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H. w. STEVENS HONORED
BY NEW ENGLAND ASSN.
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January 22, 1920.
MUSIC STORE COMPLETE WITHOUT IT
Retail Manager of Boston Wareroom of Vose
& Sons Elected as First President of
Enlarged Organization.
The New England Music Trade Association,
known for the past twenty-eight years as the Bos-
ton Music Trade Association, held the annual meet-
ing and election of officers at the Hotel Thorndike,
Boston, on Jan. 10. Stanwood Miller, the retiring
president, presided.
The following officers were elected for 1920:
President, Harry W. Stevens; first vice-president,
Herman P. Baker; second vice-president, A. J. Mei-
klejohn, Providence, R. I.; secretary-treasurer, Wil-
liam F. Merrill; executive council, J. Frank Beal,
Brockton, Mass.; William L. Nutting, Nassau, N.
H.; Fred A. Koschke, Springfield, Mass.; Lyman K.
Harvey, Pessumsic, Vt.; E. S. Payton, George R.
Mance, C. R. Putnam and D. D. Luxton, all of Bos-
ton.
Some interesting problems were discussed at the
business session preceding the election. George R.
Fisher presented the committee's report on the
tuning question, but a decision was adjourned until
a future meeting. The committee report on "Un-
fair Advertising" was also presented and its terms
discussed.
Other questions considered were D. D. Luxton's
report on the progress of the merger of the Maine
and Connecticut association into the New England
Music Trade Association, and that of "Daylight Sav-
ing," brought up Mr. Payson.
Harry W. Stevens, the new president, is widely
known in the trade of New England. For the past
thirty years he has been connected with the Vose
& Sons Piano Co., Boston, with which company he
started in as a boy in the Vose factory, then situ-
ated at Washington and Waltham streets, where the
A. M. McPhail Piano Co.'s factory stands today. It
may be truly said of him that he knows the piano
from the pedals up, and the industry from raw ma-
terial to finished product.
But it was in the retail selling of the Vose Prod-
ucts in Boston that Mr. Stevens found his proper
metier. As a retail salesman first in the old Vose
& Sons warehouse at 170 Tremont street, he may
be said to have discovered himself. His successes
from the first were amazing and continued until
finally rewarded by an appointment as retail sales
manager of the warerooms at 174 Tremont street,
fourteen years ago.
NEW STORE IN NEW JERSEY
CITY FOR MATHUSHEK PIANO CO.
In Excellent Location in New Brunswick, Company
Is Preparing Fine Warerooms.
The new store of the Mathushek Piano Co., New
Brunswick, N. J., is rapidly nearing completion and
will be occupied by them in the last of this month.
Many delays in preparing the store have occasioned
a postponement of the date of opening.
No expense has been spared in making the new
store of the Mathushek Piano Co. the finest of its
kind not only in the New Jersey city, but in the
entire state. Every facility and convenience has
been arranged for the tremendous following this
store has built up in the years in business there.
The new store will, when finished, be a decided as-
set not only to that part of George street, where it
is located, but to the whole city.
BUSH & QERTS CLUB
CELEBRATES WITH DINNER
January Meeting of Dallas Live Ones Includes
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Celebration.
On January 5, the postponed December meeting
of the Bush & Gerts Progressive Club, Dallas, Tex.,
was held. A full attendance marked the occasion,
which was one of rejoicing of the twenty-fifth—or
quarter of a century—anniversary of the Bush &
Gerts entry into Texas. The year 1919 produced the
largest volume of business and the most profitable
business of any year in the history of the company.
All employes participated not only in the knowl-
edge and satisfaction of this wonderful record, but
shared in the profits, in the shape of a bonus on an-
nual earnings. Even the employes who had been
with the house only a few weeks received a bonus.
The event proved a love feast, which was proven
by the fact that eight marriages of club members
were recorded. B. W. Gratigny, vice-president and
general manager, spoke on "Service, Courtesy and
Success." Mr. Goodpaster gave many reminiscences,
anecdotes and statistics. Mr. Williams was the
"roastmaster" of the occasion. George Snyder, R.
The new membership emblem of the National
Association of Music Merchants will be ready for
distribution in a few days, from the office of Sec-
retary C. L. Dennis, Milwaukee, Wis. All active
members are entitled to the emblem upon pay-
ment of their dues for 1920. It is intended to re-
place the old form of membership certificate issued
by the Association, and it provides annual evidence
of the fact that the member is paying his dues and
maintaining his support of the organized work for
the Advancement of Music. The emblem is beau-
tifully designed and reproduced in four colors. It
is a 6-inch celluloid disk, with a cord hanger for
wall display, and a folding easel so that it may be
placed upon a desk if desired.
The National Association of Music Merchants
changed its fiscal date to Jan. 1st, during the June
convention in Chicago, so that its fiscal year now
corresponds with the calendar year. This became
necessary through the change of convention time, in
order to carry out the established practice of billing
for membership dues just prior to the National
Convention.
B. Wilson and Phil Aspinwall spoke. Miss Laura
Ballou imparted the feminine touch by her excellent
address on the subject of "The Real Benefit of
Progressive Organization." Her remarks were vig-
orously applauded and followed by short talks from
Miss Bess Touchstone, Miss Ethel Gibson, Miss Te-
rah Pretty, Mrs. Priddy and other ladies in the vari-
ous departments.
The final number of the program was on the sub-
ject, "Perspective for 1920," and was handled by
W. L. Bush, president of the company.
NEW MUSIC STORES
SHOW TRADE PROGRESS
BLIND PIANO DEALER
ACHIEVES SUCCESS IN STORE
With the Fine Line of the Weaver Piano Co., as
the Means, George H. Marshall Wins.
The entire line of pianos and playerpianos of the
Weaver Piano Co., Inc., York, Pa., is found in the
store of Geoege H. Marshall, who is making such a
success of his new venture at 284 Asylum street,
Hartford, Conn. The warerooms are models of ad-
mirable taste in decoration and a splendid setting is
effected for the handsome Weaver, York and Liv-
ingston instruments.
Mr. Marshall has been for nearly twenty years su-
perintendent of the State School for Blind Children
in Hartford and is completely sightless himself. But
that condition is seemingly no bar to his success in
the music business. All his life he says he had a
leaning towards business and at least has achieved
his desires. From the day of opening he has proved
his aptitude for the work.
A FUTURE PIANO MAN.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexis A. Mahan, of Fort Wayne,
Indiana, are rejoicing over the birth of a baby son,
born January 8, 1920. Mr. Mahan is sales manager
of the Packard Piano Company, and during the past
year served as president of the National Piano
Travelers Association. His many friends in the
trade will be happy to hear the good news.
Many Plans for Enlargement and Remodeling
of Piano Warerooms Here and There
Have Pleasant Significance.
Morgan & Beers, Hartford, Conn., recently moved
to new warerooms on Asylum street.
Sedgwick & Casey, Hartford, Conn., have solved
the problem of storing a big stock of benches and
stools by adding space for that purpose in the base-
ment of the store.
A mezzanine floor in the remodeled store of Dyer
Bros., St. Paul, Minn., will be devoted to a display
of Lyon & Healy banjos. By the new arrange-
ments the main floor will contain a number of
booths for demonstration purposes.
The work of remodeling the saleroms of the P.
A. Starck Piano Co., St. Paul, Minn., is now under
way. According to the plans, the main floor is to
be enlarged by the addition of an "L" and more par-
lors for demonstration purposes will be added.
The Vandervoort Auditorium is to be opened by
the Scruggs, Vandervoort & Burney Co., St. Louis,
this month. A series of concerts will give the
proper publicity to the music department of the
company.
Samuel Dalin, West Allis, Wis., a manufacturing
suburb of Milwaukee, plans to build a two-story
business block early in the spring, in which he will
devote the entire second floor to his talking machine
business.
When the improvements in the store of the Hea-
ton Music Co., 168 North High street, Columbus, O.,
are completed the company will have about doubled
its floor space.
Ray H. Weisbrod has opened a music shop in the
Masonic Temple, Richmond, Ind.
W. W. Stevens, the Lebanon, Ind., music dealer,
began his thirty-first year in business on January 1.
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