August 4, 1928.
P R E S T 0-T I M E S
18
The Background
of
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
PRESTO TIMES WANT ADVS.
SALES HEAD WANTED.
WANTED—An optimistic, energetic director of
retail
sales. A mart who can keep salesmen busy and suc-
cessfully direct their efforts. A fine position for such
a man in a large city. Address " K , " care PRESTO-
TIMES, 417 S. Dearborn St., Chicago.
WANTS SALES MANAGER'S POSITION.
Sales manager wants position in directing music store.
Fifteen years' experience. Will consider position as
manager or special sales work, as I enn produce bus-
iness. Reference exchanged. Address "Sales Man-
ager," Box 420, Danville, III.
PIANO SALESWOMAN.
POSITION WANTED—By a "wideawake" piano sales-
woman. Splendid references in both wholesale and
retail. "Go anywhere." Age 35.
Address "Sales-
woman-35," care PRESTO-TIMES, Chicago, III.
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.
4,135 acres unimproved excellent wheat and mixed farm
lands, 80 miles west of Winnipeg, Canada. All close to
railroad. Price, $25.00 an acre. 331 acres improved
farm, fully equipped and a going concern with good
new buildings, stock, machinery; only one and one-
half miles from Westbourne, Manitoba; price $20,000.
All land free of incumbrance and clear title. Will
consider good mercantile stock for part or all. Can-
ada is booming. Best of reasons for selling. Write
me for particulars now. No agents considered. A d -
dress H. H. Schroeder, 491 37th St., Milwaukee, Wis.
THE NEW
CAPITOL
WORD ROLLS
WHOLESALE SALESMEN WANTED
We would like to get in touc!i with several high grade
piano salesmen who have had successful experience
in wholesale and retail selling. Our 1928 program calls
for expansion of sales effort and there is now an op-
portunity for men of the right calibre to join this
growing organization on a favorable working basis.
If ycu are looking for a permanent opportunity rather
than just a job, write us for an appointment, giving
your experience, reference and photograph if conven-
ient. Gulbransen Company, 3232 Chicago Ave., Chi-
cago.
OPENING FOR SALESMAN.
WANTED—Piano salesman for city; also one for country.
State age, experience and proposition wanted. A.
Hospe Co., Council Bluffs, Iowa.
ORGANS FOR SALE.
FOR SALE—Twenty good house organs. Price $5.00 each
on our floor. Address "ZZ," care PRESTO-TIMES,
Chicago.
USED PIANOS.
FOR SALE—Mixed carload of used pianos and players.
Prices $25 to $75. Call and see them at our shop,
2214 S. Paulina St., Chicago. Cable Piano Company,
retail.
POSITION WANTED
By man capable of managing genera) music business or
piano manufacturing seeks position. Extensive ex-
perience in retail, wholesale and manufacturing lines
with important music houses. First-class references.
Address "Manager," Box 8, PRESTO-TIMES.
ATTENTION, PIANO MANUFACTURERS!
WANTED—To get in touch with piano factory making
low price pianos for retail trade. All answers treated
in strict confidence.
Address
"Dealer,"
Box 8,
PRESTO-TIMES, 417 S. Dearborn St., Chicago.
MANAGER SEEKS POSITION
Piano store manager seeks position in West. Now em-
ployed. Has been successful in present connection.
Address Box 321, PRESTO-TIMES, 417 S. Dearborn
St., Chicago.
WANTED FOR OFFICE.
WANTED—Young man about 30 years of age who has
had experience in office work and accounting with
consignment manufacturers. The position open is to
assist in the operation of a consignment business by
a large manufacturer and offers splendid opportuni-
ties for immediate advancement. Address "Oppor-
tunity, No. 1," care PRESTO-TIMES, 417 S. Dear-
torn St., Chicago.
erately in seasoning and bends well when seasoned.
The layers of annual growth are clearly marked by
several rows of large open ducts, occupying nearly
Important Hardwood Lumber Has Numerous Uses the entire width of the annual ring in slow growing
specimens. The color of the heart wood is brown,
in All Phases of the Music Industry.
while the sap wood is often nearly white. The pro-
Ash is twelfth in the list of hardwood production, portion of heart wood and sap wood varies chiefly
according to Forest Service. Its habitat covers prac- with the age of the tree. Old growth ash, over 150
tically the entire United States east of the Miss'ssippi. years in age, has a narrow rim of sap usually less
Its uses in the making of musical instruments are as than two inches and in black ash often less than one
follows: Piano actions, banjos, drums, harps, mold- inch.
ings (piano), organ frames, organs, pipe-organ cast-
ing, pipe organs, piano backs, piano bottom boards,
MUSICIANS IN ENGLAND.
piano cases, piano facings, piano fronts, piano keys,
According to the London Daily Mail, out of over
piano keyboards, piano pilasters, piano players (inside
7,000 prefessional instrumentalists employed in Lon-
work), piano tops, talking machine:;, tambourines.
There are three varieties of ash known commer- don, no less than 4,000 are in regular employment
at motion picture theaters. In the United Kingdom
j daily and they are respectively the black, white and
green ash and each of these has subordinate species. there are some four thousand movie houses, employ-
In the lumber trade ash is often not distinguished as ing on a rough estimate between twenty-three and
to kinds or species, being sold under the common twenty-five thousand players. This number includes
5C0 organists, 100 of whom are engaged in the Lon-
name of ash. Much of it is sold under the name of
white ash to distinguish it from the black ash, or as don area. It is probable that two-thirds of the profes-
sional musicians of the country earn their living in
it is called in the northern territory, brown ash.
About two-thirds of the present supply of ash is picture theaters.
second growth, chiefly in small timber tracts and on
NEW PUBLISHING HOUSE.
farm woodlots. Only about one-third is virgin tim-
ber and this is chiefly in large tracts and forms less
A music company, capitalized at $25,000, wh:ch
than five per cent of the entire timber stand where it lias been organized in Milwaukee, Wis., "to publish
grows. Generally speaking the ash stand of the lower music, vocal and instrumental," and to operate a busi-
Mississippi valley is bo'.anically classified as green ash, ness for selling and printing music, has been incor-
but in the lumber industry it is generally designated porated to operate under the firm name of Schmidt
as white ash and in some localities it is designated
& Peterson, Inc. Will : am J. Schmidt, Gustave A.
as cane ash.
Peterson, and Chester J. Roberts are the incorpo-
According to expert opinion, ash shrinks only mod- rators.
ASH FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
JUST RELEASED.
5003 Back in Your Own Back Yard—Fox Trot
5000 Beloved—Waltz
1994
Coquette—Fox Trot
1996
Dear, On a Night Like This—Fox Trot
1989
Girl of My Dreams—Waltz
1998
I Still Love You—Fox Trot
1990
(I Scream You Scream) Ice Cream—Fox
Trot
1993
If I Can't Have You—Fox Trot
1999
I'm Away from the World When I'm
Away from You—Waltz
5004 I Can't Do Without You—Waltz
5005 My Heart Stood Still—Fox Trot
1991 Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella—Fox Trot
Trot
1995- -Oh, Look at That Baby—Fox Trot
1988 Persian Rug—Fox Trot
5001 Play Gypsies, Dance Gypsies—Fox Trot
1997 The Sunrise—Fox Trot
1992 There Must Be a Silver Lining—Fox
Trot
5002 Varsity Drag
Extra Choruses
A Longer Roll
Seventy-five cents
Printed Words
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