The talking machine world (Jan-Dec 1913)

THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD. i:: TO FILL ALL DEMANDS FOR EDISON DISCS SOON. Perfecting of New Electro-Plating Process Will Enable Company to Fill Long Delayed Orders — Enormous Demand for Edison Disc Phonographs and Records in All^Parts of Country — Frank K. Dolbeer Enthusiastic Over Popularity of the Edison Products — Many Visitors to Factory Recently Who Place Orders and Want Early Deliveries. Those new gray hairs one sees on the heads of various executives in the phonograph sales department of Thomas A. Edison, Inc., can be directly traced to the new disc records and the standard set for them by "the Old Man." Long, long ago the recording experts and the members of the sales department and representatives of the jobbing and retail branches of the trade tried out the latest bunch of records and declared them t.i be perfect and well worthy of being placed on the market without a single apology. Then Mr. Edison stepped in and said they wouldn't do for his O. K.. with the result that shipments were again held up, while further mechanical experiments and improvements were made. The sun is beginning to shine again, however, for a week or so ago Mr. Edison declared that he had perfected a new electro-plating process which had begun to work smoothly and would soon be taking care of records fast enough to meet all demands. In the new plant, which is declared by experts to be a marvel of ingenuity, there are no chances taken with the danger of having foreign substances find their way into the record material, for all the materials and even the air which enters the room is filtered and cleansed with particular care. With the new plant working smoothly and the pressing department going at full speed the prospects are that the trade will begin to receive records in satisfactory quantities at a very early date. Meanwhile through the medium of letters, telegrams, telephone messages and even personal calls, the jobbers and dealers all over the country are making strong appeals for records to supply those who have already bought machines, to say nothing of records for stock. The sale of machines, even without records, has reached wonderful proportions, and the machine plant, already busy with current and stock orders will be completely swamped when the records are turned out in Quantities, according to those connected with the selling end. One Xew England dealer has succeeded in placing over a dozen machines, though his entire stock of records consists of two, which he holds on to for demonstrating purposes, and other dealers have met with the same experience. Meanwhile the representatives of the sales department are giving demonstrations of the new machines and records at various points throughout the country and although the new contracts are such as will ensure the dealer paying strict attention to business if he is to make good, each demonstration is followed by applications for agencies from dealers who attend and hear the results of the new Edison products. Frank K. Dolbeer, manager of sales, is thoroughly enthusiastic regarding the manner in which the Edison disc phonograph has been taken up by the trade and the interest shown in it by the public, the most difficult work at present being to select those best qualified to handle the line in certain sections from among those anxious to secure the agency. Among the visitors to the Edison Phonograph Works in Orange during the past month were : C. B. Ilaynes, Richmond, Va. ; H. G. Stanton, Williams & Sons' Co., Toronto, Out.; II. Phillips, Greenwich, Conn.; Carl E. Peck, J. II. Parnham and Fred. 11. Lohr, Hardman, Peck & Co., New York; C. N. Andrews, of W. D. Andrews, Buffalo, N..Y.; W. D. Andrews, Syracuse, N. Y.; G. A. Gone, Brockton, Mass. ; C. W. Eulkerson, Carbondale, Pa; C. F. Shipley and Mr. William-, Frederick, Md.; C. J. Francis and IX R. Harvey, of the Iver Johnson Sporting Goods Co., Boston, Mass. ; N. D. Griffin, American Phonograph Co., Gloversville, N. Y. ; H. E. Sidles, Lincoln, Neb.; J P. Legard, Manchester, Conn. ; C. R. Conklin, of F. E. Bolway, Oswego, N. Y. ; J. Newcomb Blackmail, New York; Lawrence H. Lucker. Minneapolis, Minn.; J. Lincoln Parker, Boston, Mass. ; A. B. Clinton, New Haven, Conn. ; W. O. Pardee, of the Pardee-Ellenberger Co., New Haven, Conn.; T. II. Reed, of Reed, Dawson & Co., Newark, X. J.; A. Eckel, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Fred. Lord, of Lord & Co., Portland, Me.; F. H. Thomas and Mr. Birdsall, of F. H. Thomas & Co., Boston, Mass.; E. W. Hedman, with Lawrence PL Lucker, Minneapolis, Minn., and Louis Buehn, Philadelphia. THEO. HARDEE APPOINTED CHIEF Of the Liberal Arte Department of the PanamaPacific Exposition — Appointment Pleases Piano Men, as Mr. Hardee Was for Some Time Connected with the Trade. Members of the talking machine trade on the Pacific coast are especially interested in the announce ama-Pacific exposition, to be held in San Francisco in 1915, in view of the fact that Mr. Hardee was formerly connected with Eiler; Music House. I: is expected that his former connection with the trade will result in adequate arrangements for the display and proper exploitation of the pianos and other musical instruments at the exposition. Mr. Hardee, moreover, has had wide experience in exposition work and has spent much of his time recently traveling in Europe in the interests of the Panama-Pacific exposition, on which mission he has met with great success. Theodore Hardee. ment of the appointment of Theodore Hardee as chief of the department of liberal arts of the Pan RECORDS FOR POSTERITY. Prof. Ferdinand Brunot, of the Sorbonne, Paris, is establishing a museum of voices or "archives of oratory," with a view to preserving for future generations the voices and words of today. He believes the phonograph as wonderful an invention as Guttenberg's printing. Beginning with a small donation from a private individual and $400 from the university, he made a tour collecting French dialect discs. Now he is making a collection of 800 discs on a tour of the world from Pekin by way of America, including even Sioux Indian legends. This collection he means shall embrace every spoken language of the world. He hopes to make it as complete as the National Library. Every dialect representing every national character, statesman, preacher, actor or orator is to be collected in this vast phonographic museum. JOBBERS intending to IMPORT TALKING MACHINES, MOTORS, DISC-RECORDS ™> vsT I CID7ir PA ID AND INSPECT OUR LiUll Z-ilVj. FAUX NEW MODELS. OUR SHOW ROOMS AT THE POLYPHON-MUSIKWERKE, A.-G. Works: Leipzig-Wahren 41 Show Rooms: Leipzig, Petersstr, 28 I.