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E.t a bu.hed 1884 THE AMERICAN MUSIC TRADE WEEKLY
PAUL B. KLUGH'S LETTER
RECORDS FACTORY FACT
Apprises Dealers That No More Autopianos
Manufactured Under Strike Conditions
Remain in Factory.
Paul B. Klugh, president of The Autopiano Co,
New York, recently sent a very interesting letter
to the Autopiano trade. This letter should be of
interest to all dealers inasmuch as it marks an
important turning point in the piano business. The
recent strike effects have been long lasting and it
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Frank Stanley, a brother of Charles Stanley, and
wife, from Toronto, Ont.; W. J. Brown, of Toronto,
and his wife, who is a sister of Mrs. Charles Stan-
ley, and Mrs. John Carson, of Kingston, Ont.
The whole week has been given over to fetes for
the young couple. On Sunday they were given a
dinner by Mr. and Mrs. Percy Ketchum, of Oak
Park. Another dinner was given at the Marigold
Gardens by friends on Tuesday. After the we'dding
ceremony they went to the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Will T. Brinkerhoff for a reception held in their
honor.
Mr. Munz, who is in the electrical supply busi-
ness, will ship his Cadillac Sedan, model of 1920, to
Denver, and the wedding trip from Denver to the
Pacific Coast and clear back to Detroit will be com-
pleted in it. Mr. Munz is the son of a Detroit capi-
talist who for several years was connected with the-
atrical enterprises there. The father Jias been one of
Detroit's most enterprising citizens. Both Mr. and
Mrs. Munz, Sr., attended the wedding.
LITTLE "MEISSNER" PLAYER
FOR SHRINERS' TRIP
Tripoli Special for Portland, Oregon, Carried One
of Milwaukee's Musical Wonders.
PAUL, B. KLUGH.
is gratifying to note that now manufacturers are
again back to their previous status. Mr. Klugh said
in part.
"We are more than glad to tell you that the last
of our player-pianos manufactured under strike con-
ditions were shipped in May, since that time all in-
struments we have shipped have been started and
finished by our old employees, and are of a quality
impossible to have obtained during our four-months'
strike."
The Autopiano Co. is to be congratulated in hav-
ing so rapidly recovered from the effects of the un-
controllable labor situation in being able to make
the above announcement in so short a time since
the strike.
CHAS. STANLEY'S DAUGHTER
WEDS DETROIT BUSINESS MAN
Superintendent of P. A. Starck Piano Company's
Factories Reaches a Proud Moment.
A society wedding attended by prominent citizens
of several cities of this country and Canada and
their wives and daughters was that of Miss Norma
Harrison Stanley, daughter of Charles Stanley, su-
perintendent of the P. A. Starck Piano Company's
factory. The accomplished young woman named
became the wife of Harold Raymond Munz, of De-
troit, Mich., on Wednesday night of this week be-
fore a large and fashionable group of friends in the
Colonial Club building, Oak Park, the club of which
W. T. Brinkerhoff was president for two years.
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr.
Allen, of the Congregational church, and the bride's
father gave her away. The bridesmaid was Miss
Louise Stanley, a sister of the bride. The best man
was Elmer Munz, the bridegroom's brother.
There were present at the ceremony, among many
others, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Grinnell, of Detroit;
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REVIEW OP
THE MUSIC TRADES
When the big delegation of Tripoli Temple,
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, left Milwaukee on
Monday, June 14, for Portland, Ore., to attend the
forty-sixth annual session of the Imperial Council
of the order in North America, June 23-24, the spe-
cial train of Pullman coaches carrying 220 Shriners
and their wives, had aboard a Meissner playerpiano.
The little piano will occupy the place of honor in a
"Made in Wisconsin" exhibit to be staged in the
Tripoli headquarters at Portland during the conven-
tion.
The Meissner on the Tripoli Special is one of the
first perfected models of the playerpiano of this
make which has left the factory of the Jackson
Piano Co. in Milwaukee. The Meissner player is
similar to the diminutive Meissner upright, being
only 3 feet 7 inches high, but somewhat deeper and
heavier, due to the incorporation of the player ac-
tion in the original design. The standard music
roll is used.
In the past Tripoli special trains have carried a
talking machine or phonograph, but this is the first
time a piano or a playerpiano has been a part of the
equipment de luxe. The expedition to Portland is
made principally to advertise Milwaukee and Wis-
consin, Tripoli being the only Shrine temple in the
state. Accordingly, at the suggestion of the temple,
the Jackson Piano Co., manufacturers, and the R. H.
Zinke Music Co., 425 Milwaukee street, exclusive
distributors of the Meissner in Wisconsin, provided
the playerpiano for the pilgrimage.
After the Portland convention the Meissner player
will be shipped to the Jackson company's distributor
at San Francisco for display during the Democratic
national convention before delivery to purchaser.
SEVERSON A DELEGATE.
Louis M. Severson, president of the Operators'
Piano Company, 16 South Peoria street, Chicago,
has gone to San Francisco as a delegate from a Chi-
cago district to the Democratic national convention.
He expects to be absent from Chicago a little more
than three weeks. A Presto man inquired at the
Operators' office about Mr. Stevenson's preference
for president, and was informed that it was not
known whether he was pledged or not. Mr. Sever-
son is one of the sort of business men who do not
tell what they are going to do very long in advance
of acting.
GULBRANSEN OFFICE ROMANCE.
Arthur Bless, manager of the export department
of the Gulbransen-Dickinson Company, Chicago, is
to be married on Saturday of this week, June 19, to
Miss Ellinore Dare. The wedding trip will include
stops at New York, Boston and Niagara Falls, with
a few side trips into the mountains of the East.
Miss Dare was employed in the stenographic depart-
ment of the Gulbransen-Dickinson Company's office,
and the romance, which began at first sight, is to
have the happy ending that all first class novelists
seek.
T. J. O'Sullivan has opened a phonograph store in
the Ehler Building, Calumet, Mich.
PROGRAM OF TRADE
GOLF TOURNAMENT
Last Notice Informs Members That Plans for
the Most Interesting Series Since
Formation Are Completed.
Members of the Piano Trade Golf Association
have received final notice about the high time at
the Sea View Club, near Atlantic City, N. J., from
June 21 to 23. But the majority of members who
play a good game needed nothing supplementary
to the first announcement to insure their presence
at the opening drive.
The schedule of events will be the same as in
previous seasons. There will be a prize for the
championship, decided by 72-holes medal play, prizes
for Monday, June 21, morning medal play, one prize
for the best gross score, two prizes for two lowest
net scores. There will be prizes for medal play
Wednesday afternoon. Also there will be the usual
Mights of eight, prize for the winner, prize for each
runner-up and prize for each beaten four. No one
will be allowed to win over two prizes. An unusually
fine selection of prizes has been provided for this
year, and plans have been completed to make the
coming tournament one of the best every held. The
following is the tournament program:
Monday, June 21—18~hole handicap, qualifying
round. Prizes: First—Gross Score; first and second
—Net Score.
Tuesday and Wednesday will be devoted to usual
match play. Prizes: Winner, runner-up.
Wednesday afternoon—18-hole handicap. Prizes:
First—Gross Score; first and second—Net Score.
Championship prize for best 72-holes starting
Tuesday a. m.
Train schedule to Absecon: Members must be
sure to take notice that "Absecon" is the station,
and not Atlantic City. Club bus will meet members
at Absecon for Sea View Course.
On week days the service is as follows: Leave
Penna. Station, N. Y. City, 8:00 a. m., 10:12, 2:00
p. m., 3:00, 3:04, arriving consecutively 10:58 a. m.,
1:08 p. m., 6:58, 6:48 and 608.
Leave Philadelphia, Market St., 7:36 a. m., arrive
9:42 a. m.
Leave North Philadelphia, 9:56 a. m., arrive 10:58.
Leave Market Street, 10:15 a. m., 4:32 p. m. and
5:40, arriving 11:23 a. m., 6:58 p. m. and 6:48 con-
secutively.
Sundays: Leave Penna. Station, N. Y. City, 8:00
a. m., 9:50 and 2:00 p. m., arrive 10:58 a. m., 12:48
p. m., and 6:33, consecutively.
Leave Philadelphia, North Philadelphia, 9:56 a.
m., arrive 10:58 a. m.
Leave Market Street, 10:15 a. m., arrive 11:23;
leave 4:30 p. m., arrive 6:33.
The annual banquet and election of officers will be
held at the Sea View Club, Wednesday evening, June
23, at seven o'clock.
0UT=0F=T0WN DEALERS
ENCOUNTERED IN CHICAGO
Walter Quast, son of John Quast, Buffalo Lake,
Minn., stopped at Chicago on his way home from
Capital University, Columbus, Ohio, to select some
pianos for his father's store. He called at the M.
Schulz Company's place of business, 711 Milwaukee
avenue.
W. F. Duntema, of the Angeles Pioneer Music
Company, Port Angeles, Wash., was in Chicago this
week. Mr. Duntema says the dealers at Port An-
geles have had great difficulty in getting goods re-
cently.
Paul Gregg, a Packard piano dealer at Menomo-
nie, Wis., was in Chicago on Wednesday of this
week.
L. F. Bidinger, piano dealer of Kenosha, Wis.,
was in Chicago this week and ordered goods.
Claude P. Street, of Nashville, Tenn., was in Chi-
cago this week. He expressed himself as very anx-
ious for goods. He sells the H. C. Bay line, among
others.
Free concerts are used to demonstrate the Colum-
bia Grafonola by the Prince Carpet & Furniture Co.,
Hazelton, Pa.
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