The talking machine world (Jan-Dec 1906)

52 THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD. souri river points on his return. He had an excellent trip and came home with a big bunch of orders for American records and H. & S. supplies. He found the South in excellent condition, the jobbers all having a good trade and prepared for a big fall and holiday demand. Their only complaint is that they are unable to get all the goods they want. The office of the Western Talking Machine Co. at 1S5 Dearborn street, has the appearance of a flower garden, owing to the display of flower horns. They have just received a fine sample line of record cabinets. Messrs. Dillbahner & Feinberg, the proprietors, are direct factory agents for everything in the way of talking machines and supplies. They also seem bent upon springing innovations on the trade. They have established a talking machine and record exchange, and jobbers are invited to list with them their surplus stock of machines, records and supplies, which they are willing to dispose of. These special offerings appear in a monthly bulletin sent out by the Western Talking Machine & Supply Co. The current bulletin lists thousands of records and machines at attractive prices. B. Feinberg returned recently from a trip among the jobbers of the Northwest, Missouri River points and St. Louis with a fine bunch of orders. He leaves in a few days for a trip which will include Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and West Virginia. The firm are having a big demand for the Daughty horn crane, adjustable and self-locking, made by the New Jersey Sheet Metal Co. A. W. White, who is to be the manager of the new Columbia branch at Duluth, left for his new field of labors Nov. 2, accompanied by C. F. Baer, assistant manager of the Chicago oflace and who went along to help him get started. The Duluth store will be at 18 Third Ave. North, in the heart of the business district, and will be opened about Nov. 1,5. A jobbing as well as a retail business will be done from the Duluth establishment, and a large stock will be carried. An aggressive campaign will also be inaugurated on the commercial dictation graphophone. Mr. White has been head assistant in the credit department of the Chicago Columbia headquarters, and is a well posted all 'round man. George W. Lyle, general manager of the Columbia Phonograph Co., spent Thursday and Friday at the Chicago office, leaving Friday evening for New York. W. C. Fuhri, manager of the St. Louis office, was also a visitor. Richard Topham, recognized as a top-notcher talking machine salesman, has returned from a trip through his territory — Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa — in the interests of the Columbia Co. It was one of the best trips he has ever maae, and resulted in the establishment of a number of new Columbia agents. Mr. Topham. by the way, now has a new invention in the way of an appliance for talking machines on its way through the patent office. Particulars are withheld for the present, but the new device will soon be placed on the market about the first of the year. John Hofreiter, who sings in one of the principal Polish Catholic churches of the city, recently returned from the East, where he made twenty-five records, mostly of Polish folk songs, at the Columbia laboratory. A. V. Morrisey, wBolesale city salesman for the Columbia Co., "discovered" Hofreiter, who also sings under the nom de plume of Rokcansky, and is proud of the fact. Robert R. Smallfield, proprietor of the Smallfield Music House, Davenport, la., was a recent Chicago visitor. In a chat with The World he said: "I want to advise every young man in the country who has recently started in business for ■ himself or contemplates doing so in the near future to carry talking machines. It's the best means in the world to get a foothold in the piano business. It brings in the ready cash during the struggle period, and gets you an acquaintance you could form in no other way. When I tell you that in the three years I have been in business I have sold enough machines to put one in every tenth home in Scott County, Iowa, and Rock Island County, 111. (embracing the cities of Rock island and Moline) you can form an idea of what an aid this branch of my business has been. I am about to move into a new store double the size of the old one, and half of it will be devoted to the talking machine department." The Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., of Cincinnati, through Edward H. Uhl, its Chicago manager, has filed suit against Frederick Sheppy, trading as the Crescent Talking Machine Co., alleging infringement of the patents owned by the Wurlitzer Co., on tone regulators. Both parties to the suit claim priority of introduction of their devices, and the matter will have to be fought out in the courts. The case is set for hearing the first Monday in December. Mr. Hawthorne, of the Hawthorne-Sheble Manufacturing Co., was in Chicago early in the month on a visit to their secretary and Western representative, C. W. Noyes. L. L. Leeds, manager of sales of Leeds & Catlin Co., was a recent visitor on his way to the Coast. He said that business was very satisfactory, and that the Imperial opera records were receiving a warm reception by the trade. Henry C. Brown, manager of the advertising department of the Victor Talking Machine Co., was in Chicago last month on a general trip through the Central West, familiarizing himself with Victor jobbers and dealers, and general conditions in this territory. Lyon & Healy are now making their own disc record cabinets, and a large amount of space in their big factory fronting Union Park is devoted to that purpose. J. Blumberg, Western manager for the Regina Co., is well pleased with the success which has attended the introduction of the new improved automatic Reginaphone in the West. This is certainly one of the most practical coin-controlled talking machines on the market. It occupies much less space than the ordinary instrument, holds six cylinder records, and has a novel and extremely valuable feature in the selfchanging tune device. Mr. Blumberg also reports an excellent demand for the Sublima piano and the other well-known products of the company. C. W. Long, the new manager of the talking machine department of the Cable Company, is Chicago Horn Support FOR EDISON PHONOGRAPHS The simplest, neatest and most practical Horn Support on the market. Has many advantages over other devices of this kind. Is adjustable to different size horns, holding the largest size bell horn perfectly without tipping the machine. This support is so constructed that it comes directly under the machine and practically out of sight, leaving the top of machine perfectly clear. 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