PRESTO
July 17, 1920.
H. S. HOLLEY TAKES PARTNER
IN CARROLL, IOWA, HOUSE
GREAT NEW FACTORY OF BALDWIN CO.
His Brother, E. B. Holley, Made Vice-President in
Company Recently Incorporated.
Snapshot Taken the Other Day When Cement Work Had Reached the
Third Floor of Structure
H. S. Holley, Carroll, la., has sold a half interest
in the Holley Music House to E. B. Holley, his
brother, who has been associated with him for a
number of years. The business is now incorporated
under the firm name of Holley Music House. The
capital stock is $40,000 with $30,000 cash paid in.
The officers are: H. S. Holley, president and treas-
urer; E. B. Holley, vice-president and secretary.
The new firm will continue doing business at the
old stand, with the same lines of pianos and talking
machines. The company handles the Gulbransen-
Dickinson playerpianos and Packard and Hallet &
Davis pianos. Victrola and Brunswick talking ma-
chines are carried.
The name Holley, in the piano business, dates
back to 1893, when H. S. and E. B. covered the ter-
ritory in Northwestern Iowa as tuners. Later they
also handled pianos with sales made in freight houses
or hotel parlors. Persistent efforts, well directed,
in the same territory is the way the principals in the
Carroll Company say they have gained success.
PLANS FOR NEXT WISCONSIN
PIANO DEALERS MEETING
Big Day Expected in Milwaukee During the State
Fair in September.
The first of a series of monthly bulletins to be is-
sued by the Wisconsin Association of Music Indus-
tries, to keep a close contact between the officers
and members, made its appearance during the past
week. It was devoted largely to the promotion of
a campaign for new members which is being con-
ducted by President Richard H. Zinke from his
headquarters at 425 Milwaukee street, Milwaukee.
Attention is called in the bulletin to the second
annual convention of the Wisconsin music trades,
to be held under auspices of the association at Mil-
waukee on Wednesday, September 1, which is the
middle of State Fair week.
While the convention program is only partly out-
lined, it has been decided to divide the day into one
business meeting and trade conference, a visit to
the State Fair, where the Milwaukee Association
of Music Dealers will again conduct a Music Festival
and promote community singing, music memory con-
test, etc., and to wind up the day with a dinner,
followed by a concert and a dancing party.
President Zinke is trying to secure a speaker of
national reputation as the big drawing card of the
convention. At the first annual meeting held on
Sept. 10, last year, George W. Pound, general counsel
of the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce was
the principal speaker.
GETTING PIANOS IS NOT
AN EASY MATTER TODAY
Milwaukee Dealer Tells of Difficulties in Transport-
ing Stock After Finding It,
"Getting pianos to the retail sales rooms now-
adays means camping right on the doorsteps of the
manufacturers, and then sticking like glue to trans-
portation factors until delivery is made," said Ed-
mund Gram, head of the Edmund Gram Music
House, in Milwaukee, who has just returned from a
scouting trip for goods in the East. On July 1, Mr.
Gram still had unfilled orders on his books dating
back to the holiday season of 1919.
While in the East, Mr. Gram attended midsummer
conferences of groups of the Music Industries Cham-
ber of Commerce a"nd National Association of Music
Merchants, of which he is a director. From Atlantic
City he hurried to New York to get goods through
to Milwaukee. He found that the unfavorable trans-
portation situation was principally at fault for the
delay in getting new stocks. Instruments shipped
from New York during the early part of April not
only have not been delivered at Milwaukee, but vir-
tually no information concerning their whereabouts
is available. The pianos are in cars on tracks "some-
where in America."
However, while in New York, Mr. Gram was able
to make arrangements to get carriage for a relatively
large shipment of Steinways which were shipped by
express and are now arriving. Practically all of in-
struments must be applied on old orders, leaving
nothing to put into stock to meet the usual heavy
demand during the fall and holiday season. He fears
FROM l.KKT TO IUG'HT: I«\ A. McGEK, THE BALDWIN PIANO CO.; G. A. GKIB, RESIDENT ENGI-
NEER, LOCKWOOD. GREENE & CO.; MR. HODGES, SUPERINTENDENT THE FRRRO CONCRETE CON-
STRUCTION CO.; N. ROWE, LOCKWOOD, GRE'ENE & CO.; THOMSON DESE1USY, THE BALDWIN CO.;
L. D. SARGENT, THE BALDWIN CO.; S. B. LINCOLN, LOCKWOOD, GREENE & CO., ENGINEERS;
LUCIEN WULSIN. THE BALDWIN CO.. AND E. E. BEACH, THE BALDWIN CO.
The cement workers on the Baldwin Piano Com-
pany's new building at the entrance to Eden Park,
Cincinnati, Ohio, are now pouring for the sixth floor.
Two more stories and they will be ready for the
roof. The accompanying picture shows the progress
of the work when it had reached the third floor. It
shows a group of Baldwin Company officials and
engineers on the third floor of the new Baldwin
building.
The general appearance of the building will be like
that of a beautiful big school, a decoration to that
part of the city. In fact Cincinnati prides itself on
the beauty of its factories, many of which are orna-
mental landmarks, and the city is hoping to have the
railroads wake up to the importance of erecting some
fine railroad stations there.
Bedford stone is used for the outer walls at the
first floor and red brick with terra cotta trimmings
at the top. The tower is to be 176 feet in height,
with a four-face clock, which will be visible for a
long distance in that part of Cincinnati. On the
first floor the columns will be 21 feet from center to
center, and not a beam of any kind is used. In the
front part of this floor will be two very beautiful
piano display rooms.
The columns on the first floor are 36 inches in
diameter, and they lessen as the building goes up.
The floors are 7% inches thick. The windows are
16 feet wide and 10 feet high. They are ample to
give plenty of daylight.
it will require several more personal trips to the East
before Christmas if he is to get anywhere near a
reasonable quantity of merchandise into his store.
PORTLAND, ORE., SALES
SHOW GRATIFYING INCREASE
L. O. ROGERS GETS OLD GIFT.
That dealers appreciate conscientious service was
proven recently by a unique present to L. O. Rog-
ers by Romero Lozada Hnos, of Lima, Peru. The
gift was a small gold coin issued by Peru but not
in active circulation and, therefore, considerably
rare. Mr. Hnos is a progressive Republic dealer
who while making a visit to New York City inspect-
ed the new Republic plant and became intensely in-
terested in the Republic method of manufacturing
Republic player rolls. He was entertained during
his visit by several of the Republic recording stars.
PIANO MAN 98 YEARS OLD.
A. D. Hildreth. of Rawlins, Wyo., whose picture
was used in the Chicago Tribune of July 7, in con-
nection with a story that he was the oldest Elk
at the Chicago Elks' convention, is also a piano deal-
er, although the Tribune did not mention that fact.
He braved the heat and the long journey to Chi-
cago in his 99th year to have some fun with his
fellow Elks at convention time. And he called at
the Price & Teeple Piano Company's offices and
chatted with the officers of that manufacturing con-
LANZ TAKES MANY ORDERS.
W. S. Lanz, nationally-known traveler for the
Brinkerhoff Piano Company, Chicago, is now in the
Northwest on a trip for that house. On this trip
Mr. Lanz has met with great success, having turned
in a big bunch of good orders for Brinkerhoff in-
struments.
That Glad Fact and Other Trade News There Re-
corded in Brief.
H. T. Campbell, manager of the Bush & Lane
Piano Co., Portland, Ore., says there is a big im-
provement over sales this time last year. The roll
and record departments show a gratifying increase
—at least 50 per cent better than during the same
period last year.
J. F. Matthews, of the G. F. Johnson Piano Co.,
Portland, Ore., who was severely injured in an au-
tomobile accident recently, is slowly recovering. Mr.
Matthews was driving his machine and ran it against
a telegraph pole in order to avoid hitting a child.
The machine was demolished and Mr. Matthews
painfully injured.
It took just exactly three months for music or-
dered by Louis W. Mack, of Mack's Sheet Music
Store, Portland, Ore., from the Schirmer Co. of
New York, to reach Portland. It left New York by
way of the Panama canal on May 6 and reached
Portland on July 6. A big shipment of Wood pub-
lications from Boston for the Mack store arrived
this week by express. Mr. Mack says there is a
healthy demand for Pacific Coast publications, and a
splendid field here for publishers. Dealers do not
have to wait until music can be sent from the East,
but get good music from coast publishers.
W. E. Watkins, head of Watkins Bros., Hartford,
Conn., recently won high honors at a shooting tourn-
ament. He smashed ninety light "birds" out of 100.
Mr. Watkins scored a similar triumph last year.
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