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December 6, 1924.
PRESTO
BRANCH OF SCHUMANN
PIANO CO. REOPENED
Fred Firestone, Manager of Retail Department at
Opening in Durand.
Business in the Durand, 111., branch of the Schu-
mann Piano Co., Rockford, 111., interrupted by a
recent small fire in the building, has been resumed
and delayed efforts for a big Christmas business are
more strenuous for the short let-up.
Since the fire the sales rooms have been beautifully
decorated and artistic rooms are the result. The
store at State and Wyman streets has been painted.
The warerooms for the demonstration of pianos and
talking machines have been made into places of
beauty, comfort, and ease, and are filled with pianos
and talking machines of the best makes. Fred Fire-
stone, manager of the main store in Rockford, was
in Durand last week.
SOUTHERN COTTON AND A
BIGGER MUSIC BUSINESS
Business Observer in Daily Newspaper Sees Staple
Cause of Rapid Development There.
The possibilities of bigger purchases of music
goods in the South are suggested by the observations
of experts who note and write about the conditions
considered helpful and progressive in various sec-
tions.
As we couple manufacturers with piano sales in
the industrial East, we are wont to couple wheat and
corn with the improved sales of pianos in the Middle
West. Good fruit crops in Oregon and Washington
mean more interest in pianos and players in those
prosperous states.
Cotton has always been associated with more spend-
ing money in the South, but now the association of
the two is more justifiable than ever. Nor is it in the
growing of the staple that the happy condition per-
sists. The South has become an industrial section
with finished cotton fabrics becoming the sources of
the wealth that makes the people there become better
customers of the music stores. Cotton is growing
in importance in other than the textile industries,
and becoming more important to many of the indus-
tries in which this section has the lead.
Domestic consumption is steadily gaining upon ex-
port, while the consumption of southern mills is
gaining upon the consumption of the East. Long
since the manufacture of the coarser stuffs was be-
coming a southern industry.
According to an experienced observer in the Chi-
cago Tribune, the South has become a "pioneer"
section with the promise of rapid development and
consequent improvement in the fortunes of the music
trade. Writing this week "Scrutator" says:
"There is every reason to believe that the pioneer-
ing energies of American business are more and more
to be devoted to the South, especially the lower Mis-
sissippi valley. The West is not 'shot,' but it no
longer has any room for hordes of new people.
Already the full tide of emigration and development
has passed clean to the coast, and while that spec-
tacular process will continue for a long time, it is a
bit far away from us, and the old American adjec-
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tives of 'illimitable' and 'inexhaustible' are disap-
pearing from western booster literature.
"Perhaps the relative 'newness' of the South from a
business standpoint may be grasped from this: Up
to the middle of the nineteenth century the share of
the South in national wealth had grown to 40 per
cent and was growing in the decade of the fifties
more rapidly than that of the rest of the country.
"By 1900 the share was less than 20 per cent.
It is slightly above that now."
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
A M U S E M E N T CENTERS
SOME PERSONAL ACTIVITIES
OF STORY & CLARK CO.
Frank E. Story Visits New York Branch and Stil
Harcourt Makes Tour of East.
Officials of the Story & Clark Piano Co., 315 S.
Wabash avenue, Chicago, have been unusually busy
during the past week, as is the case with the whole-
sale and retail sales of the Story & Clark line.
Frank E. Story, vice-president, is visiting the Story
& Clark branch store at 33' W. 57th street, New York,
and the trade of that city. He had made arrange-
ments to retur nto headquarters late this week.
Stil Harcourt, popular Story & Clark traveler, is
at present visiting the trade in the states of Ohio,
Pennsylvania and New York. The Story & Clark
line has a big following in the states mentioned. Mr.
Harcourt, who is known as the Repro-Phraso man in
the trade, is extremely popular with his line.
E. M. Love, secretary, returned last week from a
tour of the Southwest, where conditions were found
to be constantly improving. Mr. Love is well pleased
with the possibilities of the Story & Clark line in that
part of the country.
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
JOIN NEW AKRON HOUSE.
F. W. VanScoyoc has resigned as vice-president
and manager of the Barberton store of the Smith &
Mitten Piano Co., of Akron, Ohio, and has joined
the Grand Piano Co. as partner in the new store. Mr.
VanScoyoc has been in the piano business many
years. He was with W. F. Frederick, of Pittsburgh,
and for seven or eight years floor salesman for A. B.
Smith, of Akron, and has hundreds of friends in
Akron territory. Harry Beardsley is also with the
Grand Piano Co. as salesman. He has been in the
piano business in Akron about 15 years.
PIANO FOR HOSPITAL.
A Howard piano, irade by the Baldwin Piano Co..
Cincinnati, has been presented to the Walter Reed
General Hospital, Washing'.on, D. C. The piano is
the gift of a number of music lovers and is presented
for reasons stated on a plate attached to the instru-
ment, in grateful acknowledgment of the faithful and
unselfish service of the Y. M. C. A. staff: Howard
W. Claire, Ana B. Claire, D. C. Adamson, and Chap-
lain John Hall. The piano was purchased from the
Robinson Music Store, 1306 G street.
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1731 Belmont Ave.,
CHICAGO
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