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THE: MUSIC
TRADE
REVIF.W
Leing scratched in transit or pn the shelves. Mr.
Lyons has recently issued a new edition of his
Nisbett's Good Trip—Lyon & Healy Now Edi- famous record catalogue, which lists in the
son Jobbers—Columbia News—Lyons' New
most convenient form all makes of records. All
Record Catalogue—30 Per cent. Increase in tapering arm Zonaphones are now furnished
Lyon & Healy Business—Babson Bros. Has
with either brass or flower horns at the option
Edison Line—American Record Co.'s New of the purchaser. There is a slight variation in
Offices—Other News of Interest.
price, according to which arm horn is desired.
Manager C. E. Goodwin, of the talking ma-
(Special to The Review.)
chine department at Lyon & Healy's, cites figures
Review Office, 1362 Monadnock Block,
to prove that the business of the department
Chicago, 111., Oct. 17, 1905.
during September showed an increase of thirty
G. N. Nisbett, Western manager of the Na- per cent, over the coresponding month of last
tional Phonograph Co., has just returned from a year. October so far is maintaining an even
trip among Edison dealers, which took him as greater ratio of gain.
far west as Denver, as far south as St. Louis,
A. D. Hermann, formerly with Rothschilds, is
and as far east as Canton, Ohio. He character- now in charge of the selling end of the small
izes business conditions throughout all that ter- goods and talking machine department at Siegel,
ritory as simply great. "Everywhere the trade is Cooper & Co. They handle Edison, Victor and
placing orders from a third to one hundred per Columbia machines.
cent, greater than last year," said Mr. Nisbett.
F. K. Babson, who recently resigned as man-
"It is certainly an indication of prosperity when ager of the Talking Machine Co., to engage in
luxuries are being bought in this way."
business with his brother Gustave Babson, former-
John H. Dorian found his last week in Chi- ly assistant manager of the same company, is
cago, prior to going to New York to take general still in charge of the business here. "Mr. John-
charge of the Columbia Co.'s retail interests son, of the Victor Co., who individually owns the
throughout the country, a somewhat strenuous stock of the Talking Machine Co., requested that
one. General Manager George W. Lyle and Wal- I remain here until he could secure a manager
ter Eckhardt, wholesale manager, were here go- and he could be thoroughly coached in the affairs
ing over things preparatory to the transfer. of the business," remarked Mr. Babson. "In the
There was the installation of Mr. Willson, the meantime my brother, G. Babson, has started in
new manager of the Chicago office and various as you know, at 150 Michigan avenue. While I
pointers to be given him. And there were other shall, of course, be interested with him, I am
things doing also. Before he left Mr. Dorian taking no active part therein for the present.
was presented with a beautiful jeweled thirty- When I am out of here, we will go ahead with
second degree Masonic charm by the force of the the business there under the name of Babson
Chicago office. To cap the climax of an excit- Bros. For the present, my brother is simply do-
ing week, Mr. Dorian and E. C. Plume, who have ing a mail order installment business to the con-
long been brother Masons and business asso- sumer on the Edison goods. We are planning to
ciates, bumped the bumps and dusted the sands go into the manufacturing business extensively,
of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine. and if our plans materialize a million dollar
In his new position at the executive offices in company will be launched next summer manu-
New York, Mr. Dorian assumes the title of as- facturing machines, records and everything in
sistant general manager. Mr. Dorian has had the talking machine line. H. B. Babson is not
long and comprehensive experience wilh the Co- interested in our new company. He is, as you
lumbia Co. He was formerly assistant manager know, a stockholder in the Victor Co.
of the Chicago office, and then went to San Fran-
"It will be several months before I leave the
cisco in charge of their interests on the coast. Talking Machine Co. I certainly do not want to
Two years ago he came back to Chicago as man- embarrass Mr. Johnson in any way, and the busi-
ager of the office here. There are no other ness has grown to such proportions and I have
changes in the personnel of the Chicago office. been here so long that it would be hard work
E. C. Plume, who has had charge of the whole- for a new man to get hold of the reins at once.
sale continues to look after the interests of the Until I am out I shall not be in a position to
Columbia jobbers in this territory. Several im- promote the larger plans towards which my
portant new jobbing accounts have recently been brother and myself have in view."
started by him.
The trade here is greatly interested In the fu-
H. L. Willson, the new manager of the Chicago ture plans regarding the Talking Machine Co.
office, was formerly private secretary to Presi- While there has been considerable talk regarding
dent Easton in New York, but came to Chicago the Victor Co., taking hold of it, making it a
the first of the year as assistant manager under direct branch, no one can speak decidedly on the
Mr. Dorian. He is a capable, clean cut young subject. It h being conducted at present as in
man, full of business to his finger tips. He has the past as an independent jobbing house hand-
charge not only of the main store at 88 Wabash ling both Edison and Victor goods.
avenue, but the four branch stores in Chicago
H. S. Babson was a Chicago visitor last week.
and that of Joliet.
He left for St. Louis and Omaha, and will proba-
Lyon & Healy will become Edison jobbers. The bly return to Chicago next week.
deal was consummated last week, and has been
The American' Record Co. and Hawthorne-
one of the principal topics of gossip in the trade Sheble Mfg. Co. will remove their Chicago office
for the past few days. For a couple of months Nov. 1 from the Calumet building to Adams Ex-
past it has been rumored that such a deal was press building, 185 Dearborn street. C. W. Noyes,
pending, but both sides have denied any knowl- Western representative, will have what will be
edge of the matter. Now it is an accomplished known as a model office and display room, it
fact, however, and the great music house will being his intention to fit up a system for display-
soon have a big stock of Edison goods side by ing samples of each style horn, case, stand, etc.,
side with the Victor, and will push them through in a small space on an especially designed rack
their immense selling organization. Manager C. which may be applied successfully to the dealers'
E. Goodwin, of the Talking Machine Department or jobbers' use. A sample line of both 7-inch and
of Lyon & Healy, in speaking of the matter, said: 10%-inch American records will be carried in the
"We have had many inquiries for Edison goods; Hawthorne & Sheble record filing system racks,
in fact, a very large number of Victor dealers, and the entire space comsumed by this sample
as you know, handle the Edison also, and we room will be about 12 x 20 feet. Mr. Noyes
came to the conclusion that we might just as wishes to be able to show the dealer and jobber
well reap the benefit as not." Lyon & Healy will by means of his model equipment how it is pos-
handle Edison as well as Victor at retail in sible to carry a large stock in a small space.
.
Chicago.
E. A. Hawthorne, general manager of the
James I. Lyons, the large jobber of talking ma- American Record Co., and president of the Haw-
chines and supplies, is now shipping all Zona- thorne-Sheble Mfg. Co., was in the city several
phone, Victor and Imperial records in neat para- days last week closing contracts for American
fine paper envelopes. They are transparent, al- records at the new prices. Several very large
lowing the titles of the records clearly to be orders were booked which will tax the capacity
seen, and at the same time prevent them from of this plant.
" TALKER " NEWS FROM CHICAGO.
Do You Sell
Talking
Machines
Do you wish to know
how to sell them?
AU. in formation of a news and tech-
nical nature will be found in The Talk-
ing Machine World, the only publica-
tion of its kind in America. Here's
an opinion from a practical talking
machine man. It is only a fair sample
of the hundreds which we are re-
ceiving.
II. H. NEWMAN.
A. C. MESTRAUD.
HENRY NEWMAN &. CO.
OKIOINATOHS OF THE
EDISON GOLD MOULDED RECORD EXCHANGE
145 East 23d Street
NEW
YORK, Aug. 22, 1905.
EDWARD LYMAN BILL, ESQ.,
Editor Talking Machine World:
New York City.
Dear Sir:—Sample copy of The
Talking Machine World to hand as
per request, and after carefully perus-
i n g its contents I find myself com-
pelled to send you a few words to ex-
press my utter appreciation of your
excellent magazine. No dealer in talk-
ing machines should be without it; in
fact, every owner of one should be a
subscriber to such a thoroughly inter-
esting publication. Its principal at-
tribute lies in the fact that, from cover
to cover, it is crowded with invaluable
information impossible to obtain else-
where,, interesting not only to the
phonograph dealer, but to the entire
phonograph, public.
Assuring you of my most sincere
wishes for its inevitable success.
I remain very truly yours,
HENRY NEWMAN & Co.
The World contains" 28 pages, n x
15, and its cost for a year is only a
trifle—fifty cents, stamps or cash. No
subscription is entered for less than a
year.
Edward Lyman Bill
1:. v
Editor and Proprietor
Offices: 1 Madison Ave.
New York
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