The talking machine world (Jan-Dec 1908)

THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD. 27 Summing up, we find the seaside liotels, cottages and stores in need of your goods — the rest is "up to you." l'envoi. While engaged in working up the material for this story at Atlantic City a short time ago, I chanced upon a scene most sentimental and inspiring. In an unfrequented spot away from the boardwalk's maddening swirl of gayety, I spied two lovers seated very close together upon what was once the straining timber of a gallant ship. They had doubtless come to record the roar of the surf, for near them, its polished horn turned seaward, was a talking machine. However, their thoughts were not running along phonographic lines just then, because I heard a deep baritone rise pleadingly above the bellow of the breakers, "I love you, Dorothy. Will you be mine, dear?" And in answer sang a musical soprano, sweetly passionate, "Yes, Jack." Then came a smacking sound on shore and a splashing sound at sea — they had kissed, and the serpent who had strolled in to the water's edge to listen, being both modest and honorable, withdrew discreetly, leaving the lovers to their tryst. Having successfully transferred the picture ta my sketch book, I did likewise. Howard Taylor Middleton. TELHARMONIC CO. IN TROUBLE. Sheriff Finds Offices Ciosed When He Goes to Levy on Them. One of the companies interested in the Cahill telharmonic system, a device for dispensing electric-made music, is in trouble. An execution for $534 against the New York Electric Music Co. in favor of Jacob P. Muller & Co., advertising agents of 1,552 Broadway, was turned over to the sheriff's office on June 6. When Deputy O'Neil went to Telharmonic Hall, at Broadway and 39th street, to make a levy, he found the place locked and deserted. When Telharmonic Hall closed several months ago with a series of grand concerts, at 50 cents a head, it was announced that it was only to allow the installation of more elaborate machinery. Across the street in the Knickerbocker Building the Telharmonic Securities Co. at one time occupied Rooms 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126 and 127. The watchman of the building said last week that they had been vacant for several weeks. "The secretary comes around and opens the mail every day. That's all I know about the concern," said he. The telharmonic system was the invention of Dr. Thaddeus Cahill, of Mount Holyoke, Mass. When the idea was first unfolded to New York it attracted much attention. The device not only created music, but sent it out over wires, conveyed by an electric current. Lee De Forest started experiments with the new invention in connection with his wireless telephone. One day, it was said, a wireless telegraph operator at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was interrupted in the midst of a message from an outgoing battleship by the strains of the "William Tell Overture." Then the hall closed. The system of companies interested in the invention is an elaborate one. There is, first, the New York Cahill Telharmonic Co., capital $500,000. Then there is the Eastern Cahill Telharmonic Co.; the New York Electric Music Co., capital $750,000; the New England Electric Music Co., and lastly, the Telharmonic Securities Co., capital $250,000. SALES MANAGER H. S. GAINES Of the Indestructible Phonographic Record Co. Is Making Quite a Mark in the Talking Machine Field. One of the most important departments of the rapidly growing business of the Indestructible Phonographic Record Co., is that devoted to H. S. GAIKBS. sales, which is under the able management of Haydon S. Gaines, who is displaying marked efficiency in this position. It is only necessary to visit this department at the factory in Albany, N. Y., to realize what a tremendous amount of work can be accomplished by an able manager without any apparent effort on the part of the staff, simply because system prevails. Everything runs like clock-work and sales and orders are handled with promptness and despatch. Mr. Gaines secured his training as a sales manager in the sales department of Armour & Co., where he held a responsible position, and he is displaying the same skill in organizing and developing the sales department of the Indestructible Co. He has been a most valued aid to General Manager Brian F. Philpot, and his labors are highly appreciated. Mr. Gaines is one of those young, wide-awake, systematic Americans, who are bound to make their mark anywhere and whenever one visits the great plant of the Indestructible Co., improvements are to be noted in the organization of the company, machinery and details of the business. UNIQUE IDEA OF DRUID SOCIETY. Well Known Welsh Organization of Scranton Plans Novel Entertainment for the Ladies, at Annual Gathering, with the Aid of a Columbia Graphophone — Contest in Amateur Record Making Among Features. (Special to The Talking Machine World.) Scranton, Pa., June 8, 1908. A unique idea is being carried out in this city by the Druid Society, which is, numerically speaking, the strongest Welsh society in the world, in connection with the annual national Welsh gathering which is held in Luna Park, a pretty resort in the Anthracite City. Governor Hughes, of New York State, is expected as the guest of honor on Welsh Day, and each year the Druids give a ladies' night preliminary to the big Welsh Day, as a tribute to the ladies who work so indefatigably for the big gathering. This year it was decided that the ladies' night should be arranged upon novel and reminiscent lines. To attain this end the aid of the graphophone is sought and arrangements have been made with the offices of the Columbia Phonograph Co., in Scranton, whereby records will be secured for one of the most original concerts ever planned. The first part will comprise records by wellknown singers who are natives of Scranton, but who are now scattered over the United States. Some of the records already received are masterpieces and will delight the hundreds of friends and relatives of the artists in this city. The second part will comprise messages from the Right Hon. Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, England, to his fellow countrymen in this country, and messages in Welsh from other great men in Wales; likewise records from six of the leading singers in Wales. The third feature is planned as the humorous event of the evening. Six men have been selected who are prominent in the city, but who have never been guilty of singing in public. These gentlemen will sing a Welsh song into a record and their music will be reproduced and the audience invited to vote as to the most meritorious. The records thus obtained will in the first place be used upon the occasion of the ladies' night and afterward on Welsh Day. Last year there were 23,000 paid admissions at Welsh Day. This year it is expected that there will be at least 50,000. The phonographic concert is intended as one of the reunion features. NEW REPRODUCER IN DEMAND. The new reproducer introduced by the Indestructible Phonographic Record Co., to the trade through The Talking Machine World last month, has been welcomed with even as much enthusiasm as were the Indestructible records. The company are constantly in receipt of orders from jobbers regarding this excellent device. TWO IMPORTANT ITEMS FOR EVERY JOBBER STANDARD NEEDLES Are the best on the market. A trial will convince you of the truth of this statement. 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