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Issue: 1924 1965

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P R E S T O
March 22, 1924.
INTEREST SPREADS IN
THE "FRIESTEDT PLAN"
the illicit beer industry. With him were held men
associated with him in the conduct of the Bielfeldt
Brewing Company of Thornton, 111.
"Detmer, latest of the alleged beer kings to get
into trouble with the beer campaigners, was indicted
From Ohio, Nebraska, Minnesota and Illinois the as a result of a raid led ten days ago by Brice Arm-
strong, when ten trucks were seized as they were Proposed Change from Calendar to Fiscal
Live Merchants Have Been Dropping In.
about to pull away from the Bielfeldt brewery in
Year in the Annual Settling Up of Busi-
Si. Giliuson, of Duluth, Minn., was among the Thornton.
ness in All Lines of Industry.
week's callers on Chicago piano manufacturers.
"Detmer, who is head of the Henry Detmer Piano
Manufacturing
Company
of
Chicago,
also
is
president
It
will
interest members of the music industry and
William Mickel, piano dealer of Omaha, Neb., was
trade to learn of the extent to which Arthur A. Frie-
in Chicago on business since Presto's last press day. of the Bielfeldt company of Thornton."
stedt's idea of the fiscal year plan is spreading in
Another visitor to Chicago was Walter L. Rhein,
other industries. Mr. Friestedt received requests for
piano dealer of Belleville, 111.
CONTINUES OLD LINE.
data on it from business writers whose object is to
M. T. Smith, secretary of Dreher Bros. Company,
Charles P. Mitchell, proprietor of the Columbus put the subject in such appealing shape as to enable
Cleveland, Ohio, was a caller on some of the Chicago
music House, at 417 Third street, Columbus, O., re- them to dispose of their work to several of the largest
piano manufacturers within the week.
cently sold the business to Earl W. Elkins, who has and best-known periodicals. This is certain to bring
J. A. Simms, dealer in pianos and playerpianos at
managed the store almost since Mr. Mitchell bought large and prompt results.
Charleston, W. Va., was a caller at a prominent piano
it. The Columbus Music House has the local agency
On March 10th Mr. Friestedt, on invitation, ad-
manufacturing company's office in Chicago on Tues-
for the Pearson Piano Company, of Indianapolis, and
dressed the weekly luncheon meeting of the Ways
day of this week.
At the Story & Clark Piano Company's offices will continue to sell that company's products. The and Means Committee Council of the Chicago Asso-
business has prospered since Mr. Mitchell bought it ciation of Commerce on the adaptability of his plan
among the callers were Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McDonald,
of the San Antonio Music Company, San Antonio, and with the present ownership and its efficient man- to all lines of seasonal business. The body named is
Texas. Also C. C. Kennedy, dealer at Hinckley, 111., agement and salesmanship there is no doubt but that the prime mover of the Chicago Association of Com-
the past prosperous conditions will not only continue merce, which embraces a very large membership of
and C. B. Steward, dealer at Rensselaer, Ind.
business men, representing hundreds of different
A. Weber, music dealer, formerly of Liberal, Kan- but increase.
lines. Mr. Friestedt had the gratification of receiving
sas, but who has moved to Lawrence, Kansas, was in
a unanimous vote of thanks for the constructive idea
Chicago on Tuesday and called on some of the piano
CHANGE
IN
WISCONSIN.
he had brought to their attention and the assurance
manufacturers. Mr. Weber's new address is at 417
The Albert E. Smith Music Store, Madison, Wis., that its advantages would be disseminated to the
Main street, Lawrence.
and Hook Bros. Piano Co. were recently merged
entire association membership in the most forceful
under the firm title of "Hook Bros. Piano Co. & Al- and convincing way possible.
bert E. Smith, Consolidated." The company occu-
Certainly the president of the U. S. Music Co. has
pies the Hook Bros. Piano Co.'s quarters, State and
Mifilin streets. F. B. Hook is president and A. E. "started something" which has awakened very wide-
Smith secretary. Hook Bros. Piano Co., which han- spread interest among business men. The slogan,
dles the Steinway, started in a small store at the "Don't Defy the Seasons" has caught the attention
United States Jury Acts to Indict Chicago Piano
corner of Butler and Wilson streets in 1913. Albert of a large proportion of the active business men of
Manufacturer as Wet Goods King.
E. Smith came to Madison seventeen years ago from the nation and it now seems almost certain that the
new idea of a fiscal year will be adopted in many
Habit is strong. Most piano makers—even manu- Chicago, where he had been for five years with The industries for the closing of business details in June
Cable
Co.
as
wholesale
eastern
representative.
facturers—were, in happier days, accustomed to quaf-
instead of every December. "The Friestedt year"
fing the amber fluid adorned by the suds of refresh-
promises to become a familiar characterization in
ment. But today things are different and thirst is a
FOREIGN INTEREST IN OUR GOODS.
business offices.
corollary of life. Which suggests that probably very
The increasing number of inquiries being received
few, if any, in the piano business, know that Henry by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
CONTINUES AS BEFORE.
Detmer, whose piano factory is at Claremount and
regarding foreign advertising campaigns, methods,
The recent death of Claude P. Street will not in-
Le Moyne avenues, Chicago, is also president of a big and media is agratifying indication of the growing terrupt the business of the Claude P. Street Piano
brewery. Mr. Detmer recently gave up his ware- tendency on the part of American exporters to de- Co., Nashville, Tenn. The prosperous music busi-
rooms, on Wabash avenue, in the same city. He is, velop their foreign trade intensively and carefully. ness founded and built up by Mr. Street will be con-
however, still making a good line of pianos and is a With the return of keen competition between the
tinued along the old lines under the joint manage-
thoroughly artistic musician and pianist. But—and
manufacturing nations for the supplying of importing ment of Mrs. Street and Roy Warden, assistant man-
here is where sympathies of a large proportion of the markets, it is particularly essential that American for- ager to Mr. Street since the business was organized.
trade will go out—(clipped from the Chicago Tribune
eign trade be built upon the careful testing of each
of Thursday):
market and the convincing of individual foreign buy-
The Baldwin Piano Co., Denver, Colo., had special
"Henry Detmer, millionaire piano manufacturer, ers that American concerns offer superior quality and
windows featuring De Pachmann, who appeared in
was yesterday indicted as one of the "higherups" in service.
Denver recently, playing the Baldwin piano.
CHICAGO MANUFACTURERS
VISITED BY THE DEALERS
BRING DRY=LAW CHARGE
AGAINST HENRY DETMER
B. K. SETTERGREN CO.
Exclusive Manufacturers ot
For QUALITY, SATISFACTION and PROFIT
NEWMAN BROTHERS PIANOS
HIGH GRADE SMALL GRANDS
NEWMAN BROS. CO.
Factories, 816 DIX ST., Chicago, III.
Established 1870
35 Years' Experience in Piano Building
BLUFFTON, IND.
Kindler & Collins
E. Leins Piano Company,
Pianos
S20-524 W. 48M S
NEW YORK
Makers of Pianos That Are Leaders
in Any Reliable Store
NEW FACTORY. 304 W. 42nd St.. NEW TORK
The True Test
KREITER
Compare the new Jesse French & Sons Piano
Pianos and Players
with any other strictly high grade piano in tone,
touch and general construction, and you will be
convinced at once that t h e y , offer the most
exceptional v a l u e s to be found anywhere.
Jesse French & Sons Style BB
Have No Competition Where
Beauty of Cases and Tone
Sustain Profit Making Prices.
Write today for catalog and prices
Everything the Highest but
the Price,
"They are tbe one best boy on the market"
Inspect them Carefully and See.
JESSE FRENCH & SONS PIANO CO.
NEW CASTLF,
INDIANA
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
320-322 W. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Factory t Marinette, Wis.
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PRESTO
CONTRACTS FOR 1,200
SCHILLER PIANOS FOR 1924
The W. F. Frederick Piano Company Shows Activity
at Its Stores in the East.
March 22, 1924.
York this week. "We are starting our campaign with
an initial appropriation from our treasury of $40,000,
and whatever more may be needed will be forthcom-
ing. With this appropriation we are putting into
action at once a staff of reliable assistants who will
trace cancellations and returns from beginning to end.
"If a member of our association is found guilty of
substitution of merchandise, or otherwise is found un-
ethical in his operations, he will be expelled from the
organization. If a retailer is found to be returning or
cancelling without just cause, court action will be
taken in his own community, so that he will be shown
up to his own customers as a merchant who deals
unfairly with his sources of supply."
The W. F. Frederick Piano Company has closed
arrangements with Frank L. Jordan, wholesale sales
manager of the Schiller Piano Company, for twelve
hundred pianos, for 1924, delivery among seventeen
stores.
Mr. Frederick told Mr. Jordan that the fiscal year
just ended with his house has been the greatest in
volume of business in its history, and that indications
point to nothing but prosperity.
It is, of course, very gratifying to the Schiller Piano
Co. to establish this connection, and through the me-
dium of the 17 branch stores, is assured of a large
distribution of the Schiller product, including, of
course, the Schiller Super-Grand, which is attracting
Views and Beliefs of Live Piano Merchants Arc
interest.
Presented.
The remarkable Bauer Patented Construction has
been co-ordinated with the Schiller piano into an in-
Oscar Stranburg, president of the Stranburg Music
strument of artistic quality and great commercial
Stores, located throughout sections of New York,
possibilities.
Pennsylvania and Ohio, recently entertained store
managers at a dinner in the Hotel Samuels, James-
town, N. Y.
J. II. Blinn, manager of the talking machine depart-
ment of the Baldwin Piano Co., Denver, Colo., has
been transferred to the piano department.
Vinccnnes Phonograph Co., which manufactures
President of Textile Goods Association Gives Warn- an attractive line of cabinet phonographs, has re-
cently leased suite 930 Republic Building, Chicago,
ing to Members Who Violate Rules.
with L. C. Samuels in charge.
Possibly there are troubles enough in the piano
Cliff L. Neilson, for several years in charge of the
business—in the music business generally. But the Victor and Brunswick phonograph department of the
troubles in this line do not compare with some that
Wiley B. Allen Co.'s store in Portland, Ore., has been
beset some other lines of industry and trade. Fol- made manager of the piano department, in addition to
lowing are extracts from a recent statement by the the managership of the phonograph department.
president of a trade association not affiliated with
the music business, though, inasmuch as all business
ROLL BUSINESS GROWS.
is more or less related, this may be interesting.
The
music
roll department of Sherman, Clay &
"Unless some of the abuses and evils which beset
some lines of trade can be overcome or reduced to a Co., San Francisco, continues to make a steady gain
minimum, there is no question in the minds of a great in business and is keeping well abreast of the other
many authorities in the manufacturing field our in- departments of the house, according to Manager A. D.
Duclos of this department. This house is increasing
dustry will not be an industry very long," said the
president of a textile industry association in New the manufacturing facilities of the roll department,
the making of rolls to order having become quite a
feature of the business. A new cutting machine, pur-
chased from the Filmusic Co. has been installed. A
marking machine is also used for individual record-
ings, the rolls being cut later by hand.
TRADE HAPPENINGS
RELATED IN BRIEF
EVILS IN RETAIL TRADE
WORRY MANUFACTURERS
The LEADING LINE
WEAVER PIANOS
Qrands, Uprights and Playera
Finest and most artistic
piano in design, tone and
construction that can be
made.
YORK PIANOS
Uprights and Player Piano*
A high grade piano of great
value and with charming tone quality.
Livingston Pianos— Uprights and Player Piano
A popular piano at a popular price.
Over 70,000 instruments made by this company are sing-
inn their own praises in all parts of the civilised world.
Write for catalogues and state on what terms you would
like to deal, and we will make you a proposition if yen are
located in open territory.
SWAN ORGANS
are of the highest grade
t h a t c a n be obtained
through over 50 years of
p r a c t i c a l experience in
piano and organ building.
Illustrations a n d c a t a -
logues of various styles
will be furnished p i a n o
merchants on application
The tremendous superi-
ority of the SWAN Reed
Organs over all others lies
in the absolute mechanism
and scientific perfection itt
the bellows action and stop
action, making it the best
value in modern o r g a n
building.
/"V J
$. N. SWAN & SONS, * - . « . - „ , FREEPORT, ILL
A QUALITY PRODUCT
FOR OVER
QUARTER. OFACfNTURY
NEW BUFFALO FIRM.
TO MAKE STRINGS.
Among the corporations recently granted charters
The Starr Piano Company Sales Corporation, Rich- is the National Gut String Mfg. Co., 3713 Wentworth
mond, Ind., was chartered under the laws of Indiana avenue, Chicago, incorporated with a capitalization of
when a copy of its charter was filed recently at the $10,000 to engage in the manufacture of gut strings.
State Capitol. The sales corporation is capitalized at The incorporators are Katherine Juneman, Edwin P.
Juneman ami Otto Juneman.
$10,000.
SWAN PIANOS
B
Stuttgart. Ark., March 14, 1924.
Editor Presto: We would like to ask a little assist-
ance in locating an absconding salesman whose de-
scription we give below.
This man came here to us as a piano tuner. We
made him a proposition on any sale he might find,
we to give him 10 per cent. It proved that he wasn't
a tuner. He turned in a name of a prospect and
wanted to have a piano delivered to the party. We
sent our drayman with the "tuner" to deliver the
piano on the 8th of this month. He came back and
reported that the purchaser would pay in full on the
15th of the month.
We understand since that he collected $50.00 the
night he delivered the piano. On the 10th he col-
lected the balance. On the night of the 12th he took
the night train and left. We knew nothing about this
until the next day, when he had also given the jeweler
here a check to the amount of $490 which proved to
be a bogus one. We immediately got busy and found
out that he had collected for this piano in full.
We are offering a $100 reward to anybody who
may apprehend the man answering to this descrip-
tion given below and having him arrested. Wire us
at once, or the chief of police here.
The man went by the name of Glen Thompson, and
claimed to have worked for the Kimball Piano Com-
pany in Chicago. He was about 5 feet 8 inches tall,
dark brown hair, light hazel eyes, red faced, one upper
left front gold-crowned tooth; the next tooth to this
crowned one having a gold filling. His weight about
160 pounds, soze of shoe 6 l />, and about 30 years of
age.
The reward will be paid on the arrest of the said
Mr. Thompson. Anything you can do for us in this
way will be greatly appreciated.
B. L. WILLTAMS MUSIC COMPANY.
STARR SALES CORPORATION.
P
V*V
"Glenn Thompson," Representing Himself as Former
Kimball Employe, Is Wanted at Stuttgart, Ark.
The Escher Music Shop, a completely stocked
music stored was opened recently at No. 17 East Mo-
hawk street, Buffalo, N. Y., opposite Loew's State
Theater. A general line of music goods and sheet
music is carried. Teachers' supplies in sheet music
and music books are featured. The store also carries
a tine assortment of instruments, including violins,
banjos, saxophones, drums and ukuleles. Mr. Escher,
FEATURING RECORDO ROLLS.
The Recordo Player Rolls made and distributed by who is a violinist of note, being a product of the
the Q R S Music Co., Chicago, are high favorites Vienna Conservatory of Austria, will have charge of
with electric player owners. The Q R S Music Co. the violin music and instrument departments. Hobart
gives prompt attention to all orders for Recordo R. McCoy, the manager of the departments for pianos,
player rolls and uses its enormous facilities and re- etc., is a clever pianist, also a very promising young
sources for the advancement of the Recordo player teacher, he having turned out some pupils of note at
ro!l. The activities of the Q R S Music Co. are of Pittslie'd, Mass., and vicinity. These two capable
great advantage to the extension of the business now- managers will have complete charge of the store, and
being done in the manufacture and sale of the player will assure the people of Buffalo intelligent and cour-
pianos for which the Recordo player roll is specially teous service in music.
made.
WEAVER PIANO CO., Inc.
Factory: YORK,
Established 1870
V.
REWARD OFFERED FOR
ABSCONDING SALESMAN
GOLDSMITH
Players and Pianos
Have Every Advantage in Quality and Results
to the Dealers
An Investigation Will Prove It
GOLDSMITH
PIANO
COMPANY
1223-1227 Miller Street. CHICAGO
Place That Want Ad in The Presto
PQOLE
GRAND AND UPRIGHT PIANOS
AND
PLAYER PIANOS
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