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10
TRADE NOTES FROM
SAN FRANCISCO
Byron Mauzy Celebrates Anniversary, at
Which Ampico Expert Talks and Demon-
strates. Other Pacific Coast Items.
On Wednesday. April 8, the birthday of San Fran-
cisco was celebrated by a dinner at the Hotel Oak-
land. The party sat at a long table decorated with
a basket of yellow marigolds and ferns. Hung over
the table in white and gold letters was the name of
"Byron Mauzy." The word "Ampico" was spelled
in white and gold on the table.
Those present as guests were: Byron Mauzy,
Mr. Ash, Ampico expert from the American Piano
Company, and Harry Pierce, superintendent of
shops. Those present of the Oakland force were:
Mrs. Helen P. Howard, Miss Ruth Howard, H. J.
Pentony, Miss Bertha M. Pentony, Harry Tenney,
Carl L. Richards, Miss Margaret M. Green, J. Keefe.
After the dinner Mr. Mauzy gave thanks for the
celebration and introduced Mr. Ash as the Ampico
expert. Mr. Ash gave a talk of about two hours,
playing and demonstrating the Chickering Ampico,
which Mrs. Howard had placed in the dining room.
He went into details over some of the points of con-
struction, showing with a mercury gauge the gradual
rise and fall of the crescendo bellows, and explained
the other mechanism of the Ampico. After this
interesting talk he gave them a salesmanship talk
of selling in general, and the enthusiasm displayed
was worth the occasion.
G. C. Kavanaugh, of the American Piano Com-
pany, was stopping at the St. Francis Hotel last
week. Mr. Kavanaugh is traveling in the interest
of his company, and while in San Francisco was
entertained by Byron Mauzy.
Mr. Ash, of the American Piano Company, Am-
pico Division, gave an interesting talk to the mem-
bers of the San Francisco store of Byron Mauzy
on Wednesday, April 14. Salesmen and mechanics
interested in the construction and use of the Am-
pico were assembled in the large Ampico room on
the second floor. Mr. Ash was introduced by Mr.
Mauzy and gave a very inspiring talk regarding the
Ampico.
The small goods and band instrument depart-
ment of the Mauzy house is under the direc-
tion of Knox Sims and has made some progress in
the line of big sales. Mr. Sims has created a favor-
able impression upon the professional trade, with
the result that he has innumerable calls a day for
strings and other small items in his department.
CHICAGO VISITORS INCLUDE
PROMINENT PIANO DEALERS
Illinois and Other Mid-Western States Represented
in Week's List.
W. S. Rice, general traveler for the Baldwin Piano
Company in the Chicago division, is expected back
from a trip the first of next week.
L. C. Coffin, president of the Boston Music Com-
pany, Duluth, Minn., was in Chicago late last week.
He left orders for instruments.
T. R. Huston, general Baldwin traveler for Wis-
consin and Minnesota, called at the Chicago Bald-
win pffices last week. He had been securing good
orders.
E. D. Rasmussen, president of the Rasmussen
Drug Company, Aberdeen, S. D., was in Chicago
the latter part of last week and placed orders for
pianos and playerpianos.
W. C. Willis, manager of the Louisville, Ky.,
Baldwin store, made a call at the Chicago Baldwin
office late last week. He reports business condi-
tions as very good.
Ed. A. Jones, piano merchant of Grand Island,
Neb., was in Chicago on Tuesday of this week
ordering more goods.
Charles Gaston, of the Gaston Music House, and
Manager Jones, of the Gaston Grand Island, Neb.,
store, were in Chicago on Wednesday of this week
selecting instruments for their business.
R. F. Willey, piano dealer of Baraboo, Wis., was
in Chicago this week. He has just moved his busi-
ness from Shelby, Iowa, to Baraboo, and he is
branching out for larger trade.
E. H. Niederer, piano dealer of Easton, 111., who
works a large territory in his sales, was in Chicago
this week buying more pianos and playerpianos with
which to keep his trade going.
Thomas S. Goggan, of Thos. Goggan & Bro., Dal-
las, Texas, was in Chicago for a few days thijs week
calling on manufacturers of pianos and playerpianos.
He stopped at the Congress Hotel. He is an en-
thusiastic booster for the Symphonola, the Stein-
way, the Vose and the Emerson instruments.
George Wiswell, a members of the West Music
Company, Joliet, 111., was in Chicago on Wednesday
of this week and left substantial orders for instru-
ments.
PAUL B. KLUGH PLEASED
WITH NEW REPUBLIC PLANT
April 24, 1920.
A. W. JOHNSTON JOINS THE
BROTHERHOOD OF BENEDICTS
Vice-President of Standard Pneumatic Action Com-
pany Marries, April 15, at Syracuse.
A. W. Johnston, vice-president of the Standard
Pneumatic Action Company, New York, was mar-
ried on Wednesday, April IS, at Syracuse, New York.
President of Republic Player Roll Corporation Ex-
presses Satisfaction in Interview This Week.
The Republic Player Roll Corporation, New York,
has secured ideal facilities in space and location in
its new factory which is described on the front page
of this paper. The ambition of Paul B. Klugh, presi-
dent of the company, to provide the best opportuni-
ties for growth of the company has been achieved.
When interviewed Mr. Klugh expressed himself
as well satisfied with the results of the first year of
the Republic Player Roll operations. "The success
of this new corporation," he says, "has been due to
the fact that there has been brought into the organi-
zation the best men that could be found in the player
roll industry. Every one of these men is a special-
ist in his particular line. From the recording de-
partment through every manufacturing process, this
new corporation has the service of men who have
made their particular branch of the production a
life's work."
This corporation has had a most successful first
year of existence and enters into its second year
with increased manufacturing facilities, the ever in-
creasing good will of the trade, and with the well
wishes of everyone connected with the music roll
industry.
HELPFULNESS OF LOADER.
The helpful features of the Atwood Piano Loader
are suggested by the name but the evidence is volum-
teered by users whose spontaneous praises are de-
livered free. There is no testimony clearer or more
complete than that set forth in the ponderous files
of letters from users of the loader which fill the
shelves in the offices of the Atwood Piano Loader
Co., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Nor is the testimony
drawn from American users of the contrivance
alone. Owners are now found everywhere.
GOOD AMPICO PUBLICITY.
At the series of Home Economic Lectures in
Galveston, Tex., recently a special demonstrator
employed by Thos. Goggan & Bro. in that city,
showed the peculiar merits distinguishing the Am-
pico Reproducing Piano from other players. The
people attending the lectures were of the kind in-
terested in instruments of marked musical excel-
lence. It was a profitable bit of player publicity
which resulted in numerous sales as well as a wider
circle of Ampico admirers.
BOOSTING THE "BECKERS."
It isn't often that certain of the really good, but
not generally known, pianos are boosted by dealers
remote from the factory in which they are made.
At Winston-Salem, N. C., the piano house of Jesse
G. Bowen is pushing the "Becker" piano in a force-
ful manner. "Buy a Becker," says Mr. Bowen, "be-
cause it has a most excellent tone—one of which
you will not tire. It will last without giving you
unnecessary trouble."
FOR BETTER SERVICE.
Declaring that the demoralized postal service is
hurting business, E. C. Hole, of the American Lum-
berman, chairman of the special committee on post-
office facilities, has been working with the Chicago
Association of Commerce on this subject. Mr. Hole
recommends urging better pay for postoffice clerks
as a means of improving the service, and putting
pressure on Congress to that end.
I. N. RICE FINDS SUCCESS.
I. N. Rice, who is now at Los Angeles, Calif.,
after an extensive trip through cities in the north-
ern part of the Pacific Coast, is about to start for
a trip eastward and expects to reach Chicago about
the first of June. Mrs. Rice will probably arrive
in the city in the early part of May. Mr. Rice says
that where he has been the weather has been perfect
all the time.
GEO. P. BENT VISITS CHICAGO.
George P. Bent, the former manufacturer of the
Crown pianos, passed through Chicago last week
en route from some point in the East to his home in
California. He was in the city only a short time
and called up some of his friends from the railway
station by telephone.
A. W. JOHNSTON.
His bride was Miss Lillian Whitney Ludwig of Port-
land, Me. They will probably make their home in
New York City.
OPEN SHOP PLAN PROVES
TO BE MOST POPULAR
It Seems to Be the Plan Fairest to Both Union and
Non-Union Men.
The majority of the piano factories of the United
States are conducted on the "open shop" plan—
that is, the manufacturers employ union and non-
union labor alike. The open shop seems to work
well in the manufacture of pianos, and wages are,
generally speaking, satisfactory to all.
The Flint, Mich., Board of Commerce, on April
17, placed itself on record by a vote of 918 to 21 as
favoring the "open shop." This action was taken
following a strike in the building trades in Flint
since April 1, and Flint is now approaching a popu-
lation of 100,000 inhabitants, many of whom are short
of room.
In this respect Flint is not so badly off as New
York City, where 73,114 are registered as "home-
less" by the tenement house department of New
York. These homeless ones expect to live in tents
furnished by the U. S. Army until the present hous-
ing dearth is remedied. From 1,500 to 2,000 families
will live in Pelham Bay Park alone, declared Walter
C. Martin, superintendent of the Bronx tenement
house department, last week. Since January 1 the
estimated increase in population of New York City
was 538,604.
NEW CINCINNATI HOUSE.
Watterson, Berlin & Snyder Company, New York
sheet music and publishers, will have their new Cin-
cinnati house built at 36 East Fifth street, in the
heart of the business section. The plans call for
extensive remodeling of the basement and first
floor and also for a new store front. The interior
work consists of the installation of linotile floors
throughout and partitions for soundproof rooms,
which will be used for the demonstration of musical
instruments, sheet music and records.
THE INDUCEMENTS TO BUY.
The Phonograph Shop, Inc., Tulsa, Okla., which
is one of seven exclusive Edison stores in various
parts of the state, advises prospective buyers not to
let terms stand in the way. "We don't make terms;
we let you make them," is the statement followed by
this invitation: "Come to our store. Close your
eyes and listen, and you will feel that the artists are
in the room with you. Open your eyes, and you wlil
see a beautiful cabinet copied or adapted from some
famous piece of old world furniture."
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