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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
MclNTOSH'S NEW CONNECTION.
Will Represent the Brockport Piano Mfg. Co.
After January 1 as Sales Manager for Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois and Michigan.
(Special to The Review.)
Detroit, Mich., Dec. 15, 1911.
J. B. Mclntosh, for thirteen years with the Clough
& Warren Piano Co., and since the failure of that
concern with the Cote Piano Co., of Fall River,
Mass., has resigned to accept a better position
with the Brockport Piano Mfg. Co., of Brockport,
N. Y. He will assume his new duties shortly after
January 1. He is to be sales manager for Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, with headquarters
in Detroit. He will spend a good deal of his time
on the road.
Prior to the incorporation of the Clough &
J. B. MACINTOSH.
Warren Co. Mr. Mclntosh was general manager.
After the incorporation he was made vice-president
and general sales manager. In 1909, when the na-
tional conventions of the manufacturers, dealers and
travelers all met in Detroit simultaneously, Mr.
Mclntosh was president of the Detroit Music
Trades Association, having charge of the entertain-
ment of the visiting clans. This and his promi-
nent position in the trade here for so many years
have made him one of the best-known piano men in
America, Mr. Mclntosh is high in Masonry and
active as a member of important committees of the
Knights of the Grip.
ORGANS INJ)EMAND.
change is announced as being in accord with the
policy of the Cable Company in placing the vari-
our branch stores in a position where they can
become independent and be operated as separate
businesses. Further changes of similar character
among the other branches are expected at an early
date.
CONTEST CAUSES TROUBLE.
Weatherholt Piano Co. Award Piano to Man
Making Exact Guess as to Number of Visitors
to State Fair and Later Find Out That At-
tendance Figures Are Wrong and Deliver
Piano to Another Party—Chancery Court
Called Upon to Decide Question.
(Special to The Review.)
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 18, 1911.
Through its solicitor, Wm. L. Talley, the
Weatherholt Piano Co. have filed a bill of inter-
pleader in the chancery court in which a discovery
is sought as to which of two parties the company
shall turn over a piano offered as a prize to the
person guessing the closest to the total paid at-
tendance at the State fair of this year.
It appears from the bill that after the contest
had closed the company discovered that one Clar-
ence B. Crockett had guessed the exact number of
paid admissions and according to the attendance
tabulated in one of the local newspapers, and there-
upon called up Mr. Crockett and informed him
that he had won the prize. Later, however, before
the prize was delivered, information was received
from Frank K. Houston, secretary of the attend-
ance committee at the State fair, that the tabula-
tion in the newspaper was not exact. It was
therefore discovered that George J. Allen had
guessed the closest to the official count and so the
piano was turned over to him.
A suit is now pending in the circuit court in
regard to a replevin suit instituted by Mr. Crockett
against Mr. Allen for the piano. The company
therefore asks that the whole controversy be set-
tled in one suit in chancery, and that the piano be
turned over to the one who, in the opinion of the
chancellor, is entitled to it. Mr. Crocker claims
that he is entitled to the piano under the parol
promise over the 'phone made by the company
before they learned the official attendance.
Eugene Shannon and J. W. Russwurm were the
committee selected as judges in the contest, and
they decided in favor of Allen.
SHOW ATTRACTS MANY VISITORS.
Piano Men Take Active Interest in Northwest-
ern Land Products Show in St. Paul—Seven
States Represented.
(Special to The Keview.)
St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 18, 1911.
The Northwestern Land Products Show, which
is now being held in this city, and which will con-
tinue for the balance of the week, is attracting
thousands of visitors, and the piano houses are
Recent sales of organs at the Mason & H-amlin joining with other merchants in their efforts to
warerooms, 313 Fifth avenue, would seem to indi- entertain and incidentally make customers of as
cate that business in that department is a close many of the out-of-town people as possible. The
second to the piano department, where it is excep- piano men have arranged special series of recitals
tionally brisk. C. E. Brockington, manager of the and concerts and have their full sales staffs in
organ department, is enthusiastic over the present attendance. Attractive window diplays also figure
outlook and reports the following recent sales of largely, and several of the piano houses also have
Liszt organs: Sacred Heart Church, New York; exhibits at the show proper. Over five hundred
Stanwich Congregational Church, Stanwich, Conn.; communities in seven States in the Northwest are
St. Andrew's Church, New York; St. Antonius represented at the show, which gives an idea of
Church, Newark, N. J.; Bronx Church House, New its scope.
York; Colonial Theater, Rochester, N. Y.; Cen-
tury Theater, New York. In course of installation
FIRE DAMAGES PIANO STOCK.
at present are several new large two-manual, pedal
The ignition and accompanying explosion of
liass organs in specially designed mahogany cases
moving picture films in a developing studio in the
to match the music rooms in private residences in
building at the southwest corner of Thirty-sixth
New York, New Rochelle and Short Hills.
Mason & Hamlin recently made shipment of a street and Eighth avenue, on Friday afternoon of
last week, resulted in considerable damage through
chapel organ to Tripoli, Syria.
the medium of fire, smoke and watrr to the stock
and materials in the piano factory of the E. Leins
TAKES OVER CHARLESTON STORE.
Piano Co., who occupy the three upper floors of
Manager Wilkins, of the Cable Piano Co., At- the six-story building. Despite the rapid spread
lanta, Ga., has taken over the control of the Cable of the flames and the stifling fumes from the burn-
ing film, none of the employes in the building were
Piano Co. store in Charleston, S. C, and the latter
now becomes a branch of the Atlanta house. The injured or overcome.
Mason & Hamlin Make Many Sales to
Churches, Schools, Theaters, Private Resi-
dences and to Foreign Countries.
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you to investi-
gate what we
have to offer
Henry &S.G.Lindeman
Fifth Avenue at 142d St.
NEW YORK