Music Trade Review
Issue: 1915 Vol. 61 N. 6 - Page 7
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
PIANO MANJN TROUBLE.
SUES FORMER EMPLOYE.
SAN DIEGO CREDIT^ MEN ORGANIZE.
R. C. Bowman, of Osage, la., Bound Over to
Grand Jury Under Embezzlement Charge.
Consolidated Music Co. Seeks to Recover on
Collections Alleged to Have Been Made by
Agent—The Claim Amounts to $1,197.57.
A. D. La Motte, of the Thearle Music Co., Be-
comes Vice-President of New Association—
Other Piano Houses Are Also Interested.
R. C. Bowman of the Bowman Music House,
was bound over to the Grand Jury Thursday after-
noon on the charge of larceny and embezzlement.
Bond was placed at $000, which was furnished.
Mr. Bowman came here last fall with his partner,
and the two conducted a piano business under the
firm name of Bowman & Kohl. Kohl later withdrew,
and Bowman has since been running the business
alone. He did an excellent business and readily
disposed of a large number of pianos. He carried
the Kurtzmann make of piano.
Although he sold many pianos, the young man
was very lax in his methods of meeting his bills,
and he became involved with his creditors several
times. Last week a representative of the C. Kurtz-
mann & Co. came here to look after the company's
interests, and an effort was made the first of the
week to reach some peaceful settlement. The ac-
tion of the piano company aroused all of the other
creditors, and several hundred dollars' worth of
personal bills have been presented, several of them
by attorneys for the claimants.— The Osage, la.,
News.
DISPLAY MENJHEET HERE.
Convention at the Waldorf Marks Passing of
"Window Dressers."
The annual convention of the International As-
sociation of Display Men opened on Monday at
the Waldorf-Astoria, and continued for four days.
Delegates were present from all over the United
States and from Canada, England, France, Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines. The dinner on
Wednesday night was termed among display men
as a wake over the term "window trimmer," which
has been discarded for the present name of the
association.
The program for the four days was made up of
papers and addresses by leaders in the art of dis-
playing wares to the best advantage. Of seventy-
five booths prepared for the display of wares, ma-
terials and supplies, seventy were sold. The re-
ceipts were devoted toward the expenses of the
convention.
Since the days Un years ago when the "window
trimmers" met in this city the association has
grown from forty delegates to an attendance of
between 1,500 and 2,000.
(Special to The Review.)
(Special to The Review.)
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, July 31.—The Consoli-
SAN DIEGO, CAL., July 31.—A. D. LaMotte, man-
dated Music Co., of this city, has filed suit against ager of the Thearle Music Co., has been elected
S. 1\ Kimball, a former employe of the company, vice-president of the newly organized Associated
to collect $1,11)7.57 alleged to be due from the de- Credit Men of San Diego, which is composed of
fendant from moneys handled by him for the com- representatives of all the various mercantile lines
pany. The complaint sets forth that between of the city, and is designed to handle retail credit
October, 1910, and March, 1913, the defendant upon a more systematic and safer basis. Among
handled for the company $9,781.82, of which he the members of the music trade interested in the
accounted for only $8,584.25. The complaint also new body are the Southern California Music Co.
declares that the defendant promised and agreed and the Wiley B. Allen Co.
to account to the company for all moneys handled
by him.
FACTORY WAREROOMS PAY.
WILL OF THOMAS DAVIS FILED.
Leaves Share of Business in Glens Falls and
Saratoga to Brother.
Successful Experience of Chase-Hackley Piano
Co. in Muskegon, Mich.—Guy Caldwell the
Manager Has Scored an Excellent Success.
(Snecial to The Review.)
(Special to The Review.)
MUSKEGON, MICH., August 2.—An illustration of
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., August 2.—The will the fact that factory warerooms may be made to
of Thomas Davis, a piano dealer, late of Saratoga pay profits if properly conducted is illustrated in
Springs, has been admitted to probate and letters the case of the Chase-Hackley Piano Co., of this
testamentary issued by Surrogate Ostrander to his city, which conducts retail salesrooms in the down-
brother, Henry Davis, of Glens Falls, who is left town district under the management of Guy Cald-
Thomas Davis' share in the piano business in well. The retail quarters have a frontage of 60
Glens Falls and Saratoga, in which the brothers feet, are elaborately equipped and include a recital
were partners. A nephew, Fred Davis, will re- hall with seating arrangement for 200. The hall
ceive $1,010; Mildred Davis, $1,500, and Maud is used for player recitals and also by local clubs
Williams, $1,000. The estate is valued at $6,000.
and teachers for private recitals. Mr. Caldwell
has been in charge of the store for about four
years and is an accomplished musician, which has
BUSY COLLECTOR TOO ZEALOUS.
aided him materially in his work.
A. A. Miller Arrested on Several Charges and
Pleads Guilty to Them.
(Special to The Review.)
FORMER PIANOJVUN FOR MAYOR.
(Special to The Review.)
TOI.EHO, O., August 2.—John P. Kelly, formerly
ROSELLE PARK, N. J., August 2.^Because Andrew
A. Miller, a collector for the Mathushek & Sons a piano man of this city, and who is now clerk in the
Court of Common Pleas, is being boomed strongly
Piano Co., was too zealous in his efforts to make
the collections entrusted to him he is now in the as candidate for the office of mayor at the next
toils of the law and out on bail of $200, charged election, and it is believed by his friends that he
with breaking and entering, and also larceny, in the will be elected without much trouble. Mr. Kelly
was for some time connected with the Whitney
home of Harry Klein, former fire chief.
& Currier Co., of this city, and later joined the
Percy Jones, a boarder at the Klein house, pur-
forces of the Mann Piano Co., Baltimore.
chased a Victrola, and Miller tried to collect for
the instrument. Jones declared that he held receipts
A. E. SCHMALZ1GAN MARRIED.
for the instrument and refused to pay. While Mrs.
Klein was out a few days later the house was en-
(Special to The Review.)
tered, the Victrola seized, bureau drawers ransacked
YORK, PA., Augirst 2.—A. E. Schmalzigan, sales
and money taken, and other damage done. The director for the Weaver Organ & Piano Co., this
CHOOSE CITY PIANO BY RAFFLE.
police arrested Miller on suspicion, and he is de- city, was married last week in Pottsville, Pa., to
Solomon Had Nothing on City Fathers of
clared to have pleaded guilty to the charges.
Miss Dorothy Romig, of that city. The couple left
Norfolk, Va., in Deciding Knotty Problem.
immediately for a lengthy honeymoon in the West,
and upon their return will make their home in
TEACHERS
VISIT_MEHLIN
PLANT.
There is nothing slow about Norfolk, Va., and
The factory of Paul G. Mehlin & Sons, West Cincinnati.
a recent incident proves that the city authorities
are most Solomon-like in their wisdom. Three New York, N. J., was recently visited by a large
THE GOLDEN MUSIC CO.
local companies, the Virginia Piano Co., the delegation of music teachers who are taking the
The Golden Music Co. was incorporated at Al-
Menzel Piano Co. and Charles M. Stieff, submitted summer course at the New York School of Music
bids for furnishing a piano to the city. The price and Art. H. Paul Mehlin escorted the party from bany, N. Y.. Saturday for the purpose of handling
in each case was the same, so the board decided New York and the visitors were met at the fac- musical instruments and conducting a theatrical
the matter by holding a raffle and awarding the tory by Otto F. Mehlin, superintendent, who con- agency; capital stock, $5,000; Isaac Neill, Edward
and Joseph Golden. 9 St. Marks avenue, Brooklyn.
contract to the concern picking the lucky number. ducted them through the various departments of
the model plant.
THE LEADING LINE
Grands, Uprights
and Playars
YORK PIANOS
9,000,000 HAVE^SEEN FAIR.
WEAVER PIANOS
Uprights and Players
LIVINGSTON PIANOS
Uprights and Player Pianos
If your competitor do* i not already hav* this
lin«, go aftar it at once.
Weaver Organ & Piano Co.
MANUFACTURERS
SYMPHONA CO. INCORPORATED.
The Symphona Co. of America has been incor-
porated with a capital stock of $100,000 to make
and sell musical instruments. The incorporators
are Frederick W. Tillinghast, Harold R. Salisbury
and Chauncey E. W'heeler.
YORK, PA.
(Special to The Review.)
RUDOLF
PIANOS
are conscientiously made,
good instruments; in other
words, the sweetest things out.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., July 31.— The attendance
at the Panama-Pacific Exposition to date totals
more than nine millions. The nine millionth aU-
mission was registered at 8 o'clock p. m., July 25.
OPEN PIANO STORE.
Herman Blomgren and Eric Anderson have
formed a partnership and have opened a piano
store in Geneva, 111.
RUDOLF PIANO CO.
71 Bait 117th 8t.
NEW YOIK
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
PIANO MANJN TROUBLE.
SUES FORMER EMPLOYE.
SAN DIEGO CREDIT^ MEN ORGANIZE.
R. C. Bowman, of Osage, la., Bound Over to
Grand Jury Under Embezzlement Charge.
Consolidated Music Co. Seeks to Recover on
Collections Alleged to Have Been Made by
Agent—The Claim Amounts to $1,197.57.
A. D. La Motte, of the Thearle Music Co., Be-
comes Vice-President of New Association—
Other Piano Houses Are Also Interested.
R. C. Bowman of the Bowman Music House,
was bound over to the Grand Jury Thursday after-
noon on the charge of larceny and embezzlement.
Bond was placed at $000, which was furnished.
Mr. Bowman came here last fall with his partner,
and the two conducted a piano business under the
firm name of Bowman & Kohl. Kohl later withdrew,
and Bowman has since been running the business
alone. He did an excellent business and readily
disposed of a large number of pianos. He carried
the Kurtzmann make of piano.
Although he sold many pianos, the young man
was very lax in his methods of meeting his bills,
and he became involved with his creditors several
times. Last week a representative of the C. Kurtz-
mann & Co. came here to look after the company's
interests, and an effort was made the first of the
week to reach some peaceful settlement. The ac-
tion of the piano company aroused all of the other
creditors, and several hundred dollars' worth of
personal bills have been presented, several of them
by attorneys for the claimants.— The Osage, la.,
News.
DISPLAY MENJHEET HERE.
Convention at the Waldorf Marks Passing of
"Window Dressers."
The annual convention of the International As-
sociation of Display Men opened on Monday at
the Waldorf-Astoria, and continued for four days.
Delegates were present from all over the United
States and from Canada, England, France, Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines. The dinner on
Wednesday night was termed among display men
as a wake over the term "window trimmer," which
has been discarded for the present name of the
association.
The program for the four days was made up of
papers and addresses by leaders in the art of dis-
playing wares to the best advantage. Of seventy-
five booths prepared for the display of wares, ma-
terials and supplies, seventy were sold. The re-
ceipts were devoted toward the expenses of the
convention.
Since the days Un years ago when the "window
trimmers" met in this city the association has
grown from forty delegates to an attendance of
between 1,500 and 2,000.
(Special to The Review.)
(Special to The Review.)
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, July 31.—The Consoli-
SAN DIEGO, CAL., July 31.—A. D. LaMotte, man-
dated Music Co., of this city, has filed suit against ager of the Thearle Music Co., has been elected
S. 1\ Kimball, a former employe of the company, vice-president of the newly organized Associated
to collect $1,11)7.57 alleged to be due from the de- Credit Men of San Diego, which is composed of
fendant from moneys handled by him for the com- representatives of all the various mercantile lines
pany. The complaint sets forth that between of the city, and is designed to handle retail credit
October, 1910, and March, 1913, the defendant upon a more systematic and safer basis. Among
handled for the company $9,781.82, of which he the members of the music trade interested in the
accounted for only $8,584.25. The complaint also new body are the Southern California Music Co.
declares that the defendant promised and agreed and the Wiley B. Allen Co.
to account to the company for all moneys handled
by him.
FACTORY WAREROOMS PAY.
WILL OF THOMAS DAVIS FILED.
Leaves Share of Business in Glens Falls and
Saratoga to Brother.
Successful Experience of Chase-Hackley Piano
Co. in Muskegon, Mich.—Guy Caldwell the
Manager Has Scored an Excellent Success.
(Snecial to The Review.)
(Special to The Review.)
MUSKEGON, MICH., August 2.—An illustration of
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., August 2.—The will the fact that factory warerooms may be made to
of Thomas Davis, a piano dealer, late of Saratoga pay profits if properly conducted is illustrated in
Springs, has been admitted to probate and letters the case of the Chase-Hackley Piano Co., of this
testamentary issued by Surrogate Ostrander to his city, which conducts retail salesrooms in the down-
brother, Henry Davis, of Glens Falls, who is left town district under the management of Guy Cald-
Thomas Davis' share in the piano business in well. The retail quarters have a frontage of 60
Glens Falls and Saratoga, in which the brothers feet, are elaborately equipped and include a recital
were partners. A nephew, Fred Davis, will re- hall with seating arrangement for 200. The hall
ceive $1,010; Mildred Davis, $1,500, and Maud is used for player recitals and also by local clubs
Williams, $1,000. The estate is valued at $6,000.
and teachers for private recitals. Mr. Caldwell
has been in charge of the store for about four
years and is an accomplished musician, which has
BUSY COLLECTOR TOO ZEALOUS.
aided him materially in his work.
A. A. Miller Arrested on Several Charges and
Pleads Guilty to Them.
(Special to The Review.)
FORMER PIANOJVUN FOR MAYOR.
(Special to The Review.)
TOI.EHO, O., August 2.—John P. Kelly, formerly
ROSELLE PARK, N. J., August 2.^Because Andrew
A. Miller, a collector for the Mathushek & Sons a piano man of this city, and who is now clerk in the
Court of Common Pleas, is being boomed strongly
Piano Co., was too zealous in his efforts to make
the collections entrusted to him he is now in the as candidate for the office of mayor at the next
toils of the law and out on bail of $200, charged election, and it is believed by his friends that he
with breaking and entering, and also larceny, in the will be elected without much trouble. Mr. Kelly
was for some time connected with the Whitney
home of Harry Klein, former fire chief.
& Currier Co., of this city, and later joined the
Percy Jones, a boarder at the Klein house, pur-
forces of the Mann Piano Co., Baltimore.
chased a Victrola, and Miller tried to collect for
the instrument. Jones declared that he held receipts
A. E. SCHMALZ1GAN MARRIED.
for the instrument and refused to pay. While Mrs.
Klein was out a few days later the house was en-
(Special to The Review.)
tered, the Victrola seized, bureau drawers ransacked
YORK, PA., Augirst 2.—A. E. Schmalzigan, sales
and money taken, and other damage done. The director for the Weaver Organ & Piano Co., this
CHOOSE CITY PIANO BY RAFFLE.
police arrested Miller on suspicion, and he is de- city, was married last week in Pottsville, Pa., to
Solomon Had Nothing on City Fathers of
clared to have pleaded guilty to the charges.
Miss Dorothy Romig, of that city. The couple left
Norfolk, Va., in Deciding Knotty Problem.
immediately for a lengthy honeymoon in the West,
and upon their return will make their home in
TEACHERS
VISIT_MEHLIN
PLANT.
There is nothing slow about Norfolk, Va., and
The factory of Paul G. Mehlin & Sons, West Cincinnati.
a recent incident proves that the city authorities
are most Solomon-like in their wisdom. Three New York, N. J., was recently visited by a large
THE GOLDEN MUSIC CO.
local companies, the Virginia Piano Co., the delegation of music teachers who are taking the
The Golden Music Co. was incorporated at Al-
Menzel Piano Co. and Charles M. Stieff, submitted summer course at the New York School of Music
bids for furnishing a piano to the city. The price and Art. H. Paul Mehlin escorted the party from bany, N. Y.. Saturday for the purpose of handling
in each case was the same, so the board decided New York and the visitors were met at the fac- musical instruments and conducting a theatrical
the matter by holding a raffle and awarding the tory by Otto F. Mehlin, superintendent, who con- agency; capital stock, $5,000; Isaac Neill, Edward
and Joseph Golden. 9 St. Marks avenue, Brooklyn.
contract to the concern picking the lucky number. ducted them through the various departments of
the model plant.
THE LEADING LINE
Grands, Uprights
and Playars
YORK PIANOS
9,000,000 HAVE^SEEN FAIR.
WEAVER PIANOS
Uprights and Players
LIVINGSTON PIANOS
Uprights and Player Pianos
If your competitor do* i not already hav* this
lin«, go aftar it at once.
Weaver Organ & Piano Co.
MANUFACTURERS
SYMPHONA CO. INCORPORATED.
The Symphona Co. of America has been incor-
porated with a capital stock of $100,000 to make
and sell musical instruments. The incorporators
are Frederick W. Tillinghast, Harold R. Salisbury
and Chauncey E. W'heeler.
YORK, PA.
(Special to The Review.)
RUDOLF
PIANOS
are conscientiously made,
good instruments; in other
words, the sweetest things out.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., July 31.— The attendance
at the Panama-Pacific Exposition to date totals
more than nine millions. The nine millionth aU-
mission was registered at 8 o'clock p. m., July 25.
OPEN PIANO STORE.
Herman Blomgren and Eric Anderson have
formed a partnership and have opened a piano
store in Geneva, 111.
RUDOLF PIANO CO.
71 Bait 117th 8t.
NEW YOIK
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