Presto
Issue: 1922 1891 - Page 25
PRESTO
October 21,, 1922.
COINOLAS
FOR
THEATRES, CHURCHES
and LODGE HALLS
WEEK'S ODDS AND ENDS
SAN FRANCISCO PLANS
FOR BIG MUSIC WEEK
Local Music Trade Association and All Art and
Civic Organizations Actively Preparing for
Second Event.
Style 50
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
All music interests in San Francisco, trade and art,
the San Francisco Community Service and the City
of San Francisco, represented by its mayor and all
working for the success of the second annual Music
Week. Individually and in their trade organizations
the music trade men are going wholeheartedly into
the preparations for the events which will make the
city musically prominent from November 5 to 12.
This week Henry L. Mayer, chairman of the Citi-
zens' Committee named by Mayor Rolph, accepted
the offer of Community Service, Inc., New York, to
send Alexander Stewart to assist the San Francisco
organizer in planning events for the second Music
Week. Other preparations for the week are on
foot, not the least of which are the numerous musical
recitals to be arranged by the local music dealers
The recent amalgamation of the Retail Merchants'
Association of San Francisco and the San Francisco
Chamber of Commerce specially interests the people
of the music trades. The Music Trades Association
of Northern California is affiliated with the Retail
Merchants Association and its president, George R.
Hughes of the Wiley B. Allen Co., is also second
vice-president of the Retail Merchants Association.
The amalgamation involves the formation of a re-
tail merchants' division of the Chamber of Com-
merce.
The Music Trades Association of Northern Cali-
fornia held an interesting meeting last week at which
the organization's part in the coming Music Week
was discussed. President George R. Hughes pre-
sided and a full representation of the directors was
made. A review of the past year and anticipation for
good fall business were comprised in the speech of
Mr. Hughes. The resignation of M. B. Bowman as
secretary was accepted, but no successor was ap-
pointed.
SIMPLEST RADIO SET
Accident Reveals Method of Using Live Electric
Light Wires for New Device.
A new type of radio receiver has been presented by
its inventor, Norman S. Richmond, Chicago, who has
carried on research work for twenty years. A short
time ago, while experimenting with a method of tele-
phoning over live electric light wires, he was sur-
prised by suddenly picking up a radio concert from
station KYW.
This caused him to give up, for a time, his tele-
phone experiments for a telegraph company, and to
bend all his efforts toward the development of his
new discovery. The final result is a small mahogany
cabinet about twelve inches long, eight inches high
and eight inches deep, with four wires entering it.
Two of these wires are the aerial and ground and
the other two are the 110-volt electric light wires
connected by means of a plug at the socket. No
panel is used, as there are absolutely no adjustments
of any kind to require knobs or dials.
Simply turn on the current and the music comes
in. No batteries, no detector, no variable condensers,
or no transformers are used and the music received
is" as clear as a bell.
Mr. Richmond invites sceptical fans to see a dem-
onstration at 130 North Wells street.
effect the drying process has had upon its strength,
is a warning in the report. "Indeed," it says, "the
strength properties of dried wood may be seriously
injured without visible signs of damage. "Also,"
says the report, it has been found that the same kiln-
drying process cannot be applied with equal success
to all species. To insure uninjured kiln-dried mate-
rial, a knowledge of the correct kiln conditions to use
with a stock of a given species, grade and thickness
and a record showing that no more severe treatment
has been employed, is necessary."
STANDARDIZED LUMBER
Movement Proceeds, But Settlement of Problem Is
for Industry, Says Association President.
Every buyer of piano factory supplies, and that im-
plies piano dealers also, is interested in the move-
ment for standardizing lumber. But, while permit-
ting the buyers' freedom to feel interest in the ques-
tion, the lumber industry seems indisposed to include
outsiders in the settlement of the standardizing prob-
lem. The view of the industry is clearly stated in
the following from an editorial in the Chicago Jour-
nal of Commerce:
Standardization of sizes and simplification of
grades is admitted by most all engaged in any branch
of the industry to be one of the most important move-
ments of the time.
Long custom has developed
many sizes and many grades in the manufactured
products of the log. In certain sections the trade
uses and demands certain sizes and certain grades.
In the lumber industry, like in any other industry, the
real aim of the lumbermen, whether they be manu-
facturers, wholesalers, or dealers, always has been to
perform a real service, and that service has been to
be able to meet the requirements of trade.
In carrying out a program which might mean radi-
cal changes in present grades and sizes of lumber it
is the public which must be considered. The lum-
bermen realize this, and it is certain that whatever
may be the final action in the matter of standardiza-
tion it will be such action that in the end will enable
the lumber industry of the nation to be of greater
service to the public. This will be done through co-
operation of all branches of the industry in working
out and solving the problem of standard sizes that
will be of benefit to the public, whether they be
home-builders, or factory consumers of the products
ofr the forests of the nation.
GREATER CAR LOADINGS
Figures for Week Issued by American Railway Asso-
ciation Are Pleasantly Significant.
Car loadings for the week ended September 30
amounted to 998,381, within 3 per cent of the record
for all time in American railroading, and an increase
of 15,090 cars over the previous week.
The figure
was the largest since October 22, 1920, when the total
was 1,008,818 cars.
In order to speed the movement of freight the car
service division of the American Railway Association
has sent out circulars to shippers urging the loading
of all freight cars 10 per cent in excess of their
marked capacity and further stressing the necessity
for prompt unloading upon arrival at destination.
It is requested of shippers not to order more cars
than can be promptly loaded; to load in one day,
especially grain; to work overtime in the evening to
finish loading; and to accept cars with only minor de-
fects. It is further pointed out that by adding two
tons to the coal dumped in every coal car loaded an
additional 400,000 tons of coal can be moved each
week. The detailed figures on car loadings showed
an increase in merchandise and miscellaneous freight,
the total being 580,098.
WELL KNOWN TUNER DIES.
FOREST LABORATORY FACTS
Government Publishes Results of Comparative Tests
With Kiln-Dried and Air-Dried Stock.
THE SMALLEST
KEYLESS
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
16 to 22 South Peoria St.
CHICAGO
The Forest Products Laboratory, a part of the
United States Forestry Service, situated at Madison,
Wis., recently concluded 150,000 comparative strength
tests with specimens of twenty-eight common species
of wood. The tests were made to find how kiln dry-
ing compares with air drying. The report said that
"Since wood rapidly increases in strength with loss
of moisture, higher strength values may be obtained
from kiln-dried than from air-dried wood," and adds
that "such a difference in strength has no significance,
since in use a piece of wood will come to practically
the same moisture condition whether it is kiln-dried
or air-dried."
The appearance of dried wood is no criterion of the
William L. Mason, a piano salesman and tuner well
known in the trade of Connecticut, died recently at
the age of 60 years at his home, 49 Wyllys street,
Hartford. He was born in Unionville. Mr. Mason
had lived practically all his life in Hartford.
For
many years he was employed by Gallup & Alfred,
but later engaged in business for himself.
BUYS GRUBBS S H O P ASSETS.
The assets of the Grubbs Music Shoppe, Toledo,
O., have been purchased from the receiver by the
owners of the Record Shop, in that city. The stock,
consisting of talking machines, music roll records and
sheet music, has been shipped to the Findlay branch
of the company. The Record Shop is owned by
Compton Bros.
Lumber shortage at the location it has occupied
for over twenty years caused the Elmore Veneer Co.,
Elmore, O., to move last week to Oconto, Wis.
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October 21,, 1922.
COINOLAS
FOR
THEATRES, CHURCHES
and LODGE HALLS
WEEK'S ODDS AND ENDS
SAN FRANCISCO PLANS
FOR BIG MUSIC WEEK
Local Music Trade Association and All Art and
Civic Organizations Actively Preparing for
Second Event.
Style 50
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
All music interests in San Francisco, trade and art,
the San Francisco Community Service and the City
of San Francisco, represented by its mayor and all
working for the success of the second annual Music
Week. Individually and in their trade organizations
the music trade men are going wholeheartedly into
the preparations for the events which will make the
city musically prominent from November 5 to 12.
This week Henry L. Mayer, chairman of the Citi-
zens' Committee named by Mayor Rolph, accepted
the offer of Community Service, Inc., New York, to
send Alexander Stewart to assist the San Francisco
organizer in planning events for the second Music
Week. Other preparations for the week are on
foot, not the least of which are the numerous musical
recitals to be arranged by the local music dealers
The recent amalgamation of the Retail Merchants'
Association of San Francisco and the San Francisco
Chamber of Commerce specially interests the people
of the music trades. The Music Trades Association
of Northern California is affiliated with the Retail
Merchants Association and its president, George R.
Hughes of the Wiley B. Allen Co., is also second
vice-president of the Retail Merchants Association.
The amalgamation involves the formation of a re-
tail merchants' division of the Chamber of Com-
merce.
The Music Trades Association of Northern Cali-
fornia held an interesting meeting last week at which
the organization's part in the coming Music Week
was discussed. President George R. Hughes pre-
sided and a full representation of the directors was
made. A review of the past year and anticipation for
good fall business were comprised in the speech of
Mr. Hughes. The resignation of M. B. Bowman as
secretary was accepted, but no successor was ap-
pointed.
SIMPLEST RADIO SET
Accident Reveals Method of Using Live Electric
Light Wires for New Device.
A new type of radio receiver has been presented by
its inventor, Norman S. Richmond, Chicago, who has
carried on research work for twenty years. A short
time ago, while experimenting with a method of tele-
phoning over live electric light wires, he was sur-
prised by suddenly picking up a radio concert from
station KYW.
This caused him to give up, for a time, his tele-
phone experiments for a telegraph company, and to
bend all his efforts toward the development of his
new discovery. The final result is a small mahogany
cabinet about twelve inches long, eight inches high
and eight inches deep, with four wires entering it.
Two of these wires are the aerial and ground and
the other two are the 110-volt electric light wires
connected by means of a plug at the socket. No
panel is used, as there are absolutely no adjustments
of any kind to require knobs or dials.
Simply turn on the current and the music comes
in. No batteries, no detector, no variable condensers,
or no transformers are used and the music received
is" as clear as a bell.
Mr. Richmond invites sceptical fans to see a dem-
onstration at 130 North Wells street.
effect the drying process has had upon its strength,
is a warning in the report. "Indeed," it says, "the
strength properties of dried wood may be seriously
injured without visible signs of damage. "Also,"
says the report, it has been found that the same kiln-
drying process cannot be applied with equal success
to all species. To insure uninjured kiln-dried mate-
rial, a knowledge of the correct kiln conditions to use
with a stock of a given species, grade and thickness
and a record showing that no more severe treatment
has been employed, is necessary."
STANDARDIZED LUMBER
Movement Proceeds, But Settlement of Problem Is
for Industry, Says Association President.
Every buyer of piano factory supplies, and that im-
plies piano dealers also, is interested in the move-
ment for standardizing lumber. But, while permit-
ting the buyers' freedom to feel interest in the ques-
tion, the lumber industry seems indisposed to include
outsiders in the settlement of the standardizing prob-
lem. The view of the industry is clearly stated in
the following from an editorial in the Chicago Jour-
nal of Commerce:
Standardization of sizes and simplification of
grades is admitted by most all engaged in any branch
of the industry to be one of the most important move-
ments of the time.
Long custom has developed
many sizes and many grades in the manufactured
products of the log. In certain sections the trade
uses and demands certain sizes and certain grades.
In the lumber industry, like in any other industry, the
real aim of the lumbermen, whether they be manu-
facturers, wholesalers, or dealers, always has been to
perform a real service, and that service has been to
be able to meet the requirements of trade.
In carrying out a program which might mean radi-
cal changes in present grades and sizes of lumber it
is the public which must be considered. The lum-
bermen realize this, and it is certain that whatever
may be the final action in the matter of standardiza-
tion it will be such action that in the end will enable
the lumber industry of the nation to be of greater
service to the public. This will be done through co-
operation of all branches of the industry in working
out and solving the problem of standard sizes that
will be of benefit to the public, whether they be
home-builders, or factory consumers of the products
ofr the forests of the nation.
GREATER CAR LOADINGS
Figures for Week Issued by American Railway Asso-
ciation Are Pleasantly Significant.
Car loadings for the week ended September 30
amounted to 998,381, within 3 per cent of the record
for all time in American railroading, and an increase
of 15,090 cars over the previous week.
The figure
was the largest since October 22, 1920, when the total
was 1,008,818 cars.
In order to speed the movement of freight the car
service division of the American Railway Association
has sent out circulars to shippers urging the loading
of all freight cars 10 per cent in excess of their
marked capacity and further stressing the necessity
for prompt unloading upon arrival at destination.
It is requested of shippers not to order more cars
than can be promptly loaded; to load in one day,
especially grain; to work overtime in the evening to
finish loading; and to accept cars with only minor de-
fects. It is further pointed out that by adding two
tons to the coal dumped in every coal car loaded an
additional 400,000 tons of coal can be moved each
week. The detailed figures on car loadings showed
an increase in merchandise and miscellaneous freight,
the total being 580,098.
WELL KNOWN TUNER DIES.
FOREST LABORATORY FACTS
Government Publishes Results of Comparative Tests
With Kiln-Dried and Air-Dried Stock.
THE SMALLEST
KEYLESS
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
16 to 22 South Peoria St.
CHICAGO
The Forest Products Laboratory, a part of the
United States Forestry Service, situated at Madison,
Wis., recently concluded 150,000 comparative strength
tests with specimens of twenty-eight common species
of wood. The tests were made to find how kiln dry-
ing compares with air drying. The report said that
"Since wood rapidly increases in strength with loss
of moisture, higher strength values may be obtained
from kiln-dried than from air-dried wood," and adds
that "such a difference in strength has no significance,
since in use a piece of wood will come to practically
the same moisture condition whether it is kiln-dried
or air-dried."
The appearance of dried wood is no criterion of the
William L. Mason, a piano salesman and tuner well
known in the trade of Connecticut, died recently at
the age of 60 years at his home, 49 Wyllys street,
Hartford. He was born in Unionville. Mr. Mason
had lived practically all his life in Hartford.
For
many years he was employed by Gallup & Alfred,
but later engaged in business for himself.
BUYS GRUBBS S H O P ASSETS.
The assets of the Grubbs Music Shoppe, Toledo,
O., have been purchased from the receiver by the
owners of the Record Shop, in that city. The stock,
consisting of talking machines, music roll records and
sheet music, has been shipped to the Findlay branch
of the company. The Record Shop is owned by
Compton Bros.
Lumber shortage at the location it has occupied
for over twenty years caused the Elmore Veneer Co.,
Elmore, O., to move last week to Oconto, Wis.
Enhanced content © 2008-2009 and presented by MBSI - The Musical Box Society International (www.mbsi.org) and the International Arcade Museum (www.arcade-museum.com).
All Rights Reserved. Digitized from the archives of the MBSI with support from NAMM - The International Music Products Association (www.namm.org).
Additional enhancement, optimization, and distribution by the International Arcade Museum. An extensive collection of Presto can be found online at http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/
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