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PRESTO
April 12, 1924.
HUGO GEORGE RESIGNS AS
FACTORY SUPERINTENDENT
Came to Werner Piano Company Seventeen Years
Ago From Toronto, Canada.
The M. Schulz Co., 711 Milwaukee avenue, Chicago,
announces the resignation of Hugo George, as factory
superintendent of the Werner Piano Company, Mor-
gan & Superior St., Chicago.
Mr. George, who is well known in the trade, came
to the Werner factory seventeen years ago from the
firm of Mason & Risch, Toronto, Canada. He was
immediately made factory superintendent and proved
that he was a capable man in that capacity.
Ill health was given as the reason of Mr. George's
resignation and his many friends throughout the trade
extend their sympathies and are anxious for his im-
mediate recovery.
GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES
NEW BOOK FOR EXPORTERS
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce Prepar-
ing Pamphlet on Trade-Mark Registration.
Trade-mark registration is decidedly less expensive
than trade-mark litigation, and there should be in-
cluded, as part of every enlightened export program,
an examination of the means for protecting the value
of the trade-mark in the new markets just as soon as
the article begins to show promise of appreciable
sales in the particular country. In order to meet the
need of the export manager for preliminary informa-
tion regarding foreign trade-marks for discussion with
his president or board of directors, the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce is preparing a
series of pamphlets summarizing the conditions of ob-
taining and holding trade-mark rights in the impor-
tant foreign markets.
The pamphlet covering the markets of Europe is
the first of the series. Trade-mark registration is,
however, a technical matter, and the details of proced-
ure should be carried through by a competent patent
and trade-mark attorney, preferably an American
with foreign connections. The bureau will be pleased
to advise exporters in a preliminary way, but the at-
torney handling the domestic work can best make ar-
rangements for the actual registration of the trade-
mark.
Copies of the pamphlet, on the conditions of
obtaining trade-mark protection in the countries of
Europe and their colonies, may be obtained from the
Division of Foreign Tariffs on request.
JOINS C. W. HOYT CO.
George W. Hopkins, well known in the music trade
because of his connection with the Columbia Grapho-
phone Company, of which he was vice-president and
a member of the board of directors, has joined the
Charles W. Hoyt Company, Inc., advertising agents,
of New York. The services of Mr. Hopkins will be
available in connection with sales planning or with
advertising to interested firms.
Lyon & Healy's
New Wholesale
Building
[On Wabash Avenue, one
mile south of the main Lyon
& Healy building]. Visits
of inspection requested
from old friends and new.
Lyon & Healy
CHICAGO
CLUB DINNER BOOSTS
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
Forty New Members Announced by President
McKenna at Celebration Event of Piano
Club of Chicago.
A steak dinner and stag frolic and circus for mem-
bers of the Piano Club at Chicago and their guests
was given at the New Hotel Belmont, Sheridan Road
at Belmont, on Monday of this week. The affair
was to further the aim of the club to bring the mem-
bership up to five hundred, "The World's Largest
Music Men's Club."
In the enthusiastic appeal for new members the
club pointed to its record: "Ninety cents out of every
dollar received from dues is spent directly for the
promotion of music; $5,000 subscribed to the Chicago
Civic Opera; originated School's Band Contest; pro-
moted and staged Illinois Music Student's Contest;
assisted many young worthy artists; furnished high
grade music for most of our noon-day meetings;
started movement for Civic Music Commission for
Chicago."
The dining room on the roof of the Hotel Bel-
mont was crowded. It was an overflow gathering,
necessitating additional seating space and tables in
adjoining rooms. The meeting was aflame with the
spirit of the drive and forty new members were re-
ported by Joe Childs, the chairman of the Drive Com-
mittee, who made a ringing appeal to keep up the
good work. President McKenna said the spirit of the
meeting would be continued and a short talk by Matt
Kennedy put pep into the drive.
W. C. Hcaton, of New York, talked about the com-
ing trade conventions in June, and expressed assur-
ance that his "adopted city" would make every visi-
tor feel happy and glad to be present.
Chas. Deutschman, president of the Piano Tuners'
National Association, received the congratulations of
the meeting when he said the event was of dual im-
portance to him. It was the sixtieth anniversary
of his birth and the forty-third anniversary of his
entrance to the field of piano making and tuning.
E. H. Leveille, chairman of the Transportation
Committee, detailed the plan of making the trip to
the New York convention in June over the Pennsyl-
vania lines by way of Atlantic City, spending Sunday
there and to arrive in New York Monday morning.
Others who spoke were E. J. Dolton, manager of
the House of Steger, who was proclaimed a new
member, and Dr. Corwin, of Oak Park, who gave an
entertaining talk full of wit, humor and philosophy.
The entertainment features of the dinner were as
markedly spontaneous as the decorative mottoes that
reminded diners of the purposes of the Piano Club of
Chicago. The spirit of the members was expressed
in the verses sung to the air of Remick's "So I Took
the Fifty Thousand Dollars":
Day by day, every way, we get better as we play,
In Chicago we're singing along.
In and out, hear us shout, music boosters all about—
In Chicago we're singing- along.
CHORUS:
Then it's Hi Hi Hee, with a heart full of glee
Sound out your laughter loud and strong;
Wherever you go, let the people know
In Chicago we're singing along.
Keep on singing (shout)
In Chicago we're singing along.
Men who work, men who serve, men who really have
the nerve,
Boost Chicago and music along.
Every day in the year, this Piano Club makes cheer.
Tell the world of our business in song.
AGAINST FREIGHT REDUCTIONS.
Declaring the trade and commerce of the country
have grown up under the present freight rate struc-
ture and that any material disturbance therein prob-
ably would cause disruption of business conditions,
with possible serious effects upon large sums of in-
vested capital, John J. Esch, member of the interstate
commerce commission, last week informed the house
committee of interstate and foreign commerce that,
excepting particular situations requiring attention, the
commission was of the opinion that there was no rea-
son to believe a general readjustment of rates was
necessary now.
ADDS TO CHAIN OF STORES.
The Manitoba Music Co. has been opened in Win-
nipeg. Man., by the Pacific Music Co., which has
stores in Seattle and other cities in the United States
and Canada. R. C. Perks is manager of the new
Winnipeg store. Other stores of the Pacific Music
Co. are the Vancouver Music Co., Vancouver, B. C.;
Bellingham Music Co., Bellingham, Wash.; Tacoma
Music Co., Tacoma, Wash.; and the Pacific Music
Co., Seattle, Wash. The general manager is Arthur
B. Miller.
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