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VOL. XXVI.
N o . 3.
Published Every Saturday at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, January 15,1898.
"Autono" Forging Ahead.
The Review's visit to the Weber, Gool-
man & Co. exhibition room yesterday
elicited the fact that the Autono attach-
ment is slowly, perhaps, but surely forging
its way to the front in its fight for proper
recognition. Orders are being received
with but little intermission and visitors
are frequent.
Calls for information and prices come
from all sections of the country. Mr.
Goolman is now in Pennsylvania fitting
the attachment to three very valuable and
highly prized instruments. Work at the
factory goes steadily on.
The Graphophone.
WONDERFUL GROWTH IN POPULARITY MAK-
ING 5OO A DAY AN UNPARALLELED
RECOBD.
There is nothing on record to compare
with the growth in popularity of the
graphophone, for which the Columbia Pho-
nograph Co., 5-11 Broadway (Bowling
Green Building), are the factors.
In the home circle, in the recital hall,
the graphophone affords the keenest enjoy-
ment, while for the business man's office a
fine machine, called the Universal, is made
with a specially long cylinder, capable of
holding 1,000 words. This is supposed to
The "Wissner" is Liked.
Among the most extensively and ju-
diciously advertised products now on the
market, especially at retail in this and
neighboring States, are the Wissner
pianos. Some of the Wissner strongholds,
too, are impregnable. It would be hardly
possible, in some sections of Greater New
York and New Jersey, to travel the length
and breadth of a "block" or " s q u a r e "
without finding one or more Wissner
pianos.
The Estey Display.
The large assortment of Estey organs at
the Estey & Saxe warerooms in this city is
well worth seeing—and hearing. Music-
ally and architecturally they are highly
attractive, and reflect infinite credit on the
manufacturers.
be, and is really becoming, a serious rival
to the stenographer.
An idea of the big demand for grapho-
The " Bradbury " Pianos.
phones may be gleaned from the fact that
Walter Holmes says that the Bradbury during the holidays over 500 machines a
pianos were never more popular than dur- day were turned out. The Company have
ing this season. The Christmas holidays enlarged their manufacturing quarters at
brought many customers to each of the Bridgeport, and they expect in a short
branches in this locality, all resolved to time to be able to turn out 1,500 machines
buy a "Bradbury" as a present for a daily.
friend or relative. Warerooms and fac-
Notwithstanding their immense output
tory were literally stripped of choice in- the company are at present, and have
struments and the work of replenishing is been for some time, behind in orders.
now in progress.
The demand for musical records for the
graphophone is so great that the present
Gibson Piano Co. products are in great output of the factory does not supply it,
demand. Mr. Boothe spends all his time while the growing practice by the owners
during business hours at the factory and of machines of making records at home
work on orders for the Boothe Bros, piano calls for double the number of blanks; the
present output being 10,000 records per
is progressing rapidly.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
diem and 20,000 blanks. In the manufac-
ture of machines and records about eight
hundred men are employed.
This big industry has grown to its
present proportions within a brief period,
and its success can be attributed to the
fact that the company are constantly im-
proving their machines and to-day have
the best to be found on the market. In a
business way there is nothing to compare
with the graphophone as a medium for at-
tracting trade and interesting visitors.
This is a point that business men, particu-
larly music dealers, cannot afford to over-
look. No better evidence of the "draw-
ing " powers of the graphophone is needed
than to visit the parlors of the Columbia
Phonograph Co., 1155 Broadway, this city,
any day or evening. The place is con-
stantly crowded with people.
George C. Crane leaves New York again
on Monday for a Southern trip.
A. M. Wright has been slightly under
the weather during the past few days, the
result of a severe cold caused by the late
changeable and disagreeable weather spells.
C. G. Conn, who left the city the closing
days of the year to spend the holidays with
his family at Elkhart, has made his stay
longer than was expected. He is now due
in town the early part of next week.
The handsome warerooms just fitted up
at 94 Fifth Ave. by the Tway Piano Co.
were damaged slightly by water from a
fire which occurred in the upper part of
the building yesterday afternoon.
The Clark Mfg. Co., manufacturers of
paper covers for pianos and various other
specialties in the paper line, have been
succeeded by The Clark Paper and Mfg.
Co.
Prof. Edward G. Brown, of Bayonne, N.
J., has removed his music establishment
from 747 Avenue D to his fine new store
next door.
O. W. Williams, formerly of the Hock-
ett-Puntenney Co., and now with the
John Church Co., has been a visitor dur-
ing the week at the Everett warerooms in
this city. He left town yesterday.
Stultz & Bauer business is reported as
active. Mr. Golden starts shortly on a
business tour.