The talking machine world (Jan-Dec 1911)

6 THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD. Now that ttie jobbers' convention is over, let's get baelc to business. And business means selling musical instruments and records, not a continual discussion of hat's going to happen next and who's going to get it where. Colnmbla Ptaonograpli Co., Genl., Tribune Building, New York FROM THE CITY OF THE GOLDEN GATE Oakland Phonograph Co. Doing Well with the Edison — Marked Increase in Columbia Business FReported by Manager Gray — Hauschildt Co. Could Handle More Victor Goods — Bacigalupi's New Quarters — Pommer Returns from Vacation Spent North — Sherman, Clay & Co. Report Immense Trade with New Model Victrolas — Wiley B. Allen Representative Visiting the Orient — Sherman, Clay & Co.'s New Seattle Store — Other Items of General Trade Interest. (Special to the Talking Machine World.) San Francisco, Cal., July 6, 1911. The Oakland Phonograph Co., located in the arcade of the Bacon building on Twelfth street, have found this spring's business in that city a very gratifying one. The company formerly rented floor space from the Eilers Music House in San Francisco, but moved this stock to the Oakland headquarters late in the spring. The Edison style is making a great hit with buyers, and the managers say that they are unable to secure enough machines to fill orders for this model. The company have felt to a considerable extent the effect of the opening of summer resorts and the commencement of the summer home season, many machines having been sold to people going to the Country. The record trade has also been very active this spring. Walter S. Gray, Coast manager of the Columbia Phonograph Co., reports a marked increase in business done. by the retailers in this city. Advices from the Los Angeles territory are still of a splendid business in practically all lines. Music dealers in general have spoken very highly of this spring's business, and the talking machine end has received its full share. Mr. Gray says that the recently received Regent Junior has already made many friends. Eugene W. Scott, local manager for the Columbia Co., has been spending some time in Los Angeles on his vacation with W. F. Stidham, of the Los Angeles branch. The Dictaphone has been making big strides in this city lately, so much so that Mr. Gray has added two new salesmen, Mr. Wolf, an old typewriter man in town, and Charles Pearson, a former Home Telephone man. They will have the city territory. Mr. Scott recently made a short trip to San Jose and Watsonville. F. P. Cook, formerly in the San Francisco office of the Columbia Phonograph Co., has been placed in charge of the Dictaphone business in the Oakland branch. The Hauschildt Music Co.'s talking machine department have just received a shiprnent of the new $50 Victrola, which is going to be a big seller, judging from the interest which the buying public is showing in the new model. The department is handicapped by a lack of Victrola goods, which have not been received in sufficient quantity this year to supply the demand. Wm. Ringer, head of the talking machine department, has returned from a two weeks' vacation spent in Lake county. The Heine Piano Co.'s talking machine department, under C. F. Lundberg, has just laid in a complete line of Victor goods, with which the department has been doing a good business this spring. The company expect to do a good business with the $50 Victrola, especially as other models of Victrolas are hard to get out here from the East. Peter Bacigalupi & Sons are now settled in their handsome new quarters in the Douglas building at Market, Eddy and Powell streets, where they have a large and finely lighted store, with several times the window display space formerly used by the firm. This old house has laid in a new stock of Edison goods, for which active demand is felt at this season, with many of the sumnier resorts just opened and people leaving town for country hornes. The new home of the company is much better situated than th.e 'former one, and the business will undoubtedly prove to be benefited by the change. P. Bacigalupi, Jr., is at present on an outing in Lake county, and Mr. Bacigalupi, Sr., has just returned after a short rest at his fine country home in Marin county. C. W. Beatty, a dealer in the old fields district near Maricopa, Cal, has taken the agency for Edison goods in that section, and will soon have a large line of the company's phonographs and records. Mr. Beatty is fitting up a wagon to cover the out-of-town territory by monthly trips. A. MacDowell, of Petaluma, and J. C. Clayworth, of Benicia, were in town last week purchasing goods for summer and fall business. A. R. Pommer, of the Pacific Phonograph Co., is again in town after a very enjoyable vacation in the Sierra Nevada Mountains at the family's summer home on Bear River. Mr. Pommer plans to go East this summer to visit the Edison factory. He will shortly begin work on the introduction of the Edison hornless machine, which is expected to receive a warm welcome on the Coast. The company's two traveling men, Mr. McCracken and Mr. Voltz, are still away, and are doing nicely with the Edison goods. The summer business has begun well, and with the good crops assured California, the fall promises to be one of the best in years. The Girard Piano Co., of Oakland, are making extensive alterations in their Broadway store, preparatory to enlarging equipment. • A talking machine department will be added, as well as small goods and sheet music, it being the plan of the company to make the store a complete music house in every respect. Andrew G. McCarthy, vice-president of Sherman, Clay & Co., reports that the company are having a large demand for the new model Victrolas, which he says are becoming extremely popular. The company are still having difficulty securing all of these goods that they could use. James J. Black, head of the talking machine department of the Wiley B. Allen Co., speaks well of the business with this firm for the last month. He says that the firm's representative, Lawrence K. Wilson, who is now in the Orient, writes encouragingly of conditions there. Mr, Wilson, who is making the first trip for the company in this field, will be away some weeks yet. F. P. Cochran, another Allen talking machine man, is spend If you find a new set of restrictions nailed to your front door pretty soon, don't blame the jobbers. They represent the manufacturer, not the dealer, and they can't help it. Handle the Columbia line and you can help \\ yourself. Columbia Phonograph Co., Genl., Tribune Building, New York