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SEPTEMBER 14,
THE
1918
PHONOGRAPH CABINET HARDWARE
Hammacher, Schlemmer & Co. Report Excel-
lent Demand for Their Line—Needle Cups
Having Wide Vogue in the Trade—Catalog
Describing Hardware Fully Will Be Sent to
Cabinet Manufacturers Desiring the Same
The shortage of metal generally has naturally
caused a shortage in the various items of hard-
ware and trimming which are used in the con-
struction of talking machines, and those supply
firms throughout the country whose resources
The Hammacher, Schlemmer Needle Cups
are such that they are enabled to supply their
trade with sufficient hardware are finding their
order books filling up faster than they can at-
tend to the demand being made upon them by
manufacturers. Hammacher, Schlemmer & Co.,
Fourth avenue and Thirteenth street, New York,
the great Eastern piano and talking machine
hardware house, have been doing an immense
business in their talking machine and phono-
graph hardware department during the past
few months, and manufacturers are finding that
in point of quality, service, and wide range of
designs, Hammacher, Schlemmer & Co.'s line
of hardware is hard to excel. The concern
recently issued a handy little catalog, showing
their line of phonograph cabinet hardware,
which has been sent to manufacturers through-
out the country, and which lists and illustrates
a wide variety of hinges, top supports and slides,
elbow catches, mortise locks, knobs of brass,
wood and glass, casters and, in fact, everything
which goes into the making of a talking machine
cabinet.
One item in the catalog which is having an
especially heavy sale at the present time is the
Hammacher, Schlemmer & Co. needle cup, two
illustrations of which are shown herewith, one
showing the cup with cover, and the other show-
MUSIC
TRADE
ing the cup without cover. These needle cups
are a most necessary adjunct of every talking
machine, and the style shown herewith has
proved very popular with the trade in general.
The cups are well finished, carefully gauged as
to uniform size, and are adaptable to any make
of talking machine, from the small portable
affairs to the elaborate art-finished period
models. Large orders are being received for
tliese cups every day, and the concern will be
pleased to send further information concerning
them, or any other item of talking machine cab-
inet hardware, to any manufacturer desiring the
same.
The Bransfield-Billings Action Supply Co.,
bankrupt, last week paid a second dividend of
20 per cent, on the money due creditors, and the
receiver intimated that there will be another
dividend paid some time about the latter part
of October. It would now seem as if this en-
tire account will be cleared up satisfactorily, re-
flecting credit on the company, on the receiver,
and, in fact, on all concerned.
COPPER PRICES FIRM
RUBBER SHIPMENTS FROM BRAZIL
Output Is Short of Demand, But Prices Are
Firm at 26 Cents Per Pound
Over Four Million Pounds of Raw Rubber Ex-
ported During the Month of July, 1918
Copper is decidedly firm at the fixed price of
26 cents a pound. A few industrial consumers
are complaining of inability to obtain supplies,
but this in itself does not reflect any particu-
lar change in the situation, there having been
a shortage of copper for general industrial pur-
poses for months past. It is a fact not gen-
erally recognized that smelter production and
imports have been running somewhat in ex-
cess of refinery output, and this is partly re-
sponsible for such shortage of supplies as ex-
ists. The inability of the refiners to obtain
the labor and supplies they require to operate
at full capacity is responsible also for the fact
that the mining companies have been reporting
more than normal amounts of unsold copper
on hand. Apparently the price fixing commit-
tee of the Government has been misled to some
extent by the surplus accumulations of unre-
fined copper, which naturally leads it to the as-
sumption that there not only is but will be suf-
ficient of the metal for all purposes. There
is more than sufficient refining capacity in this
country to take care of current output and im-
ports, and if the refiners once succeed in man-
ning their entire plants and obtaining the needed
acid and fuel supplies they soon will convert
the existing supplies, and for a short time there-
fore there will appear to be abundant copper
for all uses.
WASHINGTON, 1). C, September 9.—The Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce has re-
ceived from George H. Pickerell, Consul at
Para, Brazil, a report showing that the exports
of crude rubber from the Amazon district dur-
ing July, 1918, amounted to 4,297,385 pounds.
Shipments to the United States aggregated
4,292,536 pounds, as compared with 2,154,715
pounds exported during the corresponding
month of 1917. In addition to the foregoing
there were shipments of 4,849 pounds of fine
raw rubber to the south of Brazil. There were
no exports to Kurope.
PHONOGRAPH
CABINET
HARDWARE
OUR 36 PAGE CATALOG TAKES IN ALL OF THE PRINCIPAL
ITEMS INCLUDING NEEDLE CUPS, LONG HINGES, STOP
BUTTS, STAY ARMS, CATCHES, LOCKS, CASTERS, KNOBS,
ETC. IF YOU ARE MAKING PHONOGRAPHS OR TALKING
MACHINES THIS CATALOG WILL INTEREST YOU.
PLEASE MENTION CATALOG NO. 176.
HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & CO.
PIANO AND PLAYER HARDWARE, FELTS AND TOOLS
NEW YORK SINCE 1848
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4th AVE. and 13th ST.
SECOND DIVIDEND OF 20 PER CENT.
Paid by the Bransfield-Billings Action Supply
Co., Bankrupt—Another Dividend in October
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