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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
HERE AND THERE IN THE TRADE.
SHIPMENT OF TWENTY CARS
Of Talking Machines, Records and Supplies Will
be Made on Monday by the National Phono-
graph Co. to Babson Bros., the Great Jobbing
House of Chicago—The Train's Route.
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Review Office, 195 Wabash Avenue,
Chicago, 111., April 10, 1907.
Twenty cars containing over 8,000 phonographs
and a quarter of a million records, as well as
several carloads of horns and cranes will leave
the Edison factories at Orange, N. J., on Monday
for Babson Bros., the enterprising talking ma-
chine jobbers of Chicago. These goods will be
used for stocking their new building, which is
now approaching completion, and will be placed
in prder before occupation, so that there will be
no delay in filling orders. The special train will
be placarded with legends describing the char-
acter of the cargo, its origin and destination. The
route will be as follows, and by consulting this
itinerary, Edison dealers along the route will be
able to watch for the train. It will be well worth
seeing. It leaves Jersey City Monday afternoon
at 4.15, and will reach the following towns on
the dates mentioned:
Tuesday, April 16.—Passaic, Paterson, Goshen,
Middletown, Pt. Jervis, Lackawanna, Hancock,
Deposit, Susquehanna, Binghamton, Endicott,
Owego, Waverly, Elmira, Corning.
. Wednesday, April 17.—Hornell, Wellsville,
Friendship, Cuba, Olean, Carrollton, Salamanca,
Randolph, Jamestown, Lakewood, Corry, Union
City, Cambridge Springs, Saegerstown, Meadville.
Thursday, April 18.—Greenville, Shenango,
Sharon, Youngstown, Niles, Warren, Leavitsburg,
Ravenna, Kent.
Friday, April 19.—Akron, Barbertown, Wads-
worth, Sterling, Creston, Ashland, Mansfield,
Galion, Martel, Marion.
Saturday, April 20.—Kenton, Lima, Spencer-
ville, Ohio City, Decatur, Kingsland, Huntington,
Bolivar, Rochester, North Judson, Wilders,
Crown Point, Hammond.
JOBBERS MEET IN PHILADELPHIA.
The quarterly meeting of the Eastern Talking
Machine Jobbers' Association was held in Phila-
delphia, Pa., Thursday. The session that com-
pleted the business before the organization con-
vened in the Pink Room of the Bellevue-Stratford
Hotel at 2 p. m. and adjourned at 6. The differ-
entiation in the sale of goods on the instalment
plan as against cash transactions was discussed,
as well as the exchange of credit information. A
definite time for effecting an exchange of "dead"
stock was passed upon in the form of a recom-
mendation to the record manufacturers.
An informal dinner was served the members
and invited guests at the hotel in the evening.
Yesterday (Friday) the plant of the Victor Talk-
ing Machine Co., Camden, N. J., was visited, and
luncheon was served at the Down Town Club. In
the afternoon an automobile trip was taken
through Fairmount Park and about the city./ A
theatre party to see "Fifty Miles from Boston"
wound up the formal festivities. The jobbers
were the guests of the local trade in co-operation
with the Victor Talking Machine Co. during their
entire stay.
F. M. Prescott, late president and general man-
ager of the International Talking Machine Co.,
Berlin, Germany, and also heavily interested in
the Fonotipia Co., the famous record manufactur-
ers of Milan, Italy, has disposed of his European
interests, starting for New York from Hamburg
via the "Praetoria," of the Hamburg-American
line, April 6. The steamer is due on the 19th,
and hereafter he will remain in the United
States, his home, taking up a residence in Sum-
mit, N. J.
F.
E. Madison Returns—New York Phono-
graph Co. Case Again—Callers at New York
Phonograph Co. Warerooms—Photographs of
Resolutions—Other Items.
Frank E. Madison, manager of the National
Phonograph Co.'s contract department, who has
been in South Carolina for a month recuperating
his health, got back to New York Monday. Most*
of his time was passed in Charleston and a
short distance outside. An automobile trip
through the State was beneficial and greatly en-
joyed.
can just imagine him sitting there with the talk-
ing machine before him, articulating every word
distinctly. And it is his mission to talk through
that machine to all the world, expressing the
feelings, sentiments, thoughts and ideals of the
American people, of whom he is perfectly typical
in his energy and his ideals." Commenting on
this the New York World says: "A graphophone
report of the conversation between Mr. Roosevelt
and Mr. Harriman at that celebrated interview,
'expressing the feelings, sentiments, thoughts
and ideals of the American people,' would be well
worth the price of the cylinders."
STILL CLAMORING FOR GOODS.
The case of the New York Phonograph Co.
against S. Davega, of New York City, and 234
other Edison jobbers in New York State, was
up again Wednesday in the Supreme Court of
Westchester County, at New Rochelle, before
Judge Keogh. Testimony only was taken—the be-
ginning.
Dealers Find It Difficult to Get Sufficient Stock
Although Manufacturers Are Running Their
Plants Full Force Full Time.
The Hornless Phonograph Co., New York, re-
cently incorporated, propose manufacturing a de-
vice said to resemble the Victor Victrola so far
as the disposition of the horn is concerned. They
also have in mind a submerged horn machine,
which is familiar to the trade in Germany. At
the present time capital is the chief requisite.
Sol Bloom, incorporated, Victor distributor,
New York, was petitioned into bankruptcy April
4, his liabilities being placed at $20,000, and as-
sets about $8,000. This action was a great sur-
prise to Mr. Bloom, who was in Chicago at the
time, and on his return a meeting of creditors
was called, which was held Tuesday. A full
statement, disclosing the condition of the con-
cern, was submitted, and a plan of adjustment
was agreed upon. The settlement accepted was
payment in full, to be made in a year's time, from
July 15, when the first will be due. The others
will follow on October 15 and January 15, April
15, July 15, 1908. As soon as the papers are
prepared for the approval of the court the re-
ceiver will vacate and Mr. Bloom again assume
the management of the business.
Very little, if any, change in business condi-
tions has occurred during the week. Jobbers are
still clamoring for goods, and the machine and
record manufacturers report their respective
The callers at the New York office of the Na- plants are running full and sometimes overtime
tional Phonograph Co. during the past week to supply a demand that promises to exceed for-
were: C. Allen, with the International Corre- mer records. Dealers are getting into their stride
spondence School, Scranton, Pa.; M. Kelly, Jr., also, and the late spring and early summer trade
with Peter Kelly, Jr., Montreal, Canada; W. O. is also placed at high figures.
Pardee, of the Pardee-Ellenberger Co., New
The two events of the week are the prepara-
Haven, Conn.; Geo. Youmans, Waycross, Ga.
tions to take advantage of the Zonophone record
C. H. Wilson, general sales manager of the com- exchange proposition that goes into effect Mon-
pany, has had a dozen full-size photographs exe- day, lasting ten days. The other was the argu-
cuted of the resolutions adopted by the Edison ment on the case of the Victor Talking Machine
jobbers, during the historical entertainment in Co., Camden, N. J., against the Leeds & Catlin
July last, and presented specifically to Thomas Co., New York, in the United States Circuit
A. Edison, W. E. Gilmore, C. H. Wilson and Court of Appeals, second circuit, on the appeal
F. K. Dolbeer. They are intended as presenta- from Judge Lacombe's decision in the lower
tion copies to the various heads of departments court.
at the Edison plant in Orange, N. J.
COLUMBIA CO. IN HAVANA, CUBA.
Leo Greenberger, assignee of the Burke Talk-
John H. Dorian, manager of the New York De-
ing Machine & Novelty Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., has
sent out the following notice to the creditors: partment of the Columbia Phonograph Co., ar-
"By virtue of assignments, dated respectively rived home Saturday from his trip to Cuba, where
March 11 and April 6, 1907, all the outstanding he greatly enjoyed a well-earned vacation. He
accounts of the Burke Talking Machine & Nov- considers there is quite a good outlook for the
elty Co. have been assigned to the Mechanics' talking machine business in Cuba, and in this
Bank of Brooklyn, the same to collect all the ac- connection reports having established a branch
counts due and apply them, after reimbursing store of the Columbia Co. in Havana. Noted
themselves for the outlays made, toward the pay- Spanish singers will be engaged to make records
ment of their claim as well as other creditors to suit the demands of the people.
pro rata. This terminates my assigneeship with
the above mentioned corporation."
SOL BLOOM SETTLEMENT.
A taper tone arm horn has lately been brought
out by a Cleveland, O., inventor for the Edison
machines. An effort is being made to have the
National Phonograph Co. adopt it officially. Also
there are other horns of different construction
that are candidates for the same honor.
The Universal Talking Machine Manufacturing
Co., Newark, N. J., within the last few weeks
have adopted a new trade-mark, which will be
used on all their products, literature, printing,
etc. The listening monkey proposition has there-
fore been definitely laid on the shelf. The new
mark is being covered abroad for the export
trade.
William T. Stead thus opens a new career
to Mr. Roosevelt: "I found the President an en-
gaging personality, but what struck me most was
that the President, would be the best man of
any I ever met to talk into a graphophone. You
C. J. HOPKINS LEAVES FOR NEW POST.
Chas. J. Hopkins sailed for his new post in
South America for the Columbia Phonograph
Co., General, April 3, aboard the steamer "Ten-
nyson," of the Lambert-Holt line. He will go
direct to Rio de Janeiro, and from there to
Buenos Ayres, A. R., by the Royal Mail line.
Mrs. Hopkins and the baby went along, as a
matter of course, as Mr. H. is not expecting to
return to "God's country" the Lord knows when.