The talking machine world (Jan-Dec 1916)

22 THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD. THE TRADE IN PHILADELPHIA. (Continued from page 20.) FROM REAL ESTATE TO OPERA. CLOSED A BIG FEBRUARY BUSINESS. this city has ever seen. The Tupper Brothers have given shows in New York, Boston and Chicago, and thoroughly understand their business. The Dictaphone Co. has taken a large double space, known as booth numbers 43 and 44. The latest models of the Dictaphones will be shown. The exhibit will be in charge of J. D. Westervelt. The Edison Dictating Machine has also taken a large double space. Mr. Bostwick, of the Edison Co., will be here during the entire exhibition, and N. C. Durand, vice-president of the company, will 'be here all day of March 15. The manager of the Edison Dictating Machine reports that January and February were the two biggest months it has ever had. Among some of its prominent installments in February were with the G. G. Clows firm, the Dodson Coal Co., R. G. Dun, the General Electric, the Philadelphia Electric, and the Parkesburg Iron Co. Clarence Hopkins has left the employ of the Cunningham talking machine department, and he has been replaced by Martin Socklaugh. The firm of H. A. Weymann & Son have had a most satisfactory February, although they still find themselves short of certain machines and some of the most popular of the records. Harry Weymann, who has just returned from a ten days' trip through the South, states that the demand upon them is still greater than the supply. They are not finding as much difficulty with their record department which has been at least a hundred per cent, better than last year. Their three representatives are on the road and are sending in some very substantial orders for both records and machines. The firm of Blake & Burkart, the biggest handlers here of the Edison, are having their new store entirely repapered and lepainted at the present time, and as soon as it is completed they expect to give a series of interesting concerts. They have been having a very gratifying business on the Edison machine, as they note have all the other firms handling it in this city. Thomas Chalmers Had Planned Business Career Before Realizing Value of Voice. Thomas Chalmers, one of the popular members of the Boston Grand Opera Co., and who has also won much favor through the medium of the rec Thos. Chalmers. ords he has made for Thomas A. Edison, Inc., started out on the sea of business as a real estate operator, and was doing fairly well when he discovered that he had a baritone voice and was advised by his friends to have it trained. Mr. Chalmers went to Italy nine years ago, where he studied for several years under Lombardi, and four years ago came back to sing here. His success was immediate, and instead of selling real estate he is now buying it. The singer is enthusiastic regarding Mr. Edison's accomplishments and delighted with the Diamond Disc recreations of his baritone voice. (Special to The Talking Machine World.) Detroit, Mich., March 7.^H. C. Shea, sales manager of the Pathephone Co. of Detroit, 114 Farner street, Pathe distributers, reports the closing of an excellent business in the month of February. A number of new accounts were opened during the course of the month, and the company, which was one of the first Pathe jobbers in the country, has made arrangements to carry a complete stock of Pathephones and Pathe disc records at all times. Among the additions to the company's sales staff is Harry A. Russell, formerly connected with the American Phonograph Co., and well versed in all details of phonograph merchandising. Mr. Russell has already commenced work, and is extending real co-operation to the Pathe dealers in this territory. EDISON PLANS FOR THE FUTURE. Will Do Some Highly Shocking Things if He Lives Long Enough to Accomplish Them. . Thomas A. Edison, who recently celebrated his sixty-ninth birthday, prepared some years ago the schedule for his future life. Dyer and Martin, the authors of his authorized biography, "Edison : His Life and Inventions," quote him as saying : "From now until I am seventy-five years of age I expect to keep more or less busy with my regular work, not, however, working as many hours or as hard as I have in the past. At seventy-five I expect to wear loud waistcoats with fancy buttons ; also gaiter tops ; at eighty I expect to learn how to play bridge whist and talk foolishly to the ladies. At eighty-five I expect to wear a full-dress suit every evening at dinner, and at ninety — well, I never plan more than thirty years ahead." M. J. 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