Presto
Issue: 1923 1902 - Page 48
PRESTO
THE BEAUTIFUL BRADBURY
UNDER NEW ADMINISTRATION
Famous Old Instruments Will Soon Appear in Line
of New Case Designs.
One of the interesting achievements of the past
year was the change in the fortunes of the celebrated
old Bradbury piano. After the collapse of the F. G.
Smith. Inc., the famous instruments of that industry
January 6, 1923.
with his canceled checks. Stofsky brought suit
against the Manhattan Bank and got judgment.
Then the Manhattan Bank assigned its claim to
Henry A. Oetjen of Jersey City, who sued the Citi-
zens' Bank. In instructing the jury to find for the
Citizens' Bank, Justice Campbell said:
"As long as the paying bank had paid the check it
ceased to be a negotiable instrument, and even if
the check had been a forgery there could be no action
against the indorsers."
Duty of 20 Per Cent on Players to Remain Under
New Decree.
In keeping with its announced policy of imposing
an import tax on what it regards as luxuries, the
Mexican Government, effective Jan. 1, will collect an
ad valorem duty of 10 per cent on pianos brought
into this country. Playerpianos are placed in a dif-
ferent class and for some time past an ad valorem
duty of 20 per cent has been in effect as to these in-
struments. Their duty remains unchanged under the
new decree.
Although Germany was the chief competitor in
the sale of pianos in Mexico prior to the revolutionary
period, and now is striving hard to regain the trade
were secured by the W. P. Haines & Co., who also
took over the Bradbury factory, at Leominster, here which was lost during the Great War, pianos
of American manufacture have always been regarded
Mass.
One of the most attractive of the Bradbury line is as much superior in make and have been the favorite
here shown. It is the player style which will be re- instrument among the better class of musicians. The
German pianos are considerably cheaper than those
tained when the new case designs, upon which the
manufacturers are working, shall have been com- of United States manufacture which are usually sold
here and dealers are given the advantage of buying
pleted. The Bradbury is destined to have an even
greater sale than ever before, and the "Piano of the them on long-time credit.
It is the expressed hope of the Government author-
White House" will continue to deserve its success.
ities that the placing of a 10 per cent ad valorem duty
on pianos may lead to the manufacture of these in-
struments in this country.
BALDWIN IN DENVER.
OLD NAME RETAINED.
The fifty per cent of stock in the Barthel-Duesen-
berg Piano Co., St. Louis, owned by John D. Barthel,
late president of the company, has been bequeathed
Holding that a bank, once having paid a check, it to his widow, and the business will be continued under
ceases to be a negotiable instrument and that no con- the old firm name. The manager is Herman Barthel,
sequent action can be brought against the endorsers brother to the late owner. Previously Mr. Barthel
of the check, Supreme Court Justice Campbell in
has given his sole attention to the office. A new
Jersey City directed a jury to find for the Citizens' president will be elected this week to fill the vacancy
National Bank of'Long Branch in the suit brought
made by the death of John D. Barthel.
by the Chatham and Pheenix National Bank of Man-
hattan. The amount involved was $364.84.
OUTLOOK FINE.
It was brought out in the trial that on June 7, 1918,
The expectations of E. W. Furbush, Chicago man-
Julius Stofsky of Long Branch gave a check for
$229.64 to Moses Rabahan, an employe, when the lat- ager of the Haddorff Piano Co., Rockford, 111., for a
ter severed his connection with his employer. Stofsky prosperous year, have risen to an even higher point
after his recent trip to dealers in the central western
said he tore up the check when he took Rabahan back
states. The dealers are all selling pianos as fast as
in his employ and threw the scraps into the waste
they can get them, and the Haddorff factory will be
basket.
kept busy, even if the orders should stop for a while,
It was alleged that this check was cashed, after it
Mr. Furbush said.
had been pieced together, and was returned to Stofsky
Supreme Court Justice Campbell, in Jersey City,
Finds for the Paying Bank.
CABLE-NELSON PIANO CO
Inverted Imagination and How it Affects the
Men Who Should Beware of it and
Do Better Business
Did you ever consider the part imagination plays
in the success or failure of a piano traveler? A trav-
eler listens to another tell about his line, and straight-
way begins to imagine the other fellow's line is much
better than his own. And, as his imagination gets to
working nicely, he just about concludes to quit the
piano business altogether, and go to digging ditches!
He uses his imagination "wrong side to." He is
a grump, and there are a good many piano travelers
who get discouraged over the bragging of a com-
petitor. Inverted imagination! Nothing else.
All actual pleasure in life depends upon the im-
agination. A beautiful stream to one man is simply
so much water in which he may possibly catch so
many fish. To another, and a rarer man, it is a never-
ending source of delight. Its coolness, beauty and
purity, afford him infinite pleasure.
Different men look at the same thing—that is to
say, a job—very much as different men look at a
mountain brook. One man clammy, with no imagi-
nation, looks upon a job simply as a destable means
of getting something to eat. The other sees in a job
all that the forces of economics and business have
put there. Worthwhileness, honesty, pleasure, hap-
piness, a thing to make him a bigger and a better
man.
Every piano traveler, or every piano retailer, will
see the beauty of his job, if he really works it.
Beware of inverted imagination. The human race
is the one that looks upward. Other races, birds, and
animals, look downward.
Marshall Breeden.
TAX OF 10 PER CENT ON
PIANOS ENTERING MEXICO
CHECK, PAID BY BANK,
NO LONGER NEGOTIABLE
PIANO PREACHMENTS
TO PIANO SALESMEN
The Baldwin Piano Co., Denver, Colo., reports an
excellent business in grands during the holiday busi-
ness. The business in playerpianos was a record-
breaker, but not such a matter of surprise as the
trade in grands. The Christmas Club plan proved a
great success, according to A. J. Speich, manager of
the retail department. The big business in all styles
of instruments made December, 1922, the biggest
month in the history of the Denver branch.
BUYS STEINWAY DUO-ART.
A Steinway Duo-Art Grand piano has been pur-
chased for the new Keith Palace Theater, Cleveland,
O. The instrument, which was sold to the theater
owners by the B. Dreher & Sons Co., will be used
for demonstration purposes in the art gallery of the
new theater. The piano is part of a $200,000 art col-
lection, itself claimed to be the handsomest and most
costly project of its kind in the country.
Kindler & Collins ^
lvicinuraclures one pianos ana piaycr-pianus aiio
Wholesales them at fair prices and terms.
The agency is a source of both profit and prestige.
209 S. State St., Republic Bldg., CHICAGO
ADAM SCHAAF, Inc.
Established 1872
MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH-GRADE
GRANDS, UPRIGHTS and PLAYER=PIANOS
Factory:
.: e nwai Park Ave. ai^FHlmore St.
_
CHICAGO
v n u v
and B. & O. c.7r. R. R.
A QUALITY PRODUCT
FOR OVER
QUARTER OFA CENTURY
r
- TEst.18
THE NECESSARY WANTS
If you want a Salesman or Workers
in any branch of the Business • if
you want a Factory, try a Want Ad
and get it. Presto Want Ads get
results and get them quick.
Office and Zalearoom*
y»i c_ «/ u i. A
331 So. Wabash Avenue
POOLE
^BOSTON'-
GRAND AND UPRIGHT PIANOS
AND
PLAYER PIANOS
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THE BEAUTIFUL BRADBURY
UNDER NEW ADMINISTRATION
Famous Old Instruments Will Soon Appear in Line
of New Case Designs.
One of the interesting achievements of the past
year was the change in the fortunes of the celebrated
old Bradbury piano. After the collapse of the F. G.
Smith. Inc., the famous instruments of that industry
January 6, 1923.
with his canceled checks. Stofsky brought suit
against the Manhattan Bank and got judgment.
Then the Manhattan Bank assigned its claim to
Henry A. Oetjen of Jersey City, who sued the Citi-
zens' Bank. In instructing the jury to find for the
Citizens' Bank, Justice Campbell said:
"As long as the paying bank had paid the check it
ceased to be a negotiable instrument, and even if
the check had been a forgery there could be no action
against the indorsers."
Duty of 20 Per Cent on Players to Remain Under
New Decree.
In keeping with its announced policy of imposing
an import tax on what it regards as luxuries, the
Mexican Government, effective Jan. 1, will collect an
ad valorem duty of 10 per cent on pianos brought
into this country. Playerpianos are placed in a dif-
ferent class and for some time past an ad valorem
duty of 20 per cent has been in effect as to these in-
struments. Their duty remains unchanged under the
new decree.
Although Germany was the chief competitor in
the sale of pianos in Mexico prior to the revolutionary
period, and now is striving hard to regain the trade
were secured by the W. P. Haines & Co., who also
took over the Bradbury factory, at Leominster, here which was lost during the Great War, pianos
of American manufacture have always been regarded
Mass.
One of the most attractive of the Bradbury line is as much superior in make and have been the favorite
here shown. It is the player style which will be re- instrument among the better class of musicians. The
German pianos are considerably cheaper than those
tained when the new case designs, upon which the
manufacturers are working, shall have been com- of United States manufacture which are usually sold
here and dealers are given the advantage of buying
pleted. The Bradbury is destined to have an even
greater sale than ever before, and the "Piano of the them on long-time credit.
It is the expressed hope of the Government author-
White House" will continue to deserve its success.
ities that the placing of a 10 per cent ad valorem duty
on pianos may lead to the manufacture of these in-
struments in this country.
BALDWIN IN DENVER.
OLD NAME RETAINED.
The fifty per cent of stock in the Barthel-Duesen-
berg Piano Co., St. Louis, owned by John D. Barthel,
late president of the company, has been bequeathed
Holding that a bank, once having paid a check, it to his widow, and the business will be continued under
ceases to be a negotiable instrument and that no con- the old firm name. The manager is Herman Barthel,
sequent action can be brought against the endorsers brother to the late owner. Previously Mr. Barthel
of the check, Supreme Court Justice Campbell in
has given his sole attention to the office. A new
Jersey City directed a jury to find for the Citizens' president will be elected this week to fill the vacancy
National Bank of'Long Branch in the suit brought
made by the death of John D. Barthel.
by the Chatham and Pheenix National Bank of Man-
hattan. The amount involved was $364.84.
OUTLOOK FINE.
It was brought out in the trial that on June 7, 1918,
The expectations of E. W. Furbush, Chicago man-
Julius Stofsky of Long Branch gave a check for
$229.64 to Moses Rabahan, an employe, when the lat- ager of the Haddorff Piano Co., Rockford, 111., for a
ter severed his connection with his employer. Stofsky prosperous year, have risen to an even higher point
after his recent trip to dealers in the central western
said he tore up the check when he took Rabahan back
states. The dealers are all selling pianos as fast as
in his employ and threw the scraps into the waste
they can get them, and the Haddorff factory will be
basket.
kept busy, even if the orders should stop for a while,
It was alleged that this check was cashed, after it
Mr. Furbush said.
had been pieced together, and was returned to Stofsky
Supreme Court Justice Campbell, in Jersey City,
Finds for the Paying Bank.
CABLE-NELSON PIANO CO
Inverted Imagination and How it Affects the
Men Who Should Beware of it and
Do Better Business
Did you ever consider the part imagination plays
in the success or failure of a piano traveler? A trav-
eler listens to another tell about his line, and straight-
way begins to imagine the other fellow's line is much
better than his own. And, as his imagination gets to
working nicely, he just about concludes to quit the
piano business altogether, and go to digging ditches!
He uses his imagination "wrong side to." He is
a grump, and there are a good many piano travelers
who get discouraged over the bragging of a com-
petitor. Inverted imagination! Nothing else.
All actual pleasure in life depends upon the im-
agination. A beautiful stream to one man is simply
so much water in which he may possibly catch so
many fish. To another, and a rarer man, it is a never-
ending source of delight. Its coolness, beauty and
purity, afford him infinite pleasure.
Different men look at the same thing—that is to
say, a job—very much as different men look at a
mountain brook. One man clammy, with no imagi-
nation, looks upon a job simply as a destable means
of getting something to eat. The other sees in a job
all that the forces of economics and business have
put there. Worthwhileness, honesty, pleasure, hap-
piness, a thing to make him a bigger and a better
man.
Every piano traveler, or every piano retailer, will
see the beauty of his job, if he really works it.
Beware of inverted imagination. The human race
is the one that looks upward. Other races, birds, and
animals, look downward.
Marshall Breeden.
TAX OF 10 PER CENT ON
PIANOS ENTERING MEXICO
CHECK, PAID BY BANK,
NO LONGER NEGOTIABLE
PIANO PREACHMENTS
TO PIANO SALESMEN
The Baldwin Piano Co., Denver, Colo., reports an
excellent business in grands during the holiday busi-
ness. The business in playerpianos was a record-
breaker, but not such a matter of surprise as the
trade in grands. The Christmas Club plan proved a
great success, according to A. J. Speich, manager of
the retail department. The big business in all styles
of instruments made December, 1922, the biggest
month in the history of the Denver branch.
BUYS STEINWAY DUO-ART.
A Steinway Duo-Art Grand piano has been pur-
chased for the new Keith Palace Theater, Cleveland,
O. The instrument, which was sold to the theater
owners by the B. Dreher & Sons Co., will be used
for demonstration purposes in the art gallery of the
new theater. The piano is part of a $200,000 art col-
lection, itself claimed to be the handsomest and most
costly project of its kind in the country.
Kindler & Collins ^
lvicinuraclures one pianos ana piaycr-pianus aiio
Wholesales them at fair prices and terms.
The agency is a source of both profit and prestige.
209 S. State St., Republic Bldg., CHICAGO
ADAM SCHAAF, Inc.
Established 1872
MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH-GRADE
GRANDS, UPRIGHTS and PLAYER=PIANOS
Factory:
.: e nwai Park Ave. ai^FHlmore St.
_
CHICAGO
v n u v
and B. & O. c.7r. R. R.
A QUALITY PRODUCT
FOR OVER
QUARTER OFA CENTURY
r
- TEst.18
THE NECESSARY WANTS
If you want a Salesman or Workers
in any branch of the Business • if
you want a Factory, try a Want Ad
and get it. Presto Want Ads get
results and get them quick.
Office and Zalearoom*
y»i c_ «/ u i. A
331 So. Wabash Avenue
POOLE
^BOSTON'-
GRAND AND UPRIGHT PIANOS
AND
PLAYER PIANOS
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