The talking machine world (Jan-Dec 1916)

THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD 97 The Union Phonograph Supply Co. Successors to The Union Specialty & Plating Company Manufacturers of Talking Machine Supplies announce the removal of their general offices and factory to their new and modern building HOO-llOS West Ninth Street Corner of Front Avenue Cleveland, O. containing 50,000 square feet of floor space and equipped with all the latest modern improvements. Thanking you for past favors and soliciting your future business, we are Very truly yours, The Union Phonograph Supply Company. HOW MUSIC INCREASES OUTPUT Value of the Talking Machine as a Means of Enjoying and Stimulating Work Illustrated The accompanying picture shows the use of a talking machine in a glove factory. The em This is simply another concrete indication of the modern trend of using music as the means of relieving nervous strain in the factory. This picture first appeared in "System," the wellknown magazine of business, under the interesting caption: "Does Music Increase Output?" This latter sounds like a proposition in which Talking Machine Music Stimulates Glove Workers ployer of these girls says that they can clean almost twice as many gloves every working day when the phonograph is playing lively music as they do on days when it is silent. Consequently, he believes that investing in a phonograph or two for use in work rooms is well worth while. talking machine dealers ought to offer a pretty strong affirmative side, and indeed get some new business on the strength of their arguments that music does increase output, for the fact has been proven on numerous occasions and is being generally recognized by employers in factories and elsewhere. UKULELES The biggest sellers in the small musical instrument business. Why handle inferior machine-made American imitations when you _ can get at similar prices the genuine hand-made instruments of Jonah Kumulae, Honolulu The old, thoroughly seasoned native Hawaiian Koa of which they are constructed is greatly superior to any other wood in tone quality — Kumulae instruments have no superior in this respect. Send for wholesale price list. SHERMAN, CLAY & CO. 163 KEARNY ST. SAN FRANCISCO Sole Distributors for the United States and Canada ISSUE IMPOSING CATALOG The Lucky 13 Phonograph Co., New York, manufacturers of the Cleartone and Lucky Star phonographs, has just issued an eighty-two page catalog which, in addition to listing the various instruments comprising these lines, contains illustrations and descriptions of every part entering into the manufacture of phonographs. The company carries all conceivable parts in stock so that it can supply the trade. SUMMER ACTIVITY IN JERSEY CITY Leading Stores Across the Hudson Make Most Encouring Reports Regarding Conditions Jersey City, N. J., August 5.— The talking machine dealers of this city have been closing an excellent summer business, as the following reports indicate. Record business has kept up remarkably well and the shortage of machines, as a whole, has slightly abated. Wissner's warerooms, 134 Newark avenue, states that the summer talking machine business has been exceptionally large. Miss Nellie Hanly, who is in charge of the talking machine department, says her sales have been greatly aided by the complete stock of records that her department carries. Several new soundproof demonstration rooms are soon to be added. The Victor, Columbia and the Sonora lines are handled by this house. The Lauter Co.'s store at 149 Newark avenue has had a good summer business with the Victor line. The demand here for records has also been above expectations. The infantile paralysis scare has kept many home who usually spend a part of the summer season at the resorts, and this has influenced sales of both machines and records. At the Mathushek warerooms, ,150 Newark avenue, Victrola sales for the summer months have been good. C. J. Collins, manager of the store, reports the sale recently of a Victrola to Chief Monohan, of the Jersey City police force. Andrew Brunton, whose salesrooms are at 111 Newark avenue, reports many sales of Edison Diamond Disc phonographs. He is the exclusive Edison disc dealer in the shopping district. This store is doing some splendid advertising in the daily papers and is using original ideas. At the Jacob Doll & Sons' warerooms, concerts on the Pathephone are given daily, and are greatly aiding the sales of these machines. Samuel D. Metz, manager of the store, states that the sale of both machines and records are surprisingly large and the outlook for the future never was brighter. GROUND BROKEN FOR NEW PLANT New Factory for Columbia Products Will Cost About $300,000— Is East of Newly Acquired Birdsey-Somers Factory Bridgeport, Conn., July 24. — Ground has been broken for the new plant of the American (Columbia) Graphophone Co., on Barnum avenue, east of the recently acquired Birdsey-Somers factory. It is estimated that this new plant will cost about $300,000, and several hundred men in the employ of the contracting company are rushing the work to an early completion. The new building is to lie between Barmini avenue and Grant street, along Summerfield avenue. It will be of reinforced concrete, 110 feet wide by 428 feet long, three stories high. It will be similar in appearance to the former corset factory, but will be of different architecture. Occupation of the Birdsey-Somers plant by the Columbia Co. is being taken at the present time, the corset machinery and equipment being moved out and new machinery being moved in. The Columbia Co. has been adding to its factory plants in all sections to handle its tremendously increasing trade, and it is said that the end is not yet in sight. The Weber-Knapp Co., Jamestown, N. Y., suppliers of hardware trimmings for cabinets, recently doubled the capacity of its plant. Hardware for Talking Machine Cabinets Lid Supports.Tone Rods, Needle Cups, Knobs, Continuous Hinges, Etc. Write for Samples and Prices WEBER-KNAPP COMPANY JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK