January 17, 1925.
19
P R E S T O
SMALL GOODS AND SUPPLIES
awards of $50 each. Thus it is one of the most in-
teresting events from the purely educational point of
view as well as in the sense of high-class entertain-
ment.
C. L. Willey Company, Big Chicago Lumber
Progressive Chicago Industry Ties Up with
Conditions of Contest.
Dealer, Suffer Loss of $400,000 on
Radio Corporation of America in Unique
• The contest will be broadcast by radio as the
Wednesday Morning.
Brunswick Hour of Music on the following dates:
Contest to Aid the Understanding of
First contest night, Tuesday, February 2rd. Sec-
Good Music.
The great veneer works of the C. L. Willey Com-
ond contest night, Tuesday, February 10th." Third
contest night, Tuesday, February 17th. Fourth con- pany, at 2558 South Robey street, Chicago, narrowly
escaped total destruction by fire on Wednesday. The
test night, Tuesday, February 24th.
TESTING "MUSIC MEMORY"
Radio listeners will not be told the name of the flames spread rapidly to the roof and threatened to
artist or the title of the selection rendered, but must ignite adjoining lumber yards and mill works.
try to identify the artists and the name of the com-
The Willey company is located in the heart of the
Stations WJZ, New York, WRC, Washington, and
position played or sung. Blanks sent by the Bruns- lumber district of the Southwest Side, and a 2-11
WGY, Schenectady, combine in the Enterprise
wick Company are to be filled in and returned after alarm followed by a 3-11 alarm and a special call for
to Broadcast Compositions.
the last contest night. The programs last one hour five engines was turned in, bringing almost the entire
One of the most interesting contests since radio each Tuesday. The contest is open to all except the fire apparatus of Chicago's Southwest Side.
came into prominence will be broadcast from Sta- employees of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co.,
An early estimate of the damage was placed at
Chicago, the Radio Corporation of America, New $400,000. The fire started shortly after 7 o'clock,
tions WJZ, New York City, WRC, Washington, and
York,
and
the
artist
and
orchestras
whose
selections
WGY, Schenectady, N. Y., during the month of
when about 125 employes were about to begin work.
will be broadcast.
February.
It originated in the band-saw section of the plant,
A list of compositions to be used in the contest and supposedly from a hot box caused by some over-
The contest will be conducted by the Brunswick-
blanks
will
be
furnished
upon
request
by
the
Bruns-
Balke-Collender Co., 623 South Wabash avenue, Chi-
heated mechanism. The flames spread quickly
wick Company, Chicago. The list contains sixty se- through a stockroom and then to all parts of the
cago, in co-operation with the Radio Corporation of
lections, embracing some of the finest as well as most building, fed by veneers and varnishes.
America. New York City, with its objective to enable
popular compositions in the entire range of music.
people to attain a .more thorough appreciation and
The Willey company supplies a good deal of the
understanding of good music.
veneers used by a number of the piano industries. It
is one of the largest dealers in mahogany and other
Object of Contest.
TRAVELERS FILE BRIEF.
fine veneers and woods.
To aid them also in acquiring a familiarity with the
A brief in support of a 20 per cent reduction below
music compositions which are being sung and played
the maximum fare for interchangeable scrip or mile-
COST OF VEGETABLE OILS.
today by the foremost artists.
age tickets has just been filed with the Interstate
Another point of the contest is to make clear the
The vegetable oil investigation of the United States
Commerce Commission by the International Federa-
remarkable new musical possibilities of radio as re- tion of Commercial Travelers' Organizations. The Tariff Commission has ascertained costs of produc-
cently attained through the combination of radio's brief urges the commission to enter an order which tion at home and abroad. An extensive probe was
outstanding achievement, the Brunswick-Radiola.
would provide a practical test, provided it was done made in the United States to determine what it actu-
Cash Awards.
upon the record in the case and was not based en- ally costs to produce vegetable oils here. The in-
The Brunswick Company lias announced its inten- tirely on the purpose of the law. It also claimed that vestigators included Dr. Grinnell Jones and A. T.
no evidence had been introduced at the last hearing Geraci, who visited England, Holland and France.
tions to entertain and inform in music more than ever
They were accompanied by R. H. Cragg and Mervyn
that would justify or warrant further exemptions.
before, and the "Music Memory" is to be an inter-
Braun, who later went to British India and Ceylon
esting and thoughtful medium to that end. $5,000 in
for their investigation.
cash awards will be paid to the winning contestants.
The Bowles Music & Jewelry Shop, Bloomington,
The awards will be announced about March 17th.
111., was recently opened under the management of
The first award is $1,000; second, $500; third, $300;
John C. Hollingsworth, carrying a full line of music
The Rialto Music Shop, located in the Rialto Thea-
fourth, $200; ten awards of $100 each and forty
goods.
ter building, Omaha, has added a small goods section.
BRUNSWICK CONTEST
FINE VENEER DESTROYED
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
The (new) Buckeye Sill Piano Truck
Manufacturers of
The New Buckeye Sill
PIANO ACTIONS
HIGHEST GRADE
For
(.! rands
and Uprights
work.
and best for
ONE GRADE ONLY
The "Weasell, Nickel & Gross action is a
guarantee of the grade of the instrument
in which it is found
45th St., lOrti A w . & W 4O4i.
NEW YORK
457 W. 45th Street
Comstock, Cheney & Co.
Better your SPIRVICE with a new Buckeye Sill. We have re-
built and greatly improved, for longer service, the handles, center
rock shaft and the uprights of both ends.
Send for circular.
Eight styles of End Trucks, Piano Hoists, Covers and special
made straps.
Ivory Cutters and Manufacturers
Manufactured by
Piano Keys, Actions and Hammers
Self Lifting Piano Truck Co.
FINDLAY, OHIO
IVORY AND COMPOSITION-COVERED ORGAN KEYS
Th« only Company Furnishing t h . Kays, Actions, Hammers and Brackets CwnpJete
i
Telegraph and R. R. Station: Easeoc, Conn.
Office and Factories: Ivory ton, Conn.
THE O. S. KELLY CO.
Manufacturers
of
High
-
Manufacturers of
-
OHIO
and
Tupper Lake
Piano Backs, Boards, Bridges, Bars,
Traplevers and Mouldings
SOLE AGENTS FOR RUDOLF GIESE WIRE
WESTERN REPRESENTATIVE:
Grade
PIANO PLATES
SPRINGFIELD
JULIUS BRECKWOLDT & SON, ING.
CENTRAL STEEL & WIRE CO.,
119-127 N. Peoria Street,
J. BRECKWOLDT, Pre«.
Chicago, 111.
W. A. BRECKWOLDT. Sec. & T r e u
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