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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
the front may be adequately provided for during
the war, the house of Hohner has made a'rrange-
The House of M. Hohner, with Extensive Fac-
ments to give these families a substantial sum each
tories at Trossingen, Germany, Pays Weekly
week. This sum is given the families weekly in
Sum to Wives and Children of Employes at
advance, there being an additional allowance for
Front—Factory Being Operated Each Day.
all children less than fourteen years of age. This
The American branch of M. Hohner, 114 East arrangement went into effect August 17, and will
Since September 1 the
Sixteenth street, New York, the prominent har- continue indefinitely.
monica and accordeon manufacturer, is in receipt Hohner factory restaurant has been placed at the
of newspapers from Trossingen, Germany, the site disposal of all the school children in the needy
of the Hohner factories, which in addition to fur- families of Trossingen, regardless of their parents'
nishing valuable information regarding the Euro- employment with the house of Hohner. Two
pean war, devote considerable space to the human meals are served these children daily.
The office employes of M. Hohner who are un-
interest side of this terrible conflict. Trossingen
is the center of the world's harmonica manufac- married were provided with a full month's salary
for August upon leaving for the front on August
1. The families of the married office employes
who were called to arms received the employe's
full salary for August and are receiving 50 per
cent, of their salary each month. This arrange-
ment will continue until further notice.
The firm and the directors, as a whole and in-
dividually, are contributing 3,500 marks monthly
to the general relief committee of Trossingen, and
have also contributed 6,000 marks to the Red Cross
Society. In order to provide a livelihood for their
employes who have not yet ibeen called to the war
or are physically incapable for military duties,
and for their female employes, the Hohner factory
is being operated several hours a day.
ASSISTS FAMILIES OF SOLDIERS.
The New Hohner Factory Addition,
turing industry, and it is somewhat gratifying at
least to realize that many of the families of the
thousands of employes connected with these factor-
ies are being provided for by the employers.
A recent issue of the Trossingen newspapers
called attention to the splendid humanitarian work
that M. Hohner is doing for his employes, this
article commenting on the fact that M. Hohner
employs more than three thousand people in
Trossingen and branch factories. In order that
the families of its employes who are fighting at
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AN IMPROVEMENT IN ZITHERS.
(Special to The Review.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, October 13.—Patent No.
1,111,256 was last week granted to Frank Geeb,
Long Island City, N. Y., for a musical instrument,
such as zithers, and has for its object to provide a
construction that will render the instrument more
durable, enable the adjustment of the finger-board
to compensate for changes due to atmospheric or
other external influences, the adjustment of the
tension of the strings above the finger-board to
allow of their proper tuning and which will produce
a fuller and richer tone. With this object in view
there is provided a longitudinal opening in the
top of the resonant body extending below the
strings on which the melody is played, and finger-
board over said opening is arranged in such a man-
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tudinally and readily removed. There is also pro-
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sound-holes communicating through the above-
named opening with the interior of the body.
VISITING THE NEW YORK TRADE.
WANT INFORMATION ON IMPORTS.
Executive Order as to Making Declarations to
Go Into Effect Oct. 31—Shipper Abroad
Must Show When, Where and from Whom
Goods Exported Were Bought.
The Treasury Department has ended its parley-
ing with importers over the question of the en^
forcement of Paragraph D, Section 3, of the ad-
ministrative part of the tariff act of 1913, by or-
dering that President Wilson's executive order
of last spring relating to more specific information
regarding the character of imported merchandise
shall become effective October 31.
The portion of the law which has formed the
basis of a long-drawn-out controversy relates to
the declaration to be filed by the shipper abroad'
at the time of shipment. It reads as follows:
"That it (the declaration) contains, if the mer-
chandise was obtained by purchase, or agreement
for purchase, a true and full statement of the
time when, the place where, the person from whom
the same was purchased, or agreed to be pur-
chased."
The American Importers' Association appointed
a committee to take up the matter with Secretary
McAdoo, and succeeded in securing a postpone-
ment of the new Consular regulation until the
Treasury authorities had weighed the complaints.
T;he German-American Chamber iof Commerce
also put itself on record as opposed to the appli-
cation of the rules.
PATENTS VALVE^FOR CORNET.
(Special to The Review.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, October 10.—Frank
Patent No. 1,113,033 was last week granted to
Frederick Menzenhauer, Jersey City, N. J., for an
action for keyed zithers.
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