The Edison phonograph monthly (Jan-Dec 1912)

Edison Phonograph Monthly, Jan., 1912 Denver Record Exchange Enjoined The latest concern enjoined under the Edison Record patents is the Phonograph Record Exchange of 1416 Tremont street, Denver, Colo., of which Mr. Harry Eaton was the proprietor. In his unlicensed dealings in Edison Records, Eaton refused to confine himself either to the prescribed prices or to the prescribed medium of exchange, for not only did he cut prices when payments were made in money, but he was willing, to accept other Records and a small money payment in exchange for Edison Records, or, if morey'was not forthcoming, he would exchange 1. ! almost any commodity that the purchaser *i i4 pened to possess. The injunction, which has been granted and sc ved on this defendant, reads as follows: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES For the District of Colorado. ilIE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, To HARRY EATON, doing business under the style of Phonograph Record Exchange, and to your attorneys, solicitors, agents, employees and servants, and to each and every of you, GREETING: Whereas, It hath been represented to the honorable ue judges of the Circuit Court of the United States, for the District of Colorado, on the part of New Jersey Patent Company and Thomas A. Edison, Incork orated, complainants in their certain bill of comolaint exhibited before said judges, and filed in said court against you, the said Harry Eaton, doing business under the style of Phonograph Record Exchange, respondent to be relieved, touching the matters and things therein complained of. . In which said bill it is stated, among other things, that you are combining and confederating with others to injure the complainants, touching the matters set forth in said bill, and that your actions and doings in the premises are contrary to equity and good conscience. ' In _ consideration thereof, and of the particular matters in said bill set forth, you are hereby strictly commanded that you, the said Harry Eaton, doing business under the style of Phonograph Record Exchange, and the persons before mentioned, and each and every of. you, do absolutely desist and refrain from in any way interfering with the carrying out of the selling license system of the complainant, Thomas A. Edison, incorporated, as set forth in the bill, and from soliciting, obtaining, or procuring any of the authorized Tobbers or Dealers of the complainant, Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, to sell to you or any of you any Edison Standard Records at less than thirty-five (35c) c -nts each or any Edison Amberol Records at less than fty (50c) cents each, and from soliciting, procuring, or 'ding in any way in the violation of any of the provi-.ons of any and all license contracts between the complainant Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, and its licensed Jobbers and Dealers; from soliciting, aiding, btaining or procuring any persons whatever who have p/eviously obtained the said Records in cartons bearing printed notices of restrictions imposed upon the use and sale thereof by the complainant Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, and subject to the restrictions of the said notices to sell the said Edison Records to vou at prices less than those named in said restriction notices, namely, thirty-five (35c) cents each for Edi;o l Standard Records and fifty (50c) cents each for E; is^n Amberol Records, or to violate in any wise any of the said notices to sell the said Edison Records to from selling or causing to be sold any Edison Standard Records at less than thirty-five (35) cents each and any Edison Amberol Records at less than fifty (50c) cents each, and from disposing of said Records in any manner whereby they would be acquired directly or indirectly for a payment of less than thirty-five (35c) cents each for Edison Standard Records and fifty (50c) cents each for Edison Amberol Records, and from vending or disposing of said Records in violation of the license contract under which the said Edison Records were originally sold by complainant Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, or in violation of the conditions and restrictions contained in the notices upon the labels affixed to the cartons containing the said Records; and from directly or indirectly using or causing to be used, selling or causing to be sold any apparatus, articles or devices embodying, operating or constructed in accordance with the inventions and improvements of said Letters Patent No. 782,375, without the license and consent of complainants thereto, until this honorable court, in chancery sitting, or a judge thereof at chambers, shall make other order to the contrary. Hereof fail not under penalty of what the law directs. To the Marshall of said district, to execute and return in due form of law. Witness, the Honorable EDWARD D. WHITE, Chief Justice of the United States of America, and the seal of the said Circuit Court of the United States, (seal.) at the city and county of Denver, in said District, this twelfth day of December, A. D. 1911, and of the Independence of the United States the 136th year. CHARLES W. BISHOP, Clerk. ALBERT TREGO, Deputy Clerk. A true copy, Teste: Factory Visitors Among those whom we had the pleasure of entertaining at the factory during the past few weeks were the following: E. Paul Hamilton, Fred R. Loeser & Co., Brooklyn; L. Kaiser, S. B. Davega Co., New York City; Mr. and Mrs. H. L. A. Cody, Merced, Cal.; W. G. Walz, W. G. Walz Co., El Paso, Texas; L. H. Lucker, Minneapolis, Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. M. Healy, Mr. and Mrs. J. Healy, Lyon & Healy, Chicago; Louis Buehn, L. Buehn & Bro., Philadelphia, Pa.; Sol Lazarus, New York City; W. Heidenf elder, Jersey City, N. J.; W. Ricker, Jersey City, N. J.; M. L. Kortz, Newark, N. J.; A. W. Toennies, Eclipse Phonograph Co., Hoboken, N. J.; E. P. Ashton, American Phonograph Co., Detroit; Dr. Charles Ryan, Des Moines, la.; Samuel Siegel, SiegelMyers Correspondence School of Music, Chicago; G. C. Aschbach and Mr. Peters, of G. C. Aschbach, Allentown, Pa. ; L. C. Wiswell, Lyon & Healy, Chicago, 111.; A. Galuchie, Jersey City, N. J.; Henry Rau, Jersey City, N. J.; J. V. Flynn, Haverstraw, N. Y. ; J. N. Blackman, Blackman Talking Machine Co., New York City; E. A. Schweiger, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; F. K. Babson, Babson Bros., Chicago, 111.; L. L. Goodman, Philadelphia, Pa. A Phonograph, with Records of speeches made by each of the students in public speaking at various times during their course, will show the development of students in that subject at the University of Washington this year.