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THE A. B. CHASEJJNE IN DETROIT
To Be ' Handled by Germain Piano Co.—Ar-
rangements Completed Last Week—Piano
Men on Vacation Bent—Recent Trade Visi-
tors of Record.
(Special to The Review.)
Detroit, Mich., Aug. 20, 1912.
The Germain Piano Co., with a factory in Sagi-
naw and sales headquarters in the Washington
Arcade in Detroit, will hereafter handle the sales
of the A. B. Chase Co., of Norwalk, 0., in this
city. The deal was closed this week, Earl H. Hol-
land, traveling representative of the A. B. Chase
Co., acting for the Ohio concern, and Walter
Simon, manager of the Germain Piano Co. store,
representing his company. The Germain Co. is an
exponent of the one price system and caters to
the high class trade.
Mr. Halstead, of the Cleveland branch of the
Starr Piano Co., was in Detroit this week. He is
taking an automobile tour through the Middle
West. He came here direct from Cleveland. From
here he motored to Toledo, thence to Fort Wayne,
Ind., to Chicago and then to Richmond, Ind.
F. J. Lister, of the Detroit branch of the Starr
Piano Co., is absent on a lake trip.
I. L. Grinnell, of Grinnell Bros., is in the East
for two weeks. His trail can be crossed in At-
lantic City and Broadway by such sleuths as are
sharp enough to find it. His wife and daughter
are with him.
Nothing has been heard from C. A. Grinnell
since, he disappeared into the Northwest'in his
motor car, which is taken as a good omen, for if
the car had met a mishap he probably would have
wired home and sent the car home, too.
Charles Howe, player-piano demonstrator and
traveling representative of the Cable Company,
was a visitor at the Detroit store of the Cable
Company this week.
Other travelers within our gates were H. O.
Fox, vice-president of the Seaverns Piano Action
Co.; Manager Tay'or, of the Ludden & Bates
Piano Co., of Atlanta, Ga., and Daniel G. Will-
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iams, of the Udell Works, of Indianapolis, Ind.
John W. Dowd, father of George K. Dowd, of
the Melville Clark Piano Co.'s branch here, was
in Detroit visiting his son. D. J. Nolan, manager
of the piano department of the May Co., of
Cleveland, dropped into the Apol'o store here.
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tions with the country of the offender, and to se-
cure protection from this quarter in China the
trade-mark, patent or copyright must have been
registered in the country concerned. Only when
so registered will the local officials of foreign na-
tions enjoin their subjects from importing and
marketing spurious products.
CABLE=NELSON FACTORY BALL TEAM.
Herewith is presented the "I-told-you-so" photo-
graph of the Cable-Nelson factory ball team, at
South Haven, Mich., which walloped in good
fashion a team of Hartford stars who dared call
themselves champions of that neck of the woods.
The game was played last Saturday. Before the
first ball was tossed a photographer on the scene
The Cable-Nelson Ball Team.
FORTY DOLLARS AN HOUR.
The Rate of Compensation Received by Or-
ganist Who Presides Over Henry CPay Frick's
$100,000 Instrument.
"Pity the hard lot of Arthur Gibson," says a
dispatch from New York to the Chicago Inter-
Ocean. "He gets $15,000 a year for fingering a
$100,000 organ an hour a day and rendering
"Dearie" between the classical thunderings and
groanings of the costly pipes." Gibson, the dis-
patch states, is organist for Henry Clay Frick, the
Pittsburgh steel magnate whose summer home is
at Pride's Crossing, near Beverly Farms, Mass.
Every day he goes to the Frick home at 2 o'clock
in the afternoon and plays for one hour for the
sole soul edification of Mr. Frick—and for the
$15,000. During these recitals Mr. Frick, it is
said, sits in rapt attention with his finger tips to-
gether. Occasionally he interrupts with the com-
mand to play "Dearie." The report, says a rumor,
has gained circulation that Mr. Frick installed his
$100,000 organ and hired Mr. Gibson to tickle the
keys because Carnegie was doin' it. At that, it's a
gay life.
set up his apparatus to take a picture of the teams.
S. J. Turnes, advertising manager of the Cable-
PIANO HOUSE INCORPORATES.
Nelson Co., whose engrossing smile illuminates
(Special to The Review.)
the larboard side of the picture, a little aft, had a
presentment that they should wait until after the
Stockton, Cal., Aug. 16, 1912.
game. The Hartford boys hooted at his super-
McNeil & Co., the well-established piano and
stition and, told the camera man to fire 'way. He music house of this city, and with branches at
did. The Cable-Nelsonites waited until after the other points, has been incorporated with capital
game, and by this token, so says Mr. Turnes, car- stock of $100,000, of which $27,000 has been sub-
ried off honors of the day with a score of 11 scribed. The incorporators are: Edgar E. Mc-
to 10.
Neil, Inez F. McNeil and Charles W. Kale. Un-
der the new conditions it is planned to broaden
out the business materiallv.
TRADE=MARKS IN CHINA.
Shanghai Chamber of Commerce Requests a
Uniform System of Trade-Mark Registration
—The Present Situation Summarized.
A Reuter dispatch from Peking states that the
government is considering a telegram received
from the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in
Shanghai, requesting the promulgation of a uni-
form system of registration of trade-marks. The
present status of trade-mark protection is sum-
marized as follows by Vice-Consul-General W.
Roderick Dorsey, of Shanghai:
Although the commercial treaty between the
United States and China of 1903 contemplated
protection of trade-marks, patents and copyrights
to citizens and (or) subjects of those countries,
no patent laws have as yet been enacted and no
patent office has as yet been established in China.
Provisional registration bureaus for trade-
marks have been opened at the Shanghai and
Tientsin offices of the Chinest maritime customs.
A registration is first effected in the consulate
of the country of applicant, and is then sent on to
the commissioner of customs for registration in
the provisional bureau. The result is merely a
provisional registration giving tangible evidence
of priority of claim of ownership to be consid-
ered when trade-mark, patent and copyright laws,
come into effect in China and application is made
for actual registration under those laws. No ac-
tual protection from infringement results; this
is only procured in each locality when goods are
on the market by official proclamations forbidding
•imitation by natives or the importation, offering
for sale, or otherwise handling imitations of the
article covered by the proclamation. But this
affords no protection against citizens or subjects
of other nationalities, for in China each resident
is by treaty subject only to the laws and officials
of his own country, and no law or proclamation
of China can reach a foreigner. Infringements by
others than Chinese affect American treaty rela-
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