Presto
Issue: 1925 2034 - Page 9
PRESTO
July 18, 1925.
EDQAR C. SMITH QUEST
AT ANNIVERSARY PARTY
Retail Manager of W. W. Kimball Company
Entertained at Dinner at Edgewater Beach
Hotel by Association.
Edgar C. Smith, retail manager of the W. W. Kim-
hall Company, Chicago, who has been with the com-
pany for forty-live years, was a guest at an anni-
versary celebration. He attended last week a dinner
party which was in the nature of a surprise to him.
The entire retail department of the company gave the
advertising and selling campaign. He is the inven-
tor of a telephone pad holder which has an index,
and that clamps to the instrument. He has had a
large number of these pads imprinted with the infor-
mation that he is the Hardman agent, and has en-
gaged a crew of men and women canvassers to solicit
business. These holders and pads are given free
and duplicate pads can be had for the asking. They
are proving a good advertising medium. A series
of ads are also being run in the newspapers and
Mr. Ott and his organization are bending all their
efforts to make the campaign a success.
ESTEY WINS TRADE
FOR JOHN CHURCH CO.
New Chicago Store of .Energetic Firm Has
Obtained Good Results from Fea-
turing Estey Grands.
One of the latest a.id most elaborate retail estab-
lishments on Chicago s piano row is the John Church
Company at 430 So lth Wabash avenue, which has
been active in featur ng a line of instruments that has
appealed to the public.
A tine line of grands that are consistent sellers
are represented by the active firm, which has stores
in several large cities. A prominent piano in the
company's warerooms is the Estey, which is featared
to a high class trade and has been a big factor in
the progress made by the company.
The Chicago store, which is elaborately decorated
and the Estey grands have fitting surroundings. The
impressive arrangement of the wareroom shows the
Estey instruments in a most conspicuous fashion.
A single row of grands catch the eye from the door,
lu between each instrument is a lamp and a soft,
comfortable sofa. Fine rugs complete the furnishings
surrounding the Estey and other pianos in the ware-
room.
When you say that
the Tonkbench is the
best value procurable
in a piano seat, We
will ma\e your state-
ment ring true, by
giving both you and
the customer a life
long guarantee.
You can afford to
stake your name on a
Tonkbench anytime.
SHERMAN, CLAY & CO.'S STOCK
LISTED ON STOCK EXCHANGE
San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange Lists Seven
Per Cent Prior Preferred and Others.
EDGAR C. SMITH.
Tonk
Manufacturing Co.
party which was said to be one of the biggest nights
the force has ever had. All of the company's officers
and directors were there, including' C. N. Kimball,
president.
The party was held at the Edgewater Beach
Hotel. Eugene Whelan, as Mr. Smith's assistant,
acted as toastmaster on the occasion, and made the
speech at the presentation of a beautifully embossed
testimonial.
Short talks were made by all the old employes.
Every sub-department was represented by a talk.
Mr. Smith was greatly touched at the show of affec-
tion by his associates.
1910 Lewis Street, Chicago
ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
CLEVELAND, 0 . FIELD
Interest in Forthcoming State Association
Convention Stimulated by Publication of
Topics for Discussion Thereat.
THE BEST m
P
Members of the Ohio Music Merchants' Association
have been sent a list of subjects by Rexford C.
Hyre, secretary, who has asked them to check six
of the subjects as being the ones they would like
to have discussed at the forthcoming convention of
the association to be held in Cincinnati Sept. 15 and
16. The following are the subjects:
Overhead Compared to Volume; The Carrying
Charge; Bait Advertising; Radio Discounts; Future
of the Talking Machine; Advantages of Handling
Smaller Musical Instruments in Music Stores; How
to Create and Secure Trained Piano and Musical
Merchandise Salesmen; Financing of the Music Busi-
ness; How Best to Accomplish Tuning and Service;
Mutual Insurance; Are Freight Rates on Musical
Merchandise Excessive?; The Copyright License
Problem Now Being Enforced Against Retail Buy-
ers of Sheet Music, Rolls and Records for Business
Use.
Serge Halman, special representative of the Aeo-
lian Co., New York, gave interesting talks to the
firm's salesmen at the Drelier Piano Co., Cleveland,
last week.
George Ott, president of the G. M. Ott Piano
Co., 1915 and 6101 Euclid avenue, Cleveland, repre-
senting the Hardman piano, is starting an aggressive
Sherman, Clay & Co.'s 7 per cent prior preferred
stock, issued a couple of years ago, has been listed
on the San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange.
This issue consisted of 30,000 shares of $100 par
value, of which 29,574 were issued and are outstand-
ing.
Also outstanding are 17,390 shares of 6 per cent
cumulative preferred and 20,000 shares of common
stock now on a 6 per cent basis. Sherman, Clay &
Co. has no funded indebtedness. The 7 per cent
prior preferred stock is cumulative and is preferred as
to assets and dividends over the other issues and
carries full voting rights.
GULBRANSEN FACTORY
VISITED BY DEALERS
Representative Men From Many Points See Activi-
ties in Great Chicago Plant.
One of the visitors to the factory of the Gulbransen
Company, Chicago, last week was Milo Barrett, of
the Frazelle Piano Company, Toledo, Ohio. Mr.
Barrett had been taking a rest and had spent two
months in California, attending the Shrine Conven-
tion and otherwise enjoying himself. He and Mrs.
Barrett stopped off to see Yellowstone Park and the
Grand Canyon.
While in Chicago Mr. Barrett made his visit to the
Gulbransen factory one of the interesting events of
his stay in the city.
Other visitors to the Gulbransen factory last week
were J. A. Rix and his son, Ralph, of the Rix Fur-
niture & Undertaking Company, Big Springs, Lam-
esa, and Lubbeck, Texas. Also M. Baron of the
Shecter Music Co., of Cumberland, Md.
NEW HARDMAN CHART.
A large chart printed by Hardman, Peck & Co.,
New York, comprises a practical treatise on the care,
adjustment and repair of the various working parts
of the Playotone and Autotone pneumatic actions
used in Hardman player-pianos. Copies of the chart
which is being mailed to Hardman representatives
throughout the country, deals with such action trou-
bles as the tardy return of notes, lack of resistance
in pumping, correcting the speed and tempo, etc.
It has an index dealing with seventy-five parts, which
are shown in the various cuts and diagrams of the
actions.
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July 18, 1925.
EDQAR C. SMITH QUEST
AT ANNIVERSARY PARTY
Retail Manager of W. W. Kimball Company
Entertained at Dinner at Edgewater Beach
Hotel by Association.
Edgar C. Smith, retail manager of the W. W. Kim-
hall Company, Chicago, who has been with the com-
pany for forty-live years, was a guest at an anni-
versary celebration. He attended last week a dinner
party which was in the nature of a surprise to him.
The entire retail department of the company gave the
advertising and selling campaign. He is the inven-
tor of a telephone pad holder which has an index,
and that clamps to the instrument. He has had a
large number of these pads imprinted with the infor-
mation that he is the Hardman agent, and has en-
gaged a crew of men and women canvassers to solicit
business. These holders and pads are given free
and duplicate pads can be had for the asking. They
are proving a good advertising medium. A series
of ads are also being run in the newspapers and
Mr. Ott and his organization are bending all their
efforts to make the campaign a success.
ESTEY WINS TRADE
FOR JOHN CHURCH CO.
New Chicago Store of .Energetic Firm Has
Obtained Good Results from Fea-
turing Estey Grands.
One of the latest a.id most elaborate retail estab-
lishments on Chicago s piano row is the John Church
Company at 430 So lth Wabash avenue, which has
been active in featur ng a line of instruments that has
appealed to the public.
A tine line of grands that are consistent sellers
are represented by the active firm, which has stores
in several large cities. A prominent piano in the
company's warerooms is the Estey, which is featared
to a high class trade and has been a big factor in
the progress made by the company.
The Chicago store, which is elaborately decorated
and the Estey grands have fitting surroundings. The
impressive arrangement of the wareroom shows the
Estey instruments in a most conspicuous fashion.
A single row of grands catch the eye from the door,
lu between each instrument is a lamp and a soft,
comfortable sofa. Fine rugs complete the furnishings
surrounding the Estey and other pianos in the ware-
room.
When you say that
the Tonkbench is the
best value procurable
in a piano seat, We
will ma\e your state-
ment ring true, by
giving both you and
the customer a life
long guarantee.
You can afford to
stake your name on a
Tonkbench anytime.
SHERMAN, CLAY & CO.'S STOCK
LISTED ON STOCK EXCHANGE
San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange Lists Seven
Per Cent Prior Preferred and Others.
EDGAR C. SMITH.
Tonk
Manufacturing Co.
party which was said to be one of the biggest nights
the force has ever had. All of the company's officers
and directors were there, including' C. N. Kimball,
president.
The party was held at the Edgewater Beach
Hotel. Eugene Whelan, as Mr. Smith's assistant,
acted as toastmaster on the occasion, and made the
speech at the presentation of a beautifully embossed
testimonial.
Short talks were made by all the old employes.
Every sub-department was represented by a talk.
Mr. Smith was greatly touched at the show of affec-
tion by his associates.
1910 Lewis Street, Chicago
ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
CLEVELAND, 0 . FIELD
Interest in Forthcoming State Association
Convention Stimulated by Publication of
Topics for Discussion Thereat.
THE BEST m
P
Members of the Ohio Music Merchants' Association
have been sent a list of subjects by Rexford C.
Hyre, secretary, who has asked them to check six
of the subjects as being the ones they would like
to have discussed at the forthcoming convention of
the association to be held in Cincinnati Sept. 15 and
16. The following are the subjects:
Overhead Compared to Volume; The Carrying
Charge; Bait Advertising; Radio Discounts; Future
of the Talking Machine; Advantages of Handling
Smaller Musical Instruments in Music Stores; How
to Create and Secure Trained Piano and Musical
Merchandise Salesmen; Financing of the Music Busi-
ness; How Best to Accomplish Tuning and Service;
Mutual Insurance; Are Freight Rates on Musical
Merchandise Excessive?; The Copyright License
Problem Now Being Enforced Against Retail Buy-
ers of Sheet Music, Rolls and Records for Business
Use.
Serge Halman, special representative of the Aeo-
lian Co., New York, gave interesting talks to the
firm's salesmen at the Drelier Piano Co., Cleveland,
last week.
George Ott, president of the G. M. Ott Piano
Co., 1915 and 6101 Euclid avenue, Cleveland, repre-
senting the Hardman piano, is starting an aggressive
Sherman, Clay & Co.'s 7 per cent prior preferred
stock, issued a couple of years ago, has been listed
on the San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange.
This issue consisted of 30,000 shares of $100 par
value, of which 29,574 were issued and are outstand-
ing.
Also outstanding are 17,390 shares of 6 per cent
cumulative preferred and 20,000 shares of common
stock now on a 6 per cent basis. Sherman, Clay &
Co. has no funded indebtedness. The 7 per cent
prior preferred stock is cumulative and is preferred as
to assets and dividends over the other issues and
carries full voting rights.
GULBRANSEN FACTORY
VISITED BY DEALERS
Representative Men From Many Points See Activi-
ties in Great Chicago Plant.
One of the visitors to the factory of the Gulbransen
Company, Chicago, last week was Milo Barrett, of
the Frazelle Piano Company, Toledo, Ohio. Mr.
Barrett had been taking a rest and had spent two
months in California, attending the Shrine Conven-
tion and otherwise enjoying himself. He and Mrs.
Barrett stopped off to see Yellowstone Park and the
Grand Canyon.
While in Chicago Mr. Barrett made his visit to the
Gulbransen factory one of the interesting events of
his stay in the city.
Other visitors to the Gulbransen factory last week
were J. A. Rix and his son, Ralph, of the Rix Fur-
niture & Undertaking Company, Big Springs, Lam-
esa, and Lubbeck, Texas. Also M. Baron of the
Shecter Music Co., of Cumberland, Md.
NEW HARDMAN CHART.
A large chart printed by Hardman, Peck & Co.,
New York, comprises a practical treatise on the care,
adjustment and repair of the various working parts
of the Playotone and Autotone pneumatic actions
used in Hardman player-pianos. Copies of the chart
which is being mailed to Hardman representatives
throughout the country, deals with such action trou-
bles as the tardy return of notes, lack of resistance
in pumping, correcting the speed and tempo, etc.
It has an index dealing with seventy-five parts, which
are shown in the various cuts and diagrams of the
actions.
Enhanced content © 2008-2009 and presented by MBSI - The Musical Box Society International (www.mbsi.org) and the International Arcade Museum (www.arcade-museum.com).
All Rights Reserved. Digitized from the archives of the MBSI with support from NAMM - The International Music Products Association (www.namm.org).
Additional enhancement, optimization, and distribution by the International Arcade Museum. An extensive collection of Presto can be found online at http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/
Future scanning projects are planned by the International Arcade Museum Library (IAML).