Presto
Issue: 1927 2110 - Page 61
January 8, 1927.
PIANO MAN CHAMPIONS
WORN OUT HORSES
If Seattle Officials Carry Out Plan of Killing
Passe Steed Count Du Barry Will
Hie Himself Elsewhere.
Tie up your advertising with some local or national
topic of human interest is the plan of Count du Barry,
head of the Du Barry Piano Co., Seattle, Wash., who
threatened in a recent newspaper display that "If
Seattle should become a horse-killing town—we, for
one, should leave it."
His emotion was aroused by the published action of
city officials "who propose to kill some fourteen fire
horses now old in years of service with them and cut
them up in pieces to use as meat to feed the lions
and wolves at Woodlawn Park, where Seattle chil-
dren ride the ponies of the field and stroke their
manes, a hundred steps away.
"Public sentiment in this western city does not de-
fend such men who kill their steeds to feed their
wolves. It cannot be so, it will not be; du Barry
readers are not to be so shocked with children on our
knee who stroked the forelocks, and fed these very
horses buds of clover, while the Board of Works
underrated the nobilrty of our city with such a death
decree," continues Count du Barry in the advertising
.display in the newspapers.
"It was Thursday in the evening hour the shamefal
news burst into this very paper that the oldest horse
and those others were to be cut up for the feed of
wolves with the permission of the Board of Works.
It bothered me all through the night, with many
others that I know, and in the morning early I veri-
fied the fact and called later at the office of the
mayor.
"The mayor was out of the city and her secretary
suggested the mayor pro tern who passed the buck
to the Board of Works further down the hall.
"Your horses shall not be bled next week or ever,
s : rs!" shouted Count du Barry, bursting in on a meet-
ing of the board. "Most generous 'gentlemen' in
power here today, 1 come to plead the cause of horses
soon to die without a public trial in shameful dis-
grace to your decree."
"We cannot let sentiment interfere with practical-
ity," he was told. The Count's account continues:
"Is not sentiment, public sentiment, the most power-
ful force on earth that is worth an honest thought?
What will the child mind think of us? What will
they think of you who kill a horse that earned a
pension you begrudge today?
"With this they offered the fourteen brave postillion
outcasts, verily now at the lions' door, to me or any-
one else who would take them at mercy's call, and
added it would be merciful to dispose of them, they
were old and had their day. It would be merciful to
chloroform old men and get them out of the road, he
added, to support his argument against my plea.
"W r ith this last comment on the aged 1 left your
city hall, Seattle folks, and now accuse you for elect-
ing such men.
"I will retire from your company here if one drop
of blood disgraces Seattle. This is my challenge to
Washington's administration of a mayor who would
QUALITY FIRST and FIRST QUALITY
not leave her chair to greet a queen, and let civic-
agents drain the noble blood of her faithful stock
that now hears the call of wolves calling wild for
them this eleventh hour. Let one drop of blood of
those fourteen horses disgrace the sod on which
du Barry walks, and this city will lose forever a
piano man who monthly attracts Eastern Capital by
thousands of dollars at six per cent to finance Seattle
homes with music, with guaranteed leniency if sick-
ness comes or work is scarce, and whose children
by the hundreds come to my store that stroked the
manes with eager hands.
"This day of 'show down' has come with me, a
business man who loves your parks and all the
glories here. If one single drop of blood from one
single citizen is fed to wolves and lions, I for ont
will retire from your company, Seattle, forevermore.
I now repeat, and repeat again, to you rulers here.
Shall you send your aged stock to a pension in pas-
tureland at some "Horses' Heaven," like the farmers
do at Ellesnburg, or shall du Barry close his store
in the Bon Marche Building forever, whose estab-
lished yearly turnover is $300,000.00.''
THE LIFE LINE.
It always makes us happy,
To know the goods are fine;
But even yet more snappy,
The name on dotted line.
The Taggatz Co. is the name of a new business
recently established by Taggatz Anderson for the
sale of used pianos at 401 West 28th street, New
York.
The first piano to go to the state of Wyoming
went via ox-team in 1866. It was the property of the
late Judge W. A Carter, of Fort Bridger.
MASCOT
TAKES UP fc SMALL SPACE
MAKES LARGE EARNINGS
Your territory may be open
JESSE
FRENCH
AND
SONS
PIANO
GO.
NEWCASTLE
INDIANA
"A name well known since 1875'
SEEKING A WAY TO
PROTECT FAIR PRICES
A Remedy for Unfair Competition in Mer-
chandising Which Promises to Be of
Interest to the Piano Trade.
Manufacturers and merchants who for years have
been seeking a practicable method of preventing the
sale at less than the advertised price of articles ad-
vertised under a trade name have, said "The Out-
look," agreed that in order to protect their mutual
interests legislation by Congress is necessary. A
bill introduced in the House by Representative Kelly
which promised to end the "cut-price" controversy
by clearly defining the respective rights of the manu-
facturer, jobber, and retail dealer.
The merits of the contention that the maker of
standard articles nationally advertised to be sold at
a certain price should be allowed to protect his cus-
tomers against destructive and unfair competition by
dealers who resort to "price cutting" as a method of
advertising "bargains" in other merchandise have
been fully stated on various occasions.
There would seem to be no good reason why Con-
gress should not enact the desired legislation. Re-
cent decisions by the United States courts have
showed a tendency to abandon the view once held
that agreements to maintain prices are in restraint
of trade; but in order to avoid possible action by the
Federal Trade Commissions, creating uncertainty as
to the right of a manufacturer to make such agree-
ments with his customers as may assure 'them a fair
and reasonable profit, it is highly desirable that the
Kelly Bill, or some similar measure, should be-
come law.
;i
An effort is being made to convince the country
merchants that the policy of price maintenance will
injuriously affect them by enabling manufacturers to
withhold their products from any particular dealer for
any or no reason, and thus will tend to create monop-
oly conditions under which the retailer would be corri-
pelled to handle standard merchandise on terms dic-
tated by 'the producer.
TOO LATE TO BE CLASSIFIED.
The World's Leading Small
Electric Piano
JESSE FRENCH & SONS
61
PRESTO-TIMES
Western Electric Piano Co.
429 W. Superior St., Chicago
\.
RETAIL SALESMEN WANTED.
!,
WANTED—Experienced retail piano salesmen to woirk
among our dealers in Indiana, Michigan and Illinois.
This is a real opportunity for a live wire to make a
permanent connection with an old established manu-
facturer where possibilities are limited only by the
man's own efforts. Write The Baldwin Piano Com-
pany, 35 Monument Circle, Indianapolis, Ind.
SCHILLER
A GREAT NAME—A GREAT PIANO
THE SCHILLER
Makes Friends, Makes Customers, Makes
Money, for the Dealer
Super-Grands, Medium Grands, Small
Grands. Full Plate Uprights; Medium
Uprights ; Small (3 \7) Uprights.
Reproducing Grands, Uprights and
Players
Grands with the Famous Bauer
Patented Construction
The SCHILLER PIANO challenges
superiority in tone quality as in construc-
tion, workmanship, finish and appearance.
For Agency Proposition and All
Particulars, address
SCHILLER PIANO COMPANY
Factory and General Offices:
OREGON, ILLINOIS
CHICAGO OFFICE:
State and Adams Sts.
1122 Republic Bids.
NEW YORK OFFICE:
130 W. 42nd St.
Bush Terminal
THE JEWETT PIANOS
Reliable Grand, Upright and Player Pianos
JEWETT PIANO CO., Boston Factories: Leominster, Mass.
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PIANO MAN CHAMPIONS
WORN OUT HORSES
If Seattle Officials Carry Out Plan of Killing
Passe Steed Count Du Barry Will
Hie Himself Elsewhere.
Tie up your advertising with some local or national
topic of human interest is the plan of Count du Barry,
head of the Du Barry Piano Co., Seattle, Wash., who
threatened in a recent newspaper display that "If
Seattle should become a horse-killing town—we, for
one, should leave it."
His emotion was aroused by the published action of
city officials "who propose to kill some fourteen fire
horses now old in years of service with them and cut
them up in pieces to use as meat to feed the lions
and wolves at Woodlawn Park, where Seattle chil-
dren ride the ponies of the field and stroke their
manes, a hundred steps away.
"Public sentiment in this western city does not de-
fend such men who kill their steeds to feed their
wolves. It cannot be so, it will not be; du Barry
readers are not to be so shocked with children on our
knee who stroked the forelocks, and fed these very
horses buds of clover, while the Board of Works
underrated the nobilrty of our city with such a death
decree," continues Count du Barry in the advertising
.display in the newspapers.
"It was Thursday in the evening hour the shamefal
news burst into this very paper that the oldest horse
and those others were to be cut up for the feed of
wolves with the permission of the Board of Works.
It bothered me all through the night, with many
others that I know, and in the morning early I veri-
fied the fact and called later at the office of the
mayor.
"The mayor was out of the city and her secretary
suggested the mayor pro tern who passed the buck
to the Board of Works further down the hall.
"Your horses shall not be bled next week or ever,
s : rs!" shouted Count du Barry, bursting in on a meet-
ing of the board. "Most generous 'gentlemen' in
power here today, 1 come to plead the cause of horses
soon to die without a public trial in shameful dis-
grace to your decree."
"We cannot let sentiment interfere with practical-
ity," he was told. The Count's account continues:
"Is not sentiment, public sentiment, the most power-
ful force on earth that is worth an honest thought?
What will the child mind think of us? What will
they think of you who kill a horse that earned a
pension you begrudge today?
"With this they offered the fourteen brave postillion
outcasts, verily now at the lions' door, to me or any-
one else who would take them at mercy's call, and
added it would be merciful to dispose of them, they
were old and had their day. It would be merciful to
chloroform old men and get them out of the road, he
added, to support his argument against my plea.
"W r ith this last comment on the aged 1 left your
city hall, Seattle folks, and now accuse you for elect-
ing such men.
"I will retire from your company here if one drop
of blood disgraces Seattle. This is my challenge to
Washington's administration of a mayor who would
QUALITY FIRST and FIRST QUALITY
not leave her chair to greet a queen, and let civic-
agents drain the noble blood of her faithful stock
that now hears the call of wolves calling wild for
them this eleventh hour. Let one drop of blood of
those fourteen horses disgrace the sod on which
du Barry walks, and this city will lose forever a
piano man who monthly attracts Eastern Capital by
thousands of dollars at six per cent to finance Seattle
homes with music, with guaranteed leniency if sick-
ness comes or work is scarce, and whose children
by the hundreds come to my store that stroked the
manes with eager hands.
"This day of 'show down' has come with me, a
business man who loves your parks and all the
glories here. If one single drop of blood from one
single citizen is fed to wolves and lions, I for ont
will retire from your company, Seattle, forevermore.
I now repeat, and repeat again, to you rulers here.
Shall you send your aged stock to a pension in pas-
tureland at some "Horses' Heaven," like the farmers
do at Ellesnburg, or shall du Barry close his store
in the Bon Marche Building forever, whose estab-
lished yearly turnover is $300,000.00.''
THE LIFE LINE.
It always makes us happy,
To know the goods are fine;
But even yet more snappy,
The name on dotted line.
The Taggatz Co. is the name of a new business
recently established by Taggatz Anderson for the
sale of used pianos at 401 West 28th street, New
York.
The first piano to go to the state of Wyoming
went via ox-team in 1866. It was the property of the
late Judge W. A Carter, of Fort Bridger.
MASCOT
TAKES UP fc SMALL SPACE
MAKES LARGE EARNINGS
Your territory may be open
JESSE
FRENCH
AND
SONS
PIANO
GO.
NEWCASTLE
INDIANA
"A name well known since 1875'
SEEKING A WAY TO
PROTECT FAIR PRICES
A Remedy for Unfair Competition in Mer-
chandising Which Promises to Be of
Interest to the Piano Trade.
Manufacturers and merchants who for years have
been seeking a practicable method of preventing the
sale at less than the advertised price of articles ad-
vertised under a trade name have, said "The Out-
look," agreed that in order to protect their mutual
interests legislation by Congress is necessary. A
bill introduced in the House by Representative Kelly
which promised to end the "cut-price" controversy
by clearly defining the respective rights of the manu-
facturer, jobber, and retail dealer.
The merits of the contention that the maker of
standard articles nationally advertised to be sold at
a certain price should be allowed to protect his cus-
tomers against destructive and unfair competition by
dealers who resort to "price cutting" as a method of
advertising "bargains" in other merchandise have
been fully stated on various occasions.
There would seem to be no good reason why Con-
gress should not enact the desired legislation. Re-
cent decisions by the United States courts have
showed a tendency to abandon the view once held
that agreements to maintain prices are in restraint
of trade; but in order to avoid possible action by the
Federal Trade Commissions, creating uncertainty as
to the right of a manufacturer to make such agree-
ments with his customers as may assure 'them a fair
and reasonable profit, it is highly desirable that the
Kelly Bill, or some similar measure, should be-
come law.
;i
An effort is being made to convince the country
merchants that the policy of price maintenance will
injuriously affect them by enabling manufacturers to
withhold their products from any particular dealer for
any or no reason, and thus will tend to create monop-
oly conditions under which the retailer would be corri-
pelled to handle standard merchandise on terms dic-
tated by 'the producer.
TOO LATE TO BE CLASSIFIED.
The World's Leading Small
Electric Piano
JESSE FRENCH & SONS
61
PRESTO-TIMES
Western Electric Piano Co.
429 W. Superior St., Chicago
\.
RETAIL SALESMEN WANTED.
!,
WANTED—Experienced retail piano salesmen to woirk
among our dealers in Indiana, Michigan and Illinois.
This is a real opportunity for a live wire to make a
permanent connection with an old established manu-
facturer where possibilities are limited only by the
man's own efforts. Write The Baldwin Piano Com-
pany, 35 Monument Circle, Indianapolis, Ind.
SCHILLER
A GREAT NAME—A GREAT PIANO
THE SCHILLER
Makes Friends, Makes Customers, Makes
Money, for the Dealer
Super-Grands, Medium Grands, Small
Grands. Full Plate Uprights; Medium
Uprights ; Small (3 \7) Uprights.
Reproducing Grands, Uprights and
Players
Grands with the Famous Bauer
Patented Construction
The SCHILLER PIANO challenges
superiority in tone quality as in construc-
tion, workmanship, finish and appearance.
For Agency Proposition and All
Particulars, address
SCHILLER PIANO COMPANY
Factory and General Offices:
OREGON, ILLINOIS
CHICAGO OFFICE:
State and Adams Sts.
1122 Republic Bids.
NEW YORK OFFICE:
130 W. 42nd St.
Bush Terminal
THE JEWETT PIANOS
Reliable Grand, Upright and Player Pianos
JEWETT PIANO CO., Boston Factories: Leominster, Mass.
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).