Music Trade Review

Issue: 1916 Vol. 63 N. 23

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MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
SELLING "TIPS" FOR DEALERSJNJMOTION 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
a at t t the
h e corner of Broad street and Linden place,
O p p o r t u n i t i e s t o make sales of a u t o m a t i c
comer of Broad street and Linden place, Red
Bank, as a site for a new moving picture theatre.
pianos and orchestrions will be found in this
The Crescent Theatre Co., of Sussex, has been incor-
porated with a capital stock of $50,000, for the purpose of
column by piano dealers desirous of develop-
operating amusement enterprises. The incorporators are
n. S. Goble, C. Smith and E. T. Goble.
ing these prospects in the respective localities
New York
mentioned-
C. J. Carlson has plans for the erection of a new $35,000
moving picture theatre at Westfield.
Arizona
The new Piccadilly Theatre of Rochester has just been
Guy Gamel is reported to have the contract to erect a new
opened.
moving picture theatre at Pocahontas.
California
Seventy-first Street Hotel Co., Inc.; hotel, restaurant, and
theatres' $100,000; J. W. McGrath, St. Andrew's Hotel,
Marshall Black has taken a lease on a new theatre at
Los Gatos and will open the house shortly.
New York City, incorporator.
R. A. Neeb is erecting a new moving picture theatre at
North Dakota
Corcoran.
Paramount Theatre Co. has plans for a • new theatre
Connecticut
building to be erected on the site of the present structure
Fairview Hotel, Inc., Plymouth; $10,000; Wilfred Beloin, at Winston-Salem.
incorporator.
Nova Scotia
University Club Co., Bridgeport; $100,000; Sanford Stod-
The new $100,000 moving picture theatre which Warren
dard, incorporator.'
Smith is erecting at New Glasgow, will be ready for
Delaware
business
about the middle of Tanuary.
William A. Brady, Inc., $10,000; amusement; L. 11. Ohio
Gunther, New York City, incorporator.
Samuel
Albadt is having plans prepared for a new $7,000
Quality Amusement Corporation of Delaware; $100,000;
moving picture theatre to be erected at Utica.
mil Offeman, New York Cit
Emil
City, incorporator.
Georgia
The Real Estate Development Co. has let the contract
ATTRACTIVE L1NDENBERG FLOAT
for the erection of a new $35,000 moving picture theatre at
Augusta.
Illinois
The Woodlawn Amusement Co. has plans for a new Carlin Music Co., of Indianapolis, Shows the
moving picture theatre to be erected at Chicago.
Progress of Musical Instruments During the
Charles Abrahms has plans for a new theatre building to
Past Century by Means of Novel Float
be erected at Chicago.
Jarrett Amusement Co., Alton; $7,500; Harry E. Jarrett,
Clement A. Jarrett, John T. Slugett, Jr., incorporators.
Jess Osborne, of Brockton, has purchased a moving
INDIANAPOLIS, 1 ND., November 27.—The Carlin
picture theatre at Kansas.
Music Co., Lindcnbcrg dealers in this city, had
A moving picture theatre will be opened in the building
at Normal formerly occupied by the Amusu theatre, by a
Mr. David, of Kankakee.
Dr. Pitner, of Fairfields, has opened a moving picture
theatre in Schumann's hall in Wayne City.
Shorehain Hotel Co., Chicago; $1,000; L. B. Wheelock,
incorporator.
A new $50,000 church will be erected at Champaign by
the Episcopal Church.
The Rialto Amusement Co., of Fort Wayne, has filed in-
corporation papers to engage in the motion picture business.
The incorporators are A. II. Nokes, F. L. Nokes and M. C.
Nokes.
Iowa
The contract for the erection of an opera^ house at
Early has been awarded to W. J. Gordon, of Sac City.
Kansas
Bert Olson has plans by W. E. Hulse & Co. for a new
$40,000 moving picture theatre to be erected at Hoisington.
Maine
, ,
The new Golden Horseshoe theatre has been opened by
I!. Nadeau, of Presque.
MaNNaohi^etts
The Orient Heights Amusement Co. has plans for the
erection of a new $100,000 theatre building at Boston.
The Roxbury Theatre Co., Inc.. has started work on tin. 1
construction of a new $5,000 moving picture theatre at
Boston.
Strand Theatre of Maine, Inc., Boston; $425,000; Benja-
min A. Prager, incorporator.
Michigan.
The Temple Theatre is being demolished and the material
is being used in the new theatre which Fred Patterson is
erecting just east of the Temple at Owosso.
Missouri
The Knights of Columbus, John T. Nugent, secretary, are
planning to erect a $20,000 theatre and hotel building at
St. Louis.
New Jersey
Carlin
The Coast Amusement Co. is having a new $20,000
a most attractive
moving picture theatre erected at Red Bank.
It is reported that the Montclair Heights Community Club
Pageant parade,
will erect a new moving picture theatre at Valley road and
Lorraine avenue, Montclair.
shown herewith.
A company of Asbury Park men has leased the property
Oklahoma
J. W. Sixihn plans to erect a new moving picture theatre
at Ncwkirk.
Pennsylvania
11. W. and H. L. Ileilberger will manage the new
$100,000 theatre being erected at Bethlehem.
E. D. Brown is erecting a new moving picture theatre at
Pottsville.
Lewis J. Selznick will lease the Grand Opera House at
Pittsburgh, and will operate it as a moving picture house.
Keller & Artritt have just opened a new moving picture
theatre at West Park.
Kliode Island
United States Amusement Co., Providence; $25,000; James
Marcus, 135 Prospect street, incorporator.
South Dakota
Coen and Weltz have opened a new theatre, the Comet, at
Whitewood.
Tennessee
Marcus Loew is planning to erect a new $70,000 theatre
at Memphis.
Washington, D. C.
1\ T. Moore is planning to erect a new moving picture
theatre on Ninth street, Washington.
Wisconsin
The Woodman Hall at Wheeler has been remodeled and
will be used as a moving picture theatre.
Wyoming
j . C. McDonald has opened a new moving picture theatre
at Torrington.
committee of judges to be the best decorated
musical float in the parade, and so popular did
it prove that other business houses, in different
lines, borrowed the float for two other parades
held during the week.
The float showed the
progress of musical instruments during the past
century, a nielodian of 1K16 and an up-to-date
Lindenberg player of 1MH) being the features of
the float. The cost
of decorating t h e
float was $125, and
the Carlin Co. states
that the advertising
which
it received
from the same was
far beyond its ex-
pectations.
T h e
decorative
scheme
was white and yel-
low, a profusion of
yellow
chrysanthe-
mums, electrically il-
luminated,
being
used.
Albert Sering and
Miss H e l e n Mc-
Pheters, in Colonial
costume, presided at
the nielodian, while
K. L. Mitchell and
Ralph Hodgin ac-
Music Co. Float Featuring the Lindenberg Player
companied them on
float in the recent Centennial
the Jjndenberg player. During the progress of
a reproduction of which is the parade over a thousand copies of sheet
The float was voted by the music was distributed among the crowd.
THE COMSTOCK, CHENEY & CO., IVORYTON, CONN.
^MANUFACTURERS:
Piano-forte Ivory Keys, Actions and Hammers,
Ivory and Composition Covered Organ Keys
CRUBB & KOSECARTEN BROS.
Manufacturers ot HIGH GRADE
PIANO-FORTE ACTIONS
NASSAU, Rensselaer County. N. Y.
THE STANDARD CO.,
TORRINGTON,
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
53Q-540 ATLANTIC AVENUE
Established 1S63
rs
SYLVESTER TOWER CO.
Grand a n d
Towers Above
All Others
Upright Piano-forte Actions itt°H858r F gK
Keys, Actions. Hammers, Brackets and Nickel Rail Furnished Complete
131 to 147 Broadway
.
.
.
.
CAM BRIDGE PORT, MASS.
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
MANUFACTURERS
OF
PIANO
ACTIONS
HIGHEST GRADE
ONE GRADE ONLY
OFFICE
457 WEST FORTY-FIFTH ST.
EMARKj
FACTORIES—WEST FORTY-FIFTH ST.
Tenth Arenae and Weit Forty-Sixth Street
NEW YORK
BOSTON, MASS
A. C. CHENEY PIANO ACTION CO.
Manufacturers of J PNEUMATIC ACTIONS FOR PLAYER-PIANOS
Manuiaciurers 01 j HIGH-GRADE PIANOFORTE ACTIONS
f A C T I F T O M N F W VORK
L A ^ I L L I U W , W t W YUK1.
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BUYING COPPER IN ADVANCE
TAKE ISSUE ON LUMBER RATES
ESTABLISHES DAILY AUTO DELIVERY
Output for First Half of 1917 Is Practically All
Sold at the Present Time
New England Lumber Dealers Protest at Pro-
posed Increase in Shipping Tariff
American Musical Supply Co. Helps Manufac-
turers to Get Their Supply of Tuning Pins
as Promptly as Possible
The copper trade estimates that nearly 95 per
cent, of the expected output in the first half
of 1917 has been sold in advance. Metal for
delivery in the first quarter of next year is
quoted around Z2 l / 2 cents a pound, and little
copper is said to be available for second quar-
ter delivery under 31 cents. These are unpre-
cedented records of sales and prices. In the
thirty days ended November 20 the price of
electrolytic copper for delivery ninety days
ahead rose 5 cents a pound, and the level from
which the upturn began was higher than the
metal sold in any other year.
The question, "Is the price apex close at
hand?" was discussed in copper circles last
week. The sharp rise of recent weeks was of
the sort to impress observers that no limit could
yet be set for prices, yet an examination of
production figures has made some statisticians
ponder the matter at length. The major re-
fining companies are working to increase ca-
pacity as rapidly as possible; the mines have
displayed fairly steady increases in output
month by month all this year. The brass
foundries have been reported busy, at capacity
—twenty-four hours a day—for six months, and
it is impossible to say whether they will be
able to increase their consumption of copper
materially within the next year.
In the opinion of copper men the price level
and the refinery output will be governed by the
progress of the war. As long as munition fac-
tories at home and abroad continue to absorb
the metal, producers say, there is no factor in
sight to offset this as an influence on prices.
In other words, the men who turn out the cop-
per do not expect any sizeable reduction in
prices while the demands of war business keep
up. A slackening of the war demand would,
it is said, mark down the present level for some
distance at least. It might, also, tend to curtail
operations at the mines.
Consult the universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
BOSTON, MASS., November 27.—The proposed
increase in freight rates on lumber shipments
over the Bangor and Aroostook, Maine Central,
Canadian Pacific and Canadian Government
roads would place New England and Canadian
shippers on equal competitive basis, according
to .testimony given to-day by Canadian ship-
pers favoring the increased rates at the hearing
before Wilber Laroe, of the Interstate Com-
merce Commission.
New England lumber dealers assert that the
proposed rates were high compared with those
in other sections of the country, and that the
result would be the closing of the New York
market to them and to some extent the Long
Island Sound markets.
Samuel H. Martin, representing the Eastern
Shook and Wooden Box Association, testified
that the advanced rates would drive the asso-
ciation's business from New York, which, he
said, was the best market in the country for
shooks and wooden boxes. Peyton B. Bennett,
a Canadian shipper, urged that the advanced
rates would enable his concern to do business
in southern New England, where, he said, it
has been unable to enter into competition.
GEORGE KLEINFELDER PASSES AWAY
Prominent Glue Manufacturer Dies at His
Home in Brooklyn
George Kleinfelder, a manufacturer of glue,
died on Wednesday in his home, 202 East Thir-
ty-first street, Flatbush. He was a brother-in-
law of Magistrate Alfred E. Steers, former Bor-
ough President of Brooklyn. Mr. Kleinfelder
was born in Brooklyn forty-two years ago. His
wife, Jessie Sutherland Kleinfelder, and a son
survive.
ENGLAND BUYS WOOL CLIP
A cablegram from the American Consul at
Auckland, New Zealand, contains the informa-
tion that the British Government has purchased
the entire New Zealand wool clip at an ad-
vance of 55 per cent, over 1913-1914 prices.
MATERIALS,
TOOLS AND
SUPPLIES
Frederick W. Hessmer, manager of the
American Musical Supply Co., recently an-
nounced that the concern had inaugurated a
daily automobile delivery to New York City
for the convenience of piano manufacturers
there. The truck leaves every morning from
the factory at 445 Communipaw avenue, Jersey
City, and makes its deliveries during the day to
the metropolitan piano manufacturers, who use
the tuning pins manufactured by this concern;
The concern is doing its utmost to supply the
enormous demand for tuning pins which exists
at present, and the factory is being worked to
capacity in order to keep up with the large
orders which are constantly being received.
HIGHER PRICES FOR^ PIANO FINISHES
Substantial Increases to Be in Force Next Year
. Is the Prospect, Declares C. Schick
C. Schick, manager of the 11. ['(.'bleu & I.ro.,
manufacturers of varnishes, stains and finis!-es
for pianos, recently stated in answer to a re-
quest for information in regards to price:
"While it is considered that present prices
are high, they are probably away below those
that will be in force next year, and especially
is this true as regards alcohol, shellac and all
materials for finishing."
H. Behlen & Bro. have in spite of the general
shortage of materials been able to fill the de-
mands of the trade, and while it has required
constant hustling and hard work the large vol-
ume of business has been sufficient reward.
PIANISSIMO DEVICE FOR GRANDS
WASHINGTON, D. C, November 28.—William A.
Schroeder, Everett, Wash., was last week
granted Patent No. 1,204,077 for a pianissimo
device for grand piano actions.
This invention has for its primary aim to
provide a mechanism of the above character
which will efficiently operate to perform the de-
sired functions, the same being adapted espe-
cially for grand pianos.
A further object resides in the novel con-
struction, arrangement and combination of parts
whereby lost motion is provided in obtaining
a soft tone.
PIN HOLES IN MAHOGANY VENEER
Many piano workers sometimes notice that
pin holes come through mahogany veneer after
the varnish coat has been rubbed, and this de-
spite reasonable care and the use of correct
methods in finishing. These pin holes, as a
rule, come from one or two causes, either be-
cause of dampness of the surface, which may
be due to a damp condition of the factory, or
it may be due to thinning the varnish with
turpentine or some other thinner which is not
thoroughly mixed. A properly mixed thinner,
and a reasonably dry factory should eliminate
the appearance of pin holes.
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.
Richardson Piano Case Co.
Manufacturers of
HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & CO.
Upright—
G rand—
Player—
NEW YORK SINCE 1848
Piano Cases
Established 1891
4th Avc. & 13th St.
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