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OCTOBER 2,
1920
THE
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
PRESIDENT OF OHIO ASSOCIATION
TRADE IN OREGON IS PROSPEROUS
Omer E. Westerfield a Member of the Trade
Since 1902—Live Association Worker
Season of Unusually Good Crops Makes Business
Men Rejoice at Prospects for the Year—Geo.
J. Dowling a Visitor—Attlesey With Bush &
Lane Co.—Why Chas. Dimond Is Proud
Omer E. Westerfield, the new president of
the Piano Merchants' Association of Ohio, hails
from Greenville, O., where he conducts his own
store at 60S South Broadway. Mr. Westerfield
entered the business in 1902 ahd has met with
a full measure of success as a result of energetic
Omer E. Westerfield
efforts. He conducts a real music store in that
he handles pianos, talking machines, musical
merchandise and various other musical acces-
sories. The piano and player line includes the
Kohler & Campbell, Hazelton Bros, and Lud-
wig pianos, the Autopiano and other players.
He handles the C. G. Conn band instruments
and Lyon & Healy violins, etc. The talking
machine line includes the Victor and the Edison.
Mr. Westerfield has long been an active mem-
ber of both the National and State Associations.
He set a new record in 1919 as chairman of
the Membership Committee, and last year held
the office of vice-president. His election to the
presidency is a tribute to earnest effort.
The Thomas Music Stores, Inc., 101 North
Pearl street, Albany, N. Y., has just let a contract
for the entire remodeling of the second floor of
the company's store, and the making of several
other important improvements in the premises.
PORTLAND, ORE., September 25.—Indications point
to an exceedingly prosperous business year, said
George Hughes, assistant general manager of
the Wiley B. Allen Co. Mr. Hughes and
Laurence Lindsay, auditor'of the San Francisco
house, are visiting Portland this week. Mr.
Hughes says conditions were never better for a
season of unparalleled prosperity on the coast.
Crops are big and fruit is being gathered by
women, who are paid from $6 to $7 a day. The
grape crop is enormous and there is no difficulty
in securing help to gather the fruit, as the wages
paid are big and the work not difficult. Some
parts of the country may not experience the pros-
perity that we of the Coast have every reason to
expect, but conditions out here are so excellent
that there will be no excuse for poor business.
'"We get our wealth from the earth," said Mr
Hughes, "and the earth is giving the best she
has to us this year."
"We could sell quite a number of Mason &
Hamlin grands this fall if we could get them,"
said Amie Dugas, of the Wiley B. Allen Co. "1
could have sold two this week," said Mr. Dugas.
He sold a Mason & Hamlin upright to C. K.
Benton, of Good River. Business is excellent at
this high-class store, and while the supply of
Mason & Hamlin grands is low, there are other
splendid instruments on the floors of these
handsome display rooms.
George J. Dowling, president of the Cable
Company of Chicago, is visiting Portland this
week. Mr. Dowling called at the store of Wiley
B. Allen Co., of which Frank M. Case is man-
ager. The Cable Company's lines, which are car-
ried by the Wiley B. Allen Co., are among the
most popular instruments on the Coast.
The sales force of the Bush & Lane Piano Co.
has been increased by the addition of E. A. Attle-
sey to its number. Mr. Attlesey comes to Port-
land from the Girard Piano Co. of Oakland, Cal.
Charles Edwin Dimond, Jr., is a new arrival,
who has been warmly welcomed by his proud
father, Charles Dimond, of the G. F. Johnson
Piano Co. The little fellow is a handsome sturdy
youngster. Mr. Dimond is in charge of the small
goods department of the store.
NEW VOCALION RECORD PRESSING PLANT DEDICATED
Elaborate Concert and Dinner Attended by Vocalion Record Artists Marks the Formal Opening
of Big Addition to the Vocalion Record Pressing Factory in Meriden, Conn., This Week
MERIDEN, CONN., September 29.—An important
event in the industrial affairs of Meriden was
celebrated to-night with the formal dedication
of the large new addition to the Vocalion record
pressing plant in this city. The new addition,
which will soon be in full operation, will permit
of the material expansion of the Vocalion record
output, a fact that will be much appreciated by
Vocalion distributors and dealers who have
found the demand growing faster than the
supply.
The dedication ceremonies to'&k the form of
a concert followed by a dinner dance$with Fred
Wood, manager of the local Aeolian To. factory,
as host. The concert was held in the new fac-
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tory building, which was suitably decorated, and
the program was in direct charge of Dino Bal-
dini, head of the artist department and the
recording laboratories. The artists were: May
Peterson, prima donna soprano of the Metro-
politan Opera Co., and exclusive Vocalion artist;
Charles Hart, tenor; Elliott Shaw, baritone;
Wilfred Glenn, basso, and Oscar S. Adler, vio-
linist, with Edward Falck, musical director of
the recording laboratories, at the piano.
The program was a lengthy and elaborate one,
with several artists singing or playing selec-
tions which they had already recorded for the
Vocalion. C. R. Johnstone, head recorder of
the New Vork laboratories, appeared in the role
of official laboratory representative. Several
other officials of the Aeolian Co. and of the
Vocalion department were on hand.
The new addition to the record plant is to be
accepted as concrete evidence of the progress
that is being made by the Vocalion record. The
present pressing plant has been working at full
pressure in an effort to keep in sight of orders
at least, but the increased facilities will permit
of a welcome expansion in the matter of pro-
duction.
With vacations and conventions out of the
way the trade is now settling down to a formid-
able campaign for securing business.
BUSINESS FOUNDED IN
EIGHTEEN r i m - s i x
For Over
60 Years
DECKER
U
EST. 1856
S. SON
Pianos and
Player-Pianos
have been successfully
handled by representa-
tive dealers throughout
the country.
Today, as always, they
represent that superior
type of American man-
ufacture w h i c h has
made American prod-
ucts world famous.
Always manufactured
by a Decker, they em-
body those individual
features which are found
v only in i n s t r u m e n t s
p r o d u c e d in accord-
ance with old school
ideals.
DECKER & SON, INC
697-701 East 135th Street
NEW YORK