PRESTO
THE SCHAFF BROS. CO.
FEELS CIVIC PRIDE
Huntington, Ind., Industry More Conscious of
the Feeling Because of Its Part in
Creating City's Prestige.
Huntington, Ind., is one of the ambitious manu-
facturing centers of the state which shows an in-
crease in importance every year that passes. The
attitude of the Huntington manufacturers as a body
is expressed in the meritorious character of the
products of the individual industries. Every Hunt-
ington manufacturing unit admits a responsibility
to uphold the prestige of the activities as a whole.
The admirable spirit influences each separate worker
in the plants and imparts the consciousness that the
credit of both his shop and the fame of Huntington
depends on perfection in handling his particular
task.
That is the spirit that imbues the officials and
workers in the plant of the Schaff Bros. Co., one
of Huntington's oldest industries. It was estab-
lished in 1868. From President Jacob Dick down
to the newest apprentice the ambitious spirit is to
make Schaff Bros, pianos and players worthy of the
ideals of the company and the manufacturing honor
of the city.
In a special industrial edition of the Huntington
Press, September 5, the purposes of the Schaff Bros.
Co. were stated in a handsome full page display:
"During all the fifty-two years that pianos have
been turned out bearing the Schaff name-plate, the
original purpose of the Schaffs has been most rigidly
adhered to. It has continuously been the purpose
to improve the Schaff piano—to make the years
show real progress in piano making. Thousands
and thousands of pianos have been manufactured
on this basis and today the Schaff line is better
than ever. Schaff pianos are beautiful in design and
beautiful in tone quality—strong, solid and service-
able—honest pianos honestly made."
The display of the Schaff Bros. Co. contained an
appeal to Huntington people to support their local
industries as much as possible. This statement was
printed:
"We have reason to feel proud of the products
whose trade mark appears in this issue. They have
carried the name and fame of our city abroad in
the land. They are making our city larger, more
prosperous, better known.
"It is the real duty of every citizen of Hunting-
ton to use these products in preference to others.
The organization that manufactures them supports
hundreds of local families and spends thousands of
dollars at home. They are a part of our civic life.
We need them and they need us."
office. Second floor: Ampico and grand piano dis-
play. Third floor: Upright piano display, includ-
ing Chickering, Haines Bros., Marshall & Wendell,
Sohmer and other pianos. Fourth floor: Talking
machine department, Victor Victrolas and other in-
struments. Fifth floor: Upright piano display and
near new piano display. Sixth floor: Buyer and
seller's exchange, used pianos and examining shop.
Lower Mezzanine: Player rolls, sheet music and
band instruments. Basement: Store rooms and
packing and shipping department. Taking advan-
tage of the fact that the play "Humoresque" is be
ing shown at the movie theaters the firm has in
one corner a display • showing a Melody roll, to-
gether with a Victor record of "Humoresque" sheet
music and other signs.
San Francisco had two holidays in one week,
labor Dav and Admission Day. This year the
Order of Native Sons of the Golden West will hold
their annual conclave in 9?m Francisco and follow-
ing a monster parade and demonstration, they will
proceed to the Civic Center for a patriotic demon-
stration, programs of which are being printed by
Byron Mauzy advertising the Chickering piano.
JAMES T. BRISTOL AND
E. B. BARTLETT GOLF VICTORS
Notwithstanding Unpleasant Weather, Attendance
at Chicago Golf Tournament Was Good.
The September all-day tournament of the Chicago
Piano Golf Association was held on Wednesday,
September 8, at the Glen Oak Country Club. Not-
withstanding lowering skies and wisps of fog in
the air, the attendance was good and the affair
hugely enjoyed.
In the morning's medal play James T. Bristol of
the Price & Teeple Piano Company won the first
prize, a silver pitcher, with a net 70. Roy E.
Waite won second prize witH a net score of 76.
After luncheon match play against par with handi-
caps prevailing was the order. On this occasion
the first prize went to E. B. Baftlett of the W. W.
Kimball Company. E. F. Lapham of Grosvenor,
Lapham & Co., tied with Andrew Mclllwrath of
Geo. W. Stoneman & Co. for second prize.
It might be mentioned that the best cards in
the post meridian event were turned in by Messrs.
Bristol and Waite, but inasmuch as they each had
captured a prize in the morning they were eliminat-
ed from consideration in the afternoon awards.
Mr. Bartlett's card showing that he won by one
down to par entitled him to a hot air protector or
whatever the prize was, while the cards of Messrs.
Lapham and Mclllwrath showed they each were
down to par and gave them the privilege of matching
pennies for the rubber corkscrew or whatever the
second prize might be.
BACON REPRODUCING PIANO
OPEN DOORS IN NEW
FOR U. S. S. TENNESSEE
PIANO SELLING VENTURES
Player Piano Installed Last Week for Use of
Enlisted Men of the Latest U. S.* Warship.
The Bacon Reproducing Piano which is equipped
with the Auto De Luxe Welte-Mignon (Licensed)
Reproducing Action, was added last week to the
musical equipment of the U. S. S. Tennessee, the
latest and most modern of the fleet of Uncle Sam's
war ships.
The U. S. S. Tennessee has just been completed at
the Brooklyn Navy Yard and leaves shortly on her
maiden trip. She is an oil burning type of vessel
and carries the largest armament and has the great-
est displacement of any battleship in the United
States.
With this new Bacon instrument there was also
supplied a comprehensive library of the famou-.
Welte music which will afford the personnel of the
boat the highest type of musical entertainment.
WINDOW DISPLAY SHOWS
EXTENT OF THE BUSINESS
Byron Mauzy, San Francisco, Takes Unique Way
of Telling the Commercial Facts.
Following the immense success of A. Batkin's
Labor Day window in the Byron Mauzy store, 800
Manasses, Mr. Batkin has arranged a very striking
Window on the principle that few of the people that
walk up the street and look in the windows realize
how much of the building is occupied. A large
picture of the building in a handsome frame is set
in the center of the window, each floor being desig-
nated by various colored ribbons attached to a card
on which were placed descriptions of the varioui
floors, somewhat as follows:
Main floor: talking machines, Victrolas and Co-
lumbias. Second Mezzanine: Offices and executive
September 18, 1920.
WAREROOM WARBLES
(A New One Every Week.)
By The Presto Poick.
FEET
THE SIZE OF IT.
It's a story good and old
Told, in fact, each summer's end,
Just about when green turns gold
And the tints of autumn blend;
You will hear it in the store,
Stretching as it goes its way—
"It was four feet long, or more—"
Caught it in some brook or bay.
And they say it just as if
Every man who tells it thought
All the rest ne'er had a sniff
Of the streams where fish are caught;
"Mine was not so big," says one,
But it sure did make a fight,
Harder than your fish had done—
And I'll say I trolled it right!"
"Well, those trout were fairly big,"
Wedges in another Ike,
"But they were not worth a fig,
Sized up with my wall-eyed pike!
Measured damn near six feet long—
When I landed him, hear me!—
Had him hitched, he pulled so strong,
Clean upturned a willow tree!"
"Some fish!" office boy declared,
"When my pa was just a kid,
Caught a whale that he had snared
In the grass where he had hid!
When my ma cooked it for tea,
Brother Bill swore he could not
See how'n thunder 'twas that she
Cooked that whale in a six-inch pot!"
ARCHIE N. GRIMES ON ROAD
FOR MEL = O = DEE ROLLS
Opportunity Seen and Grasped by Vigorous Onea
in the Piano Selling Field.
Thomas F. Moore, Winchester, Ky., has closed a
deal for the lease of his concrete building on Wall
street to the- Phillips Music Company, which was
open for business September 15.
Arnold F. Wliittekind has opened a store at 121
Fremont street, Trenton, N. J.
The music department of the D. 11. Holmes store.
New Orleans, has been moved to another portion of
the same floor, where Manager R. E. Ching be-
lieves he will be in a more advantageous situation.
The Cejka Music House has opened in Cedar
Rapids, la. Pianos, players and talking machines
are handled.
B. E. Allen, Davenport, la., will open a music
store in his building on Jefferson street which was
formerly occupied by Alley Inn. He will handle
Brunswick phonographs, pianos, music records, etc.
Dan Williams, manager of the Shelbyville, Ind.,
branch of the Pearson Piano Co., has announced
many innovations and improvements for the new
store of company on Harrison street.
The Wolfe Music Co., Cleveland, O., is remodel-
ing a store in the rear of the main wareroom of the
firm. This will add considerable necessary space
to the store.
Traveler Experienced in the Goods to Cover In-
diana, Kentucky and Missouri.
Archie N. Grimes known throughout the Middle
West because of his connection with the Melville
Clark Piano Co., Chicago, and later with the Q. R. S.
Company, Chicago, has joined the sales force of
the Mel-O-Dee Music Company, Inc.. and will
travel the states of Indiana, Kentucky and Missouri.
Mr. Grimes not only has a thorough knowledge of
the selling of rolls, but is also informed as to the
manufacturing of both players and rolls through
his early mechanical training.
After a dinner Tuesday evening, September 7,
at the Muehlbach Hotel, Kansas City, Gordon
Laughead addressed the members of the wholesale
and retail roll department of the J. W. Jenkins'
Sons Music Co., jobbers of Mel-O-Dee rolh.
H. W. Albert and Walter Ehrnman responded
to Mr. Laughead's address expressing hearty en-
thusiasm for the new Mel-O-Dee roll for September
and October. Later dancing was enjoyed by the
party—Mel-O-Dee rolls on a player furnishing the
music.
A small army of salesmen represented the Mel-
O-Dee Music Company, Inc.. at the Ohio Dealers'
Convention at Youngstown, Tuesday and Wednes-
day of this week. In attendance will be Geo. H.
Bliss, Gordon Laughead, Harry B. Levy, Roy A.
Rose, John Tebben, Ohio representative, and A. A.
Fair.
PROFIT SHARING.
REX PIANO CO.'S NEW QUARTERS.
The American Contractor. Chicago, discussing the
profit-sharing plan of the Harvester Company, in
which profits, over and above an allowance of 7
per cent, are divided on a basis of 60 per cent to
the workers and 40 per cent to the owners, says the
plan is "not prudent nor is it sound economics."
The paper believes the public should be made profit
sharers, a thing that may be brought about by re-
ducing the prices of the product.
Lem Kline, general manager of the Rex Piano
Mfg. Co., whose factory is at 2048-52 Larrabee
street, Chicago, has moved his office from the third
floor of the Republic Building, Chicago, to his old
room on the main floor of the same building, the
removal taking place on Tuesday of this week. He
is now at the foot of the express elevators and on
the Adams street side of the building, an ideal :
location.
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