The talking machine world (Jan-Dec 1916)

THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD 61 — the Machine that Plays any Record Don't wait another minute ; if you have not done so, write us to-day for the most interesting talking machine proposition ever made. Our big, new, general catalogue is ready ; it covers our entire line of Empire Talking Machines, Cabinets, Records and accessories ; get your copy. Every Day, Hundreds of Letters are coming in, requesting Information and details of the Empire selling plan and dealer helps, asking about the EMPIRE Is one from you among them? If not, write to-day. There is prestige, profits and repeat business for an Empire Selling Agency — as an Empire owner is an Empire booster. For— The Empire plays any record. The Empire covers have a The Empire is equipped with support without a catch. TheTmSwI^qalpped with £he Empire designs are orlgan Automatic Stop. ' The Empire tonal quality is The Empire Is supreme in de unexcelled. sign and finish. And above all — The Empire proposition to dealers with the original dealer helps we furnish, makes the Empire Agency invaluable to any live dealer. Seven sizes to retail at from $300 down to $2S. An Empire for every home— for any purse. m EMPIRE TALKING MACHINE COMPANY JOHN H. STEINMETZ, President 429 S. WABASH AVE., CHICAGO, ILL. f Model B. Price $100 Some valuable jobbing territory still open. majestic FROM OUR CHICAGO HEADQUARTERS — (Continued from page 59) 4 J8<j(jiir "MODEL J" $100, (Electric Motor) 8 Eight New Patented Q IMPROVEMENTS O affecting every vital part of a Talking Machine and reproduces perfect disc records of all makes. NATURAL AS LIFE The Majestic improved features are No. 1. MAJESTIC REPRODUCER "Natural as Life" No. 2. MAJESTIC "SURFACE" SILENCER eliminates scratching No. 3. MAJESTIC ADJUSTABLE TONEARM plays any make disc record. No. 4. MAJESTIC AUTOMATIC-STOP correct and positive. No. 5. MAJESTIC MODULATOR does not choke nor muMe. No. 6. MAJESTIC DOUBLE & TRIPLE TONE-CHAMBERS Tone voluminous, not tense. No. 7. MAJESTIC REVOLVING RECORD FILING SYSTEM easy to reach. No. 8. MAJESTIC ELECTRIC MOTORS adaptable any current. Prices: $50, $75 Spring Motors $100, $150, $200, Electric Motors Dealer 's territories now being allotted Built by Majestic Phonograph Co. Mc Clare Buildiig 218 S. Wabash Avenue, Chicago piano houses on Wabash avenue, which printed an advertisement calling attention to used talking machines as well as used pianos. To Make Talkers at Elgin The Elgin, 111., property of the bankrupt Engelhardt-Seybold Co., has been taken over by the E. P. Johnson Piano Co., of Ottawa, 111., which is capitalized at $200,000. In addition to the manufacture of pianos and organs the new concern will pay considerable attention to the making of phonographs, which has already been established at the Ottawa plant. The machine is known as the "Artonian" phonograph. The officers of the company are E. P. Johnson, president and manager; William Grote, vice-president; A. M. Johnson, secretary, and Henry Muntz, treasurer. Frank Grote is superintendent. I. Hirschberg, representing Hallis & Co., a mercantile house of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, was in Chicago last week. He placed a material order for talking machines during his stay here. Miss O. K. Gressing, who has been identified with the music business in Milwaukee, Wis., for a number of years, died in that city last week. She was a sister of Otto Gressing, who was formerly connected with the talking machine trade and who is now with the Melville Clark Piano Co. C. Harry Bent, formerly secretary of the Geo. P. Bent Co., and now Western wholesale representative of the Cheney Talking Machine Co., with headquarters at Pasadena, Cal., is in Chicago. He had no announcement to make as to his future plans. Herbert P. Gibbs, traveler for the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., was along Piano Row last week, accompanied by the two junior Gibbs's. One is Herbert, Jr., and the other William. They are twins about four years old and are the handsomest pair of kids on Wabash avenue. H. S. Allen, Victor man of Los Angeles, Cal., was one of the month's visitors to the local trade. The Music Shop is a new store at Loda, 111., that is specializing in talking machines. A. D. Chattelle, music dealer of Warren, 111., was killed recently by an Illinois Central train while riding in the automobile of a friend, Peter Howe, of Darlington, Wis. The five other occupants of the car died instantly and Mr. Chattelle died on the way to a Freeport, 111., hospital. The West Goes East As the result of the efforts of L. C. Wiswell, of Lyon & Healy, the Western delegates to the convention of the National Talking Machine Jobbers' Association at Atlantic City, were able to make the journey eastward together. Two special cars, occupied exclusively by the talking machine people, were attached to the Manhattan Limited train on the Pennsylvania Railroad which left Chicago last Saturday, arriving at Atlantic City Sunday morning at 9 o'clock. One car, which was carried from Chicago, was occupied entirely by the Chicago and Western contingents, the other car being put on at Pittsburgh for the accommodation of the Smoky Cityites and the Cleveland delegation. A list of those who were in the two cars will be found elsewhere in a detailed story of the trip in this issue of The World. Off For Plattsburg The Chicago talking machine and piano trades are going to have quite a representation at the citizen's military training camp at Plattsburg, N. Y. Roy J. Keith is already in New York getting a little of the Talking Machine Jobbers' Convention and will leave from there Tuesday night for Plattsburg. A. M. Lockridge and W. C. Griffith also of the Chicago Talking Machine Co., are also on their way to Plattsburg. Charles Bent, the youngest son of George P. Bent, president of the Geo. P. Bent Co., will spend a month of his vacation between his junior and senior years at the University of Chicago at the Plattsburg training camps. John Mitchell, of the automatic department of Lyon & Healy, leaves to-night, and on the same train goes H. S. Kingwill, of the Chicago branch of the Talking Machine World, who is specially delegated as war correspondent of The Talking Machine World and The Music Trade Review at the front. "OROTUND Sound Reproducers Orotund " soundboxes reduce that scratching surface noise and improve the tone of talking machines, playing any record. Write for descriptive circular and quantity prices. Exclusive Design— Highest Quality Sample price to dealers — with full equipment for playing any record — $3.50 postpaid. Terms: cash with order Combination Attachment Co. 524 Republic BIdg. Chicago, HI. 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