Presto
Issue: 1924 1985 - Page 6
PRESTO
August 9, 1924.
state Commerce Commission from forcing the acts
of the senate and congress, which were passed al-
most unanimously, and have made the National
Council party to the suits.
They have carried their hearings all over the U.
S.—to Washington, Boston, Portland, Me., Chicago,
San Francisco—to all of which the council had to at-
An Admonition from Braunsweig and a Justi- tend or let the case g o b y default.
The railroad people could ride there on railroad
fiable Rebuke by a Prominent Piano Man
and Pullman passes, while the council attorney and
Who Detected Presto Taking Wrong
witnesses must pay the extortionate fares.
All of this, apparently, to exhaust the meagre re-
Side of the Fence.
sources of the council. I am sure if you knew these
things you would not have given publicity to the
statements above referred to, which must be mis-
leading, to say the least.
Just now the council is notified of a hearing to be
Eastern Representative of Haddorff Piano Co. Cor- held in St. Paul, which could just as well be held in
rects Mistaken Premise in Presto Article.
Washington or New York. But the point is the date,
which is August 26th—the date of the council's annual
New York, July 31. 1924.
Editor Presto: My attention was called to an arti- convention in New York. These annoying tactics are
Yours very truly,
cle in Presto of July 19th, giving statements from being used continually.
W. B. WILLIAMS.
E. L. Bevington, chairman of the Transcontinental
Passenger Association.
We think you can not have kept up with this fight
of the railroad resisting the removal of the only re-
maining war tax (which they have succeeded in di-
verting to their own treasury).
Letter from Grotian, Steinweg Nachf, Urging
In the first place the railroads give no service of
Against Confusion of Registered Trade
any kind for the 50 per cent they collect on the
Mark Names.
Pullman fares.
The statement that it amounts to one-third of
Editor Presto: It was with pleasure we noticed
one cent per mile needs scrutiny. For instance, the that you have published an article concerning our
distance from New York City to Washington, D. C , Quarter Tone Piano. We thank you for the inter-
is 225 miles. Pullman charge is $2.50, and the added est you show in this matter and perhaps it will be
surcharge is $1.25, making a total charge of $3.75. allowed to draw your kind attention to one point:
Has it occurred to you that practically all the
Our registered trade-mark is "Grotrian Steinweg,"
passengers who ride in Pullman cars are furnish- and not Steinweg only. The proprietors of our firm
ing additional business, so far as the regular fare are the two Messrs. Grotrian, who are the successors
is concerned, and that they do not furnish anything of Messrs. Steinweg. We are sending you this in-
in expense for coaches, as the Pullman company formation because another firm of a similar name is
does this?
the only organized body which has put the public's not written in the exact way. Therefore, we state
rights before the committees inquiring into these emphatically that we have not at least the intention
matters.
to have our products compared or confounded with
The council has been making a fight for years to any other make of the world. A "Grotrian Steinweg"
secure a mileage book, available to any citizen who instrument is a "Grotrian Steinweg," and cannot be
compared with other products because of its special
buys transportation wholesale.
The railroad companies have enjoined the Inter- character, which is not to be found in any other in-
strument throughout the world.
We should be very thankful to you for kindly pub-
lishing a short notice in this sense in your paper.
It has been with great interest that we took no-
tice of the other contents of your paper and enclosed
you will find price of subscription beginning with
August, 1924.
Yours faithfully,
GROTRIAN, S T E I N W E G NACHF.
TRADE LETTERS OF
UNUSUAL INTEREST
UNFAIR RAILROAD TACTICS
GERMAN QUARTER TONE PIANO
The Korn Music House, Michigan City, Ind., has
leased a store on East Seventh street and will occupy
this additional space, which is being connected with
their other large quarters, as soon as alterations are
completed.
Good Crops and Fair Prices Are Factors in
Stimulating Conditions and Piano Trade
Particularly.
The piano trade throughout the West made a no-
ticeable increase during the past month. Activity
along general business lines and big crops has
effected a r>ick-up in the piano trade and dealers are
elated over the welcome change.
The trade, which is rounding into line shape, has
also been a source of gratification to the manufac-
turers who are receiving many orders from the pro-
gressive western merchants and are filling them
promptly.
The changing condition is a result of the fine crops
of the farmers, and the opportunity to push the sale
of musical instruments was not overlooked by the
dealers, who immediately started a sales campaign to
revive the trade which unfortunately was at a stand-
still during the early summer months.
The report is made that the wheat crop, which is
already harvested, is the heaviest in several years.
The recent jump in wheat prices has brought pros-
perity to the farmer's door and that is of great sig-
nificance to the piano trade at the present time and
in the future.
The number of western dealers who have recently
availed themselves of the Chicago market prices indi-
cates that they are stocking up their warerooms in
anticipation of a greater demand for pianos. The
optimism among this category of dealers is character-
istic of their progressive attitude towards the buying
public.
The music dealers of Denver, Colo., are in the
midst of a piano sales campaign and the instrument
which occupied their warerooms during the early
summer have been disposed of and new orders have
been sent to headquarters.
SALE OF MUSIC STORE IS
THE BASIS OF LAW SUIT
Buyer Charges that Value of Stock Was Misrepre-
sented and Inventory Is Missing.
Tony Sandi, who recently purchased the E. F.
Watkins Music Store on Pearl street, Logansport,
Ind., has tiled suit in Circuit Court against Mr. Wat-
kins asking that he be given judgment of $1,000
against him, that the judgment be made a lien against
the 66-acre farm traded to Watkins in the deal
and that the farm be sojd to satisfy the judgment.
Mr. Sandi in the complaint alleges that he paid
$4,000 cash and traded in a 66-acre farm for the
stock of the store, and that Watkins misrepresented
the value of the stock and has failed to provide
a manufacturer's statement of its value as required
by the terms of purchase. The deal was made on
the 14th of July.
ijiardman
BRINKERHOFF
The Yardman Jzine
Player-Pianos
and Pianos
"Built on Family Pride"
The Line That Sells Easily
and Satisfies Always
Doll & Sons
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO.
Represent the Artistic
in Piano and Player Piano
Construction
Tw
is a complete line
It comprises a range of artisti-
cally worthy instruments to
please practically every purse:
The Hardman, official piano of
the Metropolitan Opera House;
the Harrington and the Hensel
Pianos in which is found that in-
built durability thatcharacterizes
all Hardman-made instruments;
the wonderful Hardman Repro-
ducing Piano; the Hardman
Autotone (the perfect player-
piano); and the popular Playo-
tbne.
c
(, /
DEALERS REPORT BETTER
TRADE CONDITIONS
J
OFFICES, REPUBLIC BLDG.
209 State Street
The Sprinkle Piano Co., of Norfolk, Va., which
assigned for the benefit of creditors, had made the
mistake of adding furniture to its music business.
CHICAGO
Becker Bros.
JACOB DOLL & SONS
STODART
WELLSMORE
Manufacturer* of
HIGH GRADE PIANOS
and PLAYER PIANOS
Factory and Warerooms
767-769 Tenth Avenue, New York
Jacob Doll & Sons, Inc.
Southern Boulevard, E. 133rd St.
E. 134th St. and Cypress Ave.
NEW YORK
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August 9, 1924.
state Commerce Commission from forcing the acts
of the senate and congress, which were passed al-
most unanimously, and have made the National
Council party to the suits.
They have carried their hearings all over the U.
S.—to Washington, Boston, Portland, Me., Chicago,
San Francisco—to all of which the council had to at-
An Admonition from Braunsweig and a Justi- tend or let the case g o b y default.
The railroad people could ride there on railroad
fiable Rebuke by a Prominent Piano Man
and Pullman passes, while the council attorney and
Who Detected Presto Taking Wrong
witnesses must pay the extortionate fares.
All of this, apparently, to exhaust the meagre re-
Side of the Fence.
sources of the council. I am sure if you knew these
things you would not have given publicity to the
statements above referred to, which must be mis-
leading, to say the least.
Just now the council is notified of a hearing to be
Eastern Representative of Haddorff Piano Co. Cor- held in St. Paul, which could just as well be held in
rects Mistaken Premise in Presto Article.
Washington or New York. But the point is the date,
which is August 26th—the date of the council's annual
New York, July 31. 1924.
Editor Presto: My attention was called to an arti- convention in New York. These annoying tactics are
Yours very truly,
cle in Presto of July 19th, giving statements from being used continually.
W. B. WILLIAMS.
E. L. Bevington, chairman of the Transcontinental
Passenger Association.
We think you can not have kept up with this fight
of the railroad resisting the removal of the only re-
maining war tax (which they have succeeded in di-
verting to their own treasury).
Letter from Grotian, Steinweg Nachf, Urging
In the first place the railroads give no service of
Against Confusion of Registered Trade
any kind for the 50 per cent they collect on the
Mark Names.
Pullman fares.
The statement that it amounts to one-third of
Editor Presto: It was with pleasure we noticed
one cent per mile needs scrutiny. For instance, the that you have published an article concerning our
distance from New York City to Washington, D. C , Quarter Tone Piano. We thank you for the inter-
is 225 miles. Pullman charge is $2.50, and the added est you show in this matter and perhaps it will be
surcharge is $1.25, making a total charge of $3.75. allowed to draw your kind attention to one point:
Has it occurred to you that practically all the
Our registered trade-mark is "Grotrian Steinweg,"
passengers who ride in Pullman cars are furnish- and not Steinweg only. The proprietors of our firm
ing additional business, so far as the regular fare are the two Messrs. Grotrian, who are the successors
is concerned, and that they do not furnish anything of Messrs. Steinweg. We are sending you this in-
in expense for coaches, as the Pullman company formation because another firm of a similar name is
does this?
the only organized body which has put the public's not written in the exact way. Therefore, we state
rights before the committees inquiring into these emphatically that we have not at least the intention
matters.
to have our products compared or confounded with
The council has been making a fight for years to any other make of the world. A "Grotrian Steinweg"
secure a mileage book, available to any citizen who instrument is a "Grotrian Steinweg," and cannot be
compared with other products because of its special
buys transportation wholesale.
The railroad companies have enjoined the Inter- character, which is not to be found in any other in-
strument throughout the world.
We should be very thankful to you for kindly pub-
lishing a short notice in this sense in your paper.
It has been with great interest that we took no-
tice of the other contents of your paper and enclosed
you will find price of subscription beginning with
August, 1924.
Yours faithfully,
GROTRIAN, S T E I N W E G NACHF.
TRADE LETTERS OF
UNUSUAL INTEREST
UNFAIR RAILROAD TACTICS
GERMAN QUARTER TONE PIANO
The Korn Music House, Michigan City, Ind., has
leased a store on East Seventh street and will occupy
this additional space, which is being connected with
their other large quarters, as soon as alterations are
completed.
Good Crops and Fair Prices Are Factors in
Stimulating Conditions and Piano Trade
Particularly.
The piano trade throughout the West made a no-
ticeable increase during the past month. Activity
along general business lines and big crops has
effected a r>ick-up in the piano trade and dealers are
elated over the welcome change.
The trade, which is rounding into line shape, has
also been a source of gratification to the manufac-
turers who are receiving many orders from the pro-
gressive western merchants and are filling them
promptly.
The changing condition is a result of the fine crops
of the farmers, and the opportunity to push the sale
of musical instruments was not overlooked by the
dealers, who immediately started a sales campaign to
revive the trade which unfortunately was at a stand-
still during the early summer months.
The report is made that the wheat crop, which is
already harvested, is the heaviest in several years.
The recent jump in wheat prices has brought pros-
perity to the farmer's door and that is of great sig-
nificance to the piano trade at the present time and
in the future.
The number of western dealers who have recently
availed themselves of the Chicago market prices indi-
cates that they are stocking up their warerooms in
anticipation of a greater demand for pianos. The
optimism among this category of dealers is character-
istic of their progressive attitude towards the buying
public.
The music dealers of Denver, Colo., are in the
midst of a piano sales campaign and the instrument
which occupied their warerooms during the early
summer have been disposed of and new orders have
been sent to headquarters.
SALE OF MUSIC STORE IS
THE BASIS OF LAW SUIT
Buyer Charges that Value of Stock Was Misrepre-
sented and Inventory Is Missing.
Tony Sandi, who recently purchased the E. F.
Watkins Music Store on Pearl street, Logansport,
Ind., has tiled suit in Circuit Court against Mr. Wat-
kins asking that he be given judgment of $1,000
against him, that the judgment be made a lien against
the 66-acre farm traded to Watkins in the deal
and that the farm be sojd to satisfy the judgment.
Mr. Sandi in the complaint alleges that he paid
$4,000 cash and traded in a 66-acre farm for the
stock of the store, and that Watkins misrepresented
the value of the stock and has failed to provide
a manufacturer's statement of its value as required
by the terms of purchase. The deal was made on
the 14th of July.
ijiardman
BRINKERHOFF
The Yardman Jzine
Player-Pianos
and Pianos
"Built on Family Pride"
The Line That Sells Easily
and Satisfies Always
Doll & Sons
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO.
Represent the Artistic
in Piano and Player Piano
Construction
Tw
is a complete line
It comprises a range of artisti-
cally worthy instruments to
please practically every purse:
The Hardman, official piano of
the Metropolitan Opera House;
the Harrington and the Hensel
Pianos in which is found that in-
built durability thatcharacterizes
all Hardman-made instruments;
the wonderful Hardman Repro-
ducing Piano; the Hardman
Autotone (the perfect player-
piano); and the popular Playo-
tbne.
c
(, /
DEALERS REPORT BETTER
TRADE CONDITIONS
J
OFFICES, REPUBLIC BLDG.
209 State Street
The Sprinkle Piano Co., of Norfolk, Va., which
assigned for the benefit of creditors, had made the
mistake of adding furniture to its music business.
CHICAGO
Becker Bros.
JACOB DOLL & SONS
STODART
WELLSMORE
Manufacturer* of
HIGH GRADE PIANOS
and PLAYER PIANOS
Factory and Warerooms
767-769 Tenth Avenue, New York
Jacob Doll & Sons, Inc.
Southern Boulevard, E. 133rd St.
E. 134th St. and Cypress Ave.
NEW YORK
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All Rights Reserved. Digitized from the archives of the MBSI with support from NAMM - The International Music Products Association (www.namm.org).
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