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NEW STORE OPENINGS
SHOW TRADE PROGRESS
New Piano Ventures, Ownership Transfers
and Location Changes Are Items
of Interest.
The Kelly Furniture & Musical Merchandise Store
was opened recently in the Metropolitan Building,
Fourth and Missouri avenues, East St. Louis, 111.
W. C. Pifer, Winchester, Va., who for seventeen
years conducted a music store in Keyser, W. Va.,
will move from Main street, in the former place, to
one of the new rooms in connection with the Na-
tional Bank Building now under construction.
T, C. Rothenberger, Mulberry, Ind., intends to re-
model the store recently bought from D. H. Ynudt.
C. J. Jacoby & Co. have opened a music and furni-
ture store on Ferguson avenue, Wood River, 111,
The Baldwin Piano Co., St. Louis, will enlarge its
wareroom space in a few weeks when its gets pos-
session of the adjoining store at 1113 Olive street,
now occupied by the Autophone Co., which will
move to Eleventh and Olive.
A full line of pianos and players occupy the
new store of the Pratt Bros. Co., Richland Center,
Wisconsin.
Emil Konrad opened a new music store last week
at 409 South Main street, Easton, Pa.
Millard D. Coffin has opened a music store at 701
West Eighth street, Wilmington, Del. The location
is a promising one but considered outside the so-
called music district.
Extensive renovations and alterations have been
completed in the Loomis Temple of Music, New
Haven, Conn. The player roll department has been
considerably enlarged.
New show windows in the store of A. G. Ely &
Son, New Haven, Conn., gives the company excel-
lent facilities for showing the instruments.
Mrs. E. Stevenson is now head of the Redlands
Music House, Redlands, Calif., which she recently
purchased from H. T. Dewhirst.
The Hocket-Bristol Piano Co., Fresno, Calif.,
opened a branch in Visalia last week.
It is reported that the Schroeder Piano Co., Pitts-
burgh, Pa., will open a branch in Cleveland, O.
The Carroll Music Store, Appleton, Wis., has pur-
chased the former post office building on Oneida
street and will use it in its business.
BRINGS SUIT TO TEST
LEGALITY OF MOVERS' PRICES
City Prosecutor in Chicago Sues on Complaint
Made in His Law Department.
The legality of the new moving rates announced
by the Furniture, Piano Movers' & Expressmen's
Association of Chicago, will be tested next week in
Municipal Judge Moran's court in the city named.
The city's suit against Harder's Fireproof Storage
& Van Company, 3958 Calumet avenue, which al-
leges the concern charged rate 400 per cent in ex-
cess of those fixed by ordinance, was filed last week
by City Prosecutor Harry B. Miller at the direction
of First Assistant Corporation Counsel Frank S.
Righeimer, Fifteen additional complaints were made
to Chief Assistant City Prosecutor Daniel Webster.
All complainants were advised to forward the de-
tails in writing.
"This is a case of profiteering that can be dealt
with directly," said Mr. Miller. "The ordinance
rates were upheld by the State Supreme Court last
June. Violations are punishable by fine of $200."
TEXAS STATE ASSOCIATION
INVITES ALL TRAVELERS
Convention at Waco Next May to Set a Record
for Subsequent Events.
Traveling men of the piano industry are all invited
to the meeting of the Texas state organization of
the music trades according to letter to President
Bismarck Heyer of the Texas Music Dealers Asso-
ciation to Alex McDonald, Chairman Press Com-
mittee N. A. of M. M.
In his letter Mr. Heyer calls attention to the two-
day convention of the Texas Music Merchants Asso-
ciation at Waco May 11 and 12 and earnestly invites
all traveling men and manufacturers' representa-
tives to attend. This is to be the first annual con-
vention of the Texas association and many traveling
men will find it convenient and worth while to ac-
cept the hospitable invitation of Mr. Heyer.
The committee on program consists of Henry
Mayer of Paris, chairman; W. E. Trash of Waco,
Robert N. Walker, J, C. Phelps and W. L. Bush,
all of Dallas. The committee is a guarantee of
things worth while, for these gentlemen are all well
known to the trade as hustlers and association en-
thusiasts.
The National Bureau for the Advancement of
music will be represented by Mine. Alma Webster
Powell who will give a most valuable address. Like
Ohio, Maine and other sister states, Texas is falling
into line on organization work, the importance of
and necessity for which become daily more ap-
parent.
FEATURING THE PIANOS
ON THE PACIFIC COAST
Portland, Ore., Notes Which Show Some of the
Activities of a Good Piano City.
Leo Ornstein has been engaged by the G. F.
Johnson Piano Co. and the piano department of
Lipman, Wolfe & Co., Portland, Ore., to give a
comparison recital at the Public Auditorium on
Tuesday evening, April 20, when the Ampico will
be introduced formally to the Portland public. The
Auditorium seats 5,000 people and invitations have
already been issued to all the musical clubs of the
city and state. The G. F. Johnson company carries
the Chickering Ampico and Lipman, Wolfe the
Knabe Ampico.
A shipment of Newman Bros, pianos has just
been received at the Oregon Eilers House, Port-
land, Ore.
Harry G. Melvin is a new piano salesman in the
Portland, Ore., house of the Wiley B. Allen Co.
Carter King is another new salesman, who will
look after outside business. Mr. King came here
from Spokane.
A piano was sold every day at Foley & Van
Dyke's, Portland, Ore., last week. April promises
much better business than March, which was com-
paratively quiet. The talking machine department
is very active. S. M. Walker, is now outside sales-
man for the firm and is making excellent sales.
Mrs. A. F. Clark is now cashier at the music
store of the Wiley B. Allen Co., Portland, Ore.
The former cashier Mrs. Olga Binder has resigned
and Mrs. Clark, who was the cashier of the record
department was promoted to Mrs. Binder's position.
STRIKE STILL PREVAILS
IN CHICAGO PIANODOM
Causes Criticism When Customers Fail to Get In-
struments Delivered.
The draymen's strike in the piano delivery busi-
ness of Chicago is still on without abatement, al-
though some of the dealers are delivering a few in-
struments.
Customers in Chicago who had read in the daily
papers accounts of the settlement of the strike of
the drivers and movers of furniture three weeks
ago, have been misled into believing that that set-
lied the piano movers' strike.
Tt did nothing of the kind; for on the very day
that the furniture drivers and movers went back to
work with their strike settled, the piano movers
went out on strike. And what the public does not
understand is that the two organizations are sepa-
rate and distinct bodies of workers, not related to
each other except by similarity of employment.
MOVES IN PORTLAND, ORE,
The new quarters of the Schwan Piano Co., in
Portland, Ore., affords 10,000 square feet of floor
space which includes a mezzanine floor and base-
ment. The location, at the southwest corner of
Tenth and Stark streets, is considered a very desir-
able one for a music house. F. J. Schwankovsky is
president and A. M. Epstein secretary-treasurer of
the company, which was established in 1915. In
addition to pianos and players, a line of talking ma-
chines are carried.
H. B. WISE IN NEW ORLEANS.
H. B. Wise, the new assistant manager of the New
Orleans branch of the Columbia Graphophone Co.,
is a man with considerable experience in the whole-
sale and retail ends of the talking machine business.
His familiarity with branch methods was gained
with the Baltimore branch of the company. In the
retail end of the business he was associated with the
Harry C. Grove Co., Inc., Washington, one of the
biggest retail handlers of Columbia goods in the na-
tional capital.
OPENS BRANCH IN KENOSHA.
A. L. Crosby is manager of the new branch store
which the Market Square Music Shop, Kenosha,
Wis., has opened at 204 Newell street, a busy west
side section of the city. A full line of pianos, play-
ers, talking machines, records, rolls, small goods and
music will be carried.
April 17, 1920.
SELL SYMPHONOLA
IN AUSTRALIA
Price & Teeple Piano Company's Products
Are Six Months on the Way, Says W.
Crowle, Whose Stores Are in
Several Cities.
The Symphonola News, published by the Price
& Teeple employes at Kankakee, 111., has this to
say of the recent visit of W. Crowle to Chicago:
Mr. Crowle has been selling Symphonolas in
Australia and New Zealand for the past five years
and pays us a visit annually. He has just passed
through Chicago on his return trip home to Ade-
laide, South Australia, accompanied by Mrs. Crowle.
When we told Mr. Crowle we were publishing a
factory paper, he said: "I have seen your factory
and you will have to have a good paper to do it and
its men justice; also the Symphonolas, which they
make so well."
We asked him to tell us some things about him-
self, but he was too modest to tell us about some of
the great things he has done. We were, however,
successful in getting a few facts from him that we
know will interest our readers. He had this to say:
"As there are two of us in the make-up, Mrs.
Crowle being the main part, I include her as the
main feature in the enclosed photo of our home,
which is at Adelaide, South Australia, about 12,000
miles from Kankakee, and it takes about five weeks
to get home.
VISITED WORLD'S FAIR.
"I came to America first in 1904 to visit the
World's Fair at St. Louis and have been coming
ever since, and have never regretted it once. As I
was twenty-one on my first visit, this makes me
thirty-eight this year, but I feel better and like the
U. S. A. better than I did in 1904, so you can see the
good old world has treated me well and I would be
very loath to leave it, especially the music end of
it, which brings me back to how I came to sell Sym-
phonolas.
"Firstly, I loved music, but never having the time
to learn to play properly, I looked around for what
I considered gave me the greatest enjoyment and
the best rendering of the world's music, and I can
honestly say I found it in the Symphonola, and
have persuaded a great number of people in our
part of the world to think the same way. I have
also made many good friends in selling 1 them your
players and have lost none.
"This means something when I tell you that your
instruments have to travel for from four to six
months to arrive at their destination, in at least
five or six different kinds of transportation; in the
musty atmosphere of a steamer's hold for about
eight weeks, and then to be opened and to play for
years in a very hot climate, that you seldom experi-
ence, as we never have the snow in our country,
but the sun shines the year 'round, mostly very
round.
IN CARLOAD LOTS.
"And then we are able to order them in carload
lots from you at the factory, and you tell me you
are trying to make them better. That is some ambi-
tion and is bound to win out in the end. I am proud
to be identified with the selling of them, and your
style 95 suits all our customers in every way and is
bringing in repeat orders, even with the pound ster-
ling only worth a little over $3.20, which is, by the
way, quite a long story of its own, but could, per-
haps, be compared for the love we have for it, as
to yours for the V. S. A. income tax.
"If you want to look up a map of Australia and
New Zealand and remember that they are a little
larger than the U. S. A. and yet have less than five
million people, I can tell you we have sold Sympho-
nolas in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide,
Perth, Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch and
many other smaller towns out there, and I have
never known a customer to be other than satisfied
with his purchase.
"In conclusion, I like your policy as set out in
No. 1 of your paper, built on Justice, Co-operation,
Economy and Energy, but the greatest of these is
Love, no matter whether love of work, love of your
neighbor, love of your friends or love of your family,
nothing else matters, as all that lasts and endures
must have something to do with it, and I have been
married for fifteen years and should know some-
thing about it. Here's wishing you lots of it and I
hope for many years that I will be co-worker with
you in the selling of the very good Symphonolas
you make and the better ones to come.
"Yours very sincerely,
"W. CROWLE."
J. C. Henderson, eastern wholesale representative
of Lyon & Healy, is now living at 2611 Adams Mill
Road, Washington, D. C.
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