Presto

P R E S T O
August 25, 1923
A VISIT TO THE
PACKARD PIANO CO.
One of the Most Attractive Industrial Plants
in the Mid-West Is That of the Sub-
stantial Old Industry at
Ft. Wayne.
Unified
Cooperation
The Factory
Durable, Satisfaction-Giv-
ing instruments mean real
profit after the sale. The
Seeburg" is always recog-
nized as the standard coin
operated player.
FINE RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT
Were There More Such Music Houses as That at
Wayne and Harrison, Music Would
Thrive Better.
If every city in the Union could have such a music
house as that of Lyon & Healy, in Chicago, with its
splendid building on a conspicuous corner, always
announcing to the millions of people that music is an
element in life—in commercial life as well as artistic
—it would be well for the world, and great for the
music industry.
And if every city of the so-called "second class"—
because of smaller population—could have such a
IF YOURS WERE MARKS.
You think you have troubles
And often complain
Of wee little bubbles
Too small to give pain;
You muss up time's pages
From daylight to dark,
But 'spose, now, your wages
Were paid by the mark!
Fourteen styles f r o m
which t o select.
The
smallest to the largest.
T h e l a r g e s t to the
smallest.
Piano men who under-
stand the dealer's prob-
lems and capable and glad
to extend real co-opera-
tion and assistance.
J. P. SEEBURG
PIANO CO.
Factory
1508-16 Dayton St.
Offices
1510 Dayton St.
CHICAGO, ILL.
The Nationally
Known Line
Jr
You say that the prices
Of all things are high,
And thinner the slices
Of foodstuffs you buy;
Your rent still goes soaring,
As swift as the larks,
But dream, while you're snoring,
You paid it in marks!
The Sales
Organization
A trained force of travel-
ing representatives, en-
tirely experienced in de-
veloping automatic in-
strument sales.
reproducing grands—is plainly to be seen from
across the street from the building.
The second floor contains the main piano ware-
room, and the other departments are equally well
supplied. The stock carried by the Packard Music
Co. comprises everything that any music store can
have, and there is a profusion of all the things that
are sold.
One Block from Noise.
In short, the Ft. Wayne retail house of the Pack-
ard is one of the most thoroughly equipped to be
found in any city. Standing just one block away
from the street car racket, either way, there is com-
parative quiet for the prospect to hear the instru-
ment's tone undisturbed. It is also just a block from
the Anthony Hotel, the city's leading hostelry, and
on a direct line to the Pennsylvania station.
Evidently Ft. Wayne appreciates the Packard in-
dustry, and there are evidences of that company's
prosperity in many places. At the factory, about
two miles distant from the retail warerooms, there
are many of the evidences of fine appreciation of the
fitness of things.
Lives Up to Slogan.
Instead of bare walls of brick surrounded by other
bare walls, or by disorderly waste of lands, the Pack-
ard factory is framed in flowery walks and green
sward. Vines run up the walls in some places and
all about them is an air of comfort and beauty.
There is, in short, proof of President A. S. Bond's
faith in the Packard slogan of, "If there is no har-
mony in the factory there will be none in the piano."
It is a pleasant place to visit. Even if the factory
forces are too busy to devote much time to discus-
sion of things in general, there is always a welcome
to members of the trade, and there is always a good
deal to be learned by interested visitors who go to
the plant of the Packard Piano Company in Ft.
Wavne.
A. S. BOND.
house as the retail establishment of the Packard
Piano Company at Fort Wayne, Indiana, it would
be, if possible, still better for the world of music,
and its commercial aspects, because there would be
so many more of them.
Splendid Music House.
Fort Wayne is, of course, an important commer-
cial and industrial city. There are factories there,
and the retail stores are of fine proportions and many
of them very busy at all hours of the business day.
And, just off from the main business street, in Ft.
Wayne's retajl trade, is the new building of the Pack-
ard Piano Co., an establishment which would do
credit to New York or Chicago. It is, in fact, one
of the finest music houses in the country.
The new Packard building is located at the corner
of Wayne and Harrison streets. It has been de-
scribed in an earlier issue of Presto. It comprehends
every branch of the music business, and one of its
broad floors contains an ample music hall, or concert
room, to which the people of Ft. Wayne are wel-
comed when anything of special musical interest is
to be considered.
The Packard Display.
The three-story building is massive, and its great
glass fronts afford a clear view of the first floor inte-
rior. The window trimming is of the most approved
metropolitan order. When the Presto representative
visited Ft. Wayne, two weeks ago, the Wayne street
side of the Packard building was arranged to repre-
sent a complete orchestra, the various instruments
renting beside the vacant chairs of the players, who
were apparently "off-stage" during intermission of
some symphony performance.
The effect is tine, and it attracts groups of the prac-
tical musicians of the city. Another of the large
windows is trimmed with sheet music—large stands
with the sheets plainly displayed, and not merely a
lot of titles strung behind the plate glass. Inside,
the display of pianos—grands conspicuously and the
We all have our worries,
But this is the thought—
Full half of the flurries
Just dwindle to naught;
They're nothing but flickers
That send forth no sparks—
But what if our dickers
Were all made in marks?
SOME OF THE CAR=LOAD LOT
ORDER TAKERS IN WISCONSIN
Activities of Representatives of the Waltham, Cable
and Smith & Barnes Co.
Bartholemew Layer, district sales manager for the
Waltham Piano Company, of Milwaukee, was a re-
cent visitor at Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
J. B. Tebben, of the DeKalb Piano Company, De
Kalb, 111., and C. F. Thompson, of the Smith, Barnes
& Strohber Piano Company, of Chicago, were visit-
ing the Manitowoc, Wisconsin, piano merchants on
the 16th. Both reported an improved trade condi-
tion all along the line.
Mr. Tebbens, known to his friends as "Reddie," is
a strong enthusiast. You can't teach him to say
"dull times,'' for he knows better.
Geo. M. Slawson, Northwest traveler for The Cable
Company', Chicago, was a caller upon Manager
Armstrong, of Woodford & Bill Piano Store, Green
Bay, Wis., recently.
THE MEMPHIS BUILDING.
The Vcsey Piano Co. and Rcinhardt's Music Shop,
Memphis, Tenn., will occupy a new building being
erected at Union and Gayson avenues and which will
be completed about October 1. The building will
also contain several music studios.
Mrs. M. Boyd, who has charge of the foreign sales
department of the Jesse French & Sons Piano Co., of
New Castle, Ind., spent several days in Chicago last
week. While in Chicago she met one of Australia's
largest importers of pianos, who is selling the Jesse
French piano in his country.
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