The phonoscope (Nov 1896-Dec 1899)

12 THE PHONOSCOPE February, 1S99 THE PHONOSCOPE Copyrighted 1396 published monthly by THE PHONOSCOPE PUBLISHING CO. 4 EAST 14th STREET , NEW YORK, U. S. A. SUBSCRIPTION : United States aud Canada .... gi.oo per year Foreign Countries 1.50 ' " Single Copies . . . . . . . 10c. each Back numbers can be obtained at regular rates. ADVERTISING RATES FURNISHED ON APPLICATION All communications must be addressed to The Phonoscope Publishing Co., 4 East 14th Street, New York City, to insure prompt attention. THE PHONOSCOPE is the only journal in the world published in the interest of Talking Machines, Picture Projecting aud Animating Devices, aud Scientific aud Amusement Inventions appertaining to Sound aud Sight, Correspondents in London, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Madrid, Alexandria aud Constantinople, Australia, South America, Central America, Canada aud 10S cities in the United States. The Publishers solicit contributions from the readers or The Phonoscope, and suggest that auy notes, news or items appertaining to souud aud sight would be acceptable. XCrabe Botes Billy Golden has added seven new songs to his repertoire. They will probably prove to be the "lucky seven." The "Rosalind Waltzes," composed by F. Oscar Elmore is meeting with success. Published by W. Murdoch Lind of New York City. We understand that Mr. Bettini has succeeded in securing records of all the principal opera selections sung during the season of '99. The home office of Len Spencer's Minstrels has moved to their spacious new rooms at 33 West 27th Street, where Manager Harry Yeager is kept busy booking this popular attraction. Mr. William Mann will soon join his father in the railroad business as he states the Phonograph trade is entirely too slow for his calibre. We wish him success in his new venture. F. A. Mills, music publisher, will remove about May 1st, to No. 48 West 29th Street, opposite his present address. The building is undergoing extenstve alterations and will be elegantly fitted up. The Lyric Phonograph Company claim they are now making new immense volume records, louder than heretofore, due to the fact that they have a new diaphragm which is said to outclass any on the market. Since Messrs. Reed & Dawson, of Newark, N. J., have incorporated they carry a full line of records constantly and are enabled to fill all orders at short notice. This will certainly be appreciated by their numerous patrons. Mr. C. E. Stevens, selling agent for Thomas A. Edison's products is doing an enormous business. His former office on the fourth floor of the Edison Building being too small he has secured larger quarters in the same building. The Phonograph Sapphire Company of New York, contemplate securing more spacious quarters owing to the large increase in business, and will also handle the Bettini attachments together with their other specialties. Andrew Byrne, the celebrated boy violinist deserves credit for the record "Cavalleria Rusticana' ' which he recorded for the Excelsior Phonograph Company. We expect some fine results from his violin renditions in the near future. Messrs. Fred Hylands, Roger Harding and Steve Porter are the enterprising 3'oung men who have recently organized a song publishing company under the name of the Knickerbocker Music Publishing Company. We wish them success in their new venture. Mr. George J. Gaskin has renewed his contract for another year with the Columbia Phonograph Compan}-, and we understand he has added a number of new songs to his already large repertoire, a full list of which can be found in our list of new records. Fred Hylands has just published a new coon song called "You Don't Stop the World From Going Round" which is sure to be a "winner hit." The title page is adorned by a photograph of Leu Spencer who will be the first to introduce the song to the Phonograph. Mr. Marion Dorian, former manager of the Washington office of the Columbia Phonograph Company, Mr. T. Martin, of Washington, and Mr. A Harker, of New York, have been transferred to the Paris office of that company, to fill important positions. Mr. M. Moore has been chosen to fill the vacancy at Washington. The demand for records from foreign shores is very great. Mr. I. W. Norcross, of the Norcross Phonograph Company, "says that he is astounded at the increase of foreign orders which he has received during the last three months, having shipped several barrels of records to Australia, South America, England and China. Anent the subject of big tone records, Mr. Norcross is now in the field with improvements in his recording diaphragms which will place the regular machines in close competition with the Graphophone Grand and Concert Phonograph. He has some records from his new diaphragm on exhibition, which substantiate his claims. Particular attention is called to the fact that the Greater New York Phonograph Company have secured the sole agency for the Chemically Prepared Linen Fibre Diaphragm. Aware of the success attained by these diaphragms, numerous concerns claim the sole agency. Some have even gone so far as to place inferior imitations on the market. Miss Estella L. Mann recently had a narrow escape from a severe burning. While out shopping the other afternoon alighted "boy killer" evidently became entangled in her dress. Upon arriving at the laboratory it was ablaze, but owing to the coolness of herself and friends it was quickly extinguished without injury except the ruination of her new spring dress. 1 1. in W. Quinn, the well-known Phonograph comic vocalist desires the Phonographic world to know that he is under no contract whatever with any company, and is in a position to furnish all companies with a list of all of the newest and best songs of the day. He has already arranged to sing for the National Company,' Harms, Kaiser & Hagen, Reed & Dawson of Newark, and negotiating with a number of others. Mr. F. M. Prescott, New York City, sailed on the St. Louis for Southampton, March 22d in the interest of the Gramophone. He will visit London, Paris. Madrid, Berlin, St. Petersburg, and other foreign cities with an expert Gramophone record maker, for the purpose of making master records in foreign languages for the export business of the Gramophone of which Mr. E. M. Prescott has recen 1y secured the sole export ageucv. Mr. Bettini has in course of preparation a handsome catalogue which embraces a list of records, together with his various attachments: It will be handsomely illustrated, the cover being printed in colors. It may be said that Mr. Bettini bears the distinction of issuing the most elaborate printing matter of anyone in this particular business. Due credit is given to Imandt Bros., printers, who control the best part of the printing in the Phonograph trade. The firm of Harms, Kaiser & Hagen are now making original records of Mr. Dan W. Quinn, and the way his records have been selling goes to prove that the original record of any artist is more desirable than the duplicate. The cornet solos they are making of Mr. John Hazel have proved very successful. The demand for them has been so large that they have issued a special list of the same, increasing the number of solos to thirty. The Imperial Quartette has been kept busy filling orders for their records. Mr. E. H.Mann, assistant superintendent of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad took dinner with Mr. Jno. B. Atkinson and helped the latter to get into perfect working order a new Edison Phonograph. A number of the records for this new machine are those that have been made by the singing of Miss Estella L. Mann, daughter of Mr. E. H. Mann, in New York, and they are excellent. Miss Mann is perhaps the only really successful singer of her sex for the Phonograph. The female voice is extremely rare that possesses the qualities necessary to make a perfect record. The Excelsior and Musical Phonograph Co., makers of the "Giant Tone," records, is now run under entirely' new management, being equipped with a complete plant for the production of master records, and claiming to furnish the trade with a better pioduct than can be elsewhere obt ined in the market. Their catalogue embraces such talent as Diamond & Curry, banjo duetts; John Hazel, cornet solos; Wm. F. Hoolev, basso; S. Holland Dudley, baritone; Arthur Collins, comedy songs; Wm. H. DeWick, mandolin solos; Albert Campbell, tenor; F. W. Hager, violin solos and Pierre Leo, clarionet solos. We have heard a record of the Excelsior Quartet entitled "Church .Scene from Old Homestead" which was without a blemish. In order to prevent anything approaching another steal of smiliar chaiacter to the one which has recently been discovered and stopped, the American Graphophone Company put in force certain rules which will prevent suspicious characters from gaining admission to the factory. All the employees must sign a statement showing where they were born, their former places of