us, and to here
quote in black and white the astounding
low spot cash figures at which theWeb-
ers will go in this sale would be doing
its future representatives here, as well
as the manufacturers, great injustice
and as much as we feel inclined to quote
figures on the Weber-which it seems to
us should sell every Weber piano in our
wareroom in a single day-we must con-
tent ourselves with the differences that
must be drawn from what has already
been said, and the further additional gen.
eral statement. that we intend to lis
count, in this cash sale. from $3.50 to
$275 from the regular Weber retail
prices-according to size and design.
We have other fine makes of pianos
brand new-that will go in this sale at
$295, $267. $242, s22S, 1896, $165. $137
and on down to $106. all cash.
A strongly worded written guarantee
from us, in addition to that of the man
ufacturers, will accompany each instru-
ment sold.
This sale. as above, began just a week
ago this morning, and has been a phe-
nomenal success considering it an all