Presto

P R E S T O
May a, 1923
YONKERS PIANO DEALER
OBJECTED TO DELUGE
ESTABLISHED 1854
THE
Complains That Dweller Upstairs Allowed Water to
Pour Down Upon Five Pianos.
Appearing in Yonkers City Court on Tuesday in
answer to a summons charging that she let water
pour downstairs into a music store owned by Mrs.
Mary Ackerman of 224 Riverdale avenue, Yonkers,
Mrs. Tillie Connery of that address alleged Mrs.
Ackerman provoked her by perpetual piano-playing
in her place of business.
Mrs. Connery told the judge that a playerpiano in
tlie Ackerman store often plays from 6 o'clock in the
morning until midnight and that the music becomes
monotonous and disturbs the sleep of members of
the Connery household. Mrs. Ackerman alleged that
Mrs. Connery let water pour down upon her in
revenge. Judge Charles W. Boote told Mrs. Connery
if the piano was played too much and at unreasonable
hours she could appeal to the Health Department,
but he urged both women to make peace, and save
both the deluge and the beautiful finish of the instru-
ments in the music store.
ARTISTIC
JPIAtfO
IN EVERT
DETAIL
HADDORFF PIANO CO.
ROCKFORD,ILL.
Wholesale Offices:
New York Ciiy
130W 4-ndSt.
Chicago
410 S. Michigan A»e.
San Ftanencu
311 C»l'f«rnia St.
Cincinnati Factories of The Baldwin Pian», Company
SUCCESS
is assured the dealer who takes advantage of
THE BALDWIN CO-OPERATION PLAN
which ofTers every opportunity to represent
under the most favorable conditions a com-
plete l'ne of high grade pianos, players and
reproducers.
For fnjormaiion Write
CINCINNATI
INDIANAPOLIS
LOUISVILLE
in
$tano Company
Incorporated
CHICAGO
ST. LODIS
DALLAS
PIANO SALESMAN TELLS OF
VACATION SELLING ORGANS
BRADBURY PIANO
FOR ITS
ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE
FOR ITS
INESTIMABLE AGENCY VALUE
THE CHOICE OF
Representative Dealers the World Over
Now Produced in Several
New Models
WRITE FOR TERRITORY
Factory
Leominster,
Mass.
Executive Offices
138th St. and Walton Ave.
New York
Division W. P. HA1NES & CO., Inc.
And James Crain Recalls a Humorous Incident of
'
Arkansas Travels.
James Crain, a Linn Creek, Mo., piano salesman,
who sold pianos and organs through remote coun-
ties in high Arkansas last summer, in telling about
it in a Chicago wholesale piano house this week,
said it was a right royal vacation even if the re-
sults in organ sales were smaller than expected and
those in piano sales hardly worth recording. . He
used a light wagon with strong springs set on low
wheels; a safe equipment, enabling him to climb the
steep grades on the flint strewn trails through the
forest-covered mountains. In this way he was able
to reach out-of-the-way places where the sight of a
stranger was as infrequent as is was welcome.
One day he pulled up at a farmhouse in a new
clearing and asked the farmer for a drink.
"Su'tinly, suh," said the Arkansan with the natural
hospitality of the state. "I'll give yo' all the best I
hew which is butte'milk.''
"Fine," said the salesman as he smacked his lips
after a deep sawllow. "My, wouldn't this be like the
nectar of the gods if it had a chunk of ice in it!"
"Ice?" exclaimed the backwoodsman.
"Yum-m-m!" signified the piano salesman, taking
another gulp. "A little bit of ice, highball size, would
make this buttermilk heavenly."
"Ice!" said the surprised farmer with a tug at his
whiskers. "Tee! Who in ta' nation ever heerd of
ice in July?"
For a
Bigger and Better
Business
The Walthall Co., San Antonio, Tex., was the
promoter recently of a recital featuring Phillip
Jordon, pianist. The recital was given at the Luther
Hotel.
M. SCHULZ CO.
NEW YORK
DENVER
SAN FRANCISCO
There is nothing to compare
with the complete line of
M. SCHULZ CO.
The Players are RIGHT in
everything that means
money to the dealers and
satisfaction to the public.
You wilt never da anything bettet
than when you get in touch with
711 Milwaukee Avenue
CHICAGO
•OUTHERN BRANCH* 730 CtndUr Bldg., ATLANTA, ( U .
Schumann
PIANOS and PLAYER PIANOS
Have no superiors in appearance, tone
power or other essentials of strictly
leaders in the trade.
t IAN*
Warning to Infringers
The fieppe. Mar cellus and Edouard Jules PiaQb
m inufactured by the
HEPPE PIANO COMPANY
in the world with
are the oni y e pianos
Sounding Boards.
Thre United
Great BrltaUg-.
Patented In the Germany States,
and Canada.
France
Liberal arrangerr tents to responsible agents only.
Wain 0 fBce, 1117 Chestnut St.
pw tLADBLPKIA, PA.
TRADC MARK
When in doubt refer to
PRESTO BUYERS GUIDE
This Trade Mark Is cast
in tbe plate and also ap-
pears upon the fall board
of all genuine Schumann
Pianos, and all Infringers
will be prosecuted. Beware
of imitations such as Schu-
mann * Company, Schu-
mann & Son, and also
Shurnan, as all stencil
shops, dealers and users ot
pianos bearing a name In
Imitation of the name
Schumann with the Inten-
tion of deceiving the public
will be prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law.
Schumann Piano Co.
W. N. VAN MAT&E, President
Rockford, 111.
STEGER
STEGER & SONS
Piano Manufacturing Company
Manufacturers of
STEGER Pianos and Player Pianos
REED & Sons Pianos and Player Pianos
SINGER Pianos and Player Pianos
THOMPSON Pianos and Player Pianos
ARTEMIS Pianos and Player Pianos
STEGER Stools, Benches, Music Cabinets
STEGER Phonographs
STEGER Polish
General Offices and Salesrooms: Steger Build-
ing, Wabash and Jackson, Chicago.
Factories: Steger, Illinois, where the "Lincoln"
and "Dixie" Highways Meet.
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