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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
REPORTS ON COPYRIGHT BILL.
Senator Mallory, Representing the Minority,
Files Report Which Pleases Mechanical In-
strument Manufacturers—A Chat With Paul
H. Cromelin on the Situation.
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C , Feb. 7 1907.
The report of Senator Kittredge on the copy-
right bill, representing the majority, was sub-
mitted yesterday. Senator Mallory, representing
the minority, presented his statement to-day and
which was signed by himself and Senators Fos-
ter and Smoot. Their position is strongly op-
posed to the bill as reported, going into details
more from a business than a legal point, and is
one that the mechanical instrument manufac-
turers believe is unanswerable, in other words,
as they express it, "a corker." As it stands the
bill is considered one of privilege, and may be
reported at any time, and its passage in some
shape or other seems a foregone conclusion.
John J. O'Connell, of Bullowa & O'Connell,
representing a number of player piano compa-
nies; G. W. Pound, attorney for the De Kleist
Musical Instrument Manufacturing Co., North
Towanda, N. Y., and the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co.,
Cincinnati, O.; Albert H. Walker, for the Con-
norized Music Roll Co., and himself, are here
looking after their respective interests.
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When Paul H. Cromlin, vice-president of the
Columbia Phonograph Co., was approached on
this matter by The Review, he said: "I con-
sider this measure so important as to over-
shadow all other of our interests. I returned to
New York yesterday and will go back to Wash-
ington to-night to stay, if necessary, until the
fourth of March. The copyright bill is one of
the most, bitterly contested bills before Congress,
and I will say that its passage, inclusive of any
section inimical to the free reproduction of mu-
sic on mechanical or automatic instruments, is
improbaible, if not impossible."
NEW COLUMBIA QUARTERS.
The Columbia Phonograph Co., General, Have
Removed to the Fifteenth Floor of the New
York Tribune Building—Will Give Them
Needed Facilities to Cope With Business.
The new quarters of the Columbia Phonograph
Co., general, on the fifteenth floor of the New
York Tribune building, 154 Nassau street, New
York, to which they removed February 1, are
rapidly being arranged to suit the different de-
partments. The entire headquarter's force are
now comfortably located in these commodious
quarters, representing the rapid and marvellous
growth of this great company. When the in-
terior decorations and furnishings are completed
no company in the talking machine business will
have such sumptuous offices. Walter P. Phil-
lips, the advertising manager, has a delightful
outlook over the Brooklyn Bridge, with the re-
mainder of the executive staff gazing over the
harbor or City Hall Park for inspiration, which
is usually exact and positive if needed.
EDISON IN GOOD HEALTH.
Thomas A. Edison seemed amused at the re-
port sent out from Atlantic City on Saturday
last that he had been carried into a hotel there
on a stretcher, from a stroke of paralysis.
"I saw these stories in the papers," said Mr.
Edison, as he puffed a cigar at his laboratory In
West Orange, "but I don't think I look like an
invalid or a paralytic, and I certainly don't feel
like one. I've been here all day; in fact, I
haven't been away for a month. There is no
truth in the reports. I am still working."
It was later stated that the man who was
taken ill was H. H. Ellison, of Philadelphia.
LITTLE CHANGE IN BUSINESS.
Steady Increase Reported With Best Reports
from the West—Attitude of Manufacturers
Toward
Handlers
of Premium
Talking
Machines.
Very little if any change is reported in general
business, excepting a general and steady im-
provement, with the most favorable returns com-
COLUMBIA CO^ON 23D STREET.
ing in from the West. Jobbers carrying on a na-
Lease Quarters at 37 W. 23d Street Where
tional business, speak of conditions as very fa-
Their Stores at 353 and 853 Broadway Will
vorable and sales increasing.
be Consolidated.
The remarkable report of the Victor Talking
A lease has been effected by the Columbia Machine Co., Camden, N. J., over the signature
Phonograph Co., general, for the premises at 35- of Louis F. Geissler, general manager, has been
37 West 23d street, New York, where they will a topic of great interest, and the company have
occupy the store and basement. The present been felicitated on this indisputable and agree-
premises at 353 and 853 Broadway will be re- able evidence of prosperity and substantial
moved to this location about May 1, consolidat- growth.
Another matter that has been generally dis-
ing both places, with John H. Dorian as man-
ager and H. Cleveland running the retail de- cussed is the relations of jobbers and dealers
partment. The commercial graphophone system with the handling of premiums or scheme talk-
will be taken care of at headquarters on the fif- ing machines. These goods are almost entirely
teenth floor of the Tribune building. The new of foreign manufacture, and though they are a
Columbia store is located in the center of New distinct class of merchandise as compared with
the standard or regular lines, the proposition as
York's shopping district, between Fifth and
Sixth avenues, adjoining E. R. Dutton & Co., the worked in connection with the sale of the latter
book publishers, and opposite Stern & Bro., the is not favored by the manufacturers whose con-
fashionable department store, with other estab- tracts or "conditions of sale" are claimed to be
violated. The outcome will be watched with in-
lishments of like character and standing.
terest.
EDISON EXHIBIT SUCCESSFUL.
Display at the New York Furniture Exchange
Brings Many Prospects—Notice Issued Re-
garding Suits.
The exhibit of the National Phonograph Co. in
the New York Furniture Exchange was closed
last Saturday. Mr. Barklow, the manager, in
speaking of the venture, said: "The exhibit, in
my estimation, has been very successful, and
we have in the neighborhood of 200 prospects.
The company are very well satisfied with the
results." In conferring with C. H. Wilson, man-
ager of sales, relative to the general situation, he
said: "Business is excellent, and Mr. Edison is
still alive. You know, some d
d fool news-
paper called me up this morning and asked me
if Mr. Edison was still in the land of the living!
Well, I guess that will keep you for a while."
Mr. Pelzer judged the situation lightly and in
his usual genial way.
The company have printed the following an-
nouncement: "Jobbers and dealers in the State
of New York, against whom suits were brought
by the New York Phonograph Co., have recently
been served by registered mail with a notice
wherein that company's attorney calls attention
to a section of a code which gives him a lien
Upon his clients cause of action. This does not
effect or concern the jobbers and dealers, and no
such notice was necessary to protect the attorney
of that company, and we believe the real purpose
of the notice is to create the impression that the
New York Co. obtained a decision in its favor,
which is not the case, in fact, the suits have not
yet been brought to final hearing. The only
hearing so far has been on the motion for pre-
liminary injunction, which was denied." The
matter before the Supreme Court of Westchester
County, N. Y., Judge Keogh presiding, last week
was the taking of testimony in open court, a ref-
erence being opposed. This amounted to a read-
ing of the testimony in former cases, and which
was about completed.
COLUMBIA CHRONICLES.
Advance Catalogue of Marconi Velvet Tone
Records Placed in the Hands of Columbia
Managers.
The advance catalogue of the "Marconi Velvet
Tone" records—"wonderful as wireless"—has
been placed in the hands of the Columbia Phono-
graph Co.'s managers. They are referred to as
marking "an epoch in disc record making." em-
bodying the following telling points:
"They embody totally new ideas; are made of
a new material; are flexible, unbreakable, and
with a new surface; supply a new tone; make
possible new effects; are light—thin—weigh only
two ounces; require very little room; will repro-
duce hundreds of times; will respond to the
same needle over and over again; will stand ex-
posure to all weathers and climates; can be
mailed at small cost without danger of break-
age."
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Edward D. Easton, president of the Columbia
Phonograph Co., general, returned Saturday last
from his tour of inspection of the company's
western branch houses, his trip extending to the
Pacific Coast. He has been away for a month,
and the tour seems to have improved his health
materially, although that is always of the most
vigorous character.
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Philip Mauro and C. A. L. Massie and Messrs.
Mauro, Cameron, lewis & Massie, announce the
removal of their New York offices, for the prac-
tice of patent law, from 90 West Broadway to
the Tribune Building, 154 Nassau street, New
York, fifteenth floor.
J. O. Francis has opened, a new music store in
Moosup, Conn.
A music store has been opened by R. B. Hass-
ler in Wernersville, Pa.
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