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MUSIC
TRADE! R El VIEW
With the Makers and Sellers of Talking Machines
sound boxes, are steadily increasing in demand
and are giving excellent satisfaction. Manager
C. E. Goodwin is well satisfied with the way the
Edison
Managers
Visit
Factory—Columbia
fall trade is already opening up. The genial
News—Busy Times With Lyon & Healy—
manager, by the way, tells with great gusto the
Longley Tells a Story—C. W. Noyes Opens
accomplishments of T. H. Longley, the Victor
Chicago Quarters—Other Items of Interest.
agent at Malta, 111. Longley was recently in
(Special to The Review.)
Chicago after a vacation spent in Wisconsin.
Keview Office, 13tJ2 Monadnock Block,
The man from Malta couldn't break the habit of
Chicago, 111., Sept. 19, 1905.
long years' standing and e'en while fishing per-
G. N. Nisbett, Western manager of the Na- suaded several of his brother Waltonians to pur-
tional Phonograph Co., returned on Saturday, chase Victor machines. Longley tells a story
September 2, from his visit to the factory, and about a Victor crank in Malta whose house was
the seven salesmen of the Chicago office who also recently burned. The place was on the outskirts
attended the annual conference at Orange, came of the town, and when the fire department got
back happy and enthusiastic the following week. out and reached it the house was a bundle of
Particularly proud were they of the fact that embers, and all that the occupant had saved
they had been photographed in a group, which from the flames was himself, the wife and baby
included not only Messrs. McChesney, Gilmore and his Victor talker, which was stationed in the
and Wilson, but Mr. Edison himself. It is hardly orchard merrily hitting up the strain of "In the
necessary to state that those photos, when re- Shade," etc. There was a sequel. The man was
ceived, will be cherished and handed down from not flush in the "mazuma," and his lodge dug
generation to generation in the families of the down and presented him with $25. The bulk of
elect.
it went for Victor records.
C. H. Wilson, general manager of sales,
Marc. A. Healy, of the talking machine depart-
arrived in Chicago Saturday, the 9th, and after a ment at Lyon & Healy, has returned from a
few days with Mr. Nisbett, left for the Coast. month's vacation spent at the Healy home at
Mr. Nisbett has just left for an extended trip Lake Geneva.
among the Western jobbers, which will take him
August brought with it another surprise to
as far as Denver. He will also visit before re- Manager J. H. Dorian, of the Chicago office of the
turning principal points in Ohio. He will be Columbia Phonograph Co. It was the largest
gone six or seven weeks. In speaking of his August in the history of the office, and the same
visit to the factory, Mr. Nisbett said he never applies to the general business of the company.
knew the big plant to be busier, i t is full of
C. W. Noyes has just opened a Chicago office
orders for the fall and winter.
at room 350, 189 LaSalle street, where he will
The Chicago office of the Columbia Phonograph carry a full line of the product of the Hawthorne
Co. has been attracting unusual crowds at their & Sheble Mfg. Co., including horns, cases, cabi-
salesroom at No. 88 Wabash avenue for the past nets, stands and supplies, and also a full sample
two weeks, where daily demonstrations of record- line, of course, of the American records. Mr.
making have been made. They have securea the Noyes is very enthusiastic about the new Amer-
services of C. H. Hart, formerly singing with the ican Indian talking machine being brought out
"Royal Chef," whose clear, sweet tenor voice has by the Hawthorne & Sheble Mfg. Co., and which
delighted customers and visitors. This is a de- will be ready for the trade about October 1.
parture that is thoroughly appreciated by cus- There will be a premium machine with large
tomers, as is apparent from a substantially in- flower horn and rigid arm, and three "tone arm"
creased sale in blanks and recorders. Many per- machines, the Delaware selling at $25, the Mo-
sons buying a talking machine overlook the fact hawk at $50 and the Hiawatha at $75. The com-
that it may be talked or sung to as well as to pany have secured the services of Gus. Kramer,
talk or sing to you.
recognized as one of the best spring motor men
That the talking machine has entered a field in the world. He has designed for them a motor
heretofore conceded as belonging exclusively to operated by worms and gears and something radi-
that time-honored instrument of the mechanical cally different from any talking machine motor
type—the hand-organ—and bids fair to displace now on the market. The claims made for it are
same as a means of transferring the pennies from that it is absolutely noiseless, winds easily, has
the pockets of the public into the pockets of the few wearing parts, and is so arranged that the
"poor blind" and otherwise variously disabled wear can be taken up. The larger model spring
gentry, was evidenced the other day, when, at the motor for the $75 machine operates five to ten
intersection of two busy thoroughfares in Chi- records at a winding. In this motor the old form
cago, and within 200 feet of one of the Columbia of winding ratchet and pawl is entirely done away
branch stores, an old blind man was discovered with, the spring being retained by a friction
dispensing "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree" clutch arrangement. The sound-box is construct-
and a dozen other popular selections to the pass- ed on an entirely new principle, and is so ar-
ing multitudes by means of a Columbia grapho- ranged that it can be adjusted to suit the record,
phone, type A H, and Columbia disc records.
.and the tune may be moderated to suit the ear.
The Columbia people secured permission from The cabinets will be in oak and mahogany, piano
the Public Park Commissioners to give a "musi- polished, of massive design, with heavy curved
cal" at Ellis Park, on the South Side, on the base resting on heavy feet. All of the three
evening of August 16. The B C graphophone models will be equipped with brass flower horns.
furnished entertainment to a crowd of 500 en-
thusiastic listeners, and the concert was repeated
with equal success on Friday of the same week.
Anything'
C. H. Wyatt, resident manager of the Talk-o-
Phone Co., has opened up several new accounts
end
within the past week or so. Among them are the
Everything'
Moore, Evans & Co., the wholesale jewelers of 153
Wabash avenue, and the Schreffer Piano House,
in
Joliet.
A. L. Irish, president of the Talk-o-Phone Co.,
Toledo, O., was in the city early in September
on his return from his trip to .the Coast.
Matters are progressing very smoothly and
HRH^^^
Wholesale
satisfactorily at Lyon & Healy's. The "Softer-
BUREN ST.
tone" attachments and needles for Victor exhi-
James f £ • L f i v y n U n l l c 9 » 192-194 E. CH VAN
ICAGO
bition and concert, Columbia and Zonophone
CHICAGO'S BUDGET OF NEWS.
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I W Q S y TALKING
i l S B H r MACHINES
EDISON BUSINESS PHONOGRAPH.
The Edison business phonograph, which is
making phenomenal strides in the commercial
world, has been adopted in all the departments
of the following concerns: Wanamaker's (New
York ana Philadelphia); Siegel & Cooper Co.,
east and west; Metropolitan Insurance Co., New
York; Wells, Fargo & Co., everywhere; Marshall
Field & Co., wholesale and retail. As a matter
of fact, these are only a few of the principal
firms and corporations throughout the country
that are using what everyone states is the per-
fection of invention and general utility. Man-
ager Durand is earning fresh laurels every day
for his eminently successful management of this
very important department of the National
Phonograph Co.
TRADE NEWS FROM ST. LOUIS.
(Special to The Review.)
St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 18, 1905.
General trade reports from the talking ma-
chine interests here show that business in this
line during the month of August was exceedingly
good, and that it was about twice as good as it
was for the same month a year ago. The deal-
ers are very optimistic as regards a large fall
and winter trade, and everything points to a
realization of their anticipations.
W. C. Fuhri, manager of the Columbia Phono-
graph Co., reports a fine volume of trade for «he
month of August, and states that the talking
machine is growing more popular every day. Mr.
Fuhri returned on Monday from a three weeks'
trip, which included the Thousand Islands, Mont-
real, New York and other points.
C. W. Smith, formerly connected with the local
store of the Columbia Phonograph Co., has been
transferred to Kansas City as manager, vice E. A.
MacMurtry, who has been appointed manager of
the Pittsburg, Pa., office of the same company.
The St. Louis Talking Machine Co. report a
splendid business for the month of August. D. S.
Ramsdell, vice-president of this concern, left on
Monday for a three weeks' vacation. He will
visit Chicago and some Northern points.
E. B. Walthall, manager of the talking machine
department of the O. K. Houck Piano Co., is
home from his vacation, and reports trade boom-
ing, particularly in Edison machines.
Talking machine visitors here recently were:
Chas. W. Noyes, secretary of the Hawthorne &
Sheble Mfg. Co.; Mr. Kloher, traveler for the
National Phonograph Co. in the States of Mis-
souri and Arkansas, and Mr. Mitchell, of the
Talkophone Co., Toledo, O.
THE PHONOGRAPH VS. ARSENIC.
Now that Louisiana is suffering so severely
from the stegomyia fasciatus, the theory that the
sound of a talking machine will drive away mos-
quitoes is worthy of trial. The talking machine
theory is just as reasonable as the arsenic the-
ory, for people looking for prophylactics against
yellow fever, and is not nearly so dangerous.
TO MAKE AND SELL TALKING MACHINES.
The Church Supply Co., of New York, has been
incorporated with the secretary of the State at
Albany, for the purpose of manufacturing and
selling talking machines. Capital, $3,000. In-
corporators, W. E. and L. T. Waddell and P. C.
Biegel, all of New York.
INCORPORATED.
Articles of incorporation were filed at Spring-
field, 111., last week by the Western Talking Ma-
chine Co. and the American Talking Machine
Co., both of Chicago. In each instance the capi-
tal stock, $2,500, and the incorporators, Gustavus
Babson. E. Gundlach and M. A. Hill are the same.