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PRESTO
January 20, 1921
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
A M U S E M E N T CENTERS
MUSICAL FEATURES FOR
SESQUI=CENTENNIAL SHOW
salaries or commissions as follows: Used pianos, 3
per cent; new uprights, 2j^ per cent; players, 2 per
cent; grands, \]/ 2 per cent; reproducers, 2 per cent.
This to supplant any other form of benefaction or gift.
In the collection department 10 per cent will be
added to all December salaries. In the office, ship-
ping, mailing, receiving and cleaning departments 10
per cent will be added to all December salaries.
Any salesman or saleswoman selling any article
displayed in the toy and floor lamp departments on
the front arbor receptacle will be allowed a special
commission of 10 per cent on marked prices or on
any customer taken to the saleslady in charge except
by our floor usher, to whom the general rule of 10
per cent added to salary for December will apply.
Victory Hall to House Events Planned for Phila-
delphian Exhibition of 1926.
The directors of the Sesqui-Centennial Exhibition
to be held in Philadelphia in 1926 have presented
plans for an affair to cost $15,000,000. Its purpose
shall be threefold:
To mark the 150th anniversary of the signing of
the Declaration of Independence; to portray the prog-
ress of the world particularly in the 50 years since
the Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia in
1876; to create a closer understanding and foster the
good will of the peoples of the world.
The prospectus says: The Sesqui-Centennial Ex-
hibition shall be a world festival of peace and prog-
ress under the auspices of the President and Congress Mew and Old Concerns Secure Charters in Various
Places.
of the United States, the Governor and Legislature of
Pennsylvania, and the Mayor and Council of the City
The Mapes Piano String Co., New York, has in-
of Philadelphia. The opening day will be Friday, creased its capitalization from $10,000 to $100,000.
April 30, 1926, and the closing day November 13.
C. C. Nixon Music Co., Whitchsh, Mont., to deal
1926.
in musical instruments; $20,000.
The musical features of the Exhibition will be in
Erasmus Music Shop, Brooklyn, N. Y.; phono-
the new Victory Hall which will be completed in time graphs;
$15,000; F. Boscia and A. J. Armour.
for the opening, with its various auditoriums in which
Iroquois Piano Co., Johnstown, Pa.; to deal in
will be given great musical and choral festivals by
the best choruses and orchestras of all nations; or- music goods; $10,000; D. H. Weaver and others.
The Hackett Music Store Co., Bellefontaine, O.;
gan concerts on the largest organ in the world to be
presented and erected in the largest auditorium; a $10,000; Edward Fink, H. R. Bewley, E. T. Kelley,
grand opera season by the world's most famous opera R. B. Rice and Albert A. Fink.
companies; drama by the most distinguished actors;
PEARSON PIANO CO.
great Sesqui-Centennial and foreign balls and festal
banquets in its spacious dining-hall to seat many
John S. Pearson, secretary-treasurer of the Pearson
thousands of people.
Piano Co., Indianapolis, announced last week that
the capital of the company had been increased from
$40,000 to $500,000. The increase in the capital stock
has been made to enable the company to extend its
field of operations in the state of Indiana, according
to Mr. Pearson. George C. Pearson is president of
the company which has its main store at 128 and 130
Body to Consider Participation in Office Created by North Pennsylvania street, Indianapolis.
Treaty of Versailles.
NEW INCORPORATIONS
IN MUSIC GOODS TRADE
Style SO
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
U. S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
AND INTERNATIONAL LABOR
Announcement that the Chamber of Commerce of
the United States is considering the advisability of
participating in the international labor office set up
under the treaty of Versailles was made in Washing-
ton, D. C, last week, by Julius Barnes, the chamber's
president. Speaking at a dinner given by him in
honor of Albert Thomas, director of the international
office, Mr. Barnes declared that such a participation
would be based on the idea of "leveling up" foreign
industrial standards rather than "leveling down our
own."
"It is with this idea that the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States is seriously considering the ad-
visability of participation in the employers' section of
the international labor office so that we may under-
stand and influence comparative world industrial rela-
tions," Mr. Barnes said.
HALLET & DAVIS CONVENTION.
A convention of the roadmen of the Hallet & Davis
Piano Co. was held on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday of this week at the Hotel Lenox, Boston.
On the second day of the convention the roadmen
visited the factory of the Hallet & Davis Piano Co.,
and the plant of the Simplex Action Co. at N'eponset,
Mass. Among the list of speakers at the convention
are the names of Earle E. Conway, Carle C. Conway,
R. O. Ainslee, T. P. Brown, John Cotter and P. K.
Van Yorx.
BONUS QUESTION SOLVED
IN TWO TEXAS STORES
Tiny Coinola
THE SMALLEST
KEYLESS
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
16 to 22 South Peoria St.
CHICAGO
Annual Bonus Dropped But Employes of Bush &
Gerts Piano Co. Get Rewards.
The question of providing the way to pay a bonus
was solved recently by the Bush & Gerts Piano Co.,
Dallas, Tex. The solving was done by William L.
Bush, president of the company, who believes there
may be a suggestion in it for the Senate and Con-
gress of the United States.
December business in the Dallas and Houston
stores of the company doubled any previous month
of the year in the grand total, and the company found
its inventory reduced during the month over $75,000,
Employes all received a handsome bonus, totaling
between $6,000 and $7,000, which applied to the entire
organization at Houston and Dallas. The most of
this bonus was legitimately earned by a special plan
adopted on the first of December, so that the sales
department really earned the bonus for the salaried
employes in the accounting, advertising and upkeep
departments. A letter to the head of each depart-
ment from Mr. Bush explained the bonus oppor-.
tunity:
Everybody on the sales force, beginning December
1, will be given the following opportunity to secure a
special compensation during December, 1922, in lieu
of a bonus which the company cannot give this year
because of the fact that we have neither laid off nor
cut wages or salaries during the year.
Everybody in the sheet music, records, roll and
small goods departments will be credited with an
amount equal to 5 per cent of individual net sales,
cash or charge during December. In the talking
machine department a commission of 2>4 per cent
will be added to commissions of commission salesmen
and 2 per cent on all sales of salaried employes.
In the piano department all salesmen and sales-
women will be credited with an added amount to
In Three Parts:
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Names and Character.
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3. Manufacturers of Pianos
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and Player-Pianos in Colors
Revised Annually
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