Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 14, 1914, Page 9

T T R Ty = ; NORWICH BULLETIN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1912 3 PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Manufacturer’s Sale of 5000 Pianos s River Speciaities Co, Re- Announcing an enterprise unparalleled temporary receiver, scheduled for In the superior court at New Lon- don- on_Tuesday morning, Judge Mil- 2 ton A. Shumway held a hearing on the account of Maunsell Van Rensselaer of New London as temporary receiver of the Thames River Specialties Co. Mr. Van Rensselaer was temporary receiver of the company for about two \Weeks. before he was succeeded by At- torney Daniel M. Cronin, who is now acting in that capacity. A hearing on P the account of Attorney Cronin, &8s ship—Hearing Before Judge in the history of American business Tuesday morning, was not held. Shumway. Copyeight, 1914, Stome & McCarvisk, Ina At the hearing Tuesday there was g a hearipg only on allowing a claim of : $545 pald to Amos D. Albee of Boston, i a‘public accountant, who made up the : Secount of Mr. Van Rensselaer as tem- 3 porary Teceiver. A portion ~of the claim was paid by Mr. Van Rensselaer and another portion was pald later by Receiver Cronin. Mr. Albee testified that he was & certified public accountant and that he had been familiar with the affairs of the Thames River Specialties Co, since its organization, having helped to in- o stall the accounting system there. In June and July he had been em by Mr, Van Rensselaer to close up his accounts as temporary recelver. He had been emploved at the work 114 hours, 76 hours in June and 38 hours in July, making a total of 114 hours. In June he had submitted a bill for $325 for services and $50 for railroad, hotel and other expenses and in July he had rendered another bill of $%60 for services and $20 for expenses. Both bills had been paid, Mr. Van Rensselacr paying the first bill of b $375 ang Repeiver Cronin paying the : , bill of $170. His charge was the 4 rate of $4.17 an hour, which is the i View taken from a panoramic : ik he S 1511 1958 : rhich - o4 = : o= 4 B o B Mt omians Gy o e scsociated tmansirica, . G of the B e iver Kpetilties Go, | - r. Albee testifie a1 e n 2 b . 1 ? tem- # STATEMENT by Richard W. Lawrence QOur house with fifteen other firms BT b S oo ng the application § Horatio Bigelow, president of the com- *“If a man will take care of his business, his business will take care of him.” Chosen to distribute 5000 pianos pony, and . oot fasuitiar l?x:n":‘i 1 : And this announcement is the direct result of ief in this prindi i ; O O armed by Mr. Bigelow. K - H ; : : our strong belief in this principle. , hsinasocg;:e:lrxoccm'?ggdagg if y%u“told us stshlast ':g.d'fl_‘{, we would be launching the largest enterprise in the 40 years of our h%?iem;;s“;?%?:e“" the matter were ‘i’ We have built up what is generally believed > e said “IMPO:! not made. Judge Shumway informing 2 oS ki f its kind i 2 Pl to be one of the most successful Yet, that is exactly what we are doing. 1 counsel that he would hear the argu’ ? ¢ s ‘: itk ithe worlq. Ttis at l”‘“, = DEUEnE business. Employ- At the instigation of The Autopiano Co., New York City, which, with its associated companies the | B0 Sipsare for the memty stogk [ ing a very large capital and having an organization of 3500 persons. aatf:\;;ri of plar::s arr:d player-;;ianos in:the world, we announce the most admirable piece ng Imsc:‘;s :n':;‘pggi ne,:‘e‘; ::zl;g:;:n?::f S Van el 4 Just how to keep a big lot of men like these em i i i y any American’ manufacturer. The minority stockholders. ployed, in the piano business It is 2 bold and audacious undertaking; in i ; St - i in times - % 5 b - " g; bold in its conception; audaci ' # C :‘n mwhen peo?le are talking hard times and everybody is afraid of their shadows, 2 Icuslt";scx:;y:f‘gm]:r ‘ir:i?i:fiave:t We did not have WNVE:;;%':EO:s OF THE STATE. ? a tion. the slightest thing to do with getting it up. Sixty-eighth ~Annual “Meeting to Bo - i But we have solved it. And we will tell you how. . mm’lr‘h;l i:::hsol:n :r:?::c t‘ind honor oes u; 1:5 Held in Hartford and New Haven: a S 2 naster ng genius back of the == % In the first place, we believe, with President Wilson, that the hard times are gigantic Autopiano Co.t 'industries. They i Zhe gt annusl mecting o e = jargely psychological. We know that there is no sane or sound reason for depression Thiought the whals pian oul snd put it knto mopas will be beld simultaneously & LN ' pis fonintic talk We are merely one of the 16 luckily chosen A e e 1s the Now Heven Dfo- Al e | factors, in different sections of the country, gramme for the session, moraing B The country has never had such large crops and they have never brought | Brough which the Iigienterprise takes Gt vre- et A e i such high prices—with prices still going up. The people have never been so 400 homes in our section to Braumipt®s piciness mesiog 1t 88 Qress, The Scholar_and the Commugis iy, Tev. Charles R. Brown, dean of Yale School of Religion, New Haven. Section Meetings. High school, Hillhouse High schodl ittle in debt. There are fewer people have their farms and homes m there is more money deposited in savings banks than ever in flm(:i?;gry of tl!lxe Country. Ye;, :nowmg these things to be so, we realize that people think and talk ';bout war, and depression, and panic and hard times—until the thinki - ing make them seem real. M. Now, the way and the only way to offset such a state of mind, is to offer big- values and bigger inducements for le to b biarit GEE the achre blows : people to buy now rather than to put off Wedeterminedattheveryfifltpeepufth‘ehuddm‘uwumfiomfleimtumy pienos as we have ever made. To keep our organization intact, to the last maninit. To payas high wages and salaries as we have ever paid. To i service—; 5 pay increased wages for better j as we have always done—and we have done 5o and will continue to do so. S save the enormous sum of $41,550. ‘ bullding, York square, soom 201, Chird On we were called to New York City, by floor—Leader, W. A. Wheatley, super- selegram from T topiano " e mdent city schoois, Middiefown. a3 o Lo 11 address Some Suggestions _for selegram was responded to by our Mr. Masah, lear- Vitalizing High School Teach - e N e T i doay St *H Rowe, principal Wadlelgh High 0 hool, New York. On seaching the offices of The Autoplano Co. Mr- _ Marsh S Principals and supervisors, Center was told that owr house, in comnection with 15 others, had chureh house, 311 _ Temple street-= been selected bo assist their factory in carrying out a big un- S for, .Oscar L. Burdick, Stamford. dertaking. 11 address, Measuring the Achieve- Tnents of Children, Dr. G. D. Susytr, Teachers' college, New York. Elementary schools. _Arranged by Thomas H. Patterson, Bristol The proposition was geae into and thoroughly explained. Mr. Lawrence, President of The Autopiano Co., plained that they proposed to go into s big. selliag campaign, notwithstanding most plano manufacturers Grammar_division, First et church auditorium, corner Elm But the obstacie in the was th <. S Colloge streets—Chatrman, B, W. Tin- in the way e piano dealer. He is timid with his 1. He sai He told us that intended to hbie factarlis Ker, superintendent schools,Waterbury. 3 cam not ¥ iq ] e said, cing and their men 11, ‘address, Prevocational P c not be sod n 3 arge umbersas nct yess” Fie e, “Everybody istiking about BRI L S8 T i, e & cutting down expenses and retrenching, and it is hard to sell som: division, Wool hall wers and a lot of pessimistic talk.” - Intermediate division, isey _+Chairman, Irving P. Colman, Mil- ething like a piano, in the f; 3 ace of . ford. 11, address, Lost Motion in the He showed us by Savings Bank: reports from all over = public actually have more money to spend, i Bt ok pocvioy e e In plain, everyday words, the pisno merchant got “cold feet.” Copyagt, | T4 | pheus A McCum e, e - ?S?Sé”;;i’fa‘i’fie Toard of eduea- : But we said, “These conditions as you describe He poimted out that people wanted pianos jut-as mmch during war scarcs. as they did when thers were o war scares, o mary and kindergarten division, First Methodist church lecture roof, corner, Elm and College streets— Chairman, Jessie Scranton, New Ha- t}lem are not so.” We said, “You give the people séabnles e e b . h sl des Gl v ol i Thn_i:monly-qne-flou&rudflngchecmcm&.byfl-fifllm“flmflumh"mhmwm bb‘g' ger inch mttobuy'm. M‘l.k:"e =3 = e i That it was only a question of reaching the customer, by giving ‘more attractive and inviting inducements to buy than were ever given Cut your profits down—to one half what they usually . are, and the people will buy just as many pianos now as they ever bought from you— sccented. — ¢ you.” B Mr. Marsh thu‘asnv-nmbimefiflymuamlmmvhfl-flhmfmhm prestige bailder of our career.” We told the piano dealers thet we would meet them | What the ihdividual buyel' gains rj w‘:,?‘ (or more, if need be) in making better prices . = 3 gy i e & permea St | D) reduced prices and easier terms it, at one half the profit, if necessary. 3 ven. 11, address, The Kindergarten Chiid in the Elementary School, Prof. M. B. Hillegas, Teachers’ college, New York. - Rural schools, Hillhouse High school auditorium—Leader, William E. Par- Ker, Portland. 11, address, The Minne- ‘sota Rural Schools, Margaret McAdam, Blooming Prairie, Minn. - Musie, Hillhouse High school, science lecture room, third floo , Bes telle P. Cushman, New Haven. 11, ad= dress, The Appreciation of Music, Thomas Whitney Surette, Boston: 11.40, report of the status of music teaching in Connecticut, James D. Price, Hartford. Vocational education, Hillhouse High ‘They then made us a definite proposition. And that it was a big, broad-gauged, generous proposition, can best be told by telliog you that every firm that was asked to participate instantly The Autopians Co's. proposition was, in a few words, that they were going to distribute three thousand M-M;nmflhm-mwmhmemmlbmh-b commtry. To that ead we telegraphed to sixteen of the most i ool soom 15 e e, omic rep;‘ nt;nve piano dealers in America to come on here o g this number we were apportioned two hundred and fifty pianos and one hundred and cl:li‘cmn.l hsiihmscl?o;l New London; to New York and mest ur in conference. . o chatrman, Starey J, Stewart, New Ho- \ The firms eelacted to carry ¢his big movement to completion were carefully chosea for ven. 11, address Oy of Vocatioami . That was on August 20th. thelr standing in the section i which they do busincss. ;‘};E‘n‘é:te;mmi‘g E'I;e"fi?h:’s;h;u F. G en { A list of the various cities in this is pri sner, Ph. D., director indu rial arts, - When they reached here, “ outlined what we i ‘ represented § undertaking, is printed herewith, Teachers' college, New ,é'oo,: 3 mind and told them what we intended doing, and when { < e prer bing i ane il thoaght, namctys A%;.“'Lagofl“ iihouse Hish sehosl, they I 2 ‘That pianos must be so! d prices. 201, thi -, front—Leader, ey left New York, you never saw a lot of more op- P id at rednced prk B Cnentiey, superintendent oIty That small payments must be made an inducement to buy, along with Tha oie s . - the lower prices—especially during the first year. Mok e, erms and conditions which will be told Tornthp-vpddm-nlm u can grasp what it means to four hundred homes in our in another column in this advertisement, is the result section; it i h:&;mnmmxfg homes, in our community, will get pianos of an average of that meeting, here in our o e e valuo of three hundred and Sfty dellers-each, for 266 dollars each, a saving of 84 to each bome. every thinking person, who has any intenti One humdred and fifty homes, in our community, will get pla. janos of an average e i ib Bone ly intention of ever put- vatue of 550 dollars each, for 418 dollass each, a saving 5 137 lars zomu ONE DOLLAR is every cent you have ¢to psy on making your purchase. ‘The piano or the player-piano will be defivered to your home im- 2 A 2 2 e schools, Middletown. 2. 3 operation of All Departments in Eng- lish Instruction and Practice, E. Webster, Technical High school, Springfleld, Mass. i Elementary schools. sfiunnf‘ed L4 Thomas H. Patterson, sto] Grammar divisign, First Methodist church, corner of FElm_and College streets —Chairman, P. williams, 2, ade Gt dress, The Depart- Grammar_Schools: (b) Its Disadvan- tages, J. H. V cle, superintendent of schools, Springfield, Mass. Intermediate division, Woolsey hall, : (Signed) mgo;ofg-r-m yeese nd § moatin, (196 weea) in which to pa the baance,ae shov inthe ollwing tablee—WITH NO ADDITIONAL = S If you pu.rc‘haae a piano If you purchase a player-piano Your 1 ear's payments will be $1.00 a week for 52 ks, .. New Yeek [ Yoms s ey wiibe 1 20a weck for 52 o corner of College and Grove streets— Chairmay, Irving P. Colman, Milford 2. address, The Future of Arithmetio, $52.00 | Your Ist year's payments will be $1.75 & wesk for 52 weeks... $ 91.00 ¢ Dr. Fletcher Durel Lawrenceville 6€5.00 Your2d ysar’s peyments will be 2.00 & week for 52 weeks. school, Lawrenville, N. J. President : 4 5 - Awgust 95, 1914 . Your 3 year's payments wili be 1.50a week for S2 weeks. .. 78.00 | Your3d year's payments will be 2.25a week for 53 wesks. .. 117.00 ; High school The Autopiaso Company Your 3th yenrs peyments willbe 136 week for 40 woeks . 70.00 | Your éch year's payments will be 2602 week for 40 wecks... _100.00 e o nd by Wiliam T, ' $265.00 Y Paker Potlnd e 3 5 S 5 .00 h sin v bury. 4 & ) ] at once. r- grades. i Music, se Hig] 1, scl by.2 [ 1 and _ being selected, to be delivered later. Gt ki e Taara nie C. Hayes, supervisor); 2.30, Chro+ matic Characters (illustrated by a sev- enth grade class from Dwight school, New Haven, Louise Griffin, teacher). ssking for Mr. Marsh, Corner Main and Water Sts., Norwich : : i No. 230 State Street, New London, Conn. Trolley Killed a Fox. » A fine gray fox was killed at She- v tucket park in South Windham Mon- b ; day evening by the trolley car that & arrived in Franklin square at 945 oclock. Its head was cut off by the i wheels. Motorman Dexter Church and with them. E ¢ =