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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1916 Vol. 63 N. 16

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
SELLING "TIPS" FOR DEALERS^MOTION PICTURE PLAYERS
New Motion Picture Theatres, Churches, Hotels and Restaurants in Various Sections of the
Country That Will Require Orchestrions, Automatic Pianos and Other Musical Equipment
Opportunities to make sales of automatic
pianos and orchestrions will be found in this
column by piano dealers desirous of developing
these prospects in the respective
localities
mentioned:
California
The Minerva Motion Picture Co. has been incorporated
with a capital stock of $10,000, by F. J. Wheeler, L.
Fischer and W. Loewi, San Francisco.
W. S. Webster will open a new theatre, called the Strand,
at Dunsmuir.
The Lyric, a new moving picture theatre, will be opened
at Tulare, by A. Willis.
Canada
A large new moving picture theatre will be opened shortly
at St. John, New Brunswick.
Illino'iN
Kusel & Harris, 30 N. La Salle street, are planning to
erect a new moving picture theatre at Chicago.
K. & L. Theatres, Chicago, $2,500; Leopold Saltiel, in-
corporator.
Howard Wanes, of Girard, has purchased the moving
icture equipment of William McNamar and leased his
uiiding at Virden, where he will operate a moving picture
theatre.
Indiana
The Transfer, a new moving picture house, has just been
oper.ed at Fort Wayne, by David S. Vesey and A. W.
Collier.
The New Lyric is a new moving picture theatre which
has just been opened at Marion.
Iowa
The Penslow estate, L. Langweeker, agent, plans to
erect a new $12,000 moving picture theatre at Sioux City.
C. H. Bryant, of Waterloo and St. Elmo Bateman, of
Sioux City, are planning to erect a new $75,000 moving
picture theatre at Davenport.
Hans Larson has opened a moving picture theatre at
Harlan.
Kansas
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A new moving picture theatre is being erected at Galena,
for L. H. Moore.
Kentucky
A new $300,000 auditorium is being erected by the city
of Louisville.
D. A. Turpin has purchased a moving picture outfit and
leased the Melton building, on Main street, Sebree, where
he will operate a moving picture theatre.
A new moving picture show has been opened in the
Lyric theatre building at Jackson, by Henry Spencer.
Contracts have been let by the Desberger Amusement Co.
to remodel a building at Paducah as a moving picture
theatre.
Maryland
The new Garden theatre, at Charles and Cross streets,
Baltimore, has just been opened.
Louis Helldorger is planning to erect a new $10,000
moving picture theatre at 2238-43 East Fayette street,
Baltimore.
Massachusetts
It is reported that Dr. D. R. Ginn will erect a new mov-
ing picture theatre at Harwichport.
w. V. II. Barhydt will open a new moving picture theatre
on Blue Hill avenue, Roxbury, Boston.
Michigan
The Family Theatre Co. has been incorporated by Capt.
T. T. Reid, Herman Appel, David McArron and L. C.
Bedford, of Port Huron.
Mississippi
Xavier A. Kramer, of Magnolia, is preparing plans for
the erection of a new moving picture theatre at McComb.
Missouri
A. B. Van Sant has opened a new moving picture theatre
at Eldon,
The Melba Amusement Co., G. Bauer, is having plans
prepared for a new theatre building at St. Louis.
A new $30,000 moving picture theatre will be erected at
St. Louis, by H. C. Koenig.
Nebraska
J. H. Brock has the contract to erect a $14,000 moving
picture theatre at Columbus.
F. G. Keens has let the contract for a new moving picture
theatre to be erected at Kearney.
C
York Hotel Co., York, $100,000; W. E. Bullock, incor-
porator.
Frank Johnson has leased the opera house at Louisville,
and will operate it as a moving picture theatre.
New Jersey
Pennsgrove Improvement Co., H. Douty, plans to erect
a new $18,000 moving picture theatre at Pennsgrove.
It. is reported that capitalists are looking for a site in
Woodbury upon which to erect a large new moving picture
theatre.
New York
The new Strand theatre at Ogdensburg will open shortly.
Two moving picture houses at Canton have just been
opened.
North Carolina
M. F. Little will erect a new moving picture theatre,
known as the Alemeda, at Albemarle.
H. F. Drake is having a new moving picture theatre at
Fayetteville, erected.
Ohio
A handsome new moving picture theatre will be erected
at Cincinnati by Thomas V. Prentice.
Sandusky Hotel Co., $20,000; Walter M. Scott, incor-
porator.
A new theatre building to cost $25,000 will be erected at
Columbus by Sweet's Laboratory Co.
THE LAUTER DETACHABLE VALVE
Dominating Feature of the New Lauter Player
Action That Appeals to Both Retailers and
Repairmen—How it Is Constructed
The dominating feature of the new Lauter
player action, which has made a particularly
A new $25,000 church will be erected at Kinsman by the
Methodist Church.
Oklahoma
William Griffith & Son are preparing plans for a new
opera house to be erected on Dewey street, Sapulpa.
Pennsylvania
M. E. Comerford, Scranton, Pa., contemplates erecting
a new moving picture theatre at Dunmore.
George J. Conly has purchased the moving picture theatre
at 1222 to 1256 Ridge avenue, Philadelphia.
The Schatz-Muntz Amusement Co., of Meadville, has
been incorporated with a capital stock of $25,000, for the
purpose of operating moving picture theatres. The incor-
porators are R. II. Muntz and H. P. Weir.
Miss Irene Stout has erected the new Orpheum moving
picture theatre at Ridgeway.
Tennessee
A new moving picture theatre will be opened shortly at
Carthage.
Texas
Plans are being prepared for the erection of a new
$50,000 moving picture theatre at Beaumont by the Inter-
state Amusement Co.
The First Methodist Congregation has awarded the con-
tract for a new $35,000 church.
Wisconsin
Architect O. Webb is preparing plans for the erection of
a new moving picture theatre at Milwaukee.
The Pearl Amusement Co. is building a new $15,000
moving picture theatre at Mitchell street and Fourteenth
avenue, Milwaukee.
The Strand Theatre Co., of Madison, has been incor-
porated with a capital stock of $2,500.
changeable valve, which makes it a very simple
matter to clean, regulate or repair the valve
when desired.
All that is necessary is to re-
move two screws and the valve may then be
removed without disturbing any other part of
the action. As one dealer puts it, "Those of
us who have faced the problem of removing
and dissembling practically the entire pneu-
matic system of the player
for the purpose of getting
at one small valve know
how to appreciate the new
Lauter product."
In the
Lauter
action,
too, the
valves stay put once they
are in position and thus pre-
vent leakage through poor
feeding. The accompanying
illustration, together with
descriptive matter, shows
clearly just how the Lauter
detachable and interchange-
able valve is constructed.
The point a b o u t the
Lauter player action, par-
ticularly emphasized by the
company, is the fact that it
is in its entirety a product
The Lauter Detachable and Interchangeable Valve
of the Lauter factory, and
Xo. 1, Valve Board Containing Air Channels and Pneumatics. No. 1-A, Air Pas- A ac i nnCk A
nrim-*r't\ir
fr>,- n sageways to Pneumatics. No. 1-B, Vacuum Port Holes. No. 1-C, Bleed Holes, d e s i g n e d p r i m a r i l y t o r USL
No. 2, Pneumatics. No. 3, Detachable Valve Chambers. No. 4, Main Air Chan- j n th e
Lauter-Humana.
nels. No. 5, Tube Connections from Valves to Tracker Tubes. No. 6, Tracker
Under such conditions the
Bar Tubing.
action reflects the pride that the manufacturer
strong impression upon dealers and repairmen,
naturally feels in something that goes out as
and all those in the trade interested in player
distinctly representative of his own institution.
actions in general, is the detachable and inter-
T H E COMSTOCK, C H E N E Y & CO.,
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^MANUFACTURERS
Piano-forte Ivory Keys, Actions and Hammers,
Ivory and Composition Covered Organ Keys
T o w e r s Above
All Others
-FORTE
Manufacturers
KEYS
Keys. Actions. Hammers. Brackets and Nickel Rail Furnished Complete
Established 1863
GRUBB & KOSECARTEN BROS.
Manufacturers ol HIGH GRADE
PIANO-FORTE ACTIONS
NASSAU, R e n s s e l a e r County. N. Y.
THE STANDARD CO.,
TORR1NGTON,
CONN.
Manufacturers of a
Complete Line of Piano Action Hardware
Brass Flanges, Damper Rods, Special Capstan Screws,
Bracket and Ball Bolts. Key Pins, Regulating Brackets
and Specialties.
WHITE, SON COMPANY
Manufacturers
ORGAN AND PLAYER-PIANO LEATHERS
530-540 ATLANTIC AVENUE
SYLVESTER TOWER CO.
Piano-forte Actions ""
131 to 147 Broadway
.
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CAMBRIDGEPORT, MASS.
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
MANUFACTURERS
OF
PIANO
ACTIONS
HIGHEST GRADE
ONE GRADE ONLY
OFFICE
457 WEST FORTY-FIFTH ST.
FACTORIES—WEST FORTY-FIFTH ST.
Tenth Arenae and West Forty-Sixth Street
NEW YORK
BOSTON, MASS
A. C. CHENEY PIANO ACTION CO.
(PNEUMATIC ACTIONS FOR PLAYER-PIANOS
< HIGH-GRADE PIANOFORTE ACTIONS
CASTLETON, NEW YORK
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
THE AFRICAN MAHOGANY MARKET
War Conditions Have Forced Users of this
Wood to Make Arrangements for the Delivery
of Logs Direct to New York City
In view of the fact that the United States is
such a very large consumer of African mahog-
any, New York would seem to be a logical point
for a market. That it will be so, at least until
the end of the war, seems to be an established
fact. Whether conditions will revert to the old
plan of double shipments, an extra handling
and brokers' fees after the war, is a question
which only the future can decide, but every
effort should be made by American buyers to
have a permanent African mahogany market
established at some convenient port in the
United States.
Outside of the very few American importers
of mahogany who bought their logs on the
African coast, all logs from that territory have
come to America by way of Liverpool, where
mahogany markets were maintained.
It was either necessary for the buyer in this
country to make the journey to Liverpool and
select his logs, or employ a Liverpool • broker
PATENTS PIANOJCEY SUPPORT
to purchase for him. It is hardly necessary to
add that in some cases the brokers bore con- New Device Also Provides Means for Regu-
siderably more in mind their 5 per cent, com-
lating the Dip in Piano Keys
mission on the sale than the interests of their
WASHINGTON, D. C, October 9.—Patent No.
clients.
The European war forced two conditions on 1,200,336 was last week granted to James A.
the Liverpool mahogany trade which practically Foust, Humboldt, Kan., for a piano-key support
put a stop to imports and exports. The trans- and regulator.
This invention relates to improvements in
portation of foodstuffs and munitions raised
ocean freight rates to a point where they were pianos and similar musical instruments which
prohibitory for logs, and the British govern- are operated by a plurality of keys, the im-
ment, as a war measure, placed an embargo on provement being designed to regulate and ad-
the importation and exportation of timber and just the latter.
One object of this invention is to provide a
lumber.
simply
constructed device by which the keys
This cutting off of the regular channels has
created what is practically a famine in Afri- of the keyboard of a piano or similar instru-
can mahogany, and materially advanced the ment may be leveled so that their tops will all
be in the same plane.
price on what little was to be had.
An additional object of the invention is to
There is still the condition of exorbitant ocean
freight rates to be overcome, but some of the provide means for regulating the "dip" of the
concerns interested in the trade have arranged keys.
Still another object of the invention is to
for shipments of mahogany logs to be made
provide
means for accomplishing the above ob-
direct from the African coast to New York City,
according to an announcement recently made jects from the outside of the instrument.
in Veneers. Liverpool methods of measure-
ORGAN STOP ACTION PATENTED
ments will prevail.
WASHINGTON,
D. C, October 9.—Patent No.
This will insure a limited supply of fresh
African mahogany logs in the New York mar- 1,199,959 was last week granted to John T. Aus-
ket, and enable American consumers to go to tin, Hartford, Conn., for a combination organ
New York and make their own selection of logs. stop action, which he assigned to the Austin
As the shipping rates from Africa to New Organ Co., same place.
This invention relates to combination organ
York should not equal those of the double ship-
ment from Africa to Liverpool and from Liver- stop action, the object of the invention being
pool to New York, there should be a saving in to provide means of a simple nature whereby a
freights, besides the 5 per cent, commission paid device, such as an actuator, can be moved as
to the English brokers and the expense of re- may be desired from an effective to an ineffec-
tive or neutral position.
handling the logs.
MATERIALS,
TOOLS AND
SUPPLIES
FOR
PIANO MANUFACTURERS
HINGES, BUTTS, CASTERS, PEDALS, FELTS,
CLOTHS, PUNCHINGS, SWINGS, HANGERS,
KNOBS, LOCKS, ETC., AND A FULL LINE OF
TOOLS USED IN TUNING, REGULATING AND
REPAIRING. CORRESPONDENCE INVITED.
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IMPROVES MANUFACTURING PROCESS
C. J. Pfriemer Finds New Ways to Manufacture
Reinforced Hammers—Demand Practically
Doubled During the Present Year
C. J. Pfriemer, head of Chas. Pfriemer, Inc.,
has applied for patents on two new devices to
be used in the manufacture of the Pfriemer re-
inforced hammers which during the last two
years have become recognized by piano manu-
facturers all over the country for their many
excellent points of merit and their superior
quality. The Pfriemer factory at 142nd street
and Wales avenue, New York, which is one of
the largest and best appointed piano hammer
plants in the world, has been a scene of activity
right through the year. Owing to the increase
in the popularity of the Pfriemer reinforced
hammers, the output has practically doubled
that of last year.
"We have certainly had a good year," said
Mr. Pfriemer this week to a representative of
The Review. "We were fortunate in securing
a large supply of imported felt which we use
exclusively in the manufacture of our hammers
and not only have been but are at the present
time in a position to take care of the require-
ments of all of our customers without delay.
We have added many new manufacturers to our
list of customers who are now using the
Pfriemer reinforced hammers with much suc-
cess. It is interesting to note that most of these
piano makers gave the hammer a most thorough
test, with the result that they found that our
claims were absolutely as stated and they
adopted them for use in their instruments."
FIRE IN VENEER PLANT
Conflagration at Hoffman Plant Does But
Little Damage—Three New Mills
FT. WAYNE, IND., October 9.—The plant of the
Hoffman Bros. Co., dealers in veneers and hard-
wood lumber, was visited by fire last Friday
evening, though the damage done was very
slight. A small amount of veneers and one
veneer saw was destroyed. Three new mills,
which were in process of construction prior to
the fire, will be finished within the next few
weeks, the new mills being necessitated by the
greatly increased demand for the Hoffman prod-
uct. The firm specializes in sawed veneers,
single ply, in domestic hardwoods, such as
quartered and plain quartered red and white
oak, ash, cherry, hard maple, domestic black
walnut and band-sawn hardwood lumber.
CRUDE RUBBER FROM BRAZIL
The total exports of crude rubber from Para,
Manaos, and Itacoatiara, Brazil, for the month
of August, 1916, amounted to 4,214,490 pounds,
compared with 4,656,897 pounds for the same
month last year. The exports to the United
States aggregated 2,730,165 pounds, and to
Europe 1,484,325 pounds, compared with 2,-
760,971 and 1,895,926 pounds, respectively, in
1915.
Richardson Piano Case Co.
Manufacturers of
HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & CO.
NEW YORK SINCE 1848
4th Ave. & 13th St.
Upright— ¥%•
R laaynedr zriano
f%
Cases
Established 1891
LEOMINSTER
MASS.

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