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Issue: 1920 1759

RESTO
April 10, 1920.
NEW COMMITTEES APPOINTED
JESSE FRENCH & SONS
INCREASE CAPITAL
Secretary Dennis Announces Names of Merchants' Association Members
to Serve for Current Year in Various Official Capacities
in National Organization.
Fast Increasing Manufacturing and Retail
Business in Piano and Playerpiano Prod-
ucts in a Large Line Is Recorded.
President E. Paul Hamilton of the National As-
sociation of Music Merchants has made his appoint-
ments 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 City.
This, will be followed soon by the announcement
of commissioner appointments by the first vice-
president, M. V. DeForeest, of Sharon, Pa. Mr.
DeForeest and Mr. Dennis had an opportunity for
conference last week at a meeting of the Cleveland
Music Trade Association and plans were made for
early action on state and city commissioner ap-
pointments. As soon as Mr. Dennis has become
fairly established in the office quarters at 105 West
40th street, New York, it is expected that the work
cf the music merchants' organization will progress
rapidly. An important factor in this will be the
exchange of ideas between the various city, state
and national associations. Vice-President De-
Foreest will have charge of the organization work
as chairman of the commissioner organization.
Plans Big Campaign.
President Hamilton plans an intensive campaign
for the co-operation of music merchants through-
out the country in the work of the advancement of
music. He was one of the men, responsible for the
establishment of the National Bureau for the Ad-
vancement of Music, and this department of the
organization work has always been of primary in-
terest to him. As president of the National Asso-
ciation of Music Merchants this year, it is his ear-
nest 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 appointment of his committees in the expec-
tation that all of them will be active factors in asso-
ciation affairs.
A new committee appointed by President Hamil-
ton is the official Stamp Committee with ex-Presi-
dent Conroy of St. Louis as chairman. Mr. Con-
roy was the "father of the stamp plan." He was in
New York last week and discussed with Mr. Ham-
ilton, Mr. Dennis and Alfred L. Smith, new general
manager of the Music Industries Chamber of Com-
merce, ways and means for increased efficiency in
promoting the Merchants' Official Stamp in con-
junction with the proposed new stamp of the Na-
tional Piano Manufacturers' Association which will
be in operation June 1.
Other committee appointments which will be
made later by President Hamilton are a reception
committee for the 1921 convention and a commit-
tee on suggestions proposed at the recent New
York convention by C. A. Grinnell of Detroit.
The following are executive and advisory boards
and the new committees named:
THE EXECUTIVE.
President, E. Paul Hamilton, New York City.
First vice-president, M. V. DeForeest, Sharon, Pa.
Second vice-president, J. Edwin Butler, Marion,
Ind.
Secretary, C. L. Dennis, New York City.
Treasurer, Carl A. Droop, Washington, D. C.
James F. Bowers, Lyon & Healy, Chicago, 111.
Ed. H. Droop, Washington, D. C.
Parham Werlein, New Orleans, La.
Harry Wunderlich, Kansas City, Mo.
ADVISORY BOARD.
P. E. Conroy, chairman, St. Louis, Mo.; Edmund
Gram, Milwaukee, Wis.; Jno. A. Turner, Tampa,
Fla.; J. G. Corley, Richmond, Va.; P. T. Clay, San
Francisco, Cal.; O. A. Field, St. Louis, Mo.; W. H.
Daniels. Buffalo, N. Y.; R. O. Foster, Minneapolis,
Minn.; L. H. Clement, Toledo, Ohio; E. H. Droop,
Washington, D. C.; C. A. Grinnell, Detroit, Mich.;
Henry Dreher, Cleveland, Ohio; F. B. T. Hollen-
berg, Little Rock, Ark.; Chandler W. Smith, Wol-
laston, Mass.
COMMITTEES.
MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE—C. L. Dennis
(ex-officio), 105 West 40th street. New York City;
W. W. Smith, Toledo, Ohio; Milton Weil, New
York City.
PRESS COMMITTEE—C. J. Roberts, chairman,
Baltimore, Md.; C. L. Dennis (ex-officio), New
York City; Roy E. Waite, Chicago, 111.
RESOLUTION COMMITTEE—M. V. DeFor-
eest, Sharon, Pa.; Byron Mauzy, San Francisco,
Cal.; Alex McDonald, New York City.
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE—Ed. H. Droop,
Washington, D. C; Florence J. Heppe, Philadel-
phia, Pa.; John G. Corley, Richmond, Va.; Wm. L.
Nutting, Nashua, N. H.; F. N. Goosman, Toledo,
Ohio.
OFFICIAL STAMP COMMITTEE—P. E. Con-
rcy, St. Louis, Mo.; F. B. T. Hollenberg, Little
Rock, Ark.; Oscar A. Field, St. Louis, Mo.; John
G. Corley, Richmond, Va.; Jas. F. Bowers, Lyon &
Heal}', Chicago, 111.
BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU—Edmund Gram,
Milwaukee, Wis.; P. E. Conroy, St. Louis, Mo.;
John A. Turner, Tampa, Fla.; E. Paul Jones, Des
Moines, la.; Ed. H. Droop, Washington, D. C.
BUREAU FOR ADVANCEMENT OF MUSIC
—C. A. Grinnell, Detroit, Mich.; M. V ; DeForeest,
Sharon, Pa.; R. O. Foster, Minneapolis, Minn.; Lam-
bert Groonier, Lancaster, Wis.; J. C. Phelps, Dallas,
Texas.
1921 CONVENTION COMMITTEE—Jas. F.
Bowers, Lyon & Healy, Chicago, 111.; Adam Schnei-
der, Chicago, 111.; Matt. J. Kennedy, Chicago, 111.;
Walter S. Jenkins, Chicago, 111.; Kenneth W. Cur-
tis. Chicago, 111.
BANQUET COMMITTEE—Adam Schneider,
Chicago. 111.; Matt. J. Kennedy, Chicago, 111.; Wal-
ter S. Jenkins, Chicago, 111.
The capital stock of the Jesse French & Sons
Piano Co., Inc., New Castle, Ind., has been increased
from $550,000 to $800,000, and all the stock sub-
scribed for by the officials of the company.
The capital stock of the Jesse French & Sons
Piano Company, Inc., of Montgomery, Alabama,
has also been increased from $100,000 to $300,000.
The business has increased so fast, both manu-
facturing and. retailing, that it was found necessary
to have additional working capital in each case.
March was the largest month in business, both
SPECIAL COMMITTEES.
DELEGATES (7) TO CHAMBER OF COM-
MERCE—F. B. T. Hollenberg, Little Rock, Ark.;
Oscar A. Field, St. Louis, Mo.; Jno. G. Corley,
Richmond, Va.; Edmund Gram, Milwaukee, Wis.;
Jno. A. Turner, Tampa, Fla.; Jas. F. Bowers, Chi-
cago, 111.; P. E. Conroy, St. Louis, Mo.
ALTERNATE DELEGATES—M. V. DeForeest,
Sharon, Pa.; Chas. S. Norris, Boston, Mass.; J. Ed-
win Butler, Marion, Ind.; Parham Werlein, New
Orleans, La.; Harry Wunderlich, Kansas City, Mo.;
Florence J. Heppe, Philadelphia, Pa.; Byron Mauzy,
San Franisco, Calif.
DEALER FROM BUENOS AIRES
ON VISIT TO CHICAGO
Adolfo Breyer, Jr., Studies Baldwin Production at
Cincinnati and Chicago Heights.
Adolfo Breyer, Jr., piano dealer of Florida 414,
Buenos Aires, Argentine, S. A., was in Chicago on
Tuesday of this week, accompanied by R. biz
Carrondo, of the export department of the Baldwin
Piano Company, from the Cincinnati main offices.
Mr. Breyer is one of the leading piano merchants
of South America, and he has the agency for the
Baldwin pianos in Buenos Aires.
Socially, Mr. Breyer belongs to a distinguished
family that has held box seat rights in the Buenos
Aires Grand Opera House for more than a hundred
years. The Grand Opera House of Buenos Aires
is one of the finest in the world. It is said to be
certainly the finest on the Western Hemisphere.
NOT WORRIED BY STRIKE.
Gulbransen distributors will be interested in
knowing that although the switchmen's strike on
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, on
which the Gulbransen-Dickinson Company's fac-
tory is located, became effective a few days ago, it
is not in any way interfering with the output of
that industry, except in the way of carload ship-
ments. Local shipments are going forward in the
usual way, and their large output is being main-
tained.
ACTIVE ROLL ASSOCIATION.
One of the most active local trade associations
in the country is the Philadelphia Music Roll Deal-
ers' Association, which holds interesting annual
conventions and does not relax its vigilance in trade
matters in the intervals between the big gatherings.
The present officers of the association are: Presi-
dent, O. Kearns; treasurer, George F. Fields; re-
cording secretary, N. Schnitzer, and financial secre-
tary, L, P. Moore.
The Steinway piano was a prominent object in
an exhibit made at the South Florida Fair, held
recently in Tampa, Fla., by S. E. Philpitt, the
Tampa dealer.
JESSE FRENCH, SR.
manufacturing and retailing, which the company
has had in its experience and it looks forward to
the largest year in the history of the organization.
When it is remembered that the output of the
Jesse French & Sons Piano Co., Inc., is well dis-.
tributed all over the United States, finds its way
to foreign customers, and that the products appeal
equally to the artistic musicians and the owners of
fine homes, it is not surprising that the company
should experience its biggest month in an amaz-
ingly great piano year. The necessities for addi-
tional working capital too are obvious. Every part
of the instruments in a large line is made in the
mammoth factory built for the special purposes of
the Jesse French & Sons Piano Co., Inc.
The house in Montgomery, Ala., is the center of
a big and constantly growing retail business.
Through the direct activities of the Montgomery
house a considerable section of the South has been
made acquainted with the meaning and truth of
the expressive mottoes: "Quality First and First
Quality," and "Unquestioned Excellence."
Jesse French, Sr., has just returned to New
Castle very much improved in health. H. E.
French, vice-president, who is at present residing
at Boerne, Texas, is rapidly gaining in strength and
it is expected that he will be back at the factory
to take part in some of the big activities of this
year.
NEW YORK MANUFACTURERS MEET.
Newton W. Gilbert, former vice-governor of the
Philippine Islands, will be a special guest at the
dinner following the annual meeting of the New
York Piano Manufacturers' Association, which will
be held at the Commodore Hotel April 13. Mr. Gil-
bert, who is a splendid speaker, will tell about
Philippine Island problems.
WILL OPEN IN CINCINNATI.
Waterson-Berlin and Snyder, New York City,
sheet music publishers, have taken a six-year lease
on a building at 36 East Fifth street, Cincinnati,
.which they will open as a sheet music store. The
company is to pay an annual rental of $8,000 as well
as make its own alterations, which will be of an
extensive character.
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PRESTO
April 10, 1920.
rious lines, and finally gave up teaching to take
a territorial managership for the Prudential Life
Insurance Co.
After about three years in this work he engaged,
in 1905, with the Hobart M. Cable Co. as traveling
in the West and Southwest, and met
Chicago Manager for Packard Piano Company representative
with steady success and advancement.
and S. E. Overton Co. Passed Away at
In 1909 he discontinued with the Hobart M. Cable
Co. to take up similar work with the Packard Piano
His Home Saturday Morning.
Co. of Ft. Wayne, Ind., and at the time of his death
was acting as their western territorial manager with
It was a shock
headquarters in the Republic Building, Chicago.
to the numerous
In 1894 he married Miss Grace Wolgamott, at
friends of E. N.
Kirksville, Mo., and leaves besides the widow, two
Paulding, h e a d
children, Helen and Karl. Miss Helen, who has
of the Chicago
shown great capability as an office assistant to her
Packard
office
father, will doubtless continue in her father's busi-
and
wholesale
ness.
representative of
Mr. Paulding was also manager of the Chicago
t h a t house in
office of the S. E. Overton Co. of South Haven,
Wisconsin
and
Mich.
Illinois, to read
Other immediate members of Mr. Paulding's fam-
of his death in
ily are his mother, Mrs. Louisa Paulding, Evanston,
the Sunday Trib-
111.; John Paulding, sculptor, Chicago, and D. H.
une.
Many of
Paulding, business man of Springfield, 111.
t h e m did not
even know that
The remains were taken on Tuesday of this week
he had been feel-
for burial to Rockford, 111., where Mr. Paulding
i n g poorly at
resided from 1915 to 1919. The funeral will be con-
times since the
ducted by the Masons of that city. The death oc-
week of the New
curred at his apartment at 5057 Blackstone avenue,
York convention,
Chicago, where he had lived with his family since
which he attend-
September, 1919.
ed. Mr. Pauld-
Mr. Paulding was a member of the First Church
ing's philosophy
of Christ, Scientist, of Rockford, 111., and of the
E, N. PAULDING.
of life was based
Mother Church of Boston, Mass. He was also an
on cheerfulness—so much so that he could even affiliated member in good standing of the Star in
speak of his own pain with a smile. Therefore, few the East Lodge No. 166, A. F. & A. M., Rockford,
guessed that his health had broken down. He 111., and Eastern Star Chapter, Rockford, 111., No.
lacked one month of being 50 years old.
53, of the Chicago Chapter, of the Kiwanis Club
Edwin Newcomb Paulding was born May 3, 1871, and the Chicago Piano Club. His passing, though
near Gettysburg, Ohio. He was brought up on sudden and quite unexpected, was peaceful and
farms in Ohio and Southwest Missouri. His parents without suffering.
Henry P. Veatch, general representative of the
removed to Carthage, Mo., when he was about 11
Packard Piano Company, accompanied Mr. Pauld-
years old.
He was educated in the country district schools ing from Fort Wayne, Ind., where he was taken
and the Carthage Presbyterian College. Later he ill while attending the convention of Packard trav-
attended the Normal School at Kirksville, Mo., and elers, to Chicago, and saw him home. Mr. Veatch
qualified for teaching, in which calling he was very is now in charge of the Packard Chicago office.
"I thought Mr. Paulding was going to get well,"
capable, and followed this work for several years.
During vacation seasons he took up selling in va- said Mr. Veatch to a Presto representative. "But
E. N. PAULDING DIES
SUDDENLY IN CHICAGO
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Jesse French and Poole Big Favorites in Fine Busi-
ness of the Reed-French Co.
Some Poole grands are now on the way to the
Reed-French Co., and Frank Reed, sales manager,
says the call for them is most insistent. All the
pianos the house can get, they can sell. They have
the Poole, the Jesse French, and others, but not
enough of any of them.
J. W. Baker, polisher of the Gilbert Piano Co.,
has placed a piano polish on the market which is
considered very tine. Mr. Baker is having success
in the manufacture of his product, which is pro-
nounced excellent by those who have used it.
A banquet was given by the piano salesmen of
the Bush & Lane Piano Co. at the Benson Hotel
on Saturday evening in honor of H. A. Smith, the
retiring sales manager of the company.
H. B. Street, who was with the Baldwin Piano
Co. in San Francisco,-is now with the Bush & Lane
Piano Co. of Portland in the phonograph depart-
ment.
Thomas Wilkinson has severed his connection
with the Bush & Lane Piano Co. He has been with
the Portland house for seven or eight years. The
new manager is H. T. Campbell. Mr. Campbell has
been sales manager of the Seattle branch of the
company. H. A. Smith, who has been sales man-
ager of the Portland house for several months, has
been made sales manager of the Seattle house.
Miss Kathleen Narby of Buttle, Mont., is the new
bookkeeper of the McCormick Music Co. Miss
Narby before coming to Portland was with the
Howard Music Co. of Butte.
The manufacturers of music goods and accesso-
ries in Buffalo, N. Y., have organized to form a
division of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce.
Dr. Allen Hamilton of Fort Wayne did not think
so. As soon as we got out of Mr. Paulding's pres-
ence, the doctor said: 'Mr. Paulding's piano days
are about over. Get him home to Chicago. He had
just been talking to his physician in Chicago when
he sank to the floor and died."
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