The talking machine world (Jan-Dec 1914)

24 THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD. ECLIPSE PHONOGRAPH COMPANY 203 Washington Street A. W. TOENNIES & SON Hoboken, N. J. Jobbers of Edison Disc and Cylinder Phonographs Exclusively Dealers of New York and New Jersey Write for terms and discounts. COLUMBIA GRAPHOPHONE CO S. 25th ANNIVERSARY Celebrated on Saturday Night at the Areola Country Club, Areola, N. J. — Dinner in Evening Presided Over by Edward D. Easton, President of the Company. A party of fifty, including directors, officials and employes of the Columbia Graphopho.ne Co., foregathered at the Areola Country Club, Areola, N. J., on Saturday night in order to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Columbia Graphophone Co. Most of the guests arrived at Areola in the afternoon, and the club held open house indoors and out. In the evening Edward D. Easton, president of the company, presided over a dinner, at the conclusion of which many of those present made speeches of congratulation and compliment. The feature of the evening's oratory was the large and sincere tribute paid to Mr. Easton as the man who had founded the company, and whose inspiring personality had been such a dominant factor in its development to its present magnitude. The guests included employes of the company from all parts of the country as well as England. The latter country was represented by Louis Sterling and G. L. Funnell, of London, while A. G. Farquharson, of Toronto, represented Canada. UTILIZING VICTOR PUBLICITY. V. W. Moody Has Some Recent Illustrations Framed Which Tell an Impressive Story of Victor Enterprise and Advance. V. W. Moody, sales manager of the New York Talking Machine Co.., 81 Chambers street, New York, Victor distributer, recently had framed an interesting picture that makes a valuable piece of publicity for the live-wire Victor dealer. This picture shows the $500,000 yacht "Vanadis," belonging to C. K. G. Billings, the multi-millionaire, and internationally prominent. Four views of the yacht's interior are shown, including the lounging room, the gymnasium, a bedroom and the smoking room, wherein is prominently displayed a Victor talking machine. These pictures appeared in a recent issue of the New York Sunday Times, and when framed present an artistic appearance. Alongside of this picture Mr. Moody has displayed a number of framed colored pictures that represent to what excellent advantage the splendid publicity sent out by the Victor Co. may be utilized. 'One of these pictures shows the famous McCutcheon painting used in the Victo.r advertising in the national magazines, while others show the Christmas folder sent out last year and the group of operatic artists that has been used in the Saturday Evening Post and other national periodicals. $25,000,000 MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY Planned in New York — Projectors Guarantee Amount for Stadium and Other Buildings. TALKER MEN HELD^FOR GRAND JURY. H. A. C. Howard and A. D. Pilpot, Organizers of United States Phonograph Co., Held on Charges of Fraud Brought by Railroad Man — Defendants Emphatically Deny Guilt. A scheme was projected at a meeting in the Lawyers' Club, 115 Broadway, early this week for an industrial museum, to cost about $25,000,000, to be devoted to the study of practical subjects by the public. The idea is to have a circle of buildings enclosing a stadium, the stadium to be partially covered and used for assemblage. Within the buildings would be housed permanent expositions of twenty branches of industrial and peaceful arts. It is intended to establish the museum as a memorial of the centennary of peace among English-speaking people. Three sites are in prospect, one in an old reservoir basin in Central Park, another north of Ninetieth street and" the third on property the owner of which offered it some time ago for public use by the city. It was announced at the meeting by John A. Stewart that the financial undertaking will be one of the factors most easily handled in the development of the project, because the money can be raised among the projectors, if need be. An association has been formed and the meeting was of the directors, those present being George F. Kunz, Frank A. Vanderlip, Charles H. Strong, A. Barton Hepburn, Calvin W. Rice, Prof. Martson Taylor Bogart, Thomas Commerford Martin and John A. Stewart. Elbert H. Gary, Henry R. Towne, Thomas A. Edison, H. E. Huntington, Theodore N. Vail and H. J. Hardenberg are among the other directors. A committee on plan and scope was appointed to report April 23. This museum would be similar to those in Germany and France, but on a much larger scale. (Special to The Talking Machine World.) Chicago, III., April 13. — Following charges of fraud brought by James F. Dartt, a local railroad man, who stated that they had induced him to invest money in the United States Phonograph Co. under false pretenses, Harry A. C. Howard and Albert D. Philpot, organizers of the United States Phonograph Co., were held for the Grand Jury on Friday of last week by Judge Wells. The phonograph company retired last summer, but the defendarts emphatically deny the charges of fraud and look for a speedy acquittal. THE ILLINOIS CALLOPHONE CO. (Special to The Talking Machine World.) Chicago, III., April 11. — The Illinois Callaphone Co. has been incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000 to sell callophones and enunciators. This is a subsidiary of the International Callophone Co. of New York, and offices will be opened May 1 The parcel post weight limit has been increased. But nothing has been done to give the purchaser of stamps by wholesale an inside price ! in the New York Life Building. CALL FOR DISC RECORD ALBUMS. ( Special to The Talking Machine World.) Philadelphia, Pa., April 8. — The National Publishing Co., of 230 South American street, this city, is having a constantly increased demand for its disc record albums, due undoubtedly to their distinctive merits. For they are artistic in design, most durable and well finished. Leading talking machine men throughout the country are handling them with satisfaction to themselves and to their customers, and a big trade is being built up with these albums, which are suitable for Victor, Edison, Columbia and all other makes of records. Jobbers can greatly increase their sales to dealers by a free use of the large record album circular, which is supplied in quantities by the National Publishing Co. with the name and address of the user, as well as the prices at which the albums can be sold. Sales have been doubled by using this literature and sending it out with the regular lists of records, as well as by distributing them to callers. The circulars have four pictures on them showing the record album open and closed. These can be supplied to retailers and used to good advantage in soliciting orders. The six-page index in every album facilitates the instant location of any record, for the labels are seen through the openings and the titles of the records can be read without removing the records. The National Publishing Co. offers to send a sample album by parcel post for examination, so confident is it that the album will at once interest talking machine men. A NOTABLE DINNER. Edward D. Easton, president of the Columbia Graphophone Co., and Mrs. E. D. Easton tendered a dinner Wednesday, April 1, to Miss Gertrude Lyle, daughter of George W. Lyle, general manager of the Columbia Graphophone Co., and her fiance, Richard Arnault, who. were married at Haekensack on Wednesday of last week. The dinner was given at Mr. Easton's beautiful home in Areola, N. J. A noteworthy feature of this dinner is the fact that there were present four engaged couples, representing the families of Edward D. Easton and George W. Lyle. These four couples were Miss Gertrude Lyle and Richard Arnault, Miss Frances Ogden and Harold Lyle, a son of George W. Lyle; Miss Helen Easton, daughter of President Easton, and Norris Mumper; Miss Mary Rankin and Mortimer D. Easton, a son of President Easton. Other guests at the dinner included Mr. and Mrs. George W. Lyle, Mrs. Rankin, C. W. Woddrop, secretary of the Columbia Graphophone Co., and Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Easton, the host and hostess. The table decorations were unusuallly tasteful and charming and each guest received an appropriate favor with a snatch of poetry contained therein. The dates of the other three weddings in these two prominent families have not yet been announced.