The talking machine world (Jan-Dec 1916)

THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD 103 Paddack Diaphragm "Better Than Mica" The Paddack Diaphragm is made of a special patented composition that does its work better than mica, lasts longer and gives a better tone. As the Paddack Diaphragm is a manufactured product it never varies but is uniform under all conditions. There are no "seconds" in Paddack Diaphragm shipments. Every diaphragm is perfect. Write for Samples and Quotations PADDACK DIAPHRAGM, Inc., 1411-30 Church St., New York MAKE EXHIBIT AT STATE FAIR Rustin's Talking Machine Co. Displays Columbia Line at South Carolina Exhibition This company has been handling the Columbia line for sometime past, and through the use of energetic sales methods, coupled with practical service to its patrons, it has been able to rapidly expand its business. Columbia, S. C, December 7. — Rustin's Talking Machine Co., one of the largest talking .i ... >, ' 1 _ ■ — i i if % l IMPROVE PORTLAND, ORE., STORE Wiley B. Allen Co. Provide Additional Rooms for Victor Talking Machines and Records Portland, Ore., December 2. — The Wiley B. Allen Co., of this city, have been making extensive improvements to their store at Broadway and Morrison street. The new arrangement allows first and second floors for Victor goods, and six new Victor record rooms and several machine salesrooms. Manager James L. Torder predicts an unprecedented holiday trade. Business to date has broken all previous records, and Mr. Loder finds demands for Victrolas, styles XI and XIV, exceed the supply. Also, an increasing demand for Victrola, style XVIII, electric. ROBBED COLUMBIA FACTORY Rustin's Effective Display at Fair machine dealers in this State, recently conducted a very attractive exhibit at the Columbia, S. C, State Fair, which furnished excellent publicity for the products of the Columbia Graphophone Co. and produced numerous Grafonola and Columbia record sales. Watchman and Pals Get Away With Parts Valued at $50,000 — Arrested Bridgeport, Conn., December 8. — Charged with being members of a gang working as employes of the American Graphophone Co., who looted the factory of electric motors, records and talk There Is Always One Best It is easy for you to know the best reproducer for playing EDISON Records on other machines. Simply send for a VICSONIA and determine for yourself Pure, sweet, natural tones No rattle or blast Easily and quickly attached We will send one N. P. VICSONIA to any DEALER in the U. S. or Canada on receipt of $3.50. Mention this advertisement and state make of machine. VICSONIA MANUFACTURING CO., Inc. 313 East 134th Street New York, N. Y. ing machine parts, valued at more than $50,000. Timothy Sullivan and Royal Saph were arrested here last week. Sullivan admitted his guilt. Sullivan was employed as a watchman in the factory, and it was his custom to pile the goods outside of the window for his accomplices to remove in dress suit cases. It is estimated goods valued at $2,000 were carried away in one night. The police are endeavoring to discover where the goods were sold in New York. FIGNER MANOIL SUPERINTENDENT Promoted From Assistant Factory Manager of Plant Where Manophone is Manufactured — Has Had Wide Talking Machine Experience Arthur Figner, who as announced some time ago in The World, became assistant factory manager of the James Manoil Co., Newburgh, N. Y., is now superintendent of this plant. Mr. Figner, has devoted most of the years of his life to the practical end of the talking machine business, having at one time been connected with the Columbia Graphophone Co., and also other talking machine manufacturers. He has not only made a close study of manufacturing methods, but particularly the producing of tone arms and sound boxes. He also comes from a family which has been interested in the talking machine business for many years, having an uncle, Gustave O. Figner, of Sao Paulo, Brazil, who is agent for the Columbia Graphophone Co. in that country. Another uncle claims to have been the first man to have brought the phonograph to South America; while still another controls a certain patent on records in Brazil. SAME OLD STORY IN KANSAS CITY "Victrolas, Victrolas, Victrolas." the Cry, Declares Schmelzer Arms Co. — Closed Tremendous November Business, Says A. A. Trostler Kansas City, Mo., December 4. — The Schmelzer Arms Co., Victor distributors, state that it is the same old story, Victrolas, Victrolas, Victrolas, with dealers flocking in and telegraph and telephone wires humming in an effort to get some sort of a machine with the Victor name on it to satisfy the retail trade. A. A. Trostler, manager of the talking machine department of the company, states that he has about decided to move his office to a dark corner of the cellar where no one can reach him for the next thirty days, before he loses his reason entirely. "We have closed a tremendous November," declared Mr. Trostler, "and when the curtain rises on 1917 we will have closed the most prosperous year in the history of the Schmelzer Arms Co., which is more than gratifying, to say the least, and 1917 promises to be still greater." Write to your Congressman at once strongly urging the passage of the Stephens-Ashurst Bill, H. R., 13,568.