June 23, 1923
23
PRESTO
exported because of the liability to breakage and
warping during transit," said Mr. Cook. "We can
send our records anywhere all over the world and
Silver Star Recording Co. Announces Plan to Build they will arrive and stay in perfect playing condition
for an indefinite period of time. We have been able
Factory in New Brunswick, N. J.
to produce a record which can be thrown on the
The Silver Star Record Company of New York is ground, kicked around, run over by automobiles, cut
contemplating the erection of a large factory in New with a knife, and then put on a machine and played
Brunswick for the manufacture of the new unbreak- perfectly. The record has been demonstrated to
able Silver Star phonograph record, according to many New Brunswick residents, and has also been
Percy A. Cook, president, who has been in New played at several of the leading phonograph record
Brunswick looking over the situation from a manu- stores."
facturing 1 standpoint.
The Silver Star Record Company announces that it
NOW RADIO MOTION PICTURES.
will produce a twelve-inch double-faced record to re-
The principle by which moving pictures can be
tail at seventy-live cents, and a ten-inch double-faced
unbreakable phonograph record to retail at fifty transmitted by radio has been successfully worked
ottt by C. Francis Jenkins, Washington inventor.
cents.
Demonstrations have been conducted with such a de-
The new company announces it will also produce
a novel advertising record which can be made and gree of success that experts who witnessed them pre-
sent through the mails for a few cents. It is under- dicted that soon California, for instance, will be able
stood that tentative orders for millions of records to see a parade being held in Washington. The lat-
est test was held in the presence of officials from the
have been received by the new company.
"The reason we can sell our records so cheaply," bureau of standards, the navy department and the
said Mr. Cook, when interviewed, "is that we can postoffice department. They saw, reproduced upon a
produce records, with a playing surface of the same screen the wiggling lingers of Professor Jenkins'
material of which all other phonograph records are hand, which was held before a "radio eye" a con-
made,- much more cheaply, and with the use of prac- siderable distance away.
tically automatic machinery."
According to Mr. Cook, who is a resident of West-
NEW RADIO DEPARTMENT.
field, and very heavily interested in the new corpora-
A special radio department of the United Music
tion, the unbreakable feature of the Silver Star record Stores, Inc., Philadelphia, will be located in a newly
opens up tremendous new markets in the phonograph acquired building adjoining the company's headquar-
field. "Only one per cent of the records now made, ters at 619 Cherry street. The company only re-
and these run into hundreds of millions a year, are cently entered the radio field but Oscar Kern, the
general manager, is very well pleased with results
so far.
SITUATION IN SUPPLIES
MAKE UNBREAKABLE RECORDS
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TO CLEAN T H E HAMMER FELTS.
To give back their original color to the felts of
hammers that have become grey with dust, Musique
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possible shall be removed by brushing from the
hammer heads; then rub them with a piece of mag-
nesia. Brush off to finish, and the felt will have re-
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Pacts in Various Lines of Commodities Which Enter
Into Musical Instrument Manufacture.
"A recent bulletin by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture shows that North Carolina is
ahead of all states on the Atlantic in timber produc-
tion. Her cut in 1920 was one and one quarter billion
feet of lumber. Florida and Virginia are also large
producers, and rank next to North Carolina with a
cut of one billion feet each," H. M. Curran, Farm
Forestry Specialist for the Agricultural Extension
Service stated this week.
New York Piano Manufacturers' Association voted
last week to organize committees in piano and supply
trades to study standardization problems.
Veneer factories in Evansville, Ind., are running on
day and night schedules in the effort to fill orders.
The Copper Export Association, New York, in the
four months and 10 days ended May 10, sold more
than 47,000,000 pounds of copper metal of an average
price of 15.9 cents. In April sales totaled 5,210,000
pounds, at an average price of 16.96 cents, and in the
first 10 days of May 1,558,000 pounds at 16.6 cents.
The rubber market in London has again taken a
distinct turn for the better. • In the last fortnight the
raw material has risen from Is l ^ d to Is 3d a pound.
The United States had been taking a considerable
amount of rubber supplies direct from the East, but
has been buying large amounts in London recently
for deliveries extending "over the next four months.
PHONOGRAPH DEPARTMENT SUCCEEDS.
According to Mark C. Stinson, manager of the Chi-
cago retail store of the Aeolian Company for the sale
of Vocation phonographs, sales of the latter for the
three months ending May 31 were double that of the
three corresponding months of last year. Mr. Stinson
took charge of the Vocalion retail department located
in Mandel Bros, department store on April 1. He
had been with the firm for four years previously. The
showrooms in Mandel Bros, is the only retail Voca-
lion branch of the Aeolian Company west of New
York.
HARDMAN, PECK. & GO. ( °8V )
Manufacturers of the
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The Official Piano of the Metropolitan Opera Co.
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