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THOSE HONORED
AS PRESIDENT
Lists of Men Who Have Held the Highest
Office in the Organizations of Trade
and Industry Since Their
Formation.
BACK TO BEGINNING
And Every Date on the Roster Since 1897 Is Sugges-
tive of Some Memory of a Pleasant and Cher-
ished Kind to Many.
The names of the men who have held the office of
president of each of the national associations of the
music trade are interesting alike to the older mem-
bers, veterans and those whose membership in the
organizations begun in a less remote period.
The first name in the list of presidents of the Na-
tional Piano Manufacturers' Association, Henry F.
Miller, recalls a generation of piano men who had the
problems of another day to discuss and solve. The
name also recalls the date, 1897, which was a memo-
rable one in the American piano industry. In that
year was established the first trade association. An
interesting coincidence is that the day and month is
that of the convention this year.
The following is a list of the men who have held
the office of president of the National Piano Manu-
facturers' Association from 1897 to the present in-
cumbent, elected in June, 1923:
P R E S I D E N T S OF N. P. M. A.
Henry F. Miller, 1897-1899.
A. H. Fischer, 1899-1900.
Handel Pond, 1900-1901.
E. S. Conway, 1901-1902.
Wm. Dalliba Dutton, 1902-1903.
Chas. H. Parsons, 1903-1904.
Geo. P. Bent, 1904-1905.
H. Paul Mehlin, 1905-1906.
Dawson J. Blackmore, 1906-1907.
Edward S. Payson, 1907-1908.
Frank A. Lee, 1908-1909.
Frank C. Decker, 1909-1910.
Jonas M. Cleland, 1910-1911.
J. Harry Estey, 1911-1912.
Albert S. Bond, 1912-1913.
R. W. Lawrence, 1913-1914.
Frank W. Teeple, 1914-1915.
Ben H. Janssen, 1915-1916.
E. B. Bartlett, 1916-1917.
J. A. Coffin, 1917-1918.
Paul B. Klugh, 1918-1919.
Kirkland Gibson, 1919-1920.
Otto Schulz, 1920-1921.
C. C. Conway, 1921-1922.
C. C. dickering, 1922-1923.
Mark P. Campbell, 1923-1924.
Effect on Piano Merchants.
The example of the piano manufacturers in form-
ing an association had a marked effect on the piano
merchants. It right away created a desire for a
similar organization for the men who sold the pianos.
It was natural. The trade at that time was tormented
by a multiplicity of conditions each with the gravity
which made them problems. So when the manufac-
turers' association was only four years old the piano
merchants established their association with Chandler
W. Smith as first president. The list of presidents of
the National Association of Piano Merchants from
1901 to the present time with period of incumbency
follows:
PRESIDENTS OF N. A. P. M. A.
Chandler W. Smith. 1901-1902.
F. B. T. Hollenberg, 1902-1903.
Henry Dreher, 1903-1904.
J. C. Miller, 1904-1905.
Philip Werlein, 1905-1906.
John P. Byrne, 1906-1907.
B. B. Crew, 1907-1908.
C. A. Grinnell, 1908-1909.
• E. H. Droop, 1909-1910.
Lew H. Clement, 1910-1911.
K. O. Foster, 1911-1912.
VV. H. Daniels. 1912-1913.
0 . A. Field, 1913-1914.
Philip T. Clay, 1914-1915.
1. G. Corley, 1915-1916.
John A. Turner, 1916-1917.
Edmund Gram, 1917-1918.
Dan Nolan, 1918-1919.
P. E. Conroy, 1919-1920.
Paul J. Hamilton, 1920-1921.
M. V. DeForeest, 1921-1922.
J. Edwin Butler, 1922-1923.
Robert N. Watkin, 1923-1924.
Piano Travelers Next.
It was when the associations of the piano manufac-
turers and the piano merchants crusoed for the annual
coiuention of 1905 at Put-in-Bay Island in Lake Erie
that the piano travelers formed their own separate
association. When the intention of the travelers to
start something was announced in the hotel rotunda
it was called the act of restless men, desperate from
being circumscribed in their movements to a ten-acre
space and with nothing to do but "give it a name" in
the rathskeller. But when the round-up of the road
men was completed, by D. J. Luxton and Frank M.
Hood, and the exit locked, by Wm. Plaisted, the
seriousness of the original intention was realized.
With gladsome shouts the National Piano Trav-
elers' Association was established on the fraternal
rock, with J. C. Aimie as the first president.
Those who have held that office since that time are:
P R E S I D E N T S OF N. P. T. A.
J. C. Aimie, 1905-1906.
II. O. Fox, 1906-1907.
W. S. Rich, 1907-1908.
O. W. Williams, 1908-1909.
W. E. Hall, 1909-1910.
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A. Dalrymple, 1910-1911.
F. M. Hood, 1911-1912.
Wm. Plaisted, 1912-1913.
W. B. Williams, 1913-1914.
F. E. Edgar, 1914-1915.
D. E. Fabyan, 1915-1916.
Wm. J. Keeley, 1916-1917.
Jno. A. Krumme, 1917-1918.
C. T. Purdy, 1918-1919.
A. H. Mahan, 1919-1920.
Alex. S. Shoninger, 1920-1921.
Geo. W. Allen, 1921-1922.
Geo. H. Bliss, 1922-1923.
William C. Heaton, 1923-1924.
May 24, 1924.
MANUFACTURERS
CONVENE JUNE 2
Gathering of Men Who Make America's Pianos
to Be One of the Most Important
of the Annual Trade
Meetings.
EARLY CONVENTIONS RECALLED
Big Event Each Year Suggests a Look Backward
Over Incidents in the Various Annual Meetings
of the Organization.
At the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York June 2
to 5 the National Piano Manufacturers' Association
of America will celebrate the twenty-fourth anniver-
SOUTH BEND, IND., FIRM
ORGANIZES SALES FORCE
Boyer-Rose Music Co. Prepares for Strenuous Cam-
paign for Music Goods Sales.
The Boyer-Rose Music Co., South Bend, Ind., the
new partnership between J. F. Boyer and Henry
C. Rose, has organized a strong force to strive for
sales in every department.
Associated with the company are Frederick Nye
and Mr. Barnes, who will devote themselves to piano
sales; Capt. Eugene Willis, director of the Avalon
Grotto band, who will have charge of the band and
orchestra instruments sales; Mrs. Henry Rose, in
charge of the roll and record department; Miss Eliza-
beth Rose, piano demonstrator and small goods sales,
and Miss Alma Boswell, bookkeeper.
Coincident with the establishment of the partner-
ship comes the announcement of a considerable ex-
tension in the lines of merchandise which will be
handled, as well as the personnel of the store organ-
ization. The location is the same as that occupied
for some time by the Boyer Music Co. in the corner
Jefferson hotel building.
MARK P. CAMPBELL,
President National Piano Manufacturers' Association.
sary of its formation. But to be exact, the association
wis established on August 18, 1897, at Manhattan
Beach, N. Y. Anyway the members in the week of
June 1 will commemorate the realization of a pur-
pose which began to be felt in the '80's and at subse-
quent periods with more or less earnestness.
But veterans of the organization recall that the
earliest attempts to form an association of piano
manufacturers proved failures. Many deterrents to
LIVELY INDIANA FIRM.
Coffin's Music Shoppe, Warsaw, Ind., is one of the
lively stores in Kosciusko county. Upon a foundation
of four-square business policy this well known music
store has earned the confidence of the people of Kos-
ciusko county. Thus it may be reasoned that patron-
age won and held upon sheer merit, fair prices and
honest merchandising methods deserves considera-
tion.
The Baldwin and Starr pianos, Sonora. Starr and
Aeolian-Vocalion phonographs, records, player rolls
and sheet music are carried.
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BUYS APPLETON, WIS., STORE.
The W r illiam H. "Nolan Phonograph Store, Apple-
ton, W T is., has been purchased by Irving Zuelke, of
Appleton, Wis., proprietor of the Zuelke Music Stores
in Appleton and Neenah, Wis. The store is still
known as Carroll's Music Shop, as Mr. Nolan took
it over from the former owners only about a year
ago. Last fall Mr. Zuelke bought the Victor busi-
ness operated by F. Stoffel in Kamps & Stoffel
jewelry store in Appleton.
HANDSOME PIANO STORE.
Jos. F. Budrik, 3343 South Halsted street, Chicago,
says that since the H. C. Bay Reproducing Grand
was featured in his store a great many customers
who inspected have bought the little instrument. The
latest addition to the store is the E. P. Johnson player,
from Elgin, 111. Mr. Budrik is pushing his efforts to
have one of the finest stores in and around Chicago.
E. R. JACOBSON,
First Vice-President.
National Piano Manufacturers' Association.
organization existed. But the conditions were sources
of continuous vexation and regret to earnest and
broad-minded men of the industry. They were un-
ceasing in their efforts to spread the fraternal spirit
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