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PRESTO
May 31, 1924.
PIANO TRAVELERS
ANNUAL MEETING
Business Session Will Be Brief But the Dinner
and Frolic Scheduled for Thursday Will
Be of Characteristic Joyousness
Long Continued.
MUSIC BOX REVUE
Annual Event Now An Appreciated Feature of the
Yearly Convention to Be Filled with
Surprises This Time.
While no piano traveler considers silence as golden
when the occasion provides the opportunity for the
flow of words, the business of the convention of the
National Piano Travelers' Association will be con-
cluded in one session at the Waldorf-Astoria on
Thursday, June 5. The travelers have their vital
problems but they think considerably about them and
discuss them with one another in the informal meet-
ings in hotels and trains so that brevity in the con-
vention speeches is not detrimental to their proper
understanding.
Dinner and Frolic.
At 6 p. m. Thursday, June 5, the National Piano
Travelers' Association will give its annual dinner and
hold its' annual election. At 10 p. m. the travelers
will give the "Music Box Revue," the annual frolic
which brings the convention to a joyous end.
The list of officers and various boards and commit-
tees of the National Piano Travelers' Association com-
prises the following:
OFFICERS.
W. C. Heaton, president, Auto Pneumatic Action
Co., 653 West 51st street, N. Y.
Chas. J. Cunningham, first vice-president, Foster-
Armstrong Co., Rochester, N. Y.
George E. Mansfield, second vice-president, C.
Kurtzmann & Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
James T. Bristol, third vice-president, 25 East Jack-
son boulevard, Chicago, 111.
ESTABLISHED 1854
W. B. Williams, treasurer, 130 West 42nd street,
New York.
Albert Behning, secretary, 105 West 40th street,
New York.
[ORGAN BUILDERS' ASSOCIATION
MEETS AT WALDORF=ASTORIA
COMMITTEES.
Four Business Sessions Scheduled for June 3 and 4
in Room No. 110.
The Organ Builders' Association of America will
hold its annual convention on Tuesday and Wednes-
day, June 3 and 4 in Room 110 of the Waldorf-
Astoria hotel, New York. The opening session will
be at 9:30 a. m. Tuesday, and an afternoon session
wili be held at 2 p. m. Meetings at the same hours
will be held on Wednesday, June 4.
The officers of the Organ Builders' Association
elected at the convention of 1923 are: President,
Adolph Wangerin; vice-president, David Marr; secre-
tary, S. E. Gruenstein, and treasurer, John Spencer
Camp. The director from the association to the
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce is Adolph
Wangerin, Milwaukee, Wis.
The Advisory Committee is made up of former
presidents: W. S. Rich, W. M. Plaisted, A. Dal-
rymple. J. H. Shale, W. J. Keeley, C. T. Purdy,
G. W. Allen, W. E. Hall, O, W. Williams, F. E.
Edgar, D. E. Fabyan, J. A. Krumme, A. A. Mahan,
A. S. Shoninger, G. H. Bliss.
Executive Committee—The president, chairman, ex
officio; the first vice-president; the second vice-presi-
dent, the third vice'-president, the treasurer, the secre-
tary; M. J. Kennedy, 532 Republic Building, Chicago,
III.; Gordon Laughead, Apollo Piano Co., DeKalb,
111.
Grievance Committee: Roger S. Brown, chairman,
Henry F. Miller Piano Co., Boston, Mass.; Ralph H.
Day, Ivers & Pond, 114 Boylston street, Boston,
Mass.; Paul Fink, Aeolian Co., 29 West 42nd street,
New York City.
Hotel Committee—Geo. E. McNally, chairman,
Estey Piano Co., 297 East 133rd street, New York
city; A- B. Furlong, Vocalstylc Co., Cincinnati, Ohio;
Alexander McDonald, Sohmer Co., 31 West 57th
street, New York city.
Railroad and Water Ways Committee—Gust.
Adolph
Anderson,
chairman,
BlufTton,
Ind.;
Thomas J. Mercer, Gulbransen-Dickinson Co., Chi-
cago, 111.; B. P. Sibley, Kohler Industries, §an Fran-
cisco, Cal.; Roy S. Dunn, Straube Piano Co., Ham-
mond, Ind.
Delegates to National Council of Traveling Sales-
men's Association—W. C. Heaton, George W. Allen,
W. B. Williams, Albert Behning, Chas. McConville.
Alternates—D. D. Luxton, Kenneth W. Curtis, Ray-
mond E. Briggs, F. E. Edgar.
Delegates to Music Industries Chamber of Com-
merce—W. C. Heaton, F. E. Edgar, G. H. Bliss, M. J.
Kennedy, W. B. Williams.
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