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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
LILLIPUTIAN PHONOGRAPH.
MOULDED RECORD SUIT
A Watch Movement in Doll's Body That
Suggests Wonderful Possibilities.
Comes Up Next Week in the United States
Circuit Court—Infringement Claimed.
EXERCISES A MORAL INFLUENCE.
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C, June 9, 1904.
The graphophore has found a big market
A miniature phonograph, perfect in every re-
Next week, before Judge Platt, of the United among sailors and boatmen who by some dealers
spect, yet so small that it can be packed away in States Circuit Court, at Hartford, Conn., will are classed as their best customers. The man-
the body of a doll, has been patented in the come up the suit of the National Phonograph ager of one of these establishments to-day said:
United States and Europe. After seven years of Co. against the American Graphophone Co. for
"I don't know why it is, but our best custom-
litigation the patentees, George W. Spencer and alleged infringement of the so-called Edison ers are those who earn their living upon the
A. Lynde, of Atlantic City, have won a victory moulded record patents. The taking of testi- waters. I have only recently filled an order for
over numerous phonograph companies by a re- mony was closed some time back, the proofs com- several graphophones for the Dolphin, prior to
cent decision which sustains their claims.
pleted and the record printed, and which em- which time I supplied the Navy Yard and five
For years many of our best inventors, Edison bodies a number of interesting photogravures of or six vessels of the navy. In some cases the
among the number, have struggled over the prob- exhibits. The case will be tried on its merits, sailors have clubbed together and bought them,
lem of making a perfect Lilliputian phonograph, and involves charges as to whether or not the while in other cases the officers have invested in
but after a series of fruitless efforts and dis- defendant, in the manufacture of its gold mould- them.
carded models and fabulous expenditures gave ed records, specifically infringed claims formu-
"To-day the crew of every sailing vessel, from
it up a hopeless proposition.
lated in two of the patents above cited. It is held a big four master to a Chesapeake Bay tug, is al-
All inventors in this line have heretofore taken there are other processes known and used besides most certain to have a graphophone, and I ven-
as their model of mechanism the clock movement those in suit. The usual injunction and account- ture to say that six or seven out of every ten
and sought to make the parts small enough to ing is the primary object of the litigation.
boats of the Chesapeake oyster fleet are as well
accomplish what they desired, but all failed. The
provided for. The vessels that come to Washing-
inspiration came one day to Mr. Lynde that the COLOMBIAN TARIFF ON MUSICAL GOODS. ton loaded with ice from the Kennebec river are
solution of the problem would be reached if the
also supplied.
watch movement were substituted.
Success
A copy of the new Colombian tariff has just
"The best part of it all is that such instru-
seemed almost in his grasp when he reached a reached the authorities at Washington, from the ments are a decided moral benefit to those on
snag that seemed unsurmountable.
Consular agent in that country. The new tariff shipboard. The lives of sailors are lives of
Mr. Spencer, as a final hazard, suggested to provides that duties shall be payable in gold or dreary solitude and hard work, and this is the
turn the machine upside down and work it out its equivalent in the value of other money of the reason why, as soon as they reach land, they
that way. It was a whimsical idea, unscientific, country. Among the provisions of interest to the make for some low dance hall, where there is a
impracticable and in its working out defied many piano trade are the following: Organs, 5 centavo's barrel organ, a cracked piano or accordion grind-
orthodox principles of mechanics, but "for the per kilogramme; pianos, 5 centavos per kilo- ing out music of a character more villainous even
fun of it," as an experiment, they pursued the gramme; wood in thin veneers, as for barrel or- than the surroundings in which it is played.
problem along this bypath and soon surprised gans, harps, organs and pianos, 10 centavos per
"With a graphophone on board all this is
themselves by their success. The popularity of kilogramme; wooden musical instruments, not
changed. The ship may be in mid-Atlantic or in
the new invention in its possibilities is fore- otherwise specifically mentioned, 60 centavos per
the solitudes of the South Pacific, thousands of
shadowed by a few of the applications already kilogramme; music, manuscript or printed, 20
miles distant trom the home port, yet it makes
made of the new invention. Papier mache fig- centavos per kilogramme; paper ruled for music,
no difference; as soon as the sailor's watch is fin-
ures, made as large as life and painted and 20 centavos per kilogramme.
ished and he has in a measure solaced himself
clothed to simulate real humanity, will furnish
with a hearty meal and a pipeful of plug or Tri-
amusement or advertising as may be desired. A
The handsome new music store of Moore &
miniature minstrel show is now being built in Brock, Columbus, O., was formally opened on chinopoly a few turns of the crank will transport
the factory a t Trenton and a building is in Friday evening with a recital given in the hall him back to civilization."
process of erection at Coney Island for their in- above the warerooms. There was an interesting
Quite a number of visitors from the trade
troduction to the public during the coming sum- program and a large and fashionable audience called at the factory of Winter & Co., 1014-1020
mer.
in attendance.
Southern Boulevard, New York, this week.
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CHICAGO, 88 Wabash Ave.
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KANSAS CITY, 1016 Walnut St.
PHILADELPHIA, 1019-1021 Market St.
NEW ORLEANS, LA., 628-630 Canal St.
ST. PAUL, 386 Wabasha St.
ST. LOUIS, 908 Olive St. (Frisco Building).
DETROIT, 272 Woodward Ave.
DENVER, 505-507 Sixteenth St.
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OMAHA, 1621 Farnam St.
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CLEVELAND, Cor. Euclid Ave. and Erie St.
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PORTLAND, ORE., 128 Seventh St.
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LONDON, Wholesale, Retail, 89 Great Eastern St., E. C. RETAIL BRANCH STORE, 200 Oxford St., W.
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