PRESTO
March 14, 1925.
SMALL GOODS AND SUPPLIES
should lay in a supply," urges Mr. Harman. The
chestnut blight was reported on the Pacific Coast in
1907 by Dr. Herman Merkel, now chief forester of
the New York Botanical Gardens, but then in the New Organization of New York Trade to Elect
service of the United States Forestry Department.
Officers on That Date.
He urged prompt remedial measures to prevent the
spread of the blight, but prompt action was not
The New York Musical Instrument & Accessory
taken by the Government. As a result, the chestnut
Manufacturers'
Association will hold its next meet-
blight spread eastward and was prevalent in the East
ing March 25 at Mouquin's Cafe, Sixth avenue and
in 1918, having come across the entire country.
Twenty-eighth street, when permanent officers will
be elected and the formation of the association per-
BACK FOR SAXOPHONE.
fected.
When Lawrence Miller, youthful insurance agent,
Walter Grover, of A. D. Grower & Son, Long
vanished last fall after embezzling $25,000 from the
American Acceptance Corporation, Chicago, he wrote Island City, N. Y., is temporary chairman, and J. J.
to Maurice Rosenzweig, vice-president, and asked to D. Taylor, of the Waverly Musical Products Co.,
be forgiven, saying "the lake will tell no tales." But temporary secretary.
The declared purpose of the association is that it
he appears to have changed his mind since then, for
early last evening he purchased a $100 saxophone work in close harmony with other organizations of
from the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, tried to pay the musical instrument and accessory manufacturers
for it with a check, said his name was Bachrach, and elsewhere in the country. The advantages of co-
then disappeared after paying in cash when the clerk operating with jobbers in musical merchandise were
recognized him. Another youth, believed to be Sey- pointed out by Mr. Grover.
mour Raske, a close friend of Miller, was with him
Those present at the first meeting of the Musical
when he made the purchase. Police said both are
wanted in San Francisco and Memphis, Tenn., for Instrument and Accessory Manufacturers, New York
Zone, included the following:
passing bogus checks.
D. L. Day, Bacon Banjo Co., Inc., stringed instru-
ments, Groton, Conn.; Walter Schmidt, Oscar
CONN SCHOOL GROWS.
Schmidt, Inc., stringed instruments, Jersey City,
Interest in the Conn School for band and orchestra N. J.; Frank Gibson, Gibson Musical String Co.,
students in connection with the Conn Boston Co., strings. Belleville, N. J.; L. E. McCuen and Edward
488 Boylston street, Boston, is growing in a satis- W. Gerken, Rex International Products Co., bugles,
factory manner that pleases Claude D. Pierce, the Brooklyn, N. Y.; F. H. Martin, C. F. Martin & Co.,
manager of the Conn branch. The school for band stringed instruments, Nazareth, Pa.; H. C. Lomb,
and orchestra instrument players is gradually enlarg- J. G. Sparkes and J. J. D. Taylor, Waverly Musical
ing. Rehearsals are held at the old Conn store, 249 Products Co., Inc., musical instrument hardware,
Columbus avenue, which has been remodeled and out- New York; A. D. Grover and Walter Grover, A. D.
fitted with several private rehearsal booths as well as Grover & Sons, Inc., stringed instrument accessories,
a room for grouped playing. This store carries a full Long Island City, N. Y.; George F. Chapin, Standard
line of Conn instruments and accessories and supple- Musical String Co., strings, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Walter
ments the big store on Boylston street.
Gotsch, Walter M. Gotsch Co., bags and covers, Chi-
cago; L. A. Elkington, stringed instrument hardware,
New York; Albert Houdlett, Houdlett & Sons, Inc.,
Miss Norman Keirsey has been made manager of
the music roll department of the Charles E. Wells stringed instruments, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Maurice L.
Litton and Morris Brooks, Lifton Mfg. Co., musical
Music Co., Denver, succeeding Mrs. Cleveland Davis,
instrument cases, New York.
who resigned recently.
N. Y. M. I. & A. M. A.TO MEET
ADDS LEEDY DRUMS
Chicago Firm Takes on Fine Line of Drums and
Plans Big Wholesale Trade.
The Continental Music Co., 339 South Wabash
avenue, Chicago, announces the addition of the fine
line of Leedy drums to its wholesale department,
which is reported unusually busy as the spring orders
are arriving.
The Continental Music Co., distributors of Pan
American band instruments and saxophones, has also
announced a- beautiful catalogue, now being prepared
for the trade, and which will be released next week.
It contains a complete line of the merchandise carried
in stock by the company and will accord the music
merchant a wide selection from which to choose.
The addition of Leedy drums, manufactured by the
Leedy Mfg. Co., Indianapolis, Ind., will be welcomed
by customers of the Continental Music Co., and will
now avail themselves of .the excellent merchandise
and service of the Chicago firm.
MENACE OF CHESTNUT BLIGHT
Secretary of Southern Trade Association Sends Out
Warning to Users of the Lumber.
Piano and phonograph manufacturers using chest-
nut lumber are advised of a blight in chestnut wood
by C. B. Harman, secretary of the Southern Sash,
Door and Millwork Manufacturers' Association, with
headquarters in Atlanta, Ga., who says the chestnut
blight has marched steadily southward and in a few
years will destroy the last chestnut timber in the
Southeast as it attacks the maintain sections of North
and Souh Carolina and North Georgia.
All of the experts brought by the Forestry Depart-
ment to bear upon the blight have been unable to pre-
vent its spread, so Mr. Harman is advising users of
chestnut to increase their demand for it and lay in a
supply before the blight can advance to it. Once the
blight attacks it, it will immediately become worthless
for any purpose whatever.
"Piano makers who use chestnut in their products
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