The talking machine world (Jan-Dec 1914)

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40 THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD. FROM OUR CHICAGO HEADQUARTERS— (Continued from page 39). and we have reports of similar overtime activity on the part of many of our out-of-town dealers. The best thing about it is that the year is starting nut with a vim and with good orders for both machines and records. You simply cannot stop this marvelous talking machine business." Have Good Exhibit. Schram Bros., manufacturers of talking machine record, music and music roll cabinets, this city, have a most interesting exhibit of their extensive line at the furniture manufacturers exhibition building at 1317-1319 Michigan avenue. Cameron Takes Furlough. L. K. Cameron, manager of the retail talking machine department at the Chicago house of the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., has 'been compelled to take an indefinite leave of absence on account of a nervous breakdown. He left this week for Tucson, Arizona, where he has relatives, and will indulge in wild Western activities, shooting, fishing and riding. His friends are eagerly awaiting photos, showing him in sombrero, gauntlets and a few other articles of apparel and with a bunch of Indian scalps. Mr. Cameron is one of the best posted and most popular members of the local talker trade, and his many friends sincerely trust that he will be speedily restored to his normal health. In the meantime, F. A. Siemon, assistant manager of the house, will give the retail department his direct supervision in addition to his other duties. Klingsor Progress. In a chat 'with The World, Louis Schram, treasurer and general manager of the Klingsor TalkingMachine. Co. of America, said: "Everything indicates that we will be in a position to commence taking orders for our machines by February 1. Theodore Isaacs, our president, returned from iiurope recently, where he made arrangements with the Klingsor Talking Machine Co., of Germany, whose works are at Hannau, for the construction of sound boards exactly fitting our American ityles. The sound board is the key to the wonderful tone production of the Klingsor machines, and this move assures our getting the remarkable reproduction in the machines we make here that has made the European Klingsor product famous." "Lightning Tom" Dead. Thomas W. Gray, well-known among Lyon & Healy customers as "Lightning Tom" because of his remarkable proficiency as an order filler, died suddenly on Tuesday of this week of organic heart trouble. He had been with the talking machine department of Lyon & Healy for eight years, first as order filler and later in charge of stock. He was a great favorite in the house and his death is keenly regretted. He was forty-three years of age and leaves a wife and a little daughter of thirteen. L. C. Wiswell took entire charge of the arrangements for the funeral, which was held at the house. Manager B, B. Blackman and Miss Lessing, of the record department, sang. The pallbearers were Messrs. Fitzgerald, Maux, Nuppenau, Burns and Gotch, Mr. Gray's associates in the order and stock departments, and John Otto, of the retail sales department. The burial was at Oak Ridge. Remembered Their Dealers. The Talking Machine Co. sent to each of the dealers with whom they do business a handsome gray leather order book as a Christmas present, with the name of the dealer embossed on the cover. The company has received many expressions of appreciation from the recipients. He Was Charmed. C. F. Baer, manager of the Chicago office of the Columbia Graphophone Co., received many Christmas presents no doubt, but none that he values more than a beautiful gold and diamond bestudded watch charm, emblematical of the Knights Templar of which he is a member. It was accompanied by a letter expressing some views not altogether derogatory to Mr. Baer. "Presented by employes of the Columbia Graphophone Co., Christmas, 1913," was the legend engraved on the beautiful memento. Will Visit Iowa Trade. O. H. Radix, who has had charge of the order department of the Chicago office of the Columbia Graphophone Co., will travel for them in the State of Iowa hereafter, succeeding E. W. Graham. J. Tucker, who has been in charge of the return goods department, succeeds Mr. Radix in the order department. Both men have been given welldeserved promotions. New Permanent Needle. The Soler Graphophone Needle Co., of this city, who has been making a special steel needle for some time, is now putting on the market a diamond point needle for disc records, which is said to be indestructible, will last a lifetime and will not injure the records. It retails for $3. The diamond point needle, Mr. Soler says, is covered by the patents covering his old diamond process needle. Big Salter December. Last year was not only a notable one with the Salter Mfg. Co., but December was the biggest month in the history of the 'business, according to President John F. Mortenson. The year has opened up with an encouraging volume of business from dealers whose stocks were cleaned out by the holiday rush and who are preparing for a good demand from those who received gifts of "cabinetless" machines, and who will therefore soon be on the market for means for storing their records. Business Good, Prospects Fine. S. O. Wade, of Wade & Wade, and the inventor of the excellent fibre needle cutter bearing his name, is highly satisfied with what 1913 brought him in the way of business. It witnessed a great increase in the number of jobbers of the Wade cutter and practically a doubling in the volume of sales. He has received some unusually large stock orders since 1914 became a fact. Visitors and Personals. Among the visitors the past week or so were the following: Mr. Schmidt, of the Schmidt Music House, Muscatine, la. ; W. H. Aton, Baraboo and Madison, Wis. ; E. H. Jackson, proprietor of the Talking Machine Shop, Rockford, 111. ; Mr. Kissler, La Porte, Ind. ; both 'members of the firm of Manor Bros., Hebron, 111. ; Charles Heiman, Sturgis. Mich.; C. 'S. Sinclair, Dundee, 111.: M. M. Marin, Grand Rapids, Mich. Edward Selbman, proprietor of the Northwestern Talking Machine Exchange, 2033 Milwaukee avenue, has bought out the Victrola department of the Boiler Piano Co., 2168 Milwaukee avenue. F. K. Dolbeer, general sales manager for Thomas A. Edison, Inc., spent Sunday recently with C. E. Goodwin, the manager of the Phonograph Co., local Edison distributers. He was on his way to Minneapolis, Minn. Theodore Winfield succeeds the late Thomas Gray in charge of the talking machine stock at Lyon & Healy's. He has been in the department for some years. Miss Marion Cockrell is the latest addition to the sales forces of the Talking Machine Shops. W. H. Sajews'ki, dealer at 1011 Milwaukee avenue, has bought considerable property at Lakewood, Mich., and early this spring will build a dancing pavilion and store as well as a commodious summer 'house. Mr. Sajewski has built up a very profitable trade in foreign records, as well as in English, and does a large mail order business. Samuel Glick, son of A. Glick, dealer at 2100 W. Division street, has decided not to follow in the footsteps of his father but will take up a course of study soon at the Michigan Agricultural College, with the ultimate intention of entering the Government's employ as an expert agriculturist. A. C. Burik, floor salesman for the Talking Machine Co., has returned from a vacation spent with ■his parents at Madison, Wis. A. G. Kunde. the well-known Columbia dealer of Milwaukee, was in town a few days ago placing stock replenishing orders. During the holidays he cleaned out practically every machine on the floor, and his stock was no -small one at that. W. W. Parsons, district manager for the Dictaphone department of the Columbia Graphophone Co., has been made a member of the bowling com mittee of the Illinois Athletic Association. He is an expert. The club's official organ printed the photograph of Dictation Parsons, the soubriquet he is given by his fellow members, and gave him a nice little "send off." Don C. Preston, George Cheattle and Elmer Ditmer, all travelers for the Talking Machine Co.. spent part of December at headquarters, leaving for their respective homes for the holidays. Roy Keith, sales manager for the Talking Machine Co., is again as his desk after a week's confinement to his home with a severe attack of tonsilitis. Edwin C. Barnes, of E. C. Barnes & Bros., Chicago representatives for the Edison dictation machines, has been made a member of the music trades committee of the Chicago Association of Commerce. George P. Metzger, advertising counsel for the Columbia Graphophone Co., spent a day or two at the Chicago office recently and expressed himself as most highly pleased with the beautiful new home on Michigan avenue. He was on a trip which will take him to the Coast. He will visit the various Columbia stores on the way. J. W. Roosc, manager of the Indianapolis branch of the Columbia Co., was a visitor to the Chicago office this week. H. L. Willson, assistant to General Manager Lyle, is expected here in a day or two in the course of a trip among some of the Western branch offices. J. D. Westervelt, supervisor of agencies of the Columbia Dictaphone department, spent a couple of days in Chicago recently. L. C. Wiswell, who is chairman of the committee on -arrangements for the next annual convention of the Talking Machine Jobbers' Association, leaves next week for Pittsburgh to consult with President J. C. Roush. W. C. Fuhri, district manager for the Columbia Graphophone Co., will leave next week on a visit to headquarters in New York. LYON & HEALY SIGN LEASE On Tuesday for New Ten-Story Building to Be Erected at the Northeast Corner of Jackson Boulevard and Wabash Avenue, Chicago. (Special to The Talking Machine World.) Chicago, III., January 9. — Lyon & Healy celebrated the passing of the year and the firm's fiftieth anniversary by making final arrangements whereby it secures for a term of twenty-six years a lease on a ten-story building to be erected at the northeast corner of Jackson Boulevard and Wabash avenue, where there now stands the Wellington Hotel, one o>f the landmarks of the city and for many years a leading hostelry. Negotiations have been pending for some time, but it was not until yesterday that the deal was closed. The lease was made to Lyon & Healy by Mrs. Carrie L. Munn, of Washington, D. C The term is twenty-six years at an annual ground rent of $60,000 for the first five years, $70,000 for the next five and $80,000 for the rest of the term. Mrs. Munn is to construct a ten-story building after plans by Marshall & Fox, for which the firm is to pay as rent 10 per cent, on the cost of the building up to $500,000. The additional cost of construction is to be paid by the firm. The removal of the present hotel building will be begun on May 1, 1915, following which the new building will be pushed to rapid completion. The area of the site is ninety-six feet on Wabash avenue and 171 on Jackson Boulevard. The average annual ground rent is $74,000, which, capitalized on a 4 per cent, basis, gives a leasing value of. $1,850,000, which is at the rate of $19,720 a front foot for the Wabash avenue frontage and $112 a square foot. The average annual rent wdiich Lyon & Healy will pay net to the lessor for both ground and building is $124,000. They also will have a large capital investment in the building. The board of review valued the property at $1,451,883, of which $1,411,883 is in the land and $40,000 in the building.