PRESTO
GROWTH OF THE WEAVER
WELFARE ASSOCIATION
Organization of Employes of Weaver Piano
Company, Inc., Is Significant of Policies
of York Industry.
Among the forms of welfare work carried on in
the factory of the Weaver Piano Company, is the
Weaver Piano Company Beneficial Association of
men in the factory that pays sick and death benefits
to its members. Every employe of the company is
eligible to membership and membership can be re-
tained after the employe leaves the company. The as-
sociation was organized February 7, 1891, with the
following officers: President, T. R. Hendrickson;
Vice-president, H. H. GifTord; Secretary, Samuel
Kottcamp; Treasurer, Wm. H. Poff.
When first organized there were thirty-seven mem-
bers with dues at 25 cents a month and $5.00 per
week paid as a sick benefit. At the death of a mem-
ber there was an assessment of 50 cents to pay the
claim. In 1895, because of the smallness of the dues,
the association became bankrupt.
The idea, however, was so popular among the men
that several of them got together and ran an excur-
sion to Washington which was very successful and
resulted in a profit. It was then decided to pay $3.00
per week sick benefits leaving the dues the same until
June, 1921, when the benefits were increased to $5.00
per week and the dues to 50c per month, sick benefits
being paid for thirteen weeks at the rate of $5.00 per
week and then $2.00 per week thereafter; $75.00 being
paid at the death of a member and $35.00 at the
death of a member's wife.
On January 1st, 1923, the Weaver Piano Company
announced that it would duplicate the benefits of the
association to all members of the association who are
employes of the company when they become bene-
ficial, thus making the sick benefits of employed mem-
bers $10.00 per week and the death benefits $150.00
and $70.00 at the death of a member's wife. The fol-
lowing communication was received from the Bene-
ficial Association dated Jan. 15, 1923, and addressed
to the officers of the Weaver Piano Co., Inc.:
"Dear Sirs: As officers of the Weaver Piano Com-
pany Beneficial Association, we wish to extend to
you on behalf of the members, our most sincere
thanks for your kind consideration of your employes
belonging to this association, by granting them the
sum of $5.00 per week when sick or disabled, the
same as the Beneficial Society.
"Trusting that the employes will show their appre-
ciation by closer co-operation in still making the
Weaver Piano the best in the world, and bringing to-
gether better relations between employer and em-
ploye for every future success, we remain." The let-
ter was signed by Charles H. Stauffer, president; Wm.
H. Selemeyer, treasurer and Jos. Beaverson, secretary.
To date, the Beneficial Association has received in
dues $10,406.66 and has paid out in benefits $9,682.68,
leaving a balance in the treasury of $723.98. The as-
sociation is conducted without expense; all the officers
services are voluntary. The present officers of the
association are: President, Charles H. Stauffer;
vice-president, L. P. Hoopes; treasurer, Wm. H. Sele-
meyer and secretary, Joseph Beaverson. The associa-
tion at the present time has an active membership of
one hundred and seventy-two.
Since its organization this association has always
beer, conducted by the factory workers and the
corporation took no active part in its management.
However, the company naturally was very much in-
terested in the affairs of the association, because it
realized that it was a great help to the men in many
ways and that it knit the organization closer together,
it is another indication of the fact that the aim of
the Weaver Piano Company has always been to de-
velop men as well as pianos.
A SIGNIFICANT FACT.
According to Dun's review of Chicago trade last
week it was "regarded as significant that the business
of the large mail order houses is running ahead of
even the brisk December rate, which turned the
losses of last year into a net gain. The interior seems
to have turned definitely from its abstention from
buying, which was a discouraging feature of almost
every line of trade."
CANADIAN VISITOR.
W. F. SCHWENTKER.
B. A. Trestrail, of the Musical Merchandise Sales
Co., Toronto, Canada, was among the piano pur-
chasers in Chicago last week. While here Mr. Tres-
trail placed orders for some badly needed instru-
ments, saying that he had use for as many as he
could get now.
IISINKERHOff PUN0 CO. ""SSSSHJT- CHICAGO
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A WORLD'S CHOICE PIANO
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Famous Artist Renews Former Triumphs With
Steinway Piano at Astonishing Reception.
SOLID WITH T H E EDITOR.
The Moberly, Mo., Democrat believes J. B. Ralston,
new manager of Mr. Taylor Music Company in that
city "will make "a good citizen and a good manager
for the store, as he is a very likeable and capable man.
"The paper adds that "Mr. Ralston has been here
for the last few weeks getting acquainted with the
place and has made many friends during the short
time he has been here. Mr. Ralston has moved his
family to the city and expects to be here to help the
town grow."
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GREAT OVATION GIVEN
PADEREWSKI IN CHICAGO
The return of Ignace Paderevvski, playing the
Steinway piano, in recital at the Auditorium Theater,
Chicago, last Sunday afternoon, after seven years,
brought forth the greatest expression of enthusiasm
from the public that the season has developed. Not
all the stars, not all the pomp and circumstance of
opera, have elicited such a demonstration as his two
hours and fifty minues of piano playing provoked. It
was a tribute to Paderewski the artist and Peder-
ewski the man and patriot. In telling about the re-
cital Glenn Dillard Gunn, Herald-Examiner music
critic said:
The American public always has been devoted to
him during the thirty years and more of his career.
But I, at least, felt that music is honored in his per-
son as is in the person of no other artist. For he is
the only musician who has laid aside his art to be-
come a great statesman; who has sacrificed health
and wealth and career on the altar cf patriotism.
SUGGESTION FOR DEALERS.
Now, with fortune gone, he returns, a man past 60,
In the "What I Would Do" department of system to the exacting tasks of the concert hall. It is a grate-
which is open to contributions with a business sug- ful duty, therefore, to record his renewed artistic tri-
The years spent in the service of country and
gestion, Grace M. Davis writes: "If I were a music umphs.
humanity have been kind to him, despite their
dealer, I would take advantage of the fact that high of
crushing burdens.
schools are eager to have visitors entertain the stu-
His step is brisk, his eye bright, his carriage erect
dent body at assemblies. I should send the store and from his personality there emanate the same
musician to lead in the chorus singing of popular airs. quality of force and distinction that always has set
To encourage the writing of school songs with popu- him apart among his fellows. There is more gray in
lar tunes I should have the soloist sing the latest hits his hair. It is, perhaps, not the full auroral mane that
once delighted the cartoonists. But his face looks
with a school or local twist."
fuller and not so worn as when he pleaded his coun-
try's cause from the same stage seven years ago.
BRINKERHOFF
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January 27, 1923
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