Music Trade Review

Issue: 1914 Vol. 58 N. 3

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THE
MUSIC
TRADE
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REVIEW
INSTALLS NEW ^LAMP EQUIPMENT.
Germain Mfg. Co. Adopts Chas. E. Francis Co.
System of Piano Back Clamps.
The accompanying illustrations show a lot of
piano back clamps built by the Chas. E. Francis
Co. for the Germain Manufacturing Co., Saginaw,
Lumber and Veneers
ASTORIA VENEER MILLS & DOCK CO.
LOUIS G. JONES
ASTORIA, L. I., N. Y.
Custom mills for band and veneer
sawing; slice and rotary cutting of
Mahogany, Circassian and Fancy
Woods.
146-150 Avenue D,
N E W YORK.
Stolle Lumber & Veneer Co.,
AMERICAN TIMBER
PRODUCTS CO.
INDIANAPOLIS IND.
Quartered Oak Veneers for Piano
Manufacturers a Specialty.
THE E. L. CHANDLER CO.,
HENRY S. HOLDEN,
ORLEANS, VT.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Cross-banding Veneers in Poplar,
Gum and Birch. Rock Maple for
Rest Plank. Piano Lining in Maple
and Mahogany.
complete before shipment to illustrate how the
small clamps can be let down out of the way.
They also installed several Glue Spreaders, Veneer
Tress, Retainers, etc., from the Chas. E. Francis
A Set of Piano Back Clamps.
Co., of Rushville, Jnd., who, as our readers well
Mich., who manufacture piano parts. They ordered
know, manufacture a full line of equipment for
one of these complete clamps as a sample, and practically every variety of gluing, veneering and
built-up work.
COPPER SURPLUS LARGE.
Production Gained 43,000,000 Pounds on Con-
sumption in December.
The Copper Producers' Association statement
for December, issued Saturday, shows that stocks
of the metal in refiners' hands increased 4'5,509,438
pounds during the month, as compared with a
gain of 15,3(i3,000 pounds in November. The
aggregate of supplies at the end of the year was
91,438,807 pounds, the largest total reported since
last April, when 104,269,270 pounds were available.
The increase was far in excess of what had been
expected by the trade, which had predicted a maxi-
Clamps Let Down Out of the Way.
mum of 15,000,000 pounds. The showing was
largely the resuk of small buying by manufactur-
then eleven more like it. For the purpose of
photographing the lot of clamps, one was set up ers in this country. Domestic deliveries in
Felts for all Purposes
Piano and Organ Materials
Piano Hammers, Tools
American Felt
Company
114-116 E. 13th St.
New York
Established 1867.
Incorporated 1904.
FORT WAYNK, INDIANA.
.Specialties, Hardwood, Veneers, and
Lumber for Musical Instruments-
Figured Veneers for Piano Cases.
TRIPOLI, W I S .
Hemlock and Hardwood Lumber—
Hircli, Klni, Maple. Rotary-cut Ve-
neers.
Rotary-cut Rock Maple, for Piano
Pin Blocks. We also manufacture
Birch and Maple Panels.
HOFFMAN BROTHERS CO.,
325 S. Market St.
Chicago
BIRD'S-EYE VENEER CO.,
ESCANABA, MICH.
.M frs. of Bird's-eye Maple and plain
wood for Piano Linings.
J. J. NARTZIK
Plain Sawed and Rotary Cut Veneers
1966 Maud Ave.,
CHICAGO, ILL.
Soft Poplar and Gum Cross-band-
ing. Hard Maple Pin Block Stock.
Bird's-eye or i'Jain Linings.
December amounted to only 21,938,576 pounds, a
decline of 20,700,000 pounds from the sales iir
November and of more than 46,000,000 pounds
from those of October.
Exports were 73,542,413 pounds, a gain of
3,474,610 pounds over November. Total deliveries
aggregated 95,480,983 pounds, as compared with
118,724,061 pounds in Novemiber and J 36,297, li;:i
pounds in October. Production amounted to 138,-
990,420 pounds, an increase over the preceding
month of 4,002,713 pounds.
NEW PRATT, READ & CO. PLAN.
Deep River
Factory
on New Time Schedule.
( Special to The Review.)
DEEP RIVER, CONN., January 12.—Pratt, Read &
Co. commenced on January 12 to run their Deep
River factories on the nine-hour schedule, requir-
ing nine full hours of work, but paying the same
amount of wages as heretofore on the ten-hour
schedule.
As 'this industry is the principal one in this town,
the result of this experiment has created a great
deal of comment locally, and will be watched by
the community with great interest. The player
action department of this enterprise is particular-
ly active.
The annual midwinter meeting and dinner of the
New York Credit Men's Association is scheduled
lo be held in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Astor
on Thursday of this week. Charles F. Hamlin,
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, will be one of
the speakers, and his subject will be "The General
Management of the Treasury Department and Its
Relation to the Federal Reserve Bands."
R. S. BACON VENEER CO.
FINE MAHOGANY AND
WALNUT VENEERS
213-29 N. Ann St.
CHICAGO
Piano Manufacturers 2
soft yellow poplar for cross band-
ing is unapproached in this country.
A large supply always on hand.
The Central Veneer Co., Huntington, W. Va.
INVISIBLE
HINGES
Especially adapted
f o r Player-Piano,
Pianos and Organ?
Very easily a n d
quickly attached.
r*n MM
Made in six sizes.
SOSS MFG. CO.
435 Atlantic Ave.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Stud fmr CmtaU^m V: 100.
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
HIGH DUTY ON_S1LK STRINGS.
Treasury Department Puts It Higher Than on
Other Kinds in Latest Ruling.
The Treasury Department has solved another
of the many perplexing questions of classification
resulting from the enactment of the new tariff law,
by deciding that musical instrument strings of silk
are properly dutiable as manufactures of silk at 45
per cent, ad valorem under paragraph 218 of the
law.
Paragraph 366 provides for manufactures oi
catgut, whipgut or wonngut, including strings for
musical instruments, while paragraph 373 provides
for strings for musical instruments composed
wholly or in part of steel or other metal. A ques-
tion has arisen whether silk strings for musical
instruments fall within either of these paragraphs.
Owing to the uncertainty in customs circles and
among importers, Collector Malone asked for in-
structions from the Treasury Department. In
reply Assistant Secretary Hamlin says:
"I have to advise you that the only strings for
musical instruments dutiable under paragraph 366
(at 20 per cent, ad valorem) are such as are made
from catgut, whipgut or wonngut, and the depart-
ment is further of the opinion that the specific
provision in paragraph 373 for strings for musical
instruments composed wholly or in part of steel
or other metal is exclusive, and, therefore, strings
for musical instruments composed wholly or in
chief value of other material than metal, are not
dutiable under the said paragraph at 35 per cent,
ad valorem.
"In view of the foregoing, the department con-
curs in the practise prevailing at your port in
assessing duty on musical instrument strings of
silk at the rate of 45 per cent, ad valorem under
paragraph 318 of the Tariff act, as manufactures
of silk."
RECEIVING SUBSTANTIAL ORDERS.
'Metalla" Line of Harmonicas Grows in Popu-
larity Judging from the Orders Which Are
Coming for the First Weeks of the Year.
Notwithstanding the marked success of the
"Metalla" line of harmonicas from the first month
they were introduced and their steadily increasing
popularity with the trade, Ch. Weiss, the promi-
nent harmonica and "Fluta" manufacturer, con-
tinues to receive substantial orders from all parts
of the world for the old Weiss standby, the "Brass-
Band" harmonicas. This line of mouth-organs,
which was one of the first introduced to the trade
by the house of Weiss, is known throughout the
world, where its many distinctive qualities have
been the subject of general praise and commenda-
tion.
The American branch of Ch. Weiss, at 393
Broadway, New York, which is under the able
management of Hermann Weiss, son of the pres-
ent head of the house, is enthusiastic over the
large-sized orders that it has been receiving regu-
larly for the "Brass Band" line from dealers in this
country, and although the holiday season is now
over, these orders are still coming in. The name
of Ch. Weiss and the "Brass Band" harmonicas
OLIVER DITSON COMPANY
BOSTON, MASS.
Established
1834
Manufacturers, Importers, Publishers.
Largest and most complete stock of Musi-
cal Merchandise and accessories in the
trade. Modern Service, Attractive Special-
tics. Our 1013 Catalogue w.ill be sent upon
application.
AUGUST M U L L E R ( ^ ™ f
J. HEBERLEIN / CELLOS
La Prima and Clarion
Accordions
are always coupled together in the minds of the
dealers, and it is this confidence that the House of
Weiss has acquired by reason of the value repre-
sented in the "Brass Band" line, that paved the
way for the success of the new "Metalla" line,
manufactured by this house.
CANNOT REVERSE OWN DECISION.
Board of United States Appraisers Hold That
the General Appraiser Cannot Reappraise
Goods or Reconstruct His Own Decision.
The Board of United States General Appraisers
held recently that a second appraisement of mer-
chandise, made after a prior return had become
final and conclusive in the absence of an appeal
for a reappraisement, was null and void. The
case before the board was a protest by Robert 13.
Ways, agent for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Co., who contended that duty on certain mer-
chandise should have been levied on the basis of
the value found by the local appraiser at Baltimore,
which was of the same amount as the entered
value.
After the return of the invoices to the collector,
the appraiser notified the collector that certain
dutiable items had escaped his attention. These
were added to the market values returned by the
appraiser. A general appraiser reappraised the
goods at a higher value than the invoiced prices,
and the collector liquidated the duties on this
basis. The original reappraisement return was
subsequently marked "void," and at the same time
what purported to be a supplemental return on the
reappraisement was made.
Judge Fischer holds that the law does not confer
upon a general -appraiser the power of reversing
his own decision on appraisement. Such de-
cision, the board holds, is conclusive in the
absence of appeal, and, where not shown to be
irregular, illegal or void. The importer's protest
was overruled.
TO REVISE CUSTOMS REGULATIONS.
through a rear window. Thirteen mandolins,
valued at $50, were stolen, and Detective Henry L.
Quick was assigned to the case. Quick set out and
ran down Scholz.
Hermann Weiss, manager of the American
branch, is at present away on an extended trip
through the country, where he is securing many
fine orders for the Weiss products.
C. MEISEL
Established 1878.
Leading Wholesaler in America of
Musical Instruments and all Accessories
Send for latett
4 St. Mark. Place
WEYMANN & SON
Incorporated
Manufacturers o>
The Famous
Weymann Mandolutes and
"Keystone State" Instruments
1010 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
EXCELSIOR
DRUMS ™ STANDARD
Some dealers may say that they cost more than
others.
Excelsior drums cost more because they are
worth more. Cost more to make.
We could make them cost less fey using 1 cheaper
material, use less care in making- them, and dis-
pense with the new patented improvements.
If we did, however, Excelsior Drums would
not be the Standard as they are to-day. Write for
catalogue.
EXCELSIOR DRUM WORKS
A. G. SOISTMAUT, Vice-Pres. and Gen. Manager,
CAMDI17, TSf. J.
Tenth and Market Streets,
STOLE MUSICALJNSTRUMENTS.
Hugo Scholz, nineteen years old, of 158 East 122d
street, New York, pleaded guilty to burglary in the
Morrisania Police Court. He was held in $2,000
bail for trial by Magistrate McQuade. George
Mannillo, a manufacturer of musical instruments
at 270 East 150th street, New York, complained to
the police of the Morrisania station that a burglary
was committed in his place on the night of Janu-
ary 6. The burglar, he said, gained an entrance
WHOLESAL
PRICES
FURNISHED
ON REQUEST
WITH SPECIAL
INDUCEMENTS
OURCATAIOGS
WILL SAFELY
GUIDE Y O U
ALL FREE
AUG.GEM INDER&SONS
I 4 2 EAST 23 ST.
The new tariff law has brought so many new
questions of administration to the front that the
Treasury Department has appointed a committee
to revise the customs regulations, which are fur-
nished to officials throughout the country as a
guide in the discharge of their duties. Many
regulations rendered unnecessary by the new law
will be dropped, while others will have to be
added or revised. The last revision occupied the
best part of four years, but Assistant Secretary
Hamlin is hopeful that the present revision can
be completed within a year.
Catalogue*.
NEW YORK
NEW YORK
Black Diamond
Strings
THE WORLD'S BEST
lational Musical Siring Co.
New Brunswick, N. J .
A Satisfied Customer
is mil 1 bcsl iMlvcrilsi'inciit and musi-
c-inns nwiiiK YORK instruments uvo
—satisfied. YORK instrmiipnts have
been tostort in tln> grind of oxpc-lt'iiPi 1 ,
with the fire of H pufolir musical oni-i-
ion, and have not been found wanting.
This test has covered a period of :>0
years and each year has made YORK
a preater success. Does this moan
anything to you ? If you are on tlie
anxious seat we want you to
"LFT US PROVF IT"
by sending our catalogue and dealers 1 proposition. I)n
it to-day or some live one may do you out of your
chance.
.
J. W. York & Sons, Grand Rapids, Mich
MUSICAL
Merchandise
Cincinnati
Chicago

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