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EDISON PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY, MAY, 1915
Salesroom of The Santa Fe Watch Co., Topeka, Kansas
THE SANTA FE WATCH CO.'S
DEMONSTRATION
WAREROOMS
THERE is an air of quiet luxuriousness about the warerooms of the Santa Fe Watch Co. of Topeka, Kansas, that is suggestive of a drawing room. All styles of Edison instruments are shown and in nearly every instance with the cover of cabinet raised. The lighting effect both by day and by night is superb and we doubt if a more attractive salesroom exists anywhere. The Santa Fe Watch Co. has adopted modern methods not only in their display but in their circularizing, advertising and recital work. Everything is of a high grade order, and the results are eminently satisfactory for they are reaching the best clientele in Topeka and the surrounding neighborhood. The extent of their influence is exerted far beyond State confines, however, for they have booked orders from Florida and other distant points.
THE CATHOLIC BISHOP OF PORTLAND, MAINE, A DISC ENTHUSIAST
IN beginning the recital in Portland the other day I had the honor of having the Bishop of Portland, the Rev. Dr. Louis Walsh, and all of the high Catholic churchmen and priests of the State of Maine seated in the audience, together with over one hundred sisters of Charity, and the attention, interest and enthusiasm displayed was remarkable.
I gave an interesting little talk at the beginning of
the recital, explaining and showing how different in every way Mr. Edison's musical instrument was, and they began the concert at 2:30 P.M., playing over two hours. Each record was encored.
At the conclusion of our recital at 5 P. M., Bishop Walsh addressed the assemblage stating that up to the time he received the letter from the Laboratory of that great man, the wizard of the world, Thomas A Edison, he was not interested in what he had heard in the way of music on what was called the Victrola, as it was so noisy and rasping that he was glad to get away from these other style talking machines, but upon reading the letter signed by Mr. Scott the Bishop said he made up his mind to see if Mr. Edison had overcome the very objectionable features of the people who manufactured the Victrola, and he then stated he was so glad he did have us come out to give this concert, which the Bishop said was the most wonderful and most real reproduction of music he had ever heard in all his life, and then he said "What will we do when Edison dies?"
Bishop Walsh then spoke to his people on the great educational features which could be developed with such a wonderful musical instrument as the New Edison Diamond Disc, as the music was so perfect that it deceived him when he came into the hall and heard the clear, resonant life-like voice of the lady who was singing "The Rosary."
After the speech of the Bishop I thanked him and all who had. come from all over the diocese of Bishop Walsh to hear Mr. Edison's New Perfected Phonograph, my remarks being received with applause.