Music Trade Review
Issue: 1917 Vol. 64 N. 11 - Page 7
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THE MUSIC
PIANO MAN FIGHTS HIGH LICENSE
TRADE
REVIEW
WM. TONK & BROS^ANNUAL MEETING
F. W. Schubert Objects to Paying $40 Per Day All Officers of Company Re-elected—Excellent
Report Regarding Business of Year
for Maintaining a Store in Ontario, Cal.—
Local Forces Supporting Him
The annual meeting of Wm. Tonk & Bro.
took place on Monday of this week at which
CHINO, CAL., March 10.—F. W. Schubert, who
established the piano shop at 110 North Euclid the following officers were re-elected: Wm.
avenue, Ontario, on January IS, has had quite a Tonk, president; C. J. Tonk, vice-president; W.
lively experience with the town authorities in H. Tonk, treasurer, and E. G. Tonk, secretary.
The reports which were read manifested that
their endeavor to enforce an itinerant merchant
ordinance which provides for a license fee of the company had a successful year and at the
$40 a day, for all transient business ventures. present time the outlook is promising.
Mr. Schubert, who handles the Eilers line, main-
E. G. Tonk returned home the first of the
tains that if the trial convinces him that Ontario week from an extensive Middle Western trip
is a good center a permanent branch store will where he said he secured a good volume of busi-
be maintained there. If the test proves other-
wise, he will close up. Be that as it may, he
cannot see the $40 a day. The normal mer- SALESMEN STUDYFACTORY METHODS
chant's tax is $2 per quarter, which Mr. Schu- Members of Staff of Wanamaker Department
bert has offered to the town authorities. In fact
Visit Factory of Lindeman & Sons Piano Co.
he offered $8 in full for the year.
to Study Piano Making at First Hand
Up to the present the authorities have not
That the officials and executives of Lindeman
been able to collect the $1,200 for the first
month and have not carried out requests to ar- & Sons Piano Co., Forty-fifth street and
rest the piano man. Some local business men, Eleventh avenue, New York, believe that sales-
together with one of the local papers, have taken men should have a thorough practical knowl-
up the fight and maintain that the several piano edge of the manufacturing of the products which
men connected with the new store should be they sell, is manifested in the weekly visits of
encouraged to stay in Ontario permanently in- members of the sales staff of John Wanamaker's
piano department in New York to the factory.
stead of being driven out by high licenses.
Every week a certain number of these men
are conducted through the plant by Superin-
DEATH OF JAMES C. WITT
tendent Fry who explains to them in detail the
Old Time Piano and Music Dealer of Clinton, many little individual characteristics which enter
into the construction of Lindeman & Sons
Mo., Passes Away in That City
pianos and player-pianos. It is not once that
CLINTON, MO., March 10.—James Clinton Witt,
the salesman goes to the plant, but periodically
head of Witt's Music Emporium, this city, and he has the opportunity of learning the answers
long a factor in the trade in this section of the to practical questions which are asked many
country, died at his home last week in his fifty- times during the course of business by prospects,
third year, after having been ill since Christmas by visiting the plant and finding out for himself
with the grippe.
the exact meaning of the question and the an-
Mr. Witt was born in Iowa, but when a swer thereto. In this way every salesman in
young man moved to Missouri and located at the Wanamaker department is being schooled in
Norris, about twenty miles from Clinton, where a practical sense which has worked out to the
he farmed for a while and later engaged in the mutual advantage of the manufacturer and
teaching of music at Lane University. He then salesman.
opened a music store in Whiting, Kan., and also
organized a band in that city. About twenty
years ago he moved to Clinton, where he met FREDERICK MANAGERS OPEN STORE
WAYNESBURG, PA., March 12.—E. E. Schellhause
with success in handling the Cable Company,
Smith, Barnes & Strohber, Schiller and Steger and J. T. Silveus are planning to open a piano
store on High street, where they will carry an
pianos and players.
Mr. Witt is survived by a widow and four extensive line of pianos, players and also the
children, one son, Harry A. Witt, and a daugh- Columbia and.Victor machines. For the past
ter, Nellie Witt, being associated with him in fourteen years Mr. Schellhause has been mana-
the business, the former in the tuning depart- ger for the W. F. Frederick Piano Co., having
ment and the latter in charge of the sheet music supervision over the chain of stores in the
Uniontown, Pa., district.
and small goods section.
Mr. Silveus has been in charge of the Fred-
erick store in this city since its establishment
SCHOENBERG JAKES PARTNER
eight years ago. Both men have had wide
ST. JOSKL'H, MICH., March 13.—F. A. Schoen- experience in the piano line and their prospects
berg, piano dealer of this city, who has been for excellent business are very bright.
doing business heretofore with Mr. Rahn, teller
in the local bank, as a silent partner, took in
PIANO MEN INBRONX BOARD
Mr. Burr, as a third partner on January 1, 1917.
Among the piano men who are active in civic
Burr was formerly located at Saginaw, Mich., organizations in New York City is Max J.
came to St. Joseph last year as a salaried sales- deRochemont, who was recently named chair-
man, made good, and the firm now is Schoen- man of the membership committee of the Bronx
berg, Rahn & Burr.
Board of Trade. L. D. Perry, of Ludwig & Co.,
is also active as a member of the Traffic and
Waterways Bureau of the same organization,
FEATURES LINDENBERG LINE
while
R. B. Aldcrofft, of DeRivas & Harris
ROANOKE, VA., March 12.—The Hobbie Bros.
Co., of 9 Church avenue, West, this city, who Manufacturing Co., is a member of the Trade
recently took on the line of pianos and player- and Commerce Bureau.
pianos manufactured by the Lindenberg Piano
A. V. LYLE AJ*AILROAD MAN
Co., Columbus, O., have been using half page
space in the local newspapers to introduce the
BELOIT, WIS., March 12.—A. V. Lyle, for some
Lindenberg instruments to the Roanoke pub- years in the piano business in this city and also
lic. An introductory sale was featured under in Hanesville, Wis., is now railroading at Ga-
the direction of Henry A. Manning, of the Lin- lena, 111., according to information given out
denberg Co.
in this city.
WINTER & CO.
220 SOUTHERN BOULEVARD, NEW YORK
Manufacturers of
DEATH OF EDWARD T. CALDWELL
Manager of Piano Department of Stearns Co.,
Cleveland, and Long Prominent in the Trade,
Succumbs to Attack of Pneumonia
CLEVELAND, O., March 12.—Edward T. Cald-
well, manager of the piano department of the
Stearns Co., and for twenty years a Cleveland
business man, died March 9, after a short illness
from pneumonia. He was taken ill while in
New York on a business trip. Mr. Caldwell
organized the Caldwell Piano Co., and later the
Fischer Piano Co. On January 1 the Fischer
Co. became the piano department of the Stearns
Co. Mr. Caldwell originally came to Cleveland
from Pittsburgh. A widow survives him at his
late home, 1884 East Eighty-fourth street.
Mr. Caldwell had the agency for the Henry
F. Miller piano line and was the Ohio distribu-
tor for the Pathephone and Pathe records. His
funeral was held the afternoon of March 12
at Wade Memorial chapel.
BALDWIN DEALER SERVICE
Baldwin Piano Co. Carrying on an Effective Na-
tional Publicity Campaign
The Baldwin Piano Co., Cincinnati, O., has
issued several attractive folders reproducing
some of the advertisements which have been ap-
pearing over the company's name in the leading
national magazines. The attention of Baldwin
dealers is called to the fact that the magazines
selected for Baldwin advertising reach prac-
tically every likely purchaser of a high grade
piano, and that this publicity keeps the Baldwin
name before virtually everybody in the dealer's
territory who is in the market for a high class
piano.
The company has prepared electrotypes for
the use of its dealers so that they may collabo-
rate in this campaign and secure the full benefits
of this national advertising.
E. F. TIBBOTT VISITS NEW YORK
President of Lindeman & Sons Piano Co. Well
Satisfied With Demand for Grands
E. F. Tibbott, president and secretary of Lin-
deman & Sons Piano Co., was in New York this
week and stated that he was very well pleased
with the demand at the factory and that there
has been shown an increase in the call for the
Lindeman & Sons grands, some of these in-
struments being shipped to various dealers with-
in the past week.
Alexander Jameson was also at the factory,
having completed a successful business trip, and
is making arrangements to start on the road
again at once.
NEW STORE IN PRESCOTT, ARIZONA
PRESCOTT, ARIZ., March 12.—The Redewill Music
Co., of Phoenix, Ariz., has completed plans for
the opening of a piano store in this city the lat-
ter part of this month. General Manager Eugene
Redewill is superintending the plans for the
opening of the new headquarters, which will be
located in the St. Michael Hotel Building. The
Steinway, Knabe, Smith & Barnes, Apollo and
Autopiano lines will be carried.
R. S. CUNNINGHAM BANKRUPT
OSWEGO, N. Y., March 12.—R. S. Cunningham,
piano dealer at 102 East First street, filed a
petition in bankruptcy last week, setting his
assets at about $600, and his liabilities at $1,000
or more. His stock of musical instruments was
seized on execution, and sold on March 7.
Superior Pianos
and Player Pianos
THE MUSIC
PIANO MAN FIGHTS HIGH LICENSE
TRADE
REVIEW
WM. TONK & BROS^ANNUAL MEETING
F. W. Schubert Objects to Paying $40 Per Day All Officers of Company Re-elected—Excellent
Report Regarding Business of Year
for Maintaining a Store in Ontario, Cal.—
Local Forces Supporting Him
The annual meeting of Wm. Tonk & Bro.
took place on Monday of this week at which
CHINO, CAL., March 10.—F. W. Schubert, who
established the piano shop at 110 North Euclid the following officers were re-elected: Wm.
avenue, Ontario, on January IS, has had quite a Tonk, president; C. J. Tonk, vice-president; W.
lively experience with the town authorities in H. Tonk, treasurer, and E. G. Tonk, secretary.
The reports which were read manifested that
their endeavor to enforce an itinerant merchant
ordinance which provides for a license fee of the company had a successful year and at the
$40 a day, for all transient business ventures. present time the outlook is promising.
Mr. Schubert, who handles the Eilers line, main-
E. G. Tonk returned home the first of the
tains that if the trial convinces him that Ontario week from an extensive Middle Western trip
is a good center a permanent branch store will where he said he secured a good volume of busi-
be maintained there. If the test proves other-
wise, he will close up. Be that as it may, he
cannot see the $40 a day. The normal mer- SALESMEN STUDYFACTORY METHODS
chant's tax is $2 per quarter, which Mr. Schu- Members of Staff of Wanamaker Department
bert has offered to the town authorities. In fact
Visit Factory of Lindeman & Sons Piano Co.
he offered $8 in full for the year.
to Study Piano Making at First Hand
Up to the present the authorities have not
That the officials and executives of Lindeman
been able to collect the $1,200 for the first
month and have not carried out requests to ar- & Sons Piano Co., Forty-fifth street and
rest the piano man. Some local business men, Eleventh avenue, New York, believe that sales-
together with one of the local papers, have taken men should have a thorough practical knowl-
up the fight and maintain that the several piano edge of the manufacturing of the products which
men connected with the new store should be they sell, is manifested in the weekly visits of
encouraged to stay in Ontario permanently in- members of the sales staff of John Wanamaker's
piano department in New York to the factory.
stead of being driven out by high licenses.
Every week a certain number of these men
are conducted through the plant by Superin-
DEATH OF JAMES C. WITT
tendent Fry who explains to them in detail the
Old Time Piano and Music Dealer of Clinton, many little individual characteristics which enter
into the construction of Lindeman & Sons
Mo., Passes Away in That City
pianos and player-pianos. It is not once that
CLINTON, MO., March 10.—James Clinton Witt,
the salesman goes to the plant, but periodically
head of Witt's Music Emporium, this city, and he has the opportunity of learning the answers
long a factor in the trade in this section of the to practical questions which are asked many
country, died at his home last week in his fifty- times during the course of business by prospects,
third year, after having been ill since Christmas by visiting the plant and finding out for himself
with the grippe.
the exact meaning of the question and the an-
Mr. Witt was born in Iowa, but when a swer thereto. In this way every salesman in
young man moved to Missouri and located at the Wanamaker department is being schooled in
Norris, about twenty miles from Clinton, where a practical sense which has worked out to the
he farmed for a while and later engaged in the mutual advantage of the manufacturer and
teaching of music at Lane University. He then salesman.
opened a music store in Whiting, Kan., and also
organized a band in that city. About twenty
years ago he moved to Clinton, where he met FREDERICK MANAGERS OPEN STORE
WAYNESBURG, PA., March 12.—E. E. Schellhause
with success in handling the Cable Company,
Smith, Barnes & Strohber, Schiller and Steger and J. T. Silveus are planning to open a piano
store on High street, where they will carry an
pianos and players.
Mr. Witt is survived by a widow and four extensive line of pianos, players and also the
children, one son, Harry A. Witt, and a daugh- Columbia and.Victor machines. For the past
ter, Nellie Witt, being associated with him in fourteen years Mr. Schellhause has been mana-
the business, the former in the tuning depart- ger for the W. F. Frederick Piano Co., having
ment and the latter in charge of the sheet music supervision over the chain of stores in the
Uniontown, Pa., district.
and small goods section.
Mr. Silveus has been in charge of the Fred-
erick store in this city since its establishment
SCHOENBERG JAKES PARTNER
eight years ago. Both men have had wide
ST. JOSKL'H, MICH., March 13.—F. A. Schoen- experience in the piano line and their prospects
berg, piano dealer of this city, who has been for excellent business are very bright.
doing business heretofore with Mr. Rahn, teller
in the local bank, as a silent partner, took in
PIANO MEN INBRONX BOARD
Mr. Burr, as a third partner on January 1, 1917.
Among the piano men who are active in civic
Burr was formerly located at Saginaw, Mich., organizations in New York City is Max J.
came to St. Joseph last year as a salaried sales- deRochemont, who was recently named chair-
man, made good, and the firm now is Schoen- man of the membership committee of the Bronx
berg, Rahn & Burr.
Board of Trade. L. D. Perry, of Ludwig & Co.,
is also active as a member of the Traffic and
Waterways Bureau of the same organization,
FEATURES LINDENBERG LINE
while
R. B. Aldcrofft, of DeRivas & Harris
ROANOKE, VA., March 12.—The Hobbie Bros.
Co., of 9 Church avenue, West, this city, who Manufacturing Co., is a member of the Trade
recently took on the line of pianos and player- and Commerce Bureau.
pianos manufactured by the Lindenberg Piano
A. V. LYLE AJ*AILROAD MAN
Co., Columbus, O., have been using half page
space in the local newspapers to introduce the
BELOIT, WIS., March 12.—A. V. Lyle, for some
Lindenberg instruments to the Roanoke pub- years in the piano business in this city and also
lic. An introductory sale was featured under in Hanesville, Wis., is now railroading at Ga-
the direction of Henry A. Manning, of the Lin- lena, 111., according to information given out
denberg Co.
in this city.
WINTER & CO.
220 SOUTHERN BOULEVARD, NEW YORK
Manufacturers of
DEATH OF EDWARD T. CALDWELL
Manager of Piano Department of Stearns Co.,
Cleveland, and Long Prominent in the Trade,
Succumbs to Attack of Pneumonia
CLEVELAND, O., March 12.—Edward T. Cald-
well, manager of the piano department of the
Stearns Co., and for twenty years a Cleveland
business man, died March 9, after a short illness
from pneumonia. He was taken ill while in
New York on a business trip. Mr. Caldwell
organized the Caldwell Piano Co., and later the
Fischer Piano Co. On January 1 the Fischer
Co. became the piano department of the Stearns
Co. Mr. Caldwell originally came to Cleveland
from Pittsburgh. A widow survives him at his
late home, 1884 East Eighty-fourth street.
Mr. Caldwell had the agency for the Henry
F. Miller piano line and was the Ohio distribu-
tor for the Pathephone and Pathe records. His
funeral was held the afternoon of March 12
at Wade Memorial chapel.
BALDWIN DEALER SERVICE
Baldwin Piano Co. Carrying on an Effective Na-
tional Publicity Campaign
The Baldwin Piano Co., Cincinnati, O., has
issued several attractive folders reproducing
some of the advertisements which have been ap-
pearing over the company's name in the leading
national magazines. The attention of Baldwin
dealers is called to the fact that the magazines
selected for Baldwin advertising reach prac-
tically every likely purchaser of a high grade
piano, and that this publicity keeps the Baldwin
name before virtually everybody in the dealer's
territory who is in the market for a high class
piano.
The company has prepared electrotypes for
the use of its dealers so that they may collabo-
rate in this campaign and secure the full benefits
of this national advertising.
E. F. TIBBOTT VISITS NEW YORK
President of Lindeman & Sons Piano Co. Well
Satisfied With Demand for Grands
E. F. Tibbott, president and secretary of Lin-
deman & Sons Piano Co., was in New York this
week and stated that he was very well pleased
with the demand at the factory and that there
has been shown an increase in the call for the
Lindeman & Sons grands, some of these in-
struments being shipped to various dealers with-
in the past week.
Alexander Jameson was also at the factory,
having completed a successful business trip, and
is making arrangements to start on the road
again at once.
NEW STORE IN PRESCOTT, ARIZONA
PRESCOTT, ARIZ., March 12.—The Redewill Music
Co., of Phoenix, Ariz., has completed plans for
the opening of a piano store in this city the lat-
ter part of this month. General Manager Eugene
Redewill is superintending the plans for the
opening of the new headquarters, which will be
located in the St. Michael Hotel Building. The
Steinway, Knabe, Smith & Barnes, Apollo and
Autopiano lines will be carried.
R. S. CUNNINGHAM BANKRUPT
OSWEGO, N. Y., March 12.—R. S. Cunningham,
piano dealer at 102 East First street, filed a
petition in bankruptcy last week, setting his
assets at about $600, and his liabilities at $1,000
or more. His stock of musical instruments was
seized on execution, and sold on March 7.
Superior Pianos
and Player Pianos
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