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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
NEW EDISON DISC DEALERS.
CHANGES IN STEWART T. M. CO.
RETIREMENT OF MISS JESSIE BROWN
Several Dealers Including the Tower Mfg. and
Novelty Co. Take on Line in New York—St.
Louis Piano House Places Big Order—In-
creasing Supply of Disc Records.
W. E. Ludlow Resigns as Manager and Is Suc-
ceeded by W. S. Barringer—To Move to New
Location at 221 North Pennsylvania Street.
Private Secretary to George W. Lyle, General
Manager of the Columbia Graphophone Co.,
Retires After Fourteen Years of Service.
Within the past month several dealers in New
York have qualified as retail distributers of the
new Edison disc phonographs, the most important
new connection being the Tower Manufacturing
and Novelty Co., which has installed a large and
well equipped department in its store at 32G Broad-
way.
F. K. Dolbeer, manager of sales for the phono-
graph department of Thomas A. Edison, Inc., stat-
ed to The Review that the supply of disc Tecords
was increasing rapidly and would soon be sufficient
to meet all the demands of the trade while the
disc machines were being shipped from the factory
as fast as they could be turned out. New dealers
are being signed up constantly, among the more
recent being the Thiebes Piano Co., St. Louis,
Mo., who secured a Class A dealers' rating by plac-
ing an initial order for over $5,000 worth of
machines and records.
Mr. Dolbeer will leave in a few days for St.
Louis to oversee an elaborate two weeks' demon-
stration of the new disc machines and records to
be made at the Coliseum, that city, in connection
with the Woman's Industrial Exhibition.
NEW COLUMBIA AGENTS.
The following firms closed arrangements this
week with the Columbia Graphophone Co. to
handle the Columbia line of products: Bell Bros.
Piano Co., Muncie, Ind., one of the leading piano
houses in the Hoosier State; H. Fraiberg & Sons,
Cleveland, O.; E. M. Chase Co., Manchester and
Boston, Mass.; Clark & Jones, Birmingham, Ala.;
W. A. Kulp, Braddock, Pa.; Continental Furni-
ture & Household Distributing Co., New York,
N. Y., and the Gebrecht-Geyer Co., Norwood, O.
Another recent addition to the list of Colum-
bia representatives in nearby territory is John L.
Sherman, Westport, N. Y.
Music lovers will be pleased to know that the
Columbia Graphophone Co. will announce in the
near future two orchestra records by a specially
selected thirty-piece orchestra conducted by Felix
Weingartner, the famous composer. Mr. Wein-
gartner is well known in Europe and America as
a famous orchestral opera conductor and com-
poser, and he chose his orchestra from the best-
known organizations in New York. The two rec-
ords played by this orchestra will be presented by
the Columbia Co. in the next few months.
Chauncey Olcott's records, to be announced by
the Columbia Co. in an early supplement, include
the following popular songs: "My Wild Irish
"Rose," "I Used to Believe in Fairies," "Molly-O,"
"Sweet Inniscara," "I Love the Name of Mary"
and "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling."
COLUMBIA LINEJr^ NEWARK, N. J.
(Special to The Review.)
Indianapolis, Ind., March 17, 1913.
The Stewart Talking Machine Co. not only an-
nounces a change in location at this time, but a
change in managers as well. W. E. Ludlow, who
was associated with Alexander M. Stewart when
the latter owned the Wulschner-Stewart Music Co.,
and who became manager of the Stewart Talking
Machine Co. when that company was organized
by Mr. Stewart after he had disposed of his hold-
ings in the Wulschner-Stewart Co., has resigned.
W. S. Barringer, who was assistant manager, be-
comes manager, and W. M. English will act as
his assistant. The Stewart store is being moved
from 110 North Pennsylvania street to 221 North
Pennsylvania street. Elaborate decorations mark
the new quarters of the company, and an effort
will be made to make them the most inviting in
the city.
EDUCATIONAL MOTION PICTURES.
Educational Board of New Jersey Visits Edison
Laboratory and Witnesses Demonstration.
(Special to The Review.)
Trenton, N. J., March 17, 1913.
An invitation was extended to the heads of the
Educational Board of New Jersey to visit the
Edison laboratory at East Orange last Friday
evening to witness a practical demonstration of
educational motion pictures, the idea being to ac-
quaint the State educators with the work now well
under way at the Edison plant.
Miller Reese Hutchison, personal representa-
tive of Mr. Edison, addressed those present and
had films produced on the screen describing the
manufacture of Bessemer steel from cast iron.
Hydraulics, showing in detail the action of pumps,
the microscopic organisms known as animalculae,
which abound in water, and the advent of the
house fly, these subjects were so ably handled that
it was proven beyond doubt that education by
means of motion pictures was not only practicable
but highly desirable, as the subjects taken up re-
quired but a few moments, whereas the same
studies by the ordinary textbook method would
require weeks at least, and could not be as firmly
fixed upon the minds of the pupils. Mr. Hutchi-
son also read extracts from scenarios written by
students employed by the Edison Co. outlining
subjects of general educational value and contain-
ing drawings of the object under discussion.
After witnessing these interesting illustrations
and hearing Mr. Edison's latest talking machine,
those present were invited to the auditorium,
where talking motion pictures are produced, sev-
eral of which were shown depicting this most
wonderful and entertaining invention.
The parlor kinetoscope was also demonstrated
here. This machine may be operated in the par-
lor or classroom with perfect safety, as it does
not use an inflammable film. Among those who
went from this city were Commissioner of Edu-
cation Calvin N. Kendall, Superintendent John P.
Walker, of the School for Deaf, and William G.
Newcomb, electrician of the latter institution.
Arrangements were completed this week where-
by the Newark, N. J., branch of F. G. Smith, the
well-known piano house, will handle a complete
line of Columbia Graphophone Co.'s products.
Booths are now being constructed and the new
department will probably be ready for business
In response to many requests, the Victor Talk-
within the next week or ten days. This F. G.
ing Machine Co. has had prepared a series of
Smith branch is another link in the chain of F. G.
lantern slides showing prominent opera artists in
Smith branches that are handling Columbia
their principal roles and scenes from the grand
products.
operas, for the use of Victor dealers in their own
If you are a salesman, tuner or traveler, and stores or in the moving picture theaters in their
desire a position, forward your wants in an ad- respective cities. The slides are so arranged as to
vertisement to The Review in space not to ex- permit of the insertion of the name and address of
ceed four lines and it will be inserted free of the local dealer and are supplied at a nominal
price.
. .
charge and replies sent to you.
After fourteen years' continuous service with the
Columbia Graphophone Co., Miss Jessie Brown,
private secretary to General Manager George W.
Lyle, retired from active service last Saturday in'
order to take a well-deserved rest at her home,
in Mt. Vernon, N. Y.
Miss Jessie Brown is one of the few Columbia
office employes who
can relate in detail
the phenomenal ad-
vances of the Co-
1 u m b i a Grapho-
phone Co. She was
secretary for five
years to the late
M. E. Lyle, and
nine years ago be-
came private secre-
tary to G e n e r a l
M a n a g e r George
W. Lyle, the posi-
..
tion she retained
Miss Jessie Brown.
until hor retireme nt.
During these fourteen years Miss Brown wit-
nessed the moving of the company's executive
offices four times, and if she had remained a few
weeks longer would have been present at its fifth
moving into new quarters in the Woolworth build-
ing. The first offices of the company were located
at 1159 Broadway, and successive movings, in or-
der to acquire adequate space, included 145 Broad-
way, 93 Chambers street, 90 West Broadway, New
York, and the Tribune building, where the admin-
istration offices are now located.
Miss Jessie Brown, in her fourteen years of
service, has gained the admiration and respect of
all the officials and office staff of the Columbia
Co. Possessed of unusual business ability and al-
ways a conscientious and efficient worker, Miss
Brown has been considered invaluable by the ex-
ecutive officers. As a personal token of their es-
teem and affection, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Lyle
presented Miss Brown with a handsome gift, and
the Columbia Co. did likewise. Miss Brown left
the employ of the Columbia Co. with hearty wishes
for her happiness from officers and employes.
NEW DEALERS IN BANGOR.
Three Concerns Take on the Edison Disc Line
—Establishments Well Fitted Up.
(Special to The Review.)
Bangor, Me, March 17, 1913.
Three new parties have entered the talking ma-
chine business in this city lately, taking on the
Edison disc line. These are: Chandler & Co.,
Otis Skinner Optical Co. and the Arthur Guth
Piano Co. Each has bought an initial order of
$2,500, which show their faith in the Edison
goods is most pronounced. These establishments
have fitted up special rooms to demonstrate the
Edison disc machines, the Otis Skinner Co. es-
pecially having most attractively arranged display
quarters, which is still located in the central part
of the city.
NEW EDISON DISC CATALOG.
Thomas A. Edison, Inc., has issued an attractive
six-page booklet devoted to the new disc ma-
chines. A description of the musical value of
the machines is featured on the first two pages,
and the remainder of the pamphlet illustrates the
various types of Edison disc machines, showing
cuts and constructive qualities.