March 18, 1920.
EARL HOLLAND PROMOTED
BY 0 R S MUSIC COMPANY
He Is Now Western Sales Manager of the Company
With Office at Chicago.
Earl H. Holland has been appointed western sales
manager of the Q R S Music Co.
Another member of this, great organization's "big
timber" has won his spurs.
The appointment of Earl H. Holland as western
sales manager of the Q R S Music Co., with head-
quarters at the main office at Chicago, is in line with
PRESTO
piano made during the Music Week. This topic
was carried further by Mark P. Campbell, presi-
dent of the Brambach Piano Company. E. H.
Vogel, of the Kohler Industries Advertising De-
partment, gave a short talk on the advertising
merit of the various exhibits of the Kohler In-
dustries.
This new method of conducting the Progress
Meeting was very evidently an immense success
inasmuch as it created a discussion from which
every member present could derive some benefit.
It is certain that future meetings of this club will
have a new interest due to this "open forum"
method of conducting the meeting. The new of-
ficers elected at the January meeting were in-
stalled and have apparently started on an active
successful administration.
PRICE & TEEPLE CO. GET
A VERY VALUABLE PATENT
A Reproducing Device That Is Both Small and
Compact.
The Price & Teeple Piano Company, of Chicago,
announced this week that the U. S. Patent Office has
just granted it a very important patent on an auto-
matic expression device for reproducing player-
pianos.
This reproducing device is entirely unlike any of
the other reproducing devices in use, and the me-
chanics are so simple that the device is surprisingly
small and compact.
From a musical standpoint it is all that could be
desired, as it permits the flowing intensity of
crescendo and diminuendo as well as the sharp
attack of melody work.
The patent issued is basic, so the Price & Teeple
Piano Company is naturally very much pleased.
EARL, H. HOLLAND.
this progressive institution's policies of advancing
the men who win their way up the ladder.
Earl Holland has a host of friends throughout the
United States, who will be pleased to get this evi-
dence of his success.
As an organizer of roll departments and developer
of roll salesmen Mr. Holland has shown wonderful
results, and his appointment is hailed with delight
by all the travelers who will be under his direction.
Earl, as all his friends know and call him, will
make periodical trips through the territory Chicago
serves, and will he of great assistance to a host of
Q R S dealers as well.
PROGRESS CLUB SPEAKERS
REVIEW MUSIC WEEK EVENTS
Delightful Meeting of Kohler Industries Organiza-
tion Results from New Rule.
CANADIAN COMMISSIONERS
REJECT AMERICAN PLAN
Railroad Heads of Dominion Decide Against Pro-
posal to Charge "Average Demurrage."
An important decision of the Canadian board of
railway commissioners, rejecting the proposal to
apply in Canada the United States system of "av-
erage demurrage'' on cars, was received recently
by the transportation bureau of the Montreal Board
of Trade. The demurrage rules now in force in
Canada allow the consignee 48 hours after the car
has been placed to empty it. Thereafter penalties
are imposed, increasing by $1 for each day's delay.
The Canadian rule made no provision for averages,
as had been done in the United States.
By the United States plan a credit of a day is
allowed for each car released within the first 24
hours of free time, and a debit of a day charged for
each 24 hours the car is detained beyond the first
48 hours of free time. At the end of the month,
if credits equal or exceed debits, no demurrage
charge is made; if not, demurrage is charged only
on the difference. The reasons assigned for the
rejection of this plan are that the average system
is discriminatory in principle and that proof is lack-
ing that it will work out to increase car supply
available at any given time.
The Progress Club whose membership is com-
posed of the employees of the various companies
of the Kohler Industries, held a very successful
meeting on Alonday, March 8,. Reports by the
various chairmen of both the suggestion and ef-
ficiency committees of the various factories were
made in which were presented several new schemes
to increase the output of the Kohler Industries.
Mr. Holmes, chairman of the Efficiency and Safety
Committees, spoke of the need of further co-
AGAINST LIMITING EXPORTS.
operation and invited the chairmen of the various
The
Vogtlandische Anzeiger objects to the steps
factory committees to get together weekly with
taken to limit the exportation of German musical
this object in mind.
instruments, the principal market for which is not
President William P. Bacon announced that the
at home, but abroad. It argues that the musical
Membership Committee after studying the by-laws instrument, as an article of export, being of rela-
of the organization had decided that foremen of
tively cheap raw material, but of a high price as a
the various factories were elegible for membership.
finished article, is just the class of thing to increase
He recommended the chairmen of the Membership the value of the mark. It appears that it is planned
Committee of the different plants to submit names
to establish a central bureau for the music indus-
of those in their factory who would become elegible
try, to sanction exports, which will also control
for membership.
prices according to which the export duty should
The Progress Club at this meeting changed their
be gauged. The Obervogtl Anzeiger advises cau-
program materially. In the place of an address,
tion in fixing prices, so that French makers may
generally made by an outside speaker it was ar- not successfully compete and rob the local musical
ranged that various men in the Kohler Industries industry of work.
were to voice their opinions of the recent music
show convention. H. E. Lawrence of the Standard
Pneumatic Action Co. gave an interesting talk after
SHIPMENTS TO CANADA.
presenting to the members of the club a special
Owing to the high rate of exchange between the
exhibition of the moving picture "Give A Thought United States and Canada, an order has been issued
to Music" which was shown in the Standard booth by the Canadian railways, effective March 1, 1920,
during Music Week. Mr. Harn of Kohler and
whereby railway agents are ordered to refuse to
Campbell, Inc., made some interesting remarks re- accept prepayment of the shipping charges on ship-
garding the comparative finishes of the various ments from Canada to the United States except in
pianos. Mr. Bartel gave his opinion of the cases the case of certain kinds of goods on which prepa}'-
seen at the show.> Mr. Allen of the Milton factory ment is required by the tariff rules. This means that
gave an interesting talk from the sales view point. shipping charges will be collected at the point of
Mr. Frey of the Brambach Piano Company made destination, and in United States funds, instead of in
an interesting address on the impression the grand Canada and in Canadian funds.
11
MAIL CONGESTION
DUE TO BIG STRIKE
Presto Suffers in Its Deliveries With Other
Publications—Graphic Description of De-
layed Mails Piled Up at Chicago
Postoffice and Depots.
On the editorial page of this issue of Presto
appears an editorial referring to the cause of delays
by mail in the delivery of this publication. The
Chicago Tribune of last Friday, commenting on the
mail congestion, said:
"The Chicago postoffice is said to be forty-eight
hours behind in the dispatching of all mail, with the
exception of first class, due to the crowded con-
dition of the building and the strike of the express
handlers and clerks for an increase in wages of $35
per month. Tons upon tons of parcels usually
shipped by express, have swamped the downtown
and Canal postoffices.
"Last night, a pile of mail 200 feet long, twenty
feet high, and twenty feet deep was stacked on the
Washington street sidewalk, between Canal and
Clinton streets, outside the postoffice, which is un-
der the Northwestern railroad terminal.. In the
terminal of a cab company, one-half block north
on Canal street, another pile about 400 feet long
was stacked.
Clerks Are Swamped.
"Near both stacks were wagons late last night
waiting to be unloaded. Some were unable to leave
until early this morning, due to the shortage of
postoffice clerks. Inside, perhaps less than 200 men
labored to make headway. Some of the clerks were
regular appointees and paid around 45 cents an hour,
while the others were extra men, drawing 60 cents
per hour.
'' ' Idon't believe we ever will catch up with this
mail,' said one of the extra men, 'and it is all caused
by the express strike. Why, there is nobody here
to handle such amount and they can hardly get any-
body to do this hard work.'
"Similar scenes were to be witnessed around the
main postoffice at Dearborn and Adams streets,
where a depleted force endeavored to handle the
various classes of mail. Vast piles of mail lay in the
street under a pouring rain. Postofiice officials
declined to comment.
Teamsters Get Double Time.
"The teamsters were the most satisfied of any-
body. They are being paid double time for every
hour they sit on their wagons and wait their turn
to be unloaded. One went to a burlesque show on
Madison street, stayed three hours, and remarked
what a snap h'e had—'no work, six hours' pay, and
a chance to see the show.'
"The mail order firms of Montgomery Ward and
Sears-Roebuck were handicapped by the strike.
Clerks were sent to the plants to handle the in-
creased mail shipments, which were taken direct to
the postoffice in their own wagons.
Strike Still On.
"Nothing startling developed yesterday in the
strike, which started when 2,000 or more express
handlers and clerks refused to return to their work
last Saturday. Robert E. Shepherd, Milo O. Brown,
and other leaders of the strikers contend that they
have the American Railway Express company
beaten. They say it is unable to secure men to fill
vacancies. Company officials say that the men are
coming back and that it is only a matter of a few
days when the strike will be over. The embargo is
still on.
"John R. Abbott, vice president of the Brother-
hood of Railway Clerks, has endeavored to induce
the strikers to return to work."
ENCOURAGING INDUSTRIES.
The British Government has placed a fund of £ 1 , -
000,000 at the disposal of its Research Department to
enable it to encourage industries to undertake re-
search. The Advisory Council for Scientific and In-
dustrial Research has tbcrefore recommended, after
consultation with manufacturers and others, that the
new fund should be expended on a co-operative basis
in the form of liberal contributions by the depart-
ment toward the income raised by voluntary associa-
tions of manufacturers established for the purpose
of research.
PROUD OF ITS LINE.
The Martin Piano Co., Springfield, Mo., is proud
of its piano line. This week the firm announces:
"In Martin's Piano Salons are found the greatest in-
struments the market affords—instruments of na-
tional reputation and recognized worth. Mason &
Hamlin, Behning, Ampico, Chickering, Huntington,
Gulbransen."
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