The talking machine world (Jan-Dec 1913)

1!) The Trade In Boston And New England JOHN H. WILSON, MANAGER, 324 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MASS. while ago, and was entertained by Manager Erisman. Promotion for Ubert Urquhart. Manager Ubert Urquhart, of the Victor department of Chickering & Sons, has lately been promoted to the post of retail manager of the piano department. This, however, does not in any way interfere with his supervision of the growing business of the Victor department, especially as he has the able assistance of Mr. Bathchclder. August a Great "Grand" Month. Manager Erisman reports that August was a remarkably good month and that there were a number of sales of the $-300 Grands, several being placed in the summer homes along the North Shore, including Phillips Beach, Manchester, Beverly and Gloucester. Mr. Erisman exhibited to your correspondent the catalog de luxe entitled "A Culmination," which is about the last word in elaborate publications of this sort. Amberolas in Demand. At the Eastern Talking Machine Co.'s Tremont street store it is stated this month that there is a large demand for the No. 8 and 10 Amberolas which sell for $30 and. $45. Reports Good Summer Business. Chester J. Sylvester, manager of the talking machine department of the C. E. Osgood Co., has returned from his vacation spent in New Hampshire. He says he. has had a good summer business and there have been a number of inquiries for the higher priced Edison outfits' since his return home. Flightner Goes to Toledo. Frank Flightner, who has been in charge of the outside wholesale department of the Columbia, has gone to Toledo, O., where he will take a managerial position with the .Columbia's establishment in that city. time he has no future plants but is simply resting at his home in Short Hills, N. J. WHAT FRIENDSHIP MEANS. The Part That True Friendship Plays in Life — The Necessity of Friendship in Business — Friendship May Do Its Part, but We Must Do Ours in Order to Reap Success. L. L. LEEDS RESIGNS AS MANAGER Of the Boston Talking Machine Co., After Two Years' Work — His Future Plans Not Revealed. (Special to The Talking Machine World.) Boston, Mass., September 9. — L. L. Leeds, formerly general manager of the Boston Talking Machine Co., Cambridge, Mass., has resigned his position and is now taking a much needed rest following his two years' work in the Hub. Mr. Leeds, it will be remembered, is the man who designed and supervised the erection of the company's new plant as well as to outline the various departments for efficient manufacturing. At the present Every man of intelligence recognizes the part that true friendship plays in life. To have a friend to whom we can turn in an hour of need — for sympathy and advice if not for more material assistance— is a blessing that no sane human being will underestimate. To be without a friend is one of the worst privations that one can face. To feel that we have a friend in whom we can place our trust implicitly — as we would trust ourselves —is one of the joys that make life so well worth living. At the same time, to assert that no man can do anything of moment unless he has a friend back of him is to impose a task upon friendship for which it is not fitted. Friendship may do its part in helping us to travel the road to success, but it is wrong to make it responsible for our success. To succeed in any undertaking of moment a man must fight his own battles, and if he lacks the ability to play this part all the friends in the world cannot prevent him from tumbling head first down the hill to failure. There are so many instances in which men with the best of backing have failed to "make good" that some have stopped giving much weight to letters of recommendation. Letters of introduction play a vital role in business affairs; letters that state frankly that a man has performed certain duties satisfactorily may help a little, but, even at the best, they are not worth a great deal, and the more laudatory they are the less value they represent. The most that friendship can do, therefore, is to assist a man in getting his opportunity. There the backing must stop. The rest is up to the man himself. To say that we never do anything of moment unless we have some other person back of us is n.anifestly an absurdity. If it were true, few of the great feats that have made men famous would ever have been performed. Read the history of any one of the great inventions. In nearly every case you will find that the poor inventor had a Iife-and-dcath struggle with almost every possible opposition before he finally succeeded in making the world believe that he knew what he was talking about. This was the experience of Edison, of Bell, of Morse. They were compelled to fight their own battles practically to the point of victory before they could command the backing that they required. And it wasn't friendship that started them on the road to success or that eventually enabled them to reach the goal for which they were striving. It was self-confidence, courage and initiative that counted, and these are qualities that are generated within ourselves, not imparted to us by our friends. If all that was necessary to success was to get a friend to stand back of us the universe would be overrun with successful men. There are few persons who cannot count at least one friend. Practically every man can put his hand upon one person who believes in him and who would do anything to advance his interests. It makes no difference how sincerely we love another person, however, we cannot make him what he is not. It is he himself who must do the creative work. The most we can do is to help by encouragement and perhaps with advice. Friends can help us. If they have our welfare at heart they may hear of opportunities that might otherwise escape us, and so aid us in securing the very chance we need. But the actual work — the real performance — is another matter. That is where we come in. The real work is up to the individual. A BOON INDEED. ''At last," exclaimed the long-haired inventor, "I have evolved the greatest practical blessing of the age!" "Oh, tell me, Theophilus — tell me what it is !" begged his wife. "A collar button with a little phonograph inside that will call out when it rolls into a dark corner under the dresser, 'Here I am! Here I am!'" DETERMINED MAN GETS MORE. A customer's refusal to see you isn't any higher than a stone wall, or more impassable than a barb wire fence. Walls and fences never kept a boy from the melonpatch — and a really determined salesman can't be kept from good, ripe orders by customers refusing to be interviewed. BAGSHAW arc guaranteed to be the best for any record More Bagshaw-made needles are used in the world than any other brand. Quality is the reason. W. H. BAGSHAW Established 1870 LOWELL, MASS, U. S. A.