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CHAMBER DIRECTORS MEET
Officials of Music Industries Chamber of Commerce at Meeting
Atlantic City Add Export Bureau to Facilitate
Music Trade
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OTHER IMPORTANT OFFICIAL ACTION TAKEN
Date Set for Next Meeting in Chicago—Standing Committees Abolished
and New Ones with Advisory Capacity Formed—Vote on Labor
Report—Announcement of Chamber Bulletin
At the meeting of the directors of the Music In-
dustries Chamber of Commerce at the Hotel Tray-
more Atlantic City, N, J., June 25 it was decided to
hold the next annual convention of the Chamber be-
tween May 1 and 15th, at the Congress Hotel in
Chicago, the exact date to be settled by the presi-
dent after consultation with the officials of the vari-
ous member associations, which expected to hold
their conventions at the same time. Later, the ex-
ecutive committee of the National Association of
Music Merchants decided on the week of May 23 as
will be seen in a report elsewhere in this paper. The
view of the merchants' association members present
at the executive committee meeting was that the
Chamber officials would change to a May date more
in accordance with the merchants' plans.
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Add Export Bureau.
i^n important action of the Chamber meeting was
the, decision to add another department— 'the Ex-
port Bureau. It will be in charge of an experienced
expiort man and will have proper facilities for pro-
moting the export trade of the entire music industry.
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Abolishes Standing Committees.
Tfhe former standing committees of the Chamber
haye been abolished and the president was instructed
to Jreappoint the Salaries and Finance Committee with
additional committees so that it will be representa-
tive of all branches of the industry and also to ap-
i t th
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point
the f following
committees:
Legal
and Legisla-
tive Committee, Better Business Committee, Com-
mi ttee on the Advancement of Music, Export Com-
mittee and Trade Information Service Committee.
These committees will be advisory committees for
th sei ve in an advisory capacity and will be available
foi consultation by the bureau in question and will
m; ke investigations, reports and recommendations
to the directors for action upon matters of policy
ar d important activities connected with the work of
th e bureau.
Incorporate Chamber.
The general manager was instructed to take mea-
su 1 es preparatory to the incorporation of the Cham-
be -, which at present is an unincorporated associa-
tic n. The final details connected with the incorpo-
ra tion will be passed upon at the next meeting of
th e board. In connection with the incorporation,
th ire will also be a revision of the Constitution and
-Laws of the Chamber, made necessary by its
wth and enlargement of its activities,
is planned to draw up uniform membership certifi-
s suitable for framing for each member associa-
This matter will be taken care of in consulting
the officers of the member associations, in the
e that each association will adopt a certificate as
cial. The certificates will all be similar, yet distinct
fe matter of future prices was discussed informally
the board instructed that an investigation be
: and at the discretion of the general manager
official report of the Chamber on the subject be
blished in an early issue of the monthly bulletin.
Votes on Labor Report.
"he committee considered and voted favorably on
jferendum 31 of the Chamber of Commerce of the
Jnited States of America, being the report of the
|>ecial Committee on Public Utilities, concerning
fgulations of employment relations to public serv-
corporations. This report favors the following
/o propositions:
ll. That stirkes by employes of all public service
lirporations, performing public service, essential to
the lives, health, security, comfort, and well being of
the people, should by law be prohibited and
2. That suitable tribunals should be created by
law to adjudicate the differences between the em-
ployes of public service corporations and their em-
ployers, and that the decisions of such tribunals
should be final and binding upon both parties.
The directors voted to contribute to the erection
of a building in Washington for the Chamber of Com-
merce of the United States which will serve as head-
quarters for the nation's business in Washington.
This is in accordance with the policy of the Music
Industries Chamber of Commerce to co-operate with
the National Chamber upon important business ques-
tions of a national character affecting this industry.
A Chamber Bulletin.
The directors also voted to publish monthly an
official bulletin of the Chamber. This monthly pub-
lication will be sent to all of the members of the
NEW HOME FOR KNABE
WAREROOMS, INC., IN CAPITAL
J. H. Williams, Its President, Purchases the Ca-
pacious Building at 1330 G Street, Northwest.
Combine the ex-
periences and ener-
gies of a good pi-
ano man and the
name of a high
class piano and the
result is a success-
ful business. The
story of such a
combination is con-
veyed in the title
of a leading music
house of Baltimore,
Md., and Washing-
ton, D. C, the
Knabe Warerooms,
Inc., the president
of which is J. H.
Williams.
Success is re-
corded and com-
memorated in va-
rious p l e a s a n t
ways. The business
w o r l d acknowl-
edges it in the reg-
ular form and in
incidental
ways
that are all the
more flattering be-
cause
they
are
spontaneous. The
KNABE WAREROOMS,
growth in patron-
WASHINGTON, D. C.
age by the public
is a phase of testimony. A convincing evidence of suc-
cess is supplied this week by the Knabe Warerooms,
Inc., in a formal announcement.
The accompanying cut shows the new Williams
building, 1330 G St., N. W., Washington, D. C. This
building was recently purchased by J. H. Williams,
president of the Knabe Warerooms, Inc., and will
be the future home of the Knabe piano.
various member associations of the Chamber and
individual members, comprising a total mailing list
of about 3,500. The paper will average eight pages
and will be approximately eight by twelve inches.
It is distinctly a house organ of the Chamber and
will not carry any advertising. It will contain the
monthly reports of the activities of the various bu-
reaus of the Chamber and information concerning
the purposes of the Chamber ^nd other material of
interest to the members. The official news, of the
Chamber will continue to be sent to the trade papers
each week and will not be held for publication in the
official bulletin.
The name of the bulletin has not yet been finally
decided upon, but it will probably be called "Monthly
Bulletin of the Music Industries Chamber of Com-
merce." It is expected that its first issue will appear
about July 15th, and from then on it will come out
regularly on the 15th of each month. The editor of
the bulletin who also will have charge of its make-up
will be Frederic A. Steele, who is already connected
with the Chamber in the National Bureau for the
Advancement of Music.
W. F. WALLACE JOINS Q R S
COMPANY'S TRAVELING STAFF
He Is One of the Pioneers in the Music Roll End
of the Industry.
The Q R S Music Co. announces the addition to
its staff of W. F. Wallace. Mr. Wallace will travel
out of Chicago.
"Bill" Wallace, as everybody knows him, is one
of the pioneers in the music roll game, and there
is perhaps no better known and loved traveling man
in the business.
He started in 1904 with the old Perforated Music
Roll Co. E. J. Delfraisse at that time bought from
him 5,000 65-note rolls for the L. Grunewald Co.,
of New Orleans, and that was some order in those
days. (P. S.—Earl Holland says he will corroborate
this as he found them all there in 1912.)
The Perforated Music Roll Co. and the 65-note
roll are both extinct now, but "Bill" Wallace has
progressed continually to the n'th degree, and his
genial smile fits so well with Q R S products, that
both this company and Mr. Wallace have been
the recipients of numerous congratulations from
coast to coast.
CALLS SPECIAL MEETING
OF NEW YORK PIANO CLUB
Secretary Bowers Mails Earnest Request to Mem-
bers to Foregather July 28,
There will be a special meeting of the members of
the Piano Club of New York, July 28, at the club
rooms at 1:30 p. m., for the purpose of voting on the
following amendment to the by-laws which has been
approved by the board of directors:
"Article III, Section 1. By striking out second
paragraph thereof and inserting instead:
"The number of members exclusive of gentlemen
connected with piano or its allied trades shall not at
any time exceed one-third of the total membership
of the club."
A LONG-DISTANCE AUTO TRIP.
Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Lehman, of St. Louis, Mo.,
drove to Chicago in their car and visited Mr. and
Mrs. James T. Bristol, of the Price & Teeple Piano
Company. Mr. Lehman is selling the Price & Teeple
line in St. Louis and is particularly fond of the
reproducing instrument manufactured by that com-
pany. While in Chicago Mr. and Mrs. Lehman
stopped at the Parkway Hotel. Accompanied by
Mr. and Mrs. Bristol, they went by automobile to
the Symphonola factory at Kankakee, 111., on Fri-
day. They drove back to St. Louis from Chicago
on Saturday.
ALLAN WELLBURN RESIGNS.
Allan Wellburn, member of the board of direc-
tors of the O. K. Houck Piano Co., Memphis, Tenn.,
and manager of the Nashville store of the company,
has resigned. Mr. Wellburn has not announced his
future plans. Mr. Wellburn is a man of wide expe-
rience in both the piano and talking machine fields.
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