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TALKING MACHINE INTERESTS
Grow in Importance and Every Live Dealer Must
Recognize the Possibilities.
Talking machine interests are becoming so im-
portant that they will soon require special treat-
ment. Not but that The Review has always
given this really engrossing part of the business
careful attention, but now every live dealer
must recognize the merchantable possibilities of
this line of goods, otherwise it will go elsewhere.
It rightfully belongs to every one who handles
small goods, and with the energy and drive
shown by the manufacturers of this line, the
trade would do well to get in touch. As a mat-
ter of fact, the growth of the talking machine
business, even during this past year, has been
phenomenal, and the opportunity to attach and
develop a paying branch should not be neg-
lected.
NEW SMALL GOODS HOUSE IN SEATTLE.
The Holm Music Co. have opened a store at
3515 Aurora avenue, Seattle, Wash., where they
will handle a full line of musical merchandise
and music. This concern, which has been incor-
porated with a capital stock of $25,000 virtually
succeeds the business founded some time since by
G. R. Holm, who is also manager of the new
company. The other members of the firm, C. S.
Johnson and August Lovegreen are prominent
capitalists.
THE INCENSE FIDDLE.
Cateb is a high caste Oriental called a Levan-
tine. He has recently opened a studio in Twenty-
first street to teach barbaric Americans about
Damascene antiques and the lore of incense and
Oriental things generally.
"It is no small thing," said the disciple of
Damascus, "but I've touched the heart with my
incense fiddle, and the rest will be easy. The
incense fiddle is a heart-shaped instrument
played in the lap or on the shoulder. The foun-
dation is a sweet-smelling wood inlaid with
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mother of pearl and gems. When it is laid flat
the little fish-skin surface makes a bowl and re-
ceives a thin brass plaque. Incense is burned in
the plaque, and as the fumes rise to the nostrils
of the player the spirit moves him, he draws his
arrow-shaped bow and improvises the queer melo-
dies of the Orient. We have incense lamps, tab-
ourettes, rugs and even vases, but the fiddle
seems to be the object around which the Ameri-
can fancy lingers."
POLLMANN MAKES PRECEDENT
Through Gut-String Ruling by the Officials of the
Treasury Department.
It is probable the first protest against gut
strings being admitted other than as provided
for in that section of the tariff law relating to
musical instruments, was made by August Poll-
mann, in order to establish a precedent as
against the importers of relatively the same class
of goods for surgical purposes. On April 19 the
United States Board of Appraisers overruled
his protest per forma, but the question will be
carried to the final court decision.
REGINA CO.'S NEW YORK OFFICES.
The Regina Music Box Co.'s New York office
and warerooms, on the third floor of the Regina
building, 11 East Twenty-second street, are now
fully occupied, and the business of the Regina
Library Exchange Club is in full swing. Many
New York patrons of the firm are taking advan-
tage of the club offer recently made public.
There is a complete exhibit of Regina styles at
the new warerooms.
DECLARE DIVIDEND.
A dividend of 1 per cent. (No. 25) on the
common stock of the American Graphophone Co.
will be paid on June 15 to stockholders of record
June 1, 1904.
In music boxes one of the latest is the Pian-
nette. It plays thirty-nine notes, and is of star-
wheel movement. It has twelve metal records.
THE GRAPHOPHONE IN POLITICS.
Judging from indications, the coming presi-
dential campaign will be unique in more ways
than one. From Iowa there comes a suggestion
which ought to prove helpful to many aspirants
for political honors.
Congressman Hull, of Des Moines, was waging
a fight for renomination in his district. His op-
ponent was Judge Prouty, who found himself un-
able to keep all his appointments to speak.
Nothing daunted, the latter bought several
graphophones together with the necessary blanks,
and proceeded to make many records of his
various speeches. Then he placed the machines
on street corners, in hotel lobbies and cigar
stores. The plan proved to be so novel and at-
tractive, that hundreds stayed away from the
Hull mass-metings, and widely cheered the
speeches made through the graphophones.
Thus i t m a y be seen that the day of the profes-
sional spell-binder is passing. The graphophone
cannot be disconcerted or interrupted by the
jeers and questions of political opponents. It will
have its say regardless of anything short of the
actual wrecking of its mechanism, and it is not
to be supposed that the aforesaid opponents
would go so far as this to silence the grapho-
phone's persuasive eloquence. The advantages of
such a machine in political campaigning must ap-
peal to everyone, and is a pointer for the dealer.
MAKES SETTLEMENT WITH CREDITORS.
W. C. Dewey, who was formerly in the piano
business on Fourteenth street, and who more re-
cently branched out as a contractor, has made a
settlement with his creditors, and the creditors'
petition in bankruptcy, which was filed on March
20, has been dismissed by Judge Holt.
KLEBER RENOVATIONS.
The H. Kleber & Bro. Co., Ltd., the well-known
piano manufacturers and dealers, are making a
number of changes at their Fifth avenue ware-
rooms in Pittsburg, Pa., which will give them
more room and a more attractive environment.
A Word About Gold-Moulded Records
Columbia Moulded Cylinder Records were the first Moulded Records on the market by
about a year.
They always have been GOLD-moulded. A gold mould is the ONLY economical and efficient
mould known to the art.
Moulded records are superior to the old engraved records, because they may be made of
HARDER material. Hard records last longer and have a better quality of tone.
A gold-moulded record made of SOFT material would be no better in quality than an
ENGRAVED record in soft material.
The best Moulded Records are not only GOLD-MOULDED; they are SUPER-HARDENED.
Gold-moulded records are LESS expensive than engraved records. The PROCESS is simpler.
Formerly, BLANK cylinders were moulded, then SHAVED, then ENGRAVED from an original. The
originals soon wore out under the reproducing stylus.
Now, a gold-lined MOULD is made from the original, and the product of that mould is a
SMOOTHLY FINISHED cylinder, with the SOUND RECORD ALREADY ON IT. The life of the original is
increased ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times.
A record is not MORE expensive because it is gold-moulded.
It is LESS expensive.
Columbia Moulded Cylinder Records are NEW records, made by a NEW process. They are
not only gold-moulded. They are SUPER-HARDENED.
Irrespective of PRICE, they are superior in QUALITY to any other gold-moulded record on
the market.
FOR SALE BY DEALERS EVERYWHERE, AND BY THE
COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH COMPANY
PIONEERS AND LEADERS IN THE TALKING MACHINE ART
GRAND PRIZE, PARIS, 1900
UPTOWN,
NEW YORK. Wholesale. Retail and Export, 93 Chambers St.
PITTSBURG, 615 Penn Ave.
CHICAGO, 88 Wabash Ave.
NEW ORLEANS, LA., 628-630 Canal St.
PHILADELPHIA. 1019-1021 Market St.
DETROIT. 37 Grand River Ave.
ST. LOUIS. 908 Olive St. (Frisco Building).
MILWAUKEE, 391 East Water St.
BOSTON. 164 Tremont St.
WASHINGTON. 1212 F St., N. W.
BALTIMORE. 231 N. Howard St.
TORONTO, ONTARIO, 107 Yonge St.
CLEVELAND. Cor. Euclid Ave. and Erie St.
MINNEAPOLIS. 18 Fourth St., South.
BUFFALO, C45 Main St.
INDIANAPOLIS, 48 N. Pennsylvania St.
SAN FRANCISCO, 125 Geary S t
RXTAIL ONLY, 872 Broadway.
LONDON. Wholesale, Retail, 89 Great Easterfe S t , E. C. RETAIL BRANCH STORE, 200 Oxford St., W.
PARIS, 111 and 118 Rue Montmartre.
ST. PETERSBURG, 68 Nevski Prospect.
KANSAS CITY. 1016 Walnut S t
ST. PAUL, 386 Wabasha St.
DENVER, 505-607 Sixteenth St.
OMAHA, 1631 Farnam St.
LOS ANGELES. 323 South Main S t
MEMPHIS, 802 Main St.
PORTLAND, ORE., 128 Seventh S t
OAKLAND, CAL.. 468 18th S t
BERLIN, 71 Ritterstrasse.
HAMBURG, Adolphsplatz No. 4.