The talking machine world (Aug-Dec 1919)

December 15, 1919 THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD 141 FROM OUR CHICAGO HEADQUARTERS— (Continued from page 140) wherein they have installed the latest apparatus for making special tests of talking machine motors. This new department is under the charge of August Larson, whose duty it is to go out into the regular testing room and select at random an Ironclad motor, bring it into this special room or laboratory and subject it to the most rigid inspection. In this manner close tab is kept on all Ironclad motors as regards uniformity of speed and power. One part of this test is placing a record on the turn table and setting the tone arm in position for playing and then starting the motor, which must attain full speed within four revolutions of the turn table, before it is passed. The Cherington Co. will be located in space 134 at the National Music Show, February 2 to 7. The booth will be in charge of Harry Carroll, vicepresident and sales manager, and in all probability G. T. Cherington, president and treasurer of the company, will be in attendance for several days. The Cherington Co. 's full line of spring motors, as well as their tone arms and other hardware, will be on display. New Line of Accessories The Jewel Phonoparts Co. expects to come out in 1920 with a new line of talking machine accessories, such as an automatic stop, a cover lift and a tone controller. This latter contrivance is said to eliminate the necessity of equipping a cabinet phonograph with a regulation tone modifier and is to be applied to the reproducer. Just a year ago this company started in business and at that time was known as the Phonoproducts Co. Six months ago they changed their name from the Phonoproducts Co. to Jewel Phonoparts Co. and increased their capital stock as a corporation to $25,000. The first year's business brought them many friends in the trade who are now using their tone arms and sound boxes exclusively. They expect, during 1920, to acquire a great many new friends who will not only take up their now well known sound box and tone arm, but their new talking machine accessories as well. Change in Victrola Dept The retail interests in the talking machine de partment of the George P. Bent Wabash Ave. store were recently sold to Charles M. Bent, B. B. Corcoran and H. J. McFarland. These three have formed a partnership which will be known as the Music Shop, Incorporated, and the firm will operate the talking machine department as a separate and distinct unit from the regular piano departments proper. The new organization will get the lease on the basement, first and mezzanine floors, which parts of the building will be used for the retailing of talking machines, records and accessories. The sale of the talking machine department of the Bent establishment will in no way affect the present piano business, except in regard to some slight changes in the parts of the building now used for talking machines, to conform to the ideas of the new owners. Have Large Motor Output News comes from the plant of Pulton Bros, at Waukegan, 111., manufacturers of the well known Fulton motor, that they have now reached the capacity of one hundred three spring motors per day and they anticipate before many moons to increase this to 500 per day. Every part used in the Fulton motor is now made in their own plant. They recently installed a new plating department wherein all nickel plating, gold plating, etc., used in the Fulton motors, tone-arms, etc., is being done. Pleased With Automatic Stop The Chicago Ferrotype Co. of this city are in receipt of the following letter: "The outfit has arrived, and we are pleased to find everything working fine. You certainly have the best automatic stop we have tried; of course it costs more than the others that we have tried, but it is well worth the difference in price as there is no guess work about its stopping on all records at the right time. ' ' Lectures on Tone Production William Braid White, technical editor of The Talking Machine World, has been carrying on a series of lectures on "The Mechanics of Tone Production ' ' to different organizations of the city. On November 18, he addressed students of the Northwestern University on this subject and later spoke before the class in sociology of the same university on the subject, ' ' Music As a Social Agency." This class, under the direction of Professor Elliott, hears each week prominent men in various lines of professional and industrial work talk on subjects related to the general topic of sociology. The various culture agencies are taken up in detail, and it was thought only appropriate that music, one of the greatest of these, should be emphasized. Other organizations before which The World technician spoke have been the Illinois Federation of Music Clubs, Society of American Musicians and Cosmopolitan School of Music. Shortage of Cabinets The Chicago Tribune recently printed in their advertising columns a blind advertisement of a talking machine company which is looking for a furniture factory to be used for cabinet manufacturing purposes. The ad read as follows: "We want to buy a furniture factory. We are ready to purchase a modern furniture or cabinet factory, suitable for conversion into production of phonograph cabinets. Will consider idle or going property. Our resources will permit development and enlargement for the factory we purchase. What have you to offer? Communications treated confidentially." Pathe Men Meet Here Officials and jobbers of the Pathe Freres Phonograph Co. gathered in Chicago during the latter part of November to hold their annual informal caucus and dinner at the Congress Hotel. The annual dinner was held and plans for the coming year were gone over. President Widmann was in attendance, together with George W. Lyle, James Watters and H. A. McMenimen, all of whom are offcials of the Pathe Co. There was an attendance of over half a hundred Pathe jobbers, all of whom voiced their praise of Pathe cooperation in the distribution of Pathe instruments. A number of most interesting talks wero delivered and officials of the company promised a largely increased output during the coming j-ear The dinner took place in the Francis I room of the Congress Hotel. GREETINGS The greatest month in the greatest year in the history of the talking Machine Industry is drawing to a close. Everywhere there is a hustle and bustle of Activity. Industry, and especially that part of it concerned with the manufacture of Talking Machines, is working to capacity and has great numbers of unfilled orders, as yet untouched. We, like all other manufacturers of good instruments, are greatly oversold — still, orders continue to pour in. It is beyond us, at present, to say when we shall be able to catch up with the deliveries — but in the midst of all this rush we pause to extend the Season's Greetings to all friends of Phoenix, prospective and present alike. PHOENIX PHONOGRAPH CO. 2504-06 W. Van Buren St. Phone Seeley 4320 MODEL "C H— 50% inches W — 32 inches D — 24 Inches Chicago, 111.