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MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
SHIPPING SCHWANDER ACTIONS.
C. W. Bingel, Local Representative, Advised
This Week That Regular Shipments Are
Now Being Made from France—Herrburger
Factory in Paris Constantly in Operation
and American Manufacturers Can Be Sup-
plied with Unfailing Regularity.
C. YV. Bingel, American representative of J.
Herrburger, Paris, France, with headquarters at
2293 Third avenue, New York, was greatly re-
joiced on Monday to receive information from
Mr. Herrburger stating that a large shipment of
Schwander actions had been made that day, Octo-
ber 20, to New York, and that weekly shipments
of actions would be made thereafter regularly.
Mr. Bingel has notified his customers that he
will be able to keep them stocked with actions
in quantities such as they may desire, and he
looks for a very busy period in view of the bet-
tering conditions materializing throughout the
United States.
The Herrburger factory in Paris has been al-
most constantly in operation, for there are a
great number of old employes who are not within
the age limit for active service at the front, and
with the improved conditions now prevailing in
Paris work has been resumed on a much larger
scale recently. Shipments can also be made with
safety through the south of France—Bordeaux,
for instance—so that Mr. Bingel expects no fur-
ther delay in shipments.
Another reason why the Herrburger factory
can now fill orders from America with prompt-
ness is due to the fact that there has been a fall-
ing off in local consumption and in shipments of
actions to Russia and England, so that the
plant can now Jbe devoted very largely to rapid
filling of orders from this side of the ocean.
FIGHTING INCREASED MILEAGE.
Associated Commercial Travelers of America
Bringing Strong Pressure to Bear in Oppo'
sition to Action by Railroads.
Strong protest against an increase in rates for
mileage books used by traveling salesmen is being
made by the Associated Commercial Travelers of
America to the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Not only has the association written a letter of
protest to the commission, but letters have been
sent to various commercial bodies and leading
wholesale and industrial institutions employing
traveling men throughout the country, asking them
to protest also against the advance, which the as-
sociation claims is unjust in so far as it concerns
the "knights of the grip." Several arguments are
advanced to show why the advance, as regards
salesmen, would be a drain on the wholesale ship-
pers which would be "manifestly unfair and would
cripple the merchandising of the country."
The Ohio Veneer Co.
CINCINNATI, O.
Importer* and Manufacturer* of
Circassian Walnut and Figured
Mahogany Veneers for high grade
piano cases and cabinets.
New York Office and Sample Room
N . Y . FURNITURE EXCHANGE
Lexington Ave. and 46th St.
G. H. VAUGHAN, Eastern Representative
Lumber and Veneers
ASTORIA VENEER MILLS & DOCK CO.
BIRD'S-EYE VENEER CO.,
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.
ESCANABA, MICH.
Mfrs. of Bird's-eye Maple and plain
wood for Piano Linings.
Established 1867.
Incorporated 1904.
FORT WAYNE. INDIANA.
Specialties, Hardwood, Veneers, and
Lumber for Musical Instruments.
THE E. L. CHANDLER CO.,
HENRY S. HOLDEN,
ORLEANS. VT.,
Rotary-cut Rock Maple, for Piano
Pin Blocks. We also manufacture
Birch and Maple Panels.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Black Walnut Veneers.
Figures Long and Butt Poplar
Cross-banding. Rock Maple. Bird's-
Eye Linings.
J. J. NARTZIK
Plain Sawed and Rotary Cut Veneers
1068 Maud Ave.,
CHICAGO, ILL.
Soft Poplar and Gum Cross-band-
ing. Hard Maple Pin Block Stock.
Bird's-eye or Plain Linings.
REGISTER ALL TRADE-MARKS.
THE GLUE ROOM UNDERSTUDY.
A Precaution to Be Taken by Those Exporting
Goods to South America.
Every Glue Room Should Have an Extra Man
Experienced in the Preparation of Glue.
One of the most serious things that confronts the
manufacturer of specialties or other trade-marked
merchandise who is planning to enter the export
field to do business with South America is the pos-
sibility that he will be prevented from doing so by
failing to register his mark in the countries in
which he wants to sell goods. By this it is not
meant that there are laws in those countries saying
that the goods cannot be sold unless the marks are
registered, but there is no small probability that
some enterprising but not wholly honest native busi-
ness man will register the marks and appropriate
them for his own use. This has been done in the
past more than once, much to the annoyance of
the firms whose marks have been stolen, and it is a
thing that the new exporter should prevent.
Much stress is laid on this point by Lawrence
Langner, a member of the committee on the pro-
tection of industrial property of the Merchants' As-
sociation and a solicitor of patents. In discussing
this matter recently, Mr. Langner said:
"It cannot be too clearly impressed upon the
American manufacturer that, if the owner of a
trade-mark does not register it in most of the
Latin-American countries, any other person may do
so, thereby acquiring the exclusive right to the
mark, notwithstanding the fact that the real owner
may have used it for a number of years.
"The danger of this piracy is very real, and if
there is any exporter who is inclined to doubt the
truth of it he should read a recent communication
from the American Consul General in the Ar-
gentina. A part of it reads as follows:
" 'If the Argentine firm usurps the mark of a
foreign manufacturer and registers it, then the real
owner is helpless, for the new owner can take legal
action against the real owner of the mark for
imitating or fraudulent use of same. The rightful
owner may even have his merchandise excluded
from the market simply because it bears his own
mark. It has happened that foreign manufacturers-
have had to leave the market after having spent
much time and money in building up their busi-
ness, or have had to pay indemnity to a local firm
which has been brazen enough to register a well-
known mark. Not only do the local manufacturers
appropriate foreign trade-rrmrks, but likewise mark
their wares so as to convey the impression that
they are of foreign manufacture, thereby increas-
ing the fraudulent practice, and they carry this on
by means of protective laws. Until such time as
these evils are corrected American manufacturers
should see that their trade-marks are registered,
provided the market is worth their time and atten-
tion.' "
Every glue room should have a man experienced
in the preparation of glue. A writer recently said
that when selecting some one to take charge of
the preparation, "Single out an intelligent young
man; I say young man because he is usually will-
ing to learn and will take more interest in things."
This is good advice to the man who is looking
for an understudy, some one to learn how to pre-
pare glue, but fatal advice to the man who wants
some one to prepare glue to-day.
The preparation of glue is not something that
one can learn in a day, and while this "intelligent
young man" ;s learning those minute details which
cannot be taught by one to another, but can be
learned only after considerable experience and
observation, hundreds of dollars' worth of goods
may be spoiled.
There is too much of this putting an "intelli-
gent young man" in charge, not only in the prep-
aration of glue, but in its use, as well as in the
laying of veneers, says Arnold Forget, in Veneers.
What should be done is to put an intelligent and
experienced man in charge, and an intelligent
yuung man under him in course of training. This
should not be done for the purpose of displacing
the older man when the younger one becomes
competent, but in order that there may always be
some one at hand qualified to take charge in case
of an emergency.
The problem of the understudy is difficult to
solve and is one worthy of careful consideration.
The fear on the part of those in charge that when
the understudy becomes competent the latter will
be used to displace the former frequently results
in the withholding of valuable information and
frequently in considerable unpleasantness. Abso-
lute confidence between employers and the heads
of deparments is necessary to a solution of the
understudy problem. If the head of a department
suspects that some one under him may be used
against him he is not likely to pave the way for
his own undoing by imparting information to
bring about that end. As I said before, this is a
difficult problem, and deserves consideration.
Rano Manufacturers £ J £
toft yellow poplar for cross band-
Ing is unapproached in this country.
A large supply always on hand.
The Central Veneer Co., Huntington, W. Va.
SOSS INVISIBLE HINGES
"OUT OF SIGHT
[EVER IN MIND"
No. lOt
When you fail
to see an un-
sightly hinge
protruding you
know SOSS is
the answer.
Write to-day.
ATLANTIC AVE.
SOSS MFG. GO. i 435 BROOKLYN,
N. Y.