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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
JULY 9,
1921
TO FORM TALKING MACHINE UNIT OF MERCHANTS' ASS'N
SOME TRADE NOTES FROM CANADA
President M. V. DeForeest Appoints Committee of Eleven Members to Formulate Plans for Or-
ganizing Talking Machine Dealers' Branch of the National Association of Music Merchants
A Number of New Managers and Representa-
tives Appointed by Piano Houses and Others
"J. W. Boothe, Barker Bros., Los Angeles, Cal.;
Music Trades Association of Southern California.
"Irwin Kurtz, 135 Broadway, New York City.
"E. G. Brown, 709 Broadway, Bayonne, N. J.;
Talking Machine Men, Inc.
"Julius A. J. Friedrich, Friedrich Music Co.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.; Grand Rapids Music Deal-
ers' Association.
"T. Amesbury Goold, Goold Bros., 1367 Main
street, Buffalo, N. Y.; Talking Machine Dealers'
Association of Buffalo.
"R. H. Zinke, Zinke Music Co., 425 Milwaukee
street, Milwaukee, Wis.; Milwaukee Association
of Music Industries.
"Jtio. F. Ditzell, Famous & Barr, St. Louis,
Mo.; St. Lpuis Music Merchants' Association.
"Chas. L. Hamilton, S. Hamilton Co., 815 Lib-
erty avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Talking Machine
Dealers' Association of Pittsburgh."
TORONTO, ONT., July 2.—Walter Kent has been
appointed superintendent of the Mozart Piano
Co.'s factory at Toronto, which plant is controlled
by the National Piano Co., Ltd. Mr. Kent has
been an active member of the Mozart organization
from the inception of the firm.
C. R. Vickery, formerly of the Toronto office
of Leo Feist, Ltd., has been appointed to repre-
sent the firm in the Maritime Provinces, with
headquarters in Halifax, N. S.
Visitors to the museum at Niagara-on-the-Lake
have their attention drawn to an old piano, the
former property of General Simcoe, one-time
governor-general of Canada.
George C. Heintzman, president of Heintzman
& Co., Ltd., Toronto, has been elected to the
board of the Imperial Bank of Canada, to succeed
the late Sir William Gage. Mr. Heintzman has
been a shareholder of the bank for many years.
George Suckling has associated himself with
Fletcher Bros., Victoria, B. C, as special repre-
sentative, and is specializing in Steinway piano
and Duo-Art sales.
By reason of his wide experience in publicity
work, Milton W. Bergey, who has been given
charge of the advertising department of the Wil-
liams Piano Co., Ltd., Oshawa, will be well
equipped to look after his new work. Working
in conjunction with Harry Bull, general manager
of the company, this department no doubt will be
of increased value to both the dealer and the
Williams company in general.
Mason & Risch, Ltd., have added to their
number of branches by opening a store in Chat-
ham, Ont. The store is located on Fourth avenue,
and is under the management of Truman Dillon, a
former Chatham boy, but who for the past four
years has been on the staff of the London branch.
The new Chatham store is to be conducted as a
sub-agency of the London business in the same
way as the St. Thomas branch is operated.
James Deyman, local salesman and district
agent of the Dominion Organ & Piano Co., Ltd.,
Bowmanville, died at Bowmanville Hospital re-
cently following a very critical operation. The
funeral was attended by a large concourse of citi-
zens and carried out with full Masonic honors.
M. V. DeForeest, president of the National
Association of Music Merchants, has just an-
nounced the .appointment of a committee of
eleven members to consider and report on ways
and means for bringing together the retail talking
machine dealers of the country as a separate unit
of the Music Merchants' Association. The ap-
pointment of such a committee was decided upon
at the convention of the Merchants' Association
in Chicago in May, but suggested appointments
for the most part were of men who were already
active members of the organization.
In presenting the names of the committee
which he has appointed to work for the bringing
together of the talking machine trade, President
DeForeest says in a general letter:
"Our recent letter to local associations re-
questing nominations of members of a talking
machine committee did not bring the character of
response I had hoped for.
"Instead of representatives whose interests are
principally in the talking machine field, we have a
majority of names of men who have always been
active members in our general association work.
"Under the circumstances, I think it would be
unwise to proceed as we originally planned and
have a committee elected from and by the list of
nominees submitted from the various local asso-
ciations. However, I do think we should follow
this matter up carefully and to this end I have
appointed a special committee, as far as possible
consisting of members of our Association, who
themselves are directly interested to an important
degree in selling talking machines.
"The duties of this committee will be to report
to the executive board as soon as possible recom-
mendations concerning added activities of our
Association, or similar activities to be requested
of the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce,
which will be of particular interest to our mem-
bers in connection with the phonograph end of
their business.
"I have asked the following to serve on this
special committee:
"R. G. Brice, Parker-Gardner Co., Charlotte,
N. C.; Southern Victor Dealers' Association.
"Jos. Friedman, 170 Rivington street, New York
City; United Phonograph Dealers' Association,
Inc.
"Grant Smith, Euclid Music Co., Cleveland, O.;
Talking Machine Dealers of Northern Ohio.
FIFTY YEARS IN STEINWAY SERVICE
Joseph Heissner Has Been Employed in the
Steinway Factory for a Full Half Century—
Event Celebrated in Appropriate Manner
Fifty years, a half century of constant service in
the factory of Steinway & Sons, New York, is the
record held by Joseph Heissner, the occasion of
his fiftieth business anniversary last week being
celebrated in fitting fashion by executives of
Steinway & Sons and his associates in the factory.
Mr. Heinssner; who entered the Steinway service
when in his teens, is still one of the active work-
ers in the Steinway organization and is to be
found at his bench every working day, being a
member of the staff of the bellying department.
As a mark of the appreciation of the House of
Steinway & Sons of his fifty years of loyal serv-
ice, Mr. Heissner was presented with a hand-
some gift in the name of Theodore Cassabeer,
manager of the Steinway factories. Mr. Cassa-
beer was unable to be present at the ceremony, so
the presentation was made by S. C. Rathgeber,
factory superintendent. Mr. Heissner's asso-
ciates in the factory also had some kind words and
a number of appropriate gifts for the occasion.
It is to be stated here that several other mem-
bers of the Steinway factory force are fast ap-
proaching their fiftieth year of service and, there-
fore, other celebrations will shortly be in order.
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MUSIC DEALER LANDS TRAIN ROBBER
W. A. Pratt, of Kelso, Wash., Captures Armed
Escaped Convict at Point of Empty Gun
PORTLAND, ORE., July 2.—Last week two des-
perate train robbers, Ray Gardner and his pal,
Norris Pyron, were being taken to McNeil's
Island Penitentiary handcuffed, when they held
up the officers, handcuffed them and escaped.
Posses were scouring the country for them, but
it was W. A. Pratt, a music dealer of Kelso,
Wash., who, single-handed and with an empty
gun, captured Pyron and covered himself with
glory.
Pratt was beating up the brush and noticed
a pije of grass move. "Come out of there and
come with your hands up," ordered Pratt. "I'm
not Gardner," came the reply. "You might not
be Gardner, but you look so much like your
partner that I am not going to take any chances,"
said Pratt. "I'm your man," replied Pyron, as
he crawled out with his hands over his head.
He had a 38-caliber revolver, fully loaded, which
had been taken from the officers when he escaped.
The one item that the convict overlooked was
that the gun in the hands of Pratt was empty.
B. H. ANDERSON OPENS SHOP
B. H. Anderson, of Fond du Lac, Wis., has
moved from his temporary quarters at the
Kramer furniture store to 113 South Main street,
where he will open a modern music establish-
ment. The new store has been remodeled and
every effort has been made to care for the com-
fort of the patrons.