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MUSIC TRADE
PROHIBIT GIVING OF COUPONS
Or Premiums with the Purchase of Gootfs the
Subject of a Bill Introduced in the Senate
by Senator Pomerene of Ohio.
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C , Jan. 29, 1912.
A bill prohibiting the giving of coupons or pre-
miums with the purchase of goods, or the enclosing
of such redeemable coupons in packages of mer-
chandise, has been introduced in the Senate by
Senator Pomerene, of Ohio.
This measure is similar to others that have been
offered in previous Congresses, and is aimed prin-
cipally at the practice of concerns in giving pre-
mium coupons and certificates with purchases of
goods of any kinds.
This line of proposed legislation, however, does
not contemplate any jurisdiction over the trading
stamp business as locally carried on more or less
generally throughout the country. The bill now
presented by Senator Pomerene, following the
scope of previous measures of similar intent, seeks
only to prohibit this coupon practice as to goods
entering into interstate commerce. Such Federal
legislation, if enacted, could obviously cover only
such business as enters into trade between the
States.
The trading stamp, as carried on through the
medium of the several trading stamp companies
operating throughout the country, in the opinion
of leading lawyers here in Washington who have
had much to do with this question, is, with some
few exceptions, outside the jurisdiction of the
Federal Government, and can be regulated or pro-
hibited only through State machinery.
A decision of the United States Supreme Court
about a year ago, in reviewing a case brought by
the District of Columbia against a trading stamp
concern, ruled that the lower court had jurisdic-
tion under the police power of the State, and held,
further, that the District law prohibiting, in effect,
the operation of trading stamp companies within the
District of Columbia was constitutional and valid.
Hence it is not considered that even should this
proposed Federal anti-coupon legislation pass—
A satisfied customer
is a real profit maker
—the best salesman a
piano dealer can possibly
have
Every Packard owner is a Packard
booster. He is more than satis-
fied—for he has received more
than "full value" for his money
That's the reason Packard pianos
are easy to sell—and that's the
reason you will find profit and
pleasure in selling them. Also it's
the reason why we are finding it
easy >to get the better dealer*
everywhere to handle them. Write
The Packard Company, Fort
- * Wayne, Indiana—to-day. If we
are not already represented in
your territory, we may be glad
to make agency arrangements
with you—and it may mean for
you the one big opportunity.
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which is believed highly improbable at this t i m e -
it would have any effect upon the local trading
stamp business as known to the general merchant
MILTON PIANO IN EGYPT.
Letter from the Director of the College de
La Salle, Cairo, Tells of the Satisfaction
Given by This Instrument So Far Away from
Its Point of Manufacture.
TO MOVE TO LARGER QUARTERS,
How New Building to Be Occupied by Monte-
negro-Riehm Co. Will
Be Arranged—To
Move by February 15.
(Special to The Review.)
Louisville, Ky., Jan. 29, 1912.
The Montenegro-Riehm Music Co. is actively
engaged in preparing for the removal of its busi-
ness
to its large and handsome new quarters in
The Milton Piano Co., of New York, has re-
538 South Fourth avenue, which it expects to
ceived an interesting letter from the director of
occupy by February 15. The extra space in the
new building will be welcomed as providing the
company with the facilities for the proper handling
of its rapidly increasing business.
The various departments of the business will be
arranged in the new building as follow.-*: The base-
ment will be given over to the music roll depart-
ment, while on the first floor to the right of the
main entrance, patrons will find three talking ma-
chine rooms and a complete line of Victor talking
machines and records, in the rear of the ground
Hoor will be situated the several player-piano rooms,
a 1 up to date.
The second floor will be devoted to the offices of
COLLEGE DE LA SALLE, CAIRO, EGYPT.
the company and salesrooms. Parlors for display-
the College de La Salle, in Cairo, Egypt, regarding ing the pianos sold by the concern also will be
a Milton piano purchased from its representative
found on the third floor.
in Cairo. The facts demonstrate that notwith-
Jn the rear of the building the three-story ware-
standing the thousands of miles covered in trans- house is to be located, while the shipping depart-
it by this instrument, it withstood the journey
ment of the company will be situated on the ground
and all climatic changes in a splendid way. The Hoor. The Victor talking machine department, the
automatic line and practically every department of
the concern is to be enlarged. A ten-year lease has
been obtained on the new home of the concern, and
COLLEGE
it is expected to be ready for occupancy by the mid-
DES FRERES
dle of February.
CAIRK E ypf
O
CLOSING OUT PIANO STOCK.
The stock of pianos, organs, talking machines
and other musical goods comprising the estate of
the late A. Colegrove, Taylorville, 111., is being
closed out by Mrs. Mary A. Colgrove, the ad-
ministratrix of the estate.
A SUPERIOR ACTION
IS THE HEART OF A
SUPERIOR PIANO.
A SUPERIOR HAMMER
IS THE HEART OF A
SUPERIOR ACTION.
COPY OF LETTER TO MILTON PIANO CO.
translation of the original letter, which appears
herevjith, is as follows :
"To the Director of the Milton Piano Co., New
York:
"The directors of the College de La Salle de-
clare that they are very well satisfied with the
Milton piano which they have received from your
house through the efforts of your representative
in Cairo.
"The Director of the College,
"M.
GABRIEL."
PLEASED WITH THE McPHAIL.
Clarence B. Ashenden, one of the leading voice
teachers and vocalists of the South and director of
the Amphion, and the music of the First Presbyte-
rian Church, Dallas, Tex., has written the Will A.
Watkins Co., of that city in which he praises the
business methods of that house, and in this con-
nection says : "I am at present using a piano for
which I believe you are agent—the McPhail—and
am much pleased with it, as it is particularly well
suited to a singer's requirements. It has a beauti-
ful tone and stands up well under the grind of in-
cessant teaching." This is a tribute to the Mc-
Phail piano of which the manufacturers can feel
proud.
When you find this ham-
mer in a piano, you know
it is a superior piano.
It is the hall-mark of piano
superiority, and the life of
the music.
Made of superior German
felt.
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