PRESTO
May 26, 1923
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Kentucky—Milton Mart, 837 Monmouth street,
Newport.
.
Louisiana—B. M. Grunewald, 733 Canal street,
New Orleans.
Big Attendance Assured for Convention of Roadmen
Maine—Ralph W. E. Hunt, 25 Forest avenue,
at Drake Hotel June 6.
Portland.
Minnesota—W. S. Collins, 8th and Nicollet avenue,
The National Piano Travelers' Association will
Minneapolis.
hold its annual convention at the Drake Hotel, Chi-
Mississippi—J. B. Greisell, Meridian.
cago, June 6, and will properly conclude a busy week
Nebraska—J. P. Kepler, 1513 Douglas avenue, with the annual dinner of the association. This will
Omaha.
take place at the Drake Hotel, and all members in
Nevada—J. D. Mariner, 124 N. Virginia street, good standing are qualified to buy a ticket and sit
Reno.
down to the love feast. To be in good standing a
New Hampshire—Thos. W. Lathrop, Dover.
*
member must be able to look W. B. Williams, the
North Carolina—Frank M. Hood, Box 734, Greens- treasurer, in the eye without fear of challenge from
boro.
that keen official and be able to face with composure
Oklahoma—M. B. Armstrong, Armstrong Music Albert Behning, the secretary, who is custodian of
Co., Oklahoma City.
the black list.
California—Geo. R. Hughes, Wiley B. Allen Co.,
The following are the officers of the association
135 Kearney street, San Francisco.
AVIIO have held office since the elections at the conven-
Arkansas—H. V. Beasley, Texarkana.
tion of 1922:
Connecticut—Alfred Fox, Alf. Fox Piano Co., 172
George H. Bliss, president, United States Music
Fairfield avenue.
Company, 122 Fifth avenue, N. Y.; W. C. Hcaton,
Florida—John A. Turner, Jr., 604 Franklin street, first vice-president, Auto Pneumatic Action Co., 653
Tampa.
West 51st street, N. Y.;
Georgia—Wm. Manning, Manning Music Co., Chas. J. Cunningham,
Augusta.
second
vice-president,
lllilnois (Northern)—Chas. C. Adams, 309 Main Foster-Armstrong Co.,
street, Peoria.
Rochester,
N.
Y.;
Illinois (Southern)—Fred P. Watson, 220 S. 10th
George E. Mansfield,
street, Mt. Vernon.
third vice-president, C.
Indiana—Wilbur Templin, Elkhart.
Kurtzmann & Co., Buf-
Michigan—A. If. Howes, Grinnell Bros., 245 Wood- falo, N. Y.; W r . B. Wil-
ward avenue, Detroit.
,
liams, treasurer, 130
Rhode Island—Andrew Meiklejohn, 297 Weybosset West 42nd street, N. Y.;
street, Providence.
Albert Behning, secre-
South Carolina—Rudolph Siegling, 243 King street, tary, 105 West 40th
Charleston.
street, New York.
Utah—Jos. J. Daynes, Jr., 61 Main street, Salt Lake
The Advisory Com-
City.
mittee is composed of
West Virginia—Ira B. Keys, 108 Main street, all former presidents:
Weston.
W. S. Rich, W. M.
Advisory Board (Past Presidents).
Plaisted, A. Dalrymple,
J. H. Shale, W. J.
Chairman—M. V. DeForeest, Sharon, Pa.
Keeley, C. T. Purdy, G.
E. Paul Hamilton, 422 N. Howard street, Balti-
GKO. H. BLISS.
W. Allen, W. E. Hall,
more, Md.
P. E. Conroy, Conroy Piano Co., 1100 Olive street, O. W. Williams. F. E. Edgar, D. E. Fabyan, J. A.
Krutnme, A. A. Mahan and A. S. Shoninger.
St. Louis, Mo.
,
Edmund Gram, Edmund Gram, Inc., 414 Milwau-
The Executive Committee is composed of the presi-
kee street, Milwaukee, Wis.
dent, chairman, ex-omcto; M. J. Kennedy, 532 Re-
J. A. Turner, Jr., Turner Music Co., 604 Franklin public building, Chicago, 111.; James T. Bristol, 25
street, Tampa, Fla.
East Jackson boulevard, Chicago, 111.; first vice-presi-
John G. Corley. The Corley Co., 213 E. Broad dent, second vice-president, third vice-president,
street, Richmond, Va.
treasurer and secretary.
P. T. Clay, Sherman, Clay & Co., Kearney and
Grievance Committee^ E. L. Mahoney, chairman,
Sutter streets, San Francisco, Cal.
Kranich & Bach, 235 East 23rd street, N. Y.; Roger
O. A. Field, Field, Lippmann Piano Stores, 1120 S. Brown, McPhail Piano Co., Boston, Mass.
Olive street, St. Louis, Mo.
Hotel Committee: Gordon Laughead, chairman,
W. II. Daniels, Denton, Cottier & Daniels, 32 Apollo Piano Co., DeKalb, 111.; A. B. Furlong, Vocal-
Court street, Buffalo, N. Y.
style Co., Cincinnati, Ohio; W. F. Allen, Kohlcr In-
R. O. Foster, Foster & Waldo, 811 Nicollet ave- dustries, Chicago, 111.
nue, Minneapolis, Minn.
Railroad and Water W'ays Committee: Gust.
E. H. Droop, E. F. Droop & Sons Co., 1300 "G" Adolph Anderson, chairman, Van Wert, Ohio;
street N. W., Washington, D. C.
Thomas J. Mercer, Gulbranseq-Dickinson Co., Chi-
C. A. Grinnell, Grinnell Bros., 245 Woodward ave- cago, 111; B. P. Sibley, Kohler Industries, San Fran-
cisco. Cal.; Roy S. Dunn, Straube Piano Co., Ham-
nue, Detroit, Mich.
Henry Dreher, B. Dreher Sons Co., 1028 Euclid mond, Ind.
avenue, Cleveland, O.
Delegates to National Council of Traveling Sales-
F. B. T. Hollenberg, Hollenberg Music Co., 415 men's Association: George H. Bliss, W. B. Williams,
Main street, Little Rock, Ark.
Geo. W. Allen, Albert Behning. Alternates: D. D.
Luxton, Gordon Laughead, Charles McConville, Ken-
neth W. Curtis.
Delegates to Music Industries Chamber of Com-
merce: George H. Bliss, M. J. Kennedy, F. E.
Edgar, W. B. Williams, Albert Behning.
ALL SET FOR ANNUAL
MEETING OF TRAVELERS
A Dealer
In
New Jersey
Writes:
"A style H Orchestrion
I sold for $2,800 as
easily as an ordinary
$600 home player be-
cause I showed the
buyer that his custo-
mers' nickles paid the
bill."
Write Us Today
HIGH PRAISE FOR THE
FRANCIS BACON GRAND
Many Prominent Dealers Are Featuring the New
York Instrument With Splendid Success.
J.P. SEEBURG PIANO CO
Leaders in the Automatic Field
1510-1516 Dayton Street
CHICAGO
It is not very often that a buyer of a piano takes
the necessary time and pains to sit down and write
a commendatory letter to the manufacturers of the
particular instrument they own.
Dora B. Horner, of Primos, Delaware County,
Pennsylvania, is an exception who was so pleased
with the Francis Bacon Baby Grand that she wrote
as follows:
"I always have been pleased with the tone of my
piano, and now—well, I think it could not be im-
proved upon. The base has such a rich, full, true
quality that very few pianos have. The treble is very
sweet, and I am so pleased with the piano that I
wish one of your company could hear it. * * *
* * I hope you will have continued success, and
if all Francis Bacon owners are as well pleased as I
am, there will be no doubt about it."
The present vogue for grand pianos and the fine
quality of the Francis Baby Grand have created un-
usual demands for this piano. Many of the most
prominent dealers throughout the country are featur-
ing the instrument with splendid success.
Floyd T. Sherwin has opened a music store in
Canton, N. Y.
MILTON DESK BLOTTER
GETS DEALER PUBLICITY
House at Fort Smith, Arkansas, Makes Good Use
of Manufacturers' Publicity Help.
The R. C. Bollinger Music Company, of Fort
Smith, Arkansas, has come in for quite a little news-
paper publicity through a very interesting desk blot-
ter recently distributed by the Milton Piano Co.
What evoked the interest of the Fort Smith papers
was the fact that the blotters carried the following
endorsement from a Fort Smith resident:
'"Although three of our children learned to play on
ihe Milton piano we purchased fifteen years ago, and
it has been used hard, it is practically as good as new.
(This from a Fort Smith, Ark., mother)."
One Fort Smith newspaper said: "Fort Smith is
getting some more advertising over the country now,
in the distribution of many thousands of desk blot-
ters by the Milton Piano Company of New York,
whose product is distributed in this section by the
R. C. Bollinger Music Company."
McVeil & Co., 630 E. Main street, Stockton, Cal.,
has remodeled and enlarged its store.
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