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TO DO HONOR TO
JOHN MCTAMMANY
Chamber of Commerce in the Late Inventor's
Boyhood Town at Last Becomes
Interested.
Tardily, as is the rule, the people of the old home
town of the late John McTammany seem about
ready to take some interest in the project to do
honor to the genius of the man who had done much
to add lustre to the music industry.
The Canton, Ohio, Chamber of Commerce has
been requested by the McTammany Memorial Asso-
ciation of New York to co-operate with them in rais-
ing funds for a memorial to be erected honoring the
late John McTammany, who is buried in Westlawn
cemetery in that city. Mr. McTammany was for-
merly of Uniontown, Stark county, Ohio.
Presto is informed by The D. W. Learch Com-
pany, piano dealers, of Canton, that a new enthusi-
asm in the matter of the late inventor has been
awakened in that city. And it certainly is time that
something substantial develop. For a long time
Wm. Mills Butler, of New York, a loyal friend of
Mr. McTammany, appealed to the trade many times
in the effort to secure substantial token of the es-
teem in which the inventor had been held, sufficient
to lay his remains away decently and later to erect
a fitting memorial.
It is to be hoped that, with the assistance of
the Canton Chamber of Commerce, the object so
earnestly desired by Mr. McTammany's friends may
now be realized.
SOME BRIEF ITEMS
OF A PERSONAL KIND
Varied Activities of the Men Who Sell Pianos Here
and There Noted.
H. H. Bradley, Chicago and western manager of
the Chase-Hackley Piano Company, of Muskegon,
Mich., has been traveling on the Pacific Coast for
the last two months and is meeting with much suc-
cess in sales.
John P. Kramer, Crown Point, Ind., will move to
Gary, Ind., where he has a musical instrument
store.
A. J. Bloch will shortly become manager of the
Bloch Music House, Allentown, Pa.
J. A. Carson, Jerseyville, 111., is distributor for
the Gulbransen playerpiano for Jersey and Greene
counties.
J. B. Ryde, piano dealer at Indianapolis, was in
Chicago on Tuesday of this week ordering pianos
and small instruments of various kinds. Mr. Ryde
says that his business is very good at present.
Henry P. Veatch, traveler for the Packard Piano
Company, Chicago, and manager of the Chicago of-
fice of that company, made a trip to Kenosha, Wis.,
r o
November 20, 1920.
on Tuesday of this week. On Wednesday he started
on an extensive trip through the South.
Lem Kline, head of the Rex Piano Mfg. Company,
Chicago, is still out on his southwestern trip.
M. L. Claypool, of the Claypool-Lacey Piano Com-
pany, Crawfordsville, Ind., was in Chicago on
Wednesday of this week ordering goods. Mr. Clay-
pool says the outlook is very promising for large
trade this fall.
ITINERARY OF WORLD
TRIP OF GEORGE P. BENT
ROLL DEPARTMENT OPENED
IN INDIANAPOLIS STORE
No better idea were possible of the extent and in-
terest of the present trip of Geo. P. Bent, popular
ex-piano manufacturer, than the following itinerary.
As has already been announced, Mr. Bent has volun-
teered to send letters to Presto ior publication, and
there need be no assurance that they will prove of
very unusual interest to all readers of this paper.
Mr. Bent reports his probable movements as follows:
The Pearson Piano Company Celebrates Notable
Event in Characteristic Way.
The new player roll department in the Pearson
Piano Company's store in Indianapolis, Ind., was
opened last week. The event was made a notable
one in the big store that "for nearly a half century
has pioneered in instilling a love of music in the
hearts of Hoosier folks," as the announcement said
it. There were souvenirs for all visitors and aritsts
from the Q R S Co., Chicago, gave recitals between
11 o'clock and 1 o'clock and between 2:30 o'clock
and 4:30 p. m.
The new player roll department is in the sub-
mezzanine floor where there are ten booths. "But
we don't want you to buy Thursday or Friday. We
want you to come as our guests," was the Pearson
greeting. "Of course, you can buy if you want to..
We want you to see the really beautiful new de-
partment."
HONORS FOR LONG-TIME EMPLOYE.
Twenty-five years ago Mrs. Aimee Post (then Miss
Aimee Magary) started to work for Sherman, Clay
& Co. as cashier and wrapper in San Francisco.
When Sherman Clay Co. opened its new building at
Kearny and Sutter streets, the business had grown
so that other work was entrusted to her—she was
given charge of the tuning and moving orders. To-
day this work practically occupies all of her time
During these many years Aimee married George
Post, who at one time was a stock clerk at Sherman,
Clay & Co., but who went into business for himself.
On October 30th the directors of Sherman, Clay &
Co. were hosts at a luncheon to Mrs. Post, and on
Monday, November 1st, a light luncheon was fur-
nished by Sherman, Clay & Co. in the lunch room,
to which all the women employes were invited. This
was also in honor of Mrs. Post, who was congratu-
lated upon the happy occasion by her fellow em-
ployes.
A SEATTLE APPEAL.
The General Manufacturing Co., Seattle, Wash.,
has opened a sales room at 1620 Eighth avenue. Two
cabinet styles and a tourist style are made by this
company, which has a plant at 4219 Eighth avenue.
An appeal to Seattle people is that the machines are
made in their entirety in that city and not merely as-
sembled from parts produced elsewhere.
Where the Popular Ex-piano Man and Spe-
cial Presto Correspondent May Be Reached
Until February 15th Next.
Sailing 10 a. m., November 19, 1920, on S.S. Katori
Maru, from Seattle, Washington, for Yokohama,
Japan, I shall be due at ports as follows:
Yokohama, December 5, 1920. There I quit the
steamer and travel by land, rejoining the steamer
at Nagasaki, Japan, on December 13th. And then
due at—
Shanghai, China, December 16th. There again I quit
the steamer, and travel by land, being due at—
Hong Kong, China, from December 20th to Decem-
ber 28th. Then on the same steamer, 1 shall be
due at—
Manilla, P. I., December 30th. Then wife and Bar-
bara are due to sail from that port December 31st,
while I remain there until I can catch a steamer
for Sydney, Australia. I suppose that I shall
reach Sydney about January 20, 1921, and then I
shall work all of Australia, both islands and Tas-
mania, and return again to Sydney. I suppose,
about February 10, 1921. At all events, my ad-
dress will be—
Sydney, Australia, until about February IS, 1921.
Then I expect to sail again, if I can get steamer,
from Perth, Australia, either for Colombo, Ceylon,
or for Singapore. If I go to Singapore, direct
from Perth, I shall doubtless then go to Siam and
Burma and from those countries into India, stop-
ping at Calcutta first. If 1 go to Colombo
first, then I shall doubtless go to Rangoon,
and through Siam and Burma and then on to
Calcutta. Then I expect to cross India and sail
from Bombay for Egypt. I cannot definitely
give dates beyond Sydney; but when I learn
there just what I can do, will make up another itin-
erary, specifying ports where you can reach me as
far as I am able to do so.
Kindly send all mail or telegrams to me, in care of
American Consulates, all the way around the world.
Very truly yours.
GEORGE P. BENT.
Superintendent Fishbaugh, of the A. B. Chase
Piano Company, Inc., Norwalk, Ohio, delivered^ an
address on Monday night of this week before the
Piano Club of Chicago on "Piano Construction."
ARTISTIC SURROUNDINGS PROVIDED FOR PIANOS
The accompanying cut shows three very interesting
views of the Dallas store of the Bush & Gerts
Piano Company. The view on the left shows the
grand piano display room on the second floor. This
is one of the most luxuriously furnished departments
in the South. It is finished in French grey. The
walls are artistically covered with silk tapestry pa-
per, with draperies of silk mulberry. The lighting
effect is achieved through semi-indirect lights, sup-
plemented by piano lamps with vari-colored cretonne
shades. Center: Window depicting the "Spirit of
Jazz," especially prepared for Music Day and
awarded the first prize. This window was arranged
by Paul Burling, city sales manager. Right: View
of the main floor, showing Victrola booths, sheet
music department and player roll demonstration
rooms.
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TO DO HONOR TO
JOHN MCTAMMANY
Chamber of Commerce in the Late Inventor's
Boyhood Town at Last Becomes
Interested.
Tardily, as is the rule, the people of the old home
town of the late John McTammany seem about
ready to take some interest in the project to do
honor to the genius of the man who had done much
to add lustre to the music industry.
The Canton, Ohio, Chamber of Commerce has
been requested by the McTammany Memorial Asso-
ciation of New York to co-operate with them in rais-
ing funds for a memorial to be erected honoring the
late John McTammany, who is buried in Westlawn
cemetery in that city. Mr. McTammany was for-
merly of Uniontown, Stark county, Ohio.
Presto is informed by The D. W. Learch Com-
pany, piano dealers, of Canton, that a new enthusi-
asm in the matter of the late inventor has been
awakened in that city. And it certainly is time that
something substantial develop. For a long time
Wm. Mills Butler, of New York, a loyal friend of
Mr. McTammany, appealed to the trade many times
in the effort to secure substantial token of the es-
teem in which the inventor had been held, sufficient
to lay his remains away decently and later to erect
a fitting memorial.
It is to be hoped that, with the assistance of
the Canton Chamber of Commerce, the object so
earnestly desired by Mr. McTammany's friends may
now be realized.
SOME BRIEF ITEMS
OF A PERSONAL KIND
Varied Activities of the Men Who Sell Pianos Here
and There Noted.
H. H. Bradley, Chicago and western manager of
the Chase-Hackley Piano Company, of Muskegon,
Mich., has been traveling on the Pacific Coast for
the last two months and is meeting with much suc-
cess in sales.
John P. Kramer, Crown Point, Ind., will move to
Gary, Ind., where he has a musical instrument
store.
A. J. Bloch will shortly become manager of the
Bloch Music House, Allentown, Pa.
J. A. Carson, Jerseyville, 111., is distributor for
the Gulbransen playerpiano for Jersey and Greene
counties.
J. B. Ryde, piano dealer at Indianapolis, was in
Chicago on Tuesday of this week ordering pianos
and small instruments of various kinds. Mr. Ryde
says that his business is very good at present.
Henry P. Veatch, traveler for the Packard Piano
Company, Chicago, and manager of the Chicago of-
fice of that company, made a trip to Kenosha, Wis.,
r o
November 20, 1920.
on Tuesday of this week. On Wednesday he started
on an extensive trip through the South.
Lem Kline, head of the Rex Piano Mfg. Company,
Chicago, is still out on his southwestern trip.
M. L. Claypool, of the Claypool-Lacey Piano Com-
pany, Crawfordsville, Ind., was in Chicago on
Wednesday of this week ordering goods. Mr. Clay-
pool says the outlook is very promising for large
trade this fall.
ITINERARY OF WORLD
TRIP OF GEORGE P. BENT
ROLL DEPARTMENT OPENED
IN INDIANAPOLIS STORE
No better idea were possible of the extent and in-
terest of the present trip of Geo. P. Bent, popular
ex-piano manufacturer, than the following itinerary.
As has already been announced, Mr. Bent has volun-
teered to send letters to Presto ior publication, and
there need be no assurance that they will prove of
very unusual interest to all readers of this paper.
Mr. Bent reports his probable movements as follows:
The Pearson Piano Company Celebrates Notable
Event in Characteristic Way.
The new player roll department in the Pearson
Piano Company's store in Indianapolis, Ind., was
opened last week. The event was made a notable
one in the big store that "for nearly a half century
has pioneered in instilling a love of music in the
hearts of Hoosier folks," as the announcement said
it. There were souvenirs for all visitors and aritsts
from the Q R S Co., Chicago, gave recitals between
11 o'clock and 1 o'clock and between 2:30 o'clock
and 4:30 p. m.
The new player roll department is in the sub-
mezzanine floor where there are ten booths. "But
we don't want you to buy Thursday or Friday. We
want you to come as our guests," was the Pearson
greeting. "Of course, you can buy if you want to..
We want you to see the really beautiful new de-
partment."
HONORS FOR LONG-TIME EMPLOYE.
Twenty-five years ago Mrs. Aimee Post (then Miss
Aimee Magary) started to work for Sherman, Clay
& Co. as cashier and wrapper in San Francisco.
When Sherman Clay Co. opened its new building at
Kearny and Sutter streets, the business had grown
so that other work was entrusted to her—she was
given charge of the tuning and moving orders. To-
day this work practically occupies all of her time
During these many years Aimee married George
Post, who at one time was a stock clerk at Sherman,
Clay & Co., but who went into business for himself.
On October 30th the directors of Sherman, Clay &
Co. were hosts at a luncheon to Mrs. Post, and on
Monday, November 1st, a light luncheon was fur-
nished by Sherman, Clay & Co. in the lunch room,
to which all the women employes were invited. This
was also in honor of Mrs. Post, who was congratu-
lated upon the happy occasion by her fellow em-
ployes.
A SEATTLE APPEAL.
The General Manufacturing Co., Seattle, Wash.,
has opened a sales room at 1620 Eighth avenue. Two
cabinet styles and a tourist style are made by this
company, which has a plant at 4219 Eighth avenue.
An appeal to Seattle people is that the machines are
made in their entirety in that city and not merely as-
sembled from parts produced elsewhere.
Where the Popular Ex-piano Man and Spe-
cial Presto Correspondent May Be Reached
Until February 15th Next.
Sailing 10 a. m., November 19, 1920, on S.S. Katori
Maru, from Seattle, Washington, for Yokohama,
Japan, I shall be due at ports as follows:
Yokohama, December 5, 1920. There I quit the
steamer and travel by land, rejoining the steamer
at Nagasaki, Japan, on December 13th. And then
due at—
Shanghai, China, December 16th. There again I quit
the steamer, and travel by land, being due at—
Hong Kong, China, from December 20th to Decem-
ber 28th. Then on the same steamer, 1 shall be
due at—
Manilla, P. I., December 30th. Then wife and Bar-
bara are due to sail from that port December 31st,
while I remain there until I can catch a steamer
for Sydney, Australia. I suppose that I shall
reach Sydney about January 20, 1921, and then I
shall work all of Australia, both islands and Tas-
mania, and return again to Sydney. I suppose,
about February 10, 1921. At all events, my ad-
dress will be—
Sydney, Australia, until about February IS, 1921.
Then I expect to sail again, if I can get steamer,
from Perth, Australia, either for Colombo, Ceylon,
or for Singapore. If I go to Singapore, direct
from Perth, I shall doubtless then go to Siam and
Burma and from those countries into India, stop-
ping at Calcutta first. If 1 go to Colombo
first, then I shall doubtless go to Rangoon,
and through Siam and Burma and then on to
Calcutta. Then I expect to cross India and sail
from Bombay for Egypt. I cannot definitely
give dates beyond Sydney; but when I learn
there just what I can do, will make up another itin-
erary, specifying ports where you can reach me as
far as I am able to do so.
Kindly send all mail or telegrams to me, in care of
American Consulates, all the way around the world.
Very truly yours.
GEORGE P. BENT.
Superintendent Fishbaugh, of the A. B. Chase
Piano Company, Inc., Norwalk, Ohio, delivered^ an
address on Monday night of this week before the
Piano Club of Chicago on "Piano Construction."
ARTISTIC SURROUNDINGS PROVIDED FOR PIANOS
The accompanying cut shows three very interesting
views of the Dallas store of the Bush & Gerts
Piano Company. The view on the left shows the
grand piano display room on the second floor. This
is one of the most luxuriously furnished departments
in the South. It is finished in French grey. The
walls are artistically covered with silk tapestry pa-
per, with draperies of silk mulberry. The lighting
effect is achieved through semi-indirect lights, sup-
plemented by piano lamps with vari-colored cretonne
shades. Center: Window depicting the "Spirit of
Jazz," especially prepared for Music Day and
awarded the first prize. This window was arranged
by Paul Burling, city sales manager. Right: View
of the main floor, showing Victrola booths, sheet
music department and player roll demonstration
rooms.
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/
Future scanning projects are planned by the International Arcade Museum Library (IAML).