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THE
ACTIVITY OF EASTERN JOBBERS.
Their Recently Organized Association a Live
Body of Earnest, Sincere Men—Work Ac-
complished—Next Meeting Tuesday.
Since the formal organization of the Eastern
Talking Machine Jobbers' Association, April 24,
in New York, by the Edison jobbers and Victor
distributers, the committees in charge of matters
referred to them for action have lost no time get
ting down to business. It is safe to say that when
the association meets Tuesday evening next, May
N, all the reports will be presented for further
procedure. The committee on the Victor con-
tract—C. V. Henkel, Douglas Phonograph Co.; .1.
Newcomb Blackman, Blackman Talking Machine
Co., of New York; R. H. Morris, American Talk-
ing Machine Co., Brooklyn, N. Y.; W. E. Henry,
Powers & Henry, Pittsburg, Pa., and President
Andrews, Syracuse, N. Y., ex-officio—have sent
the trade their recommendations for approving
signatures.
Regarding the shipment of records by the Na-
tional Phonograph Co., the following circular was
forwarded to Edison jobbers, with a supplemen-
tary letter to dealers, which meets all objections
raised, besides dealing adequately with the sub-
ject:
To save our jobbers the expense of having new
monthly records shipped by express, as well as to re-
lieve us of our present congested condition ; also TO
enable us to give better service to th£ trade on orders
for current selections, it has been decided :
1st. To dropi the June list of new records entirely.
lid. That, beginning with the July list, all first or-
ders for new monthly records will be shipped to jobbers
by freight, each jobbers' order going forward as soon as
it can be gotten ready, but the records not to be placed
on sale, or leave the jobber's store or possession, before
date specified and authorized below.
.''.(1. Beginning with July list, new monthly records
must not be put on sale, either at wholesale or retail,
until S a. m., on the 27th of the month preceding the
month under which they are listed. That is. the July
records cannot go on sale or leave the joMber's store or
possession until June 27, August record on July 27.
and so on. When the 27th falls on Sunday, the records
are not to go on sale, until same hour the day following.
4th. In making shipments by freight, we will get
them off in ample time to be delivered ahead of the
date on which the records are to go on sale, all things
being favorable; but should any delay occur in transit
or on the part of the transportation companies of car-
riers, we will not be held in any way responsible or
liable.
5th. Samples of new monthly records will continue
to be sent out at same time as though the June list
was not ln-ing dropped, and first orders must be sent us
at the same time as heretofore: that is, samples of
July records will be shipped nlxmt May 1, samples of
August records about June 1. etc.. and first orders for
July records must be mailed us not later than May 10.
first orders for August records not later than June 10,
etc.
6th. Any jobber selling or offering for sale, or in
any way disposing of new records in advance of the
date and time specified, forfeits his right to the priv-
ilege other jobbers receive, and thereafter his orders
for advance records will not be shipped until after the
date on which they are put on sale by other jobbers.
7th. The foregoing conditions are hereby made part
of the Conditions of Sale forming part of the jobbers'
agreement, and any breach thereof will be subject to
the penalties provided for in said agreement.
O. H. WILSON.
General Manager of Sales.
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
those present at the funeral were F. K. Dolbeer,
manager credit department of the National Pho-
nograph Co., Edison Mfg. Co., and the Bates Mfg.
Co.; C. H. Wilson, manager of sales; Wm. Pelzer,
of the legal department, and W. C. Patrick, of the
Chicago office of the National Phonograph Co.
Mr. Logue was formerly manager of the Edison
phonoplex telegraph system at the Orange, N. J.,
works, subsequently in charge of the National
Phonograph Co.'s Chicago branch, then manager
of the Edison Mfg. Co.'s battery department, and
late manager of the Bates Mfg. Co., and was con-
sidered a business man of extraordinary ability
and force of character.
FROM ALL POINTS OF THE COMPASS.
Big Call for Goods—Eckhardt West—Thos. A.
Edison Returns—J. N. Blackman—"Talker"
Litigation—Prescott to the Pacific Coast—
Other Items of Interest.
George. H. Ornstein, chief of the Victor Talking
Machine Co.'s traveling staff, who was in New
York last week looking around, was buttonholing
trade and feeling the pulse of things in New
England the past few days. As a diplomat Mr.
Ornstein is considered a suave proposition.
MORE VICTOR BUILDINGS.
To be Devoted to Offices and Laboratories-
An Addition to Factory Also Under Way.
That the call for goods is urgent may be judged
from the fact that, jobbers are wiring in for
(Special to The Review.)
quick shipments to the manufacturers. The
Philadelphia, Pa., April 30, 1906.
shortage on machines and records is astonishing,
Ballinger & Perrot, architects and engineers,
and it now looks as if business will continue act-
have completed drawings and specifications, and
ive through the summer.
invited estimates, due May 1, for an office build-
Walter L. Eckhardt, manager wholesale depart- ing and laboratory to be erected at the northwest
ment Columbus Phonograph Co., general, left corner of Front, and Cooper streets, Camden, N.
New York Monday for a trip west, touching the J., for the Victor Talking Machine Co.
The building will have a frontage of 89 feet
leading cities en route between here and Chicago,
his ultimate point. He is dated for two weeks, on Cooper street, and 100 feet on Front
and may be gone longer, doubtless returning with street, and will be four stories in height,
a bunch of new Columbia jobbers dangling at his with provision for two additional stores in
belt. Walt is truly a wonder when in working the future. It will be fireproof throughout,
harness, his trusty weapons being facts, figures, having the walls, columns, floors and roofs of
reinforced concrete construction, and slag roof
proven profits and a great product.
covering. Wall columns will be used in the ex-
By an oversight the names of the Eclipse Talk- terior wall construction, with triple windows In
ing Machine Co., Hoboken, N. J., and R. B. Cald- between, giving the largest amount of light ob-
well, with the Blackman Talking Machine Co., tainable. There will be provision for a com-
New York, were omitted as attendants at the first bined freight and passenger elevator.
They also have completed drawings and speci-
meeting of the Eastern Talking Machine Jobbers'
fications, and invited estimates, due May 1, for
Association.
an addition to the manufactory building of the
Thomas A. Edison—the "old man." as he is same company on Front street, south of Cooper
called by every one of his business associates— street. The addition will include an entire fifth
has returned from his Florida winter home to story for the existing building, 78 by 170 feet,
with walls of brick, floor of steel I beams and
Orange, N. J., and W. E. Gilmore, president of
the National Phonograph Co., got back from his planking, and roof of wood construction with
Southern vacation on Monday, appearing at the slag covering.
New York office the following day, for the first
UNIQUE TALKING MACHINE CO.
time in several weeks, looking the picture of
health and thoroughly rested.
On account of increased business, the Unique
With a high power "bubble," J. Newcomb Black- Talking Machine Co. have closed a lease for the
man, proprietor of the Blackman Talking Ma- next three years on the three-story brick store
chine Co., New York, speeds from the office to his building, No. 1016 Prairie avenue, Houston, Tex.,
home in Orange, N. J., and thence wherever fancy and are now doing business there. They have
dictates. This is J. N. B.'s respite from business installed the Hawthorne & Sheble unit record
cares, for he is a hard worker and the auto gives system. It is claimed this concern hold the
record as "the pioneer talking-machine house in
him an excuse to "sneak" occasionally.
Texas." They became interested in them as far
John O. Prescott, manager of the American back as 1890, when they used the old-style ma-
Sheble Co.'s New York office, also of Hawthorne, chines in connection with court reporting work,
Strobel & Prescott. started Wednesday for Los and from that graduated into the first Houston
Angeles, Cal., to attend the annual conclave of the (if not Texas) dealers. Their present store is
Mystic Shrine. He will be gone about a fortnight 30 feet front by 100 deep, and is devoted ex-
and will visit San Francisco and other coast clusively to talking machines. They handle the
cities en route home. J. O. has made special rec- Victor, Edison and Columbia machines, and the
ords of Shriner music, and has taken a full talk- American and Zonophone records.
The committee on credits had a very satisfac-
tory interview with F. K. Dollbeer, chief of the
credit department National Phonograph Co., and
their report has cleared up a number of knotty
points.
Jobbers east of Buffalo. N. Y., and Scranton, Pa.,
are earnestly solicited to attend the meeting Tues-
day evening at 8 o'clock, in the sumptuous ware-
rooms of the Douglas Phonograph Co., 89 Cham-
bers St., New York. The association is composed
of representative firms, with an eye single to the
improvement of trade conditions, not to mention
the pleasing relations generated by the exchange
of social amenities, consequently the board of
officers and trustees urge upon the prominent and
influential houses in their respective localities the
ing machine equipment which will be used to
wisdom of being present.
while away many a tedious hour of the long and
tiresome trip across the continent.
PROMINENT EDISON OFFICIAL DEAD.
Wm. S. Logue, who had been identified with the
Edison interests in various capacities for twenty
years, died at Chicago, where at a time he was
manager of the National Phonograph Co.'s branch
office, Wednesday week, aged fifty-five years. He
was buried in Baltimore, Md.. Saturday last, with
Masonic honors, the deceased having been an
active member of that order and the Elks. Among
Talking Machine Co., complainant, and the above
companies, was reported exclusively in last week's
Review, in which the defendants were enjoined,
though a stay was granted pending final hearing.
Lawyers familiar with the question declare the
patent's adjudication is one of pure law, depend-
ing upon so fine a point that but two decisions are
in the books, one of which was rendered by the
United States Supreme Court, where, they state,
the case will ultimately go, unless a "lay down"
occurs.
Being a preference case, a hearing on the ap-
peal of the Talk-o-Phone Co. and Leeds & Catlin
Co., from the decision of Judge Townsend, will
likely come on at the June term of the United
States Circuit court of Appeals about, the latter
part of this month. Judge Townsend's opinion,
a lengthy review of 1be I'SSHA jn controversy on
the Berliner stylus patent, between the Victor
THE MULTI-RECORD RACK.
The new style "Multo-Record" rack which is
being introduced to the trade by the Syracuse
Wire Works, Syracuse, N. Y., is destined to
prove a great favorite. This rack appeals to
dealers who are desirous of using the pasteboard
trays and Rapke labels. The indications are that
there will be a heavy demand for this style as
soon as it is known that the Syracuse Wire
Works have it in their catalogue.