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ASSOCIATION LISTS CHAIN OF "PIANO MEN'S HOTELS"
PIANO FACTORYJN NEW ZEALAND
Alexander S. Shoninger, of the National Piano Travelers' Association, Secures Co-Operation
of Hotels Throughout the Country to Offer Special Service to Piano Travelers
New Concern Opens Factory Which Will Be
Enlarged if Conditions Warrant
ular form, then ask the clerk for the piano
register; in the latter book you can put your
room number, hotel you are stopping at and
any information which you might want to give
about yourself. By doing this you can always
get in touch with all fellow travelers while
in town. Not alone is this good for you, but
you can tell the manufacturers and dealers
Alexander S. Shoninger, secretary of the Na-
tional Piano Travelers' Association, announced
this week the perfection of a plan which is
well worth the close attention of every mem-
ber of the piano travelers' fraternity, and which
is a most important move in promoting a closer
spirit of sociability and good-fellowship among
the "knights of the grip."
Mr. Shoninger has made definite plans with
a number of the leading hotels throughout the
country, whereby these hotels will be known
as the "piano men's hotels."
Plans to this
end were started soon after Mr. Shoninger as-
sumed office, and after considerable interchange
of correspondence a list of seventeen hotels
was completed, all of which have evinced their
willingness and desire to co-operate with the
members of the piano travelers' association.
This list of hotels as it stands to date is
as follows: Hotel Astor, New York, N. Y.;
Hotel William Penn, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Hotel St.
Paul, St. Paul, Minn.; Hotel Benson, Portland,
Ore.; Hotel St. Francis, San Francisco, Cal.;
Hotel Alexandria, Los Angeles, Cal.; Brown
Palace, Denver, Colo.; Hotel
Fontenelle,
Omaha, Neb.; Hotel Claypool, Indianapolis.
Ind.; Hotel Lafayette, Buffalo, N. Y.; Hotel
Statler, Detroit, Mich.; Hotel Radison, Minne-
apolis, Minn.; Congress Hotel, Chicago, 111.;
Hotel Jefferson, St. Louis, Mo.; Grunewald Ho-
tel, New Orleans, La.; Hotel Muehlebach, Kan-
sas City, Mo.; Hotel Statler, Cleveland, O.
Other names will be added to this list of hotels
if the idea works out successfully.
The purposes and aims of this plan are well
set forth in a letter which Mr. Shoninger has
just sent out to every member of the National
Piano Travelers' Association, a part of which
reads as follows:
"How would you like it, if you could know
what other travelers were in town the same
time you were—their hotel and room number?
"How would you like it, if you were sick and
every traveler that came to town during your
illness, would know it and would come to see
you?
"How would you like it, if you registered
late at night, and could not get accommoda-
tions, but the clerk told you that another piano
man was there, and he probably would let a
cot be placed in his room for you?
"Well, I have arranged with the hotels listed
on the bottom of this letter [the list given
above] to furnish an extra register for piano
men.
In other words, you register in reg-
Alexander S. Shoninger
that if they happen to be in such and such a
town, that they can find out who is in town by
looking at this register.
"The hotels listed are going to place a sign
in the lobby to the effect that their hotel is
the headquarters for piano travelers. The ex-
pense is all carried by the hotels, so I urgently
request that you appreciate it and give them
as much patronage as possible—not alone your
room, but entertain your trade with them. In-
troduce yourself to the manager, tell him you
are a piano traveler; tell him if you are pleased
with his service, also if you are not; making
suggestions to his advantage, which means
that you will get better service, and at the same
time putting the National Piano Travelers' As-
sociation on a basis that no other association is
on. If this plan works out successfully, then
I will be pleased to get more hotels lined up."
MANGUM WANT^ PIANO STORE '
NEW STORE IN WEST NEW YORK, N. J.
Oklahoma Town Is Now Without Piano Store,
and Is Anxious to Have One
MANGUM, OKLA., November 6.—The Chamber
of Commerce of this town is endeavoring to
interest a progressive piano dealer in the estab-
lishment of a modern piano store here. The
town is now without a store of this kind, the
store, which formerly was here, having been
moved to Oklahoma City. The Chamber of
Commerce will be pleased to hear from a piano
dealer who is seeking an opportunity to estab-
lish a permanent business.
W. P. H. BACON HONORED
W. P. H. Bacon, president of the Bacon Piano
Co., was signally honored a few days ago, when
he acted as aide in the parade of the Sons of
the Revolution and the Society of Cincinnati
from Fraunce's Tavern, New York, to St.
Paul's Chapel on the occasion of the 250th
anniversary of that historic church.
The firm of Messrs. E. Bishop & Sons, of
Newmarket, Auckland, has opened a piano fac-
tory with a capacity of six pianos a week, and
if the demand warrants it is in a position to
increase this output.
The first instrument manufactured by this
company was used at a concert in the town hall
with the best of results. It was an overstrung
iron grand piano with a case of mission design
made of fumed oak. The action is the only part
of these pianos that is imported and comes from
Canada. Mechanics have been secured from
England, and it is proposed to turn out excel-
lent work.
It would seem "that here might be an open-
ing for American manufacturers of piano parts
and even of knockdown piano cases that might
be put together and finished here.
Action work, keys, and metal frames for mak-
ing pianos, etc., organ pipes, and stop knobs
are classified under item No. 326 of the New
Zealand tariff and entered free of duty from all
countries, with the exception of the war tax
of 1 per cent., which is collected on all im-
ports.
APPOINTED STATE COMMISSIONER
E. Paul Hamilton to Represent National Asso-
ciation of Piano Merchants in New York
Veith & Dorn Open New Piano and Phono-
graph Store in That Town—Handle Other
Lines—Have Had Long Experience
Veith & Dorn are a new firm of piano and
talking machine dealers in West New York,
N. J., having recently opened an elaborate store
at 630 Bergenline avenue, that town. In addi-
tion to pianos and player-pianos the new con-
cern also handles the Edison phonographs, the
Bruno line of small goods, as well as the music
rolls manufactured by the Standard Music Roll
Co., and Bennett & White, Inc. John Dorn
was connected with the Lauter Co., of Newark,
for about eight years, and Mr. Veith has also
had extensive experience.
MUSICAL IMPORTS TO JAMAICA
During the year 1914 the imports of pianos
and other musical instruments into Jamaica,
B. W. I., amounted to $32,591, the imports for
1915 dropping to $24,132.
WINTER & CO.
220 SOUTHERN BOULEVARD, NEW YORK
Manufacturers of
K. Paul Hamilton, manager of the piano de-
partment of Frederick Loeser & Co., Brooklyn,
and who has long been very active in con-
nection with the work of the National Associa-
tion of Piano Merchants, has been appointed
State Commissioner for New York for the as-
sociation by President Turner. In his new of-
ficial capacity Mr. Hamilton declares his great
interest in the proposed retail piano merchants'
association in New York.
KNABE PIANOS FOR THE CITY CLUB
PHILADELPHIA, PA., November 6.—The piano de-
partment of the local John Wanamaker store
delivered this week to the new City Club two
Knabe pianos, a style " B " Knabe grand and a
Knabe upright.
This sale was particularly
gratifying to the Wanamaker piano warerooms
in view of the fact that competition had been
unusually keen, including practically all of the
local piano houses. The new City Club build-
ing is a handsome structure, equipped through-
out with the finest furnishings.
SPARKS OPENSNEW STORE
LIMA, O., November 6.—A. M. Sparks has
opened a piano store in the new Cadillac Build-
ing at 126 West North street, which he will con-
duct as one of a chain of similar stores which
he has in a number of other cities. A full line
of high-grade pianos and players will be car-
ried.
DEATH OF U. C. GREENWOOD
YOUNGSTOWN, O., November 6.—Upson C. Green-
wood, president of the Greenwood Piano Co.,
died at his home here last week after a five-
days' illness with penumonia. He had been in
the piano business in this city for twenty-three
years, and is survived by a widow, two sons and
two daughters.
TRENTON MUSIC^SHOP OPENS
The Music Shop, 240 East State street, Tren-
ton, N. J., was recently opened with a special
series of concerts, which were rendered in the
afternoon.
Miss Katherine Hoffman is the
proprietor of the store.
Superior Pianos
and Player Pianos