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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
TO SHOW MASTERTOUCH ACTION
WASTE IN THE LUMBER INDUSTRY
Special Exhibit During Convention Week at
Factory and Wareroom Downtown Also—
Every Courtesy Extended Members of Trade
Only 320 Feet of Lumber in Each 1,000 Feet
Grown Is Actually Made Use Of
The Staib-Mastertouch piano action, manu-
factured by the Staib, Abendschein Co., 134th
street and Brook avenue, New York, will be
shown in actual use in pianos and player-pianos
The Mastertouch Piano Action
during convention week at the sales rooms and
general headquarters of the Starr Phonograph
Sales Co., 56 West Forty-fifth street New
York. The Mastertouch actions which will be
displayed will be selected from the regular
stock now coming through the factory. There
will also be a display at the factory of the com-
pany so that if dealers desire to visit the plant
where these well-known actions are made they
may do so and may see how the action is man-
ufactured as well as how it operates the piano
and player-piano.
Geo. F. Abendschein stated to a representa-
tive of The Review this week that the gradual
increase in orders for the Mastertouch has been
very pleasing. Several large piano manufactur-
ing concerns are now using them regularly,
finding them most successful in every respect.
The exhibit which will be held downtown in
Forty-fifth street is not far from the Hotel
Astor and every courtesy will be extended to
manufacturers, dealers or other members of the
piano industry, who desire to make their head-
quarters at these offices.
G. L. Kincade, manager for the Saskatoon
branch of Mason & Risch, Ltd., was recently
married to Miss Annabel Lee Byers, a stenog-
rapher in the employ of the Mason & Risch
concern.
The Ohio Veneer Co.
CINCINNATI, O.
Importers and Manufacturers of Figured
Mahogany and Foreign Woods for high-
grade piano cases and cabinets.
™^^™^^™ATeu> York Office and Sample
Room
Grand Central Palace Bldg.
Lexington Ave. and 46th St.
G. H. VAUGHAN. Eastern Representative
Waste in the logging industry in the United
States amounts to 15 or 20 per cent, of the
timber cut, or about a billion and a half cubic
feet of wood annually. Sawmill waste also
amounts to several billion cubic feet of wood,
although not all of it is absolute waste. A bul-
letin on the subject of lumber by-products re-
cently issued by the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce,
makes the claim that only 320 feet of lumber is
used for each 1,000 feet that stood in the forest.
It was the prodigious waste of American
forest resources that led the Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce to plan a thorough
study of the methods of utilizing the waste
products of the lumber industry here in the
United States and in those European coun-
tries that have made the most distinct progress
in this line. In the older and more thickly
settled countries of the old world necessity led
to a careful utilization of the forests many years
before the subject was seriously discussed in
this country. And in these older countries many
methods have been worked out that should be
of value in this country' now that the old-time
wasteful methods have been brought into dis-
repute. The plan was to have the American
industry profit as much as possible by the hard-
earned experience of the older countries.
Unfortunately, the war upset the plan com-
pletely, and there is no immediate prospect of
making the proposed investigation. But, as
the Bureau had already engaged Prof. H. K.
Benson, a well-known authority on the subject,
it was decided to go ahead and make a study of
the industry in this country. The bulletin just
issued is the result of this study. It gives a
definite idea of how far the manufacture of
lumber by-products has been developed in this
country, how far it may reasonably be expected
to develop in the future, and just what some of
the problems are that confront the industry.
There is a complete review of the wood-dis-
tillation industries, the manufacture of tannin
extract, the manufacture of the various
kinds of wood pulp used in the paper in-
dustry, the production of ethyl alcohol from
sawdust, the manufacture of producer gas, and
a number of other minor products. The extent
to which these industries are carried on is out-
lined, and in cases where an industry is not
prospering a discussion of the causes for such
condition is given. Import and export statistics
are included when available.
The annual production of wood pulp in the
United States is valued at over $80,000,000. Sul-
phite-pulp makers are considerably interested
in the possible utilization of the sulphite waste
liquor for the recovery of sulphur or other
profitable material. This would result in a
lowering of the cost of sulphite pulp. The man-
ufacture of kraft pulp is also becoming well
established, and is bringing about the utilization
of cheaper wood.
The utilization of wood for the minor
processes described in this report is not exten-
sive. The manufacture of alcohol from saw-
dust has hardly passed the experimental stage,
although technical men are optimistic as to the
ultimate success of the process. One of the
most interesting possibilities lies in the use of
hydrolyzed sawdust as a carbohydrate cattle
food. The use of wood for producer gas de-
serves more extended introduction in industrial
plants. The manufacture of plastics from wood
is still enveloped in secrecy, and, like the manu-
facture of wood flour, has apparently been de-
veloped to a much greater extent in European
countries.
The new bulletin is entitled "By-Products
of the Lumber Industry," Special Agents' Series
No. 110, and is sold at 10 cents a copy by the
Superintendent of Documents, Government
Printing Office, Washington, and also by the
District offices of the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce.
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During the past four or five years consider-
able interest has developed in the use of wood
block for factory floors. It is found easier on
the feet, less damaging to tools, and more de-
sirable in many ways than the hard concrete
floors. Not only has this kind of flooring be-
come the favorite in machine shops and iron-
working institutions, but also in wood-working
factories for ground-floor purposes, in lieu of
concrete. The one handicap to it at present is
the cost, which ranges around $1.50 per square
yard for blocks alone. A more economical
method of creosoting should make it easily
practicable to materially enlarge the use of wood
blocks for factory flooring.
SHORTAGE OF LUMBER IN ITALY
Italy is short of lumber, on account of a great
falling off in imports since the war, according
to the newspaper II Sole, of Milan. As a re-
sult, it says, prices to the consumer are triple
what they were before the war. Of the lumber
imported into Italy during normal times, 77 per
cent, came from Austria-Hungary and 12 per
cent, from the United States. In 1915, during
the months previous to the outbreak of war be-
tween Italy and Austria-Hungary, the imports
from the former dwindled to almost nothing.
Market reports from London, Eng., contain
the information that no exports of wool from
Australia will be allowed except to Great Brit-
ain and Japan. This embargo is expected to
influence the price of wool to a marked extent,
though it will assure the United Kingdom of a
fairly good supply for several months to come.
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