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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Elaborate Program Prepared for Convention Week
Chicago Piano Men Promise Convention Visitors the Most Enjoyable Gather-
ing Ever Held—Manufacturers, Merchants, Travelers and Music Roll Makers
Will Convene—Details of the Music Show, Golf Tournament and Banquet
Chicago has always proven a most popular
convention center so far as the piano trade has
been concerned, and the indications are that the
attendance, representative of all branches of the
trade, manufacturers, merchants and travelers,
will serve to break some convention records. A
great many dealers have already signified their
intention of attending the sessions, and there is
a general feeling .that in view of present and
impending conditions the members of the trade
have more reason than ever before to gather
together and discuss ways and means tending
towards the betterment of the trade as a whole.
There will be many questions of great impor-
tance brought up at the several conventions,
questions that demand and will receive earnest
attention. Then there will be the National
Music Show at the Coliseum, with its displays
of pianos and talking machines and the dozens
of other displays at the hotels and at the ware-
rooms of dealers. For the person who wants
to see the new things in the piano line, a trip
to Chicago will prove most profitable.
The entertainment program as outlined by
the Chicago piano men is most elaborate in
character and should serve to send the delegates
and their women folk back home with most
pleasing memories of the convention visit. One
01 the entertaining features planned for the
convention visitors by the Chicago men is an
automobile tour of the extensive park and boule-
vard system of the city, luncheon at the South
Shore Country Club and then to Wilson Beach
and other points of interest.
The Piano Club of Chicago in view of the
closing of the permanent clubroom sometime
ago have made arrangements to keep open
house for the visiting piano men in the Pine
Room at the Hotel Stratford, Michigan boule-
vard, corner Jackson boulevard. These head-
quarters will be open the entire week of the
convention from May 19 to 26, and it is planned
always to have some local piano man on hand
to extend a welcome to the convention visitors.
The full convention program as completed
to date is as follows:
In addition to the business sessions proper
there will be held at the Congress Hotel on
Wednesday a round table luncheon for State
Commissioners of the association under the di-
rection of Edmund Gram, first vice-president,
and along the lines that proved so successful
during the executive meetings which were held
in January.
There will also be a president's dinner, ex-
clusively for the past and present presidents
of the National Association of Piano Merchants
and their wives, on Wednesday evening, May
23. This is an innovation which should prove
popular.
P. E. Conroy, chairman of the Better Business
Bureau of the association, will preside at a
luncheon attended by those interested in the
work of the bureau, to be held at the Congress
Hotel at noon on Thursday, May 24.
An interesting feature of the meetings will be
reports regarding various city organizations
which will be made by E. Paul Hamilton, New
Where All Pianodom Will Congregate
York; Benedict M. Grunewald, New Orleans;
Dan J. Nolan, Cleveland; P. E. Conroy, St.
Louis, and F. B. Beinkamp, Cincinnati.
The big social affair of the convention, the
annual banquet of the National Association or
Piano Merchants, will be held in the Gold
Room
of the Congress Hotel on Thursday eve-
The Manufacturers' Convention
ning, May 24, and from the secrecy that sur-
May 18-19
rounds the work of the arrangements commit-
The annual convention of the National Piano tee there should be many interesting features to
Manufacturers' Association will be held at the entertain the diners.
It is announced that the principal speaker
Congress Hotel on Friday and Saturday, May
at
the banquet will be Frank L. Mulholland,
18 and 19.
The executive committee of the association of Toledo, O., and past president of the Inter-
will meet on Friday morning, May 18, and the national Association of Rotary Clubs. Mr. Mul-
first business session will be held at 2 o'clock holland has had wide experience both as an
on the afternoon of the same day, and will con- executive and worker in civic bodies, and should
have some interesting things to say. The sub-
tinue as long as is necessary into Saturday.
The informal dinner of the Manufacturers' ject of his address, as programmed, will be "Be
Association for members of that organization Good for Something."
only, and which is an annual affair, will be held
National Association of Music Roll
on Friday evening, May 18.
Manufacturers—May 23
The nominating committee has already named
Howard B. Morenus, La Porte, Ind., for sec-
The second annual convention of the National
retary; C. C. Conway, New York, for treasurer, Association of Music Roll Manufacturers of
and Marquette A. Healy, Chicago; Mark P. America, will be held at the Congress Hotel,
Campbell, New York; Sidney N. Mayer, New Chicago, on Wednesday, May 23, at 2 o'clock
York; Russell L. Steinert, Boston, and W. B. p. m. One of the most important matters to
Williams, Buffalo, to constitute the membership be considered at the meeting will be the status
committee. The president and vice-presidents of the word roll, which has developed into quite
of the association will be nominated in con- a question recently.
vention.
The Travelers' Convention
The Merchants' Convention
May 23
May 23 and 24
The convention of the National Piano Travel-
The annual convention of the National Asso- ers' Association will be held in the hall of the
ciation of Piano Merchants will be held at the Congress Hotel at 10 a. m. on Wednesday, May
Congress Hotel, Wednesday and Thursday, May 23, when the election of officers and other reg-
23 and 24, and from sections of the program ular buisness will be transacted. Elaborate
already outlined^the sessions will be lively ones. plans have already been made for the dinner
of the Travelers' Association. The tickets will
be $2, and the attendance restricted to actual
members of the association. It is stated that
the banquet will outshine all previous dinners
conducted by the Travelers, which should in-
dicate an unusually enjoyable affair.
Chamber of Commerce Meeting
May 24
The meeting of the Music Industries Chamber
of Commerce, which was formally organized
at the time of the executive committee meetings
in January with Frank W. Teeple as presi-
dent, will be held on Thursday afternoon, May
24, at the Congress Hotel, and it is expected that
several trade organizations that have not yet
joined the Chamber will take favorable action
at that time.
The National Music Show
May 19 to 26
One of the big attractions of the convention
period will be the National Music Show held at
the Coliseum during the entire week, from May
19 to 26 inclusive, and at which many of the
representative concerns of the industry have had
displays of elaborate character. The complete
list of exhibitors is printed in another section
of The Review this week. In addition to those
showing at the Coliseum there will also be a
great many exhibits during convention week
in other sections of the city and under private
direction, a list of which will also be found in
another part of The Review.
The Annual Golf Tournament
May 21 and 22
The • conventions of the manufacturers and
merchants will be separated by the annual
tournament of the Piano Trade Golf Associa-
tion, which will be held at the Glen Oaks Coun-
try Club, Chicago, in Monday and Tuesday,
May 21 and 22. The complete tournament pro-
gram is as follows:
'
Monday Morning—Preliminary Handicap
Medal Play.
Monday Afternoon—First Match Play Round
Handicap; flights of eight.
The particular eight which a member is al-
lotted to is decided by his handicap.
Tuesday Morning—Second Match Play Round
—for different flights of eight; also first match
play round for beaten fours.
Tuesday Afternoon—Final Match Play Round
for flights of eight; also final match play round
for beaten fours; also final medal play handicap.
Championship of the association will be de-
termined this year and hereafter by four rounds
of medal play on scratch basis, no handicaps.
Stymies will be barred in all matches.
All putts must be holed and not be conceded
because of necessity of handing in medal scores
in each round.
All match rounds must be finished and cards
handed to the tournament committee not later
than 1.15 p. in.
Those players not able to be on hand for
Monday morning handicap will still be eligible
for the match round, beginning that afternoon.
No contestant may win over two prizes.
The annual banquet will be held Tuesday
evening at 7 o'clock. There will, also, be held
at the same time the annual meeting and elec-
tion of officers.
Arrangements have been made at the club
house to accommodate a limited number of
members who wish to stay over Sunday and
Monday nights. Arrangements for accommoda-
tions may be made through W. V. Swords, care
Aeolian Co., New York.