The Edison phonograph monthly (Mar 1903-Feb 1904)

EDISON PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY. DEALERS SHOULD WRITE NEAREST HEADQUARTERS. Dealers in Edison Phonographs and Records will get better service if they will address this company at its office nearest to their city or towns. Those doing business in Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana should refer all matters pertaining to the business to our Chicago office, 304 Wabash avenue. Dealers in Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Arizona and Montana should be able to get better attention through Peter Bacigalupi, 933 Market street, San Francisco, headquarters for our goods on the Pacific coast. He gets large quantities of goods by water from our factory and is able to save Dealers part of the heavy transportation charges when goods are shipped overland by freight. Canadian Dealers will find it advantageous to deal with R. S. Williams & Sons Co., 143 Yonge street, Toronto, Canada. Dealers in all States not named above should address their correspondence to our "New York office. BUILDING PROGRESS. Excellent progress is being made in the new building operations at our factory in Orange, New Jersey. The new Record building is going up rapidly, the laying of bricks for the first story being about completed. Our architect has promised that we shall be making Records in this new building before December 1. The work of adding a story to the building used for assembling, packing and shipping, is completed. ART CALENDAR FOR 1904. We expect within the next month to make definite announcement concerning an unusually fine Art Calendar for 1904 that we shall issue the latter part of this year. It will not, however, be distributed gratuitously, but will be sold to the trade at a price which will enable every Jobber and Dealer to purchase a limited number for distribution as Christmas souvenirs among his best customers. The calendar will comprise six sheets, each printed in twelve colors, with different sketches, the drawing of which will equal the work of the best artists in the country. It will be gotten out on lines similar to the Art Calendar of the Armour Beef Company, of Chicago, the Fencing Girl Calendar of the Chicago and Alton Railroad and the Art Calendar of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, all of which were in tremendous demand all over the coun try. In addition to placing these calendars before the trade, we expect to advertise their sale at twenty-five cents each in the same manner as the above-named calendars were sold. Further details about this calendar will be given next month, about which time we hope to have a sufficient number of samples to send one to each Jobber. GET THE WRITING HABIT. As the columns of the Phonograph Monthly show from time to time, we are receiving some very interesting letters concerning trade matters from Jobbers and Dealers. We shall be glad to receive more of these. By this, we do not mean letters in praise of the Edison Phonograph Monthly, but those containing suggestions for its improvement, criticisms of its treatment of matters, descriptions of methods of selling goods, advertising, window displays, etc., Phonograph incidents and the many other every day happenings in connection with the sale of Phonographs and Records. JAPANESE RECORDS. With the August Bulletins and Supplements was mailed a folder of the Japanese Records, Form 464. We are now in a position to supply orders for these Records. With the exception of two, these Japanese Records are by Sokichi Kudzuoko, who possesses an excellent voice for Record making. We think that these Japanese titles will become quite popular in the English trade for the reason that some of them are sung to well known English tunes. For instance, No. 12816, "Hotaru no hikari," is sung to the air of "Auld Lang Syne*;" No. 12818, "Omoi izureba," is sung to the air of "Bonny Doon ;" No. 12819, "Ware no Kami ni," is the Japanese version of "Nearer My God to Thee," and is sung to the same tune. These Japanese Records are very different in character from the Chinese Records listed by this company, and should find even a greater sale in this country. PLAN FOR FALL AND WINTER. Now that the vacation days are about over, it is time to give serious attention to fall and winter business. Keep in mind the difficulty of a year ago in getting orders filled, look over your stock carefully, ascertain how much business you did in the fall and winter of last year, and place orders accordingly Your Jobber will be very glad to have you order goods well in advance, and we shall be equally pleased for the longer time in which to get goods into the