The phonoscope (Nov 1896-Dec 1899)

12 THE PHONOSCOPE . April, 1899 THE PHONOSCOPE Copyrighted 1396 published monthly by THE PHONOSCOPE PUBLISHING CO. 4 EAST 14th STREET , NEW YORK, U. S. A. SUBSCRIPTION : United States and Canada .... $i-oo per year Foreign Countries 1-5° " Single Copies 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 and Animating Devices, and Scientific and Amusement Inventions appertaining to Sound and Sight. Correspondents in London, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Madrid, Alexandria and Constantinople, Australia, South America, Central America, Canada and 108 cities in the United States. The Publishers solicit contributions from the readers or The Phonoscope, and suggest that any notes, news or items appertaining to sound and sight would be acceptable. Mr. F. M. Prescott reports a steadily increasing export trade in the Gramophone since he obtained their control for export. The church organ record has come at last. Mr. John Havens has succeeded in making them. They are sweet and pure. The new solos by Miss Mann with violin obligate by Ernest F. Erdmann are a valuable acquisition to good record lovers. A. H. Boyer, of Harrisbnrg, Pa., has been East recently purchasing records and supplies. He possesses a very fine collection of master records. H. H. Myers, the veteran talking-machine man of Ohio, has recently sold the Ohio Phonograph Company to Mr. F. A. Drake, of Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Wm. J. Styles, the cornet soloist, is doing some fine work with the Lyric Phonograph Company. Mr. Styles' bugle calls are beautifully rendered. The National Gramophone Company has declared a dividend (No. 20) of I per cent for May, payable June 15. Books close June 5 and re-open June 16. Over thirty professionals are singing ' 'You Don't Stop the World From Going Round" with great success and this popular song is now in its third edition. Mr. J. D. Havens of Kansas City, a brother of our "Jack" Havens, the popular manager of the Lyric Phonograph Company, is spending a few days in the city. We are very sorry to announce the recent death of Mr. Hagen, Sr. Mr. HenryJ. Hagen, of Harms, Kaiser & Hagen is the only son and was almost prostrated over his sad loss. We have just completed a catalogue embracing all the Bettini Micro-Attachments and records, which we are enabled to supply to dealers. Prices will be forwarded upon request. The Phonograph Sapphire Company, of which John Jones is manager, have recently shipped three very large orders to foreign ports, consisting of sapphire jewels and Phonograph supplies. Louis Morrison, the courteous young salesman formerly of the uptown office of the Columbia Phonograph Company, is now identified with the music firm of Hylands, Spencer & Yeager. "A Picture No Artist Can Paint" is the title of a beautiful new descriptive ballad just issued by Hylands, Spencer & Yeager. George Gaskin says "it's a gem, and I am to have the crack at it in the 'phones." Mr. F. M. Prescott, of New York City, has issued a new film list of war films. Battle-ships in action, etc., the films varying from 150 to 200 feet in length. Some of the titles appear elsewhere in this issue. We have seen and heard the reproduction with the glass horns advertised by Mr. F. M. Prescott elsewhere in this issue. Besides having fine accoustic properties, the horns are very beautiful and ornamental. Manuel Romain, George H. Diamond, Charles Kent, Pritzkow and Little, Bessie Searle, Tommy Burnett, and Marion and Dean report the continued hit of the effective song, "I Loved You Once, I Scorn You Now." Owing to large increase in business the Lyric Phonograph Company have been compelled to move from Broadway to No. 57 West 2Sth Street, where, with improved facilities, they are prepared to fill all orders with dispatch. In the person of Ernest Erdman, Jr., we have the youngest artist in the Phonograph business. Although scarcely si.v months of age he has received an engagement to make records for a prominent Phonograph company. Mr. Y. H. Emerson's father was suddenly stricken with apoplexy June 17th, at his home in Newark, N. J., and grave apprehensions were felt for his recovery. We are pleased to learn, however, that he is rapidly convalescing. Mr. G. Bettini will sail for Europe July 19. During his absence of three months he intends to visit Germany, Jastein Park, Paris, London, and Petersburg, where his brother resides. We wish him good luck and a pleasant voyage. Len Spencer is trying to acquire avoirdupois on a milk diet of ten quarts daily, which he brings in with him from his country place. As Len weighs 210 already, he has great hopes of getting into Fred Hyland's 250 pound class before the summer is over. The Graphophone and Phonograph export business is growing with leaps and bounds. The firm of Hawthorne & Sheble recently secured one order for export for 526,000 worth of Graphophones. And the talking-machine business is only in its infancy. Messrs. Reed & Dawson are now making records to order for the Edison Concert Phonograph, Columbia Grand and Home Grand. Owing to the continued increase in business they intend to build a brick extension to be used as a laboratory for making records. We are in receipt of photographs showing the Phonograph corner of Mr. Burrows, of Tarrytown, for which we extend our thanks. It may be stated that he has a very large collection of master records, principally among them is a complete set of Cal Stewart records. Mr. F. M. Prescott is one who evidently believes in printers' ink. In one week recently his office mailed over 65,000 separate circulars and catalogues all to foreign countries. Their total weight was considerable over a ton and the cost of postage was no small amount. Max S. Witt's latest ballad, "My Little Georgia Rose. ' ' has proved a first night hit with Lottie Gilson, Maude Courtney, Irene Franklin, Estella Wills, the Trocadero Quartette, the Knickerbocker Four, and others. The publishers are getting many orders for it already. Mr. F. Guth has been East recently in the interest of the Edison American Phonograph Company of Kansas City-, Mo., in search of novelties. He placed a very fat order with the National Phonograph Company. It is his intention to remain in the city for ten days. Will C. Jones of "The Diamond Comedy Four," the popular Phonograph basso, left these shores June 5 for England, where he goes to represent the musical publications of Hylands, Spencer & Yeager. He was accompanied by his amiable wife. "Bon voyage" William ! The reigning coon songs, "Why Don't You Get a Lady of Your Own?" and "All I Wants is Ma Chickens," are sung to great applause by Lew Dockstader, Williams and Walker, Nichols Sisters, Billy Ernst, Tom Mcintosh, Artie Hall, Trocadero Quartette, and Deas and Wilson. Miss Anna Barthold, the contralto singer, is meeting with popular favor. Her voice is powerful and her enunciation clear. The selection "Old Jim's Christmas Hymn" as rendered byher is worthy of special mention. She is now prepared to sing for any company7 desiring her services. I. W. Norcross, Jr., of the Norcross Phonograph Company, and O. Osborne, of Orange, N. J., have established the American Jewel Company, which will be run in connection with the Phonograph business. They will make all kinds of jewels for the trade, also sapphire dies for drawing fine wires and jewels for electric meters. Just before going to press we received word from Chicago as follows : "Judge Kohlsaat's decision this morning was in favor of the Polyphone Company, the Talking-machine Company, Henry Babson, Silas Leachmann, Leon Douglass and against the American Graphophone Company." Full details will be printed in our next issue. Purchasers of the Bettini attachments are warned against infringements which have latelybeen offered in the European market. They are inferior instruments and copies of old models. New Letters Patent have been applied for, protecting all new models, and infringers, dealers or purchasers will be held accountable for any encroachment or misuse of same. Mr. Yess L. Ossman, banjoist, is doing his specialty in the orchestra, at the Manhattan Theatre, New York, after the second act of "Mme Fifi," having been engaged there since the opening