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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
ISSUES FORMAL JWNVENTION NOTICE
ELABORATE PATRIOTIC FLOAT
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TAX PLANNED
National Piano Manufacturers' Association to
Meet at Congress Hotel, Chicago, May 18 and
19—Report of the Nominating Committee
J. W. Jenkins' Sons Co. Take Prominent Part
in Demonstration in Hutchinson, Kan.
Secretary McAdoo's Figures Show $7,000,000 to
Be Raised by Taxes Placed on Musical Instru-
ments, Talking Machines, etc.
Herbert W. Hill, assistant secretary of the
National Piano Manufacturers' Association, has
issued the formal call for the twenty-first annual
convention of the association to be held at the
Congress Hotel, Chicago, on May 18 and 19.
The executive committee of the association
will meet on the morning of Friday, May 18,
and the first business session of the convention
will be held at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the
same day, with any necessary business carried
over to Saturday's sessions. An informal dinner
for members of the association only will be held
on Friday evening, May 18.
Mr. Hill's announcement also included a re-
port of the nominating committee as follows:
For secretary, Howard B. Morenus, La Porte,
Ind.; for treasurer, C. C. Conway, New York;
for membership committee, Marquette A. Healy,
Chicago; Mark P. Campbell, New York; Sidney
N. Mayer, New York; Russell L. Steinert, Bos-
ton; and W. B. Williams, Buffalo, N. Y. The
other officers and committees are nominated in
convention.
At the present time it is planned for the New
York delegation to the manufacturers' conven-
tion to travel on to Chicago in a body, and
two special cars to be attached to the Twentieth
Century Limited over the New York Central
Line on May 17, have already been reserved for
the use of New York delegates.
The Vose & Sons Piano Co., Boston, Mass.,
have been elected to membership in the asso-
ciation.
NEW FIRMJN TOLEDO
HUTCHINSON, KAN., April 16.—One of the fea-
tures of the highly successful patriotic demon-
If the recommendations of Secretary of the
strations and parade held in this city recently Treasury McAdoo, looking to the raising of
was the special float entered by the local branch one-half the cost of the first year of the war or
of the J. W. Jenkins' Sons Co., of which J. J. $1,807,250,000, are adopted by Congress, it ap-
pears that the music trade will be called upon
to stand its full share of the burden, if not a
little more, together with other industries de-
voted to the manufacture of products not classed
as absolute necessities. According to the list
published it is expected that the excise tax on
musical instruments, talking machines, etc., will
yield $7,000,000 per annum, although the per-
centage of taxation and the manner in which it
is to be levied is not stated. There is also
planned a new classification of income taxes
under which the tax will range from 1 per cent,
on incomes of $2,000 to $3,000, to 40 per cent,
on incomes of a million dollars or more. There
are also additional taxes planned for corpora-
tions and partnership and on excess profits of
Patriotic Float of J. W. Jenkins' Sons Co.
Newton is manager. The float, which is illus- such business organizations.
trated herewith, was elaborately decorated with
According to those in close touch with affairs
red, white and blue bunting, and bore a grand the tax on musical instruments, if put into ef-
piano, also covered with bunting, and at which fect, will probably be assessed against the in-
was seated a young lady representing Miss Co- struments at their source, in other words at the
lumbia. Uncle Sam was also present bearing factory and will therefore probably be passed
the national colors, and a war time touch was along to the ultimate consumer through a gen-
given by a young lady dressed as a Red Cross eral increase in wholesale prices.
nurse and a soldier in khaki.
VERBECK CO.JHOLDS RECITAL
Buffalo Music House Holds First of a Series of
.
Public Musicales
N. Y., April 16.—The Verbeck Musical
Whitney, Blaine, Wildermuth Co., Inc., Recent- Sales Co., Inc., successor to the United Musical
Sales Co., started a series of recitals at its store
ly Incorporated in That City
at 431 William street last week, which will be
TOLEDO, O., April 16.—The latest entry into the continued indefinitely. At the opening recital
music trade in this city is the Whitney, Blaine, Harry Walter, of the Standard Music Roll Co.,
Wildermuth Co., Inc., an outgrowth of the for- played some of his own rolls on the Steger
mer Whitney & Blaine concern. Henry C. player-piano, afterwards playing the same num-
Wildermuth, who is now secretary and treasurer bers by hand, thereby demonstrating the fidelity
of the corporation, was formerly the star sales- with which the roll reproduced his personal in-
man with the Whitney & Currier Co., with terpretation of the various numbers. The Steger
which concern D. M. Blaine and Wm. Whitney, player also served to accompany a vocal selec-
the president and vice-president of the newly in- tion played on the Delpheon phonograph, the
corporated firm, were connected at one time. Artempo music roll being used. Songs by R. L.
All three men are able and experienced piano Hollinshead, and violin solos by Harold J. Ver-
dealers, and the new concern has started on what beck, accompanied by Miss Edith Verbeck, com-
already promises to be a most successful ca- pleted the program. A large and enthusiastic
reer. The concern is located at 320 Superior audience attended the recital.
street, and will feature the Chickering, Pease,
Schulz, Price & Teeple and Schumann lines.
BUFFALO,
STREET NAMED AFTER PIANO TUNER
BRAMBACH PATRIOTIC SOUVENIR
Card Sent to Trade Bearing Small Button Hole
Flag With the Slogan "Show Your Colors"
Citizens of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Show Appre-
ciation of Work of F. F. Abercrombie
Frank F. Abercrombie, prominent piano tuner
of
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and one of the officials
The Brambach Piano Co., 639 West Forty-
ninth street, has sent out to the trade a very at- of the American Guild of Piano Tuners, offers
tractive souvenir entitled "Show Your Colors." proof of the fact that good piano tuning may
It is in the form of a card, in the upper half be made a dignified calling in a community if
of which is a small button hole emblem of the the tuner gives proper attention to the matter.
American flag, under which is the text "Show As has been reported before Mr. Abercrombie
your colors—in your heart, of course, and on is a supervisor of the City of Poughkeepsie and
has, incidentally, been so active in improving
your coat as well!"
conditions in his own particular neighborhood
In the lower half of the card there is a re- that the citizens recently named a street after
production of the Brambach baby grand piano him, it being called Abercrombie Place.
with the caption "Brambach baby grand—the
choice of the American people."
ASSOCIATION FOR AUSTRALASIA
This card has created much favorable com-
Plans
are now under way, it is reported, for
ment by all who have received it.
the formation of an organization which will em-
The Edmund Gram Piano House, of Mil- brace all those engaged in the music trade
waukee, Wis., had an exclusive piano exhibit last throughout Australia, Tasmania and New Zea-
week at the cooking school conducted in Kil- land. It is felt that an association is neces-
sary to take care of the war-time situation.
born Hall Auditorium.
WINTER & CO.
220 SOUTHERN BOULEVARD, NEW YORK
Manufacturers of
BRITISH MUSIC TRADES' CONVENTION
Annual Meetings This Year to Be Held in Lon-
don Towards the End of June
The British Music Trades' Association will
hold its annual convention this year in London
towards the end of June. The convention will
occupy two days, and no fixed program has been
arranged. The meetings will be held in Lon-
don instead of at a seaside resort as usual,
owing to the difficulties of travel and other con-
ditions growing out of the war. A suggestion
that the convention be postponed this year met
with opposition, the majority maintaining that
some united effort should be taken to protect
and keep united the interests of the trade.
FAVORS FREIGHT ADVANCE
Merchants' Association, However, Opposes Flat
Rise on All Rates
The Merchants' Association has taken action
in favor of granting the railroads an increase
in freight rates, but is opposed to the flat ad-
vance of 15 per cent, sought. The association
believes that a flat advance covering all rates
would be a serious mistake.
The association will be represented in sup-
port of this position at the hearing which the
Interstate Commerce Commission is expected to
give upon the application made by the railroads.
A. L. MARESHJON WAR BOARD
Cleveland Piano Man Appointed on Important
Committee by the Mayor
CLEVELAND, O., April 17.—A. L. Maresh, head
of the Maresh Piano Co., and secretary of the
Cleveland Music Trades' Association, was yes-
terday appointed a member of the Mayor's City
War Board, which will look after all food con-
servation, military plans and the like in the
Cleveland district.
The sum of $100 has been contributed by the
employes of the Smith, Barnes & Strohber Co.,
North Milwaukee, Wis., to a fund which is being
raised for a memorial to Abraham Lincoln.
Superior Pianos
and Player Pianos