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THE
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
DEATH OF MRS. HERRMANN.
Wonderful Woman, Who Has Directed the Vast
Herrmann Interests Since Her Husband's
Death, Passes Away—A Great Executive
and Popular in Business and Social Circles.
There has been universal regret in the furniture
as well as piano supply fields at the death last
week of Mrs. Rosa Herrmann, who, since the
death of H. Herrmann in 1896, has looked after the
world-wide interests of the Herrmann Lumber &
Furniture Co., which was founded in 1867.
Mrs. Herrmann was a business woman of re-
markable ability, who knew every detail of the
lumber business from the felling of the trees to
the completed piece of furniture. There was no
technical detail with which she was not acquainted.
Mrs. Herrmann was president of the various
Herrmann interests, and superintended the work
at the many establishments; these included the
main business, two lumber yards, mills and kilns
at Broome street and East River and 125th street
and Harlem River, New York; the lumber yard
on Johnston avenue, Jersey City; the sawmills in
Indiana and Kentucky, and the branches at Lon-
don, England; Hamburg, Germany, anrt Durban,
Natal, South Africa.
A factory employing 1,0(10 men is operated in
London. In all about 3,000 employes are required
and 50,000,000 feet of lumber are carried in stock
to keep the plants supplied. An idea of the great
timber lands owned by the company in Kentucky
may be obtained when it is known that no less than
i 1,700 square feet, board measure, were secured
from one mammoth poplar.
The Herrmann interests include the H. Herr-
mann Lumber Co., the H. Herrmann Sawmill Co.,
the H. Herrmann Furniture Co., and H. Herr-
mann, Ltd., of London, England.
Mrs. Herrmann was remarried about seven years
ago and in social life was known as Mrs. Herr-
mann-Susswein, but she always kept the name of
Herrmann in business. Her death was due to
pneumonia. She was intensely fond of music and
was a patron of the opera and of musical affairs
in New York. At the funeral services the musical
Lumber and Veneers
ASTORIA VENEER MILLS & DOCK CO.
LOUIS G. JONES
HOFFMAN BROTHERS CO.,
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,
NEW YORK.
Established 1867.
Incorporated 1904.
FORT WAYNE. INDIANA.
Specialties, Hardwood, Veneers, and
Lumber for Musical Instruments.
Stolle Lumber & Veneer Co.,
Figured Veneers for Pian 0 Cases.
AMERICAN TIMBER
PRODUCTS CO.
TRIPOLI. WIS.
Hemlock and Hardwood Lumber—
Rirch, Elm, Maple. Rotary-cut Ve-
neers.
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.
Rotary-cut Rock Maple, for Piano
Pin Blocks. We also manufacture
Birch and Maple Panels.
ESCANABA, MICH.
Mfrs. 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 1'lain Linings.
program was most impressive, and the eulogy de-
livered by the Rev. Dr. Haas was very affecting.
Mrs. Hcrrmann-Susswein is survived by her hus-
band and one son, Oscar, who is associated with
the Herrmann interests.
until thoroughly dry, the pigment is rubbed o!T
with excelsior or sea moss. The pigment comes
off very easily, as it contains no binder. After the
work is cleaned it is sanded lightly and then shel-
laced and waxed in the usual manner. It is in this
way that the genuine fumed effect is produced. As
TWO NEW FINISHING PROCESSES
a final proof of the merits of their fuming process,
which is in successful use in hundreds of large
For Piano Cases Just Introduced by Advance
factories, the company is prepared to furnish the
Paint Co.—One a Fuming Process and the
trade with a sample of the material and the few
Other a Waterproof Shellac—Both Processes
simple, necessary instructions.
of Much Interest to Piano Manufacturers.
The problem of making shellac waterproof has
The Advance Paint Co., of Indianapolis, hid., been solved by the company in the product which
announces two tested new products that are des-
they recommend as the "third essential. 1 ' A water-
tined to be of considerable assistance in piano case
proof shellac—made in white, orange and brown—
finishing, one product being a fuming process, and
has been produced without changing the nature of
the other a waler-proof shellac, both of which are
the shellac or the methods of working, drying and
described below.
sanding. A careful test was made recently with a
In the company's new fuming process the genuine
view to ascertaining the comparative efficiency of
fuming effect is produced without recourse to the this water-proof shellac. Two coats of the com-
fuming chamber. It is recommended on the
pany's product were applied to panels which were
grounds of economy and efficiency and the fact that
submerged in water for twenty-four hours, at the
it is "fool-proof." The process of fuming is made
end of which time they were taken out in perfect
as .simple as finishing.golden 03k. It. is applied in
condition. Panels treated similarly with the ordi-
the same way as an ordinary filler, care being taken
nary shellac turned a milky white and the shellac
that the work is thoroughly covered with this pig-
was destroyed. This would appear to clinch the
ment stain. After standing two hours or more.
company's argument that their product affords ab-
solute protection against moisture. Water-proof
shellac prevents mahogany cases from taking up
moisture and turning gray.
Felts for all Purposes
Piano and Organ Materials
Piano Hammers, Tools
American Felt
Company
114-116 E. 13th St.
New York
BIRD'S-EYE VENEER CO.,
325 S. Market St.
Chicago
STAMFORD COJSCERN TO MOVE.
The Homer-Klock Piano Co., which handles the
Bjur Bros. Ludwig, Christman and other makes
of pianos, as well as Victor and Columbia lines
of talking machines in Stamford, Conn., has
moved to new quarters in that city.
R. S. BACON VENEER CO.
FINE MAHOGANY AND
WALNUT VENEERS
213-29 N. Ann St.
CHICAGO
Piano Manufacturers j £
5J£
•oft 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 Organs
Vail
Very easily a n d
quickly attached.
Made in six sizes.
SOSS MFG. CO.
435 Atlantic Ave.
Brooklyn, N. Y,