PRESTO-TIMES
FEATURING THE FRANKLIN
December 24, 1927
Yardman, Veck & Co
make
a Fine Piano
for every pocketbook
All exquisite instruments
offering unique tone beauty
and durability. All made
and g u a r a n t e e d by t h e
makers of the Hardman, the
world's most durable piano.
Your choice of models priced
to consumers from $375 to
$5000.
85 Years of Fine Piano Making
\Y/ r f in *° r cata l°g an< J prices
W f IIC of pianos
Made and guaranteed by
Hardman^ Veck ^f Co
FRANKLIN IS WIXIXAV ATTRACTION.
The accompanying illustration shows a beautiful
window display by the Watson-Reicken Company,
Bellingham, Wash., in which a new Franklin Period
creation is featured. The Franklin is popular in that
city and the new model added to the general interest
in the instrument.
PERIOD MATHUSHEKS HAVE
BROUGHT MUCH SUCCESS
and slippery from rain and snow, and the auto
skidded and tipped over in a deep ditch. Mr. Jenkins
had three ribs broken and his head was hurt, but not
seriously. He was picked up by a passing motorist
and rushed to a hospital, where his wounds were
dressed.
He realizes that it is tough luck to be laid up at
the Merry Christmas time, but says he is glad that
he escaped worse injuries.
The Mathushek Piano Mfg. Co. of New Haven and
New York in Ascendancy.
Production keeps right on at the Mathushek Piano
Manufacturing Company's plant at 132d street and
Alexander avenue, New York.
This company has been having particular success
with its Florentine Period model grand pianos, and,
in fact, with the several other styles of instruments
that it produces. In Connecticut it maintains ware-
rooms at 193 Church street, New Haven, and at 31 Hotel Phone Rates Reduced in Many Cities—Drive
West Main street, Meriden.
for New Members.
With increased facilities of the most modern and
Gordon
Laughead,
president of the National Piano
up-to-date character, the distinction which long ago
Travelers'
Association,
is sending out a letter setting
marked the fine old Mathushek pianos is steadily
out
the
advantages
and
plans of the organization a?
being extended.
follows:
The National Piano Travelers are working to re-
duce traveling costs.
All piano travelers should affiliate with our organi-
zation. Dues are only $5 per year.
During the past year our association, in coopera-
tion with the other units of the National Council of
New and Old Concerns Secure Charters in Various Traveling- Salesmen, have successfully reduced hotel
Places.
phone rates in many cities. We are about to win
great victory, the abolishment of the Pullman sur-
P. I. Burks and Company, Louisville, $25,000; P. I. a charge
and we are keeping the mileage bill alive.
Burks, A. R. Burks and George R. Burks. The com-
Aside from this work, our association is known as
pany will manufacture and sell phonographs.
the best social organization in the music world. One
Scott-Kurthalz Piano Company, Ashland, $15,000;
must be a piano traveling or music roll man to join
P. M. Scott, H. L. Kurthalz and Frank C. Martin.
this ancient and honorable organization.
Young piano travelers are urged to affiliate. Write
The Original Music Roll Co., Cleveland, O.; M.
Albert Behning, secretary, 105 West 40th street, New
Barbiera.
The Sherman Music Co., Inc., Sherman, Tex., has York City.
been incorporated recently with a capital stock of
TO OUR FRIENDS.
$5,000; the nicorporators are S. B. Lackland, W. G.
Leeman and A. C. Carson, Jr.
The greeting which appears on the cover of this
issue of Presto-Times is a personal one extended
Vincennes Phonograph Manufacturing Company,
Vincennes, hid., with capitalization of $250,000.
most cordially in the spirit of the holiday season to
each and every one of our friends. It is not a per-
functory greeting, as its formal expression might
seem to indicate, but a true felicitation offered with-
out demonstration with sincere wishes of good will
in a world that sometimes offers disappointment in
place of joy, while offering enough of pleasure to
He Was Driving on Slippery Road at Night and His
make the optimistic sure that life is worth the living,
Machine Went Into the Ditch.
with new and better things just around the corner.
This greeting, therefore, goes out as a personal
News comes from Kansas City, Mo., that J. W.
message to our friends, and is at the same time made
Jenkins, prominent piano dealer of that city, with
branch stores in other cities, was badly hurt in an all-embracing because there are so many in the trade
we cannot recall all of their names or places in a
auto mishap one night this week.
moment. In publishing a trade paper we work for
Mr. Jenkins was driving his big machine back to
the trade, but recognize that all the world is kin, and
Kansas City on the return trip to a small town; it
that is the spirit that the holiday season evokes. Many
was dark, the road was rounded at the top to a small
town; it was dark, the road was rounded at the top happy returns of the season to all, is our wish!
PIANO TRAVELERS KEEPING
THE MILEAGE BILL ALIVE
NEW INCORPORATIONS
IN MUSIC GOODS TRADE
J. W. JENKINS, KANSAS CITY,
HURT IN AUTO TURNOVER
433 Fifth Avenue. New York
Fine Pianos
Makers oj the world's most
durable piano—the Hardman
Schumann
PIANOS and PLAYER PIANOS
GRANDS and UPRIGHTS
Have no superiors in appearance, tone
power or other essentials of strictly
leaders in the trade.
Warning to Infringers
Thli Trade Mark li cast
In the plate and also ap-
pear* upon the fall board
of all genuine Schumann
Pianos, and all lnfrlngers
will be prosecuted. Beware
of Imitations iuch as Schu-
mann & Company, Schu-
mann A Son, and also
Sbuman,
as
all
stencil
shops, dealer* and user* of
planoi bearing a name in
Imitation
of
the
name
Schumann with the Inten-
tion of deceiving the public
will be prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law.
J'iew Catalogue on Request.
Schumann Piano Co*
W. N. VAN MATRE, President
Rockford, IU.
W• P. Haines & Co.
Manufacturers of
BRADBURY. WEBSTER
and
W. P. HAINES & CO.
Grand, Upright and Reproducing
Pianoa
138th Street and Walton Avenue
NEW YORK
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