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PRESTO
February 3, 1923
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AUTOMATIC
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1510-1516 Dayton St.
CHICAGO
IMPORTANT ACTION
BY CHAMBER BOARD
Directors of Music Industries Chamber of
Commerce Meeting in Chicago Take
Decisive Stand on Various Ques-
tions Concerning Music Trades.
The meeting of the Board of Directors of the Music
Industries Chamber of Commerce, held at the Hotel
Drake, Chicago, on Friday morning, January 26th,
was one of the most important ever held from the
standpoint of results. Three important reports con-
cerning activities of the Chamber's Trade Service
Bureau, which are of particular interest to the mer-
chants, and the approval of the convention details
as reported by the Chamber's Convention Committee,
were the outstanding results of the meeting.
By action of the Board, a pamphlet will soon be
distributed to the trade, embodying income tax regu-
lations on instalment sales. The Trade Service Com-
mittee which recommended this has practically com-
pleted the proposed pamphlet, which has been put
together after a very careful and exhaustive analysis
of all income 7 tax regulations bearing on instalment
sales, and w hich, before publication, will be subject
to the criticism of special tax accountants, tax attor-
neys and finally approved by the Instalment Sales
Division of the Treasury Department. The report,
which will not be written in either accounting or legal
phraseology, is designed to be easily understandable
by the average member of the trade. It should be of
great help to merchants and to their attorneys or
accountants in making up tax returns.
Extends Its Influences.
As a result of action of the Board, the Chamber
will become a member of the Association of Wood
Using Industries. The Chamber has for some time
been co-operating with this association, particularly
in the work done through the government wood test-
ing laboratory at Madison, Wisconsin. Emil Wolff,
of M. Schulz Company, has been actively represent-
ing the Chamber in this matter.
The Board approved and voted to place all the
facilities of the Chamber behind a campaign to bring
about, if possible, uniform conditional sales laws and
laws compelling draymen to report moving musical
instruments in the various states.
President Lawrence for Delegate.
President Richard W. Lawrence was authorized to
represent the Chamber at the coming centennial cele-
bration at Boston during April, of the founding of
the first American piano manufacturing concern by
Jonas Chickering.
The following directors were in attendance: R. W.
Lawrence, president; James T. Bristol, J. Edwin But-
ler, C. C. Chickering, M. V. DeForeest, Charles
Deutschmann, C. D. Greenleaf, C. A. Grinnell, E.
Paul Hamilton, Herman Irion, E. R. Jacobsen, Paul
B. Klugh, James T. Rose, Alfred L. Smith.
The following officers, Executive Committee mem-
bers and members of constituent associations were in
attendance by request: D. D. Luxton, C. A. Wag-
ner, A. G. Gulbransen, Max de Rochemont, Jerome
Murphy, Edmund Gram, Arthur L. Wessell, Herbert
W. Hill, E. C. Johnson, A. W. Johnston, M. J.
Kennedy.
stores have taken on the Gulbransen and have pro-
duced a volume of business that was surprising, even
to Mr. Trestrail. The outlook for the coming year is
so good that it is sincerely hoped that the results will
justify the opening of a Canadian plant this year.
Mr. Trestrail has not only secured the distributing
rights, but has also acquired the manufacturing
rights, so that the establishment of a Canadian fac-
tory will be controlled absolutely and entirely in
Canada, with Canadian capital, but with the use of
the Gulbransen trademark, good-will and patent
rights. Upon completion of the Canadian plant prac-
tically all of the export business will be turned over
to Canada.
A. H. RINTELMAN DIES
AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS
Piano Man Who Had Varied Career Passes, Aged
Sixty-two Years.
A. H. Rintelman, for some time connected with the
Wyman Piano Co., 209 South State St., Chicago, died
after a short illness at his home in Chicago last Sun-
day. The funeral was held on Tuesday afternoon,
from the home, and interment was. made in the Rose-
hill Cemetery.
Mr. Rintelman was one of the prominent members
of the middle-western music manufacturing industry,
having spent a large portion of his life in various
positions on piano row in Chicago. He came to Chi-
cago in the early eighties and started with Julius
Bauer & Co. Since that time his career has included
several phases of the business, retailing and whole-
saling, as well as manufacturing. For quite a time he
was with the Smith, Barnes & Strohber Co.'s Chicago
factory.
For many years, he was a prominent and active
member of the Chicago Piano & Organ Association
and the Piano Club of Chicago. These two organi-
zations held a joint session Monday, presided over
by James T. Bristol, and voted a committee to buy
Mowers, and another to represent the organizations
at the funeral services. A large number of friends
and associates were present to pay last homages.
TOO MANY LAWS.
"'There are already too many man-made laws and
perhaps too many attempts to apply them which are
calculated to interrupt and hinder progress and in-
dustrial prosperity," said Judge Elbert H. Gary, chair-
man of the United States Steel Corporation at the
recent meeting of that body. "Any statute that un-
necessarily interferes with the natural law of supply
and demand works incalculable damage to economic
progress and prosperity. The fault for continual
prosperity in a measure may be laid at our own
doors. If so, then let us to the best of our ability
overcome our faults and consistently adopt and prac-
tice reasonable and constructive policies."
FINE SHOW WINDOWS.
The show windows of the Kieselhorst Piano Co.,
St. Louis, are admittedly potent aids to influencing
the piano prospect, and the value of the recent im-
provements is seen in the sales. The space back of
each pane of glass in the store front is made into a
distinctive part, cut off from adjoining ones. In the
decorative color scheme there is charming diversity
in the window "rooms."
OPENS IN OREGON TOWN.
GULBRANSEN CANADIAN
DISTRIBUTION CHANGES
Mutual Sales Service, Limited, Takes Over Contract
for Manufacture and Merchandising Rights.
Effective February 1st, Burdick A. Trestrail, presi-
dent of the Mutual Sales Service, Limited, took over
the distribution of Gulbransen products in Canada,
succeeding the Musical Merchandise Sales Company
of the Brunswick and other products. The phenom-
enal development of the Gulbransen playerpiano sales
in Canada has necessitated an amount of merchan-
dising effort which will require the undivided atten-
tion of a sales organization devoted to this work, and
Mr. Trestrail decided to undertake the work
exclusively.
Mr. Trestrail is practically the father of the Gul-
bransen proposition in Canada, having first introduced
the instruments in Toronto seven years ago, when
manager of the piano department of the R. S. Wil-
liams & Sons Co. It was he who was responsible
for the taking over of the Canadian distribution by
the Musical Merchandise Sales Company.
From a standing start, with practically no connec-
tion and with but little good-will in the Canadian
trade, the Gulbransen has, in one short year, ac-
quired distribution that compares favorably with the
best instruments in this country. From Victoria to
Halifax, almost all of the leading independent music
J. E. Berry has installed a complete music store at
Tillamook, Oregon. He handles the Bush & Lane
Piano Co.'s line of pianos, has a Victrola department,
sheet music department, and a .small goods depart-
ment, which he will carry on consignment from the
Bush & Lane Portland house. He carries Ludwig
drums, Paramount banjos and a complete line of
band instruments.
ST. LOUIS ACTS.
An ordinance relating to advertisements for the
sale of goods, wares, merchandise, securities, or real
estate, and requiring dealers herein to state in such
advertising that said person is a dealer, and, providing
a penalty for the violation thereof, has been proposed
in the City Council of St. Louis.
BUSY IN ST. LOUIS.
The Mengel Music Co., St. Louis, which carries a
complete line of instruments made by the Chase-
Hackley Piano Co., Muskegon, Mich., reports a very
cheering condition in sales. A. F. Megel is president
of the company.
A TRIBUTE TO PIANO CITY.
A stranger passing through the "Piano City" the
other day remarked that Steger is the only munic-
ipality in the United States in which there is no boot-
legging or slot machines. Some tribute!—Steger
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