The Edison phonograph monthly (Mar 1903-Feb 1904)

IO EDISON PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY. PERSONAL, We were very pleasantly surprised to receive a call from E. A. Osborne, senior member of the firm of Osborne & Jerdan, 393 George street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Mr. Osborne expects to spend some time in this country, dividing his time between New York and Philadelphia in the interest of his firm. Osborne ' & Jerdan are very large dealers in Edison apparatus, and have_ a fine display of our goods at their store and warerooms. It is a source of great pleasure to meet our foreign friends from time to time, as we are enabled thereby to keep in close touch with them and their interests. W. E. Gilmore, President of the National Phonograph Company, and Mrs. Gilmore returned on October 6 from a two months' trip to Europe. Mr. Gilmore went abroad to look over the foreign field and make arrangements for the extension of the business in Great Britain and Europe. He and Mrs. Gilmore then made a tour of the Continent. They went over on the Teutonic and returned on the Deutschland. C. H. Wilson, Manager of Sales of this company, returned October 3 from an extended trip through the West. He visited Jobbers at Syracuse, Buffalo, Toronto, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Omaha, Lincoln, Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Columbus, Canton, Allegheny and Pittsburg. Visitors from a distance who called at the New York office during the past month were C. A. Ray, President of the Ray Co., of Louisville, Ky. ; E. F. Taft, of the Eastern Talking Machine Co., Boston ; J. H. Superior, of Montreal; Peter Bacigalupi, of San Francisco, Cal. PRINTED MATTER. All orders for Record Catalogues are now being filled from the new edition, Form 490. This Catalogue contains all Records listed to and including October. Jobbers who have already filed with us orders for large quantities of this catalogue are asked to be patient if they do not get the entire quantity at one time. We cannot obtain the entire edition from the printer at once, and shall therefore be compelled to make partial shipments until all Jobbers needing Catalogues have had a supply. The remainder of the orders will be filled as soon as possible thereafter. Now that the December Advance List has been issued, we shall at once take up the matter of preparing copy for a new Numerical Catalogue to be issued about January 1. This will include all Records, both domestic and foreign, listed to and including December, 1903. It is our present intention to issue this catalogue twice a year hereafter, January 1 and July 1. The new Machine Catalogue, Form 500, will be ready for the use of the trade early in November. This will be printed upon an entirely new line and will, we think, be one of the most attractive editions issued by this Company. It will be printed in two colors throughout, and besides its novel features, it will show the various types of the Phonograph in a neat attractive way. As soon as a supply is received from the printer, sample copies will be mailed to all Jobbers and Dealers. The principal object in issuing this catalogue in this form is to have a booklet that will be more useful for holiday purposes than an ordinary catalogue would be. The little blue ticket, Form 351, now being sent out with all Records from our factory shows a transposition of the matter so as to bring the circle at the top of the ticket. This was done in response to a demand that the slip be so changed as to make it easier to cut it off and paste it on top of Record Boxes, and also to bring the title nearer the top of the slip, so that when the Record sets inside of the pegs in a Record Box the title will be more easily read. If the upper part of the ticket is now cut off on the cutting line, it will go on top of the single Record Boxes without any further cutting. We have received from Fred G. Temme, a printer at Orange, a very attractive mailing card printed in colors after the style of souvenir cards now so popular at sea-side and mountain resorts. The card shows pictures of the Edison Laboratory; of "Glenmont," the home of Thomas A. Edison, and the entrance to Llewellyn Park, in which Mr. Edison's home is situated. If this card should interest any of our trade, Mr. Temme will doubtless be willing to furnish quotations upon it. His address is Orange, N. J. DIDN'T HAVE " FAMILY TROUBLES." Daniel R. Weed, Jr., of Matteawan, N. Y., sends the following: A married lady called at my store a short time ago and asked for some Records. After hearing the ones she called for, she asked me if I wouldn't play some comic ones for her, so that she might get them if they suited. I played different ones for her, and while one of the Records was playing I said to her, "Have you got 'Family Troubles?'" She said, with a surprised look on her face, "No." She thought I was asking about her family affairs instead of the Record of that name.