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Presto

Issue: 1929 2223

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P R E S T O-T I M E S
for the same company through the East. These men
while they are out take orders for both the Ludwig &
Co, and Strick & Zeidler pianos. In the meantime
C. A. Ericsson, W. T. Brinkerhoff and Supt. Charles
Stanley are doing their best at headquarters.
A. S. Zeisler Back from Connecticut.
A. S. Zeisler, general traveler for Krakauer Bros.,
piano manufacturers of East 136th and 137th streets
and Cypress avenue, New York, has returned from a
The Growth
of Your Business in
Band and Orchestra Instruments
Depends on the Prestige of the
Manufacturer in Producing Meri-
torious Goods.
That Is Why an Agency for
the Products of
C. G. CONN, Ltd.
ELKHART, IND.
is an Assurance of Success in
the Band and Orchestra In-
strument Field.
The Successes of C. G. Conn,
Ltd., Are Due to the Perfect
Scientific Processes in Pro-
ducing Instruments of the
Highest Tonal Value.
DISCRIMINATING MUSICIANS
Appreciate Their Tone.
WORLD-FAMED BANDMASTERS
trip through Connecticut. He said trade would be
more active if the textile mills were running with a
fuller quota of hands. However, he is keeping an eye
on Connecticut and expects business to "pep up"
soon in the Wooden Nutmeg State.
Winter & Co. Have Business Gains.
W. G. Heller, president of Winter & Co , manufac-
turers of the Winter & Co., Heller & Co., and Rudolf
pianos, 849-863 East 141st street, New York, believes
thoroughly in the "Fifty Prospect Plan," which is
being advocated by the National Piano Manufac-
turers' Association. One thing that seems to work
well is the gradual approach, for it is not until the
customer has received several letters that the solicitor
makes a call. He said that the piano trade had come
through a transformation period, which happily now
seems to have ended. In the Fifty Prospect Plan,
each salesman is expected to work up fifty prospects,
in a definite territory, and then follow them up and
make as many sales as he can. The Winter & Co.
business is now pretty good, Mr. Heller said.
A Sheaf of Piano Orders.
William Tonk & Bro., Inc., Tenth avenue and 36th
street, has been having a good retail trade since the
first of the year. As an instance of their success,
Edwin G. Tonk patted affectionately a sheaf of orders
and remarked: "Here are a number of pianos that
are going out the first thing tomorrow morning."
Business Good, says Max de Rochemont.
"Business is good—I had an order this morning,"
was the laughing sally offered by Max de Rochemont,
vice-president and treasurer of the Laffargue Com-
pany, as Presto-Times correspondent approached
him. This was early in the day; he may have re-
ceived four or five orders in the afternoon mail.
Anyway, the Laffargue Company is running, is man-
ufacturing very good instruments and meeting its pay
rolls.
Bruce Whittier Hard at It.
Bruce Whittier, who is a distant relative of the
poet, James Greenleaf Whittier, was found busy as
a beaver at his desk on the ninth floor of the Ampico
Hall Building, New York, where he assists Adver-
tising Manager Pollak of the American Piano Com-
pany. Everybody keeps busy at the American Piano
Company, and one of the very efficient members of
Mr. Pollak's staff is Miss Kelly. The heads of the
house admit that February trade made a very credit-
able showing.
Albert W. Atkinson Dies From a Fall.
Albert W. Atkinson, former assistant treasurer and
member of the board of directors of the Victor Talk-
ing Machine Company, died on the night of March 6
at his home at Merchantville, N. J., after a fall down
stairs in his residence. He was sixty-eight years of
age.
His acquaintance with Eldridge Johnson,
founder of Victor, began when Mr. Johnson, a young
machinist, walked into a machine shop in Philadelphia
of which Mr. Atkinson was superintendent, and asked
for a job. Edward E. Shumaker, president of the
Proudly Proclaim Conn Instruments to
Be the Greatest Aids to the Best Band
Music.
C. G. CONN, Ltd.
Elkhart, Ind.
Victor Talking Machine Company, once was Mr.
Atkinson's office boy. He is survived by his wife
and two married daughters.
Pratt Read Products Going Well.
Miss M. A. King, who is New York representative
of the Pratt Read Products, manufactured at Deep
River, Conn., conducts a well-equipped office in
room 2101 Ampico Hall Building, northwest corner of
47th street and 5th avenue. Presto-Times corre-
spondent called on her at this headquarters on Feb-
ruary 6. Miss King said that trade since the first of
the year in their actions and keys had been good.
R. C. A. Offices to Move.
The Eastern District sales offices of the Radio Cor-
poration of America will be moved to new and larger
quarters in the 251 Fifth avenue building about March
22, according to J. L. Ray, vice-president and general
sales manager. The offices will have the entire
twenty-fourth floor, and twice the space vacated in
the Woolworth Building, 233 Broadway.
Edwin G. Tonk a Busy Individual.
Edwin G. Tonk of Wm. Tonk & Bro., Tenth ave-
nue between West 35th and 36th streets, New York,
said this week that trade was rather active because
they had been pushing hard to secure it.
HIGH GRADE
Folding Organs
School Organs
Practice Keyboards
Dealers' Attention Solicited
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
215 Englewood Av«., CHICAGO, ILL.
BANG!—WE'RE OFF!
Over 1000 orders were filled the past month to
Professional Artist for this "Song." In every
State of U. S. A.
THE MAN THAT CATCHES ME MUST
HAVE THE GOOD HARD CASH
(Comic with Extra Verses)
Regular Trade Price—Retails at 35c
Write for Special Introductory Rates
(Unsold copies can be exchanged.)
J. S. UNGER MUSIC HOUSE, Publishers
Reading
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Band and Orchestra Instruments to the
Potency of the Name and World-Known
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21
P R E S T O-T I M E S
BUYS CARRYOLA CO.
Allen Hough Manufacturing Company, Racine,
Wis., Is Purchaser and New Portable
Phonograph Co. Is Formed.
dimensions being four by six by one and one-quarter
inches.
Directors of the new Allen Hough Carryola Com-
pany include, in addition to the three officers, Albert
J. Pick, Jr., Chicago; Louis E. Yager, Chicago;
Bruno V. Bitker, Milwaukee; Dr. H. G Morton, Mil-
waukee; Rollo Gullickson, Chicago, and J. P. Wash-
burn, Chicago.
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The Allen Hough Manufacturing Co , Racine,
Wis., has purchased the Carryola Company of Amer-
ica, of Milwaukee, a subsidiary of the Prime Manu-
facturing Co., according to a recent announcement.
K. E. Mears, advertising representative of Smith
A new corporation, the Allen Hough Carryola Com-
Bros., Inc., of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., famous cough
pany, has been formed, with assets over $500,000.
Both the Allen Hough and the Carryola companies drop manufacturer, recently drove up to the factory
have been among the largest manufacturers of port- of the Clark Orchestra Roll Company, De Kalb, 111.,
able phonographs in the country. The new concern and picked out a comprehensive program of up-to-
will be the nation's largest independent maker of this the-minute music rolls for use on the Calliaphone.
Smith Bros., manufacturers of the well-known
line of products, and expects to do business amount-
cough drops, are one of America's oldest concerns,
ing to $3,000,000 this year.
Don T. Allen, while working for the Prime Manu- but are constantly alert to the modern type of adver-
facturing Company, is said to have induced Orton W. tising and their fleet of gaily colored Calliaphones
Prime, president, to organize the Carryola Company are proving a real novelty wherever they travel.
K. E Mears was on a return trip to New York
as a subsidiary. He became vice-president of both
the Carryola and the Prime Manufacturing Com- State after a tour of the middle west, and reports
Clark rolls are lielping "put over" the adver-
panies, but left a year and a half ago and organized that
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the Allen Hough Company in Racine with Mr. tis ng in tine shape.
And they use Clark rolls exclusively!
Hough, who had been sale's manager of the Carryola
Company.
At the "Rio Rita" show, now playing at the Audi-
Production will be started immediately on a new
product, the Allen Hough Motor, a synchronous torium, one of the best numbers is furnished by
electrical motor for use in portable phonographs and Edward Shapiro and Bert Shefter on the two Bald-
radios, which is the smallest motor of its kind in win concert grand pianos. Several selections are
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