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THE
MARCH 20, 1926
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
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The Technical Department—(Continued from page 38)
properties contemplated by the law. It states
Engineers to Take Part
further: "The inadequacy of present earnings Wessell, Nickel & Gross
in the Western district has not been denied.
in National Forest Week There
Hold Annual Meeting
was some slight improvement in 1925,
American Engineering Council With 60,000
Members to Co-operate in Reforestation
Propaganda
A definite step toward the timber conserva-
tion movement will be taken soon by the Amer-
ican Engineering Council, which lias announced
its intention of co-operating in a national ob-
servance of American Forest Week to be held
April 18 to 24. The council, through its con-
stituent societies, numbering more than 60,000
engineers, is carrying on nation-wide effort to
save the nation's forest resources.
In a statement made public by the council,
Dean Mortimer E. Cooley, of the University of
Michigan, urges reforestation as a measure of
national safety.
"There are something over 80,000,000 acres of
land from which the forests have been cut," says
Dean Cooley, a past president of the council.
"This country is reforesting at the rate of
40,000 acres a year and at that rate it will take
2,000 years to reforest the lands that have been
cut over.
"Japan is reforesting at the rate of LW,000
to 140,000 acres a year. China is establishing
forests on her lands which have not had trees
on them for hundreds or even thousands of
years.
"Forestry is an exceedingly important phase
of the future of this country, in the protection
of our streams and our source of power upon
which we shall become more and more depend-
ent as the years go on."
but the gain over the amount needed to provide
a return on the investment made in the prop-
erties during the preceding year was so slight
that if this same relative increase were to con-
tinue in the future, it would take the Western
railways twelve years to reach the earning
power prescribed by law, or to equal the earning
power of their properties in 1916."
Entire List of Officers and Directors Is Re-
elected—The Year 1925 Proved a Most Satis-
factory One
The annual meeting of the board of directors
and stockholders of Wessell, Nickel & Gross,
Ne\V York City, manufacturers of Wessell,
Nickel & Gross piano actions, was held on Mon-
day, March 8. The entire list of officers and
directorate was re-elected for the ensuing year.
The officers are as follows: President, F. A.
Wessell; vice-president, Arthur L. Wessell; sec-
retary and treasurer, George Koenig. The
By Use of the Device It Is Possible to Lock board of directors consists of the' foregoing
Top, Fallboard and Music Roll Drawer of officers with the addition of Samuel; Riker, Jr.
Grand Reproducers With a Single Key
The report submitted concerning 1925 business
was very satisfactory. It is interesting to note
Krakauer Bros., New York., have just had as- that in spite of the somewhat quiet conditions
signed to them a new piano-locking device prevalent throughout the piano industry during
covered by U. S. Patent No. 1,575,532, granted the last year, the volume of business transacted
to Maurice K. Bretzfelder who recently entered by Wessell, Nickel & Gross reached an enviable
the firm and who is responsible for the working figure. It was reported that the outlook for the
out of the device. The new lock is so con- ensuing fiscal year seemed even brighter than
structed that one turn of the regular piano lock the exceptional year that was just completed by
key fastens the grand top, fallboard and music the firm.
roll drawer of reproducing pianos. Krakauer
Bros, felt for some time that such protection
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
was needed for the music roll drawer, and find The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
that the new lock meets the requirements.
free of charge for men who desire positions.
Krakauer Bros. Get Patent
on a New Piano Lock
Garloadings Show Advance
WASHINGTON, 1). C, March 13.—Loading of rev-
enue freight for the first nine weeks this year
—that is, from January 1 until February 27,
inclusive—totaled 8,108,459 cars, according to
reports just filed by the carriers with the Amer-
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 13.—A brief has been
ican Railway Association. This was an increase
filed recently with the Interstate Commerce Com- of 28,463 cars over the corresponding period
mission by counsel for the Western railways last vear.
in connection with the action pending on the
Western freight rate advance. According to
the brief, the Western railways have failed under
existing rates to earn the fair return upon their
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