Music Trade Review

Issue: 1917 Vol. 64 N. 25

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MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
$12,000 moving picture theatre to be erected at Pittsburgh.
South Dakota
A. C. Workman has purchased the Fad Theatre at Brook-
ings.
New Motion Picture Theatres, Churches, Hotels and Restaurants in Various Sections of the
M. J». Scrihner is planning to erect a new moving picture
Country That Will Require Orchestrions, Automatic Pianos and Other Musical Equipment
theatre at Lemmon.
B. C. Caldwell has bought the Ruby Theatre at Webster.
Sixth street, near Vine, Cincinnati. It will be operated by
Tennessee
Opportunities to make sales of automatic
the Greater Cincinnati Amusement Co.
The Mutual Amusement Co., Sam E. Reevin president,
will erect a new theatre at Chattanooga.
pianos and orchestrions will be found in this
McKinley Hotel Co., Canton; $100,000; W. S. Langford,
West Virginia
incorporator.
column by piano dealers desirous of develop-
A new moving picture theatre will be erected at Kimball
Langford Hotel Co., Canton; $200,000; W* S. Langford,
by Charles Wagner, of Pocahontas.
incorporator.
ing- these prospects in the respective localities
A new $100,000 church will be erected at Cleveland by
L. II. Miller will erect a new moving picture theatre and
the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist.
store building at Kimball.
mentioned:
Wisconsin
St.
Paul's
Evangelical
Lutheran
Church
will
erect
a
new
California
$40,000 structure at Columbus.
P. J. and Harvey Hanson have obtained a lease on the
The New IT. C. Theatre on University avenue, near
opera house at Antigo and will operate it as a moving
A new $15,000 church edifice will be erected at Wester-
Shattuck, Berkeley, will be opened shortly under the man- ville
picture
theatre.
by
the
Westerville
Evangelical
Church.
agement of A. If. Moore.
The Rex is the name of a new theatre which will be
The M. E. Church at Shawnee will erect a new $20,000
Claude Kennell has opened a new airdome at Taft.
opened
at Chippewa Falls in August.
structure
at
that
place.
C. I-. Shirk is planning to erect a new moving picture
The Unique, a new moving picture theatre, has just been
A new church will be erected at Oxford by St. Mary's
theatre at Taft.
opened
at Greenwood.
Roman
Catholic
Church.
Delaware
W. J. Wilson has purchased James Dailey's moving
A new $85,000 structure will be erected at Carey by the
Karlsbad Hotel Co. of America; $2,500,000; Fred E. Lang,
picture
theatre at Plainneld.
Shrine
of
Our
Lady
of
Consolation
R.
C.
Church.
(iltn Ellyn, 111., incorporator.
The Majestic Theatre at Portage has been purchased by
The Kilpatrick M. E. Church will erect a new $10,000
Idaho
J.
S.
Babcock.
church
at
Marion.
M. Wiegel has opened a new theatre, bearing his name,
Frank Williams has sold his moving picture theatre at
Oregon
at Idaho City.
Turtle Lake to Orvill Busewitz.
The Rialto Theatre, conducted by the Moran-Percy Co.,
Illinois
will be opened at Medford.
George B. Frellsen has leased the Unique Theatre at
The Elmhurst Amusement Co., Elmhurst; $2,500; Frank
Pennsylvania
Waukesha and reopened it.
Meyer, H. II. Johnson, W. A. Robbins, incorporators.
J. A. Koppelberger is erecting a new theatre at La Crosse,
The Brushton Home Building & Realty Co., Oakwood and
The Roseville Amusement Club, of Roseville, has been
incorporated by F. M. Watson, F. C. Johnson and M. C. Inglenook streets, have plans for the erection of a new which will be opened about November 1.
Sparr.
Indiana
connect operatively each pneumatic with its ab-
JOHN WESER^SLAST PATENT
Terre Haute Theatre Co.; $200,000; F. H. Gruneberg,
stract by the engagement of a finger carried on
incorporator.
Patent Issued by Government on Invention Re-
A new $50,000 church and parsonage will be erected at
the movable member of the pneumatic with a
South Bend by the Trinity Presbyterian Church.
lating to Player-Pianos the Last of Many
A new $18,000 church will be erected at North Judson
block nxe"d on the abstract. Such a connection
by the congregation of the Lutheran Church.
Patents Which Recently Deceased Piano
precludes the provision of any appreciable lever-
The First Brethren Church will erect a new $15,000
Manufacturer Had Obtained
structure at Huntington.
age between the pneumatic and the jack, and the
The Kirkwood Avenue Christian Church will erect a new
bulk and positions of the blocks on the abstracts
$75,000 church at Bloomington.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 18.—Patent No. 1,-
Kentucky
require that a considerable space within the
A new $20,000 structure will be erected at Louisville by
229,362 was last week granted to John Weser,
the Third Avenue Baptist Church.
case of the piano be devoted to the actions. In
Louisiana
(who recently died), for a player-piano.
accordance with the present invention each
The Josiah Pearce & Sons Co. have taken over the Lafay-
This invention relates to player-pianos and is
ette Theatre at New Orleans.
pneumatic is operatively connected to its ab-
Mftaouiet
concerned particularly with the construction of
The new Empire Theatre, which is being built at Fall
stract through a rocker arm which serves to
the actions therefor and the disposition of
River by A. A. Spitz, of Providence, R. I., will open in
support the jack and abstract and at the same
September.
these actions with respect to each other and to
Michigan
time serves as a lever arm through which the
Napoleon and Frank Ongie will erect a new $30,000 the- the actuating player pneumatics whereby space
force of the pneumatic is transmitted to the
atre at Hancock which will be known as the New Savoy.
is economized and each hammer is caused to
L F. Wuerth .has just opened the new Wuerth Theatre
jack. This rocker arm is of equal length for-
at Ann Arbor.-
strike a blow of an intensity equal to the blow
North Dakota
each pneumatic so that, no matter where the
Arthur Miller and George Jenkins will operate a moving
struck by every other hammer. A further ob-
pneumatic may be positioned with respect to any
picture show at To.Iley.
ject of the invention is to mount the player pneu-
Ohio . . . .
other pneumatic, the blow delivered by its ham-
The Majestic Findlay Co. has been incorporated at Cleve-
matics in series or banks, one above another,
land with a capital stock of $2,000, for the purpose of oper-
mer is as great as that delivered by any other
ating theatres, by Maurice W. Brume and others.
and yet so to connect each pneumatic to its
hammer. A further object of the invention is to
A. M. Bielawski is preparing plans for a new moy^ffg
abstract as to insure the impressing of the force
picture theatre to be erected at Toledo.
provide an improved finger piece or key lever
The Warren Hippodrome Co. has been organized and
of each pneumatic on its abstract through a
will convert the old First Methodist Church at Warren into
which is so mounted in the piano, with respect
lever arm of equal length to all of the other
a theatre building.
to the pneumatics and actions, and is so con-
McMahan S; Jackson, a company organized for the pur- lever arms. By the last named construction it
pose of erecting a new theatre, will start its construction at
structed, as to permit it to be removed readily
becomes possible to economize space and insure
without disturbing any of the parts of the in-
the, delivery, of blows by the hammers on the
strument.
respective strings, of equal intensity. Tn for-
mer constructions it is the common practice to
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HOW MUS1CJS MINED
ASKS ASSISTANCE OF CREDITORS
Motion, Pictures Used at Wanamaker Audi-
torium to Show the Making of Piano W i r e -
Frank E. Morton Gives Lecture
Chairman of Creditors' Committee in Charge of
Bransfield-Billings Co. Believes Company Can
Continue if the Proper Support Is Offered—
Declared Bank Is Willing to Help
"Mining Music" was the subject of a lecture,
illustrated by motion pictures, given at the
Wanamaker Auditorium each day during the
present week. These pictures were loaned by
the Acoustic Engineering Department of the
American Steel & Wire Co. Crowded houses
listened to this lecture each day and seemed to ]
be much impressed with the detailed process (
necessary in the manufacturing of piano wire. |
The motion pictures, which were produced by •
the Essanay Co., showed in detail the process
from the digging and selection of ore to the
finished product. The lecture was given by j
Frank E. Morton, acoustic engineer of the j
American Steel & Wire Co.
As a finishing touch to this very interesting
lecture the actual product of this plant was
heard through the medium of the Knabe Am-
pico, on which was rendered the March Mili-
taire:
THE WAR AND THE VENEER TRADE
So far the effects of the war in the veneer
and panel trade have been felt mainly in the
way of making the transportation problem more
difficult. The giving of preference to the gov-
ernment needs of railways has made the car
shortage more acute for the time being, and this
interferes in the delivery of veneer and panel
orders. Where it hurts worse, however, is in
curtailing shipments of logs and flitches. Some
of the veneer mills have found it difficult to
keep a supply of raw material, under existing
conditions, and the trade as a whole has easily
suffered more from this than from any let-up
in orders as a result of the war.
- There are already orders enough ahead to
take care of the summer run, and the main hard-
ship coming to the trade at present from war
conditions is in the scarcity of cars and the
difficulty of transportation, which, of course, is
supplemented by a more acute scarcity of help
since some of the young men are called to serv-°
ice.
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James Cooper, chairman for the creditors'
committee, at present in charge of the affairs
of the Bransfield-Billings Action & Supply Co.,
Saginaw, Mich., has sent the following letter
regarding the affairs of the company to its
creditors. The letter contains some interesting
uggestions and reads as follows:
"Samuel Schaflander, James Brown and Henry
I. Holmes purchased three small claims against
:he company aggregating $557.45, and as as-
signees of these claims filed on June 11, 1917, a
P'etition in the United States Court to have the
company adjudged a bankrupt. We have thus
far been unable to learn what prompted these
gentlemen to file this petition, but we are sat-
isfied that they are not interested in conserving
the rights of the creditors or stockholders of
the company.
"Since the creditors' meeting on May 29, a
new inventory has been taken, and from this
inventory it appears that the quick assets amount
to within $75,000 of total liabilities. In addi-
tion to the quick assets the company has a
valuable plant, valuable patent rights and the
good will of a going business. The plant alone
cost $300,000. The company has patent rights
which were purchased for $189,000, upon which
all but $57,000 has been paid. The company is
hot insolvent. The bankruptcy suit will be de-
fended. The bankruptcy proceedings may be-
come a benefit instead of an injury if the cred-
itors will act promptly and accept at once the
following proposition which your committee
recommends.
"The company will give its note for the
amount of each creditor's claim, payable on or
before August 1, 1918, with interest at 5 per
cent, per annum payable at maturity. If this
extension is granted by the creditors and a sat-
isfactory management is kept in charge of the
affairs of the company, the Bank of Saginaw
will advance to the company new funds up to
$40,000 in addition to the amount it has already
advanced to the company, provided the stock-
MATERIALS,
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holders and directors give a satisfactory addi-
tional security for the present and future in-
debtedness of the company for it. If a ma-
jority of the creditors in number and amount
accept this proposition, a petition will be filed
in the present bankruptcy proceedings, and this
proposition will be made to the creditors in the
manner required by the Bankruptcy Act. A
meeting will be called by the United States
Court, notice of which will be given to the cred-
itors, confirmed by the court and the present
bankruptcy proceedings dismissed.
"A stockholders' meeting is being held in Chi-
cago to-day for the election of the new board
of directors, consisting of James T. Wylie, Mar-
tin W. Brady, of Saginaw, and James Cooper,
Hay City, representing the creditors, and John
J. Bransfield and Willis J. Rayburn, of Chicago,
representing the stockholders. Mr. Wylie will
be elected president, and your committee be-
lieves that owing to the large inventory of ma-
terial on hand the business shall be operated so
that during the coming year, by cutting down
the inventory, the bank indebtedness can be
paid and a remaining indebtedness left which
can easily be retired in full by a new financing
method.
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"Please notify your chairman, James Cooper,
care the Bigelow-Cooper Co., Bay City, Mich.,
your willingness to grant this extension, and at
the proper time papers will be sent you to
execute to carry out the agreement as outlined
above."
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