Presto
Issue: 1920 1764 - Page 7
PRESTO
May 15, 1920.
W.W.GRIGGS MEETS
WITH SAD MISHAP
Widely Known Piano Man, Run Down by
Street Car, Loses Leg and Narrowly
Escapes Death in Shocking
Accident.
W. W. Griggs, one of the
most widely known piano men
in the country, is lying in a hos-
pital in Evanston, near Chicago,
hovering between life and
death as the result of a shock-
ing accident which befell him
on March 31st. Mr. Griggs was
alighting from a North Clark
street car in Chicago when he
slipped on the wet pavement
and his right foot was caught
beneath the car wheel. The in-
jury was so bad that it was de-
cided to amputate the foot. For
W. W. GRIGGS.
a time recovery seemed to be
certain, but gangrene set in and another operation
became necessary.
It was then decided to amputate the leg at the
knee. This was done and chances for recovery were
regarded as good. But to this time the progress
has been slow and, but for Mr. Griggs' unusually
vigorous constitution, there could be small hope.
Long with Cable Company.
Mr. Griggs was for very many years connected
with The Cable Company in different capacities.
His last engagement with the house was as gen-
eral salesmanager. He resigned to go to Seattle,
where he bought a controlling interest in a large
local piano house. Later he took the Pacific Coast
agency for several eastern pianos and was the
means of introducing pianos into a number of the
large western department houses.
For two years past Mr. Griggs has again resided
in Chicago where he has been in the automobile
business and latterly in the retailing of pianos on
his own account. He is one of the best piano sales-
men in the field and his intimate knowledge of
every branch of the business is recognized in the
trade and industry.
Nursed by His Wife.
Mrs. Griggs came from Seattle to Chicago im-
mediately after receiving word of the misfortune to
her husband, and is helping to nurse him back to
health. There are warm friends of Mr. Griggs al-
most everywhere in the trade who will watch the
piano man's progress with solicitude. At the pres-
ent time it may be said that he has about an even
chance.
DEATH OF PROMINENT
ILLINOIS PIANO MAN
R. M. Scott, Well Known Music Dealer of Hamil-
ton, Passed Away Suddenly.
The many friends and business acquaintances of
R. M. Scott, prominent music merchant.of Hamilton,
111., were grieved to learn of his sudden death, which
occurred recently. Mr. Scott succumbed to acute
heart disease.
-•*.-
The deceased was active in Hamilton's musical
circles as well as a fervent booster of civic enter-
prises. He was a member of the Blue Lodge, the
Royal Arch Masons and the Mohassen Grotto, of
Davenport, Iowa. Mr. Scott is survived by his
mother, Mrs. Lydia Scott.
Eloquent Utterances of Frank E. Morton Be-
fore the Texas Music Merchants at
Waco, This Week Thursday.
Frank E. Morton, acoustic engineer of the Amer-
ican Steel & Wire Company, delivered the principal
address before The State Music Merchants' Con-
vention, at Dallas, Texas, on Thursday of this week.
With his customary eloquence, Mr. Morton held the
interest of his audience from beginning to end. Mr.
Morton discussed the limitations of the popular con-
ception of music and separated the flitting fancies of
the superficial "music lover" from the virile achieve-
ments of the true workers in art.
"The lesson of war," said Mr. Morton, "that music
need not be apart from life but intermingled with its
greatest activities, was for centuries not learned.
Yet music's influence was not unfelt, if it was un-
recognized and undirected. Through the crude
songs of the sea, of the plantation, of the flock, of
the forge, and of the loom the humble worker found
intuitively something of the inspiration that spurred
the warrior to his triumphs."
Mr. Morton dwelt upon the influence of music
upon the mental and physical being, and declared
that:
The inspirational and therapeutic values of music
were of course not unknown or untried previously,
but never before had there been such opportunity for
their demonstration on a gigantic scale and never
JAMES & HOLMSTROM REMOVAL.
before had there been such systematic attention to
Notice has been received by the trade of the maintaining the morale of fighters by attention to
change in the address of the James & Holmstrom their emotional needs. Testimony is abundant—
Piano Co., Inc., of New York. The new headquar- much, both vocal and written, has come to my no-
ters and warerooms of the famous old piano are tice—of front line experiences where weary, hungry,
now at 46 W. 37th street, between 5th and 6th ave- disheartened soldiers, seemingly beaten in advance
nues. The offices and warerooms are convenient as the "zero hour" approached, have been fed not
to all of the big New York hotels, and they are with food but with song and transformed into heroes
handsomely fitted up. Piano men in New York as they swept "over the top." In the hospitals, too,
should make it a point to visit Manager J. J. Glynn, music had its place in winning the war, as countless
who always has a warm welcome ready. The 'phone successful treatments of shell shock and other battle
numbers are "Greeley 343—374."
diseases testify.
It's a Happy Home That Contains
a Behr Brothers Piano
There is no lack of joy and cheer in the home of a Behr
Brothers piano. For more than three decades this noble instrument
has influenced American home-life happily.
The discerning dealer finds a powerful appeal in the Behr
Brothers line. He may choose any or all of seven different types of Behr
Brothers instruments —knowing thai each represents superior value.
If your territory is open we have a proposition of prime
interest to you. You incur no obligation in writing.
Behr Brothers & Co., i,,c.
William J. Behr, President
643 West 51st Street
MUSIC'S POWER IN
TIMES OF PEACE
New York
The latest development in the application of music
for industrial life is one of the timely topics dis-
cussed by Mr. Morton. "Personal interest," he said,
"opportunity for self-expression, arc the greatest in-
centives to activity, and the best results are obtained
from the spontaneity of the workers themselves,
with only indirect aid from those in control of the
industry."
The acoustician believes that music is destined
to become more and more of a part of the better im-
pulses of the workers in stores and factories.
"Methods of application and results of course vary
considerably. One factory in Boston makes several
breaks in the day for singing, and reports a 20 per
cent increase in output with the same force. A Chi-
cago concern has ten minutes of chorus singing at
10 a. m. and ten minutes again at 3 p. m. I have
heard no definite figures as to comparative produc-
tion here, but I do know that the manager reports
the labor turn-over and absenteeism, which formerly
disrupted his force at frequent intervals, has ceased."
As a community builder, also, Mr. Morton drew
attention to the modern influences of music. "In
every city and in every hamlet big enough to bring
forth a drum or a bugle or a fife four minutes of
martial music did more than all the four-minute
speeches in stirring the populace to support the gov-
ernment with the liberty loans and to meet the other
war demands. And the lesson of this has not been
lost on the community service leaders, who wish to
stir the public now with the appeals of peace."
The speaker urged business men to encourage
their employes by the inspiration of music. He
made an appeal to his hearers along this line,
declaring that "it's at your door opportunity is
knocking. If this emancipation of music is mo-
mentous to anyone, it's momentous to you. And
who is to speed it along if not you?"
A. S. BOND VISITS CHICAGO.
A. S. Bond, president of the Packard Piano Com-
pany, Fort Wayne, Ind., spent most of one day in
the Chicago offices of the company this week. Mr.
Bond had been at French Lick Springs, Ind., and
was tanned with outdoor exercise. He received a
telegram while at the Chicago office from the fac-
tory, stating that 136 instruments had been shipped
from the plant last week.
Henry P. Veatch, Chicago manager for the Pack-
ard Piano Company, of Fort Wayiie, Ind., has re-
turned from a trip in Wisconsin and Michigan. He
says, aside from the business he did, the trip was a
most pleasurable one, the budding trees and balmy
spring air of those northern countries being a shift-
ing scene of delight.
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May 15, 1920.
W.W.GRIGGS MEETS
WITH SAD MISHAP
Widely Known Piano Man, Run Down by
Street Car, Loses Leg and Narrowly
Escapes Death in Shocking
Accident.
W. W. Griggs, one of the
most widely known piano men
in the country, is lying in a hos-
pital in Evanston, near Chicago,
hovering between life and
death as the result of a shock-
ing accident which befell him
on March 31st. Mr. Griggs was
alighting from a North Clark
street car in Chicago when he
slipped on the wet pavement
and his right foot was caught
beneath the car wheel. The in-
jury was so bad that it was de-
cided to amputate the foot. For
W. W. GRIGGS.
a time recovery seemed to be
certain, but gangrene set in and another operation
became necessary.
It was then decided to amputate the leg at the
knee. This was done and chances for recovery were
regarded as good. But to this time the progress
has been slow and, but for Mr. Griggs' unusually
vigorous constitution, there could be small hope.
Long with Cable Company.
Mr. Griggs was for very many years connected
with The Cable Company in different capacities.
His last engagement with the house was as gen-
eral salesmanager. He resigned to go to Seattle,
where he bought a controlling interest in a large
local piano house. Later he took the Pacific Coast
agency for several eastern pianos and was the
means of introducing pianos into a number of the
large western department houses.
For two years past Mr. Griggs has again resided
in Chicago where he has been in the automobile
business and latterly in the retailing of pianos on
his own account. He is one of the best piano sales-
men in the field and his intimate knowledge of
every branch of the business is recognized in the
trade and industry.
Nursed by His Wife.
Mrs. Griggs came from Seattle to Chicago im-
mediately after receiving word of the misfortune to
her husband, and is helping to nurse him back to
health. There are warm friends of Mr. Griggs al-
most everywhere in the trade who will watch the
piano man's progress with solicitude. At the pres-
ent time it may be said that he has about an even
chance.
DEATH OF PROMINENT
ILLINOIS PIANO MAN
R. M. Scott, Well Known Music Dealer of Hamil-
ton, Passed Away Suddenly.
The many friends and business acquaintances of
R. M. Scott, prominent music merchant.of Hamilton,
111., were grieved to learn of his sudden death, which
occurred recently. Mr. Scott succumbed to acute
heart disease.
-•*.-
The deceased was active in Hamilton's musical
circles as well as a fervent booster of civic enter-
prises. He was a member of the Blue Lodge, the
Royal Arch Masons and the Mohassen Grotto, of
Davenport, Iowa. Mr. Scott is survived by his
mother, Mrs. Lydia Scott.
Eloquent Utterances of Frank E. Morton Be-
fore the Texas Music Merchants at
Waco, This Week Thursday.
Frank E. Morton, acoustic engineer of the Amer-
ican Steel & Wire Company, delivered the principal
address before The State Music Merchants' Con-
vention, at Dallas, Texas, on Thursday of this week.
With his customary eloquence, Mr. Morton held the
interest of his audience from beginning to end. Mr.
Morton discussed the limitations of the popular con-
ception of music and separated the flitting fancies of
the superficial "music lover" from the virile achieve-
ments of the true workers in art.
"The lesson of war," said Mr. Morton, "that music
need not be apart from life but intermingled with its
greatest activities, was for centuries not learned.
Yet music's influence was not unfelt, if it was un-
recognized and undirected. Through the crude
songs of the sea, of the plantation, of the flock, of
the forge, and of the loom the humble worker found
intuitively something of the inspiration that spurred
the warrior to his triumphs."
Mr. Morton dwelt upon the influence of music
upon the mental and physical being, and declared
that:
The inspirational and therapeutic values of music
were of course not unknown or untried previously,
but never before had there been such opportunity for
their demonstration on a gigantic scale and never
JAMES & HOLMSTROM REMOVAL.
before had there been such systematic attention to
Notice has been received by the trade of the maintaining the morale of fighters by attention to
change in the address of the James & Holmstrom their emotional needs. Testimony is abundant—
Piano Co., Inc., of New York. The new headquar- much, both vocal and written, has come to my no-
ters and warerooms of the famous old piano are tice—of front line experiences where weary, hungry,
now at 46 W. 37th street, between 5th and 6th ave- disheartened soldiers, seemingly beaten in advance
nues. The offices and warerooms are convenient as the "zero hour" approached, have been fed not
to all of the big New York hotels, and they are with food but with song and transformed into heroes
handsomely fitted up. Piano men in New York as they swept "over the top." In the hospitals, too,
should make it a point to visit Manager J. J. Glynn, music had its place in winning the war, as countless
who always has a warm welcome ready. The 'phone successful treatments of shell shock and other battle
numbers are "Greeley 343—374."
diseases testify.
It's a Happy Home That Contains
a Behr Brothers Piano
There is no lack of joy and cheer in the home of a Behr
Brothers piano. For more than three decades this noble instrument
has influenced American home-life happily.
The discerning dealer finds a powerful appeal in the Behr
Brothers line. He may choose any or all of seven different types of Behr
Brothers instruments —knowing thai each represents superior value.
If your territory is open we have a proposition of prime
interest to you. You incur no obligation in writing.
Behr Brothers & Co., i,,c.
William J. Behr, President
643 West 51st Street
MUSIC'S POWER IN
TIMES OF PEACE
New York
The latest development in the application of music
for industrial life is one of the timely topics dis-
cussed by Mr. Morton. "Personal interest," he said,
"opportunity for self-expression, arc the greatest in-
centives to activity, and the best results are obtained
from the spontaneity of the workers themselves,
with only indirect aid from those in control of the
industry."
The acoustician believes that music is destined
to become more and more of a part of the better im-
pulses of the workers in stores and factories.
"Methods of application and results of course vary
considerably. One factory in Boston makes several
breaks in the day for singing, and reports a 20 per
cent increase in output with the same force. A Chi-
cago concern has ten minutes of chorus singing at
10 a. m. and ten minutes again at 3 p. m. I have
heard no definite figures as to comparative produc-
tion here, but I do know that the manager reports
the labor turn-over and absenteeism, which formerly
disrupted his force at frequent intervals, has ceased."
As a community builder, also, Mr. Morton drew
attention to the modern influences of music. "In
every city and in every hamlet big enough to bring
forth a drum or a bugle or a fife four minutes of
martial music did more than all the four-minute
speeches in stirring the populace to support the gov-
ernment with the liberty loans and to meet the other
war demands. And the lesson of this has not been
lost on the community service leaders, who wish to
stir the public now with the appeals of peace."
The speaker urged business men to encourage
their employes by the inspiration of music. He
made an appeal to his hearers along this line,
declaring that "it's at your door opportunity is
knocking. If this emancipation of music is mo-
mentous to anyone, it's momentous to you. And
who is to speed it along if not you?"
A. S. BOND VISITS CHICAGO.
A. S. Bond, president of the Packard Piano Com-
pany, Fort Wayne, Ind., spent most of one day in
the Chicago offices of the company this week. Mr.
Bond had been at French Lick Springs, Ind., and
was tanned with outdoor exercise. He received a
telegram while at the Chicago office from the fac-
tory, stating that 136 instruments had been shipped
from the plant last week.
Henry P. Veatch, Chicago manager for the Pack-
ard Piano Company, of Fort Wayiie, Ind., has re-
turned from a trip in Wisconsin and Michigan. He
says, aside from the business he did, the trip was a
most pleasurable one, the budding trees and balmy
spring air of those northern countries being a shift-
ing scene of delight.
Enhanced content © 2008-2009 and presented by MBSI - The Musical Box Society International (www.mbsi.org) and the International Arcade Museum (www.arcade-museum.com).
All Rights Reserved. Digitized from the archives of the MBSI with support from NAMM - The International Music Products Association (www.namm.org).
Additional enhancement, optimization, and distribution by the International Arcade Museum. An extensive collection of Presto can be found online at http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/
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