The talking machine world (Jan-Dec 1908)

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50 THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD. OUR FOREIGN CUSTOMERS. Amount and Value of Talking Machines Shipped Abroad from the Port of New York. COLUMBIA CO.'S OPEN LETTER. Policy for the Coming Season Has Been Determined and Is Being Acted Upon — Just What the Columbia Program Is. (Special to The Talking Machine Wcild. ) Wasbington, D. C, Oct. 8, 1908. Manufacturers and dealers in talking machines will doubtless be interested in the figures showing the exports of talking machines for the past four weeks from the port of New Yorlv. SEPT. 14. Belfast, 59 pkgs., $2G1; Berlin, 6 pkgs., $146; Bombay, 15 pkgs., ?335; 17 pkgs., $717; 7 pkgs., $5C0; Bradford, 25 pkgs., $119; Hamburg, 3 pkgs., $130; Hong Kong, 9 pkgs., $183; Liverpool, 84 pkgs., $377; 109 pkgs., $466; London, 29 pkgs., $758; 111 pkgs., $2,638; 12 pkgs., $318; Manchester, 155 pkgs., $691; 125 pkgs., $531; Puerto Barrios, 4 pkgs., $125; Rio de Janeiro, 21 pkgs., $812; Sanchez, 9 pkgs., $692; Sheffield, 50 pkgs., $188; Sydney, 59 pkgs., $8,970; Yokohama, 4 pkgs., $198. SEPT. 21. Acajutla, 3 pkgs., $136; Bangkok, 3 pkgs., $125; 6 pkgs., $300; Guayaquil, 3 pkgs., $334; Havana, 3 pkgs., $125; Havre, 1 pkg., $228; Liverpool, 140 pkgs., $850; London, 14 pkgs., $600; 60 pkgs., $1,419; Manila, 16 pkgs., $1,243; Maracaibo, 2 pkgs., $250; Newcastle, 70 pkgs., $273; Rio de Janeiro, 14 pkgs., $1,384; 31 pkgs., $1,951; Rome, 1 pkg., $120; Singapore, 16 pkgs., $635; Trinidad, 10 pkgs., $271; Vera Cruz, 48 pkgs., $858. SEPT. 28. Berlin, 4 pkgs., $167; Glasgow, 56 pkgs., $281; Havana, 5 pkgs., $200; London, 20 pkgs., $503; 658 pkgs., $4,069; Madras, 27 pkgs., $632; Milan, 19 pkgs., $324; Nassau, 116 pkgs., $624. OCT. 3. Bradford — 25 pkgs., $106; Buenos Ayres, 94 pkgs., $3,251; 18 pkgs., $580; Cardiff, 35 pkgs., $168; Curacao, 4 pkgs., $200; Glasgow, 105 pkgs., $406; Havana, 23 pkgs., $1,19G; 6 pkgs., $100; Halifax, G pkgs., $110; Liverpool, 116 pkgs., $350; London, 182 pkgs., $4,496; 74 pkgs., $1,941; 506 pkgs., $5,480; 791 pkgs., $9,757; Madras, 1 pkg., $88; Montevideo, 1,407 pkgs., $26,236; Rio de Janeiro, 5 pkgs., $199; 3 pkgs., $238; Vera Cruz, 129 pkgs., $1,775. E. G. EVANS BEGINS TRAVELS. Monday E. G. Evans, formerly with the Universal Talking Machine Mfg. Co., Newark, N. J., commenced to call on the trade for the Victor Distributing & Export Co., New York, for the first time. Gentlemen — When the National Talking Ma chine Jobbers' Association issued the fallowing statement, we have reason to feel pretty sure they ,did not have the Columbia Phonograph Co. in mind: "The jobbers hope that the factories will very soon determine their policy for the coming season and remove the uneasy feeling that is now apparent among the trade." Because, as far as the Columbia Phonograph Co. is concerned, our policy is not only determined for the coming season but it is already doing business and a lot of it. This company has bsen working more closely with the dealer all through the past season of depression than ever before in its history. Before -vfre made one of the several moves that have been so significant this fall, we took into fullest consideration the problem that has faced the dealer from the first day he went into the business — and more especially lately — and our whole aim has been, and now is, to remove once and for all, all the unsettling, not to say impossible, conditions that the dealer has had to meet, and to dissolve completely that same feeling of uneasiness that has been so much aggravated by various arbitrary, ill-advised, and half-considered proclamations and ultimatums from other manufacturers. As far as our influence could be made to reach, we have been settling conditions while others have been attempting most recklessly to unsettle them. Our program has been pretty simple. We have never had a minute's doubt as to the exact details of that program, and we have now carried it through to completion. We and our dealers have already .buckled down to order-filling. It's something of a program, too — simple as it is — now you see it all mapped out: 1. Columbia double discs, 65 cents. Here is the dealer's one biggest and most vexatious problem solved in a minute. Instead of forcing the dealer by every means in our power to carry an impossible stock of records we offer him an absolutely complete assortment at an investment of about $200 — covering the full catalog of about 500 10-inch records — 1,000 selections. That's bound to look, under any circumstances, and especially under present circumstances, very different from the unhealthy scheme of putting up to the dealer the necessity of carrying several thousands of records, and then taking on an additional line ® DO YOU MEET THE DEMAND ^ One c>( llic 41 Record Cabincla sliown in our new CATALOG OK MUSIC ROOM TURNITURE FOR VERNIS MARTIN IMT. ROOKWOOD DECORATED AND INLAID DESIGN CABINETS ? They help sell expensive machines BUY THEM FROM Cadillac Cabinet Co. DETROIT, IVIICH. cf double-sided records "just to meet the present demand." 2. Columbia indestructible cylinder records, 35 cents. Thus we enable the dealer to carry not only a complete line of disc records but indestructible cylinder records also. Moreover, these cylinder records fit any machine on the market; the dealer can sell them to any man who owns a cylinder machine of any make. And this with no necessity of further complicating his stock by adding a special line of machines wlLh an extra-fine-thread feed. "Indestructible" is a word of extraordinary significance to the dealer; his records reach him without the slightest chance of breakage, and stay with him until sold, with absolutely no loss and no deterioration in any shape or manner from any cause. 3. Exclusive selling rights for exclusive Columbia dealers. No "uneasiness" in that — except for the dealer who stands in his own light! 4. Exclusive jobbing rights for exclusive Columbia jobbers. No "unsettling" in that program— except for the jobber who waits too long to make connections! The biggest talking machine program ever outlined — offered just at the time when the trade most needed it! And there you are! Columbia Phonograph Co., Gex'l. Geo. W. Lyle, General Manager. REVOLUTION IN PHOTOGRAPHY. A new process in photography has just been invented by a young Englishman — a process that seems certain to revolutionize all methods of printing from negatives and that suggests a simple solution of the difficult problem of color photography. Frank W. Donisthorpe, of Bath, is the inventor. The Donisthorpe process does away entirely with light in printing and substitutes for it a dye, which is applied to the negative and then transferred by mere contact to a piece of white paper coated with a film of gelatine. Photography, a leading British magazine, describes the process briefly as follows: ' The negative to be printed is immersed in what is practically a vanadium toning both for five minutes. This bath is called the 'hardening bath.' It is then rinsed for two minutes and placed in a strong dye solution, also for five minutes. A piece of gelatined paper is soaked in water for two minutes, and then the negative, being taken out of the dye solution and rinsed, is laid face downward on it, and the two are squeezed into contact. After remaining in contact for a few minutes the paper is gently pulled off, dipped for a moment in methylated spirit, blotted off and is a finished print, which in five minutes is dry. The negative, after the paper is stripped from it, is put back into the dye for half a minute or so, and is then ready to have a fresh piece of paper squeezed to it, and so on. A single treatment in the 'hardening' bath fits it for an indefinitely large number of prints to be made from it in this very simple and direct method." It will be noticed that this process is not unlike that of mimeographing. The whole process can be performed in any light; the printing paper, not being sensitized, can be exposed to any light, and the negative, once hardened, can lie used any number of tiipes, the dyes being washed out of it and new ones applied whenever a new color is desired. By making three negatives through colored .ulass, one for each of the three primary colors, dyeing one blue, one red and one yellow and printin,!; these one over the other, just as three color half-tones are printed, it seems as if a good photograph in colors could be printed direct from the negative. CHANGE NAME AND LOCATION. The Standard Graphophone Co., of Los An.i;oles, Calif., have discontinued their business in that city and will shortly open in Oakland, Calif., under the name of the Oakland Graphophone Co.