The Phonogram, Vol. 1:11-12 (1891-11)

THE PHONOGRAM. m thirteen directors, of whom the following are its present officers : President, Gen. A. P. Martin, of Boston ; vice-president, A. Foster Higgins, of New York ; treasurer, Chas. E. Powers, of Boston ; secretary. John B. Gleason, of New York ; corporation clerk, George L. Rogers, of Gardiner, Maine ; general manager, Augustus N. Sampson, of Bos- ton, Mass. The company has been doing business actively since the early part of May, 1889, when-it located its offices in Bovleston Building, corner of Boylston and Washing- ton streets, where it has since remained, although it has changed from one location to another in the building, until it now occupies a very fine suite of rooms at the top of the building on the sixth floor, admirably adapted for the purpose of pho- nographic business. • The company has been successful, per- haps to as large a degree, as any other company in the business. It has since the first of September, been selling phono- graphs under the direction of the North American Company, and has sold upwards of a hundred machines already. The •* rental system has been carried out and a large number of machines are under rental, over two hundred and fifty, to various parties in commercial enterprises. Also has one hundred automatic machines under charge of Mr. Charles L. Marshall out in various sections of the territory, and which will be largely increased during the coming year. The outlook for the New England Com- pany is most flattering, the era of pioneer- ing has past, and it is now upon the road to substantial success. This company makes a specialty of band records and musical selections, making what are considered the very best musical records offered to the public. Tiie Ohio Phonograph Co. was or- ganized November 30. 1888, under the laws of Ohio. Its principal office is at No. 220 Walnut street, Cincinnati, and it has also an office at No. 122 Euclid avenue, Cleveland. Mr. James L. Andem, its president, also acts as general manager of the company, with headquarters at Cin- cinnati, and its Cleveland office is under the management of Mr. Arthur E. Smith. In addition to its business offices it has exhibition parlors in the arcades of Cin- cinnati and Cleveland, as illustrated and described in the pages of this magazine, and it has made a specialty of the auto- matic phonograph in developing its terri- tory, and probably has been as successful as any other local company in this brand! of its business. The Louisiana Phonograph Co. was the last State company incorporated, its charter being granted March 7, 1891, and active work beginning immediately after. Mr. F. E. Clarkson was the first general manager, leaving a similar position in the Georgia Phonograph Company to take charge of the new world* Hardly, how- ever, had he assumed control, when he was taken dangerously ill, and diejJ in less than a month from the time of his arrival in New Orleans. Mr. Clarkson was at once succeeded by Mr.JIugh It. Conyng- \ ton, secretary of the company, who has since been fti charge?**** * The officers of the company are : H. T Howard, president; II. Lee Sellers, vice- president ; Hugh It. Cqnyngton, secretary and treasurer. From its position as the last company organized, the Louisiana Company has been enabled to profit from the experience of the older companies, and to avoid the errors and misfortunes ineTi table to the development of an entirely new business, and in consequence, has been success- ful and prosperous from Its organiza- * tion. # . * » ■ ' . // •. The attention,pf the company was first turned to the social and exhibition uses of the machines, and as the first step in this