Presto

June IS, 1929
THIRTY=FIVE YEARS AGO
From The PRESTO, June 7, 1894.
Mr. Frank D. Abbott, of this paper, who sailed
this morning on the steamer "Normania," of the
Hamburg-American Line, for Hamburg, may be ad-
dressed for personal communications by mails leaving
this country up to June 25th, to Sarstedt, near Han-
over, Germany; for mails up to July 1, Hotel du
Nord, Dresden; up to July 6, care Herrburger-
Schwander & Son, 16 Rue d'Evangile, Paris, and to
July 15, care First Avenue Hotel, Holborn Bars,
London. Letters will be forwarded from these points
to him at Vienna, St. Petersburg, and other cities
on the continent of Europe.
A plan is on foot to start a piano and organ fac-
tory in Salt Lake City. A Mr. E. H. Jenkins is
interested.
The new styles of pianos produced from time to
time by the Starr Piano Co. will be designated by
the letters spelling the name "Lumsden," the hon-
ored president of the company.
O. Sundstrom, of the Aeolian Company, New
York, has been in San Francisco for two weeks
working up an interest in the instrument he rep-
resents. Kohler & Chase have secured the Pacific
Coast agency and they give daily matinees on the
Aeolian at their warerooms.
The fine residence of Mr. H. D. Cable, president
of the Chicago Cottage Organ Co., at Evanston,
111., is the subject of an extended notice in the
"Scientific American" Architect and Builders' Edi-
tion for June.
The last of the goods have been shipped from
the Anderson factory in Rockford to their present
location in Minneapolis, and the Anderson piano
henceforth will be a Minneapolis product. Mr. John
Anderson left Rockford a week ago to take up his
residence in the "Flour City."
Arrangements are being made by the Western Cot-
tage Organ Co., of Ottawa, 111., to manufacture
pianos. A competent superintendent has been en-
gaged and is now purchasing stock and as soon as
possible the instruments will be on the market.
The Ann Arbor Organ Co. have put into con-
venient book form the "Suggestions for Salesmen,"
published in The Presto March 22. While particularly
addressed to representatives of the Ann Arbor Organ
Co. there are many pertinent points that can be used
with advantage by representatives of other firms.
Mr. Lew H. Clement, the secretary of that company,
is a man fertile in ideas, and he has put some of
them in good shape in this book for the use of sales-
men
George D. Cole, of Muncie, Ind., who recently sold
his stock to Dennis & Dieterling of that city, has re-
entered the trade with a full line of Kimball goods.
There was a sheriff's sale on Thursday last at the
Behning & Sons plant, 157 East One Hundred and
Twenty-eighth street, New York, to satisfy judg-
ments confessed by the firm a week previous. These
amounted to $10,469.
The Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. is one of the most
extensive establishments in Cincinnati.
Rudolph
Wurlitzer, the president, Anton Wurlitzer, vice-
president, and A. C. Strobel, secretary and treasurer,
are all thorough men of business and are seconded
by a staff of assistants well grounded in the duties of
their several departments. Small wonder the busi-
ness has reached its present great proportions, with
every indication of continued increase.
The new store of Hockett Bros. & Putenney at 27
West Main street, Newark, Ohio, is meeting with
even greater success than was anticipated.
The Marquette, Mich., papers are commenting on
that marked resemblance between Mr. Louis Dede-
rick of the Manufacturers' Piano Co., and Dr. Daw-
son of Marquette. The "Journal" of that place says:
"Twins could scarcely resemble each other more
closely than do these two men to me. So much, in
fact, are they alike that they had to be very careful
when the short chat—which took place in the doc-
tor's office—was over, to see that Mr. Dederick did
not remain and Dr. Dawson go out and hustle for
piano customers."
We compliment Dr. Dawson, as we know Mr.
Dederick.
Mr. A. M. Sweetland, of Newman Bros.' Co., has
been storing up energy for a new campaign by tak-
ing a rest at a bathing resort in Michigan. He has
returned to Chicago feeling first rate and Charles
and Gus Newman are off on a fishing trip and laying
in a stock of stories for the heated term.
From The PRESTO June 14, 1894.
Mr. Nahum Stetson, of Steinway & Sons, sails for
Europe today by the steamer "Fiirst Bismarck."
Mr. Abbott, the managing editor of this paper,
extends his thanks to the many friends who made
very delightful the short stay of himself and family
in New York previous to sailing to Europe, and to
the scores who have expressed their good wishes.
C. G. Conn, the well-known band instrument maker
at Elkhart, Ind., has been in negotiation for the
P R E S T 0-T I M E S
purchase of the "Washington Times," a paper that
is run on the co-operative labor plan.
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Twichell celebrated their
wooden wedding on Tuesday evening at their home
in the Devonshire, Wabash Avenue and 28th Street.
A large party of friends gathered to do the honors
and a very enjoyable time was had.
Mr. Harry E. Freund, of "Freund's Weekly," New
York, has been a visitor in Chicago this week.
Marriage bells will ring today for Mr. Wm.
("Billy") C. Camp, son of I. N. Camp. Miss Edith
Schuyler of this city is the bride. The PRESTO
extends congratulations.
Mr. Chas. H. Parsons, of the Needham Piano &
Organ Co., will join the American colony in Europe,
sailing from New York on Saturday next. He will
be away about a month.
We have an important item of news from the
Northwest. The Mehlin Piano Co., of Minneapolis,
has made a combination with the W. J. Dyer &
Company by which the latter becomes sole factor for
the Mehlin Piano Co. throughout the entire West.
A. A. Fisher, the Kimball fighter who awoke the
slumbering echoes in Fort Wayne and gave the deal-
ers of that city such a lively dance, has left that
city for new fields. The results of his clever adver-
tising and wide-awake methods are set forth in an
article in the Fort Wayne "Journal."
The go-ahead capital of Indiana, with its popula-
tion of some 160,000, is blessed with six first-class
piano houses. In common with other centers of
trade at this time, the dealers in the concord of sweet
sounds are feeling the depression, but unlike some
others they anticipate a speedy return of business
activity.
Mr. Louis Grunewald, Jr., representative of Jacob
Doll, has returned to New York after a successful
trip, which extended as far as the Pacific coast. He
made a number of important dealers for his house.
The contest for the $500 piano offered by the
Kimball Piano Company for the greatest number
of words made out of the sentence, "Kimball pianos
are best," was determined last night at Metzerott's
music store, in Washington, D. C, between 600 and
700 people being present.
Mr. Charles F. Tretbar of Steinway & Sons has
issued a very handsome little book, "Portraits of
Musical Celebrities," which presents a number of
well-known faces in the world of music. Among
those represented are Wagner, Liszt, Berlioz, Rubin-
stein, Gounod, Dr. Joachim Helmholtz, Theodore
Thomas, Seidl, Nikisch, Paderewski, Joseffy, Rosen-
thai, Friedheim, Busoni, Rummel, Adele Aus der
Ohe, Patti, Calve, Emma Eames-Story, Nordica,
Scalchi, Arnoldson, Jean and Edward De Reszke,
Lassalle, Vignas, Mancinelli and Alberto Jonas. Let-
ters and portions of letters from these famous artists
are quoted in which they express their warm admira-
tion for the Steinway piano.
CREDIT COMMITTEE'S WORK
A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT—SMITH
Credit Facilities of Musical Supply Associa-
tion Kept Conditions from Becoming
Far More Trying.
B. K. SETTERQREN WEDS
AND CROSSES ATLANTIC
Bluffton
Manufacturer and His Bride on
Honeymoon Trip to Sweden
and Other Places.
R. K. Settergren, president of the B. K. Settergren
Piano Company, Bluffton, Ind., is now in Sweden
on his wedding trip and visiting at his old
home. Mr. Settergren and bride sailed from New
York some two weeks ago. During Mr. Settergren's
absence the honors of the houses of Settergren and
Estey Piano Company are in the hands of W. C.
Hess and E. Newton Fox, vice-president of the Estey
Piano Company. The marriage took place on
May 31.
The bride, who was Miss Emma Klinsinger, of
Jamaica, L. I., is a charming young lady, and the
Presto-Times hereby joins the many friends of the
couple in wishing them happiness and long life.
NOTABLE WILLIS INSTALLATIONS
Willis & Company, Ltd., of Montreal, Canada, an-
nounce that they have placed a Knabe Grand and a
Checkering Grand in the rebuilt Manoir Richelieu at
Murray Bay, Province of Quebec. Until last Sep-
tember when the famous old chateau was burned
down, the Manoir Richelieu was host to thousands
of Americans. It is a significant tribute to two Amer-
ican pianos that the Knabe and the Chickering
should have been chosen to grace the luxurious music
salon in this great hotel of culture and distinction.
MANOIR RICHET.IKU 1
Among other Knabe and Chickering successes is
the exclusive piano equipment of the Canada Steam-
ship Company's fleet of vessels. The Willis Com-
pany has also secured an order for the major por-
tion of the piano equipment of the new Canadian
Pacific Railway Hotel, the Royal York, which is
being opened this month in Toronto. This, the
largest hotel in the British Empire, will use 14
pianos. This house has also equipped the principal
hotels on the Canadian Pacific Transcontinental route
and on the Canadian National lines.
In his annual report Alfred L. Smith, secretary of
the Musical Supply Association of America, said in
part:
It is certain that conditions in the industry would
have been far more trying than they have been dur-
ing the year if it had not been for the credit facili-
ties of the Association and the work of its various
committees in the reorganization and liquidation of
piano manufacturers who are in financial difficulty.
Credit Committees took over the affairs of three
manufacturers during the year. Two other Credit
Committees terminated their operations during the
year. At the present time, six manufacturers are
being operated under the jurisdiction of Credit Com-
mittees sponsored by this Association. There were
also during the year two other cases of financial
difficulty in which the Association took a part, but
in which no Credit Committees were necessary, in
one case due to a receivership, and in the other an
informal liquidation.
Mention should also be made of the United Piano
Corporation, with which your secretary served as
trustee. The affairs of the bankrupt were finally
terminated during the year, paying creditors 38.65
per cent.
The credit work of the Association has continued
to be the great accomplishment and will be reported
upon in detail by the Chairman of the Credit Com-
mittee.
Headed by Arthur Walsh, the Representative Group
of Workers Made Good Showing.
The group from Thomas A. Edison, Inc., Orange,
N. J., was headed by Arthur Walsh, vice-president
and general manager of the radio-phonograph divi-
sion of Thomas A. Edison, Inc. Other Edison exec-
utives at Chicago were: R. R. Karch, assistant to
the vice-president; Alfred Hand, advertising man-
ager; H. H. Silliman, eastern sales manager; Roy
Dunn, western sales manager; W. Hildebrand, traffic
manager; E. H. Philips, credit manager; P. J. Mc-
Gee, technical assistant to the vice-president; A. W.
Gruno, superintendent of manufacturing; C. T.
Jacobs, research executive, and E. S. Palmer, New
York sales representative.
In addition to the above, the following Edison Dis-
tributing Corporation executives were in Chicago for
the shows: J. W. A. Henderson, Minneapolis man-
ager; H. H. Curran, Kansas City manager; A. E.
Emrick, Dallas manager, and H. F. Andre, Pitts-
burgh manager. S. F. Patchin, Clrcago manager of
the Edison Distributing Corporation, generously
placed the facilities and service of his entire organi-
zation at the disposal of the visiting Edison exec-
utives.
CHICAGO SCHOOL WINS.
Nicholas Scnn High School. Clr'cago, won the
grand tropliv at the National School Band Contest in
Denver on May 23, 24 and 25, w : th Modesto High
School of Modesto, Calif., second, and Emerson High
of Gary, Ind., third.
E. A. Francis, piano dealer
drove over to Chicago to attend
convention. Mrs. Francis made
and was an interested observer
hibits.
EDISON MEN AT RADIO SHOW
MOTORS TO CONVENTION
of Galesburg, 111.,
the sessions of the
the trip with him
of the various ex-
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