Music Trade Review
Issue: 1924 Vol. 79 N. 23 - Page 9
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DECEMBER 6,
1924
THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
The St. Louis Music Merchants Start
December With Very Good Prospect
November Generally a Good Month in the Local Trade—E. T. Hammon 111—Wife of Oscar
Bollman Dies—Many Manufacturers' Representatives Visiting Local Dealers
LOUIS, MO., December 2.—November,
taking it up one side and down the other,
was a pretty good month for the music mer-
chants, and they had reason to join with unction
in the giving of thanks last week. The elec-
tion disturbance of the early part was compen-
sated for by the good volume of sales in the
latter part. Christmas business has set in, and
some nice sales have been 'made for Christmas
delivery, mostly of small grands and players.
December starts with every promise of good
business until the last delivery is made on
Christmas eve. There is nothing in the gen-
eral industrial situation to justify misgivings
on the part of intending purchasers. Most of
the stores will keep open evenings from now
until Christmas.
Traveling men who are passing through, most
of them headed homeward for the holidays, re-
port satisfactory conditions everywhere. F. D.
Van Swearingen, Ampico man of the American
Piano Co., who has been on a grand tour since
the middle of June, came in Saturday from the
Middle Western country, where he has been
traveling latterly. He said conditions were
good in the territory he had most recently vis-
ited. He is on his way back to New York.
Mark Mayer, of the M. Schulz Co., Chicago,
who came in to spend Thanksgiving with his
family, has been doing a nice business in Mis-
souri and Iowa. He left to-day for the South
and Southwest. Gordon Laughead, of the De-
kalb l'iano Co., Dekalb, 111., on his way home,
said the factory was pretty well sold out, ex-
cept on a few styles.
E. T. Hammon, manager of the Kieselhorst
Piano Co., has been confined to his home for a
few days by illness.
W. H. Alfring, general manager of the Aeo-
lian Co., came over the latter part of the week
for a conference with Manager Chrisler, of the
Aeolian Co. of Missouri.
Mrs. Oscar H. Bollman, wife of Oscar Boll-
man and sister-in-law of Herman Bollman, of
the Aeolian Co., members of the Bollman Bros.
Piano Co. of former years, died suddenly one
day last week at her home. She had been one
of the leading contralto singers of the city for
forty years. She had been a member of the
choir of the Second Baptist Church for twenty-
rive years and had sung with all the prominent
musical organizations of the city.
Cuthbert R. Salmon has been appointed gen-
eral manager of the Columbia Distributors,
witli headquarters at 1327 Pine street, succeed-
ing A. B. Creal, who has gone into another line
of business. He will direct the distribution of
Columbia products.
Seven Mehlin Pianos
for Jersey College
which, when completed, will be on exhibition
at the Mehlin & Sons retail warerooms, New
York City, by permission and courtesy of the
Sisters of Mercy.
A very high tribute has been paid to Paul G.
Mehlin & Sons and the Mehlin instruments in
the following letter to Charles Mehlin received
from the dean of the piano department of this
college, Sister Beatrice, D.M., in which she
states:
"Some time ago, at Professor Stoehr's invita-
tion, I visited your show-rooms on Fifth avenue
OT.
Georgian Court College Buys Two Grands and
Five Uprights for Use in Institution
A sale of importance was recently consum-
mated by Paul G. Mehlin & Sons, West New
York, N. J. ( when Georgian Court College, for-
merly the College of Mt. St. Mary, which is
located in the former palatial residence of
acoustics in our college and he thinks if he
had some of your models to illustrate it would
prove very interesting and instructive to the
students, so I determined to write and ask if
you could possibly send us any, and all charges
to be assumed by me.
"Begging God to grant you health and
strength to carry on your grand noble work."
A two-manual pipe organ for the chapel was
also in the purchase and is now under con-
struction by one of the principal organ manu-
facturers of this country.
Seeks Additional Fees
on Parcel Post Packages
Postmaster General Would Make Charge for
Return of Receipts for Registered Mail and
Also for Demurrage
WASHINGTON, D. C, December 1.—Legislation
enabling the Postmaster General to establish a
charge for the return to the sender of a receipt
for any registered article; increases in fees for
registration, of mail matter and an increase to
$1,000 of the maximum for which such insur-
ance can be secured; the establishment of de-
murrage charges on parcels which addressees
fail to remove from the post office within a
reasonable time or their return to the sender,
and revision of the present scale of fees for
money orders are recommended by Postmaster
General Harry S. New in his annual report,
just submitted to the President.
Use of the insurance and collect-on-delivery
services of the department is increasing stead-
ily, the Postmaster General reports, a total of
148,251,039 domestic parcels being insured dur-
ing the fiscal year ended June 30, last, an in-
crease of some 7,000,000 over the preceding
year. The fees from this service totaled $7,460,-
997, and indemnities amounted to $3,025,339. A
total of 46,900,372 parcels were sent C. O. D.,
an increase of approximately 6,500,000 over
1923, with total fees for the service amounting
to $4,733,623 and claims totaling $733,259, ac-
cording to report.
Secretary of Treasury Urges
Revision of Tax Rates
Mellon Recommends That in Addition to Low-
ering Rates the Existing Law Should Be Sim-
plified and Cleared Up
Georgian Court College—Insert: A Part of the Interior
the late George J. Gould, at Lakewood, N. J., and had the extreme pleasure of hearing your
was equipped with Mehlin grands and inverted
Masterpiece—that grand piano. You are to be
grand pianos.
congratulated. You certainly have worked long
The pianos which were installed in this beau- and strenuously to have accomplished such a
tiful school were an Orchestral concert grand, perfect piano.
"Professor Stoehr explained everything in de-
a Viola grand and five inverted grands. There
was also a quarter-tone inverted grand ordered tail, and we were very much pleased. The only
drawback was not to have met the genius who
for higher musical education. This instrument
invented such wonders and marvels.
is the invention of Dr. Moritz Stoehr, which is
being develooed at the Mehlin factory and
"Professor Stoehr has commenced a course in
WASHINGTON, D. C, December 3.—Revision of
surtax and estate tax rates, repeal of the "un-
workable" gift tax and the publicity provisions
in the present revenue law, and the building up
of a "tax system which will collect the funds
needed by the government without being an un-
due burden upon the people are recommended
by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon in his an-
nual report to the President.
Pointing out that the tax burden has been
reduced since 1920 from $54 per capita to a
probable collection next year of $27, the Secre-
tary urges that further steps be taken to iron
out the perplexities and inconsistencies of the
present law and provide a concrete tax founda-
tion. "The purpose of taxation is to raise
money, not only in the particular year in which
the tax is assessed, but to leave the source from
which the revenue is to be derived permanently
unharmed, so that in the next year and in the
years following similar taxes will produce ade-
quate revenue from this source," the report de-
clares.
"Ways will always be found to avoid a tax
inherently excessive. America presents no ex-
ception in the history of taxation. The solu-
tion of the problem lies not in passing more
laws but in adopting laws with more reason. A
reasonable rate of tax will make elaborate, ex-
pensive methods of avoidance unprofitable. A
reasonable rate of tax will make the administra-
tion of the tax laws more simple of accomplish-
ment."
DECEMBER 6,
1924
THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
The St. Louis Music Merchants Start
December With Very Good Prospect
November Generally a Good Month in the Local Trade—E. T. Hammon 111—Wife of Oscar
Bollman Dies—Many Manufacturers' Representatives Visiting Local Dealers
LOUIS, MO., December 2.—November,
taking it up one side and down the other,
was a pretty good month for the music mer-
chants, and they had reason to join with unction
in the giving of thanks last week. The elec-
tion disturbance of the early part was compen-
sated for by the good volume of sales in the
latter part. Christmas business has set in, and
some nice sales have been 'made for Christmas
delivery, mostly of small grands and players.
December starts with every promise of good
business until the last delivery is made on
Christmas eve. There is nothing in the gen-
eral industrial situation to justify misgivings
on the part of intending purchasers. Most of
the stores will keep open evenings from now
until Christmas.
Traveling men who are passing through, most
of them headed homeward for the holidays, re-
port satisfactory conditions everywhere. F. D.
Van Swearingen, Ampico man of the American
Piano Co., who has been on a grand tour since
the middle of June, came in Saturday from the
Middle Western country, where he has been
traveling latterly. He said conditions were
good in the territory he had most recently vis-
ited. He is on his way back to New York.
Mark Mayer, of the M. Schulz Co., Chicago,
who came in to spend Thanksgiving with his
family, has been doing a nice business in Mis-
souri and Iowa. He left to-day for the South
and Southwest. Gordon Laughead, of the De-
kalb l'iano Co., Dekalb, 111., on his way home,
said the factory was pretty well sold out, ex-
cept on a few styles.
E. T. Hammon, manager of the Kieselhorst
Piano Co., has been confined to his home for a
few days by illness.
W. H. Alfring, general manager of the Aeo-
lian Co., came over the latter part of the week
for a conference with Manager Chrisler, of the
Aeolian Co. of Missouri.
Mrs. Oscar H. Bollman, wife of Oscar Boll-
man and sister-in-law of Herman Bollman, of
the Aeolian Co., members of the Bollman Bros.
Piano Co. of former years, died suddenly one
day last week at her home. She had been one
of the leading contralto singers of the city for
forty years. She had been a member of the
choir of the Second Baptist Church for twenty-
rive years and had sung with all the prominent
musical organizations of the city.
Cuthbert R. Salmon has been appointed gen-
eral manager of the Columbia Distributors,
witli headquarters at 1327 Pine street, succeed-
ing A. B. Creal, who has gone into another line
of business. He will direct the distribution of
Columbia products.
Seven Mehlin Pianos
for Jersey College
which, when completed, will be on exhibition
at the Mehlin & Sons retail warerooms, New
York City, by permission and courtesy of the
Sisters of Mercy.
A very high tribute has been paid to Paul G.
Mehlin & Sons and the Mehlin instruments in
the following letter to Charles Mehlin received
from the dean of the piano department of this
college, Sister Beatrice, D.M., in which she
states:
"Some time ago, at Professor Stoehr's invita-
tion, I visited your show-rooms on Fifth avenue
OT.
Georgian Court College Buys Two Grands and
Five Uprights for Use in Institution
A sale of importance was recently consum-
mated by Paul G. Mehlin & Sons, West New
York, N. J. ( when Georgian Court College, for-
merly the College of Mt. St. Mary, which is
located in the former palatial residence of
acoustics in our college and he thinks if he
had some of your models to illustrate it would
prove very interesting and instructive to the
students, so I determined to write and ask if
you could possibly send us any, and all charges
to be assumed by me.
"Begging God to grant you health and
strength to carry on your grand noble work."
A two-manual pipe organ for the chapel was
also in the purchase and is now under con-
struction by one of the principal organ manu-
facturers of this country.
Seeks Additional Fees
on Parcel Post Packages
Postmaster General Would Make Charge for
Return of Receipts for Registered Mail and
Also for Demurrage
WASHINGTON, D. C, December 1.—Legislation
enabling the Postmaster General to establish a
charge for the return to the sender of a receipt
for any registered article; increases in fees for
registration, of mail matter and an increase to
$1,000 of the maximum for which such insur-
ance can be secured; the establishment of de-
murrage charges on parcels which addressees
fail to remove from the post office within a
reasonable time or their return to the sender,
and revision of the present scale of fees for
money orders are recommended by Postmaster
General Harry S. New in his annual report,
just submitted to the President.
Use of the insurance and collect-on-delivery
services of the department is increasing stead-
ily, the Postmaster General reports, a total of
148,251,039 domestic parcels being insured dur-
ing the fiscal year ended June 30, last, an in-
crease of some 7,000,000 over the preceding
year. The fees from this service totaled $7,460,-
997, and indemnities amounted to $3,025,339. A
total of 46,900,372 parcels were sent C. O. D.,
an increase of approximately 6,500,000 over
1923, with total fees for the service amounting
to $4,733,623 and claims totaling $733,259, ac-
cording to report.
Secretary of Treasury Urges
Revision of Tax Rates
Mellon Recommends That in Addition to Low-
ering Rates the Existing Law Should Be Sim-
plified and Cleared Up
Georgian Court College—Insert: A Part of the Interior
the late George J. Gould, at Lakewood, N. J., and had the extreme pleasure of hearing your
was equipped with Mehlin grands and inverted
Masterpiece—that grand piano. You are to be
grand pianos.
congratulated. You certainly have worked long
The pianos which were installed in this beau- and strenuously to have accomplished such a
tiful school were an Orchestral concert grand, perfect piano.
"Professor Stoehr explained everything in de-
a Viola grand and five inverted grands. There
was also a quarter-tone inverted grand ordered tail, and we were very much pleased. The only
drawback was not to have met the genius who
for higher musical education. This instrument
invented such wonders and marvels.
is the invention of Dr. Moritz Stoehr, which is
being develooed at the Mehlin factory and
"Professor Stoehr has commenced a course in
WASHINGTON, D. C, December 3.—Revision of
surtax and estate tax rates, repeal of the "un-
workable" gift tax and the publicity provisions
in the present revenue law, and the building up
of a "tax system which will collect the funds
needed by the government without being an un-
due burden upon the people are recommended
by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon in his an-
nual report to the President.
Pointing out that the tax burden has been
reduced since 1920 from $54 per capita to a
probable collection next year of $27, the Secre-
tary urges that further steps be taken to iron
out the perplexities and inconsistencies of the
present law and provide a concrete tax founda-
tion. "The purpose of taxation is to raise
money, not only in the particular year in which
the tax is assessed, but to leave the source from
which the revenue is to be derived permanently
unharmed, so that in the next year and in the
years following similar taxes will produce ade-
quate revenue from this source," the report de-
clares.
"Ways will always be found to avoid a tax
inherently excessive. America presents no ex-
ception in the history of taxation. The solu-
tion of the problem lies not in passing more
laws but in adopting laws with more reason. A
reasonable rate of tax will make elaborate, ex-
pensive methods of avoidance unprofitable. A
reasonable rate of tax will make the administra-
tion of the tax laws more simple of accomplish-
ment."
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