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THE
SHIPPERS AND CARRIERS INTERESTED
In the Movement Now Being Made by Business
Organizations to Have Congress Amend the
Interstate Commerce Law, So That Red Tape
May Be Eliminated and Shippers and Car-
riers Be Brought Into Closer Touch with
Each Other.
In order to bring shippers into closer touch with
carriers, the executive committee representing com-
mercial organizations of twenty-seven Atlantic sea-
board cities, has formulated a proposed amendment
to the Interstate Commerce law. The form of the
amendment was agreed upon at a meeting held in
the rooms of the Merchants' Association, in New
York, and presided over by D. O. Ives, of the Bos-
ton Chamber of Commerce.
The amendment would change section seventeen
of the Interstate Commerce law, which refers to
the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion. It authorizes the commission to establish
branch offices in any commercial center and to
place them in charge of an authorized agent of
commission. In case of controversy between ship-
pers and the railroads, and with the consent of
both parties, these agents would act as mediators
or arbitrators. The amendment proposes to au-
thorize the arbitrators to take up such questions in
dispute as may be referred to them by the Inter-
state Commerce Commission or by the parties to
the dispute. They are to be authorized, under the
direction of the commission, to conduct hearings
and to make decisions subject to the approval of
the commission.
"The idea of the proposed amendment," said Mr.
Ives, "is to bring the shippers and the railroads
closer together and to avoid controversies, either
with regard to demurrage or other matters, which
have a bad effect upon their mutual relations. The
amendment would give shippers easy and ready ac-
cess to the commission through its agents. As
matters now stand an aggrieve/d shipper must
either take his case to the Interstate Commerce
Commission in Washington or let it drop without
action, even though the railroad might be perfectly
willing to give redress were the matter brought to
its attention. These conditions lead to unnecessary
misunderstandings and ill-feeling which the com-
mittee believes can be avoided by the passage of
the proposed amendment to the law."
MISS E. F. BAUER TO LECTURE.
The Popular Writer on Musical Topics to Speak
at the Plaza Under Distinguished Auspices on
March 12, 19 and 26.
A series of three lectures will be given at the
Hotel Plaza on Tuesday mornings by Emilie
Frances Bauer, the well known lecturer and music
critic of the Evening Mail, and who has a wide
acquaintance in the music trade industry, having
been connected with The Music Trade Review for
quite a period.
The first of the series will be given on March
12, the subject being '"Walt Whitman"; on March
19 the subject will be "Psychology of Richard
Strauss and His Works," and March 26, "Opera
Writers Since Wagner" (from personal acquaint-
ance and interviews). Among the patrons and
patronesses are: Mrs. L. D. Alexander, Jr., Mme.
Gatti-Casazza, Mrs. Paul Cravath, Walter Dam-
rosch, Mrs. Murray Whiting Ferris, Mrs. Lowell
T. Field, Mrs. Henry T. Finck, Mme. Olive Frem-
MANUFACTURERS OF
PIANO, ACTION AND PLAYER
HARDWARE.
OAKVILLE COMPANY
WATERBURY, CONN.
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stad, Daniel Frohman, Miss Mary Garden, Mrs.
Ben AH Haggin, Mrs. Charles A. Hamilton, Mrs.
John H. Hanan, Eugene Heffley, Alfred Hertz,
Mr. and Mrs. William Hinshaw, Mr. and Mrs.
Sidney Homer, Mr. and Mrs. Franz Kneisel, Dr.
Alexander Lambert, Mrs. E. G. Love, Mr. and
Mrs. David Mannes, Mr. and Mrs. Riccardo Mar-
tin, Mrs. Ethelbert Nevin, Mrs. Frederic D. Nye,
Mrs. E. T. Rice, Mrs. E. S. Rothschild, Franklin
H. Sargent, Kurt Schindler, Mrs. I. N. Spigelberg
Mrs. E. S. Ullmann, Mrs. Ernest Urchs, Mrs
Herbert Witherspoon. Tickets for the course five
dollars, single tickets two dollars, may be had upon
application to Mrs. R. W. Hawkesworth, Plaza
Hotel.
LIST OF HARDWOODS
Specified by the Government as Being Ac-
ceptable Under That Classification When
Used in the Packing of Pianos and Organs—
A Letter from Thos. C. Moore.
Thomas C. Moore, freight traffic manager for the
National Piano Manufacturers' Association of
America, this week sent out the following letter to
the trade in which he says:
"It has come to my knowledge that quite a num-
ber of carload shipments of unboxed pianos and
organs have been set up on account of the ship-
pers not having complied with the specifications re-
quired in the western classification. This has been
particularly true in regard to the use of woods.
That committee ruled some time ago, as I notified
you, that the Government definition of 'hardwood
lumber,' to be used in packing such shipments,
would only be recognized. This committee has re-
cently reaffirmed its decision that only the woods
specified under the Government definition as 'hard-
wood would be recognized in the loading of such
shipments. I attach hereto another copy of the
kinds of woods listed under the Government defini-
tion of 'hardwood,' any of which can be used in the
loading of unboxed pianos. It is very necessary
that the specifications in every particular should
be complied with, otherwise penalties will be as-
sessed, raising the rate on the shipment to the next
higher class. On a carload to Denver this would
amount to $35 or more, according to weight of
car."
Hardwoods, as defined by the United States Gov-
ernment, are as follows: Ash, aspen, basswood,
birch, black walnut, blue beech, Bois D'Arl, buck-
eye, butternut, catalpa, cherry, chestnut, coffee tree,
cottonwood, cucumber tree, elm, gum, hackberry,
hickory, holly, horse chestnut, locust, magnolia,
maple, mulberry, oak, Osage orange, persimmon,
poplar, red gum, sour gum, sassafras, sweet gum,
sycamore, tulip wood, tupelo, walnut, white walnut,
white wood, yellow poplar.
of this trade
newspaper in-
stitution are
now located at
373
FOURTH
AVENUE
Near Twenty-seventh Street
Telephones
5982-5983 Madison Square
A CONGRESS OF INVENTIONS.
Inventors of All Classes to Display the Results
of Their Genius at an Exhibition in Grand
Central Palace.
Inventors of high and low degree, from per-
petual motion "bug" to Edison, Westinghouse,
Steinmetz, Cooper Hewitt, Marconi, Bleriot, and
other giants of mechanics, will show their great-
est achievements to the public in the new Grand
Central Palace from April 13 to 20 at the newly
organized Inventions Show. This will be a con-
gress of inventors, conducted for the education of
the public and the direct meeting of manufacturer
and consumer.
Another aim of the Inventions Show is to put
inventors in touch with capital, and hundreds of
unknown geniuses with great ideas needing money
for development will exhibit their brain children
beside the mechanical progeny of famous men who
have made their dreams come true. The great
floor space and scientific arrangement of the new
Grand Central Palace make it possible to assem-
ble what is expected to be a splendid exhibition
-of the magic of inventive genius.
Edison will show all his great inventions in their
latest development from cement houses to storage
batteries, giant motors, electric lights, talking ma-
chines and motion picture marvels, and other in-
ventors will display their masterpieces.
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