Presto

June 12, 1920.
SUIT OVER RIGHTS TO
POPULAR SONG "TiPPERARY"
Defendants Deny the Production Is a Printed Ver-
sion of Mrs. Jay's "Yakima Booster Chorus."
Bert Feldman, the London music publisher, who
bought out the popular song, "It's a Long, Long
Way to Tipperary," and Harry Williams, the Ameri-
can lyric writer, who a year or so ago, would neither
"affirm nor deny" he had written this piece, were the
chief witnesses recently in a New York court in the
suit of Mrs. Alice Smyth Burton Jay against Chap-
pell & Company for an accounting and recovery of
the entire royalties, on the charge that it is a pirated
version of her own composition called "The Yakima
Booster Chorus."
Mr. Feldman testified that, although he had made
four trips to America he had never been west of
Buffalo. He. denied ever seeing Mrs. Jay before his
appearance in court and called her claim to have met
him in a booth at the Alaska-Yukon Fair in Seattle,
Wash., in 1909, as "untrue imagination." He also
denied he had ever seen or had possession of "The
Yakima Booster Chorus," which Mrs. Jay declared
had disappeared from a booth where she worked.
Feldman then related how he agreed to publish
"A Long, Long Road to Tipperary," in September,
1912, after it had been pronounced worthless by an-
other music firm in London. He also identified a
letter he had dictated and signed in London in June,
1909, to Stern & Company, New York music pub-
lishers.
This testimony was a direct refutation of the story
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of Mrs. Jay, who says it was June 13, 1909, when she
met Feldman at the fair in Seattle.
When asked by counsel, "Where is the original
manuscript of "Tipperary"? Mr. Feldman said he
did not know. He thought the lawyers for the de-
fense had all the papers they wanted and he had no
idea where the manuscript of either the words or
the music could be found at present. "They may
have been destroyed," he admitted.
The "American Harry" Williams, author of sev-
eral hundred lyrics set to popular music, as a wit-
ness for the defense, said that he had never been
in Yakima or Seattle but once in his life, and that
was in 1901 or 1902, when he was interested in a
show playing one-night stands.
He denied ever having met Mrs. Jay in Yakima
or in Seattle, when, as she said, he had promised to
write some words for her "that would make a per-
son cry."
"I don't remember ever seeing her before today,"
said the witness, looking over to where the plaintiff
sat at one end of the counsel table.
"But I remember you, all right," said Mrs. Jay
doggedly, so that all could hear.
TRADE HAPPENINGS
ARE TOLD IN BRIEF
Views and Beliefs of Live Piano Merchants Are
Presented.
Shrader's Music House, Ishpeming, Mich., includes
the Knabe line in the stock of its new branch store
at Marinette, Wis.
Featuring of the Starr piano and playerpiano b>
the Arthur Jordan Piano Co., Washington, D. C, is
extending the interest in the instruments among
music lovers there. The house recently took the
agency for the instruments made by the Starr Piano
Co., Richmond, Ind.
Harry Shroyer, manager of the Shroyer Music
Company, Bethany, Mo., was in Albany, Mo., last
week looking after business and placing advertising
for a closing out sale for the Albany store of the
company. The Albany territory will in future be
attended to from the Bethany store.
The Wiley B. Allen Co., Los Angeles, Calif., is
adding several demonstration rooms in its player-
piano music roll department.
The Q R S Music Co., San Francisco, Calif., moved
June 1 to its new location at 423 to 433 Brannan
street.
The Sandeen Music Co., Rockford, 111., has added
the line of machines and records of the Columbia
Graphophone Co.
ITEMS CONTRIBUTING TO
THE HIGH COST OF LUMBER
Canadian Lumber Mills' Association Gives Some
Interesting Figures on the Logging Situation.
The New Brunswick, Canada, Lumbermen's Asso-
ciation in accounting for the high cost of lumber
gives among other reasons the following interesting
figures:
In 1913, stumpage was $1.50 and mileage $8; to-
day we pay $3.50 stumpage, $8 mileage, and $3.20
per mile for fire protection; also, we have workmen's
compensation of logging, river driving, rafting, mill-
ing and unloading, with a separate rate on each, and
this still further adds to the cost; in addition, we
have the heavy business Dominion war tax.
The cost of the principal supplies that enter into
a logging operation was as follows for 1920 com-
pared with 1913:
Articles—
1913
1920
Flour
$ 4.90
$11.20
Tea
23
.45
Beans
2.05
4.90
Molasses
3Sy 2
1.00
Beef
20.00
27.00
Pork
26.00
48.00
Lard ..
.11^
21
Hay
13.90
27.00
Oats
51^
1-10
Axes
7.50
15.25
Peavies
15.25
25.50
Cross-cut saws
2.58
4.75
Oil (paraffin)
19;/;
.24^
In 1913 men's wages were $28 to $32 per month;
in 1919 they were $70 to $85 per month.
DISCOURTESY HURTS TRADE.
Some merchants expect advertising to build up
their business, despite the fact that a discourteous
and disobliging sales force is, every hour of the
business day, tearing it down. The advertising man
doesn't live who can really build up a store's busi-
ness without the sympathy and co-operation of the
men and women on the firing line.—National
Jeweler.
THE VOSE MERITS.
"The Vose small grand is scientifically made and
for its size, its tone quality and volume are remark-
able. Also, it has that outstanding characteristic
of every Vose piano, wonderful durability," says the
J. W. Jenkins Sons' Music Co., Muskogee, Okla.
BRAMBACH BASEBALL TEAM STARTS SEASON
EVERY MAN. WHETHER
Directly or Indirectly Interested in
Pianos, Phonographs or the General
Music Trade
Should have the three booklets compris-
ing
PRESTO TRADE LISTS
No. 1—Directory of the Music Trades—
the^JDealers List.
No. 2—The Phonograph Directory—the
Talking Machine List.
No. 3—Directory of the Music Industries
(Manufacturers, Supplies, etc., of
all kinds).
Price, each book, 25 cents.
The three books combined contain the
only complete addresses and classified
lists of all the various depart-
ments of the music indus-
tries and trades.
Choice of these books and also a copy of
the indispensable "Presto Buyer's Guide,"
will be sent free of charge to new sub-
scribers to Presto, the American Music
Trade Weekly, at $2 a year.
You want Presto; you want the Presto
Trade Lists. They cost little and return
much. Why not have them ?
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Manager Joe Jackson, the only civilian in this
photograph, has been putting his ball tossers through
some active practice on the vacant ground lying
near the Brambach factory in New York. He re-
ports remarkable progress and claims there is not a
team in the Kohler Industries league that has a
chance with his team of bat swingers.
The Brambach baseball team is another of the
teams which comprise the Kohler Industries laegue
and will be contestants for the championship of the
Industries, which is to be decided during the sum-
mer.
Reading from left to right. Standing: Jos. Jack-
son, manager; Geo. Smith, Chas. Ulrich, Anthony
Carrora, Marty Scharf, G. Kelly, Nick Biondi. Sit-
ting: Michael Iarusso, Paul Frestopino, Geo. Hars-
nett, captain; Joe Trenzon, Frank Richardelle.
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