The phonoscope (Nov 1896-Dec 1899)

Vol. II. No. 12 THE PHONOSCOPE 9 Hmerican IRopelties Foreigners who are in the Market for 'Graphs, 'Phones, 'Scopes and novelties. Descriptive Circulars and Quotations, if sent to the following, may bring some customers DEALERS IN ELECTRICAL MATERIAL, Etc. India H. J. Cooke & Co., 13 Bentinck St.. Calcutta. Dey, Sill & Co., 20 Lall Bazar St., Calcutta. Elkertou & Co., 173 Dhurrumlollah St., Calcutta. India Rubber, Guita Percha & Telegraph Works, Ld., 1-1 Fairlie PL, Calcutta. James Murray & Co., 11 Dalhousie Sq., Calcutta. Oriental Telephone & Electric Co , Ld., 89 Olive St., Calcutta. F. Osier & Co., 11 Old Court Hou=e St., Calcutta. Steel, Octavious & Co., 14 Old Court House St., • Calcutta. Calcutta Electrical Supply Corporation, Ld., Calcutta Bombay Electric Co., 9 Medows St., Bombay. F. Fisher & Co , S Esplanade Rd., Bombay. C Jost & Co., 13 Hornby Ud., Bombay. A. F. Thomas & Co., 301 Lobar St , Bombay. Deschamp-; & Co., 13 Mount Rd., Madias Oriental Telephone & Electric Co., Rangoon. Du Bern & Co., Rangoon. Erskine Howarth, Ld., Singapore. DEALERS IN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, (ORGANS, PIANOS, Etc.) India T. E. Bevan & Co.. 13 Old Court House St., Calcutta. N. L. Dey & Co., 10 3Lower Chiipur Rd., Calcutta. Dwarkin & Sou, 267 Bow Bazar St. , Calcutta. Harold & Co., 3 Dalhousie Sq., Calcutta H. Hobbs & Co., 5 Old Court House St., Calcutta. Muudle & Co. , 3 Bow Bazar St.. Calcutta. Mobin Bros., Lower Chitpur Rd., Calcutta. Army & Navy Co-operative Society, Ld., Hummum St., Bombay. G. Bnse & Co., Kalbadevi St., Bombay. B. X. Furtado, Kalbadevi St., Bombay. Gexer & Co., Church Gate St., Bombay. E. C. Harrison, Old Freemasons' Hall, Nesbit Rd., Byculla, Bombay. Kanny & Co., 59 Medows St., Bombay. Knignt, Weymouth & Co.. Apollobunder, Bomba3r. Marks & Co., Ld., 43 Esplanade Rd. , Bombay. J. Neubenr, Medows St.. Bombay. S. Ro-e & Co., Rampart Row, Bombay. A. C. Schneider, Medows St., Bombay. M. SchrofF & Co., Kalbadevi St., Bombay. Suuiidv & Co., Ld., 51 Hummum St., Bombay. L. Steffeuauer & Co.. Church Gate St., Bombay. T. S. Ramchandra & Co. , 11 Forbes St., Bombay. C. Chathen & Bros., Jeremiah St., Vepcry, Madras. Croom Bros., Mount Rd., Madras. Misquith & Co., 3 Mount Rd., Madras. J D. Perrim m, Chapel St., Madras. Misquith & Co., Rangoon. Misquith & Co., Armenian St., Singapore. DEALERS IN MICROSCOPES, SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS, OPTICAL GOODS AND THERMOMETERS. India C. Ardesher&Co. , 178 Dhurrumtollah St., Calcutta. Cooke & Kelvey, 20 Old Court House St., Calcutta. K. Dase.li & Co., 54 Wellington St., Calcutta. S. K. Das., 4E-planade, Calcutta. Dey Mulliek & Co., 20 Lall Bazar St., Calcutta. Hamilton & Co., 8 Old Court House St., Calcutta. Lawrence & Mayo, 16 Old Court House St., Calcutta. N. Lazarus, 1 Mansoe Lane, Calcutta. Fred W. May, 19 Lall Bazar St., Calcutta. Jas. Murray & Co., 11 Dalhousie Sq., East, Calcutta. Solomons & Co., Government PL, North, Calcutta. A. Stephen & Co., 19 Chowrimrhee Rd., Calcutta. S. R. Botlaw, 11 Colootollah St., Calcutta. Army & Navy Co-operative Society, Ld., Hummum St , Bombay. T. S. Bennett $ Co., Medows St., Bombay. Dinshaw M. Dustoor & Co., Medows St., Bombay. D. Fernandes fa Co., Medows St., Bombay. Kemp & Co., 11,1.., Elphinsione Circle. Bom'ia}'. Lawrence & Mavo, Esplanade Rd.. Bombay. D. M. Madon, Kalbadevi St., Bombay. Marks & Co., Ld., 14 Esplanade Rd., Bombay V. J. Powell & Co Horn!"' Rd Bombay G. S. Rale & Co., 82 Medows St. , Bombay. Th acker & Co., Ld., Esplanade Rd., Bombay. Treachei & Co., Ld., Esplanade Rd , Fort, Bombay. H. Vogel & Co., Medows St., Bombay. Framjee Pestonjee Bhumgara, Mount Rd., Madras. J. Harris & Co., 159 lJopham's Broadway, Madras. Lawrence & Mavo, 16 Mount Rd., Madras. P. Orr & Sous, Mount Rd., Madras. DhALERS IN PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS. India John Blees. 18 Chowringhee Rd., Calcutta. Dey, Sil & Co., 20 Lall Bazar St. , Calcutta. H. O. Gaugooley & Co., 12 Mangoe Lane, Calcutta. Harry Dass Dutt & Co., 23 Boseparah, Bag Bazar St.. "Calcutta. W. Newman & Co.. 4 Dalhousie Sq , Calcutta. Shib Churn Dutt & Co., 1 Hastings St., Calcutta. Smith Stanistreet & Co , 9 Dalhousie Sq., Calcutta. Army & Navy Cooperative Society, Ld., Fort, Bombay. F. deLair & Co., 47 Forbes St., Bombay. Frucksbaw Dadabhoy, Giruauni Rd., Bombay. Kemp & Co., Elphinstonc Girdle, Bombay. J. Neubei'g, 51 Esplanade Rd., Bombay. Philips & Co. . E.-planade Rd., Bombay. Treacher & Co. , Esplanade Rd., Bombay. Babajee, Sakharam & Co., Esuf Bldgs. , Bombay. New Friend & Co., Delhi. pbonoorapbs flDust The proprietors of the Denver, Colo., Phonograph parlors, and there are a number of them, must pay a special tax for the operation of their business. Collector Howbert arrived at that decision only recently, and his deputies notified several Phonograph men that they must obey the law. These parlors come under the clause of "shows for money" in the act passed June 13 last. The question as to whether or not these Phonograph parlors were exempt was propounded first by Collector Flannagan at Austin, Texas. That official in a letter from Acting Commissioner Wilson of the Treasury Department was advised thus : "Although the public is not charged for admission to the parlor, hall or place of exhibit, yet as Phonographs are kept there by the proprietors of the establishment for the purpose of making money, they are to be regarded as shows for making money." There are seven or eight Phonograph parfors in Denver, and the tax must be paid by the proprietor of each. The special tax amounts to $10 per year, but as this law was effective July 1 last and has not been paid, Collector Howbert says he will be compelled to collect an additional $5. IRew Corporations Mutual Phonograph Company, Chicago., capital stock, $10,000. Incorpor?tors, Phil. A. Frye, Ernest C. Henry and Commodore P. Frye. The Amimated Photo Projecting Company, has been organized in this city by C. R. Higgms, of New York, J. Cushing Daniel, of Brooklyn and W. V. Steenburgh, of New York. Articles of incorporation were filed in San Francisco by C. W. Kohlsaat, S. H. Friedlander, J. L. Phelps, Thomas E. Ryan and Samuel Samter for the exhibition of the Mutoscope on the Pacific Coast and for the purpose of conducting various amusement enterprises. The capital stock is $1,000, 000. Douglas Talking Machine Company has been ncorporated in Chicago, 111., for the purpose of manufacturing machines. Capital, $1,000. Incorporators, Lewis E. Curtis, H. M. Munday, Edmund Adcock. H IRemmtscence of fifty IRaUroab 2>a£8 Dedicated to ENGINEER JOHN HOULIHAN Of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad By Cal Stewart Well, John, I read your poetry, And laughed till I nearly cried Seein' how you became an Engineer And got on the right hand side It made me think of days gone by, When I was one of you fellers, too, What used to run an old machine, And go tooting the country through. But the engine that I had, John, Was far from a "Nancy Hanks," She was old, and worn, and logy, And just chuck full of pranks, And she was wonderfully got up, John, Full of bolts, and valves, and knobs, And the boiler wouldn't hold water, Gosh, it wouldn't hold cobs. But I was j-ounger then, John, And I didn't care a cuss, So I'd pull the throttle open And just let her wheeze and fuss, The road that I was running on, Was out in the wooly west, Two streaks of rust and the right of way, ; Was putting it at its best, So we sort of plugged along, John, And didn't put on any frills, Never thought of doing anything, But double all the hills,' I tell you those were rocky times, And we hadn't no air brake, And fifteen miles an hour, John, Was darn good time to make. And there was as good a lot of boys, As you could meet with anywhere, Rough and ready open up, And always on the square, I'd like to see them all again, And grasp each honest hand, But some of them, like me, have quit, Some have gone to another land. I have changed somewhat since then, Just a little more steady grown, But I often think of my Rail road days As the happiest ones I've known, And, John, I often watch the trains, As they go whizzing by, And as I think of Bill, or Jim, or Jack, There's a tear comes in my eye. Perhaps you'd like to know, John, Just why I quit the rail, And as some feller once said, "Thereby hangs a tale," I was going along one night, At a pretty lively rate, The old machine a doing her best, And me forty minutes late When all at once there came a crash, I felt the old track yield, And fireman, machine and I, Went into a farmer's field, There's little more to say, John, They laid me up for repairs, But my fireman, poor fellow, Hadn't time to say his prayers So now you have my story, John, Still you don't know how it feels To know you've got to plug around On a couple of flat wheels, But it doesn't bother me, John, Gosh, not for a minute, I'm as happy as the day is long, And feel just strictly in it. But sometimes I like to meet the boys, An I talk them days all over, And I feel as gay and chipper, As a calf in a field of clover, But the happiest days I've known, Jobs The ones that to me seem best, Was when I ran an old machine Away out in the wooly west.