The talking machine world (Jan-Dec 1908)

40 THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD. family, who have been spending the summer there. L. Kean Cameron, of the retail force of the Chicago house of Rudolph Wurlitzer, has returned from a ten weeks' vacation spent among the Wisconsin and Michigan lakes. F. C. Steinmann, manager of the talking machine department of Julius A. J. Frederich, of Grand Rapids, Mich., recently returned from his vacation. He is looking for a good fall trade. W. C. Fuhri, district manager for the Columbia Phonograph Co., has been in Lincoln, Neb., making a line of Biyan records for the Columbia. They have just announced a fine line of Taft records, and will pay due attention to the "drys." They will soon have a record out by Mr. Watkins, Prohibition candidate for Vice-President, by the Rev. Dr. Eaton, by Mr. Sheen, State candidate for governor, by Professor Thatcher, who sings Prohibition songs, and others. Albert J. Kunde was in Chicago this week and bought stock for an exclusive Columbia graphophone store which he will open at 1316 Fond du Lac avenue, Milwaukee, Wis. Frank Dillbahner. proprietor of the Western Talking Machine & Supply Co., reports a fine demand for the Standard needles and also for their extra quality Manila record envelopes. Mr. Dillbahner has also added a very attractive line of exclusive premium goods. A number of new talking machine specialties have recently been patented by Chicagoans and may be shortly expected to appear on the market. Mrs. Jessie M. Higley, of Niles, Cal., has been in the city the past month endeavoring to effect arrangements for marketing the talking machine disc protector, which was described in the patent review in the July World. By attaching felt to the back of the record, the face of discs coming in contact with each other, either in piles or in shelves, is protected. Kreiling & Co., manufacturers of the Tiz-it allmetal horn connection for cylinder talking machines, report a growing demand for their product and look for a booming fall business. Harger & Blish. the well-known Edison and Victor jobbers of Dubuque, la., have just opened a new jobbing Victor branch in the Carver building, Des Moines, la., with 4,5(0 square feet of space, in order to facilitate prompt shipment to the trade that they have developed in the center and southern portion of the State. The stock will be entirely separate from the Dubuque stock and will be run independent of i;. The firm have placed there a complete Victor stock from beginning to end, and from the present outlook expect a good business in that field. It is strictly wholesale and is in charge of George C. Silzer, formerly in charge of the talking machine department at Dubuque. The Carstensen & Anson Co., of Salt Lake City, Utah, the well-known talking machine jobbers, are at present doing business iu temporary quarters at 75-77 West Second street. South, while a magnificent new building is being erected for them at their old location. 74 Main street. When they moved to their temporary quarters they expected to be able to get into the new building not later than November 1, but the way things stand at the present writing it will be probably late in the spring before they enjoy this pleasure. As it is they are doing a good business in their temporary quarters and do not feel that they are going to lose any business during the fall and winter as the result of the change, as their business is so well organized and they have been keeping up a vigorous advertising campaign all the time. The new building will be a beauty in every respect, will give them much greater space than in their old quarters, and will be fitted up in a manner which will compare with anything in the country. STUMP SPEECHES A LA VOGUE. Modern Methods of Running Presidential Campaigns Electrify Voters — The Modus Operandi. The great candidate was listed to speak at Turner's Corners that evening, and the yeomen for ten miles around were hastening to the scene afoot and in carryalls. They allowed that it would be the biggest thing that ever happened, because the candidate was coming on a special train and he would be greeted by his own brass band and he promised to shake hands with all the hornyhanded who stayed out his discourse of two hours and sixteen minutes. The reception committee, with yards of varicolored ribbon on their Sunday clothes, stood at the platform anxiously awaiting the arrival of the candidate. At last the train thundered up. The committee, doffing its ancient plug hats, hurried to the baggage car and one of them cried: "Have you got him?" "Here he is," replied the brakemau, tossing a cylinder to eager hands. "Where is the rest of him?" demanded a committeeman. A box with a large horn was produced and the cylinder inserted, whereupon the candidate began to speak as follows: "My heart is touched at the sight of these school children in white frocks and with lovely flowers in their hands trooping forward to lay the bouquet of innocence on an unwilling head" "Hold on, Bill,' " cried an auditor, "that don't fit here an' we had a change of weather, so they quit w-earin" white dresses." "This magnificent welcome by the leading citizens," continued the candidate, squeakily, "convinces mc that a profound sentiment is at work in our land b-z-z-z, and I draw a symbolic meanina from the pair of milk white steeds which your generous hospitality" "They're a pair of nmles," murmured a spectator. "T have considered it a mere duty to brave n:l perils and fatigues to be with you" "Give 'em a little music," whispered a committeeman. Hardly were these words spoken when a metallic sound of cheering issued from the baggage car and the candidates's brass band began to play "Ta-ra-dum-te-ta-ra-ra." "Candidate," said the chief committeeman, when the music had subsided, reading from a card of instructions, "I thank you and welcome you to Turner's Corners. You will have a better iliance to see our beautiful village on the way to the hotel, where we trust that a hot meal and a wash-up will fortify you for the ordeal of liandshaking and spechifyinf to-night," The brass band struck up a patriotic air as the Mayor of Turner's Corners put the candidate respectfully under his arm and stepped into the mule drawn buckboard. The brakeman of the special called out that the committee would be held responsible if it injtrred the candidate in any way, such as setting fire to him, and that he must be returned lo continue his tour on scueaule time, 11:35 p.m. "1 am in the hands of my friends," said the candidate, laughing and with all the patness of a flesh-and-blood-politician. He made other natural remarks on the way, jesting with the committeemen, asking about the local situation, pi'oraising them good jobs in the future administration, and for the present offering them Havana cigars. "Thanks, candidate," said a committeeman, dryly, "I guess we'll blow you to the same kind of a dinner as your cigars is." "The brakeman has the box of cigars," resumed the candidate. "Oh, excuse my insinuation, candidate. We'll interview the grafter. Has he got anything else — er — for the boys?" The candidate replied with a vague buzzing, and though the committee searched his person eagerly, they found no governmental works of art on green paper. It was a grievous disappointment to find that current slanders were untrue. However, all hands recovered during the sumptuous repast at the hotel, which had been paid for in advance, and the candidate was in his best humor, declaring that he ( iijoyed simple fare, replying aptly to toasts and inviting all to crack another bottle with him. After dinner a long procession of natives passed in to shake hands with the candidate. Each one was heartily gripped by a mechanical hand of rubber (warmed to blood heat by an internal device), while he gazed on a smiling counterfeit of the candidate on a screen and heard such expressions as "Very happy, indeed," '"I shall remember your face,'' "We shall win by pulling together," "I am a farmer, myself," "Thank you, thank you." The rubber hand patted babies on the head. When young women came by, a melancholj" voice remarked, "I wish I could salute those cherry lips." A white whiskered agriculturist was surprised to hear, "Madam, your position as governor of the nursery surpasses my hopes." It was probably likewise a mistake when a clergyman heard, "I have a tender feeling for mixed drinks," and" a succeeding tavern keeper, "Rum is indeed a curs?." "His hand is getting cold," said a committeeman at this juncture, "and I guess he's tired out, anyhow. Better quit, because we don't want him to break down so early in the campaign. " The town hall was crowded with natives that night and the cylindrical Demosthenes spoke with all the passionate abandon that characterizes an electric motor. His voice was sometimes drowned in the thunders of applause and feet stampings inscribed six months previously on a sheet of gelatine in a talking machine laboratory. The freshness of the voices, which had been preserved without the use of deleterious substances, was marvellous. The brass band boomed and brayed patriotic airs in the pauses of oratory and applause. "I stand before you to-night as a representative of freedom. " declaimed the candidate, gesturing wildly on the screen. "You cannot j,et l id of me because I am simultaneous and omniI)resent. At this moment I am standing and talking in Tmiu-r's Corners and Xuiula and h;ast Hayville and Oswego, making a heart-to-heart appeal which you cannot resist. I do not impose a frigid personality upon you like other candidates, but I inirsue you in a mystic and spiritual way" "This here thing is a swindle." exclaimed a farmer. "I come to hear an' see a man instid of a machine." "Ask me a question," retorted the candidate (luickly. "Well, what are you going to do about them crooked legislators up to Albany?" 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