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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
65
RESULTS OF INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH.
Industries
That
Owe Their
Progress and in
Some Cases Their Actual Existence to Such
Lumber and Veneers
Research, and the NPIIions of Dollars That
Have Been Saved by That Method.
In his presidential address before the American
Chemical Society, A. D. Little cited some extra-
ordinary figures to show the first fruits of the sys-
tematic industrial research that has only just be-
bun in America. Here are a few of them:
Machinery has reduced the labor cost of seven
crops $681,000,000 as measured by the methods of
only fifty years ago.
The boot and shoe trade has been revolutionized
by the improvement of machinery.
The entire automobile industry is the result of
such research.
It has reduced the price of aluminum from $12
a pound in 1886 to 22 cents.
In less than twenty years it has given rise to ab-
solutely new industries, such as the making of
carborundum, of artificial graphite and calcium
carbide and the industrial applications of acetylene.
One company engaged in the manufacture of high
explosives maintains a research laboratory employ-
ing 250 highly paid chemists, which yields $1,000,-
000 a year profit.
The Gayley invention of the dry air blast in the
manufacture of iron is saving the American people
from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 annually.
The Frasch device of melting sulphur in its beds,
one thousand feet below the surface of the earth,
and then pumping it up, opened up the vast sul-
phur mines of Louisiana, and the substitution of
compressed air further simplified the work.
Another invention of Frasch's solved the long
baffling problem of how to utilize the crude sulphur
bearing Canadian and Ohio oils.
ASTORIA VENEER MILLS & DOCK CO.
ASTORIA, L. I.. N. Y.
Custom mills for band and veneer
sawing; slice and rotary cutting of
Mahogany Circassian and fancy
Woods.
H. C. HOSSAFOUS
Lewis Thompson & Co., Inc.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.,
ASTORIA, L. I., N. Y.,
Lumber-Veneers, Mexican, African,
Cuban Mahogany, Circassian Wal-
nut, English Brown Oak.
DANIELSON & PIERCE,
JOEL H. WOODMAN,
HOBOKEN. N. J.,
Manufacturer. All kinds of Veneer
panels and seatings.
HENRY S. HOLDER,
THE £ . L. CHANDLER CO.,
ORLEANS, VT.,
Rotary-cut Rock Maple, for Piano
Pin Blocks. We also manufacture
Birch and Maple Panels.
HOFFMAN BROTHERS CO.,
DAYTON, OHIO,
FORT WAYNE, INDIANA.
Lumber and Veneeri, Sliced, Cut,
Quartered and Plain Indiana and
Specialties, Hardwood, Veneers, and
Ohio Oak, Fancy figured stock; also
Lumber for Musical Instrument*.
Mahogany.
RHINELANDER, WIS.,
Hardwood Lumber, Maple, Birch,
Ash,
Elm, Basswood, and Oak.
Crating Lumber of all kinds.
DLECHMANN & CO.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.,
Foreign and Domestic Veneerg, Ma-
hogany, Circassian, Oak, Maple,
Birch.
Mahogany Lumber and Veneers.
Office & Yards, Foot of E. 101st S t .
r E W YORK.
FRITZ DOLGE SENDS GREETINGS.
TO ABANDON STORAGE RULES.
Railroads in Milwaukee to Give Up Making
Extra Charge for Track Storage—Welcome
News for Shippers in All Lines.
(Special to The Review.)
MILWAUKEE, WIS., December 23.—George A.
Schroeder, traffic manager of the Milwaukee
Chamber of Commerce, has announced that the
railroads entering Milwaukee have decided to
abandon on January 1 the new track storage rules,
and the announcement has been welcome news to
piano men and shippers in most lines. The new
rules imposed an extra charge of -$2 per da,y per
car, in addition to the regular demurrage charges
of $1 per car per day. It is anticipated that the
rules regarding State shipments will be given up
also.
Among the holiday greetings received this week
is one of particular merit from Fritz Dolge, who is
now located in Worcester, Mass., where he is gen-
eral manager of the big Millbury mill of the
Inciters Co. Fritz Dolge numbers a host of people
in the trade who are his friends, and the text of
his elaborately printed Christmas card shows his
appreciation of their esteem.
THE DIFFERENCE.
"I was in a Southern town," said a dramatic
producer, "trying to get up a show. The landlord
of the chief and only hotel seemed intelligent, and
1 interviewed him, as a preliminary. 'Your town
boasts a band, does it not?' I asked. 'Well, no,' he
responded. 'We've got a band, but we don't boas*
of it. We just endure it.'"
PURCHASE THE STOCK.
Felts for all Purposes
Piano and Organ Materials
Piano Hammers, Tools
•
American Felt
Company
114-116 E. 13th St.
New York
325 S. Market St.
Chicago
H. S. Gutermute, the proprietor of the Central
Music Store at Petaluma, Cal., purchased the mu-
sical instruments, sheet music and stock of Chapin,
Holbrook & Green, who have been conducting a
store at Petaluma.
R. S. BACON VENEER CO.
FINE MAHOGANY AND
WALNUT VENEERS
213-29 N. Ann St.
CHICAGO
Piano Manufacturers
soft yellow poplar for cross band-
Ing is unapproached in this country.
A large supply always on hand.
Thb Central Veneer Co., Huntington, W. Va.
INVISIBLE HINGES
Especially adapted
f o r Player-Piano,
Pianos and Organs
Very easily a n d
quickly attached.
Made in six sizes.
SOSS MFG. CO.
435 Atlantic Ave.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Send for C»tilo§ue N: 100
George H. Harper Co.
Orange, N. J.
VENEERS
Circassian Walnut, Oak, Walnut,
and Specializing on Mahogany.
Capacity—5 Million Feet