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■V • J A N U A RY NOTES him to terms by saying that if he continued to be unreason- able they would put in a big Phonograph to play all the overtures and other music of that kind, thus ridding them- selves of the annoyances of the musical union. The leader concluded to hold on to his job, and Hyde Sc Behman have been enjoying comparative peace from that quarter ever since. The Phonograph seems to be beginning to cut a quite considerable figure in the amusement business. Word comes from St. Louis that Col. Hopkins is introducing songs sung by one of these machines with accompanying moving picture illustrations. Thus the Colonel's patrons are enabled to hear sill about home and mother without viewing the contortions of pallid young men with long hair and mournful visages. If One man writes to me, from Bishop, in. : “lam using one of your Standard Phonographs which I bought of a Chicago firm about five months ago. I am very well pleased with the machine and all who have heard it speak very highly of it especially on account of its loudness. 1 often play over a Telephone line of about thirty miles in length that has on it about forty-five instruments, and it pleases all along the line. Individual p’.oto-drawings of the talent i.e. the differ- ent artists who sing and play for the Phonograph may be purchased of John Wright, 234 Union Street, Hacken- sack, N. J. To subscribers of the Phonogram these pictures are sent for inspection free of charge. Write for further particulars.— Ad'v. t