Presto

May 26, 1923
PRESTO
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.
In the loop rooms are available at the Sherman,
Morrison, Congress, LaSalle from $3.50 up for single
and $5 and up for double. At the Blackstone $5 and
up.
On the South Side there are the Coopcr-Carlton.
Prospective Visitor to Chicago for Big Annual
Single room with bath $3; $4 for double, and up.
Meeting of Music Trade Associa-
The Chicago Beach Hotel and the Hyde Park Hotel,
tion Should Read
approximately the same.
Al! of these are con-
venient transportation on the I. C. suburban trains.
This.
T h e y are ideally located and splendidly furnished. •
Hotel accommodation available for members of
The hotel committee, of which Henry D. Hewitt
the trade Prosperity Convention, week of June 4, is chairman, 711 Milwaukee avenue, Chicago, also has
is as follows:
a list of twenty-five other hotels available for over-
Hotel Drake—A few suites; single rooms connect- flow at a reasonable rate. The Hotel Bureau of the
ing with bath, $10 a day; rooms with bath, one or Association of Commerce is co-operating with the
two persons, $10, $12 and $14. Very heavy reserva- hotel committee of the convention. A desk will be
maintained in the lobby of the Drake, and all are
tions have taken all other available rooms here.
Hotel Ambassador—New—Half mile from the assured of comfortable quarters within a half hour
Drake. A few rooms single, with bath, $3.50, $4 and after their arrival, no matter how great the demand
CONVENTION HOTEL
ACCOMMODATIONS
MUSICAL SUPPLY ASS'N
TO MEET JUNE 5
Room D at Drake Place of Two Important
Business Sessions of This Active Na-
tional Association.
The Musical Supply Association of America will
hold its annual convention for 1923 at the Drake
Hotel, Chicago, June S. The following are the offi-
cers elected at the annual convention in 1922:
James T. Rose, president; A. \V. Johnson, vice
president; Alfred L. Smith, secretary, and Joseph
F. Read, treasurer.
The order of business at the two meetings called
for 9:30 a. m. and 2 p. m., Tuesday, June S, in Room
D, at the Drake Hotel, is as follows:
Report of president, report of secretary, report of
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THE DRAKE HOTEL, LOOKING WEST.
$5. Two persons, room and 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 quarters of a mile from Drake
—facing Lincoln Park. Single rooms with bath, $2,
$3 and $3.50—$1 extra per person. Suites, two bed-
rooms and connecting bath, three persons $6, four
persons $7.
New Webster Hotel—Mile and a half from the
Drake—convenient to bus line.
Room with bath,
single, $4.50 and $6. Room with bath, double, $5, $6
and $7.
New Parkway Hotel—Mile and a half from the
Drake. Convenient to bus line. Room with bath,
single; $4, $5 and $6. Room with bath, double, $5, $6
and $7.
Edgewater Beach Hotel^New—Four miles north
—convenient to bus line. Reservations up to May
15. $5 single and $7 double.
Sheridan Plaza.Hotel—4605 Sheridan road—Single,
$4, $5 and $6. Double, $5, $6 and $7.
for accommodations.
However, early reservations are urged, either
through the committee or direct. Advise the hotel of
the rate wanted, number of persons in party and
date of arrival. Your reservations will be accorded
prompt attention.
A CONVENTION SOUVENIR.
The Waltham Piano Co., Milwaukee, Wis., will dis-
tribute to visitors to its exhibits at the Drake and
Great Northern hotels during convention week a
very beautiful souvenir in the form of a nickel-silver
key tag with a registered number on the back for
identification. This splendid tag in itself will be at-
tached to a new patented flexible link key chain
which has a patented clasp whereby any key may be
singled out separate and apart from the "rest of the
bunch." This becomes very useful and is appreciated
by some men who may still be fortunate enough to
enjoy a "kick" from some of the stuff that used to be.
It becomes a simple matter under such enjoyable
condition to be able to single out the front door key
in the dark with this new key chain.
the fact that the moving influence in the enterprise is Mr. E. M.
Zimmerman, who only a few years ago was traveling salesman for
the late Chute & Butler Company and another Western piano indus-
try. Mr. Zimmerman had won a record for brains and force before
he left the piano business for financial interests, and his return to the
fold will be welcomed by many friends in the trade.
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The new-old things, or the old-new things, keep bobbing up.
Songwriter Chas. K. Harris has turned out a new "Little Church
Around the Corner," just because Rev. Dr. Houghton has died. When
the Doctor was young, and first threw his New York church open
to actors, a half-dozen songs of the identical name, and singing the
same tribute appeared. But what can there be in a song that's really
new?
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If you haven't decided to come to the June convention you are
missing A lot of the pleasure that goes with anticipation. The hotel
treasurer, reports of committees and discussion. The
following are the various committees:
Credit—A. W. Johnston, chairman; Standardiza-
tion, E. R. Richardson, chairman; Improvement of
Quality of Supplies, Herbert W. House, chairman;
Publicity, Chas. L. McHugh, chairman, and Con-
tract Forms, James T. Rose, chairman.
At the final meeting new business will be trans-
acted and election of directors and officers held.
ADJUSTER'S SALE OF PIANOS.
An adjusters' sale at Long's Music House, 15 West
Colorado street, Pasadena, Cal., is being conducted
by F. L. Christianer, adjuster for the benefit of
creditors. The $55,000 stock (excepting Brunswick
phonographs and records) is being sold to meet obli-
gations by the firm to its creditors. "As you all
know," said Mr. Long, "we have sold goods on en-
tirely too easy terms, and as a result have not had
the money necessary to conduct a business of this
size and meet current obligations. I have turned the
business over to F. L. Christianer, who is acting as
adjuster for the benefit of our creditors.
reservations proves that Chicago will hold a great many piano men
the first week of next month. You'd belter get ready and come.
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Dr. Florence Ziegfeld, the eminent Chicago musician, was a warm
friend of the piano trade. He had more personal friends among
prominent piano men than any other professor of music in the coun-
try, probably. And he was a rare character in many ways.
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Much better to waste a little surplus money in attendance at next
month's convention than to put it in oil stocks, however big the.prom-
ised dividend. The convention may not promise much in dividends,
but it will pay more than it promises.
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Don't miss the page ads in this issue of Presto. You couldn't if
you wanted to—and you don't want to. They are instructive pages,
,in which every piano dealer will find the keys to his success.
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