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APRIL 10, 1920
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
PRESIDENT HAMILTON APPOINTS COMMITTEES FOR YEAR NEW STORE FOR MILLER PIANO CO.
Secretary Dennis, of the National Association of Music Merchants, Issues List of Prominent
Music Dealers Who Will Serve on Various Committees During the Present Year
committee on suggestions proposed at the re-
cent New York Convention by C. A. Grinnell,
of Detroit.
The following are the new committees
named:
Membership Committee—C. L. Dennis, chair-
man- (ex-officio), 105 West Fortieth street, New
York; W. W. Smith, 801 Jefferson avenue,
Toledo, O., and Milton Weil, 125 West Forty-
second street, New York.
Press Committee—C. J. Roberts, chairman, 315
West Howard street, Baltimore, Mo.; C. L.
Dennis, New York; Roy E. Waite, Chicago,
111., and E. A. Parks, Hannibal, Mo.
Resolutions Committee—M. V. DeForeest,
Sharon, Pa.; Byron Mauzy, 250 Stockton street,
San Francisco, Cal., and Alex. McDonald, 31
West Fifty-seventh street, New York.
Legislative Committee—Ed. H. Droop, 1300
G street, Washington, D. C ; F. J. Heppe, 1117
Chestnut street, Philadelphia; John G. Corley,
213 East Broad street, Richmond, Va ; Wm. L.
Nutting, 4 Temple street, Nashua, N. H., and
F. N. Goosman, 314 Jefferson street, Toledo, O.
President E. Paul Hamilton, of the National
Association of Music Merchants, has made his
appointments of committees for the current year
in the first official announcement sent out
through the office of the secretary, C. L. Dennis,
since it has been established in New York.
This will be followed soon by the announce-
ment of commissioner appointments by the
first vice-president, M. V. DeForeest, of Sharon,
Coatesville Piano House Moves to Location on
Main Business Thoroughfare of City
COATESVILLE, PA., April 5.—On April 1 the Miller
Piano Co., Inc., moved into its new store at
159 Lincoln Highway, one of the main business
streets of the city. The business, which has
grown rapidly, was started five years ago by
Harry E. Miller, and a year ago he took in
O. E. Klinger as partner, the latter having pur-
chased a half interest in the Miller Piano Co.,
as the business was then called. Mr. Klinger
was formerly sales manager for Kohler &
Chase, New York. Previous to that time he
was wholesale representative in Pennsylvania
for the Hallet & Davis piano. The new building
has been entirely remodeled and the interior
finished in old ivory. Booths for the demon-
stration of player rolls and records have been
installed. In addition to pianos a full line of
all kinds of musical instruments and supplies
will be carried.
AUDITORIUM FOR L. A. RUSSELL CO.
Augusta A. B. Chase Dealer Plans Extensive
Improvements in Recently Purchased Building
SPECIAL COMMITTEES
E. Paul Hamilton
Pa. Mr. DeForeest and Mr. Dennis had an
opportunity for conference last week at a meet-
ing of the Cleveland Music Trade Association
and plans were made for early action in State
and city commissioner appointments. As soon
as Mr. Dennis has become fairly established in
the office quarters at 105 West Fortieth street,
New York, it is expected that the work of the
music merchants' organization will progress
rapidly. An important factor in this will be the
exchange of ideas between the various city,
vState and national associations. Vice-president
DeForeest will have charge of the organization
work as chairman of the commissioner organiza-
tions.
President Hamilton plans an intensive cam-
paign for the co-operation of music merchants
throughout the country in the work of the ad-
vancement of music. He was one of the men
responsible for the establishment of the Na-
tional Bureau for the Advancement of Music
and this department of the organization work
has always been of primary interest to him.
As president of the Association of Music Mer-
chants it is his earnest desire to bring about
nation-wide activity in the promotion of music
weeks like that recently held in New York,
music festivals, music memory contests, etc.
He has given careful consideration to the ap-
pointment of his committees in the expectation
that all of them will be active factors in asso-
ciation affairs.
A new committee appointed by President
Hamilton is the official stamp committee, with
ex-President P. F.. Conroy,. of St. Louis, as
chairman. Mr. Conroy was the "Father of the
Stamp Plan." He was in New York last week
and discussed with Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Dennis
and Alfred L. Smith, new general manager of
the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce,
ways and means for- increased efficiency in
promoting the merchants' official stamp in con-
junction with the proposed new stamp of the
National Piano Manufacturers' Association
which will be in operation June 1.
Other committee appointments which will be
made later by President Hamilton are a recep-
tion comm'ttee for the 1921 convention and a
FOR TONE, BEAUTY
AND LASTING
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ACCOMPLISHMENT ,
AUGUSTA, GA., April 5.—The L. A. Russell
Delegates to Chamber of Commerce—F. B. T. Piano Co., which recently purchased from Ty
Hollenberg, 415 Main street, Little Rock, Ark.; Cobb the property at the southeast corner of
Cscar A Field, 1120 Olive street, St. Louis, Mo.; Broad and Mclntosh streets, is planning exten-
John G. Cor.ey, Richmond, Va.; Edmund Gram, sive improvements to the building and will make
4l4 Milwaukee street, Milwaukee, Wis.; John it one of the best music establishments in the
A. Turner, 508 Franklin street, Tampa, Fla.; South. On one of the upper floors will be built a
Jas. F. Bowers, Lyon & Healy, Chicago, 111., large auditorium, where all kinds of musical
and P. E. Conroy, 1100 Olive street, St. Louis, entertainments may be given. The L. A. Rus-
Mo.
sell Piano Co. is the local A. B. Chase repre-
Alternate
Delegates—M.
V. DeForeest, sentative and has made many sales of these
Sharon, Pa.; Chas. S. Norris, 181 Tremont instruments in this section.
street, Boston; J. Edwin Butler, Marion, Ind.;
Parham Werlein, 607 Canal street, New Or-
MUSIC AN^UDJO LABOR
leans, La.; Harry Wunderlich, 1015 Grand ave-
nue, Kansas City, Mo.; F. J. Heppe, Philadel- Has Harmonizing Influence on Workers, Says
phia, and Byron Mauzy, San Francisco.
Charles M. Schwab
Official Stamp Committee—P. E. Conroy, St.
Louis, Mo.; F. B. T. Hollenberg, Little Rock,
Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the board of
Ark.; Oscar A. Field, St. Louis, Mo.; John G. directors of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation,
Corley, Richmond, Va., and Jas. F. Bowers, declared in a recent talk that music can do much
Chicago, 111.
as a harmonizing influence among labor.
Better Business Bureau—Edmund Gram, Mil-
"I believe," said Mr. Schwab, "music always
waukee; P. E. Conroy, St. Louis, Mo.; John A. has an elevating and harmonizing influence
Turner, Tampa, Fla.; E. Paul Jones, 807 West among working people. In all my establish-
Walnut street, Des Moines, la., and Ed. H. ments I encourage bands, choral societies and
Droop, Washington, D. C.
everything of a musical description. I have al-
Bureau for the Advancement of Music—C. A. ways believed that better business and better
Grinnell, 245 Woodward avenue, Detroit, Mich.; work is done by people who have an apprecia-
M. V. DeForeest, Sharon, Pa.; R. O. Foster, 811 tion of the finer things in life, and what is
Nicollet avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.; Lambert finer than good music?"
Groenier, Lancaster, Wis.; J. C. Phelps, 1021
The Bethlehem Steel Corporation has a well-
Elm street, Dallas, Tex.
trained band of 130 pieces. There is an or-
1921 Convention Committee—Jas. F. Bowers, chestral society in Bethlehem and the town also
Chicago; Adam Schneider, 305 South Wabash boasts of the celebrated Bach Choir. Mr.
avenue, Chicago; Matt. J. Kennedy, 532 Repub- Schwab is president of the New York Oratorio
lic Building, Chicago; Walter S, Jenkins, 225 Society, and it is through his generosity that
South Wabash avenue, Chicago; Kenneth W. the Music Festival held at the 71st Regiment
Curtis, 920 North American Building, Chicago. Armory this week under the auspices of the
1921 Banquet Committee—Adam Schneider, society was made possible.
Chicago; Matt. J. Kennedy, Chicago, and Walter
S. Jenkins, Chicago.
FATE OF HIGHBRIDGE UNDECIDED
STOCKHOLDERS TO MEET
A special meeting of the stockholders of the
General Phonograph Corp. will be held on April
15 at the offices of the company, 25 West Forty-
fifth street, New York. The object of the meet-
ing is to consider and vote upon a proposition
whether the number of directors of the com-
pany shall be increased from eleven, the pres-
ent number, to fourteen.
Claud Adams has bought out the interest of
Oscar Capps in the latter's music store in King-
man, Kan.
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The WERNER INDUSTRIES CO. Cii
Piano Men Among Organizations in Favor of
Removing Bridge Spanning Harlem River
The New York Piano Manufacturers' Asso-
ciation and the Piano Club of New York are
among the organizations in favor of the removal
of Highbridge, which spans the Harlem River.
This bridge supports the aqueduct which brings
the water into New York City from the Cats-
kill Reservoir. The War Department at pres-
ent considers the piers of the bridge as ob-
structions to navigation and considerable dis-
cussion has arisen as to what should be done
in the matter.
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