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VOL. 86. No. 7
REVIEW
Published Weekly. Federated Business Publications, Inc., 420 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y., Feb. 18,1928
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Federated RadioTrade Meetin
Association, in Convention at Milwaukee, Discusses Question of
"Wired Wireless" Competition — Harold J. Wrape, of
St. Louis, Re-elected President of Body
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Radio Protective Association, a manufacturers'
association, stated that inventive genius would
be destroyed by control. Herbert H. Frost,
Chicago, asked that the date of the 1928 Chi-
cago show be fixed.
The publicity committee recommended that
the Federated Radio Trade Journal, official
organ of the association, be discontinued.
The attendance was large and enthusiastic.
ILWAUKEE, WIS., February IS.—Tremendous possibilities, the surface of which has
scarcely been scratched as yet, although there has been an enormous business in radio,
were outlined and predicted at the third annual convention of the Federated Radio Robert Gable Dies at
Trade Association, which opened at the Hotel Schroeder, in this city, on Tuesday of this week.
Age of Seventy-Nine
H. J. Erstrom, executive secretary of the association, declared that the time will come when
practically all people will own more than one receiver—one in their homes and one a portable,
Robert Cable, son of the founder and for
which they will carry with them on week-end
many years head of Cable & Sons, which was
election
of
Harold
J.
Wrape,
of
St.
Louis
as
trips, vacations, etc. Television, he stated, is
established in Albany, N. Y., in 1852, and later
in an experimental stage and it will be a num- president.
located in New York City, to which city they
In
his
report
as
chairman
of
the
show
com-
ber, of years before it will be used the same
moved in 1869, passed away at his home, 30
way as the radio set of to-day is, but when this mittee, A. M. Edwards of the Michigan Asso-
West Eighty-ninth street, New York, on Friday
ciation
stated
new
appeals
must
be
made
to
lime does arrive the television set will be an
last. Mr. Cable was seventy-nine years of age,
addition to the present radio set and not an the public.
and is survived by a son, Robert Cable, Jr.
A
resolution
was
passed
favoring
making
the
entirely new device.
Funeral services were held on Monday. Sev-
The speaker declared that there were 14,000,- Federal Radio Commission a permanent body. eral representatives of the trade were present,
Prevention
of
radio
control
and
mutual
work-
000 radio sets in the homes to-day, a number
including Louis S. Roemer, president of Cable
that will be doubled within the next two years, ing agreements were discussed. A. E. Weller, & Sons.
of
the
National
Electrical
Manufacturers
Asso-
and that now the expression "The entire United
States is listening in" has become a reality. ciation, advocated eliminating half the present
The remodeled showrooms of Goold Bros.,
Several hundred dealers, manufacturers' agents number of broadcasting stations, and stated
Inc., 2872 Delaware avenue, Kenmore, N. Y.,
and jobbers who were present gave Mr. Ers- that the number of radio equipment manufac-
turers had decreased from 2,300 to 697 in the have been formally opened, the changes com-
trom an enthusiastic reception.
prising new demonstration booths for phono-
How the radio industry can successfully meet past two years.
Ernest Reichman, Chicago, counsel for the graphs and records.
the challenge of a new competitor from the
electrical industry planning to furnish pro-
grams to the public through the media of tele-
phone and electric light wires, yet called "wired
wireless," was outlined by Bond P. Geddes, of
New York, executive vice-president of the
Radio Manufacturers' Association. Radio broad-
casters, Mr. Geddes said, will furnish better New Building, Six Stories in Height and Representing Investment of $750,000, will be
programs than the new service and the limited
Fully Occupied by Old Piano House Within Next Few Months
service and the high rates of the new competi-
tor will enable radio retail dealers to compete
D O S T O N , MASS., February 14.—Preliminary being far better adapted to working conditions
successfully with it. This new competitor, said
moves began this week with Chickering & than the old Tremont street structure, although
Mr. Geddes, is fostered by the electrical in-
dustry, the large electrical manufacturers sup- Sons towards the abandonment of its famous that in its day represented the last word in
plying the apparatus with the power, light and old Tremont street factory, and its location in factory planning and construction. The new
telephone companies furnishing the transmis- the modern new plant, recently acquired at site was chosen with particular reference to the
Roxbury Station, six stories in height and rep- fact that Chickering & Sons have in their em-
sion and amplifying facilities.
Prospects are bright for the most successful resenting an investment of approximately $750,- ploy an industrial family that can scarcely be
This new plant will be the fifth to be surpassed in the old employes that constitute
year radio has had, said Harold J. Wrape, presi- 000.
occupied
by this old piano house in its history it. The new factory is located in the same gen-
dent of the association, in opening the conven-
tion. L. S. Baker, managing director of the of 105 years, tne original shop of Jonas Chick- eral location where Chickering pianos have been
National Association of Broadcasters, declared ering on Tremont street, the factory on Com- made for so many years, for the convenience
that radio advertising through the medium of mon street, that on Washington street, which of those men who have contributed so much
broadcasting would never supplant newspaper was destroyed by fire in 1852, and the present to the Chickering instrument, some of them
and periodical publicity. Michael Ert, presi- plant at 791 Tremont street, which has been having been in the company's employ for forty
years or more, and any number over twenty-
dent of the Wisconsin Trades Association, wel- occupied for well over seventy years.
The new factory, of concrete and brick con- five years. It will be several months before
comed the visitors to Milwaukee.
The second day's session was closed with the struction, is modern in every sense of the word, the moving is entirely completed.
Chickering & Sons Begin Move to New
Factory Located at Roxbury Station
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