The talking machine world (Jan-Dec 1906)

THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD. 33 Leading Jobbers of TalKing Machines in America PEERY B. WHITSIT L. 51. WELLE R PERRY B. WHITSIT CO., 213 South High Street. Columbus. Ohio. Victor Talking Edison IfinDrDO Victor Talki Phonographs .lllKnrn^V Machines and Records UUUULIIU and Recor Host complete line of Talking Machines, Records and Supplies in the west. Orders lilled promptly Columbus Representatives GOLUllil Cylinder Graphophones AIVD RECORDS. E. H. rOVVLE COMPAIMV WATERBIRV. €(».N\. Authorized COLUMBIA Oistribiitor ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY and COMPLETELY FILLED IF YOU'RE IN WESTERN MICHIGAN it will be money in your pocket to order Victor Machines and R^ecords JULIUS A. J.° FR.IEDRICH 30-32 Canal Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan r\ njt 4.4. \ Quick Service and a Saving: Our Motto : ] ^ Transportation Charge! OHIO PHONOGRAPH CO., Youngstown, 0. LARGEST JOBBERS Columbia Graphophones DISC AND CYLINDER RECORDS IN OHIO Orders promptly lilled COMPLETE LIINE Columbia Cylinder Macliines and Records. W. D. ANDREWS, Syracuse, N. Y. Just Received Large Stock New Spring Contact Reproducer Grapbopbone You will find it to your advantage to give LANGLEY ®. WINCHELL OF BOSTON A chance at your COLUMBIA WANTS Complete Disc and Cylinder Stocks PITTSBURG'S HEADQUARTERS for EDI80N and VICTOR and everything else in Talking Machines, Records and Supplies 75,000 Edison Records i 50,000 Victor Records f Buy from Headquarters The Theo. F. Bentel Co. "''-^ttuKW.''^'*' DENHOIM & McKAY CO. WORCESTER, MASS. Exclusive COLUMBIA Jobbers Disc and Cylinder If it's in tbe Catalogue we liave it in large quantities E^clipse PKonograph Co., Hobokerv. N. J. Jobbers £(jjson Rhonographs and Records. Best deliveries and largest stock In New Jersey CHARLES GIRVIN & COMPANY WILLI AMSPORT. PA. Columbia G raph ophones Disc and Cylinder Records and a Complete Line ol Supplies PROIVIPT SERVICE S. A. FLOYD "^"'yf"^^ COLUMBIA Cylinder and Disc GRAPHOPHONES Columbia Disc and Cylinder Records. Complete Stock Prompt Service PITTSBURG PHONOGRAPH CO. VICTOR. . EDISON JOBBERS JOBBERS Largest and most complete stock of Talking Machines and Records in Western Pennsylvania. ALSO lIE.iUQUAltTEUS FOi: Columbia Graphophones RECORDS and SUPPLIES. Write /or Catalogue. CHICAGO HEADQUARTERS COLUMBIA Disc and Cylinder Graphophones and Records Exclusively COLUMBIA Lines. HIBBARD, SPENCER, BARTLETT& CO .Chicago W. C. De Foreest S. Son SHARON. PA. COLUMBIA GRAPHOPHONES KECOKDS AND SUPPLIES. We Never Substitute, We have the Goods and ship what you want promptlj. Price Phonograph Company, EDISON Jobbers Plionograplts — Records — Supplies NOTICE— If you hive anything new write us. MAIN STORE1260 Broadway. Brooklyn, N. Y. Up-Stale Headquarters 233 Main St., Poughkeepsie, N. Y. JOHN F. ELLIS & CO. WASHINGTON, D. C. Distributor VICTOR TalKIng V a. VJ-*^ Machines and RECORDS Wholesale and Retail Largest Stock in tlie South JVI. M. MARRIN <& CO. Gr-and Rapids, = = Mich. Exclusive Columbia Jobbera. Complete Stock Disc and Cylinder Columbia Records and Qraphophones. All Orders Shipped Promptly BUSINESS COWriNUES BRISK. Every Branch Is Overwhelmed With Orders and the Manufacturers Are Exhausting Every Resource to Meet Demands. ALFRED WEISS IN NEW QUARTERS. As the year grows apace tlie development of the talking machine business is causing manufacturers to marvel. The principal jobbers throughout the country are enlarging their stocks in a manner quite unexpected, and it is to meet this demand for records and machines that factorien have not only increased their output and facilities, but are being operated continuously, night and day. Traveling salesmen are turning in orders from entirely new sources, not to mention (duplicates from regular customers. Jobbers in turn are arranging their business on a larger scale than ever before, securing more commodious quarters so as to store and handle stock of the general line to better advantage. In brief, the entire trade only since the opening of the year seems to have broadened out in obedience to current selling conditions and is occupying a new high level. Dealers are imbued with the same spirit, and especially is this apparent in the music trade. Recognizing the peculiar fitness of thus having a talking machine department, they are now going ahead with commendable enterprise in order to make up for lost time and to regain what they have missed by an opportunity too long neglected. Secures Lease of Building at 1622 Second Avenue, Which He Will Occupy for His Talking Machine Business. Alfred Weiss, the youngest and not by any means the smallest jobber in the Metropolitan district, has outgrown his present quarters which were ample one year ago, and has secured the entire building located at 1622 First avenue, and will devote every one of the three floors to the talking machine industry. Extensive alterations have been made in order to facilitate shipping and the receiving of merchandise; also a complete repair department presided over by an expert. Mr. Weiss emphasizes the fact that only genuine Edison repair parts will be used and the same policy will be adhered to in repairing of all types of machines. Every detail is looked after with care and precision, which tells better than words the result of a large and valuable business in a very short period. MHE. EAMES AS A RECORD MAKER. The favorite soprano recently made some records, including "Who is Sylvia?" and after listening to the reproductions a smile illumined her handsome face. She confessed it was a novel sensation, as she had never heard the records. She then told how she made the record of "Who is Sylvia?" — how when she sang a very high note she was pulled back from the horn of the machine, and when she was singing medium notes at moderate power she was almost precipitated into the horn of the machine by her instructor. Mme. Eames was delighted with the record of Mme. Melba in Bemberg's "Nymphs and Fawns/' declaring that it gave an absolutely correct idea of the diva's beautiful singing. PRICE CO. IN NEW QUARTERS. The Price Phonograph Co., of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., removed on March 1 to larger ouarters at 233 Main street, that city. They now have a very handsome establishment, containing a large exhibition room and five new specially equipped record rooms. Their wholesale department and stock have been enlarged. C. G. Price is in charge of the new store. The "scheme goods" turned out in the talking machine line cover a tremendous quantity as well as a multitude of sins, according to strict trade ethics. However that may be, the premium machines cut considerable of a figure, but most of the manufacturers stipulate that the goods must be given away and not sold. Their use usually leads up to the purchase of a standard outfit, and in that way they serve a purpose.