PRESTO
E. F. LAPHAM LEAVES
GOOD OLD PIANO TRADE
Countless of his associates in the piano trade will
regret to lose Mr. Lapham and a still greater number
of his friends, in almost every walk of business life,
will wish him the boundless success, which is cer-
tainlv his due.
After Twenty-seven Years in the Retail Piano
Business in Chicago, Popular Piano Man
Becomes Stock Broker.
OLD STORE IS SOLD
IN VINCENNES, IND.
Twenty-seven years ago the retail piano house of
Grosvenor & Lapham was founded, with warerooms
in the Fine Arts Building, on Michigan Boulevard,
Chicago. The warerooms are still there, and Mr.
Grosvenor remains at the helm, but his long-time
friend and partner, E. F. Lapham, resigned as vice-
president of the Grosvenor & Lapham Company last
Saturday, and will embark in the brokerage business.
He has arranged to become associated with the well-
established house of Dengler, Lapham & Co., on La
Salle street, Chicago. One of the members of that
W. S. Vowells, Experienced Piano Man, Buys Inter-
ests of A. C. Hoffer Music Co.
The A. C. Hoffer Music Company, 429 Main street,
Vincennes, Ind, has changed hands. In the future it
will be known as the "Music Shop" under the man-
agement of W. S. Vowells. The latter is an experi-
enced piano man, having been in the business, both
wholesale and retail, for many years. Mr. Vowells
has operated a retail piano business in Vincennes over
twenty years.
Mrs. Vowells, who has been many years on floor
sales force with the W. W. Kimball Company and
later with the Vowells Music Company, will be active
in sales.
After some remodeling of the store and necessary
changes there will be an opening.
Miss Alida Wezet, who has been in charge of the
sheet music department, records and rolls with the
A. C. Hoffer Music Company, will remain in the new
store.
March 22, 1924.
Cincinnati Factories of The Baldwin Piano Company
SUCCESS
is assured the dealer who takes advantage of
THE BALDWIN CO-OPERATION PLAN
which offers every opportunity to represent
under the most favorable conditions a com-
plete line of high grade pianos, players and
reproducers.
For information Wrtlt
Palbtoin $tano Company
CINCINNATI
INDIANAPOLIS
LOUISVILLE
Incorporated
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MOST FIRES BLAMED ON
BREACH OF 'NO SMOKING' SIGN
E. F. LAPHAM.
brokerage firm is a son of the popular ex-piano man,
and the new relations will therefore be especially
favorable, pleasant and no doubt profitable to all
concerned.
Mr. Lapham has 1 been in the piano business all his
business life, beginning with Lyon & Healy when
little more than a boy. He remained with them until
the house of Lyon, Potter & Co. was organized in
1889, when both Mr. Lapham and Mr. Grosvenor
entered that house as salesmen. When, eight years
later, Mr. Potter retired, to re-enter the banking busi-
ness, the young salesmen established the firm in the
Fine Arts Building, making a specialty of the A. B.
Chase piano, which instrument they brought to a
prominent place in Chicago's musical circles.
It is believed that the house of Grosvenor & Lap-
ham was the first "upstairs" piano store of any magni-
tude in this country. It has remained in the same
place through all the years, and until recently was
owned solely by the two gentlemen who started it.
The old house now occupies a ground floor salesroom,
in addition to the original fifth floor warerooms, and
the Hallet & Davis piano is the leader there.
QUALITY
in Name and in Fact
TONE, MATERIALS, CONSTRUCTION,
WORKMANSHIP, DESIGN—all in ac-
cord with the broadest experience—are
the elements which give character to
Bush & Lane Products.
BUSH & LANE PIANOS
BUSH S LANE CECILIAN PLAYER
PIANOS
take high place, therefore, in any com-
parison of high grade pianos because of
the individuality of character which dis-
tinguishes them in all essentials of merit
and value.
BUSH & LANE PIANO CO.
Holland, Mich.
Careless Cigar Burner or Cigarette Party, Without a
Brain Cell Working, Caused Greater Number.
Following the scare from the fire in the factory up
the street, the "No Smoking" sign in the Angold
plant becomes a rigid injunction which temporarily
vigilant superintendents force everybody to observe.
But as the weeks pass there are more and more
breaches of the "No Smoking" command until in time
the sign is more honored in the breach than in the
observance. Then one day, or night, a careless
smoker drops his cigarette butt into a pile of shavings
or some other likely place to start a blaze.
In the fire loss figures for 1922, the latest to hand,
just published, the careless smoker again was found
to be the cause of the greater number of fires, the
board holding him responsible for a toll of $25,776,951.
Fire losses in the LTnited States in 1922, totaling
$506,541,001, exceeded by millions the amount of the
nation's personal income tax receipts for the year,
said a report issued this week by the national board
of fire underwriters.
Defective chimneys and flues caused the next
greatest loss, $18,550,433. Fires originating in boilers,
stoves, and furnaces caused a $16,676,784 loss; spon-
taneous combustion, $14,594,799; electricity, $11,918,-
572; sparks on roofs, $113076,719, and lightning,
$11,513,725.
The recorded losses, the report explained, totaled
$405,232,801, the total being reached with the addi-
tions representing unreported fires.
OREGON DEALER BUYS ORGANS.
H. G. Reed, president of the Reed, French Piano
Co., of Portland., Ore., has returned from his eastern
trip, during which time he visited Chicago, St. Louis
and Kansas City on business connected with the
Smith Unit Organ Co., for which his firm are the dis-
tributors for Oregon and Washington. Mr. Reed
was accompanied on his trip by Philip S. Goss, man-
ager of the pipe organ department of the firm, and
while in Chicago placed orders for several organs
which were to be specially designed for customers in
Oregon and Washington. While in the east Mr. Reed
paid a short visit to his sister, Mrs. J. W. Imgrain, of
Salisbury, Mo.
The Heppe. Marceilus and Edouard Jfules Plaoo
manufactured by the
HEPPE PIANO COMPANY
are the only pianos in the world with
Three Sounding Boards.
Patented In the United States, Great Britain,
France, Germany and Canada.
Liberal arrangements to responsible agents only*
Main Office, 1117 Chestnut St.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
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NEW BUFFALO PIANO HOUSE.
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Kenmore, a pretty suburb of Buffalo, N. Y., has a
new piano house. It has been opened by F. F.
Barber, formerly manager of the piano department of
J. N. Adam & Co., Buffalo's big department house.
Mr. Barber's store is at 2916 Delaware avenue, and
his leader will be the Chase Brothers piano from
Muskegon, Michigan. Having a fine territory, where
many of the wealthy Buffaloans reside and a good
line of instruments, Mr. Barber will doubtless prosper
rapidly.
H. C. BAY IS FEATURED.
The H. C. Bay Reproducing Grand, made by the
H. C. Bay Company, Chicago, with factories at Bluff-
ton, Ind., is being displayed in the store window of
Tos. F. Budrik, 3343 South Halsted street, Chicago.
Mr. Budrik declares that his line is making him so
popular he would have to open a branch store. This
is the first time this store has handled grands.
When in doubt refer to
PRESTO BUYERS GUIDE
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