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PRESTO
February 28, 1925.
CHRISTMAN
"The First Touch Tells"
The Famous
Studio Grand
(only 5 ft. long)
Remains the foremost of all the dainty
little pianos for Parlor and Music
Room. It has no superior in tone
quality, power or beauty of design.
CHRISTMAN
Reproducing Grand
STORY & CLARK JOINS
THREE MILLION CLASS
Progressive and Powerful Chicago Industry
Incorporates for the Large Capital Named
and Is a National Institution.
The Story & Clark Piano Company, with head-
quarters in Chicago and palatial establishments in
New York City, and many other cities in the East
and West, has been incorporated for $3,000,000. The
old house, which was founded by Hampton L. Story
in 1867, has developed solidly until it now parallels
the greatest of them all in capital and the reach of
its long arms of trade.
The late evidences of the energy with which the
Story & Clark Piano Co. is directed, may be seen in
the imposing branch house on 57th street, New York
—the new Piano Row of the metropolis—and also in
the splendid establishment on Michigan avenue, Chi-
cago, recently purchased and soon to be occupied by
the house.
Descriptions of the two houses of the Story &
Clark Piano Co., with illustrations, have appeared in
Presto. With the latest item of news—that the re-
cent incorporation for $3,000,000 presents the best
possible proof of the position which has been at-
tained by the old Chicago industry.
George L. Hall, Manager of Detroit Store,
Elected to Official Capacity and Will
Join the Chicago Headquarters.
The Board of Directors of The Cable Company
at a recent meeting named George L. Hall, of the
Detroit store, for vice-president of the company,
filling a vacancy which has existed for several years.
When a boy, Mr. Hall was employed in the offices of
The Cable Company, so that in making the change
he is literally "coming home."
Mr. Hall has also had factory experience, having
for several years been in The Cable Company's fac-
tory in Chicago, going from there "on the road," and
then to Detroit as general manager of the house in
that city. So that he is peculiarly well equipped for
his new duties.
The news of Mr. Hall's election to the important
office of vice-president of The Cable Company comes
too late for more extended mention this week. Later
a more complete reference to th change in the gen-
tleman's connection will have place in these columns.
Baldwin Piano Co. to Give Piano, Carlin Music
House a Fine Violin and Others
Cash Awards.
Action
Has advantages for any Dealer or
Salesman. It is a marvel of expressive
interpretation of all classes of compo-
sition, reproducing perfectly the per-
formances of the world's greatest
pianists.
The Indiana State Music Contest, which will be
held in Indianapolis city on April 22, will offer money
as prizes. Students of the piano, violin and voice are
eligible. The contest will be held under auspices of
the National Federation of Music Clubs, and three de-
partments of music will be represented. The contest
is for American trained musicians.
Two prizes of $25 each have been contributed for
the winners of the state contest. The Baldwin Piano
Co. has offered the prize for the winner of the piano
contest, and the Carlin Music Co. for the violin. The
prize for voice will be announced later. Mrs. Florence
G. Jetip, 2415 N. Talbott street, is receiving applica-
tions for contest entries, which should be in before
April 8th.
CHRISTMAN
Players and Pianos
PRESIDENT PLETCHER PAYS
TRIBUTE TO LEE S. ROBERTS
"The First Touch Tells"
Characteristically Warm-hearted Comment in Which
Statement is Made of Continued Association.
Rag. U. S. Pat Off
Christman Piano Co.
597 East 137th St.
New York
A. L. WHITE, OF PORTABLE
ORGAN FAME, IS ABROAD
Writes of His Trip Across and Is Now on Visit to
Holy Land.
A. L. White, head of the A. L. White Manufactur-
ing Co., makers of folding organs and school organs,
with factory at 215 Englewood avenue, Chicago, left
Chicago a month ago for an extensive tour abroad.
Mr. White writes that the "voyage across was
pleasant," and in a postal card to his friend, George
E. Schulze, the piano and organ expert, of 3350 West
19th street, Chicago, he adds:
"The trip across was most delightful, with clear
skies all the way to England." Mr. White was in
London February 15 and intended to go to Glasgow,
Scotland, for a visit with his friend and customer,
William Thomson, the foremost music dealer of that
city, whose place of business is 5-9 Govan street.
Mr. White is now touring the continent of Europe
and will visit various points in northern Africa and
the Holy Land.
NEW VICE-PRESIDENT
MUSIC MEMORY TESTS
OF THE CABLE COMPANY
FOR NATIONAL CONTEST
PRIZES FOR INDIANA
STATES' MUSIC CONTEST
Equipped with
its maturity arrived there was nothing for me to do
but accept his resignation, which thing I did regret-
fully.
"At my solicitation he will retain his director's
chair, which means that he will still be one of us.
He leaves with the regret of his associates and their
best wishes for his highest success."
In commenting upon Lee S. Roberts' retirement
from the Q R S Music Company, T. M. Pletcher, its
president, said:
"I would indeed be acting the part of a selfish
friend were 1 to place any obstacle whatsoever in
Lee Roberts' progress toward the goal of his am-
bition. Of course, I knew of this idea of his for
some time and had hoped that he would outgrow it.
This, however, he did not do, and when the time of
Federation of Women's Clubs to Hold Contest for
School Pupils in State of Illinois.
Pupils in all schools in Illinois will be asked to
participate in preliminary music memory contests to
determine the personnel of the Illinois team to go to
the National Music Memory contest at the biennial
convention of the General Federation of Women's
Clubs in Atlantic City, N. J., in June, 1926.
The team to enter the national contest will be com-
posed of four pupils, one from a large high school, a
small high school, a graded school and a rural school.
Each high school, graded school and rural school
of the different communities will be asked to hold
its music memory contest individually and the five
pupils making the highest score will take part in the
district contests. The winning teams will be sent to
the state contests where the national contestants will
be chosen from the individual high scores.
In grading the papers the following scoring will be
used: Name of composition, 2 points; source, 2
points; composer, 2 points; nationality, 2 points, and
type of composition, 2 points.
The contests are open to all pupils of the 5th, 6th,
7th and 8th grades and all high school pupils.
GEORGE BOLDUC'S CHANGE.
George A. Bolduc, "The Music Man," who recently
resigned as manager of the Dixon Music Shop, at
North Platte, Neb., has accepted the position as man-
ager for the Gaston Music Co. branch in the same
city. Other Gaston stores are located at Kearney,
Grand Island and Hastings, Nebraska. They house
broadcasts from the Hastings station KFKX in con-
junction with the Westinghouse company. The
studio is located in the Gaston store.
BUSY MUSIC STORE ADDITION.
Billy Fowler, of the "Busy Music Store," of Tay-
lorville. 111., is building another addition to his sales
room. This is the second addition since the business
began about eight months ago. This improvement
consists of a thirty-foot extension on the main build-
ing on the rear and three more sales booths, making
the main sales room eighty foot long with five inside
booths for accommodating the phonograph records
and player roll trade.
TWO NEW MANAGERS.
W. T. Perkins, of Hopkinsville, Ky., has been ap'
pointed manager of the store of the McLaughlin
Music Company in that city. Paul Smiley recently
resigned to go to Dayton, Ohio, where he will have
charge of the store of the Steinway company branch
in that city. Mr. Perkins is a young man of energy,
initiative and ability. He has been in charge of the
phonograph department of the McLaughlin store for
the past six months.
EXPANDS IN ZANESVILLE, O.
The Spence Music Co., Zanesville, O., is remodel-
ing the building recently acquired in the street at
the rear of its store. The new space will double its
facilities for showing the goods.
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PRESTO
GET-TOGETHER DINNER OF
ST. LOUIS PIANO HOUSES
Salesmen of Kieselhorst Piano Co. Meet, Eat
and Hear Instructive Sales Methods
and Other Topics.
The first of a series of dinners to be given to the
salesmen of the Kieselhorst Piano Co., of St.
Louis, Mo., took place Tuesday evening at the City
Club. Thirty-three of the thirty-six employes of the
sales department were present.
W. J. Eden, salesman for the Gulbransen Co., of
Chicago, was the guest of the evening. He made a
talk on "What Constitutes a Salesman" and also gave
some constructive sales pointers on the Gulbransen
Registering Piano. E. A. Kieselhorst made a very
inspiring talk to the men and asked for an enthusi-
astic family spirit on their part. He said he would
rather be "Papa Ed" Kieselhorst than formal "Presi-
dent E. A." Kieselhorst.
Salesmanager Mattean gave a little talk on a gen-
eral lining up of sales efforts and policies, and E. T.
Hammon spoke enthusiastically on selling Kieselhorst
products. Throughout the evening a highly energetic
and gratifying spirit on the part of all the men pres-
ent was manifested. There is no question in the mind
of Mr. Kieselhorst but that the series of get-together
dinners which was inaugurated Monday will have a
very beneficial influence on everyone in the Kiesel-
horst "family?"
In connection with each place card was a fine-line
limerick about the particular individual, poking good-
natured fun at him or paying him a nice compliment.
LATEST HAPPENINGS OF
TRADE IN PORTLAND, ORE.
New Music Store Is Opened, Many Chicker-
ings Are Sold, and Prominent Piano
Salesmen Are Visitors.
The G. F. Johnson Piano Co., of Portland, has
placed a number of Chickering concert grands in
many prominent clubs and schools recently. A
Chickering grand was installed in the Multnomah
Amateur Athletic Club, the largest and most promi-
nent athletic club west of Chicago; another in the
auditorium of the Lincoln High School, which has
a capacity of 1,500 and is the scene of many of Port-
land's musical concerts and recitals, and still another
in the auditorium of the handsome new Women's
Club Building, which is also the scene of many musi-
cal events and is the meeting place of the Monday
Musical Club, the Portland Civic Music Club and the
MacDowell Club. Two Chickering concert grands
were placed by the Johnson company in the Willa-
mette University at Salem, Ore., one was installed in
their general assembly hall and the other in the uni-
versity's Conservatory of Music.
A new music store opened its doors in Portland,
Ore., this month, known as the Portland Music Co.
The new store is located at 227 Sixth street in a new
concrete fireproof building, where the company has
secured a long time lease. They have ample floor
space to display their pianos and phonographs and
musical products. They will be the retail distributors
of the Starr pianos and phonographs and will carry
the Gennett records. The company was organized
THE
by Lewis Lunsford and P. J. Hibler and B. H.
Barber has been placed in charge, who will be
assisted by his wife.
Visitors to the Portland music trade recently were
R. K. Maynard, representing the M. Schultz Co. of
Chicago; Fred Christianer, of Story & Clark Piano
Co., Chicago, and W. Mansfield, of the C. Kurtz-
mann Co., of Buffalo.
Art Stein, for many years connected with the local
branch of Sherman, Clay & Co., of Portland, Ore.,
dropped into his old headquarters, coming up from
Salem, Ore,, where he is connected with the Moore
Music House. Mr. Stein reports business excellent
in Oregon's capital city.
ACTIVITIES OF THE
CONTINENTAL PIANO CO.
Transfers of Individual Workers and Improve-
ments of Equipment in the Factory at
North Milwaukee.
Frank A. Butler, of the Continental Piano Com-
pany, who has been visiting the wholesale trade for
the past two weeks along the Atlantic Coast states,
is at the Boston offices for a few days. He reports
that the outlook for this year's business is very en-
couraging, with trade showing especially good im-
provement in the southern, states.
A. C. Clausen, general sales manager of the Henry
F. Miller Stores Company, has established his head-
quarters at the company's store at 214 South Wabash
avenue, Chicago, in order to be more closely in touch
with the western stores.
The Continental Piano Company is installing in-
dividual motors at the North Milwaukee factory to
take the place of the large plant motor which has
been used. This is another forward step toward the
greatest possible efficiency in manufacture and dis-
tribution which has been typical of the Continental
Piano Co. since its organization.
BELL BROTHERS' FACTORY
FINALLY FINDS BUYER
After Long Effort Plant of Late Piano Industry at
Muncie Is Sold.
The factory of the Bell Brothers Piano Co., at
Muncie, Indiana, has at last been sold. It has been
for sale ever since the failure of the piano industry
several years ago. The purchase, from the receiver,
of the Bell Brothers Piano Co. plant, by the Acme
Realty Company, for the Griffith Furniture Co., took
place last week. The was sold for $25,000, and it
will be used as a warehouse.
The Griffith company specializes in the production
of novelty furniture. The Bell Brothers Piano Co.
was complete and creditors will realize very little.
The Bells started in Kansas and built the Muncie fac-
tory about fifteen years ago. One of the brothers
was manager of the Fenton Piano Co. store in Chi-
cago until that enterprise closed a few weeks ago.
February 28, 1925.
THEY DIDN'T TOUCH
THE INSTALLMENT PAPER
Baldwin Piano Company's Indianapolis Store
Robbed Sunday Morning and Only the
Money Was Taken.
Breaking the combinations off of two safes in the
Bildwin Piano Co. store at 18 North Pennsylvania
street, Indianapolis, Ind., early Sunday morning, rob-
bers obtained $400 from one of the safes, but were
scared away before they could open the other one.
The robbery was discovered about 9 o'clock Sunday
morning, when John Lawson, colored porter, noticed
the lights out in the building and the door to the
office room, where the safes are kept, open. He noti--
fied E. G. Hereth, vice-president and manager of the
company, who with Harry Wert, sales manager, went
at once to the office.
The safe that was broken open contained six com-
partments, each of which had been opened. Checks,
stamps, papers and ledgers were found scattered
about the floor of the office, Mr. Hereth declared.
He said nothing was taken except the Cash and a
small steel cash box.
Although the combination of the second safe was
broken off, the robbers did not opert.it. Mr. Hereth
said that it had a double lock which closed when th«>,
combination was broken 'off." There was about $7(W)
in cash in the second safe. 1 .The store was locked'
about 6 o'clock Saturday iw'gftt. There are about
fifty-five employes working for the company and Hfe;
was not sure who locked tlae store Saturday night.ff
W. S. JENKINS IS MADE
DETROIT CABLE HEAD
Long-Time Manager of the John Church Co.,
Chicago House, Joins The Cable
Company Forces.
,
W. S. Jenkine. who has been Chicago manager for
The John Church Company and is one of the most
popular members of the western piano trade, has
accepted the position of manager of the Detroit house
of The Cable Company. He makes the change with
March first, and will go to the Michigan city at once
to take hold of his new duties.
As is told in another place in this issue of Presto,
the Detroit Cable manager, George L. Hall, comes to
Chicago to assume an important place in the parent
house of the great industry.
Mr. Jenkins has so long been active in Chicago
piano circles that he will be badly missed. As a
member of the Chicago Piano Club and in many
other activities he has made a place in the Chicago
trade which it will be hard to fill. In Detroit he will
speedily assume a correspondingly important place.
NEW MANAGER IN PADUCAH.
A. L. Davis, of St. Louis, has gone to Paducah,
Ky., to become sales manager for McLaughlin's
Music Store, 317 Broadway. Mr. Davis comes to
NEW KIMBALL STORE.
Paducah from the Lehman Piano Co., of which he
The \V. W. Kimball Co. has opened a store in
has been sales manager for several years. He has
Cameron, Mo., under the supervision of C. M. Rob- had long experience in the music store business. Mr.
ertson, working out of the Kimball midwest brancji
Davis will have supervision of the sales and adver-
at 1009 Grand avenue, Kansas City, Mo.
tising departments of McLaughlin's store.
BOWEN LOADER
makes of the Ford Roadster the Ideal piano truck,—most Convenient, most Economical and most Efficient.—Goes anywhere, over any
kind of roads, and distance makes no difference.
It will greatly assist any energetic Salesman, City or Country, but is indispensable for successful country work. -
It's the best outfit for making collections and repossessions.
Our latest model is fool-proof and indestructible, and the price has been reduced to $95.00 including an extra good water-proof
moving cover. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded.
BOWEN PIANO LOADER CO.,
Winston-Salem, N. C.
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