Music Trade Review

44
THE
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
JUNE 21, 1919
A MESSAGE IN THE VICTOR CODE
EDISON TRAVELERS' CONVENTION
COLUMBIA MEN BACK FROM FRANCE
Talking Machine Men, Inc., Send a Message to
Their Membership That Requires a Victor
Numerical Record Catalog to Decode
Annual Business Meeting to Be Held at Hotel
Commodore, New York, on June 24
D. V. B. A ll en, formerly connected with the
general sa les d e partment of the Columbia
Graphophon e Co., returned reccntly from
France with the rank of lieutenant after four­
teen months' se r vice in the U . S. A rmy. Mr.
A llen has r esumed hi s connec tion w ith the ge n­
eral sales department.
E . B. Shiddel1, formerly manager of th e Co ­
lumbia Co.'s branch at nallas, w ho resigned to
go ove r seas with th e U. S. Army, returned from
France this week as a lieutenant, bearing the
insignia of the Cro ix de Guerre and the Victory
Ribbon with two stars.
Mr. Shiddell will
probably resume hi s association with the Co­
lumbia sales division in a capacity which will
be announced in the nea r future.
The Talking Machine Men, Inc., have just
sent all important message in code to the
m embersh ip of the organization. The mes­
sage is in the nature of a Tri-State t:nion Rec­
ordgram, and instead of the ABC, W es ter n Cnion
or other codes of COl11\l1lerCe the recipient, if h e
is in the talking machine business, needs only
the Victor catalog code. The message of sev­
era l paragraphs is made up entirely of record
numbers.
For the benefIt of those who have neither
the time nor the inclination to grab a catalog
and dig out th e solution for themselv es th ere
is pr ovided a translation. From th e opening
saluta tion 18438- 16320, namel y, "Tom, Dick,
Harry and Jack"-"Grecting," to the signature,
35-528, namely, "Vc ry Good Eddie," it is a clev­
er pi ece of work.
NEW EDISON STORE IN WICHITA
The second annual co nv e nti o n of Edison
tl avelers will be held on Tuesday, June 24, at
Hotel Commodore, New York. The meeting
will open at 10 a. m., when Gennal Sales Man­
ager T. ]. Leonard will welcome the delegates
on behalf of th e Ed ison lab oratory, and will
present Vice-president vV illiam Maxwell, who
will act as chairman of th e meeting. An in­
teresting program has been arranged in 'which
Edison jobbers and jo bbe rs' travelers from va­
rious parts of the United Sta tes and Ca nada and
Edison laboratory field men will participate.
The cOl1ventionites, numb er ing 150 odd, will be
guests of the Edison Co. a t lu ncheon and at a
theatre party in the even in g.
SNAPPED ON A PLEASURE JAUNT
We take pleasure in presenting herewith a
photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Heineman,
taken at the country estate of one of Mr. Heine-
Phonograph Department of Innes Dry Goods
Co. to Be Conducted as Separate Concern
Under the Name of Innes & Cosgrove
VVICRITA, K.~N., June 16.- The Edison phono­
graph department of the Tnnes Dry Goods Co.
store is being sepa rate d from the department
store proper and he r ea fter will be conducted as
a separate concern und e r the linTI Ilam e of Inn es
& Cosgrove.
Claude \"A.'. Cosgrove, manager of the Edison
departm en t at the Inn es store, will be manager
of th e ne w concern, which will be located at
407 East Douglas stree t.
The new concern
has taken out a char ter and is capitalized at
$20,000.
Mr. Cosgrove ha s been in charge of the Edi­
son phonograph age n cy here for several years
and has b ee n hand ling Edison goods st ill
longer, having come here from Kansas City
several years ago.
NEW COLUMBIA DETROIT BRANCH
Manager Lind to Make Final Arrangements for
New Branch in That City
S. E. Lind, manager of th e Columbia branch
at Detroit, is at present making final arrange­
ments with the executive officers in New York
for the equipment and arrangement of the
new branch in that city. The new location
of this branch will a llow a larger operating
space and has better s hippin g facilities which
will ensure bet ter service. The change in loca­
tion is due to th e increasi ng demand for Colum­
bia goods in Detroit.
RECENT VISITORS TO COLUMBIA CO.
.\mong th e recent visitors at the Columbia
executive offices we r e T. E. Shortell and Mrs.
Shortell , R. Say r e, Miss vVerhle and Miss Mc­
Lean, of the S. Hamilton Co., Pittsburgh, Fa.,
Columbia dealers.
Th e'se visitors spent some
time at th e Columbia fa ctori es in Bridgeport,
and we r e amazed at the exte nt and magnitud e
of the Columbia plant.
They s tated that the
Columbia lin e is m ee ting with remarkable suc­
cess in we~ l cr n Pennsylva ni a . and that the de­
mand for Columbia product is far in excess of
the supply.
Benjamin I'latt. head of the Platt Music Co.,
Los ;\ngeies, Cal., was a not her recent visitor at
the Collllnbia offices, brillging with him enthusi­
astic reports of the business situation on the
Coast.
Mr. Platt is now en larg ing his store,
\/Iihich, when completed, will have nineteen
booths, a!ld will be one of the fi nest talking
machine establishments on the Coast.
VISITING MIDDLE WESTERN STATES
Mr. and Mrs. Otto
~eineman
man's personal friends
The Heineman ex­
ecutive offices were closed for the Decoration
Day holidays, and Mr. Heineman took advan­
tage of this unexpected holiday to take an auto­
m o bile trip up the Hudson and visit the es tate
of one of his friends in the Catskill valley.
The Geo rge S. Dales Victrola Parlors Co. ,
Akron, 0., has been incorporated with capital
stock of $5,000 by George S. Dales, Lotta E.
Dales, Hattie M. Snyder, and others.
]~. 1.. Bolten, sa les manager of the inter
nat ional record d epa rtm cnt of tbe Co lumbia
Graphophone Co., is touring at the prese nt time
a number of the Middle "';es tern cities in order
to study the conditions of the t rade more close­
ly.
He will visit th e Columbia branches in
Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland. Cinc innati, Buffalo
and other cities in that region.
The Central Talking Machi ne S hop, ~ew
York, has been incorp orated with cap ital stock
of $50,000 to engage in th e manufacture of talk
ing machines. Th e incorporators are .\ braham
vVeinstein, M. G. Di Pirro a nd Byron C lark, Jr.
WINDOW DEVOTED TO RECORD OF THOS. A. EDISON'S VOICE
SOME CABINET WORKERS RETURN
J AM ESTOWN, N . Y., June 9.- - The strike of the
cabinet workers he r e only temporarily affected
the production of Ed ison phonograph cabinets.
The cabinet m an ufactu rers who make cabinet,;
for the Edison Co. have .r eac hed an understand­
ing with their employes and the latter returned
to work un Jun e 10. Workers in many other
factories are still out.
SPENDS VACATION IN NEW YORK
.·\mong the visitors at thc Columb ia execu­
tive offices thi s week was .\. B. Smith, of the
Pittsburgh bran ch o f the Columbia Graphophone
Co., who vis ited th e execu ti ve offices while pass
ing a few da ys of hi s vacation in .this city.
He reports that conditions of the Pittsburgh
branch are mo st favorable, and that there is a
larger demand than ever for Co lumbia goods.
The Columbi a Music Co., Inc., Lynchburg,
Va., has opened a new store at 615 Main street.
G. Vv. Legg is in charge.
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This is the display the Diamond Disc Shop at Albany, New York, put over in honor of
Mr. Edison's personal Re-Creation