May 30, 1925.
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PRESTO
MUSIC MERCHANTS'
PLANS FOR WEEK
Annual Convention of National Association at
Drake Hotel, Chicago, to Be Occasion
for Friendly Exchange of Feelings by
Most Congenial Organization.
ASSOCIATION'S GROWTH
Virility of Music Merchants' National Body Proved
by Achievements and Continuous Increase
in Membership.
The National Association of Music Merchants will
meet at 9:30 a. m. June 9 in the Ball Room
at the Drake Hotel. Chicago, for its twenty-fifth an-
nual convention. The processes of registration and
convention. Affiliated with the national organization
are the following state and local associations of the
music trade: Texas Music Merchants' Association,
Illinois Music Merchants' Association, the Dallas
Music Industries Association, Music Merchants' As-
sociation of Denver, the Cleveland Music Trades As-
sociation, Music Merchants' Association of Ohio, the
New York Piano Merchants' Association, the Oregon
Music Trades Association, Piano Merchants of Pitts-
burgh, Music Trades Association of Southern Cali-
fornia; Music Dealers' Association of Charleston,
W. Va.; Talking Machine & Radio Men, Inc., of
N. Y., N. J. and Conn.
T H E OFFICERS.
W. W. Smith, president, J. W. Greene Co., 801
Jefferson avenue, Toledo, Ohio; Wm. C. Hamilton,
first vice-president, S. Hamilton Co., 815 Liberty ave-
nue, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Henry E. Weiscrt, second vice-
president; Bissell-Weisert Co., 26 S. Michigan ave-
nue, Chicago, 111.; Matt J. Kennedy, secretary, 532
Republic Building, Chicago, 111.; Carl A. Droop,
treasurer, E. F. Droop & Sons Co., 1300 "G" street,
N. W., Washington, I). C.
Directors.
Alex. McDonald, Sohmer & Co., 31 W. 57th street,
New York City; John W. Boothe, Barker Bros., 724
S. Broadway, Los Angeles, Cal.; Clarence G. Camp-
bell, Knight-Campbell Music Co., 1625 California
street, Denver, Colo.; Edward H. Uhl, Southern Cal.
Music .Co., 806 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, Cal.
The Advisory Board.
The following comprise the Advisory Board, made
up of past presidents: Robert N. Watkin, chairman.
Will A. Watkin Co., 1207 Elm street, Dallas, Texas;
J. Edwin Butler, Butler Music House, Marion, Ind.;
M. V. DeForest, DeForest Pioneer Music House,
Sharon, Pa.; E. Paul Hamilton, Neal-Clark-Neal Co.,
473 Main street, Buffalo, N. Y.; P. E. Conroy, Con-
roy Piano Co., 1100 Olive street, St. Louis, Mo.; Ed-
mund Gram, Edmund Gram, Inc., 414 Milwaukee
street, Milwaukee, Wis.; J. A. Turner, Jr., Turner
W. W. SMITH.
President, National Association of Music Merchants.
validization of railroad certificates will he performed
on Monday in the Reception Court at the headquar-
ters hotel, and the executive and advisory boards will
also meet at 10 a. m on that day, but the opening
convention session will not be until the morning of
Tuesday.
Hut from the time of the first arrival on Sunday
until President W. W. Smith gives the official gavel-
tap to call the twenty-fifth convention of the associa-
tion to order there will be plenty of occasions and
no lack of willingness of members to renew old
friendships and recall previous meetings of the or-
ganization. And it is admitted that for the fraternal
feeling and congeniality few trade associations equal
that of the National Association of Music Merchants.
Joys of Memory.
There are thrills in the memories of the veterans
who may be induced to recall the events leading up
to the formation of a dealers' national association on
Thursday afternoon. May 15, in the Moorish Room
of the Hoffman House, New York. At the conven-
tion of the manufacturers the previous year a resolu-
tion recommended united action by manufacturers
and dealers to provide a remedy for certain evils in
the trade. And an invitation was extended to the
leading dealers of the country to take part in a joint
session where topics of mutual interest might be
discussed.
Father of the Association.
The dealers' association was an assured fact when
Col. F. B. T. Hollenberg, Little Rock, Ark., sug-
gested that the dealers present at the joint session in
the Washington Post Room of the Hoffman House
go elsewhere and form a national association of their
own. They went down to the next floor, and in the
Moorish Room in the new dealers' national organi-
zation—the National Piano Dealers' Association—was
Formed. It was a joyous event at which the rite of
burying the hatchet was inaugurated, a spontaneous
friendly affair which laid the groundwork for the
congeniality which distinguishes the National Asso-
ciation of Music Merchants today.
Sturdy Growth.
The small group of earnest piano dealers which
formed the association in the Hoffman House has
grown to an impressive body numbering 1,000 and
which will possibly exceed 1,200 by the date of the
BIG MEETING OF
TRAVELERS ASSURED
Annual Powwow of the Genial Host Repre-
senting Piano Industries on the Road to
Be Joyous Event.
The traveler is a busy man every day of an annual
convention, but he renews his depleted energies at
the joyous meeting of his own convention which is to
take place on Thursday, June 8. His interest in the
dealer is a delightfully mixed one, properly divided
between the sociable and commercial.
Every day of the big annual meeting he does effec-
tive work for bis house and incidentally helps the
dealer by excellent suggestion.
The travelers have been helping to swell the mem-
bership of the National Association of Music Mer-
chants by forceful recruiting methods, which Secre-
tary Matt J. Kennedy states has been productive of
good results. Finding new members for the dealers'
association is a labor of love for most of the piano
travelers. They firmly believe that membership in
the dealers' national organization is a sure incentive
to effective and profitable work in retailing the goods.
The following are the officers of the National Piano
Travelers Association elected at the convention lune
4, 1924. at the Waldorf Hotel, New York:
President—Chas. J. Cunningham, Foster-Arm-
strong Co., Rochester, N. Y.
1st Vice-president—George E. Mansfield. C. Kurtz-
maun & Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
2nd Vice-president—James T. Bristol, 25 East
Jackson Blvd., Chicago, III.
3rd Vice-President—M. I. Kennedy, 5M Republic
Bldg., Chicago, III.
Treasurer—W. B. Williams, 130 West 42nd street,
Ntw York.
Secretary—Albert Behning, 105 West 40th street.
New York.
Advisory Committee—Former Presidents W. S.
Rich. W. \1. f'laisted, A. Dalrymple, I. H. Shale, W.
I. Ketley. C. T. Purdy. G W. Allen, G. H. Bliss, W.
E. Hall, O. W. Williams. V. E. Ed.gar, D. E. Fabyan,
I. A. Krumme, A. A. Mahan, A. S. Shoningcr, W. C
Hcaton.
Executive Cunrnittce—The President, chairman
cx-ol'ficio, the first vice-president, the second vice-
president, the third vice-president, the treasurer, the
secretary; Gordon Laughead, .Apollo Piano Co., Dc
Kalb. 111.; A. B. Furlong, Yocalstyle Co, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Curtis A. Wessel, editor Phonograph and Talking
Machine Weekly, New York City, will cover the
phonograph situation, his subject being entitled
"Friendly Enemies."
William Braid White, representing the National
Association of Piano Tuners, will cover the subject,
"What Is the Matter with the Service End of the
Piano Business."
CART, A. DROOP.
Treasurer, National Association of Music Merchants.
Music Co., 604 Franklin street, Tampa, Fla.; John G.
Corley, The Corley Co.. 213 E Broad street, Rich-
mond, Va.: P. T. Clay, Sherman, Clay & Co., Kear-
ney and Sutter streets, San Francisco, Cal.; O. A.
Field, Field, Lippmann Piano Stores, 1120 Olive
street. St. Louis, Mo.; W. H. Daniels, Denton, Cot-
tier & Daniels, 32 Court street, Buffalo, New York:
R. O. Foster, Foster & Waldo, 811 Nicollet avenue,
Minneapolis, Minn.; E. H. Droop, E. F. Droop &
Sons Co, 1300 "G" street. N. W., Washington, D. C ;
C. A. Grinnell. Grinnell Bros., 1515 Woodward ave-
nue, Detroit, Mich.; Henry Dreher, Dreher Piano
Co.. 1226 Huron road, Cleveland, Ohio; F. B. T.
Hollenberg, Hollenberg Music Co., 415 Main street,
Little Rock, Ark.
The Program.
The tentative program of the business sessions of
the National Association of Music Merchants, at the
Drake Hotel, Tuesday, June 9, and Wednesday, June
10, is an assurance of an interesting and instructive
time for dealers.
On Tuesday, June 9, Professor Osbournc McCon-
athy of Northwestern University, Evanston, 111.,
director of the Department of Public School and
Community Music, will address the merchants on
''Relationship Between Public School Music and the
Music Merchants."
Kirst
\V. <\ HAMILTON*,
Vice-President, National Association
Merchants.
>f Music
Alex. McDonald of New York, member of the ex-
ecutive committee of the merchants' association, will
deliver an address on "Make America Musical," the
slogan coined by Mr. McDonald and used officially
at the 1925 convention.
During the Tuesday session, Alfred L. Smith, gen-
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