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THE
WALNUT STUMP OF RECORD SIZE
Just Secured by the Cable-Nelson Piano Co.
for Cutting Up Into Veneers for Piano Cases
—Over Eight Feet in Diameter and Weighs
Eight Tons—Veneer Handsomely Figured.
( Special to The Review.;
co, I I I . , March 16.—The accompanying il-
lustration shows a reproduction of a photograph
of what is said to be one of the largest walnut
.stumps ever worked up in this country, and which
has been secured by the Cable-Nelson Piano Co.
The veneer ftock from this stump has recently
been delivered at the factory at South Haven, and
will be used first in the Cable-Nelson Style C and
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ship lines are refusing to carry to neutral countries
articles containing even a small amount of rubber,
such as clothes wringers and carpet sweepers. The
sale of several American products in foreign
markets is being curtailed in consequence.
It is exceedingly important, according to the
Merchants' Association, that a supply of crude
rubber be maintained for domestic consumption,
but the association has suggested that probably the
British embargo was not intended to extend to
articles of common use containing small portions
of low -quality rubber.
T. L. LUTKINS HOME FROM EUROPE.
The
Prominent
Leather
Specialist
Combined
Both Business and Pleasure on His Trip.
T. L. Lutkins, head of T. L. Lulkins, Inc.,
leather merchants, 40 Spruce street. New York,
arrived recently on the "Baltic," following a trip
to Europe. The purpose of his visit was two-
fold, partly pleasure and partly to get a line' on
leather conditions, as well as to make some con-
tracts. Mr. Lutkins would say nothing beyond the
fact that he is pleased with conditions as far as
supplying the same high grade of player-piano
leathers, and that t'e outlook for the balance of
the year is indicative of an excellent business.
HOW EFFICIENCY IS REDUCED.
49
Our facilities are un-
limited in relation to
piano and p l a y e r
hardware. Send us
your inquiries for all
requirements from
woodenware to cast-
ings in aluminum,
brass and iron.
C E GOEPEL*Co
137 E A S T I3 T -* ST.
N E.W YORK.
Lee lligginsijii & Co., and J. P. Morgan & Co.
Cable advices further indicate that the colonial
office has recommended to the Governor General
of Australia that no licenses from there be granted
unless the intended recipient has the approval of
Discussing how overheated and poorly ventilated the British Embassy and the Textile Alliance. To
workrooms reduce efficiency and ruin the health secure uniformity, it is planned to make a similar
of factory employes, E. A. Winslow, chairman of arrangement with New Zealand and South Africa.
the New York State Commission of Federation, The War Trade Department, besides these meas-
recently said :
ures, is contemplating treating woolcd sheepskins
"Experiments were conducted in a specially fitted as wool.
room throughout the past year. More than 100
The Alliance has received a number of applica-
subjects have been kept in the room at different tions for licenses, and an office will shortly be es-
times. It is shown that odors in the air of an tablished in Boston. The appointment of the cus-
unventilated occupied room, even though they are todian banks was undertaken to do away with any
not noticed by the people who have been in the objection the banks here might have to the con-
room while they were accumulating, may yet af- signment of all shipments to A. M. Patterson as
fect the people subconsciously. The experiments
President of the Alliance.
of the commission will be continued this year.
The ideal conditions indicated will be tried out
LOWER PRICES^ FOR IVORY.
on a practical scale in rooms specially fitted up
The
most interesting, and not the least signifi-
for the purpose in New York City."
cant, remark in the yearly review of Hale & Sons
is that on the whole the effect of the war has not
FOR IMPORTS^OF WOOL.
been so marked on ivory as in most other articles
Details of Arrangement Made with the Textile
of luxury, as with the exception of the descriptions
almost exclusively bought for the Continent, a
Alliance Will Interest the Piano Trade.
fairly good demand has continued.
Great Britain's action in placing wool and woolen
At the first two sales of the year there was a
goods on the list of absolute contraband will af- good demand and prices generally showed but little
fect the arrangement concluded between the Brit- fluctuation for soft ivory. At the July sales prices
ish Government and the Textile Alliance, Inc., for showed a general decline.
Hard sold generally
the exportation of the staple to this country only rather lower, except in April, when prices were
in a way to facilitate shipments under the agree- steady. Owing to the war the October sales were
ment. The same course was pursued in connection postponed indefinitely, but a fair quantity of the
with the lifting of the embargo on rubber. By new arrivals have changed hands privately at gen-
establishing wool as contraband, the Alliance will erally steady prices to rather lower for soft, large
be able to guarantee that none of the product will and medium tusks, and for ball ivory very firm
leave these shores o n e it gets here.
prices have been realized.
The plan of the Alliance is proceeding smoothly,
The present stock of ivory is 188 tons, against
and the announcement is made on receipt of cables 105 tons at the same time last year. The increase
from Mes=rs. Ereshfields, the London solicitors of
is largely owing to the transfer from Antwerp of
the committee, that the War Trade Department Congo ivory for security .—Music, London.
has approved as custodian bankers the London
representatives of the following firms: Messrs.
Kidder, Peabody & Co., Brown Bros. & Co.,
Overheated and Poorly Ventilated Workrooms a
Hindrance to Good Work and to Good Health.
Cable-Nelson Co.'s Big Walnut Log.
Style B player-pianos in the near future. The
stump was eight feet six inches in extreme diam-
eter and distinguished for its enormous size and
strikingly individual figure. It is especially valuable
for the "American stripe" which is in it. The man
standing by the stump is H. M. Markk'y, of Mark-
ley & Filbert, the veneer house of Eaton, ()., through
whom the stump was obtained. Mr. Markley is
known as one of the experts of the country on
walnut veneers, and personally travels over the
country locating promising stumps and logs. This
stump grew in Maryland about seven miles from
Centerville in the yard of one of the most beauti-
ful farms of the State, overlooking Chesapeake
Bay. It weighed in the neighborhood of eight tons
and eight mules were employed in hauling it to
the railroad station. It is needless to say that the
pianos containing veneers from this remarkable
butt will be eagerly sought for, but they will only
be in line with the general policy of the company
to present to the trade instruments with the most
beautiful veneers possible to obtain.
THE BRITISH RUBBER COMPACT.
As a result of the agreements between buyers
and sellers of crude and manufactured rubber that
have grown out of the conditions imposed by the
English Government in raising the embargo on
shipments of crude rubber to this country, steam-
The Ohio Veneer Co.
CINCINNATI, O.
Importers a n d Manufacturers of
Figured Mahogany, Circassian Wal-
nut and Foreign Woods for high-
grade piano cases and cabinets.
New York Office and Sample Room
Grand Central Palace Building
Lexington Ave. and 46th St.
G. H. V AUG HAN, Eastern Representative
GRUBB & KOSEGARTEN BROS.
Manufacturers of HIGH GRADE
PIANO-FORTE
ACTIONS
N A S S A U . Rensselaer County, IM. "V.
merit
of your
business
consult
the market
WHITE, SON COMPANY
H »nuf Aoturar •
ORGAN AND PLAYER-PIANO LEATHERS
930-540 Atltntto Avtnut, Boston. Mass.
SOSS-INVISIBLE HINGES
Piano Manufacturers
^ w
"OUT OF SIGHT
EVER IN MIND"
•oft yellow poplar for cross band-
Ins is unapproached in this country.
A large supply always on hand.
When you fail
to see an un-
sightly hinge
protruding you
know SOSS is
the answer.
The Central Veneer Co., Huntington, W. Va.
H
OFFMAN BROS. CO.
FORT WAYNE, IND.
(Est. 1867)
(Inc. 1904)
Specialties, Hardwood, Veneers, and
Lumber for Musical Instruments.
VENEERS
No. 10t
Write to-day,
SOSS MFG. GO > l
435 ATLANTIC AVE.
BROOKLYN, N. Y.