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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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IMPORTANT HEINEMAN ACCESSIONS
C. F. Rubsam in Charge of the Otto Heine-
man Phonograph Supply Co.'s Export Activ-
ities—W. C. Pilgrim Appointed Assistant
Factory Manager—Two Important Posts
C. F. Rubsam, who for many years past has
been prominent in the dictating and talking ma-
chine industries abroad, having been an impor-
tant factor in these fields in France, has joined
the forces of the Otto Heineman Phonograph
from their European sources of production is, in
a measure, responsible for this very rapid
growth of export business, coupled with the
fact that the Heineman motors and other talking
machine products have scored a big demand in
•this country the past year.
W. C. Pilgrim, who is well known in London
financial circles, having been associated with a
C. F. Rubsam
Supply Co., Inc., New York. He is supervising
the company's dictating machine division and
has also taken charge of the company's export
activities. The export department of the Otto
Heineman Phonograph Supply Co., Inc., has
assumed very imposing proportions the past few
months, and the exports to South America, Aus-
tralia and the Far East have reached large sales
totals. The fact that these countries are cut off
W. C. Pilgrim
number of prominent houses in connection with
the development of their domestic and foreign
trade, has also joined the staff of the Otto
Heineman Phonograph Supply Co., Inc.
He
has been appointed assistant factory manager
with headquarters at the Heineman factory in
Elyria, and will supervise the manufacture and
shipment of the completed product, working in
close co-operation with the home offices.
FAIRBANKS GOJESTO EDISON CO.
auditor. Charles R. Lee for the present will super-
vise the Atlanta zone which was recently established,
Has Been Appointed Manager of the Phono-
graph Works—Now on Vacation Trip
WEST ORANGE, N. J., April 24.—C. E. Fairbanks,
former works manager for the Gilbert & Barker
Manufacturing Co. of West Springfield, Mass.,
has been appointed manager of the phonograph
works division of Thos. A. Edison, Inc., in
this city. Mr. Fairbanks is taking a sea trip
this week, and upon his return, about May
first, will take up the duties of his new position,
where he will have the supervision of over 3,600
workmen. He is well known in New England
as president of the Executives' Club and vice-
president of the Aero Club, of Springfield, and
has a host of friends who wish him success in
his new undertaking.
TALKER MUSIC BY WIRELESS
Boston Wireless Operator Sends Music Pro-
duced by Edison Diamond Disc Phonograph
Over a Radius of Two Hundred Miles
BOSTON, MASS., April 24.—The sending of music
through the air by wireless has become an ac-
complished fact and has been developed to a
NEXT CONVENTION TO BE BEST EVER
Plans Now Under Way for Consideration of
Many Important Business Subjects—C. G.
Childs and Howard Shartele to Make Ad-
dresses as Will Factory Men and Jobbers
A. A. Trostler, chairman of the arrangement
committee for the coming annual convention of
the National Association of Talking Machine.
Jobbers, to be held at the Hotel Traymore, At-
lantic City, N. J., on July 10, 11, 12 and 13, de-
clares that the convention will be the best ever
held in the history of the association, and that
the members who fail to attend will regret it for
the rest of their natural lives.
It is planned to make the meeting particularly
notable from an educational standpoint and a
program of live topics of all sorts, calculated to
help all the jobbers in getting the best results
out of their business, is now being prepared.
Among the questions that will be taken up and
discussed are those of operating costs and over-
head expense of all sorts, short cuts and efficient
methods in handling the talking machine busi-
ness and other matters of importance.
Among the talks already scheduled will be
one by C. G. Childs, manager of the recording
department of the Victor Talking Machine Co.,
who will give the jobbers much useful informa-
tion and data regarding methods of exploiting
and selling records. Howard Shartele, also of
the Victor factory, will give a talk on the secret
of ordering records successfully, and other mem-
bers of the Victor Co.'s staff as well as some of
the jobbers, will make addresses on matters of
trade importance. From the prospects at the
present time the convention in all details will
Vie a most notable one.
The plans for the entertainment of the visiting
jobbers and their friends will be as original and
elaborate as the plans for the meetings, which,
to those who have attended the conventions at
Atlantic City in the past, has a real and pleas-
ant significance.
In his experiments Mr. Power uses an Edison
Diamond Disc phonograph for the purpose of
producing the music, and declares that the pur-
ity of its tones have had much to do with the
success of the experiments.
Operators at various stations along Cape Cod
and any number of amateur wireless operators
around Boston have reported that they heard
quite clearly the music in the air.
WEBB DOING A GROWING BUSINESS
ATLANTA, GA., April 22.—LeRoy Webb & Co., who
recently moved into new quarters at 83 Peach-
tree street, report an excellent business in the
Victor line, which they have been carrying for
some time. The business has increased to such
an extent during the past year that larger quar-
ters were necessary. The new location is oc-
cupied jointly with the Windmayer Music Co.,
dealers in sheet music and supplies. Fred C
Windmayer, manager of this concern, was for-
merly connected with the Phillips & Crew Co.,
being in charge of the sheet music department
there.
NEW TERRITORIAL SUPERVISORS
The sales department of Thomas A. Edison, Inc.,
has announced the appointment of two additional
territorial supervisors. Both have already left for
their posts.
Lewis Albert Zollner is to supervise the Chi-
cago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Dfes Moines and
Sioux City zones. He is a graduate of the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin, and has had considerable
sales experience, his last previous connection being
with the Singer Sewing Machine Co. at Port
of Spain, where he was managing salesman and
Edison Diamond Disc Phonograph in Use in Wireless Room at Tufts College
Speaking of his invention, Mr. Power declared
practical basis by Harold J. Power, of the
American Radio and Research Corporation, who that he believed the time was not far distant
is in charge of the wireless station at Tufts when the experiment station at Tufts College
College, this city. Mr. Power has been very would be able to play "The Star Spangled Ban-
successful in his experiments in this connection ner" to the Kaiser's radio operators at Berlin.
and music sent by his station has been picked He said that soon he would try playing grand
up by steamers two hundred miles and more to opera to wireless operators at sea and would
sea. The most astonishing results have been make use of such voices as Emmy Destinn, Marie
Rappold, Jacques Urlus and Anna Case.
secured during the past fortnight or so.