PRESTO
June 5, 1920.
LETTERS OF INTEREST
FROM ACTIVE CONCERNS
Changes, Corrections, a Collision and Other
Events, as They Are Reported by the
Men Who Make Them.
WHERE IS J. B. LINTZ?
fact, do not manufacture cabinets of any kind.
We are manufacturing library furniture exclusively
at 415 to 421 Armour street.
Yours very truly,
SCHRAM BROS. COMPANY.
DAILY NEWSPAPER VIEW.
The price upheaval in other lines has had the
effect in the piano trade of making firm prices pos-
sible, says the New York Times. Up to a short
time ago, no prices would be named except at time
Newton, Iowa, June 1st, 1920.
of delivery. The trade has had some feelers put out
Editor Presto: If any of your readers can give by buyers to see how closely the manufacturers will
me the address of J. B. Lintz it will be appreciated. make them live up to their orders. The latter are
Will set up the cigars for his address.
said to be sufficient to keep the factories running
George Miller of this city, a piano tuner, was re* to the end of the year. The demand is still largely con-
cently injured in an automobile collision. Another
centrated on pianos of the player type, and from 50
car struck his car and threw him out on the paving. to 90 per cent of the production is taken up in mak-
He is just starting to work again, after being laid ing instruments of that sort. Concentration on
up a month.
Yours truly,
players has created something of a shortage in the
A. M. CARL.
regular lines of uprights and grands. The export
demand does not embrace players to an appreciable
extent. Manufacturers believe that, with the nam-
JOHN J. POLE SELLS OUT.
ing of firm prices, the peak of values has been
Geneva, N. Y., May 31, 1920.
Editor Presto: I have sold my business to the reached. Buyers are now described as hesitant.
H. J. Stead Co., of Linden street, Geneva, N. Y.
Please have their name in your lists as maker of
LYON & HEALY'S LOSE GAME.
the "Pole Tympani" The company is now, and will
The Chicago Mill & Lumber Company's nine de-
continue, as an optical company, making optical feated the Lyon & Healy baseball team in last Sat-
machinery.] The tympani department will be in my urday's game in Chicago, by a score of 9 to 0. "Our
charge as a side line.
men played a good game until the sixth inning,''
Yours truly,
said N. A. Fegen, head of the wholesale piano de-
J. J. POLE.
partment of Lyon & Healy, "but after that the
Mill & Lumber Company's boys batted us all over
the field. We accepted our defeat gracefully, and
BAILEY-McBREARTY CO.
are now training to play a game against the United
Pelzer, S. C, May 29, 1920.
Editor Presto: We wish to make correction on States Gypsum Company's baseball organization
our firm, "New Corporations," in your May 15th is- next Saturday at Humboldt Park."
sue. The firm name is Bailey-McBrearty Co., as
you will see from our stationery; also the capital
FOUR STYLES OF MANUALOS.
stock which you put at $1,000,000. Our capital stock
In a new circular which the Baldwin Company is
is $10,000.00, with $8,000.00 paid in. Thanking you sending out to the trade for distribution this week
to make above corrections, we are,
this appears: "The Manualo, the playerpiano that
Very truly,..
is all but human, is made in four distinctive makes
BAILEY-McBREARTY CO.,
of pianos, namely the Baldwin Manualo, the El-
By Jno. H. McBrearty Co., Pres.
lington Manualo, the Hamilton Manualo, and the
Howard Manualo. Each makes offers different
SCHRAM BROS. COMPANY.
styles in different woods. All requirements and
all tastes can be met. And all styles are truly ele-
Chicago, May 25, 1920.
Editor Presto: Please note we have discontinued gant and beautiful."
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PIANO HOUSE AT HONESDALE
OPENED WITH CONCERTS
F. A. Jenkins Music House in the Pennsylvania City
Started Out in Suitable Style.
The F. A. Jenkins Music House, Honesdale, Pa.,
made of the recent opening to that concern's re-
modeled warerooms a music festival of a broad
character. This offers an interesting suggestion for
other dealers.
Beginning Monday, when the store was thrown
open to the public, daily music programs were car-
ried out throughout the week, attracting to the new
warerooms hundreds of persons for whom no mere
"opening" in the ordiary acceptance of the word
would have had any attraction.
Monday night, following instrumental music and
songs, speeches were made by the secretary of the
Carbondale Chamber of Commerce, who with sev-
ral other prominent men from other towns and
cities, went to Honesdale to attend the opening.
Tuesday night, following a dinner which Mr. Jen-
kins gave to representatives of the various manu-
facturers from whom he purchases his goods and
others, a capacity house attended a concert at an
armory.
A large amount of free publicity was received, the
local newspapers devoting several columns to the
event, running it on the front page. Mr. Jenkins
called attention to the opening in advance, in his
advertisements, and through neatly printed pro-
grams for each day.
LIKES BUSH & GERTS PIANO.
L. E. Drake, who sold pianos for many years
in the Central West, but who now is a resident of
Los Angeles, Calif., writes to the Bush & Gerts
Piano Company, Chicago: "A local piano seer in
trying my style D walnut Bush & Gerts here said
that he never heard such a full, round tone." The
piano man added that the visitor had offered to
trade him a grand piano of a famous make in ex-
change for his style D Bush & Gerts. He wrote
further that a woman in his neighborhood had just
purchased her third Bush & Gerts piano. Mr.
Drake's last piano store was at Waterloo, Iowa, but
he had also had stores at Watseka, 111., Xenia,
Ohio, and other Ohio towns.
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You are saving your back as well as your
money, and delivering the goods, safely, ex-
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Good for the Use of Piano Dealers and Salesmen
Send for Particulars and Start the New
Year equipped to the Limit of Efficiency
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