Presto
Issue: 1927 2146 - Page 4
PRESTO-TIMES
WILL L. COLLINS' DAY
AT CHICAGO PIANO CLUB
Reception Tendered Popular Piano Man Who
Recently Assumed Management of
H. C. Bay Co.'s Retail Store.
JESSE FRENCH & SONS
*Make Homes happy *
SONS
£Xffrs.of 'Pianos/PlaijQrs &Gram
Write for Catalog*
Castle. Indiana.
The weekly meeting of the Piano Club of Chicago
which was held on Monday at the Illinois Athletic
Club, marked the return to the old quarters. The
pleasure of the event was increased by setting it
aside as Will L. Collins' Day, in which representa-
tives of the music trade in Chicago paid tribute to
that popular piano man who recently became con-
nected with the H. C. Bay Company, as manager of
the new retail department. Mr. Collins received many
compliments and a large bouquet of flowers as ex-
pressions of appreciation for the long and useful
service he has rendered in the music trade.
The first on the list of several short talks was E. F.
Lapham, who discussed the line character of the men
in the music trade, their methods and service, and
Mr. Co!lins was called the peer of them all.
W. L. Bush Talks.
William L. Bush, responding to the chairman's re-
quest for a few observations, said:
'"The Piano Club of Chicago, as a progressive, suc-
cessful organization, simply indicates the spirit of its
membership. This club has established the reputa-
•THE HOUSE OF GRANDS"
Concert, Parlor and Small Grands
Period and Modern Designs
Manufacturers of the
Grand in Upright Form
Grand tone and quality in the Upright Piano
ia exclusively Bush & Lane
(Patint.d)
Reproducing and Player Pianos—
Welte-Mignon {Licensee) and Cecilian
Writt for our Art Catalog
Bush & Lane
Piano Co.
Holland. Michigan
imr
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 8ts.
928 Republic Bldr-
NEW TOHK OFFICE:
130 W. 42nd St.
Bush Terminal Bid*.
WILL L. COLLINS,
From a Snapshot Taken Some Years Ago.
tion of being the most progressive organization in
our entire industry. It has a heart of gold, and a
soul full of friendship and sympathy, for a member
bereaved or in dire distress.
"It is a privilege to participate in this voluntary
tribute today, to one of those beloved, admired and
respected members of the Old Guard of this club,
one of the early charter members, our dear Billy Col-
lins, to whom we have dedicated this occasion."
Eugene Whalen, who was the next speaker, read
a telegram from James T. Bristol. Letters were
read from Mark P. Campbell, president of the Bram-
bach Piano Co., New York, and Adam Schneider,
who is now at his summer home at Lake Beulah,
Wisconsin. Numerous telegrams were also received
and read.
Entertainment was provided by Axel Christensen,
popular pianist, who improvised classical jazz fan-
tasies. He made melodies a specialty on this occa-
sion, and several numbers, including "In a Little
Spanish Town," were given.
Will Collins Talks.
Will L. Collins, in his brief talk, expressed his
gratitude to his many friends in the trade and espe-
cially to those present at the club's meeting,
"Wabash avenue has a charm which we of the
music trade well understand. Perhaps it is because
one does not have to walk far to meet one or more
friends.
"Piano Row is cosmopolitan, with the Irish most
numerous," said Mr. Collins, "and notwithstanding
that it is a peaceable place. But if you want to in-
crease your heart action at any time, all you have
to do is to drop in and get gay with Eugene Whalen
or Teddy Maguire, or McLaughlin, or Jim Bristol,
or Roger O'Connor. Your choice is wider. There's
E. W. Clancy, Matt. J. Kennedy, Geo. J. Dowling,
R. M. Riley, Parnell Egan, Vincent Dolan, John C.
Deagan. Chas. Madden, R. J. O'Connell, W. G.
Dunn, Chas. E. Byrne, R. C. Flannigan, or Patrick
Henry, who at least is half Irish—the first half of
his name.
Noisy Wabash Avenue.
"Wabash avenue is a noisy place and not conducive
to the calm spirit craved by a Piano Row salesman
who expressed his feelings as follows:
September 17, 1927
" 'I work in a store on W r abash.
It's noisy there, very noisy.
Now and then the postman on his daily round,
Brings me a letter from "out where the West
begins."
He brought me one today—This is what it said:
"The wild wind voices of the day are stilled,
The Canon with a somber shadow filled,
The tired trees sleep and from a limpid sky,
A reckless moon in lavish splendor spills,
It's silver blessing on the silent hills."
God! what a homesickness came over me.
I work in a store on Wabash.
It's noisy there, truly noisy.' "
PIANO CONTEST JUDGES
SCARCE IN BALTIMORE
Promoters of Event in the Maryland City
Send Out General Appeal Through Me-
dium of Daily Newspapers.
A public appeal has been made for judges of the
preliminary tests of the greater Baltimore Piano
Playing Contest to be staged under auspices of the
Music Trades Association of Baltimore. A number
of judges have been chosen but because of the sev-
eral hundred preliminary tests scheduled for the
latter part of this month there are not enough judges
for all of them.
The appeal sent out under the caption "Piano Con-
test Judges Needed to Pick Winners," stated that
"teachers of music particularly of the piano are asked
to volunteer their services in assisting at the various
tests to be held in the public, private and parochial
schools. With more than 3,000 entries expected,
several hundred preliminary tests will be held. At
least one judge will be necessary for each test. Wi 11
you help?"
Interest Grows.
The greatest eleventh hour interest in the contest
was displayed by the Senior High Schools, a large
number of pupils being entered from Western and
Eastern high schools. Students attending City Col-
lege and Polytechnic are also evincing keen interest.
The two former schools are girls' schools and the
two latter exclusively for boys.
On Howard street, in front of the Chas. M. Stieff
Company store is a large banner announcing the
Piano Playing Contest and urging the children to
enro'l for participation in it.
PICK U P
Other News.
The Dahlmer-Kennedy Piano Company, 744 North
Gay street, Baltimore, Md., has been remodeled and
enlarged, the store now extending from Gay street
to Madison street. It now occupies about double the
former floor space. The company features Weaver
pianos. Other lines are also carried.
The Bernheimer-Leader Stores, Howard, Lexing-
ton and Eayette streets, which maintains a large radio
department, has been purchased by the May Depart-
ment Stores Company, whose headquarters are in
St. Louis. The purchase price is said to be in the
neighborhood of $7,000,000. It will be operated
under the name of the May Company.
Eisenberg's, Lexington street at Park avenue, has
opened a radio department, and is carrying many
nationally known makes.
Joel Gutman & Company, Eutaw at Lexington
street, has moved its radio department to the third
floor from the first, where it now occupies abont
double its former space.
N. MARSHALL SEEBURG
RETURNS FROM LONG TRIP
Treasurer of the J. P. Seeburg Piano Co., Chicago,
Opens Many New Agencies in West.
N. Marshall Seeburg, treasurer of the J. P. See-
burg Piano Co., with factory and offices at 1510
Dayton street, Chicago, is completing the last lap of
an extensive business trip through the south and the
west and is due back in Chicago this week.
His trips included visits to Houston and Dallas in
Texas, Denver, Colo., Salt Lake City, Utah, and
Oakland and Los Angeles, Calif., and was for the
purpose of getting in personal touch with Seeburg
dealers and opening up new agencies. Mr. Seeburg
has found conditions improving and more piano deal-
ers are coming to see the possibilities in the field of
coin-operated instruments.
CORRECTS AN ERROR.
Due to the fact that the A. L. & R. Piano Com-
pany, Bellevue, Ohio, is going out of business, there
was created a general idea that the Nichols Music
Shop, occupying the store jointly, also is closing out
This is an error, however, as the Nichols Music
Shop is a separate business and will continue to sell
"everything musical" as formerly in the same place.
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WILL L. COLLINS' DAY
AT CHICAGO PIANO CLUB
Reception Tendered Popular Piano Man Who
Recently Assumed Management of
H. C. Bay Co.'s Retail Store.
JESSE FRENCH & SONS
*Make Homes happy *
SONS
£Xffrs.of 'Pianos/PlaijQrs &Gram
Write for Catalog*
Castle. Indiana.
The weekly meeting of the Piano Club of Chicago
which was held on Monday at the Illinois Athletic
Club, marked the return to the old quarters. The
pleasure of the event was increased by setting it
aside as Will L. Collins' Day, in which representa-
tives of the music trade in Chicago paid tribute to
that popular piano man who recently became con-
nected with the H. C. Bay Company, as manager of
the new retail department. Mr. Collins received many
compliments and a large bouquet of flowers as ex-
pressions of appreciation for the long and useful
service he has rendered in the music trade.
The first on the list of several short talks was E. F.
Lapham, who discussed the line character of the men
in the music trade, their methods and service, and
Mr. Co!lins was called the peer of them all.
W. L. Bush Talks.
William L. Bush, responding to the chairman's re-
quest for a few observations, said:
'"The Piano Club of Chicago, as a progressive, suc-
cessful organization, simply indicates the spirit of its
membership. This club has established the reputa-
•THE HOUSE OF GRANDS"
Concert, Parlor and Small Grands
Period and Modern Designs
Manufacturers of the
Grand in Upright Form
Grand tone and quality in the Upright Piano
ia exclusively Bush & Lane
(Patint.d)
Reproducing and Player Pianos—
Welte-Mignon {Licensee) and Cecilian
Writt for our Art Catalog
Bush & Lane
Piano Co.
Holland. Michigan
imr
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 8ts.
928 Republic Bldr-
NEW TOHK OFFICE:
130 W. 42nd St.
Bush Terminal Bid*.
WILL L. COLLINS,
From a Snapshot Taken Some Years Ago.
tion of being the most progressive organization in
our entire industry. It has a heart of gold, and a
soul full of friendship and sympathy, for a member
bereaved or in dire distress.
"It is a privilege to participate in this voluntary
tribute today, to one of those beloved, admired and
respected members of the Old Guard of this club,
one of the early charter members, our dear Billy Col-
lins, to whom we have dedicated this occasion."
Eugene Whalen, who was the next speaker, read
a telegram from James T. Bristol. Letters were
read from Mark P. Campbell, president of the Bram-
bach Piano Co., New York, and Adam Schneider,
who is now at his summer home at Lake Beulah,
Wisconsin. Numerous telegrams were also received
and read.
Entertainment was provided by Axel Christensen,
popular pianist, who improvised classical jazz fan-
tasies. He made melodies a specialty on this occa-
sion, and several numbers, including "In a Little
Spanish Town," were given.
Will Collins Talks.
Will L. Collins, in his brief talk, expressed his
gratitude to his many friends in the trade and espe-
cially to those present at the club's meeting,
"Wabash avenue has a charm which we of the
music trade well understand. Perhaps it is because
one does not have to walk far to meet one or more
friends.
"Piano Row is cosmopolitan, with the Irish most
numerous," said Mr. Collins, "and notwithstanding
that it is a peaceable place. But if you want to in-
crease your heart action at any time, all you have
to do is to drop in and get gay with Eugene Whalen
or Teddy Maguire, or McLaughlin, or Jim Bristol,
or Roger O'Connor. Your choice is wider. There's
E. W. Clancy, Matt. J. Kennedy, Geo. J. Dowling,
R. M. Riley, Parnell Egan, Vincent Dolan, John C.
Deagan. Chas. Madden, R. J. O'Connell, W. G.
Dunn, Chas. E. Byrne, R. C. Flannigan, or Patrick
Henry, who at least is half Irish—the first half of
his name.
Noisy Wabash Avenue.
"Wabash avenue is a noisy place and not conducive
to the calm spirit craved by a Piano Row salesman
who expressed his feelings as follows:
September 17, 1927
" 'I work in a store on W r abash.
It's noisy there, very noisy.
Now and then the postman on his daily round,
Brings me a letter from "out where the West
begins."
He brought me one today—This is what it said:
"The wild wind voices of the day are stilled,
The Canon with a somber shadow filled,
The tired trees sleep and from a limpid sky,
A reckless moon in lavish splendor spills,
It's silver blessing on the silent hills."
God! what a homesickness came over me.
I work in a store on Wabash.
It's noisy there, truly noisy.' "
PIANO CONTEST JUDGES
SCARCE IN BALTIMORE
Promoters of Event in the Maryland City
Send Out General Appeal Through Me-
dium of Daily Newspapers.
A public appeal has been made for judges of the
preliminary tests of the greater Baltimore Piano
Playing Contest to be staged under auspices of the
Music Trades Association of Baltimore. A number
of judges have been chosen but because of the sev-
eral hundred preliminary tests scheduled for the
latter part of this month there are not enough judges
for all of them.
The appeal sent out under the caption "Piano Con-
test Judges Needed to Pick Winners," stated that
"teachers of music particularly of the piano are asked
to volunteer their services in assisting at the various
tests to be held in the public, private and parochial
schools. With more than 3,000 entries expected,
several hundred preliminary tests will be held. At
least one judge will be necessary for each test. Wi 11
you help?"
Interest Grows.
The greatest eleventh hour interest in the contest
was displayed by the Senior High Schools, a large
number of pupils being entered from Western and
Eastern high schools. Students attending City Col-
lege and Polytechnic are also evincing keen interest.
The two former schools are girls' schools and the
two latter exclusively for boys.
On Howard street, in front of the Chas. M. Stieff
Company store is a large banner announcing the
Piano Playing Contest and urging the children to
enro'l for participation in it.
PICK U P
Other News.
The Dahlmer-Kennedy Piano Company, 744 North
Gay street, Baltimore, Md., has been remodeled and
enlarged, the store now extending from Gay street
to Madison street. It now occupies about double the
former floor space. The company features Weaver
pianos. Other lines are also carried.
The Bernheimer-Leader Stores, Howard, Lexing-
ton and Eayette streets, which maintains a large radio
department, has been purchased by the May Depart-
ment Stores Company, whose headquarters are in
St. Louis. The purchase price is said to be in the
neighborhood of $7,000,000. It will be operated
under the name of the May Company.
Eisenberg's, Lexington street at Park avenue, has
opened a radio department, and is carrying many
nationally known makes.
Joel Gutman & Company, Eutaw at Lexington
street, has moved its radio department to the third
floor from the first, where it now occupies abont
double its former space.
N. MARSHALL SEEBURG
RETURNS FROM LONG TRIP
Treasurer of the J. P. Seeburg Piano Co., Chicago,
Opens Many New Agencies in West.
N. Marshall Seeburg, treasurer of the J. P. See-
burg Piano Co., with factory and offices at 1510
Dayton street, Chicago, is completing the last lap of
an extensive business trip through the south and the
west and is due back in Chicago this week.
His trips included visits to Houston and Dallas in
Texas, Denver, Colo., Salt Lake City, Utah, and
Oakland and Los Angeles, Calif., and was for the
purpose of getting in personal touch with Seeburg
dealers and opening up new agencies. Mr. Seeburg
has found conditions improving and more piano deal-
ers are coming to see the possibilities in the field of
coin-operated instruments.
CORRECTS AN ERROR.
Due to the fact that the A. L. & R. Piano Com-
pany, Bellevue, Ohio, is going out of business, there
was created a general idea that the Nichols Music
Shop, occupying the store jointly, also is closing out
This is an error, however, as the Nichols Music
Shop is a separate business and will continue to sell
"everything musical" as formerly in the same place.
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).