Presto

PRESTO
July 26, 1924.
by a progressive spirit he has achieved noted tri-
umphs in the world of industry. He is closely asso-
ciated with the triumphs of the celebrated Zapetico
piano which was awarded a gold medal at the Paris
Exposition of 1900.
After four years with the main establishment of A.
Wagner & Levien, Successors, in Mexico City he was Six Stores to Be Operated by Reorganized
Manager of Monterrey Branch of A. Wagner & transferred to the Monterrey branch in 1903 where
Company, in Which Geo. B. Grosvenor,
he has served with great ability for over twenty
Levien, Mexico City, Is Guest at Special
Charles Houston and OHn Bell Are
years. In addition to his other duties Senor Hagar
Celebration Tendered by House and Em-
has been legal advisor for the house since 1910.
Associated.
Senor Hagar has many friends in the United
ployes of Warerooms and Factories.
On
July
2
Charles
Houston and associates pur-
States, where he has visited several times, the last
In Monterrey, Mexico, recently there was a pleas- visit being on the occasion of a trip to Europe, chased the controlling stock of the Fenton Music
ant celebration in honor of Senor Don Luis Hagar, when he stopped off in Chicago, accompanied by his Company, Chicago, which operates two of the finest
Victrola and radio stores in that city. The general
manager for A. Wagner & Levien, Successors, the estimable and accomplished wife and his little daugh-
office is located at the north side store, 4736-38 North
occasion being the completion of twenty-five consecu- ter Nina. They were in Chicago several days and
tive years in the business. The celebration was held
called at the houses with which his Wagner & Levien Racine avenue. The other Fenton store is at 1523-25
East 53rd street at Lake Park avenue.
at the residence of Senor Don Juan Schwartz, man- transact business and at the same time was enter-
The new officers and directors of the Fenton Music
ager-in-chief of A. Wagner & Levien, Successors, tained by numerous business friends.
Co. are as follows: Geo. B. Grosvenor, president;
who was assisted by a number of personal friends of
Charles Houston, vice-president and treasurer, and
Senor Hagar, outside the business as well as by em-
Olin Bell, secretary.
ployes of the office, warerooms and workshops of the
These stores have been general musical merchan-
company.
dise stores for a period of five years and have sold
In addition to the warmest felicitations Senor Ha-
pianos in a small way. In 1923 the Fenton Music
gar received a valuable present from the main house
Co. added a radio department in both stores and have
in Mexico city, another from the personnel of the New and Old Concerns Secure Charters in Various
very competent men in attendance. The new officers
Monterrey branch, and telegrams from other branches
Places.
of the Fenton Music Co. have extensive plans to push
in which Senor Hagar is held in high esteem.
The Horras Piano Co., 1101 La Salle Building, St. the exclusive Victor line of talking machines, and
A Progressive Man.
Louis, was recently incorporated with $10,000 capi- the radio department will be second to none in the
Senor Hagar, who is one of the most enthusiastic tal to wholesale and retail musical instruments and city. Mr. Houston has begun negotiations which
and actk'e employes in the house of A. Wagner & radio supplies. The incorporators are Sylvester and will lead to taking over a music store in Oak Park
and one on the southwest side, and when the entire
Levien, Successors, was born in Hamburg, Ger- Vincent Androlewicz, J. L. and Julia Horras.
Dixon Electric Piano Co., Dixon, 111., $25,000; to plans are carried out the Fenton Music Company ex-
many, in 1880. At the age of fourteen he was initiated
pects to operate six stores in the outlying resident
into the active work of the piano makers when he deal in musical instruments.
became an apprentice in the piano factories of F. L.
The Swanson Piano Co., Jamestown, N. Y., $100,- sections in Chicago.
The piano department in these various stores will
Neumann. At the expiration of his four appren- 000. To manufacture and sell pianos.
ticeship years he became a full-fledged piano maker.
Boyce-Rose Music Co., South Bend, Ind., $50,000. be operated by the Grosvenor & Lapham Company,
whose officers are Geo. B. Grosvenor, president; E.
James F. Boyer, Henry Rose and Emaline Nye.
Senor Hagar became a piano factory worker of
The Charles A. Stephens Music Publishing Co., 10 F. Lapham, vice-president, and Charles Houston,
rare ability and scarcely nine months had elapsed
since the expiration of his apprenticeship term when South La Salle street, Chicago, has been incorpo- secretary and treasurer, and the combined prestige
the fact was recognized in a marked way. A. Wag- rated by Charles A. Stephens, Dan Russo, John S. of the Grosvenor & Lapham Company and the Fen-
ton Music Co. will put this organization in a position
ner & Levien, Successors, acquired his services in the Fink, Ted Fiorito and W. H. Farrington.
The Sonora Music Publishing Co., 627 North Fre- to secure more efficiency from advertising, as it will
construction of the well known Wagner piano and
soon placed him in charge of the factory established mont avenue, Baltimore, Md., was recently incor- operate stores in the various neighborhoods sur-
porated with capital stock of $100,000. The incor- rounding Chicago and will obtain far better results
in Mexico City.
porators are Charles Parquet, Milton Dashiell and than the stores located in the loop district. The
His Code.
Grosvenor & Lapham Company has been located in
George L. Fornofr.
An unfailing discharge of his obligations is a lead-
The Saxophone Shoppe, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio, the Fine Arts building, 410-18 South Michigan ave-
ing tenet in Senor Hagar's business code. Impelled
nue, for twenty-six years. On July 1 the company
has been chartered with an authorized capital of
$5,000 to buy, sell and deal in musical instruments. closed the business in the Fine Arts building, and
Incorporators are G. E. Lefebvre, M. G. Lathrop, moved the equipment to the Fenton Music Company's
North Side store on Racine avenue.
V. C. Burrows, W. A. Aichele and M. Crowl.
Union Hill Melody Shop of Town of Union, N. J.,
has been incorporated at Trenton, N. J., with $25,000
MAKES FAVORABLE REPORT.
capital to deal in musical instruments.
In the matter of the extension asked by the Biddle
The music department of Sanger Bros., Dallas, will
be doubled in size when additions now being made Manufacturing Corporation, 133rd street and Cypress
to the building at a cost of $1,000,000 have been avenue, New York, the committee of creditors con-
sisting of W. A. Mennie, of the Standard Pneumatic
completed.
Action Co., E. P. D. Moore, of the Pratt, Reed
Player Action Co., and A. L. Smith, secretary of the
THE EXPORTERS' OVERHEAD.
Musical Supply Association of America, reports fa-
vorablv on the condition of this business.
The increased cost of doing business in Europe
today, due to the stabilization of the various ex-
changes and a consequent rise in living expenses, is
TRADES STORE FOR FARM.
becoming of greater importance to those firms hav-
A
deal
was completed in Logansport, Ind., last
ing traveling representatives on the Continent.
W^hereas a year ago one could travel in any country week by which Tony Sandi came into possession of
in continental Europe for a fractional part of what it the Watkins Music Shop in Pearl street and Mr.
would cost in the United States, the expense today is Watkins became owner of a 66>^-acre farm near that
as great as it is here, and in many cases is even city.
greater. Sales managers, in estimating the expenses
for their European representatives, should allow trav-
eling expenses on a basis similar to those in the
United States.
"Built on Family Pride"
FENTON MUSIC CO.
EXPANDS IN CHICAGO
MARKS OF ESTEEM
FOR LOUIS HAGAR
NEW INCORPORATIONS
IN MUSIC GOODS TRADE
Onduring-
• L
Tone
THE
^Hardman
The Sh&rdman JEine
is a complete line
It comprises a range of artisti-
cally worthy instruments to
please practically every purse:
The Hardman, official piano of
the Metropolitan Opera House;
the Harrington and the Hensel
Pianos in which is found that in-
builtdurabilitythatcharacterizes
all Hardman-made instruments;
the wonderful Hardman Repro-
ducing Piano; the Hardman
Autotone (the perfect player-
piano); and the popular Playo-
tone.
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DEMAND FOR SAP GUM.
Buyers for piano and phonograph factories are in-
terested in plain and quartered sap gum, the request
being chiefly for the inch plain and the quartered in
all thicknesses. Sap gum is one of the most staple
of the woods used in the manufacture of the dark
finish, imitation mahogany, medium priced furniture,
and the increase in the demand for the raw material
indicates a brisk demand for the finished products in
that particular line.
Becker Bros.
Doll & Sons
Represent the Artistic
in Piano and Player Piano
Construction
JACOB DOLL & SONS
ST0DART
WELLSMORE
Manufacturer a of
HIGH GRADE PIANOS
and PLAYER PIANOS
Factory and Warerooms
767-769 Tenth Avenue, New York
Jacob Doll & Sons, Inc.
Southern Boulevard, E. 133rd St.
E. 134th St. and Cypress Ave.
NEW YORK
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