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THE
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
39
REGARDING TIMBER WASTE.
for all
Purposes
FELT
Cupidity of Lumbering Interests Said to be Re-
sponsible for Rapid Decrease in Supply-
Pitt no and Organ Materials
Repairing Outfits
TOOLS
HO-112 East 13th St.
NEW YORR
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
MANUFACTURERS
OF
PIANO
ACTIONS
HIGHEST GRADE
ONE GRADE ONLY
OFFICE—457 WEST FORTY-FIFTH STREET
A warning recently sounded by the Iron Trade
Review regarding the wastefulness of timber
should interest every manufacturer who uses
wood in any portion of his product. The publi-
cation mentioned says as follows:
"The cause of the profligate waste of the
American forests is found in the cupidity of pri-
vate lumbering interests with eyes only for the
present profits and none for future welfare, but
this is of little concern, except as suggesting ac-
tion for the preservation of the timber still
standing.
The more important fact is that the maximum
yield of forest products has been reached; that
the output is hereafter to decrease and that con-
sumers of wood will shortly be driven by reason
of its scarcity and increasing cost to find and
adopt satisfactory substitutes. There is a grow-
ing sentiment for intelligent forestry fostered
particularly by certain leading universities,
which will doubtless serve to prolong the ap-
proach of famine conditions and extensive tree
planting by railway interests will lessen the per-
plexities of the crosstie situation for a time, but
none of these efforts is extensive enough to prom-
ise any adequate measure of relief.
"In the building operations of the future, con-
crete will play its important part, in all the more
extensive undertakings in connection with the
strength giving steel bar. Tile and other clay
products are to find more general use. The steel
cross-tie, despite occasional setbacks, is well on
its way to widespread adoption, and the wooden
railway car will soon be a relic of an experi-
mental past. Steel is already in wide favor for
walls, as metal lath and ceilings.
"Substitutes for wood are being found on every
hand, for the most part in some form of steel
which is commended by the increasing ease and
cheapness by which it can be turned into any
finished form desired."
PACTORIES—WEST FORTY-FIFTH STREET, Tenth Avenue and West Forty-Sixth Street, NEW YORK
PENNSYLVANIA IRON PRODUCTION.
Can Be Easily Attached
C. F. GOEPEL & C0. t
l»7 Cut 13th Street
v
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GROSS
Patent Pedal Attachment
Of the total production of 25,307,191 gross
tons of pig iron in the United States in 1906
Pennsylvania made 11,247,869 gross tons, and of
this output the Pittsburg district (Allegheny,
Beaver and Washington counties) contributed
6,230,863 tons. In other words, says the Iron
Age, the Pittsburg district last year made nearly
25 per cent, of the total production of pig iron
in the United States, and 55 per cent, of the out-
put in Pennsylvania.
Devised to Keep Mice Out of Pianos
H. C. HARNEY'S VACATION.
Being Used by Leading Manufacturers
JULIUS BRECKWOLDT
MANUFACTURER
AND OFFICE
DOLGMVILLE, N. Y.
OF
Sounding Boards, Bars, Guitar and flandolin Tops and Sounding Board Lumber
H. C. Harney, New York manager for the O.
S. Kelly Co., is summering with his family at
Milford, Pa. They are guests at the Bluff House.
Mr. Harney plans to make periodical trips to the
metropolis to keep in touch with business details
during his sojourn.
THE CRACKING OF GLUE.
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Hainmachtr Schkmnur i Cc.
PIANO MATERIALS & TOOLS
NEW YORK.SINCE I84&
4 t h . AVE. & 13th. ST.
A useful fact to know in regard to glue when
using it on furniture or other work that will be
exposed to a very dry atmosphere, is that a small
addition of chloride of lime will tend to prevent
the glue drying out and cracking. The chloride
of lime is strongly hygroscopic and constantly at-
tracts enough moisture from the atmosphere to
keep it moist. Use about one-fourth ounce of
chloride to one quart of glue.
The director of the Census Bureau is sending
out preliminary reports of the statistics by States
of lumber and timber products for 1905 and 1906.
The Bureau of the Census has worked in co-opera-
tion with the Forest Service in the collection of
data, but in order to avoid duplication of effort
and insure uniformity of results the preparation
of the annual statistics has been committed to
the Bureau.