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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
SECURING'CREDIT ON FALSE STATEMENTS.
Milwaukee Piano Men Interested in Measure Introduced in Legislature Making
Offense to Obtain Credit by Making a False Statement of Assets.
(Special to The Keview.)
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It a Criminal
Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 28, 1913.
Milwaukee piano men will back up a measure
which will be introduced in this session of the
Wisconsin Legislature by the Milwaukee Credit
Men's Association, aiming to make a criminal of-
fense of the practice of obtaining credit by making
a false statement of assets. It would seem that
such a law ought to work out satisfactorily for
the piano trade.
Piano men are much interested also in a bill
which the credit organization will present before
the Legislature to regulate collection agencies,
compelling them to file papers with state authori-
ties and come under their supervision. Amend-
ments to the bulk sales law to prevent merchants
selling out without giving notice to creditors, will
be asked for and leading piano men say that this
would act as a curb upon various "fly-by-night"
piano houses which often open in cities and towns
about Wisconsin. The movement to anrend the
laws relating to the filing of mortgages, particu-
larly in regard to chattel mortgages, covering mer-
chandise, so that they may be recorded, will re-
ceive the hearty support of piano men.
It is not expected that any effort will be made
to amend the present law, passed at the last ses-
sion, forbidding the use of the certificate scheme
and questionable advertising methods, despite the
fact that the law contains a little "joker," slipped
in by the opponents of the act, and giving the of-
fender a loophole to crawl out, providing he can
prove that the schemes were not followed "with
intent to defraud." There is no denying the fact
that the passage of the law worked wonders in
toning down the advertising of Milwaukee piano
houses.
The certificate scheme is never followed,
and but one or two houses follow the plan of
offering prizes for the solving of so-called rebus
or puzzle pictures. In iact, there has not been a
period in the past ten years, when Milwaukee
piano houses have advertised so extensively and
in so clean a manner as during the past year.
FOR BENEFIT OF TRAVELING MEN.
CRAFTS PIANO CO. TO EXPAND.
A Bill Now Before the New York Legislature
Aims to Allow Them to Register if Absent
from Home on That Day—This Will Enable
Five Hundred Thousand Salesmen to Use the
Franchise at Annual Elections.
Leases Four-Story Building Which Will Be En-
tirely Remodeled for the Company's Use—
Some Unique Features Planned—The Com-
pany's Rapid Growth.
(Special to The Review.)
Eighty thousand traveling men living in New
York City lost their votes last November because
the days of registration came when they were out
on the road. ' Because of this virtual disfran-
chisement Assemblyman David C. Lewis, of the
Twenty-third District, has introduced into the
Legislature a bill to enable traveling men to reg-
ister at other times than the days set by law.
This bill of Lewis's is one manifestation of a
movement that will soon be national in its scope.
Similar legislation will be sought in every State
in the Union within the next two years, and it is
possible that at the end 6i that time Congress will
be asked to carry the project still further. Event-
ually laws may be sought which will enable a
man kept away from home by business to vote
wherever he may chance to be.
J. Maxwell Gordon, chairman of the Commer-
cial Travelers' Good Government Association,
who is active head of this movement, says that
this is no legislative adventure, as Kansas has ex-
actly such a law as it is aimed to have in New
York; Minnesota also has such a law, and there
is now pending in the Legislature of Wisconsin a
third measure toward the same end.
Assemblyman Lewis's bill looks to an amend-
ment of the Constitution which will provide that
"No elector residing in a city or village who is
temporarily absent from his residence on the last
day of registration shall be deprived of his vote,
and that the Legislature shall be empowered to
make suitable provision for the registration of
such absent electors."
The ultimate purpose is that the absentee,
wherever he may be, may go before a notary,
answer the regular questions, affix his signature,
. swear to his answers, and have the form then
forwarded to the Board of Electors, by which it
shall be investigated. In this way, it is believed,
no door to fraud will be opened.
WINS FAVOR OF SUFFRAGETTES.
The Sterling Piano Co., Brooklyn, has secured
a strong hold on the favor of the suffragettes of
that borough through giving the use of its win-
dows to the suffragettes for the purpose of giving
"voiceless" speeches by means of placards dis-
played in rotation in the windows. Incidentally,
much attention was attracted to the store itself,
where the name of the company was prominently
displayed.
I. I. Handley, of Karlham, la., has arranged to
engage in the music business in Red Oak, la.
Richmond, Va., Jan. 27, 1913.
The Crafts Piano Co., forced by growing busi-
ness to seek larger quarters, has leased for a
period of fifteen years the four-story store build-
ing, No. 205 East Broad street, at a rental which
will aggregate $100,000 for the period. Posses-
sion will be given April 1, at which time the work
of remodeling the building will begin, and as
soon as this is completed the company will
move in.
Among the improvements will be two electric
elevators, passenger and freight, a concert hall, the
installation of a pipe organ, on which recitals will
be given, and rooms fitted up to represent the
various periods of piano manufacture.
In the basement there will be a Japanese gar-
den, a rustic garden, and a representation of a
cabin on a boat. The first floor will be devoted
to the general offices of the company, and the de-
partments for sheet music, musical merchandise
and band instruments.
The recital hall will occupy the second floor and
the new pipe organ will be installed there also.
The third floor will be used for the repair depart-
ment and the salesrooms and the fourth floor
will be devoted to the wholesale department.
This will have been the fifth time in the six
years of its existence that this company has had
to seek larger quarters on account of its growing
business.
FAMOUS ORGANJFOR MUSEUM.
Said That Organ Made for Franz Liszt by the
Clough & Warren Co. Will Be Donated.
(Special to The Review.)
Detroit, Mich.. Jan. 27, 1913.
It is probable that the famous organ manufac-
tured by the Glough & Warren Co. a half century
ago for Franz Liszt to the great composer's order
will become the property of the city of "Detroit
and spend a century or two in the Detroit Museun?
of Art as a curio. The instrument has arrived
here. It was purchased by Herbert A. Smith, of
this city, two years ago at the Liszt centennary
celebration in Weimar, Saxony, and ordered sent
to America. Since its arrival Mr. Smith's friends
and members of civic organizations have been urg-
ing that the proper place for it is in the institute.
Robert Searo Kelso, the well-known piano man
of New York, last week married Miss Josephine
Cowell, of Paterson, N. J. The bridal couple
started at once for a wedding trip through the
South and will make their home in this city.
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NEW PIANO HOUSEMN NASHVILLE.
Formal Opening of Store of Lamb Piano Co.
Held Last Week—To Feature the Bush &
Lane Pianos—Most Attractive Quarters.
(Special to The Review.)
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 27, 1913.
The new store of the Lamb Piano Co., at 407
Church street was formally opened to the public
last week and the event attracted a flattering
amount of attention. The company has on hand a
splendid line of pianos and player-pianos and Vic-
tor talking machines and records. It will make a
special feature of the Bush & Lane line of pianos.
The Lamb Piano Co. was incorporated last
month with capital stock of $10,000, and bears the
distinction of being the only incorporated piano
company with headquarters in Nashville. The
president of the company is C. Ira Lamb, who is
an experienced piano man and was connected with
the Jesse French Piano Co. for ten years. The
vice-president is Thomas H. Warren, a local busi-
ness man of high reputation. Others who make
up the directorate of the company include W. H.
Beach, treasurer of the Bush & Lane Piano Co.,
Holland, Mich.; H. L. Lamb, brother of the presi-
dent, and Dr. J. T. Altman, who will assist the
company in an advisory capacity.
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