Music Trade Review
Issue: 1914 Vol. 58 N. 8 - Page 4
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THE MUSIC TRADE
MEW
EDWARD LYMAN BILL - Editor and Proprietor
J. B. SPILL A NE, Managing Editor
Executive and Reportorial Staff:
It. HRITTAIN WILSON,
CARLETON CHACE,
A. J. NICKLIN,
BOSTON OFFICE:
, O , , N II. W...SON. 324 W a s h i n g t o n St.
W M . 1$. W H I T E ,
K-, ^
1 eleplinne, Main 6950.
PHILADELPHIA:
I.. M. ROBINSON,
AUGUST J. TIMPE,
GLAD HENDERSON,
L. E. BOWERS.
CHICAGO OFFICE:
VAN ^A.LJKCE^ ^ £ ^ ^ " " ^ 7 .
HENRY S. KINGWILL, Associate,
MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL :
\i. W. KAUFFMAN.
ADOLF EDSTSN.
SAN FRANCISCO: S. H. GRAY, 88 First St.
ST. LOUIS :
CLYDE JENNINGS,
DETROIT MICH.: MORRIS J. WHITE.
CINCINNATI, O.: JACOB W. WALTERS.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.: STANLEY H. SMITH.
BALTIMORE, M D . : A. ROBERT FRENCH.
MILWAUKEE, W I S . : L. E. MEYER.
KANSAS CITY, M O . : E. P. ALLEN.
PITTSBURG, P A . : GEORGE G. SNYDER.
LONDON, ENGLAND: 1 Gresham Buildings, Basinghall St., E. C.
Published Every Saturday at 373 Fourth Avenue, New York
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
SUBSCRIPTION
(inrliuling postagei. United States and Mexico, $2.00 per year; Canada,
$3.50; all other countries, $4.00.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $8.00 per inch, 'ingle column, per insertion.
On quarterly or
yearly contracts, a special discount is allowed. Advertising Page*, $00.00.
REMITTANCES, In other than currency forms, should be made payable to Edward
Lyman I'm.
PiiinA iinii
Departments conducted by an expert wherein alt ques-
• l a i l U
g
t i o n s o f a technical nature relating g to the tuning,
fkpniirtmpntc
lating and repairing of pianos
and player-pianos
are
i
i
V C p d l IIIICUI^. d e a l t w i t h > w i , , b e f o u n d i n a n other section of this
paper. We also publish a number of reliable technical works, information concerning which
will lie cheerfully given upon request.
Exposition Honors Won by The Review
Grand Prix
Diploma
Paris Exposition, 1900
Silver Medal- • .Charleston Exposition, 1902
Pan-American Exposition, 1901
Gold Medal
St. Louis Exposition, 1904
Gold Medal. . Lewis-Clark Exposition, 1905
DISTANCE TELEPHONES—NUMBERS 5982—5983 MADISON 1 SQ.
Connecting' all Departments
Cable address: "Elbill, New Tori."
NEW
YORK,
FEBRUARY
21,
1914
EDITORIAL
S
CIENTISTS and physicians have learned that the only suc-
cessful way to fight disease epidemics is to adopt preventa-
tive measures before the actual danger becomes apparent. Thus
have insurance companies and lire-fighting 1 organizations, as well
as wide-awake manufacturers and business men, come to realize
that the only way to cut down the enormous loss by fires in the
United States each year is to adopt preventative measures that
will serve to reduce the risk so far as it is humanly possible to
do so.
From the viewpoint of the insurance underwriters and the
fire departments, piano factories rank rather high in the list as
fire hazards, for the combination of dry wood and finishing shel-
lacs and varnishes stored on the premises have been found to
offer excellent material for the flames to feed upon.
Then, too, in the case of fires in piano or furniture factories,
where practically the same conditions exist, much has been made
by the authorities and the daily press of the fact that the inflamma-
ble character of the shellacs and varnishes prove instrumental
in aiding the fire to spread to large proportions and to cause
explosions that add to the difficulty in subduing the blaze.
Although in the majority of cases the danger has been
exaggerated, the fact that it is always mentioned in piano factory
fires should lead manufacturers to take every precaution, even
at a slight expense, to cut down the fire risk in their plants to
a minimum.
A number of local manufacturers have commented with
favor upon the report given The Review by K. S. Kennard, in-
spector of combustibles for the New York Fire Department,
regarding the risks attached to the storage of shellacs, varnishes
and "other finishing materials in piano factories, published last
week, and the means by which the risks may be reduced to a
minimum.
The inspector states that an excess of heat, ranging from 160
degrees Fahrenheit in the case of shellacs already mixed to from
138 to 300 degrees in the case of varnishes, is practically certain
REVIEW
to cause spontaneous combustion and result in explosion or fire,
whether the heat is caused by carelessness on the part of work-
men or comes from a fire starting in another part of the factory.
This serves to explain the explosive element that has caused such
great loss in numerous factory fires.
The section of the report that should make the strongest
appeal to piano manufacturers and dealers operating extensive
repair departments, which are in some instances really small
factories, is that which refers to the storing of finishes to mini-
mize the fire risk, and in connection therewith Mr. Kennard says:
"They should be stored and used in a fireproof compartment ; that
no open flame of any kind should be present either in the storage
room or in the workshop. Small quantities should be stored in
sealed containers, the largest of which should not be of more
than fifty gallons capacity. For quantities greater than fifty
gallons, it should be stored underground in an approved oil
storage system. Thorough ventilation should be provided in
both the storage room and also in the workroom. Automatic
closing doors and windows should be attached to such part of
the building, and auxiliary fire appliances, such as sand buckets,
fire extinguishers, and, in case where large quantities are used,
an automatic steam fire extinguishing system should be installed;
and lastly, the utmost caution should be observed to prevent the
employes from smoking."
In New York and other large cities the authorities have taken
active steps to enforce fire preventive methods in factories and
other structures, insisting, for instance, upon the installation of
automatic sprinklers, fire walls, automatic closing lire-doors and
other features that will prevent a fire from spreading or getting
beyond control before the arrival of tire-lighting apparatus.
Although some of the regulations have met with considerable
opposition, they will, in the end, revert directly to the benefit of
the factory owner or the manufacturer in the matter of lower
insurance rates, and. what is more important, making his plant
as nearly fireproof as possible. The manufacturer, therefore,
especially if his plant is located in a district where fire protection
is weak, should look after the handling and storing o f his finishes
in accordance with the advice of the expert just quoted.
Even a few hundred dollars spent in a fireproof room for the
storing of finishes and in apparatus calculated to control anv out-
break of lire from that department of the factory is to be con-
sidered in the light of a good investment when the loss that may
be occasioned by a lire that wipes out a factory, not only in stock
and machinery but in the more serious loss of trade through
cessation of output, is considered.
W
ITH the opening next Tuesday of the piano department
in the new Lord & Taylor store that section of Fifth
avenue bounded by Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth streets be-
comes one of the most popular high-class piano streets in this
city, and probably in the country. Fifth avenue has for many
years been recognized as New York's official Piano Row, and as
the trade has gradually moved northward Piano Row now in-
cludes Fifth avenue from Twenty-eighth street on the south to
Forty-second street on the north.
The opening of the new Lord & Taylor store, however, places
on this single short block on Fifth avenue four high-grade piano
stores, all catering to the very best class of trade, and all repre-
senting pianos that are known from one end of the country to
the other as essentially quality products.
At 427 Fifth avenue, one door north of Thirty-eighth street, is
the handsome retail establishment of the Behning Piano Co., which
recently was enlarged. Three doors north, at No. 433, is Hard-
man House, the home of Hardman. Peck & Co., and considered
by many as one of the most artistic buildings in the piano trade.
Another three doors north, at 439, we have the beautiful retail
warerooms of William Knabe & Co., located at the corner erf
Thirty-ninth street, and occupying a most important position.
Directly facing these three retail houses is the magnificent new
establishment of Lord & Taylor, which has a frontage that
extends almost the entire block between Thirty-eighth and
Thirty-ninth streets on the west side of the avenue. This piano
department will represent the celebrated Chickering piano as its
leader, and in addition will present such well-known lines as the
Vose, Kurtzmann, Wclte and others.
THE MUSIC TRADE
MEW
EDWARD LYMAN BILL - Editor and Proprietor
J. B. SPILL A NE, Managing Editor
Executive and Reportorial Staff:
It. HRITTAIN WILSON,
CARLETON CHACE,
A. J. NICKLIN,
BOSTON OFFICE:
, O , , N II. W...SON. 324 W a s h i n g t o n St.
W M . 1$. W H I T E ,
K-, ^
1 eleplinne, Main 6950.
PHILADELPHIA:
I.. M. ROBINSON,
AUGUST J. TIMPE,
GLAD HENDERSON,
L. E. BOWERS.
CHICAGO OFFICE:
VAN ^A.LJKCE^ ^ £ ^ ^ " " ^ 7 .
HENRY S. KINGWILL, Associate,
MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL :
\i. W. KAUFFMAN.
ADOLF EDSTSN.
SAN FRANCISCO: S. H. GRAY, 88 First St.
ST. LOUIS :
CLYDE JENNINGS,
DETROIT MICH.: MORRIS J. WHITE.
CINCINNATI, O.: JACOB W. WALTERS.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.: STANLEY H. SMITH.
BALTIMORE, M D . : A. ROBERT FRENCH.
MILWAUKEE, W I S . : L. E. MEYER.
KANSAS CITY, M O . : E. P. ALLEN.
PITTSBURG, P A . : GEORGE G. SNYDER.
LONDON, ENGLAND: 1 Gresham Buildings, Basinghall St., E. C.
Published Every Saturday at 373 Fourth Avenue, New York
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
SUBSCRIPTION
(inrliuling postagei. United States and Mexico, $2.00 per year; Canada,
$3.50; all other countries, $4.00.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $8.00 per inch, 'ingle column, per insertion.
On quarterly or
yearly contracts, a special discount is allowed. Advertising Page*, $00.00.
REMITTANCES, In other than currency forms, should be made payable to Edward
Lyman I'm.
PiiinA iinii
Departments conducted by an expert wherein alt ques-
• l a i l U
g
t i o n s o f a technical nature relating g to the tuning,
fkpniirtmpntc
lating and repairing of pianos
and player-pianos
are
i
i
V C p d l IIIICUI^. d e a l t w i t h > w i , , b e f o u n d i n a n other section of this
paper. We also publish a number of reliable technical works, information concerning which
will lie cheerfully given upon request.
Exposition Honors Won by The Review
Grand Prix
Diploma
Paris Exposition, 1900
Silver Medal- • .Charleston Exposition, 1902
Pan-American Exposition, 1901
Gold Medal
St. Louis Exposition, 1904
Gold Medal. . Lewis-Clark Exposition, 1905
DISTANCE TELEPHONES—NUMBERS 5982—5983 MADISON 1 SQ.
Connecting' all Departments
Cable address: "Elbill, New Tori."
NEW
YORK,
FEBRUARY
21,
1914
EDITORIAL
S
CIENTISTS and physicians have learned that the only suc-
cessful way to fight disease epidemics is to adopt preventa-
tive measures before the actual danger becomes apparent. Thus
have insurance companies and lire-fighting 1 organizations, as well
as wide-awake manufacturers and business men, come to realize
that the only way to cut down the enormous loss by fires in the
United States each year is to adopt preventative measures that
will serve to reduce the risk so far as it is humanly possible to
do so.
From the viewpoint of the insurance underwriters and the
fire departments, piano factories rank rather high in the list as
fire hazards, for the combination of dry wood and finishing shel-
lacs and varnishes stored on the premises have been found to
offer excellent material for the flames to feed upon.
Then, too, in the case of fires in piano or furniture factories,
where practically the same conditions exist, much has been made
by the authorities and the daily press of the fact that the inflamma-
ble character of the shellacs and varnishes prove instrumental
in aiding the fire to spread to large proportions and to cause
explosions that add to the difficulty in subduing the blaze.
Although in the majority of cases the danger has been
exaggerated, the fact that it is always mentioned in piano factory
fires should lead manufacturers to take every precaution, even
at a slight expense, to cut down the fire risk in their plants to
a minimum.
A number of local manufacturers have commented with
favor upon the report given The Review by K. S. Kennard, in-
spector of combustibles for the New York Fire Department,
regarding the risks attached to the storage of shellacs, varnishes
and "other finishing materials in piano factories, published last
week, and the means by which the risks may be reduced to a
minimum.
The inspector states that an excess of heat, ranging from 160
degrees Fahrenheit in the case of shellacs already mixed to from
138 to 300 degrees in the case of varnishes, is practically certain
REVIEW
to cause spontaneous combustion and result in explosion or fire,
whether the heat is caused by carelessness on the part of work-
men or comes from a fire starting in another part of the factory.
This serves to explain the explosive element that has caused such
great loss in numerous factory fires.
The section of the report that should make the strongest
appeal to piano manufacturers and dealers operating extensive
repair departments, which are in some instances really small
factories, is that which refers to the storing of finishes to mini-
mize the fire risk, and in connection therewith Mr. Kennard says:
"They should be stored and used in a fireproof compartment ; that
no open flame of any kind should be present either in the storage
room or in the workshop. Small quantities should be stored in
sealed containers, the largest of which should not be of more
than fifty gallons capacity. For quantities greater than fifty
gallons, it should be stored underground in an approved oil
storage system. Thorough ventilation should be provided in
both the storage room and also in the workroom. Automatic
closing doors and windows should be attached to such part of
the building, and auxiliary fire appliances, such as sand buckets,
fire extinguishers, and, in case where large quantities are used,
an automatic steam fire extinguishing system should be installed;
and lastly, the utmost caution should be observed to prevent the
employes from smoking."
In New York and other large cities the authorities have taken
active steps to enforce fire preventive methods in factories and
other structures, insisting, for instance, upon the installation of
automatic sprinklers, fire walls, automatic closing lire-doors and
other features that will prevent a fire from spreading or getting
beyond control before the arrival of tire-lighting apparatus.
Although some of the regulations have met with considerable
opposition, they will, in the end, revert directly to the benefit of
the factory owner or the manufacturer in the matter of lower
insurance rates, and. what is more important, making his plant
as nearly fireproof as possible. The manufacturer, therefore,
especially if his plant is located in a district where fire protection
is weak, should look after the handling and storing o f his finishes
in accordance with the advice of the expert just quoted.
Even a few hundred dollars spent in a fireproof room for the
storing of finishes and in apparatus calculated to control anv out-
break of lire from that department of the factory is to be con-
sidered in the light of a good investment when the loss that may
be occasioned by a lire that wipes out a factory, not only in stock
and machinery but in the more serious loss of trade through
cessation of output, is considered.
W
ITH the opening next Tuesday of the piano department
in the new Lord & Taylor store that section of Fifth
avenue bounded by Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth streets be-
comes one of the most popular high-class piano streets in this
city, and probably in the country. Fifth avenue has for many
years been recognized as New York's official Piano Row, and as
the trade has gradually moved northward Piano Row now in-
cludes Fifth avenue from Twenty-eighth street on the south to
Forty-second street on the north.
The opening of the new Lord & Taylor store, however, places
on this single short block on Fifth avenue four high-grade piano
stores, all catering to the very best class of trade, and all repre-
senting pianos that are known from one end of the country to
the other as essentially quality products.
At 427 Fifth avenue, one door north of Thirty-eighth street, is
the handsome retail establishment of the Behning Piano Co., which
recently was enlarged. Three doors north, at No. 433, is Hard-
man House, the home of Hardman. Peck & Co., and considered
by many as one of the most artistic buildings in the piano trade.
Another three doors north, at 439, we have the beautiful retail
warerooms of William Knabe & Co., located at the corner erf
Thirty-ninth street, and occupying a most important position.
Directly facing these three retail houses is the magnificent new
establishment of Lord & Taylor, which has a frontage that
extends almost the entire block between Thirty-eighth and
Thirty-ninth streets on the west side of the avenue. This piano
department will represent the celebrated Chickering piano as its
leader, and in addition will present such well-known lines as the
Vose, Kurtzmann, Wclte and others.
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