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A. B. CAMERON CO.'S NEW FACTORY
Will be in Long Island City—The Plant a Large
One and Conveniently Located—Will Enable
Them to Meet Their Growing Trade.
The manufacturing home of the A. B.
Cameron piano will shortly be transferred
from 551 West Fortieth street, this city, to
Long Island City. Mr. Cameron has pur-
chased a suitable new factory building within
five blocks of the Thirty-fourth street ferry.
The structure has a frontage of sixty feet and
runs through the whole block from Borden
avenue to Third street, and with an entrance
on each thoroughfare. The entire frontage
on Borden avenue, also on Third street, is
125 feet, there being land available on either
side for future additions.
A. B. Cameron, in speaking to The Review
regarding the move during a visit to the fac-
tory on Tuesday said: "We have arranged
for an ideal modern piano factory plant and
equipment, including boiler house, engine
house and dry kilns. A big stock of the finest
new material will be laid in at the new fac-
tory and no efforts will be spared to make the
Cameron piano worthy of the reputation it
has already won for itself. In fact, it will,
under more advantageous conditions as to
space and appliances, be better than ever be-
fore.
"One of our specialties will be the making
of fine cases for the Cameron piano and, with
the increased facilities at our disposal in the
new factory, we shall also be in a position
to make piano cases for the trade. In that
line we shall make a special effort and hope to
win ample patronage by means of really good
work.
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" Brand new machinery has been ordered.
The out-buildings are under way and we ex-
pect to make the transfer within sixty days."
BEHR INDIVIDUALITY.
SHIP 15,000 ROLLER ORGANS.
[Special to The Review.]
Ithaca, N. Y., June 24, 1902.
During the past year no less than 15,000
street organs have been shipped from the
factory of the Autophone Co., in Adams
street, and 300,000 extra cylinders have been
sent out to the various jobbers who handle
the entire product of the factory. To make
these they have required the services of forty-
five employees the greater part of the year.
The Autophone was first made some twenty
years ago, and was 011 the principle of the
orguinette, perforated paper being used.
They, however, could not stand exposure, and
an instrument was devised which is practi-
cally a modification of the Swiss music box,
in which the desirable points of that machine
are combined with the low cost of an inter-
changeable wooden roller to keep the price
of the instrument within the means of the
purchasers.
Rollers or cylinders for more than eighty
tunes are made by the company, and a stock
of from sixty to eighty thousand rollers are
constantly kept in stock at the factory.
There are several good reasons for the
notable progress now being made by Behr
Bros. & Co. One of the most conspicuous
of these is the choiceness and originality of
the Bchr case designs, as exemplified in the
present catalogued styles and other styles
now in course of preparation. It is a right-
ful boast of the Behr firm that the Behr case
designs are original with the firm. The idea
of "copying" in any way is repulsive to each
and all of the firm members. Many of the
Behr cases are designed by Henry Behr, the
head of the firm, in consultation with his
associates, Edward Behr, William Behr, and
Horace F. Brown. The results obtained
never fail to be satisfactory.
The Behr "Colonial," new style C, has an
individuality apart from all other Colonials.
It is perfect in its proportions and graceful
though severe in its general outlines. Its
success as a good seller at the Behr agencies
is the very best possible testimony in its favor.
SHERMAN-CLAY EXPANSION.
Style H, with plain or carved upper panels,
is another Behr triumph. In fact, every one
Sherman, Clay & Co. are arranging to
of the Behr current styles in uprights and in enlarge their warerooms on the corner of
grands is a distinct victory in behalf of the Kearny and Sutter streets, San Francisco,
artistic American piano of 1902.
Cal., having secured additional space at 133
Kearny street. The growth of their business
Our London namesake states that the E. P. has made this expansion most necessary.
Carpenter Co., Brattleboro, Vt., have lately
The Ann Arbor Music Co., of Ann Arbor,
appointed Jul. Heinr. Zimmermann, London,
W., their sole agent for the United King- Mich., who recently secured the agency for
the Heller piano, placed an initial order for
dom, and an entirely new catalogue of their one hundred pianos, the first shipment being
organs has been issued.
twentv. This looks like business.
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A s the celebrated
Weaver Organs
Weaver Pianos
increase in favor with dealers
and retail customers ^ ^ >J*
1 QAQ This last and greatest enlargement and improvement was made by building a new power plan
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