Presto
Issue: 1923 1918 - Page 6
PRESTO
April 28, 1923
INTEREST IN TRADE CONVENTION GROWS
PLANS DEVELOPING
FOR ALL EVENTS
Business, Social and Exhibition Features of
Annual Meeting at Drake Hotel, Chicago,
June 4, to Provide Events for
Alluring Program.
Convention events up to this time looked forward
to in the aggregate, are now appearing in detail as
big individual events, and the facts contributary to
making each one a successful part of a perfect whole
are being disseminated as convention news. The
business and social features heretofore merged in
the consideration of members of the various associa-
tions are now assuming a distinctiveness that daily
makes them more alluring.
That the Prosperity Music Trade Convention of
1923 is assured of success as far as attendance goes
may be learned by a glance at the report of the hotel
committee in this issue. The calls for rooms at all
the big hostelries anywhere near the Drake are as
urgent as the requisitions for accommodation at the
headquarters hotel itself. Dealers and manufacturers
whose purpose it is to attend the convention should
take the advice of the committee and wire for hotel
accommodation at the earliest possible date.
The Business Sessions.
The heads of the various trade associations are
not forgetting the primary purposes of the annual
meeting of the organizations as President C. C.
Chickering of the National Piano Manufacturers As-
sociation and President J. Edwin Butler of the
National Association of Music Merchants pointed
out last week the business of the conventions should
be considered the most important part of them; ex-
hibits and social affairs incidental to the proceedings.
That thought is one which prompts Secretary Matt
J. Kennedy of the National Association of Music Mer-
chants to devote his time and thought to make the
business features of the conventions of a highly suc-
cessful kind. The meetings w T ill prove a valuable
post-graduate course for music dealers and salesmen.
For instance the salesmanship session in which
the A. W. Shaw Co., publisher of "System" is co-oper-
ating with the convention committee will be of obvi-
ous value to everybody in the trade. The names of
Thos. H. Fletcher and Charles E. Byrne associated
with the program of the Advertising session are
assurances that the hours will be valuable ones. C.
Alfred Wagner is another prominent man in the trade
who will direct a session devoted to vital problems
of the piano business.
From the opening of the business session of the
National Association of Music Merchants by Richard
W. Lawrence, president of the Music Industries
Chamber of Commerce to the last action of the asso-
ciation the hours will be tilled with interesting and
instructive incidents. A fuller program of events
will be printed next week. Everything in the pro-
gram of the business session will be conducive to a
wider knowledge of the music business, buying, sell-
ing, demonstrating and presenting the publicity facts.
The Social Features.
Of course trie social features cannot be disregarded.
Indeed they are dovetailed to the more sedate busi-
ness ones in a pleasant way. The noonday luncheons
promoted by the Piano Club of Chicago can be
placed in both the business and social or sociable
category. The Drake Hotel people have instructions
to prepare for 1,000 persons at the first luncheon on
June 4.
No ban on commercialism has interfered with
preparations for the numerous exhibits of pianos and
other musical goods at the Drake and elsewhere
during convention week. It is certain that even the
long list of exhibits printed in Presto last week will
be added to considerably before the opening day of
the convention.
The Band Tournament.
The band tournament planned for convention week
promises to be the greatest event of its kind ever
promoted. The progress of the plans was recounted
this week at the luncheon of the Piano Club of Chi-
cago by Pat Henry, whose energetic work for the
tournament is an assurance of a big success.
Efforts for the success of the band tournament
during the coming convention were stimulated by the
speech of Brig. Gen. McCloskey, U. S. A., chief of
staff at the local army headquarters, who reported
the interest of the R. O. T. C. in' the Chicago schools
in the band tournament. The Thursday of conven-
tion week, band tournament day, would be a Chicago
holiday whether or not the municipal authorities de-
clared it so. "There will be so much music in the
air everybody will want to lay off and enjoy it," he
said.
C. C. Conway, vice-president of the Hallet & Davis
Piano Co., Boston, came to the luncheon meeting as
a guest and left a member in good standing. In a
short and witty speech Mr. Conway said that Chi-
cago was already "sold" on the music trade conven-
tion at the Drake Hotel in June. "Even at this early
date," he said, "it looked as if the meeting this year
will make all the old conventions look sick. Chicago
is going to skin the daylights out of New York in
convention reputation and I'm glad of it, because you
know I'm a Chicago product."
ALL WILL COME TO
THE CONVENTION
Evansville, Indiana, Dealers Are Planning to
Be in Chicago in Full Force During
the Week of June 4-9.
H. F. Riechert, manager of the N. W. Bryant
Piano Company, 226 Main street, Evansville, Ind.,
says he is between two fires. He wants to attend the
big national Prosperity Convention in Chicago in
June, and at the same time wants to attend the annual
meeting of the Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine to be held at the same time in Wash-
ington, D. C. He says he may engage an aeroplane
and manage to attend both meetings for a while at
least.
W. J. Stahlschmidt and Harry W. Voss, of the
Stahlschmidt Piano Company, 618 Main street, Evans-
ville, are planning to attend the big conventions in
Chicago during the first week in June. The Harding
& Miller Music Company, 524-526, Evansville, will
send three representatives to the Chicago conventions,
in the persons of A. A. Klamer, L. O. Dunkin and
Albert P. Schutter.
W. F. Schwentker, piano and musical instrument
dealer at 720 Mary street, Evansville, boasts that he
has never missed a single meeting of the national
•association since it was organized about fifteen years
ago and he says he can not stay away from the big
conventions to be held in June of this year and that
his son, James M. Schwentker and Arthur J. Willem,
who are associated in business with him, also will
attend. Mr. Schwentker lays claim to being the
oldest member of the national association in the city
of Evansville and he does not believe there are many
dealers in southern Indiana who can beat his record.
He has been engaged in business in Evansville for
more than a quarter of a century.
GEORGE E. ROBERTS TO
ADDRESS CONVENTION
Great Authority on Economic and Financial Matters
Principal Speaker at Opening Session.
George E. Roberts, vice-president of the National
City Bank of New York and a widely known expert
on economic and financial matters, has been secured
by the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce as
the principal speaker at the opening session of the
convention on Monday, June 4. Immediately follow-
ing the noon-day luncheon on that date Richard W.
Lawrence, president of the Chamber, will present his
annual message to the music industry, and Mr. Rob-
erts will address the convention on economic subjects
of interest and importance.
Mr. Roberts' career as a banker and financial writer
has fitted him to be one of the foremost experts on
these subjects in the country today. When editor of
the Fort Dodge, Iowa, "Messenger" he published, in
1896, a pamphlet refuting the pernicious doctrine
of the free coinage of silver, which was circulated by
the million and probably did more than any other
individual influence to turn the scales in the bitterly
fought political campaign of that year and secured
the selection of William McKinley on a sound-money
platform.
Mr. Roberts served as director of the United States
Mint under Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft
and Wilson, with an intervening period of three
years, from 1907 to 1910, as president of the Commer-
cial National Bank of Chicago. He came to the
National City Bank of New York in 1914 as assistant
to the president, an office especially created to make
available to tjie bank and the country his peculiar
abilities along financial lines. For several years now
he has been a vice-president of the bank and the
editor of its Monthly Bulletin, a recognized authority
on economic and financial matters.
HOTEL CONVENTION
COMMITTEE REPORT
Those Intending Being Part of the Joyous
Throng at Annual Trade Meeting Should
Secure Accommodation at Earliest
Possible Date.
The hotel committee of the Prosperity Convention
of the National Music Trades presents a partial list
of Chicago's hotels available for those attending the
big gathering at the Drake Hotel June 4 to 7. A
considerable part of the hotel accommodation in and
near the Drake Hotel has been engaged but the fol-
lowing is an accurate list of rooms and suites still
available:
North Side Hotels.
Hotel Drake—A few suites, single rooms connect-
ing with bath $10.00 a day; rooms with bath, one or
two persons, $10, $12 and $14. Very heavy reserva-
tions have taken all other available rooms here.
Hotel Ambassador—New, half mile from the
Drake. A few rooms single, with bath, $3.50, $4 and
$5; two persons, room with bath, $5 and $6; suites,
parlor, alcove, bedroom and bath, $6, $7 and $8;
suites—two connecting rooms with bath, three and
four persons, $10 and $12; suites—parlor, bedroom
and bath, $10 and $12.
Hotel Plaza—Three-quarter mile from Drake, fac-
ing Lincoln Park. Single rooms with bath, $2, $3
and $3.50—$1 extra per person; suites, two bedrooms
and connecting bath, three persons $6.00 and four
persons $7.00.
New Webster Hotel—Mile and a half from the
Drake, convenient to bus lines. Room with bath,
single, $4, $5 and $6; room with bath, double, $5, $6
and $7.
New Parkway Hotel—Mile and a half from the
Drake, convenient to bus lines. Room with bath,
single, $4, $5 and $6; room with bath, double, $5, $6
and $7.
Edgewater Beach Hotel—New, four miles north,
convenient bus transportation. Reservations up to
May 15th, $5.00 single, $7.00 double.
Sheridan Plaza Hotel—4605 Sheridan Road. Sin-
gle $4, $5 and $6; double $5, $6 and $7.
Somerset Hotel—5009 Sheridan Road. Single with
bath $4, $5 and $6; double with bath $5, $6 and $7.
These hotels are all new and modern on the North
Side—convenient—10c bus fare practically from door
to door, and the farthest not over twenty minutes
ride.
Loop and South Side.
In the loop rooms are available at the Sherman,
Morrison, Congress, LaSalle from $3.50 up, single;
$5 and up, double. At the Blackstone, $5 and up.
On the South Side the committee recommends the
Cooper Carlton, single rooms with bath $3.00, single;
$4 double, and up. Chicago Beach approximately
the same. Both of these are convenient transporta-
tion on the I. C. Suburban. They are ideally located
and splendidly furnished.
The committee also has a list of twenty-five other
hotels available for overflow at a reasonable rate.
The Hotel Bureau of the Association of Commerce
is co-operating with the Hotel Committee of the
Convention. The latter will maintain a desk in the
lobby of the Drake and can assure anyone of com-
forable quarters within half an hour after their
arrival, no matter how great the demand for accom-
modation. This advice is good: "However, we urge
early reservations, either through this office or direct.
Advise the hotel of the rate wanted, number of per-
sons in party and date of arrival. Your reserva-
tions will be accorded prompt attention. Thanking
you for exploiting this information in your own
inimitable way."
ELECTION IN PITTSBURGH, PA.
At a meeting preceded by a dinner at the Lincoln
Club, Pittsburgh, Pa., recently Arthur O. Lechner
was elected president of the Piano Merchants' Asso-
ciation of Pittsburgh.
Jacob Schoenberger was
elected vice-president, Len L. Sykes, secretary, and
C. L. Lawson, treasurer. The following directors
were named: Theodore Hoffman, E. B. Heyser,
L. C. Diercks, J. C. Volkwein and B. McConnell.
Byron H. Collins, retail sales manager for Steinway
& Sons, New York, was recently elected president of
the School Board of Palisades Park, N. J., where Mr.
Collins resides.
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April 28, 1923
INTEREST IN TRADE CONVENTION GROWS
PLANS DEVELOPING
FOR ALL EVENTS
Business, Social and Exhibition Features of
Annual Meeting at Drake Hotel, Chicago,
June 4, to Provide Events for
Alluring Program.
Convention events up to this time looked forward
to in the aggregate, are now appearing in detail as
big individual events, and the facts contributary to
making each one a successful part of a perfect whole
are being disseminated as convention news. The
business and social features heretofore merged in
the consideration of members of the various associa-
tions are now assuming a distinctiveness that daily
makes them more alluring.
That the Prosperity Music Trade Convention of
1923 is assured of success as far as attendance goes
may be learned by a glance at the report of the hotel
committee in this issue. The calls for rooms at all
the big hostelries anywhere near the Drake are as
urgent as the requisitions for accommodation at the
headquarters hotel itself. Dealers and manufacturers
whose purpose it is to attend the convention should
take the advice of the committee and wire for hotel
accommodation at the earliest possible date.
The Business Sessions.
The heads of the various trade associations are
not forgetting the primary purposes of the annual
meeting of the organizations as President C. C.
Chickering of the National Piano Manufacturers As-
sociation and President J. Edwin Butler of the
National Association of Music Merchants pointed
out last week the business of the conventions should
be considered the most important part of them; ex-
hibits and social affairs incidental to the proceedings.
That thought is one which prompts Secretary Matt
J. Kennedy of the National Association of Music Mer-
chants to devote his time and thought to make the
business features of the conventions of a highly suc-
cessful kind. The meetings w T ill prove a valuable
post-graduate course for music dealers and salesmen.
For instance the salesmanship session in which
the A. W. Shaw Co., publisher of "System" is co-oper-
ating with the convention committee will be of obvi-
ous value to everybody in the trade. The names of
Thos. H. Fletcher and Charles E. Byrne associated
with the program of the Advertising session are
assurances that the hours will be valuable ones. C.
Alfred Wagner is another prominent man in the trade
who will direct a session devoted to vital problems
of the piano business.
From the opening of the business session of the
National Association of Music Merchants by Richard
W. Lawrence, president of the Music Industries
Chamber of Commerce to the last action of the asso-
ciation the hours will be tilled with interesting and
instructive incidents. A fuller program of events
will be printed next week. Everything in the pro-
gram of the business session will be conducive to a
wider knowledge of the music business, buying, sell-
ing, demonstrating and presenting the publicity facts.
The Social Features.
Of course trie social features cannot be disregarded.
Indeed they are dovetailed to the more sedate busi-
ness ones in a pleasant way. The noonday luncheons
promoted by the Piano Club of Chicago can be
placed in both the business and social or sociable
category. The Drake Hotel people have instructions
to prepare for 1,000 persons at the first luncheon on
June 4.
No ban on commercialism has interfered with
preparations for the numerous exhibits of pianos and
other musical goods at the Drake and elsewhere
during convention week. It is certain that even the
long list of exhibits printed in Presto last week will
be added to considerably before the opening day of
the convention.
The Band Tournament.
The band tournament planned for convention week
promises to be the greatest event of its kind ever
promoted. The progress of the plans was recounted
this week at the luncheon of the Piano Club of Chi-
cago by Pat Henry, whose energetic work for the
tournament is an assurance of a big success.
Efforts for the success of the band tournament
during the coming convention were stimulated by the
speech of Brig. Gen. McCloskey, U. S. A., chief of
staff at the local army headquarters, who reported
the interest of the R. O. T. C. in' the Chicago schools
in the band tournament. The Thursday of conven-
tion week, band tournament day, would be a Chicago
holiday whether or not the municipal authorities de-
clared it so. "There will be so much music in the
air everybody will want to lay off and enjoy it," he
said.
C. C. Conway, vice-president of the Hallet & Davis
Piano Co., Boston, came to the luncheon meeting as
a guest and left a member in good standing. In a
short and witty speech Mr. Conway said that Chi-
cago was already "sold" on the music trade conven-
tion at the Drake Hotel in June. "Even at this early
date," he said, "it looked as if the meeting this year
will make all the old conventions look sick. Chicago
is going to skin the daylights out of New York in
convention reputation and I'm glad of it, because you
know I'm a Chicago product."
ALL WILL COME TO
THE CONVENTION
Evansville, Indiana, Dealers Are Planning to
Be in Chicago in Full Force During
the Week of June 4-9.
H. F. Riechert, manager of the N. W. Bryant
Piano Company, 226 Main street, Evansville, Ind.,
says he is between two fires. He wants to attend the
big national Prosperity Convention in Chicago in
June, and at the same time wants to attend the annual
meeting of the Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine to be held at the same time in Wash-
ington, D. C. He says he may engage an aeroplane
and manage to attend both meetings for a while at
least.
W. J. Stahlschmidt and Harry W. Voss, of the
Stahlschmidt Piano Company, 618 Main street, Evans-
ville, are planning to attend the big conventions in
Chicago during the first week in June. The Harding
& Miller Music Company, 524-526, Evansville, will
send three representatives to the Chicago conventions,
in the persons of A. A. Klamer, L. O. Dunkin and
Albert P. Schutter.
W. F. Schwentker, piano and musical instrument
dealer at 720 Mary street, Evansville, boasts that he
has never missed a single meeting of the national
•association since it was organized about fifteen years
ago and he says he can not stay away from the big
conventions to be held in June of this year and that
his son, James M. Schwentker and Arthur J. Willem,
who are associated in business with him, also will
attend. Mr. Schwentker lays claim to being the
oldest member of the national association in the city
of Evansville and he does not believe there are many
dealers in southern Indiana who can beat his record.
He has been engaged in business in Evansville for
more than a quarter of a century.
GEORGE E. ROBERTS TO
ADDRESS CONVENTION
Great Authority on Economic and Financial Matters
Principal Speaker at Opening Session.
George E. Roberts, vice-president of the National
City Bank of New York and a widely known expert
on economic and financial matters, has been secured
by the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce as
the principal speaker at the opening session of the
convention on Monday, June 4. Immediately follow-
ing the noon-day luncheon on that date Richard W.
Lawrence, president of the Chamber, will present his
annual message to the music industry, and Mr. Rob-
erts will address the convention on economic subjects
of interest and importance.
Mr. Roberts' career as a banker and financial writer
has fitted him to be one of the foremost experts on
these subjects in the country today. When editor of
the Fort Dodge, Iowa, "Messenger" he published, in
1896, a pamphlet refuting the pernicious doctrine
of the free coinage of silver, which was circulated by
the million and probably did more than any other
individual influence to turn the scales in the bitterly
fought political campaign of that year and secured
the selection of William McKinley on a sound-money
platform.
Mr. Roberts served as director of the United States
Mint under Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft
and Wilson, with an intervening period of three
years, from 1907 to 1910, as president of the Commer-
cial National Bank of Chicago. He came to the
National City Bank of New York in 1914 as assistant
to the president, an office especially created to make
available to tjie bank and the country his peculiar
abilities along financial lines. For several years now
he has been a vice-president of the bank and the
editor of its Monthly Bulletin, a recognized authority
on economic and financial matters.
HOTEL CONVENTION
COMMITTEE REPORT
Those Intending Being Part of the Joyous
Throng at Annual Trade Meeting Should
Secure Accommodation at Earliest
Possible Date.
The hotel committee of the Prosperity Convention
of the National Music Trades presents a partial list
of Chicago's hotels available for those attending the
big gathering at the Drake Hotel June 4 to 7. A
considerable part of the hotel accommodation in and
near the Drake Hotel has been engaged but the fol-
lowing is an accurate list of rooms and suites still
available:
North Side Hotels.
Hotel Drake—A few suites, single rooms connect-
ing with bath $10.00 a day; rooms with bath, one or
two persons, $10, $12 and $14. Very heavy reserva-
tions have taken all other available rooms here.
Hotel Ambassador—New, half mile from the
Drake. A few rooms single, with bath, $3.50, $4 and
$5; two persons, room with bath, $5 and $6; suites,
parlor, alcove, bedroom and bath, $6, $7 and $8;
suites—two connecting rooms with bath, three and
four persons, $10 and $12; suites—parlor, bedroom
and bath, $10 and $12.
Hotel Plaza—Three-quarter mile from Drake, fac-
ing Lincoln Park. Single rooms with bath, $2, $3
and $3.50—$1 extra per person; suites, two bedrooms
and connecting bath, three persons $6.00 and four
persons $7.00.
New Webster Hotel—Mile and a half from the
Drake, convenient to bus lines. Room with bath,
single, $4, $5 and $6; room with bath, double, $5, $6
and $7.
New Parkway Hotel—Mile and a half from the
Drake, convenient to bus lines. Room with bath,
single, $4, $5 and $6; room with bath, double, $5, $6
and $7.
Edgewater Beach Hotel—New, four miles north,
convenient bus transportation. Reservations up to
May 15th, $5.00 single, $7.00 double.
Sheridan Plaza Hotel—4605 Sheridan Road. Sin-
gle $4, $5 and $6; double $5, $6 and $7.
Somerset Hotel—5009 Sheridan Road. Single with
bath $4, $5 and $6; double with bath $5, $6 and $7.
These hotels are all new and modern on the North
Side—convenient—10c bus fare practically from door
to door, and the farthest not over twenty minutes
ride.
Loop and South Side.
In the loop rooms are available at the Sherman,
Morrison, Congress, LaSalle from $3.50 up, single;
$5 and up, double. At the Blackstone, $5 and up.
On the South Side the committee recommends the
Cooper Carlton, single rooms with bath $3.00, single;
$4 double, and up. Chicago Beach approximately
the same. Both of these are convenient transporta-
tion on the I. C. Suburban. They are ideally located
and splendidly furnished.
The committee also has a list of twenty-five other
hotels available for overflow at a reasonable rate.
The Hotel Bureau of the Association of Commerce
is co-operating with the Hotel Committee of the
Convention. The latter will maintain a desk in the
lobby of the Drake and can assure anyone of com-
forable quarters within half an hour after their
arrival, no matter how great the demand for accom-
modation. This advice is good: "However, we urge
early reservations, either through this office or direct.
Advise the hotel of the rate wanted, number of per-
sons in party and date of arrival. Your reserva-
tions will be accorded prompt attention. Thanking
you for exploiting this information in your own
inimitable way."
ELECTION IN PITTSBURGH, PA.
At a meeting preceded by a dinner at the Lincoln
Club, Pittsburgh, Pa., recently Arthur O. Lechner
was elected president of the Piano Merchants' Asso-
ciation of Pittsburgh.
Jacob Schoenberger was
elected vice-president, Len L. Sykes, secretary, and
C. L. Lawson, treasurer. The following directors
were named: Theodore Hoffman, E. B. Heyser,
L. C. Diercks, J. C. Volkwein and B. McConnell.
Byron H. Collins, retail sales manager for Steinway
& Sons, New York, was recently elected president of
the School Board of Palisades Park, N. J., where Mr.
Collins resides.
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Future scanning projects are planned by the International Arcade Museum Library (IAML).