Presto

23
PRESTO
November 14, 1925.
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
AMUSEMENT CENTERS
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
hogany assumes with age an indescribable, ruddy
tone that has been likened to rare old sherry wine.
"The impression exists in some minds that mahog-
any is a rare expensive wood, difficult to obtain, work
In Special Notification to the Trade, Company and finish and therefore not available for any but
Tells of Decision to Exclude Objection-
those of large means. The real truth is exactly to
the contrary. Over fifty million board feet are im-
able Song from Lists.
ported annually. It costs but little more than other
The Q R S M'usic Company, Chicago, has just less beautiful, less durable cabinet woods. It works
notified the trade that the issuing of a music roll in as easily as any other cabinet wood and more easily
connection with "The Wreck of the Shenandoah" than many.
would be capitalizing on a national disaster, and
"Because the tree is a giant, it produces large clear
neither humane nor patriotic. At the same time the lumber and veneer that cuts to advantage, thereby
trade is notified that the company has withdrawn reducing and adding to the real economy of its use.
from circulation all rolls listed under the title "The It will take any! finish that can be applied to any
Wreck of the Shenandoah."
cabinet wood. Its even texture makes filling easy or,
"This is done in deference to the widows and or- with many types of finish, unnecessary. Simple, in-
phans of the commander and crew who lost their expensive stains are recommended that do not so
lives in this accident. The Q R S Music Company darken the surface as to obscure the figure and pre-
feels ^ure that this action will meet the approval of vent light from developing the full beauty of the
most Americans," is the comment of the company on wood, or color it so red that the finished work lacks
the announcement.
the faintest resemblance to mahogany."
The action of the Q R S Music Co. is what the
trade and roll buyers would expect. "Q R S" stands
NEW MUSICAL GOODS CATALOG.
for quality and a real service that involves taste and
The wholesale small goods department of Sherman,
the observance of the niceties of life. The company
has always responded to what is known as the "popu- Clay & Co., San Francisco, Cal., has a new whole-
lar" demand, but it also has used a commendable dis- sale catalog in preparation which will be ready for
cretion in selection. Many songs which have appeared distribution next week. There will be over 200 pages
in sheet music form and attained the status of "hits" covering a large assortment of musical merchandise.
on the vaudeville stage, have not been produced in Four new specialties will be included in the catalog.
roll form by the Q R S Music Co., for reasons obvi- These include a banjo stand, which can be folded up
ous to people of good taste and judgment as to and put in the case; a tone modulator for alto, mel-
ody and tenor saxophones; a saxophone cleaner,
what constitutes suitability in a song topic.
known as Le Pactole Sax-Swab, and the Tuxedo
saxophone strap.
A Q R S ANNOUNCEMENT
SOURCE OF REAL MAHOGANY
Mahogany Asssociation Book Gives Interesting Facts
About Location of Wood and Extent of Production.
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The sources of genuine mahogany wood are lim-
ited in number and the extent of the'production in
each territory is governed by a variety of conditions,"
according to "Historic Mahogany," a pamphlet pub-
lished by the Mahogany Association, Inc., New York,
which continues: "Except for a small quantity in
the Florida Everglades,, unavailable because of its
location, no genuine mahogany grows in the United
States and all that we have is imported from three
widely separated tropical sources. The first of these
is Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and
other Central American States and parts of South
America; the second is the Nigerian, Gold and Ivory
coasts of West Africa; the third is the West Indian
Islands, principally Cuba and Santo Domingo."
"Just a word as to what genuine mahogany is.
Considerable confusion exists because many woods
that are in no sense mahogany are being sold under
trade names that include the word mahogany. Among
these are: East Indian mahogany, which is padouk;
white mahogany, which is prime vera; Hawaiian ma-
hogany, which is Hawaiian koa; Liberville mahog-
any, which is gaboon; Philippine mahogany, which
is a collective name for several Philippine woods,
such as tanguile, bataan, almon, bagtican, etc.
"None of these is mahogany and should not be
accepted or used as such. If properly stained, ma-
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