The Edison phonograph monthly (Mar 1903-Feb 1904)

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EDISON PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY. MORE ABOUT THAT GEORGIA COLLECTION. At our request last month, Douglas & Co., of 89 Chambers street, New York, wrote to their customer at Fort Gaines, Ga., whose collection of Edison Records was referred to in the July issue of the Edison Phonograph Monthly, for permission to use his name and for more information about his collection. With true Southern courtesy the gentleman in question replied as follows: Fort Gaines, Ga., July 2, 1903. Messrs. Douglas & Co., New York, N. Y. Gentlemen. — You have my permission to use my name in any way that can be of benefit. I hardly know what to say about my collection. At my residence on Hancock street I keep for my own amusement three Phonographs, two that play the Standard, and one that plays the Concert Records. While I find the Edison Concert Records all that is claimed for them, the Edison Triumph Machine with the Edison Standard Records have proved the favorite. For my Concert machine I have a hall fifty feet long. In an adjoining room, 16x18 feet, I have the two other machines, and over seven hundred of the late Moulded Records. These Records are kept in two large cases, and in two cabinets, each holding one hundred and twenty. Records, and have twentyfour one dozen boxes filled with Records. I found that this floor space was often crowded with visitors, and am building (to be completed next week) another room, 14x18 feet, and thirteen and a half feet from floor to ceiling. The hall and room mentioned have a ceiling a little higher. This new room, built especially for the Triumph Edison, connects with the other hall and room, and is reached from the street by two entrances, one a piazza eighty-five feet in length. My business (dealer in fancy poultry,) requires my attention only from 7 to 9 A. M., and I have plenty of time to entertain my friends with this wonderful invention, which seems more wonderful the more we see of it. I have used the machines for four years, and feel that I have just learned to appreciate it. As an entertainer, nothing can approach the Edison machine. Very respectfully, F. E. Grist. Colonel Grist has been a resident of Fort Gaines for more than fifty years ; has been Mayor of the city and held other positions of trust. GETS POINTS FROM OTHERS' LETTERS. Appleton, Wis., July 20, 1903. I am in receipt of July Monthly, and must say I find many points of interest in each and every issue. I like your policy and you can rely on me carrying out my end of it every time. Daniel R. Weed, Jr.'s suggestion as to a "Barrel of Fun" is very good. I like the correspondence column as I am a very extensive advertiser and pick up a good many ideas from others' suggestions. H. E. Pearson. MADE A RIVAL MACHINE LOOK CHEAP Germantown, Ky., June 29, 1903. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your June Suspended List. I wist to assure you that no suspended Dealer on this list can get Phonographs, Records or any of Edison's goods from me. And I trust all Dealers will cooperate with you. The new Agreement I signed June 10 and sent you, and I believe that the system under which this company is now conducting business is one of the fairest and most just systems laid down, and that it will benefit all concerned. Now a word for the Phonograph Monthly. I have received three issues and must say that much credit is due to the promoters of this neat and helpful little volume. I do not want to miss any number or part of a number. I recently made a competing machine look cheap. On June 25 I took a trip over in Robertson county, about twelve miles from Germantown. I stopped at Mr. Hester's store, known as the Hitt P. O. The manager of the store played two airs on the phone and then called on me to play the Phonograph. I took an Edison Standard Phonograph from my buggy, set it up and started it. After playing eight airs one of the listeners said, "that is the best talking machine I ever heard. Say, it makes the phone look as cheap as a coffee mill." He said that right. I would just about as soon hear a coffee mill as a phone. E. E. Hendrixson. HOME PHONOGRAPH OUTSELLS ALL OTHER MACHINES. Brockton, Mass., July 1, 1903. I beg to acknowledge receipt of Suspended List to June 1. And I want to say a word for the Phonograph Monthly. I have received all four numbers and read every word from beginning to end. I look for each issue long before it arrives. * * * While I am a^ent for every talking machine made, I sell more Home Phonographs than all the other kinds put together. The Home is good enough for me. And it is good enough for me to sell, so I push it along. Sometimes I have a customer come into my store to buy a machine that don't seem to know just which machine to buy. I get right to work and play the same piece by the same artist on each machine, and that settles it right away. They always take the Home Phonograph. My business is not yet very large but growing every day. I started about a year ago with three machines and 150 Records. To-day I carry a stock of about a dozen machines and 1,000 Records. L. R. Porter. RECORD CABINETS. The Catalogue of Accessories, Form 376, now being furnished to the trade does not show any Record Cabinets, it having been decided to discontinue listing them after the present supply is exhausted. We still have a few of these cabinets at the factory, and Jobbers and Dealers who have a demand for them should write to our Sales Department and ascertain just what we can furnish.