PRESTO
ON THE TRACK OF
DISHONEST ONES
Chicago Piano & Organ Association in Letter
to Members and the Music Trade Gen-
erally Draws Attention to Measure
Passed by City Council.
The Chicago Piano & Organ Association under
date of April 29, 1920, sent a letter and reprint of a
Chicago city ordinance to the trade, together with
a copy of the by-laws of the Association. The let-
ter, which was signed by J. T. Bristol, secretary, and
Adam Schneider, president and treasurer, called at-
tention to the ordinance passed by the Chicago City
Council on February 18, 1920, providing for the keep-
ing of records and for making reports of all removals
of household goods or personal property by owners
or operators of moving vans and express wagons
and other vehicles engaged in moving or hauling for
hire in the city of Chicago. This suggestion was
made:
"As this ordinance should prove a valuable aid to
us in our business, we would suggest that you make
liberal use of the information required to be filed
under this ordinance, and whenever you find that
your customers have moved without leaving a trace
of their new address, that you write a letter to Mr.
Frederick Rex, head of the Bureau of Statistics and
Municipal Reference Library, 1005 City Hall, re-
questing that he furnish you with the new addresses
of all of your customers where they have moved
from old addresses."
The Ordinance.
Be It Ordained by the City Council of the City of
Chicago:
Section 1. Every person, firm or corporation own-
ing or operating any moving van, furniture car,
transfer wagon, express wagon, delivery wagon, or
any other vehicle engaged in moving or hauling for
hire in the City of Chicago, shall keep a record of
the place from which and the place to which he or
it moves the household goods or personal property,
or any of them, of any person who is, or persons,
who are. removing or vacating any dwelling, house,
flat, apartment, room, rooms, or place of residence,
or abode, or places of business in the City of Chi-
cago, which record shall show the name and address
of the mover, the name of the person for whom the
moving was done, the name of the person who was
the owner or ostensible owner of the said house-
hold goods or personal property moved, the address
from which in the City of Chicago and to which in
the City of Chicago, or outside of the City of Chi-
cago, as the case may be, such moving was done
and the name and address of the common carrier
to whom such household goods or personal prop-
erty were delivered, with the date of such removal
or delivery, and the character of the articles moved.
All Kinds of Movers.
Section 2. Every person, firm, or corporation
owning or operating any of the vehicles aforesaid,
and any person, firm or corporation not engaged
in moving or hauling for hire in the City of Chi-
cago, but in control or possession of any of the ve-
hicles aforementioned, who shall, for a valuable
consideration or otherwise, move the household
goods or personal property, or any of them, of any
person who is, or persons who are, removing or va-
cating any dwelling house, flat, apartment, room, or
place of residence or abode, or place of business, in
the City of Chicago, shall, not later than Monday
following the date of such moving, file in the office
of the Bureau of Statistics and Municipal Reference
Library of the City of Chicago, or send by regis-
tered mail to such bureau a full and correct state-
ment of all such hauling or moving done, contain-
ing the information as required in Section 1 hereof.
Upon receipt of such statements the head of such
Bureau of Statistics and Municipal Reference Li-
brary shall keep a register of all such transactions
in a book or books, or other suitable form of main-
taining records to be used for that purpose, with
an alphabetical index of the names of the persons
for whom such hauling has been done. Said register
shall not be open to the inspection of the public,
but the head of such bureau shall furnish to any
person inquiring therefor information as to any par-
ticular change or removal, for which a charge of
fifty cents shall be made for information concern-
ing each change or removal.
Section 3. Upon request of the person, firm or
corporation owning or in charge or in control of
the vehicle in which said household goods, or per-
sonal property, or any of them, are to be removed,
the person for whom such moving is being done
shall give to said owner, or person in charge or in
control of said vehicle, all information necessary
to enable him to make and keep such record or
statement. It shall be unlawful for any person to
give said owner or person in charge or in control of
any vehicle hauling or moving said household goods
or personal property, or any of them a fictitious
name, or to deceive him or to make knowingly any
false statement concerning any of said information
requested by said owner or person in charge or in
control of said vehicle, the obtaining of which is
necessary to enable him to make and keep said
record or statement.
Part of Statistics.
Section 4. The head of the Bureau of Statistics
and Municipal Reference Library shall prepare and
deliver blank statements, free of charge, for the use
of every person, partnership, or corporation owning
or operating any of the vehicles named in Section
1 hereof, who is required by the terms hereof to file
such statements with such bureau.
Section 5. The forms provided for herein shall
be substantially in the following form: Report on
Removals. Name and address of owner of vehicle
or of person operating same
License num-
ber
Character of articles moved
(whether household goods or personal property).
Name of person for whom the articles were moved
Place from which moved
Place
to which moved
If delivered to a common
carrier, give name and address of such common
carrier..
Date of moving
Section 6. Any person, firm or corporation vio-
lating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall,
upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of
not more than two hundred dollars.
Section 7. This ordinance shall be in force and
effect from and after its passage.
(The above ordinance was passed by the Chicago
City Council on February 18, 1920, providing for
the making of reports of and the keeping of records
of removals of household goods and other personal
property."
APPEAL TO PIANO OWNERS.
The Vandenberg Music Co., Green Bay, Wis., han-
dles the Mason & Hamlin, M. Schulz, Werner and
other pianos and a fine line of playerpianos. In
commenting on "that seldom-used piano" this week
the firm urges owners to exchange it for one that
will give you wondrous music at any time—without
a musician. Perhaps you have but one real musician
in your home. When that one is absent your piano
is silent, and if gone permanently, your piano is use-
less. Why not have a playerpiano in your home?
It is ready at all times, will furnish the very finest
music and can be operated by anyone."
FAVOR EXPORT SHIPMENTS.
While it has been found practically impossible
recently to ship any pianos eastward out of Chicago,
owing to the embargo caused by the striking switch-
men, the government is aiding exporters to get
their instruments through to points of shipment on
the East Coast. Those piano and playerpiano manu-
facturers whose shipments leave Chicago's suburbs
on the Belt Line are particularly fortunate in getting
their goods started.
May 8, 1920.
F. A. STEELE BECOMES
AID IN MUSIC CAMPAIGN
Experienced Editor and Writer Joins C. M. Tre-
maine's Staff at Offices in New York.
C. M. Tremaine, director of the National Bureau
for the Advancement of Music, has announced that
F. A. Steele, for many years with the New York
Herald Syndicate as correspondent, editor, traveling
representative and manager, has joined the forces of
the Bureau to aid in the spread of the gospel of
democratic music through newspapers and periodicals
in all parts of the United States.
Because of his personal acquaintance with the
newspaper editors in every state and virtually every
city in the country Mr. Steele is well fitted, Mr. Tre-
maine said, to help in the work the Bureau has un-
dertaken of inducing every householder in the land,
through a realization of the value of music to him
and his family, to install a musical instrument of one
kind or another in his home.
Mr. Steele, who has had experience in the writing
of advertisements, will assist also in the co-operative
advertising campaign conducted by the Bureau at
105 West 40th street, New York.
SPECIAL ACTIVITIES OF
TWO PORTLAND HOUSES
Bush & Lane Piano Co. Install Demonstration
Rooms and Foley & Van Dyke Buy Competitor.
Saturday was a red letter day at Foley & Van
Dyke's of Portland, Oregon. The firm is happy
because goods are no longer hard to get. A carload
of Strohber and Hoffman pianos has just arrived
and these excellent instruments are gaining friends
every day. Mr. Van Dyke says they bought the
complete stock of Wick and Stoddard pianos from
the Wakefield Music Co., which has just gone out of
business.
A new player roll department has been installed
in the basement of the Portland Bush & Lane Piano
Co.
Handsomely furnished demonstration rooms
have been provided for the accommodation of cus-
tomers and the management intends to push the
playerpiano business and expects to make it a big
feature of the business.
The Kelly Furniture & Musical Merchandise Store,
East St. Louis, was recently opened.
Q. R. S. ROLL WINDOW
AT SAN ANTONIO
A mountain of Q R S rolls is banked up in this
display window of Thomas Goggan & Bro., San
Antonio, Texas, a house that sells lots of these rolls.
The sign at the top of the steps made by the rolls
tells the customer that the player roll department
is on the second floor, and asks him to use the eleva-
tor. The piles of rolls at the sides suggest tall
buildings, and the whole design of the display is
''something different,"
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