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VOICES OF THE DEAD. The Possibilities of the Talking Machine.
EDISON. How he Works and Rests.
TALKING MACHINES. The Phonograph, Graphophone, Gramophone and Metaphone.
AUTOMATIC SLOT MACHINES. New Devices and Items of General Interest.
'GRAPHS, 'PHONES AND 'SCOPES. The Allograph, Zero- graph, Radiophone, Megaphone and Cathoscope.
THE X-RAYS. Its Successful Practical Uses. Dangerous Effects by Its Use.
RECENT INVENTIONS. The Duplex Diaphragm. The Multiplex Phonograph.
THE TALKING MACHINE LITIGATION. Dispute Be- tween the Phonograph and Graphophone Interests.
PICTURE PROJECTING DEVICES. Devices for Project- ing, Enlarging and Animating Photographs of Objects in Motion. The Vitascope, Phantoscope, Eidoloscope, Bio- graph, Cinematographe, Theatrograph and Kineopticon.
NEW RECORDS FOR TALKING MACHINES. New Rec- ords Manufactured by the Leading Companies.
THE LATEST POPULAR SONGS. List of the latest suc- cesses.
ITEMS OF INTEREST. Trade Notes. News and Inter- views. Foreign Correspondence. New Films for Project- ing Devices. Exhibitors Directory. Letters. Talent. Screen Squibs. General .News Relating to Inventions Appertaining to Sound and gight.
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CASEY AS AN AUCTIONEER (NO. 1).
Casey tries to sell a pug dog. Pair of gentleman's pants and a photo- graph picture of Napoleon Boneypart. Exciting bidding.
NEAZV SERIES.
HIRAM'S VISIT TO NEW YORK.
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(Copyrighted, 1896.)
A Monthly Journal Devoted to Scientific and Amusement Inventions Appertaining to Sound and Sight.
Vol. I. NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 15, 1896. No. 1.
IDoices of the ©eab.
Everything on earth serves two purposes: a present and a future one. The deed of the hero and the saying of the wise man besides bene- fitting their immediate contemporaries serve as examples and guides to the succeeding genera- tions.
From time immemorial, therefore, the deeds and learning of the illustrious men and women of the world, have been recorded on stone, vellum, and papyrus, in manuscripts and books. These records have always been held in the highest esteem and veneration. Even amongst the lowest types of the human race we find some sort of record of their travels and their heroes. The celebrated libraries of Egypt, Greece, and Italy, attest the importance attri- buted by the ancient people of these countries to the preservation of the records of their thoughts and deeds; while to-day there is hard- ly a village, be it ever so humble, that boasts not its library and annals. The foremost amongst the public buildings of our great cities are the libraries— the storing place of the thoughts and the record of the deeds of our raee.
Yet, at best, these records give but a poor re- flection of the times and deeds they are in- tended to perpetuate. Like preserved fruit, however delicious, they lack the bloom of life: they are dry and difficult of digestion. We read in them in a third-hand fashion. The historian with all his personalities, the growth of the language, the monotony of the reading, all com- bine to cast about these records, a mist of un- certainty and doubt, which it requires assiduous work and study to dispel.
Recently the writer had occasion to attend a phonograph recital. Among the cylinders used that night there were some whereon Hon. W. E. Gladstone and the venei'able Bismarck had recorded their voices. I have always been an ardent admirer of these great statesmen, both shoulders above all their contemporaries, but, as my means and leisure do not permit of my leaving home, my conception of th^m had been derived mainly from newspaper re- ports—the echo of the world, alas! so fre- quently twisted and tainted to suit the audience. Thus I have read the speeches of Gladstone and of Bismarck, and become familiar with their respective work, but I did not know their spirit until I heard their voice on the cylinder of a phonograph. The body, the strength, the soft modulation, the emphasis, so faithfully re- produced by this delicate mechanism, the life thus imparted to the words, made them sink indelibly into my soul, showing to me in the fulness of their power, the men whom till then I had known only vaguely. I felt their pres- ence; their spirit pervaded me; I understood the secret of their greatness, as the subtle per- suasiveness of their voice held me spellbound.
If thus we could but listen to the voice of the great founders of this mighty commonwealth: Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln and others, how easy it would be for us to grasp their great ideas and teachings and follow in their footsteps. But in their time the talking machines had not been thought of. To-day we are in a position to reap the full benefit of the genius of our great inventors.
How salutary and consoling it is for loving children and friends to be able to retain the voices of their dear departed ones for com- munion in time of trouble, and of pleasure. The voice of that mother whose every thought has been for our welfare, whose last prayer was to call blessings down on us from Heaven; of that father whose stern, unbending, yet loving char- acter first instructed us in the hard realities of life. Death cannot now deprive us of their
help, advice and encouragement, if we will but record their voices whilst they live, and treasure them not only in our- hearts, but in a certain and lasting form, on the surfaces of phono- graph and graphophone cylinders.
It is by the voice that men communicate with each other in all the fulness of their in- dividuality. The voice, formerly invisible and irretrievably lost as soon as uttered, can now be caught in its passage and preserved practi- cally for ever.
The great speakers, singers, actors of to-day have it in their power to transmit to posterity all the excellencies they are so richly endowed with. Art in its perfection need no longer be lost to succeeding generations, who now shall be able to enjoy all its benefits by setting in motion the wheels of a simple machine.
In future there need be no disputed readings, no doubtful interpretation of text or delivery. The phonographic record, being absolutely true, avoids both by preserving all utterances with every modulation and inflection of voice.
Death has lost some of its sting since we are able to forever retain the voices of the dead.
HOW HE WORKS AND RESTS.
Thomas A. Edison went up to Lake Chau- tauqua, N. ¥., last month to bring home his family who had been spending their vacation at that place. On his way home Edison stopped in Buffalo and was interviewed, in part as follows, by a reporter for the Buffalo "Express":
"Have you been taking a rest . ' was the first question asked of Mr. Edison.
"No, no," laughed the inventor. "What do I want of a rest? I never rest; what's the use of it?"
The "Express" man agreed that a rest was not needful to Mr. Edison's robust appearance, and he asked the following:
"Don't you ever rest?"
"Well that depends what you mean by rest. I sleep, of course, but I hardly ever go on a vacation. My family go on vacations and I go after them."
"What are you devoting your efforts to just now ?"
"Oh twenty or thirty things. I always have that many things in prospect. I am striving to make a contrivance whereby I can use a phonograph and a vitascope in conjunction. This will make a regulation-sized theatrical pro- duction, with the scenes, acting and speaking. The kinetoscope was one step toward this, the vitascope was the next, and now I hope soon to have the climax. I have it about completed, but not quite so."
It was noticeable that the inventor pro- nounced vitascope veetascope," which he says is correct.
"Have you completed your autographic sys- tem of telegraphy?"
"I have it completed, but it is not now in use. I expect it will be utilized for newspaper work and not for general telegraphy."
"Have you anything in prospect which, when introduced, will be revolutionizing?"
Mr. .Edison laughed, snapped the ashes off his cigar and answered:
"The public doesn't like wind; it likes reali- ties. I never like to tell what I may do, but when I have it done I am willing to discuss it. We are getting wind enough from the free- silver men, aren't we?"
"Have you had any dealing with Li Hung Chang during his present visit here?" was asked by the reporter.
"None whatever. Li Hung Chang tele-
graphed from New York to my Orange offic ! that I meet him at Niagara Falls. The tele- gram was forwarded to me, but I did net comply with it. I couldn't leave my famil. alone. I have no idea what he desired to se : me about."
"Did any of your representatives meet him?' "No."
"Have you scruples against discussing yom- personal habits?"
"Scruples, no!" declared Mr. Edison, half- laughingly and with feigned amazement. have had too much experience with newspaper men to be modest. I am 49 years old, was formerly a telegraph operator and have been an inventor for 32 years."
Mr. Edison laughed and asked, "Is there any- thing else you desire to know?'
"How much do you sleep a day?'
"I can't estimate it. Some days I don'v sleep; other days I sleep nearly all the time."
"Is it a fact that you work sometimes for forty hours without sleep?"
"Yes, yes; sometimes I go seventy hours with- out sleep. Very often I go forty-eight and fift;, and not infrequently sixty and seventy."
"You eat regularly meanwhile?"
"Yes, my meals are brought to me."
"Do you ever have trouble sleeping?"
"No, never. I can sleep anywhere, at any time, at a minute's notice. If I had trouble sleeping, I could not get along in my business. I very often take a few minutes' sleep for ; bit of refreshment."
"Do you take long naps after a seventy-hour siege?"
"Sometimes I sleep eighteen hours withoi waking. Sometimes I sleep but six or eight.''
"Do you feel any bad effects from this irregu- larity?"
"None. I am perfectly well, always have been, and it looks now as if I always would be. I fear if I should become too regular it would have bad effects on me. People who claim to be regular in their habits are broken up by a day or two of irregularity. I, who am irregu- lar all the time, have no such trouble."
"Does not the constant thinking have a weak- ening effect on you?'
"Certainly not. It is not hard work. It re- quires no physical exertion. It is a pleasure. I like it, and what one likes is never tiring. I always feel well. The papers in New York recently had me broken down in health and seeking a place of rest. You can see the falsity of those statements."
"Do you think there is a limit to the possi- bility of electricity?"
Mr. Edison hesitated a moment, winked one eye, as is his habit when he is deliberating, and answered:
"No, I do not. Electricity will accomplish great things in the near future. The improve- ments of the next twenty years will, in my opinion, be as great as have been those of the last twenty. They will not be so amazing, be- cause they will not strike us as having been so nearly impossible. Nothing now seems to be too great for the people to comprehend.
"Will electricity supplant steam on the rail ways?"
It will, yes, but just when I cannot predict. It will do so on many of the shorter lines righi along now, but on the trunk lines, not for some time — or until the electricians get what to them is the philosopher's stone; that is, generating electricity direct from coal. This is what all electricians are striving for now."
"Are you working on i*"5" was asked of the inventor.
"I have been working on it for several years."
"Do you expect to make the discovery?"
"There you are again," laughed Mr. Edison. "I --\ally can't say; but I will say that the problem is a baffling one."
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November, 1896.
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After patiently waiting for a number of months, we may say years, the patrons of the Phonograph will be pleased to learn that Mr. Edison has constructed a light, serviceable, practical Phonograph, that can be purchased for a nominal figure. The people interested in this machine have been buoyed along on prom- ises, that have at last been fulfilled. If "a good thing is worth waiting for," the Edison Home Phonograph was worth waiting for, as it is "a good thing." In the "New Home" model the Edison people have built a machine that practically gives the same results as their standard type, but which sells for less than half the money. This machine should please the most fastidious, and meet with a ready sale, as none of the superior qualities of the standard Phonograph have been dispensed with.
The machine is substantially built of iron, brass and steel, and finished in black enamel and gilt. The top casting is about the same size and design as the standard machine, with the exception that it is much lighter, all un- necessary heavy parts being dispensed with. The diaphragm arm, mandrel, swinging arm, etc., are practically the same as in the standard type. The back rod is a little smaller, being about % of an inch thick. The machine is supplied with a very ingenious device for shaving cylinders, and is equipped with either the standard or automatic diaphragm, which guarantees the same results in recording and reproducing as in the higher price machine.
The straight edge that the diaphragm arm rests upon, is a part of the casting. To dispense with all extra frictiou, a small wheel is at- tached to the diaphragm arm, rolling on the straight edge when the carriage is in motion. There is one feed nut instead of two.
The power is derived from a clock work motor, which furnishes sufficient force to re- cord or reproduce two and a half cylinders from one winding. The starting device and speed regulator are combined in one switch, which, on being moved to the left, starts the machine at a slow speed, that can be increased by moving the switch further in the same di- rection. The machine is encased in an oak body box, which has a cover of the same ma- terial upon which is inscribed in red and gold, "The Edison Home Phonograph." The total weight of the machine, case and all, is 19Mi pounds.
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The machine proper is built on a hard wood Hard, 7 inches wide, by 10V& inches long, upon ' 'Inch an upright casting 4 inches high is fastened, supporting on one end a clock work Rotor, and a wooden mandrel on the other. The mandrel is revolved by means of a silk thread passed over a groove at one end of it, BSd attached to the main pulley of the motor, which with one winding has sufficient power to reproduce one record.
v friction governor Is provided In the shape of a break, acting on the main pulley, and can Ik: regulated by means of a thumb screw.
The sound is transmitted from the cylinder by means of a glass tube about 8 inches long, restling lightly on the revolving cylinder. The end of the glass tube which rests on the cylinder, is blown in the shape of a Phono- graph or Graphophone stylus, the other end is attached to a peculiarly constructed dia- phragm of wood and rubber.
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During Li Hung Chang's visit to the Niagara Falls, Col. Gouraud, a friend of Mr. Edison's, tendered him a reception at the Cataract House. This was where Li had his first experience with the phonograph. Col. Gouraud entertained the Viceroy by reproducing a number of interesting cylinders, chief among which was a cylinder whereon Mrs. Grant and some of her children had spoken. This greatly interested Li, as Gen. Grant had been a great friend of his.
A speech pertaining to China and its indus- tries had been prepared, which was reproduced in English to the Viceroy's first secretary, who spoke it in Chinese to the phonograph. When this cylinder was reproduced, Li was greatly surprised, and for a moment lost the plastic indifference that has characterized his actions during his visit to this country. He was ex- tremely interested and expressed a desire that the machine be taken to pieces that he might be shown its "inner workings."
The greatest hit of the evening, however, was scored when Po Ping sang a Chinese song to the machine, and then his countrymen and him- self heard it reproduced. Po Ping was so de- lighted that he capered and applauded his effort like a little boy.
Colonel Gouraud made a little speech at the end of the reception. He mentioned what had been done by Edison in the interests of science and towards aiding the progress of our great nation. Lord Li replied for his father, the First Secretary of the Embassy translated the speech. The Viceroy expressed his pleasure at the sur- prises he had experienced during the day and paid high compliment to the inventive genius of Americans.
The following day Col. Gouraud presented Li with a phonograph cylinder, upon which was recorded the following matter in Chinese: "The phonograph's salaam to His Imperial Excellency, the Viceroy, Special Ambassador from China. The latest bora of Americau genius bends its knee of steel and bows its neck of iron in respectful salutation to the emi- nent soldier and statesman who has honored America by visiting it. The phonograph sleeps not. Neither does it drink or eat, yet tires not. Seeing nothing, it hears all things; once hearing, forgets not, and with unerring truth preserves through all the ages its exhaustless treasures of word and song, rendering again throughout eternity from its incomparable treasure the priceless words of immortal man.
This soulless body, through the hand of its creator— Edison— whose rare genius is the pride of his country, surrenders itself into the gra- cious hands of the favored Envoy of His Im- perial Majesty of China, and begs that it may be so much honored as to be permitted to ac- company His Excellency throughout the re- mainder of his remarkable journey around the world, carrying as it does within itself ever responsive to the signal of its new and imperial master, the voices of some of America's most distinguished sons, and, above all, the voices of the venerable widow and much-loved chil- dren of America's greatest and most lamented soldier, Grant, to whose memory it has pleased His Excellency to pay a tribute of affection and regard so tender and so impressive as to cause the hearts of seventy millions of freemen to vibrate in silent and respectful sympathy.
(In reference to the above we think it only fair to let our readers know another version, as related to us by a disinterested party who
was present at this "much talked about" ex- hibition. Li Hung Chang had expressed a de- sire to meet Mr. Edison, but the modest "wizard" of Orange is no hero-worshipper, and therefore did not think the invitation important enough to interrupt his stay in the hills by the side of his wife and family. Nor did he send a representative. Col. Gouraud ran down to Niagara Falls on his own account with two Graphophones, but when he got there, found that he could not operate them. In his trouble he appealed to Mr. Gibson, of the Ely Phono- graph Company of Niagara, offering him $50 for the use of a Phonograph. Mr. Gibson went with Col. Gauraud to Li and showed him the workings of the Phonograph. Next day Li wanted to see the Phonograph again, and it cost Col. Gauraud another $15 before Mr. Gib- son would take his Phonograph before Li a second time. There was some trouble over the payment of the $15, but it was finally settled by Col. Gauraud's son. Sapienti sat. Ed.)
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Nothing is richer in startling surprises than the business connected with the phonograph and graphophone. Having occasion once to pay a visit to a phonograph company in Louisville, Ky., I came across an extraordinary case of innocence or stupidity. I could not believe my senses, when I found the young man in charge of the office coolly breathing on some phono- graph cylinders, and rubbing them with his coat sleeve. He assured me unabashed that this was the only way to "clean" cylinders that had become dirty in the slot machines. No wonder the public complained about dull sounds and indistinct reproductions.
It is a source of regret to note the hundreds of cylinders that are ruined through the poses- sor's inability or thoughtlessness to keep them in good condition. The phonograph or grapho- phone cylinder is a peculiar article, inasmuch as it is susceptive of the minutest cut by the recording stylus, yet strong enough to resist almost any degree of temperature and to with- stand a great amount of rough usage. But some exhibitors, whom the public are supposed to look to for the best results, considerably injure the reputation of the instrument by publicly reproducing records that they have exposed to dirt and dust, which causes them to give very poor results, which are generally attributed to the machine and never to the operator. This is not just, keep your records in good condition and educate the public up to the possibilities of the machine rather than disappoint them through want of care, attention and precaution. How is this to be done? Keep your records in good condition, and when they wear out, as they will in time, replace them with new ones. Keep your records in air-tight boxes of tiu or wood, and when not in use be sure to keep them covered. If possible, do not reproduce your records in the open air. Keep your repro- ducing point clean by wiping it occasionally with a bit of cotton dipped in alcohol. Do not keep your records wrapped up; anything con- stantly resting against the surface of a cylinder injures it. Always brush your record care- fully before reproducing it, but do not use a brush, as brushes, no matter how fine, leave an impression on the wax, which eventually develops into a roughness that is distinctly audible in the reproduction.
The best way to brush a cylinder is to use a piece of sheet-cotton wadding, which has been previously split to expose the soft side and then frayed at one end in the form of a brush. Al- ways brush your cylinders at right angles (the same way as the impression runs), and do not brush cylinders length ways.
Never touch your records on the outside sur- face under any circumstances with auything other than the soft cotton mentioned above.
The most important point in keeping your records in good condition is to know when they are worn out and to use judgment in not attri- buting the poor reproduction of an old record to your diaphragm or machine.
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THE PHONOSCOPE.
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botanists, entomologists, crayon artists, fresco painters, china decorators, flower painters, lithographic artists, stained glass workers and in all branches of industrial art.
The "Columbia" Graphophone
The Columbia Phonograph Company have put a new model Graphophone in the fleld, which they style "The Columbia." This ma- chine in our opinion surpasses any of their former efforts. "The Columbia" is practical, durable, simple, and in size, weight, appear- ance and construction seems to be an ideal talking machine, that is destined to And its way into the homes of those who desire enter- taining and instructive amusement.
The "Columbia" type differs from the "Bijou" and "Baby Grand" model in various ways. The end gate, heretofore deemed necessary, has been dispensed with. The cylinder is put on the mandrel without opening or closing any gate or device. The mandrel instead of run- ning on bearings or centres at both ends, re- volves on the main shaft, which uses the in- terior of the mandrel for bearings; which is an ingenious and brilliant idea. Ihis, however, is but one of the many good points possessed by this new machine. The governor is the same style as that in higher priced types, and the speed is regulated in the same manner by a thumb screw located in a convenient part of the machine.
The power is derived from a newly designed spring motor, easily wound, which will run two cylinders without rewinding. The dia- phragms are practically the same as in preced- ing types, requiring no adjustment. The ma- chine is enclosed in a neat oak body box, with oval cover, and, complete, weighs about 19 pounds.
When Li Hung Chang was dined at the Chi- nese Embassy in Washington, he was very much interested in the graphophone which was used to entertain him during lunch. Minister Yang is partial to all kinds of amusement in- ventions and has many quaint and curious specimens which he has gathered in this and his own country.
'Graphs, phones •* ■<* <* anb 'Scopes
The Artograph
The Artograph is a device for sketching, drawing in pencil or crayon, or painting in colors, anything visible in nature or still life, in exact reproduction of figure, form and color. This is a very broad statement, but is never- theless a fact. Pictures, objects, views from nature or anything that can be seen, can be reflected on any kind of working material and focussed any size desired. The operator fills in the outlines and goes over the colors, simply fixing the reflection on the working material, thereby obtaining a faithful reproduction of the subject.
For painting, sketching, copying, enlarging and reducing anything in nature or still life its uses are innumerable, and it will prove valuable to, portrait painters, art amateurs, textile designers, wood and metal engravers,
The Zerograph
Details have reached us from England of an improved telegraphic device, "The Zero- graph," which promises to make a revolution in telegraphy. It is a telegraphic instrument that, instead of printing dots and dashes on a strip of paper, typewrites a message on a sheet of paper at both ends of the wire simultane- ously. There are various automatic appliances for moving the paper, adjusting the alignment, inking the letters, etc. It does not require an experienced telegraph operator, but it can be used by any one who typewrites. It is auto- matic in its action and delivers its messages whether there is or is not some one at the re- ceiving end. It dispenses entirely with clock work and can be worked on the exchange system: it combines, in fact, the functions of typewriter, telegraph and telephone, and if it comes anywhere near justifying the claims made for it, it will not be long before every business office is provided with its Zerograph in addition to its telephone and typewriters.
The Radiophone
All the trend of modern physical science is toward establishing the close relationship of the different forms of molecular motion, which for the purpose of distinction, are variously called: light, heat, electricity and sound. And the farther science has gone the more it has been shown that the only difference between light and heat, and electricity and sound is merely a difference of form and rapidity. The conversion of heat or electricity into light is familiar to all, but now we are able by means of Prof. Graham Bell's Radiophone to convert light into sound, practically to hear a shadow fall.
The apparatus is practically a telephone minus the connecting electric wire, instead of which the receiving and transmitting dia- phragm is provided with a strong reflector at the back which transmits to the rays of light reflected the molecular waves of the voice. Obstacles in the way do not in any way stop the transmission, as this is mainly carried on by invisible rays, X-rays.
The Megaphone
The Megaphone is a pe- culiarly constructed cone of light weatherproof material. When spoken into it carries the voice with wonderful power and clearness to a great distance in any direc- tion to which the 'Phone is pointed.
On the water, shore, or in any open country where there are no obstructions, and no local sounds to inter- fere, it is not difficult to talk and hear to and fro over a distance of a mile with this instrument, while a loud call or hail can be heard about two miles. Voices and other sounds from a distance, which would otherwise be inaudible, can be heard with great distinctness when using the instrument as a receiver, that is to say, listening at the smaller end while the 'Phone is pointed in the direction from which the sounds proceed.
The Megaphone is four feet in length, the weight of the complete apparatus, including stand, seven pounds. On the deck of a pleasure craft, at yacht club and other shore houses, it is capable of great practical use.
It is being used to great advantage by a number of campaign orators, and out-door speakers in general, who find it of great prac- tical value in speaking to great gatherings, as by its use they can be distinctly heard by people in the remotest corners of the crowd, no matter how great it may be.
The Cathoscope
There is nothing more interesting or instruc- tive than the machines for producing X or Riintgen rays. The public is as quick as ever in its appreciation of their facile adaptibility to almost innumerable purposes.
Hamerschlag's Cathoscope, so called because it is the result of inventions of Arthur A. Hamerschlag, of New York, enabling people to see and appreciate the cathode rays without effort, and without darkened rooms, embodies certain new principles, among them being an in- duction coil of peculiar construction, and es- pecially covered by patents which gives great penetrating power to the rays as well as an almost perfectly steady light. The tubes used are sold to users at a lower price than they can I > made by others and are of the focusing pat- ti m. The entire machine is in cabinet fi'-ni with fluoroscope attached, all controlled by either a hand switch or coin contrivance
i which broad patents have been granted in
is and other countries.
The Hamerschlag Cathoscope has proven it-
If one of the most perfect developments of tie Riintgen or X-ray machines. It is being used in innumerable cities by exhibitors, phy- sicians, and the scientific fraternity, and being protected by patents, offers a lucrative field for investment as its money earning capacity is far larger than that of any similar machine in the world of equal cost.
To demonstrate this they have testimonial letters from users one week after they have purchased the machine stating it had more than paid for itself in that time.
At the recent American Institute Fair in Madison Square Garden, New York, the New York "Sun" called it the feature of the fair although thousands of exhibitors were under the same roof.
To prove its earning capacity, over 8,000 peo- ple paid to see it operate at that fair alone, and many more endeavored to do so, but were prevented by the crowds.
Its record has been one long continued suc- cess wherever it has been placed, and its radio- graphs, or photographs, taken for physicians and others, are universally pronounced perfect.
The Sympsychograph
It is an instrument, devised by Mr. Asa Mar- vin, president of the Astral Camera Club, of Al- calde. Its object is to photograph the image of a thought w'hich the experimenter holds sharply and fixedly in his mind. The Astral Camera Club's achievements show that this can be done.
The members first experimented with the X-rays, obtaining the usual results. Then they began on "the larger problem of photographing objects without visible light. President David StaiT Jordan, of Leland Stanford University, gives in "The Popular Science Monthly" the result of the strange experiments. The club sat silently in utter darkness for a considerable time.
President Jordan says: "Then those strange rays of light or odic force, invisible to our eyes because none of our ancestors ever had a chance to gaze upon them, disclosed the pres- ence of objects which had else lain forever in darkness." In addition to this there was vis- iuie a green light along the vacuum tubes of the X-ray apparatus.
The next step was to try to photograph some- thing by the strange luminous rays which the members of the club perceived in the darkness. Mr. Marvin devised an apparatus which should electrically connect each man's head with the sensitive plate of the camera. Then seven persons sat in the darkness and thought of the face of a cat. This they did for 16 minutes, concentrating their minds as much as possible. Result, a faint, queer looking, but unmistak- able image of a cat upon the sensitive plate. The Sympsychographic picture is reproduced in "xhe Popular Science Monthly."
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THE PHONOSCOPE.
November, 1S96.
TLhc ©ramopbone
THK LATEST MODEL.
The above cut represents one of the neatest, simplest and withal practical machines for re- producing sound, that has as yet come under our notice. It reproduces -with wonderful fidelity the sounds recorded on discs which here take the place of the cylinders, not only the human voice, whether in speech or song, hut also any other sounds, bands, orchestras, etc.
It cannot record sound: this is done by means of a special machine. But the record plates or discs are to be had at such a low figure, and they are so durable that this is hardly to be considered a serious drawback. It is, therefore, quite correct to say that its field is practically without limit.
The Gramophone is the invention of Mr. ^mile Berliner, whose name and fame as an iuventor are known wherever the Telephone is in use. It is entirely different from all the
Cher Talking Machines so far in the market, and it embodies everything necessary to make it a universal favorite, as a child can work it, ■ ithout risk to itself or the machine or record. It is worked either by the old fashioned crank-
mdle, or a spring motor, and there seems to be no delicate mechanism to derange. It is built to stand rough handling and to last.
The Gramophone records are made of hard rubber or other practically indestructible ma- terial. They are in the form of thin discs 7 inches in diameter, and can be transmitted by mail in safety; they can be freely handled, will wear almost indefinitely and are not at all sensitive to climatic changes.
The price is so low as to bring it within the reach of all.
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SHspute between tbe Orapbopbone an& pbonograpb interests.
An extensive and important litigation on the Phonograph, pending for quite a number of years, at length came to a hearing before Judge Greene at Trenton, N. J. There were two suits: 1 he American Graphophone Company, of Wash- ington, D. C, being the plaiutitt in both. The Edison Phonograph 'Works was the defendant in one case, and the U. S. Phonograph Com- pany in the other.
The suits in both cases were brought on two patents, dated May 4, 1880, one issued to Ch. A. Bell & Sumner Taiuter, and the other to Mr. Tainter for what is now known as the Graphophone, and the claims which are in- volved cover the method of engraving the record of the sound waves on a cylinder or other tablet of wax-like composition.
Mr. Edison brought out his first Phonograph in 1878. This machine he had been constantly improving and finally placed upon the market shortly after the Graphophone had been brought out- These conflicting interests were successfully combined in the person of J. H. Lippincott, of New York, who organized a company that was incorporated as the North American Phonograph Company to introduce lioth the Phonograph and the Graphophone. Mr. Lippiucott subsequently failed and died.
which caused a complicated tangle of litigation to follow. The Graphophone company claim- ing that failure and death of Mr. Lippincott left their patents to revert to them free and clear of any obligation, brought suit against the Edison Phonograph Works, and against various of the sub-companies of which the U. S. Phonograph Company is one.
For a number of years the Washington cor- poration has been prosecuting alleged infringe- ments of its patents, and the Edison interests, backed by Mr. Edison, have been as vigor- ously defending themselves from all assaults, and the first grand battle, succeeding numerous smaller skirmishes, came off at Trenton Sep- tember last
Unfortunately Judge Greene was taken sud- denly ill and died without rendering a decision, and this will probably necessitate a rehearing of the entire case.
The whole case seems to hinge, as stated by plaintiffs, on the mode of recording sound- vibrations on a revolving cylinder: they alleg- ing that they have an absolute claim on the incision or engraving process, which is totally different, so they say, from Edison's earlier in- dentures. They claim, broadly, a monopoly of all the methods of sound-recording which con- sist in engraving or cutting the record in a material of wax-like or amorphous nature. They maintain, moreover, that all rights to Lippincott terminated at his death, being of the nature of personal licenses, and that they could sustain their patents against the world. Mr. Dyer, who is Edison's personal counsel, having fought nearly all of that inventor's patents within the last ten years, presented the de- fendant's side of the case in a decidedly differ- ent light He eloquently set out the origin and development of the practical Phonograph by Mr. Edison, and dwelt at length on the numer- ous important improvements which Edison had brought out since 1889, which constituted all that was really valuable in the Phonograph of to-day, as well as in the Graphophone. He claimed that the Graphophone of Messrs. Bell and Tainter was a commercial failure; that the wax-like compositions of the Graphophone were utterly worthless, and that the present Edison cylinder of mineral soap was the im- portant and necessary thing. He submitted testimony to show that Mr. Edison and others used the cutting or engraving method of mak- ing sound records long before the Bell and Tainter invention and pointed out many de- tails of constructon which were necessary for success, and which were Mr. Edison's inven- tion, embodied in the present instruments.
Mr. Howard W. Hayes, Edison's chief coun- sel, and also a counsel for the U. S. Company, argued the second point of the defence. He claimed that all transfers and contracts made between Mr. Lippincott and the Graphophone Company were good and valid at law in spite of that gentleman's untimely demise. He argued that the American Graphophone Com- pany stood silently by while the contracts were being made between Mr. Lippincott, Mr. Edison and the various sub-companies, and by this act gave its tacit consent to them. It was by reason of these contracts that a vast amount of money was invested by Mr. Edison and all of the companies. Mr. Hayes claimed it to be a good principle in law that a man that does not speak when he should, may not speak when he would. He also submitted a decision of Judge Carpenter, of Boston, in favor of Col. A. N. Sampson, of the New England Phono- graph Company, which defence was a case of estoppel.
The court room was filled with specimens and models of the different machines, including the ponderous affair of Edison's early construction, his latest improved Phonograph, and the vari- ous types and models of the Graphophone.
A. W., Chicago, 111.— We are sorry to disap- point you, but we cannot print your letter. We are ready and willing to answer all legiti- mate inquiries in this department, but we can- not enter into any debate as to the comparative merits of the different talking machines. We propose in this journal to use our columns for the combined and general benefit of all talking machines, and not in the interest of any par- ticular oue.
Hnswers to - - - ^ ~ Correspondents
All questions pertaining to Talking Machines, Picture Projecting Inventions, Automatic Coin-in-Slot de- vices, Amusement Inventions, etc.; will be cheer- fully and fully answered in this column. Inauiries for this department should be addressed — Information Department, The Phonoscope, 822 Broadway, New York, U. S. A. J* J* J* <£t <£t Jt Jt jt
New Orleans. To the Editor of "The Phonoscope.''
Dear Sir. — In the prospective copy of your paper sent me, I noticed a column headed, "Answer to Correspondents." I should like to avail myself of the opportunity and ask you if you know anything about the new cylinder Mr. Edison is working on. I saw in the paper that he had a cylinder that would not wear out. Can you tell me anything about it?
Yours truly, J. J. F.
(We do not know of any such cylinder being manufactured by Mr. Edison. We are informed by competent authority that he has not enter- tained any ideas, or made experiments in this line.
The present method of recording and repro- ducing would preclude any such cylinder as you mention being used.)
Berlin, Germany. Editor "Phonoscope," New York.
Dear Sir. — Many thanks for information in reference to your paper. I am sure that your journal will meet with a ready sale, as we peo- ple in the business have long felt the need of an impartial sheet that we could refer to for information. * * * Can you give me any par- ticulars privately or through the columns of your journal, in reference to the new small Phonograph that is about to be put on the market? * * * J. N.
(See full particulars this issue in another column.)
Bangor, Maine.
Editor "Phonoscope."
Dear Sir. — In the specimen copy which you sent me, I notice a column heaaed, "Answer to Correspondents," will you kindly favor me? I am anxious to know if Mr. Edison has made any improvements on the Phonograph lately, and what Phonograph does the "New York World" refer to in enclosed clipping.
Yours respectfully, A. N.
A meeting has been arranged at Niagara Falls ou Monday between LI Hung Cbang and Edison.
The latter will then show the Viceroy the first models of his improved Phonograph and new Tele- phone and present them to him.
The Telephone Is one that dispenses with the use of an ear trumpet, and trausmits sound more clearly than at present.
The Phonograph is a vast improvement on the In- strument now in vogue, and transmits sound perfect- ly to any distance.
Li wishes the Wizard to go to China with him: evidently with the idea of introducing the Telephone there.
(We do not know what Phonograph the above article refers to. Evidently the reporter who wrote this was a little "twisted" or his matter got so when it was set up.)
Milwaukee, Wis.
Dear Sir.— raper received, accept my thanks for same. Can you let me know what the chances are for an exhibitor in Europe, say France and Germany? I think 1 could do well, as I speak both languages, French and German.
Yours, M. L.
(Your inquiry is very indefinite, as you do not state what you want to exhibit. If it is the Phonograph or Graphophone, wo would say that a good Talking machine outfit con- ducted by a competent operator would be ap- preciated and patronized in any country. You have, however, named two excellent countries, as the people of those nations are especially susceptible to amusement such as the Phono- graph or Graphophone can supply, namely, vocal and instrumental music. Sec our in- terview with Mr. Yil'quin, of Paris, in ano;her column.)
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This column is open to any of our patrons who have a complaint to make, a grievance to ventilate, infor- mation to give, or a subject of general interest to discuss appertaining to Sound Producing Machines, Picture Projecting Devices, Slot Machines, Amusement Inventions or Scientific Novelties in general, jtjtjtjtjtjtjtjijt^t
Boston.— Is there any redress for a person who gets buncoed in this business? I sent an
order to the Phonograph Company
last summer for twenty-five records, for which I gave twenty-five of my hard earned dollars. In about three weeks sixteen of these records were useless, as a foggy scum, or mouldy sub- stance began to form on the outside of the record. This made the records useless. I wrote to the company and asked for a rebate or some satisfaction, and they told me that they could not help me out, as they didn't make the blanks, but purchased them from the Edison Works. This did me a lot of good. Not. Do you think that I could make them return my money or give me good records?
C. W.
(Will some of the companies answer this gentleman? Ed.)
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The following communication, written on a postal card, was received by one of the Eastern Phonograph Companies:
"Dear Sir: I have gut a talking machine. I here you make barrels. How much do you charge for them apiece. Please answer soon.
"PROP. ."
I should like to hear one of "Professor's" lec- tures. He must "do good."
Hunting has written a song called "I Did
It But I'm Sorry That I Did." So am I, and a good many others, but this is one of Russell's quiet jokes, so we'll let it pass.
1 ran up against George Gaskin last week. I
noticed he wore a very careworn and anxious
expression. George says — ■ is trying "to
do" him, but he's going to "fool 'em all." Go it, George. Good luck! but don't sing any more comic songs.
Our cousins across the herring pond stand
aghast before a picture projected by the Cine- matograph representing the Prince of Wales in the act of scratching his head. I fully appre- ciate their feelings on this score, but then 1 suppose Al scratches his coco different from us ordinary people over here.
One of the young men connected with the
United States Phonograph Company recently remarked that all the employes of that concern had wheels. (He meant bicycles.)
1 met Mr. Walcutt (of the firm of Walcutt &
Leeds) last week, wearing the "same old smile;" on being asked how his lawsuit was getting on, he replied, "Which one; we're in five."
P. T. Barnum once said (or wrote), "the
American people like to be humbugged." What would he say if he were living now and .heard some of those lovely duplicates?
—This is good. I read it the other day up in Maine: "For Sale— A Phonograph by a gentle- man with a large horn and 50 Records." He'll do well if he makes money.
A young man from Dover, Del., wrote me
last week about a slot machine. He said he has a new scheme. If he has anything new he's a wonder, as I understand that a Chicago man has a machine where you drop a dog in the slot and get a sausage. "MIKE."
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The Columbia Phonograph Company had a
very creditable exhibit at the American Insti- tute Fair, held at the Madison Square Garden, New York, last month.
The Ohio Phonograh Co. are making some
very fine band records. Their recording de- partment is under the charge of Mr. C. G. Childs, late of the Columbia Phono. Co., and formerly with the New England Phonograph Co.
The Manhattan Phonograph Co. pay one
thousand dollars a year for the privilege of placing their slot machines in the different ferry houses of the Union Ferry Company.
The United States Phonograph Co. have
sold over five thousand campaign cylinders this season.
We understand that the Columbia Phono- graph Co. has already received an order from one party for $20,000 worth of the new "Colum- bia" model graphophone— their latest product.
The Chicago Marine Band, which is a very
popular organization in the West, is about to play for the Chicago Talking Machine Co. for record making.
A bill was filed in the United States Circuit
Court in New York City, Oct. 9, by the Ameri- can Graphophone Company, of Washington, against LeRoy W. Baldwin, Loring L. Leeds, and others, for injunction, damages, account- ing, etc., for infringements of letter patent of the Graphophone Company for talking ma- chines.
The New England Phonograph Co. are ex- perimenting on new methods for taking their Baldwin Band Records. Col. Sampson prom- ises to surpass any of his former efforts. We must candidly say that we doubt it, as we have heard "Baldwins" that were as near perfection as will ever be obtained with the present phonograph.
There is to be a new phonograph parlor
opened on Broadway, New York, in the near future.
Mr. Geo. J. Gaskin, the ever popular tenor,
is now spending about one-third of his time in front of phone horns. Mr. G.'s voice is a staple article and sells as fast as he can record it.
The Gramophone Company are making
exceedingly rapid strides in improving their machine. The latest type machine which they have put on the market shows a careful atten- tion to little details whicii will benefit and interest their patrons.
Our correspondents from the West in two
different States write us that Mr. Frank Thayer has the most complete phonograph ex- hibition on the road.
The Phonograph and Graphophone com- panies report July August and September last as the three dullest months ever experi- enced in the talking machine business.
The cathoscopes which are being exhibited
in the phonograph parlor on Broadway, New York, attract unusual attention. This machine is a great invention, inasmucn as it can be used for either scientific, amusing, instructive or educational purposes.
The Chicago Talking Machine Co. are tak- ing some new records of Bonnell's Orchestra. Some we have heard are very fine, and are des- tined to become very popular. The records taken with the Bettini Micro- Phonograph Diaphragms are wonderful for their solidity of tone and resonant carrying powers. Records of the female voice taken with this attachment are truly marvelous.
J. W. Myers, the popular baritone, has
added a number of new songs to his already large repertobe. Mr. Myers is making and selling his own records, which have always been of the highest standard. We have recently seen a new mailing de- vice for phonograph and graphophone cylin- ders. It is the invention of Mr. Sohow, of Washington, D. C. It is indorsed by the Co- lumbia Phonograph Co., who have given it a practical test, by mailing cylinders containing personal Correspondence between their various offices. It will fill a long felt want.
Mr. Henry C. Spencer has opened an at- tractive office in the new Hartford Building, Union Square, New York. He has completed arrangements with a number of the leading Phonograph and Graphophone companies to supply him with their latest products, for which he is receiving large orders as a pur- chasing agent.
The films manufactured by the Interna- tional Film Company are as fine as we have ever seen. Mr. Webster who has charge of taking the originals, is without a doubt the highest authority in this art in the country. He recently made a tour of the European cities, where he obtained some wonderful views.
Walcutt & Leeds have reduced the price
of their records from $1 to 50 cents.
There is to be a new Talking Machine put
on the market in a few months. The inventors claim that it will surpass any machine hereto- fore offered to the public.
It is rumored that one of the New York
Phonograph companies is about to go out of the business.
— Russell Hunting is now selling his original records at 80 cents each. As Mr. Hunting makes his records one at a time and gives his personal attention to each and every record, this price is exceedingly low, considering the class of his work.
Doings among tbe pbonograpb an& (Srapbopbone lEybibitors.
A Phonograph Exhibition Where "Casey's" Brother Got "Twisted"
The exhibition of the Edison Phonograph last evening, by Prof. Clifford Hunting, of Boston, eclipsed anything in the way of lodge entertainment ever given by Anchor, No. 40, N. E. O. P. Every seat in Red Men's hall was filled with those who came to celebrate the eighth anniversary of Anchor, the oldest Ldge in the city of this order. It was evident that they expected something out of the ordinary, and their expectations were more than ful- filled, for the instrument shown is perhaps the finest Phonograph ever made, being dis- tinctly heard all over the hall. The collection of musical and talking records was one of great variety, comprising 81 numbers on the pro- gramme with several extras, and Prof. Hunt- ing proved a most affable and accommodating exhibitor. The audience was permitted to nominate selections from the programme, copies of which were distributed to those pres- ent, and the range of selections given varied from topical song to touching ballad, from the ridiculous "Village Orchestra" to Sousa's clas- sic selections, and from humorous records such as "Casey Taking the Census" to the awful ravings of poor John McCullough that were taken from in front of his cell in the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum. One selection, "I Loved You Better Than You Knew," was given an added touch of pathos in the minds of the audience by the fact, announced by Prof. Hunting, that the man whose clear tenor voice was then heard, George J. Gaskin, had died quite suddenly only a fortnight ago. The lodge entertainment committee had other at- tractions for the evening in the way of music, singing and recitations, but the audience would have nothing but the Phonograph and these were all crowded out, to be given at another time. Ice cream was served during the even- ing and Prof. Hunting was again called upon afterward, most of the audience remaining clear up to midnight to listen to the wonderful instrument, many of the selections being as heartily applauded as though the living actors were delivering them in person. It was a great night for Anchor lodge, and they have no words too strong in praise of their entertainer, Prof. Hunting.— Waterbury "News."
(Gaskin called at our office last month and positively assured us that he was not dead. Ed.)
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There is one great desire which animates all mankind, from the cradle to the grave, encom- passing all: — the desire for amusement and en- tertainment From this one desire even the most serious pursuits receive their great im- pulse, and we do not fear going astray if we endeavor in this journal to unite for the benefit of our readers all those discoveries in the field of science and mechanics, which are intended mainly to add to our store of enjoyment. If, whilst following this course, we shall also have occasion to discuss purely scientific mat- ters, we shall strive to do so in an interesting fashion, easily understood by the general public.
Our title, "The Phonoscope," signifies "Sound and Sight," the two senses which add most to our happiness by procuring for us the greatest amount of pleasure and amusement. Their capacity is practically unlimited, and their in- fluence on our moral being of the greatest im- portance.
The eyes give pleasure by disclosing to the mind the ever changing, ever beauteous Kalei- doscope of the universe; the ears provide a never ending concert as various and as grand as the music of the spheres.
The talking machines, and the different de- vices for projecting and animating scenes (by means of a succession of views of the same taken at minute intervals of time from each other), all are contrivances for the purpose, as it were, of concentrating sight or sound, and thus to present the quintessence of beauty and pleasure in an agreeable and facile manner.
These machines enable us to enjoy all the world can offer in the shape of refined and pure amusement, without our leaving the peace and quiet of our home, as they bring within our own narrow precincts all the life of the world with its social, commercial, mili- tary and dramatic phases. By this means we can keep in closest constant contact with the throbbing life of humanity and derive from such contemplation ever varying, ever Instruc- tive entertainment.
There is hardly a city of any size in the ■United States which has not its Phonograph or Graph op bone parlor, where popular music ira malic and instructive selections are auto- matically given to the public, and thousands of families living in the remotest corners of the world are now able to keep in touch with the great centres of progress, by having in tlirir homes these wonderful machines that seem to partake of the power of spirits as they transmit in an actual living manner what has
been breathed into them, conquering distance both of time and place.
The Talking Machines have long since passed the point of novelty, occupying to-day a foremost place among the standard inventions of this progressive age.
It must appear strange, on that account, that up to the present, the ever awake pro- moters of trade journals have let this interest pass by without a thought. The individuals and companies engaged in this particular busi- ness have each contented themselves with sounding their own praises* in order to secure their own particular advantage, totally un- mindful of whatever else is of interest to the general public.
Conscious of this fact we purpose to devote ourselves entirely to this part of the great field of journalism, trusting that by scrupu- lously searching and reporting whatever will be of interest in this branch we shall suc- ceed in aiding the progress of instructive and entertaining science, business and amusement.
We have planted our standard:
"THE PHONOSCOPE," and we shall stand by it firmly in the inter- ests of science in general, and the inventions devoted to sound and sight in particular, as well as to every kindred scientific and amuse- ment novelty.
Possessing, as we do, exceptional facilities and connections all over the world, we propose to gather news and information pertaining to the above subjects from every corner, and to present it to our patrons through these col- umns in an interesting, clear and instructive form, but without auy partiality or bias.
In order to add to our already excellent con- nections, we respectfully request correspon- dence from all our patrons with information, suggestions or inquiries relating to any of the subjects treated in our journal.
We mean to keep well abreast with the ad- vance in these branches of science, industry and amusement to which the greater part of our life has been devoted.
Thus we start in the journalistic race for enlightenment: we shall ever strive to be first at the goal for the benefit and profit of our respected patrons.
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The curiosity of hearing a machine talk has given way to a more serious consideration, and to-day the general public are convinced of its great possibilities, and are prepared to wel- come its entrance into practical utility in almost any sphere.
The Phonograph has made its way into many institutions, where it is used for educational and scientific purposes; the Graphophone has en- tered into the sanctuary of various Govern- ment departments in the character of an accu- rate and ever ready amanuensis, in which capacity it is now being used by a number of officials who prefer to dictate to the Grapho- phone, instead of to a stenographer, whatever matter they may have for transcription.
An eminent New York throat specialist tises the Phonograph for recording the voices of his patients suffering from affections of the vocal organs. By recording their voices from time to time he is enabled to gauge the exact in- tensity or nature of the ailment, which greatly aids him in locating and curing it.
There can be no doubt that the practical employment of these wonderful coutrivancTs will become more general as they become more generally known, and their handling still more simple and easy.
Screen flachine Politics
For the first time in the history of elections the aid of science has been invoked by the can- didates for Presidential honors. One of the at- tractions at Hammersteiu's Olympia in New York during the past month has been a lifelike representation of the silent Colonel from Ohio. "Win. McKinley, jr., by means of the Biograph. It showed the American Napoleon as he is in all his movements, methodical, exact, careful. The way he adjusts his spectacles to read a telegram is a study, and characteristic of the man.
From the country we hear that the ubiquitous and loquacious silverite has sent watchwords and messages to his dutiful followers by means of Phonograph and Graphophone cylinders.
Who knows but that all future electioneering campaigns will be carried on entirely mechan- ically, and that we shall be able to buy catch- ing speeches, with the accompanying parapher- nalia, by the yard. Qui vivra verra.
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Sudden Zeal
In the war which is just now being waged against harmless slot machines all over the United States, designated as gambling de- vices, we notice a great deal of contradictory inconsistency. Thus, for instance, whilst in Omaha, Neb., the order applies only to such machines by which money is obtained by the winners, expressly exempting those which offer cigars and similar things as prizes, in other States the war is being carried on with unrelenting vigor against all of them. In Michigan, in particular, the mayors have or- dered a general cleaning out of every nickel- in-the-slot machine, coming under the designa- tion of gambling devices. Seeing that they were allowed to do a great and lucrative busi- ness during the summer months, one cannot help smiling at this sudden growth of righteous indignation in the bosoms of the honorable guardians of law and order all over the coun- try..
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New (?) Chimes
A New York daily newspaper lately devoted almost a whole column to an article headed, "Now for Chimes by Phonograph." •■Experi- ments to Get a Clear Reproduction of the Merry Bells at Last Successful." "Tried in Trinity Tower." "Twelve Selections Have Been at Length Secured After Very Many Failures." "To Make Diaphragms of Copper," etc. etc. This was no doubt very instructive and entertaining, but, considering the fact that an Eastern Phonograph company has been taking and selling successful Chime records for the past five years (which were recorded in the belfry of a church nearby), the news was not strictly "up to date."
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Chic Paree
In Paris it is rumored that the Cinematographe is going to be the main attraction of the sea- son, and it is added in a whisper, that the gay city on the Seine is going to be startled with the most fin-de-siecle show that ever bald head dreamed of. The tombstone of the whole scheme is that the real people will not be there, but only, of course, their moving photographs. The influence of this truth on the "risque"' is. easy of appreciation. Whatever is shown ou the screen— well, it happened long ago and no- body is any the worse for it now. So with bull- fights, beheadings in China, atrocities in Arme- nia, and lynching in Texas, some people are going to make barrels of money.
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Abberation of Taste
We are at a loss to understand why sober peo- ple should find a delight In watching every day actions at a theater, which in their own privacy they prefer to perform in private. There seems to be nothing more the go to-day than dressing, undressing, bathing, and similar scenes, and where any artistic or elevating merit comes in we fail to see. Yet they continue to rage, and the disappointment depicted on the faces of the audience of Miner's Bowery Theater, when Ve- nus was forbidden to take her bath, and the couchee couchee dance stopped, fully proved the degeneration of the taste of the present age. How long will it last?
A Settled Dispute
We are glad to note that the difficulty be- tween Messrs. Walcutt & Leeds and Mr. Geo. Gaskin has at last been amicably settled. It appears that this record maker was under con- tract with the former only to sing for them. Iu spite of this he sang for others also, notably for the Chicago TalkiDg Machine Company, and as a result the law was set in motion, bringing Mr. Gaskin into a very unpleasant predicament. We congratulate Messrs. Walcutt & Leeds on the generous and conciliating spirit shown and trust that all trouble is well over now.
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Boys
Boys will be boys always and all the world
over. Their latest exploit is the helping them- selves to chewing gums out of automatic ma- chines by inserting not nickels, but brass but- tons, campaign-buttons, and iron washers the size of a nickel. We have lately seen a col- lection of these, so incongruous and curious that nothing better could have been found even in a junk shop. It is breaking the machine by unfair means, or, politically speaking, a use of McKinley tin with too much Democratic free- dom.
Phonograph Funerals
A New York paper recently published an ac- count of a Phonograph Funeral, which was greatly garbled by the writer's ignorance of the working of a Phonograph. There is nothing in- trinsically impossible in the idea of having the funeral oration and service delivered through the horn of a Phonograph, but so far it has not been attempted, and it will surely take some considerable time yet before even our matter of fact fellow-citizens will stand a mechanical flow of eloquence and piety at the grave side of any of their friends.
riechanical Detectives
That the Cinematographe has great possi- bilities we never doubted, but we never ex- pected it to do detective work, as we find it did at Keith's in Boston some day during the past month. One of the scenes displayed was the bridge at Hamburg at its busiest time. Among the passengers seen flitting over the bridge was recognized a man who has been missing from his home and family for some years, and whose whereabouts are anxiously sought. Inquiries have been set on foot, and there is an interesting story connected with the matter, which will come out if the party is located.
Our jforcion = = = = Corresponbence
Buenos Ayres, August 28, 1896.
My dear R.— You will be surprised to get a letter from me out of this corner of the world, and, knowing as you do my dislike to letter-writing, you will be doubly surprised at getting such a voluminous one. But then, my friend, I have been surprised myself, and I am so full of all I have seen that I must find an outlet somewhere, and aware of your good nature and patience, I hasten to make you my lightning rod.
The object of my visit here is to introduce some new kind of agricultural machinery, the nature of which is so sublime and complicated as to be far beyond the reach of your massive mind entirely enthralled by the charms pos- sessed by Phonographs, Kinetoscopes and all the other 'Graphs and 'Scopes in creation. Suffice it that I am here on business, not un- mixed with pleasure, bien entendu.
Somehow in the States we all seem to have an idea that anything below the equator is nothing short of wild and deserted, peopled only by slouchily dressed Creoles, Spanioles ami other oles, living in mud holes, thatched with palm leaves, more or less tight.
Well, there is some truth in it, but it is very little, as I found out to my surprise and joy.
To begin with Rio de Janeiro, the capital of the Brazilian Republic. Its harbor is simply superb; its surroundings are unsurpassed; in beauty its centre the city itself, is the filthiest, most unhealthy hole on earth. The main busi- ness street is the Rua Ouvidor, about 18 feet wide, and a mile long, with an atmosphere as high as that of a bakeoven in full blast, and an aroma, which seems to be a concentrated quintessence of all that tends to offend our olfactory and pulmonary organs. Well, I got through, not once, but several times, for the shops and warehouses located here can vy in many respects with the best Broadway can show. There is a good theatre here, but after I had reached my hotel on the hill of Tijuca, about 4 miles out of town, I found the attrac- tions of a charming home, in the midst of flow- ers and palms, and the coolest and most agree- able atmosphere so very enticing that I had not the heart to go back to town to see even the best of theatrical offerings, especially as my host, Mr. Moreau, an excellent old Frenchman, did his best to entertain me by detailing to me in a drastic fashion the surrounding points of interest. Corcovado with its railroad, looking from a distance like a huge rope-walk; Petrop- olis, across the bay, and the magnificent pano- rama in the hollow: the brilliantly illuminated City of Rio.
From Rio I came to Montevideo, the capital of the Oriental Republic, at the mouth of the River Plate, on the opposite side of which, right facing, is situated the most important city of all South America, Buenos Ayres. I stopped a't Montevideo only long enough to catch a glimpse of its beautiful, clean streets, squares, fine buildings and— its lovely women. They are justly famous all through the South for their beauty, bewitching manners and un- restrained freedom, preserving withal absolute purity and modesty.
The Platense steamers that ply between Montevideo and Buenos Ayres are a thing of beauty and a joy to be remembered forever. You board them just in time for dinner, which is simply superb, enjoy a good concert and a quiet sail, go to bed in a luxuriously fitted, comfortable cabin, awake for breakfast and find yourself in another country, the richest in the South, Argentina, the silver republic.
As you leave the breakfast table and come on deck, you see before you on a gently rising slope the expanse of the city of good airs and breezes. You at once feel that you have ar- rived in the midst of fields of activity, busi- ness and progress, and you shake off, with a sigh, the indolent luxury which a fortnight's life of ease may have accustomed you to. Buenos Ayres is the centre of all the activity that pervades this immense Republic. From here start all the railroads: to the Andes, to the centre and to the east. It is the seat of the national Government, and the homestead of all the learning of the Southern Continent.
It is clean and healthy, having a climate as balmy and temperate as that of Italy. Its population is composed mainly of Italians and Spaniards, and their descendants and a sprink- ling of Germans, Americans and Englishmen.
Well, my dear R., one evening I happened to stroll down Florida street, and coming to the corner of Cuyo, I noticed a crowd of people going into a large hall, the doors of which istood invitingly open. On closer inspection 1 found it to be a Phonograph parlor. I natur- ally felt an interest on your account and walked in, and I do not regret having done so. There was quite a crowd present, and it was a study to watch the various expressions produced on their faces by the mysterious sounds and words that came from a Phonograph of tue oldest pattern. Some thought it the trick of a clever ventriloquist, others opined that it was the work of the d— 1 and devoutly crossed them- selves. Others again thought it was a decep- tion of the senses. But none attributed it to the genius of a great mechanic; nobody as- signed its origin to science.
I staid until the people had thinned some- what, and then managed to get into conversa- tion with the demonstrator, who styled himself Professor Kyj. He was a wiry little Vene- zuelan, and his one aim seemed to be to make as much money as possible, with the least possible trouble and expense. He was by no means an apostle of science, his whole stock in trade consisted of an old second-hand Phono- graph, about a dozen records, a black gladstone back, and an unlimited supply of cheek. He told me of the success he had met with up the river, at Rosario, Santa Fe, at the foot of the Andes, at San Juan del Estero, and all the other inland places of importance. I list- ened with interest, thinking all the while of you. Well, my friend, I showed my gratitude for the information he had given me by invit- ing the Professor to a small bottle, which we quaffed to the progress of the mystic Phono- graph.
This shows that there is a good field open here for phonographic and kindred business, and as I never allow my or any enthusiasm to cool down, I immediately started to turn my unexpected knowledge to good account on your behalf.
With a number of friends of mine, all people of influence, I repaired next day to the Phono- parlor, where they listened with pleasure to my explanations of the Phonograph, but when I recounted to them the advances made in this machine since, and told them about the manu- facture of records, they all saw that there was business right here. The addresses which I herewith enclose are the result of that day's work, and if you deem it worth your while to write to them full details, price lists, etc., I am sure you will do a large business in the South. The card which I have marked with blue pencil is that of a first-class business house in Buenos Ayres, having branch estab- lishments both in Rosario and Santa Fe, the chef of which is a particular friend of mine, and in every way the proper man for this work. So be wise in time, oh Phyllis mine, and see what you can do.
Hoping that you are getting on swimmingly, I remain with kind regards,
Sincerely yours,
AREVALO.
Edison
Edison has accomplished so much in the
line of invention that it is popularly believed he has made no failures in that direction; but the truth is that he has been at work for years upon several hard problems which seem to be no nearer a solution to-day than they were when he began. For the last seven years he has been trying to derive electricity directly from coal without going through the usual process of heat, steam power and dynamo. "There's enough latent electrical energy in a pound of coal to carry it across the Atlantic," he said the other day, "yet we have never been able to utilize more than a very small fraction of it. I know how to get electricity from coal direct, but I don't know yet how to get enough of it."
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THE PHONOSCOPE.
November, 1896.
The Vitascope
The Vitascope is a device, logically follow- ing upon the Kinetoscope, for exhibiting upon a large screen a series of practically continuous pictures, the result to the eye being that of a person or scene in motion. The Vitascope has been called an improved Kinetoscope. It is more than that. It is a Kinetoscope enorm- ously enlarged, showing its subject in the de- sired colors. As a matter of fact, the latter instrument was never considered seriously by its inventor (Edison), but only as a paving the way for a more perfect instrument he had in mind, and which he later perfected and ap- propriately named the Vitascope— meaning, literally, "the exhibition of life."
The machine, as it now stands, differs ma- t"i- ally from the original model of the inventor, which cost months of labor and an expen- diture of about $20,000. In the discarded model he had used a shutter, on the principle of the one employed in the Kinetoscope, but it gave blurrirg effects, which, of course, were unsatis- factory. In the later model he dispensed with a shutter, and secured the effects he desired by the use of lenses and an arc-light. The Vitascope, as finally completed and put into public operation, notably upon the vaudeville stage, consists, as to its mechanism, of a small lens, such as is used in a small camera. This b us is nearest the exhibition screen. Just be- hind it is a metal frame, about an inch and a half square, over which the picture to be re- produced passes. Behind this is a large lens, and just back of this lens is an arc light of 2.000 candle-power. The pictures reproduced have been previously photographed on Kineto- scope films, and are in size about as large as one's fingernail. The films, as prepared for scenic reproduction, are each fifty feet in length, and contain several hundred pictures tliat go to make up a panorama. In use, the film passes over a series of wheels at a very rapid rale, propelled by eleclric power, and, as the picture passes the frame, behind the small lens above mentioned, the light from the arc lamp, passing through t ho large lens and being focused upon it. throws the picture through the smaller lens upon the screen, magnified 000 limes. In this manner the miniature picture 1 a ken by the Kinetoscope is reproduced life-size,
or larger, with every minute detail of life and action on the screen.
In the operation of the machine, the problem of how to prevent the film from being melted by the focused light from the arc lamp, which is intense, has been solved by suspending a magnet before the frame over which the film passes. Close to this magnet is a small dyna- mo. When the current is turned into the Vita- scope, and its wheels carrying the film are set in motion, the magnet is drawn toward the dynamo, so that the light may strike the mov- ing lens and send its picture through the smaller lens. The film being at this time in motion, of course is not in danger of being melted. When the current is turned off, the magnet falls from the dynamo again to its former place in front of the film, resuming its protective function.
What to many is the most surprising feature of the Vitascope is that it throws, in the pict- ures exhibited, any and all colors upon the screen. But the explanation of this is quite simple. The colors are not obtained by any photographic process— the film produced by the Kinetograph is in monochrome. They are painted on the films later by hand, in such a way that the color will not rub off as the film passes over the wheels of the Vitascope. In subsequent machines it is designed to increase the size of the films to something like 500 feet, for the purpose of displaying such scenes as Niagara Falls, an ocean steamer leaving port, and other pictorial subjects.
The Cinematograph
The Cinematographe consists of a box S in. x 10 in. x 4, containing a series of reels upon which the band, about 18 yards long, of photographic films is rapidly wound behind a set of five magnifying lenses. Each quoto- graph is not larger than a postage stamp, and a powerful light reflects them on a white screen in such rapid succession as to repro- duce all the infinite and varied movements of nature. The film is made of celluloid and gela- tine and so thin that it easily rolls up into a box about I! inches in diameter. The lenses magnify the tiny pictures so as to cover a space on the stage 14 ft. x 18 ft. The pictures themselves are taken at t lie rate of about 45 in a second, so that no movemeut however rapid can escape them.
The Biograph
The most recent of the inventions for project- ing moving pictures is the Biograph, which is now on exhibition at Hammerstein's Music Hall. It is the invention of Herman Casler, of Cana- stota, N. Y.
The Biograph made its debut at Olympia. under splendid auspices, a special interest be- ing given to its performance by the semi-poli- tical character of the views and scenes repre- sented. The house was crowded and cheered to the echo each appearance "on the sere u" of the Ohio "Petit Gaporal."
The Eidoloscope
MOBILE, ALA— Thirty years ago the man who dreamed of talking over 500 miles of wire would have been laughed at. Still, to-day, the Telephone is in universal use throughout the civilized world. The same wonderful inventive gift that prompted Edison to give to the world the Telephone, has made itself manifest in "The Eiuoloscope." This instrument is to the eye what the Telephone is to the ear.
It annihilates space, it places before the eye incidents that transpired at a distance of ih.»u- sands of miles. It perpetuates action, it over- comes death; its resources are so unspeakably wonderful that mere words fail to give any com- prehensive idea of its really magic power.
The principle involved in the operation of the Eidoloscope is simple, but the actual operation and construction are complicated and intricate, the details of which are kept a profound secret. A sensitive film is fed from a spool to pass be- fore the exposed lens by means of an electric motor, at a uniform but amazing speed. Thus the entire incident of the scene to be photo- graphed is transmitted to the film and indelibly fixed on it by the usual process of development.
The spool is now placed in front of the Eidolo- scope, and unwound in the same rapid fashion in front of a strong light which throws it, en- larged to life size, upon a large screen, reproduc- ing the incident exactly as it occurred.
As the camera can easily take 2,000 impres- sions pel- minute, the photographs, displayed before the vision with such rapidity, form an ever moving living picture. In the bull fight, shown in Rosabel Morrison's production of "Carmen," the possibilities of the Eidoloseop.- are well exploited. Clouds of dust kicked up by the bull hiding him from sight, and then rolling slowly away, make it hard to believe that the actual arena is not a tangible reality.
The Phantoscope
CHICAGO, ILL.— At the Imperial Theatre, the Phantoscope has proved itself a drawing card. The pictures are all French views and include military scenes, and pictures of French street and country life. There is a very large selection, and the films are said to be amongst the most perfect made.
Among some recently invented instruments brought to the notice of Chieagoaus, a couple of marvelous ones are those which register the changes in a person's emotions. They are; "The Kymographion" and "the Plethysmo- graph" of Mosso. The former measures the effect of mental and emotional states upon the chest, and the latter upon the circulation of the arterial blood.
The Thealrograph
ST. PAUL.— In St. Paul an ingenious device, the Theatrograph. has recently been exhibited at the Grand by an Englishman. The Theatro- graph is to all intents and purposes a powerful storeopticou provided with a series of wheels, over which is passed a spool of films or pict- ures, taken of the same scene at innuite'y shoit intervals. By this means a continuous action is projected on the screen, whereon the scene appears as real and animated as life. The Theatrograph. in short, is an English adapta- tion, more or less perfect, of an American in- vention, the Vitascope.
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In all exhibitions, the neater and the more attractive the show, the greater is also the financial success. This is especially the case in exhibitions of 'Scopes and 'Phones, where it is desired to attract all classes of society, even the most fastidious. The above cut rep-
resents an exhibition parlor which it would be well to study in order to use it as a model, wherever practicable. Tasty yet simple deco- rations act as frames to the various appa- ratuses, a bust of the great wizard occupies a central position, and everything is arranged so systematically and withal so artistically that all is seen at the greatest advantage. No- body would ever hesitate to enter such a par- lor: it invites and attracts all.
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Bicycle Locking Device
One of the latest coin-in-the-slot inventions which appears to be practical is a nickel in-the- slot bicycle locking device conceived by a Providence man. The apparatus is a black enamelled box, about three by four inches. At- tached to one side is a small strong chain. The box can be fastened to a post, fence or wall. A rider wheels up, runs the chain through the wheel, fastens the loose end to a bolt, shoves the bolt back and it snaps sharply; then a key is turned and the only way the bicycle can be stolen is to take an axe and smash the entire outfit. When the owner wants to release his wheel, he has but to drop a nickle in the slot, take the key of the lock from his pocket and unturn the bolt. The lock cannot be picked, it is claimed.
(We have not been able to ascertain the real inventor of this device, as different papers from different sections of the country attribute it to different people. Ed.)
The Automatic Banjo
The automatic Banjo is one of the latest and most ingenious mechanical musical in- struments, as it does all that human lingers can do to produce tuneful melody. It is pro- vided with four metallic strings and forty stops placed closely together over the strings, and it is incased in glass, standing upright in full view. At the bridge are four prongs or picks which project from either side.
The instrument is operated by dropping a nickel in the slot, whereby an electric motor in the base of the machine is started, which pro- pels a series of bellows, forcing the air through a cylinder, over which passes a roll of perfo- rated sheet music. There are a number of pneumatic tubes which lead to each pick or fret; the perforated notes coming in contact with these tubes allow the air to escape, where- upon each pick or fret acts accordingly. Thus the most difficult music can be played auto- matically with the same effect, both in time and harmony, as if performed by a professional baujoist, and what is more any stringed instiu ment that is played with the. fingers can be adjusted to this automaton.
The Automatic Gas Meter
The penny-in-the-slot gas meters have not yet reachced New York, but they have found their way into every large city in England. The re- ports of meetings of gas companies and of cor- porations owning gas works that are published there from day to day show that the demand for them continues almost unabated. During the past year alone one London gas company has sent out more than 30,000 of these meters. A few months ago the demand was so very great, and the meter makers so little able to meet it, that the company had to discontinue supplies for a while. Now the demand is as great as ever. Another London com- pany— the South Metropolitan — has sent out during the past four years not less than 50,000 of this class of meter.
In Manchester the penny-in-the-slot meters are being sent out at the rate of from S00 to 1,000 a month, and in Liverpool, Birmingham and other northern cities the demand is equally great.
These machines, which are really a boon to small householders, and a corresponding trial to small dealers in wood and coal and burning oil. are now being made proof against human guile. The gas companies through long experi- ence have become wary, indeed. In the new meters French pennies will no longer work the oracle. The penny which used to be attached to a string and withdrawn when value had been received is now irrecoverable, for the string is cut by a concealed blade. The sticky penny, which used to keep the gas "on," can- not effect a fraudulent lodgment either, and among the English slot patrons now there is nothing for it but dull, prosaic rectitude until their ingenuity can devise some fresh device for "beating the machine."
IRecent Inventions
The Duplex Speaker
The Ediion -Phonograph Works are cow mak- ing a new Speaker, which, when used in the regular way, prevents outside listeners from hearing the reproduction, as the diaphragm or glass set in its upper part is encased so as to retain the sound — vibrations from the lower face of the glass within the enclosure. It has two outlets for sound, one from above and one from below the diaphragm. Enclosing the glass gives to the speaker another advantage by enabling it to utilize the vibrations from the lower side of the diaphragm which now are lost. Thus the tone is considerably strengthened, and the carrying power of the Speaker is increased when both outlets are used either with two horns or in connection with the multiple rails. By using but one out- let no increase of tone or power takes place, which, however, is very pronounced when both are used, making a reproduction most effective even at a distance.
The Muliplex Phonograph
The Multiplex Phonograph— illustrated above —is the standard Edison machine with the Multiplex attachment. This attachment con- sists of a frame containing five mandrels,
which can be attached to the standard Edison machine. A lecord can be put on each mandiel, and any one reproduced at will by simply bringing it into place, which is done by means of a compound reacting ratchet lever, the knob of which is exposed in the front part of the machine. It is especially adapted to slot ma- chines, as anyone patronizing such a Phone with this attachment on can have their choice of five selections. It is also very valuable for commercial purposes, as five cylinders may be dictated to at one sitting, without changing cylinders.
"Screen" Sqnibs
The Little Rock, Ark., "Democrat" gives a very interesting account of the success of Edi- son's Vitascope at the Capital Theatre. The exhibition was accompanied by phonograph recitations of songs and instrumental pieces. There was one concensus of opinion: Marvelous!
Alexander Promio, of Paris, has taken differ ent views of Chicago with the cinematograph. Amongst other very interesting scenes of life in the Windy City, he took several views show- ing firemen and policemen in action. They are to be exhibited in the old world, where they will certainly prove very interesting.
The Bostonians are always in the lead. H. A. Hill, of the Grand Opera House, brought the latest screen picture projector from Europe: the Animatographe, and delights large audi- ences with life like views and scenes from London, Brighton and Calais. The Anima- tographe is sure to prove a great card.
The pictures of the Kineopticon move and act true to life, they actually seem to breathe. These Kineopticon actors skurry along the streets, dodging bicycles and carriages, smil- ing and laughing, scowding and frowning, until the spectator would almost believe that he was looking out of a window on a dull gray day, watching the procession of real life go by.
The instantaneous success of Edison's Vita- scope at Proctor's Pleasure Palace shows how keenly the public is interested in the fascinat- ing pictures of real life, endowed with move- ment. No subject is allowed to grow stale and every view is new, except that which shows Edison's portrait developing under the rapid crayon of Blackton, the cartoonist, who turns and bows to the audience at the finish. .
These wonderful photographs in action are an ever growing sensation. Mr. Edison himself is manifesting unusual interest in the Vitascope.
THE PHONOSCOPE.
November, 1896.
Mr. Leonard Spencer
The subject of the above illustration, Mr. Leonard Spencer, better known among his friends as "Len," was born in Washington. D. C, January 12, 1S67. His father was the famous Henry C. Spencer, of the Spencerian Business College of Washington, and joint author of the Spencerian system of penman ship. From his eighteenth to his twenty-first year Mr. Spencer taught in his father's college. He then accepted an offer of the Columbia Phonograph Company, of Washington, D. C, to sing to their Phonographs. This is a fine art, and few make a success of it, but Mr. Spencer's remarkable powei-s gave a big im- petus to the business of the company. First one company, then another outdid each other for his services. Finally he was secured, at a fat salary, by the U. S. Phonograph Company, with whom he has now been for more than 6 years.
Mr. Spencer has an original way of singing the best negro songs that makes his records of splendid merit in that line. His sympathetic, well-cultivated voice also enables him to render familiar ballads with great sentiment and feel- ing. The gifts of comedian and vocalist he combines in an unusual degree. He is the originator of the darky shout in Phonograph work. His efforts are always original and his resources seemingly without limit. He has a repertoire of fully COO songs, of which more than 300 are being catalogued at the present time, and the total records he has made ex- ceeds 62,000.
Some of his great hits are: "Nigger and the Bee," "Little Liza Loves You," "Little Ala- bama Coon," etc. "The New Bully" he has sung ten times a week for 6 months with great success. May Irwin having complimented him especially on his rendering of this song.. Mr. Spencer is one of the few successful imitators of Chevalier's coster-songs, where he seems not only to have caught the spirit of the original singer, but also to have entirely donned the character of the East end Cockney.
In the descriptive selections played by Issler's Orchestra. Mr. Spencer manipulates the Casta- gnettes, Clogs, Tamborines, etc., making also the necessary announcements and the remarks that cause so much laughter by those who have listened to these popular selections. Gifted with a powerful voice he utilizes it to great advantage in announcing for band and other records where a number of machines are used, necessitating great vocal power to fill the horns of the several machines which are running at the same time.
He has lately formed a co-partnership with the popular artist, Mr. John 1'. Hogan, for the production of a sketch called: "Our Sunny Southern I Ionic," a true character deline- ation n|' the Southern Negro, with all his wit. humor and pathos. This sketch has been produced at a number of the leading theatres in and around New York, meeting with the ap- proval of critical audiences.
Mr. Spencer is a universal favorite as is shown by the many songs that have been def- eated to him by such popular composers as Monroe H. Boeenfejd, Addison Kent, Will Carl- ton and others.
©ur Gorresponbents
FRESNO, CAL.— California is noted for having more Phonographs than any other Western State. At the present time, many Phonographs are lying idle, the owners of them not being able to make their support exhibit- ing, and not even taking enough interest in them to keep them in running condition for their own enjoyment and that of their friends and families. The Phonograph business in San Francisco is very good, but in the smaller towns where a Phonograph is exhibited, and where a person is asked to hear it, he invari- ably says: Oh, I heard that in "Frisco" (they seem to think they are better in the larger cities); this is due to so many "green hands" trying to travel with a Phonograph, and not knowing how to take care of their machines, and because they have poor records. Dupli- cate records have hurt the Phonograph busi- ness in this section of the country a great deal. There are a large number of official court re- porters in California who use the Phonograph in their business with marked success. It has been my experience that "Comic Songs," such as "Casey's," take the best. I have had a great amount of trouble in getting good rec- ords, the later ones not being nearly so good as those made three and four years ago. It would be a great help to me to find some company which I could depend upon to buy first-class "Original Records" from. It is my belief, that if the companies still continue to make "Duplicate Records," the Phonograph will not advance very much in California. It is not the quantity and cheapness we want, but the quality; give me one good original rec- ord in preference to two dozen duplicates.
The material used in making the blanks (white ones) does not give good satisfaction, they are too soft and will wear out much faster than those used two or three years ago. All the companies here of late have sent me duplicate records, when I invariably state to them in my order that I do not want them, still they send them and think I will not know the difference (I mean by this, all whom I have been dealing with, of course I cannot say all the companies use duplicates, as I do not deal with all,). Attractions, such as Dime Shows and Operas, are so numerous in California, that it injures the Phonograph business.
Machines are not used in California in pri- vate residences, and there is seldom, if ever, a private concert given with a Phonograph. (Fresno is located exactly in the centre of Cali- fornia, in the great San Joaquin Valley.)
LEONARD.
LAFAYETTE, INDIANA. — Less than five years ago the various sound machines were practically unknown in this part of "Hoosier- dom." Not so to-day. The people of La Fayette — the second richest city, per capita, in the United States— take a lively interest in Phonographs, picture projecting machines, and up-to-date musical inventions. In exhibiting — as in every other enterprise — the man or wo- man wishing to succeed, must not be a cheap peddler of cheap "Phones," etc., but a person proud of the business; one who is willing to give the best to the best.
I am thoroughly interested in sound produc- ing machines, and have awakened a deep in- terest in every contrivance calculated, when rightly handled to please. The establishment of "Musical Parlors" in cities is to be an enter- prise of the period. I will look for the "Pho- noscope," as such a paper will be of great in- terest, and will undoubtedly fill a place in journalisln now unoccupied.
CLARK.
BANGOR, ME.— The Phonograph Exhibition business in this location has been very fair this tall, especially with those who are carrying a good quality record; cheap records are criti- cized keenly. Most of the exhibitors find it to their advantage to buy the best only. Spring Motor talking machines are being put into resi- dences to quite an extent, and that trade de- mauds only the best of records, 1 find the class of records made by Mr. Myers are very much sought after by people who have machines in their homes, although the Gaskin and Quiuu
records meet with popular favor here. I find that there are more Issler orchestra records sold than any other instrumental records in that line. The "Casey" records are now, and always have been, in good demand here; their execu- tion and original idea of fun and humor insures their permanent popularity by all users of the 'Phone.
Kinetoscopes do not seem to do a very thriv- ing business in Maine. The Yitascope and sev- eral other scopes are making tom-s of this State; crowds are attending these wonderful exhibi- tions.
Illustrated songs by stereopticon are making quite a hit East; some of the illustrations are very clever, and produce great amusement in a decidedly interesting manner. The X-Ray out- fits have been exhibited here and are being practically used by several physicians and den- tists with good results. Illusion X-Ray exhibit- ors stood around the fair grounds in all parts of Maine this fall and sighed for the dollar that never came. GREENACRE.
Memphis, Teun., Oct. 24, 1&9G.
'i he Editor of "The Phonoscope," N. Y. City.
Dear Sir.— I am real glad you are to put forth such a journal, as we need one that is not merely an advertising medium for some par- ticular firm. I shall be glad to give you a few thoughts from time to time on matters that may happen to come under my notice in the course of business.
There is one thing we should look to imme- diately, and that is the tax or license nuisance here in this city. We are classed with gam- bling and skin game machines, and the tax al- most amounts to prohibition. I think Congress or the U. S. Supreme Court should interfere in behalf of right and justice.
BROOKS.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.— The Slot Machine business is splendid here on the Coast. Pho- nographs, Kinetoscopes, Card Machines and all kinds of vending machines are licensed at $1 per month, payable quarterly in advance.
There is a large number of traveling ex- hibitors on this coast, and they all seem to do well, and to them, I feel sure, the Phonoscope will prove a great boon.
The Chicago Recording Scale is a great taker here. BACIGALUPI.
MILWAUKEE. WIS.— Mr. J. B. Shaw, busi- ness manager of the American Travesty Com- pany, during his visit here last month enter- tained a number of his friends with a Gramo- phone, which he carries with him on the road. This little machine is a gem. and is a great novelty. The records that are used with it are discs about the size of breakfast plates and are made of rubber. The selections are r produced through a horn, and are audible to all in the room. Mr. Shaw is very much interested in the machine and has a number of interesting records by popular artists.
ROCKLAND. ME. — Edison's wonderful Vita- scope, as seen he:e at the Farwell Opera House, has eclipsed all expectations. What the Phono- graph is to the ear, the Yitascope is to the eye. The camera records the view, the Phonograph bottles up the sound, and the Yitascope pre- serves the action for future use. Surely, sci- ence is progressing wonderfully— what next?
PORTLAND. ORE. — The Camera Club re- cently gave an entertainment here in aid of the woman's auxiliary. The chief attraction was a Stereopticon exposition of a picked co'- leetion of views of California scenery, which were projected on a 24-foot screen, by a power- ful calcium light, every detail of the pictures showed clearly and distinctly. Several moon- light effects were especially good, and their ap- pearance upon the screen was almost too brief to suit Ihe spectators. The announcement of each subject was made by Mr. T. E. Shields, who kept the audience in laughter and good humor by his flow of remarks and sallies, espe- cially those touching on the political parties.
Vol. I. No. i.
THE PHONOSCOPE.
15
ftevvs anb Interviews
We have had an interesting visit from Mr. Vifquin, of the "Coinpagnie Americaine du Pho- nographe Edison," of Paris. He gave us some very useful information respecting the Phono- graph business in France, which we take pleas- ure in communicating to our readers in Mr. Vif- qnin's own words.
After the customary exchange of courtesies Mr. Vifquin continued: "Yes, the best season for our business is summer time, when all the
> resorts are crowded with a crowd of people of leisure, who are only too glad to patronize such in attractive novelty as the Phonograph. Ex- hibitors all through the country are well aware
' of that, and they keep us busy supplying them with cylinders. The stock of an exhibitor gen- erally comprises a 14-way tube Phonograph and about 75 cylinders, of which about 5 are instru- mental pieces and the rest vocal records. There seems to be a feeling among exhibitors that there is a falling off in the quality of the rec- ords, but whether this is due to the bad taste of the public or to careless manufacture, I do not
j like to say.
"It is certain that people prefer horns to tubes, and it is my devout wish that something may soon be done to put into the hands of exhibitors a horn that will answer every requirement. Tubes, at best, are unpleasant, and in some countries, Austria, for instance, they are posi- tively forbidden by the authorities.
"The fairs and festivals so prevalent on the continent of the old world during summer are
• another source of lucrative business to exhibit- ors, who, in spite of three comparatively heavy taxes, yet manage to reap a golden harvest of coin. In France exhibitors are subject to three
I distinct taxes: (1) A tax of $50 a year, which is
; called 'Droit d' Auteurs,' then (2) $1 a year, the 'Droit des Pauvres,' and, lastly, the regular lo- cal license, which varies according to place and plant.
"As to private business, I may say it is im- proving, but would do so still more if we could supply a cheaper and still simpler machine. People dread the original heavy outlay. Once i this is overcome, we shall have a flourishing trade in supplying records, and all the other re- quirements connected with Phonographs. I am sure that if Talking Machines were manufact- ured on the same scale as Sewing Machines and sold in the same manner, records would soon become a staple article of commerce as much as reels of cotton are to-day."
(* We take much pleasure in informing Mr. Vifquin that both the Phonograph and Grapho- phone companies have, at last, put a simple practical machine on the market, that can be purchased for a reasonable figure, from $25 to $40. See articles on Phonograph and Grapho- phone, this issue.— Ed.)
IRew Corporations
The Cinographoscope Company, of New York City, capital $10,000, was incorporated < October 21st. Directors:— Charles H. Webster, Charles G. S. Baker and William G. McGrath, of New York City.
The Electro-Chemical Storage Battery Com- pany, Belleville, N, J., has been incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000. Those inter- ested are Sigmund H. Rosenblatt, K. N. Cham- berlain and A. S. Hubbard.
The United States Animatoscope Company has been incorporated by William L. Wright, Benjamin A. Badger, Gustav Walter, Charles 1 L. Ackerman and J. E. Brien. Its capital 1 stock is $25,000, of which $125 has been sub- scribed. Its purpose is to deal in machines for reproducing photographic films in an en- larged form on canvass.
The National Graphophone Company, of Yonkers, New York, has been incorporated. Capital, $50,000. Directors, Frank Seaman, of \onkers, Henry Boutz and William B. Owen, of New York.
There Is an optical Illusion In our title "Phono- scope" on the cover. Can any of our readers point It out?
practical XHses of tbe x=1Ra£S
The "Herald," of Los Angeles, Cal., has es- tablished a free clinic in order that the poor and indigent may profit by the wonderful new light, known as the X-rays. It is not our in- tention to dilate on the nature of this light in detail, we will rather restrict ourselves to the practical uses to which it is being put, and to do so more easily we shall ask our l-eaders to observe with us one day's work at the "Herald" clinic.
A patient enters but gives no information as to his ailment. Dr. Yoakum exposes him to the X-rays and a bullet is found embedded in his thigh. In addition a number of cases of bone fracture, necrosis of bones, stiff joints at knee, wrist and hand are properly diagnosed and explained by the aid of this invisible light. One man had a bullet in his knee, another a broken ankle, a woman "something the matter with her thumb," which turned out to be a needle plainly visible; another's ribs, breast- bone, heart, etc., could be plainly discerned.
C. Galvin suomitted an arm and hand woe- fully injured years ago in collision with a shot- gun. The X-rays located several of the small shot left in the arm.
Miss Bedient, of Pico Heights, ran a needle in her left foot, which the X-ray located, and Dr. Stewai-t operated upon the member and re-submitted the patient to the X-rays. A small point of needle was found still lodged in the bone, but its removal determined against, be- cause of possible danger to the ligaments of the metatarsal junction.
The X-rays are also going to be used in the detection of the adulteration of food-stuffs, which is rendered possible by the varying de- grees of transparency possessed by the different substances composing them.
The following are some of the cases exam- ined under the X-Rays at Los Angeles, Cal., and subsequently cured:
Case No. 43— An adult ma'e; physician— Com- plaint, pain in joints of hands. Showed enlarge- ments in joints of hand caused by rheumatism.
No. 47— Boy— Complained of pain in upper fore arm; contusion of humerus visible.
No. 57— Adult woman— Complained of pain in lower arm and eccentricity of motion in it; could turn outstretched arm with palm down- wards, but could not turn the palm upwards; examination showed un-united fracture of the radius (larger bone of lower arm); when trial was made to turn the palm upwards the overlap- ping ends of the broken bone for a space of about an inch were plainly visible to all pres- ent.
No. 03— An adult male— Complaint, pain in knee; thought there was a nail in it. Examin- ation detected no nail but showed considerable enlargement of tibia (shin bone) due to chronic inflammatory condition of bones. An old frac- ture of the tibia was also visiDle in this case.
No. 71— Adult woman, complained of enlarged knee point and stiffening. Inflammatory depos- its shown on examination.
No. 66— A girl with stiff ankle joint, shown by examination to be due to inflammatory con- dition of all bones at the ankle.
No. 78— An adult male; six birdshot in fore- head, lodged there twenty years ago. Location clearly shown.
No. 72— An adult woman; showed abnormal development of metacarpals, caused by rheuma- tism.
No. 83— An adult male; complained of pain in the ankle. Examination showed unnatural enlargement of lower ends of lower leg bones at ankle.
The apparatus is now working so steadily and efficiently that its engagements for the future are daily becoming more reliable.
All through the United States the X-rays are now used for the location of foreign bodies, such as bullets, splinters, etc., in the flesh or bones.
^Dangers of tbe * % % x=1Ra£S
It seems to have been satisfactorily proved by eminent physicians and scientists that fre- quent exposure to the action of the X-rays leads to a decomposition of the tissues which generally manifests itself as dermatitis or alopecia, skin diseases, baldness, and affection of the eyes. Tesla asserts with great positive- ness that the X-rays do produce physiological effects in the human features — in the skin and eyes. He states that they have affected him and that they produce a feeling of weariness and lassitude.
Other cases tell of loss of fingernails in hands that have been radiographed, and of hair turn- ing white or coming out entirely after the head has been exposed to the influence of the rays.
Mr. Geo. L. Newcomb, an electrical expert of Salem, Mass., has had a very sad experience with Crooke's tubes. After a short operation with them he felt a pain in his hands which soon became unbearable, the skin peeling off in strips. His symptoms are identical with those of a Mrs. Gill, of New York, from simi- lar causes. Yet Mr. Newcomb maintains that the short exposure required for locating a bullet, etc., can in no way affect the patient.
Interesting litems
Prior to his departure for Europe Cardinal Satolli, former Papal Delegate to the U. S. A., paid a visit to the Wizard at Orange. Mr. and Mrs. Edison showed the Roman dignitary all about the place and gave him an opportunity to see the X-rays, the Phonograph, and the Vitascope at work. The Cardinal remained With the inventor for nearly two hours.
The Wizard, while conducting the exhibition, watched with amusement the changing expres- sions of wonder and amazement on the face of his visitor. By means of the X-rays he showed him the bones in his hand, a coin through the covers of a pocketbook, penetrated 2,000 pages of a book, and performed a number of other experiments. He did about everything but photograph the thoughts of the party, and he promised to do that some other time.
In the Phonograph laboratory the Cardinal was entertained by several high class selec- tions, and the visit ended with a Vitascopic display.
That the Telephone should make a good teacher for Deaf and Dumb people is certainly startling, yet such is the case. At the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Margate, England, the Tele- phone is already being used in teaching children who possess even the tiniest fragment of hear- ing. Several receivers are coupled up to one transmitter, so that the teacher can instruct a group of children at the same time, without in any way hiding his facial expression and lip movements, as is the case when he has to direct his attention and his voice into the mouth of speaking tube or trumpet.
A new lamp which has just been invented by an Italian will, if all that is said of it be true, bring joy to the heart of the housewife. The lamp, which is declared to be no heavier than one of the ordinary kind, generates its own gas. The cost, however, is only one-fifth that of ordinary gas, while the illumination is as bright as that of an electric lamp and much whiter. A single lamp floods a large room with light, and as, in addition, it is clean and odorless, one cannot wonder that both the electric light and the gas companies dread its rivalry. But un- fortunately the' promises of inventors are not always carried out to the letter.
There are more than 45,000 Talking Machines in the United States alone. Supposing every one of these machines to be supplied with 10 records, this would mean a total of about half a million cylinders, which put together would form a tube nearly 4 miles long.
THE PHONOSCOPE.
November, 1896.
IRew films
. . . for . . .
"Screen" Machines
PIER AND WAVES, taken at Coney Island during the great storm of Oct. 6th, 1896. A tremendous hit
WAVES AT FAR ROCKAWAY, same as above.
MONDAY MORNING WASH DA ST SCENE.
Showing washing and hanging of clothes.
True to life and very popular. OLD-FASHIONED SPINNING WHEEL
SCENE. This is an unusual clear and bright
film. Shows fine smoke effects, turning of
wheel, and Newfoundland house dog. LOVE SCENE. Showing lovers, entrance of
mother, exit of lover on bicycle. A decided
hit.
FARM SCENE. Feeding of hens and ducks. Unusually fine effects.
BACKYARD PARTY. Showing party of col- ored pickinninies eating watermelon for a prize. This is a most popular film.
THE STEAMER ROSEDALE. Showing the ill-fated steamer, which, while loaded with passengers, was recently sunk in New York Hi i-bor in collision with the ferry boat Oregon.
PAT AND THE POPULIST. Showing the
Populist endeavoring to convert Pat to his
own political views. IRISH POLITICAL DISCUSSION. Showing
two Irishmen discussing politics over a glass
of whiskey.
FIRING OF CANNON AT PEEKSKILL BY THE BATTERY OF ARTILLERY. This film shows very fine smoke effects upon the dis- charge of the gun.
LI HUNG CHANG. Shows Li Hung Chang entering his carriage at the door of the Waldorf Hotel, with a file of the Sixth U. S. Cavalry, with drawn sabres, standing nearby.
SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK. This view is taken in Mott street, New York City, and shows a busy throng of people.
THE N. Y. "WORLD" SICK BABY FUND. Showing the children of the poor people en- joying themselves in swings and on hobby- horses.
THE HAYMAKERS. Showing the cutting of grass with a scythe and sickle in a manner true to life.
BLACKTON SKETCHES. The New York "World's" caricature artist, drawing sketches on a screen.
No. 1 represents him as drawing a large picture of Mr. Thomas A. Edison.
No. 2 showing the artist drawing pictures of McKinley and President Cleveland.
No. 3 Is a humorous selection, showing the artist drawing a life-size picture of a female figure, in which the expressions of the coun- tenance are rapidly changed.
THE FISHERMAN'S RETURN. This shows the surf breaking upon the shore, and in the distance, two fishermen in a boat, re- turning from a day's fishing.
THE CARPENTER SHOP. Showing three carpenters busily engaged at the work bench.
THE OLD GERMAN MILL, in which one of the millers thrusts a woman into the hopper of the mill and she soon emerges from be- neath it, having apparently been run through the machinery.
CAMEL PARADE. Showing young ladies and children riding on camels.
GERMAN CHILDREN. Showing a procession of children and adults, with a German band.
THE SAILING OF THE AMERICAN TRANS- ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP, ST. LOUIS, FOR SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND. Showing ono of the fastest transatlantic steamers afloat, sailing down the river, as she starts on her long voyage.
THE FOREGOING FILMS ARE MANU- FACTURED AND SOLI) BY THE INTER- NATIONAL FILM COMPANY, 150 WORTH STREET, NEW YORK.
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THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF THE VERY LATEST POPULAR SONGS PUBLISHED BY THE LEADING MUSIC PUBLISHERS OF THE UNITED STATES- .jt .j* j* jt jt j* jt
descriptive Songs
anb Ballabs.
Title. Publisher. Author.
An Revoir. Sweetheart. 6 Trevalyn
A Picture of My Best Girl. 3 Moreland
A Dream of My Boyhood Days. 3 Dresser
Bright Happy Days. 6 Walker
Dreams of My Own Land. 6 Dean
Don't Tell Her That You Lore Her. 3.... Dresser Don't Forget. My Boy. you're leaving home.6.Wheeler Don't give Up the Old Love for the New. 6.. Thornton
Down in Tomale Town. 4 A mauds
First Love, Dearest Love. 6 Penn.
Going for a Pardon. 6 Thornton
His Last Thoughts Were of You. 6.. Marks ft Stern
In the Baggage Coach Ahead. 3 Davis
I'll Be Home To-morrow Night. 6 Howard
In the Language of the Flowers. 1 Coburn
I Love You, Dear. 6 Stromberg
Just Another Girl Who Left a Happy Home. 4.Petrie
Johnnie. 4 G. Evans
Kiss Me Good-night, Mother. 1 Moran
Kathleen. 6 Mora
Love Makes the World go Bound.
5 Smith & Englander
Love. I Adore You. 5 Cooper & Osborne
Love's Souvenir. 6 Feist
Let me Call You mv Sweetheart Again.
6 Thornton
My Dad's Old Violin. 1 Golden
My Gert. 1 Golden & Outcault
Mother Was a Lady. 6 Marks & Stern
Xo one Ever Loved You More Than I.
6 Marks & Stern
On Sunday. 3 Flynn
Polly. 1 Blandford & Chase
Pebbles on the Beach. 1 Mann & Starr
Serenade. 5 Smith
Summer Girl of Brighton Beach. 1 Rogers
She's a Stranger to Him Now. 1 Campbell
Streets of a City Grand. 1 Gillespie
Sunday Night In Lover's Lane. l....Ford & Bratton
She's been a Mother to me. 1 Ford & Bratton
She Might Flirt With Others, Still She
Loves but me. 4 Marion
Those Lost Happy Days. 6 Feist
Two Heads are Better Than one.
5 Goodwin & Morse
They All Love Maggie Grady. 3 Slafer
The Teacher and the Boy. 6 Marks & Stern
Tell Her That we Love Her Jnst the Same.
4 Petrie
The Belle of Hogan's Alley Bernard & Blake
The Sweetheart I Left at Home. 6 Braisted
The Desert Way. 1 Braisted
Whisper Your Mother's Name. 6. . .Braisted & Carter
When it is Love at First Sight. 1 Mock
When the Girl you Love Is Many Miles
Away. 6 Cohan & Koepen
Wont' Somebody Give me a Kiss? 4 Smith
You're so Good, Daddy. 1 Starr
You'll be Sorry When I'm Gone. 3 ..Rosenfeld
You, Only You. 4 Keene
Malt3 Songs.
Grace O'More. 6 Witt
I Will be Your Sweetheart. 2 Cohan
I Love my Girl. 6 Rosev & Reed
My YonDg Man. 6 Stromberg
On the Benches in the Park. 6 Thornton
She's the Sweetest Little Girl in Town.
6 Trevelyan
She's the Comfort of Their Home. 6 Rogers
Sweet Rosie O'Grady. 6 Nugent
Comic Songs.
As They Did in Days of Yore. 1. .. .House & Seevers
And Then he Woke up. 2 Johnson
Appearances Were Against Her. 6 Stromberg
Bold Pierre. 5 Smith & Englander
Cod Fish Ball. 1 J. & H. Dillon
Come Play With me. 5 Hawtrey & Plumpton
Down to Coney Isle. 1 Gilmore & Leonard
Finigan's Fancy Ball. 3 Gilmore & Leonard
Games we Used to Play. 6 Marks & Stern
Handicap Vocal. 6 D. Reed, jr.
Honeymoon Vocal. 6 D. Reed, jr.
Hugh McCue. 2 Cohan
I am so Different From the Rest. 4. .. .H. W. Petrie
I'll Tell my Big Brother on You. 1 Edgar Selden
If I Were Really a King. 5 Smith & Englander
Johnnie Took the one I Wanted. 1 J. & H. Dillon
Isabelle (a Girl who is one of the Bovs).
1 Ford & Bratton
Mary Black From Hackensack. 2.. ..Lew l>o -k^'mler
Moonlight on the River. 1 Golden ft Dolen
Oriental Echoes Vocal. 6 Reed
Oh! Aunt Jane. 4 Petrie
Oothcey Koochey. 5 Goodwin & Morse
Parlor Sofa Politics. 6 McLaughlin
Pebbles on the Beach. 6 Starr & Mann
Rootie Tootie. 2 Golden
Singing in a Trolley Car. 1 Fuchsius
The Real Thing, March Song. 4 Petrie
The Day the Farmer Came to See the Town.
4 Keen
That's What— By Gosh. 4 Parker
There are Things That Cannot be Explained.
1 Horwitz & Bowers
When it's a Boy. 4 Goodwin & Morse
You're all Right, But You Won't Do.
3 Goodwin & Morse
Coon Songs.
Ain't I Your Honeyboy no More? 3 Davis
Black Four Hundred Ball. 3 Johnson & Cole
Dere's a Bully Gone to Rest. 3. .Dryden & Mitchell De Bully's Weddin' Night. 7. .Carleton & Cavanagh
Dead Swell Colored Lady. 3 Burke
Dancing With the Girl You Love. 2. . . .Schackford Eighth Battalion on Parade. 1.. Williams ft Hogan I'm Lonely Since my Baby's Gone. 4. . . .Emmersou I'se Your Nigger if You Wants me, Liza Jane.
3 Dresser
Looking for a Bully. 6 Howard
Louiser. 1 Francis
My Gal is a High Born Lady. 1 Fagan
Raccoon and the Bee. 1 Abeles
That'll be all Right, Baby. 2 Cook
When Miss Maria Johnson Marries me. 2
Williams ft Walker Yer Baby's a Comin' to Town. 1 Kelly
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fUMscellaneous.
All Over Town
Booze, Glorious Booze. 2 Deane
Boys, She's a Dream Dillon & Levi
By a Brook Sat a Lady. 6 D. Reed, jr.
Caprice, a great character song. 6 Marks
I'm Saving up to Buy a Home for Mother.
2 Cohan
Like a Good Little Girl Should do. .Ford ft Bratton
Modern Century Girl. 6 Packford
Old Jim's Christmas Hymn. 2 Gray
Send me a Picture of the Old Home. 1 Arnold
Would You Ask. 5 Smith
When the Light is Turned Away Down Low.
2 Spauldlng
NOTE.— The publishers are designated as follows : 1. Whitmark & Sons: 2. Spaulding & Gray ; 3. Howley, Haviliuid ft Co. ; 4. Petrie Music Company: 5. T. B. Harms & Company: 8. Jos. W, Stern A Company; 7. Carelton & CavanaUffh. We have received lists of numerous other new songs, too late for classification in this issue.
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New Records for Talking Machines.
THE FOLLOWING LIST OF NEW RECORDS HAS BEEN COMPILED FROM LISTS SENT US BY THE LEADING TALKING MACHINE COMPANIES OF THE UNITED STATES, J* J* & j* J* J* & jt
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Title. Talent. Sold by.
A Hot Time in the Old Town. Gaskin W. & L.
All Over Town. Quinn Ch.
Arrah Go On. Hunting H.
All for the Love of a Girl. Myers M.
And Then He Woke Up. Hunting H.
A Dream of My Boyhood Days. Myers M.
As They Did in Days of Yore. Quinn Ch.
All Coons Look Alike to Me. Myers M.
Au Revoir, Sweetheart. Myers M.
Amorous Goldfish. Quinn U.S.
All'erta Sentinella (in Italian). Stoppa U.S.
A Riterata d'e Marenare (in Italian). Stoppa. .. .U.S.
Ain't I Yer Honey Boy Xo More. Myers M.
Baby Lou. Gaskin W. & L.
Be Particular. Gaskin W. & L.
Billy Daly's Girl. Quinn Ch.
By a Brook Sat a Lady. Myers M.
Bella Figla del Po (in Italian). Stoppa U. S.
Bill Johnson, the Monkey and the Dago. Gaskin. W.L.
Come Play With Me. Myers M.
Chin Chin Chinaman. Quinn U. S.
Castagna (in Italian). Stoppa U. S.
Casey on Parade. Hunting H.
Colored Aristocracy. Gaskin W. & L.
Chevalier's Old Kent Road B.
Cuddle Down. Honey. Gaskin W. & L.
Chimmie Fadden. Quinn Col.
Dat Xew Bully. Spencer Col.
Denny Murphy's Daughter Nell. Gaskin Ch.
Dear Little Jappy-Jap-Jappy. Quinn U. S.
Den. Yer Don't Get Stuck, See! Quinn Ch.
Doolin and His Bike. Quinn Ch.
Don't Give Up the Old Love for the Xew. Quinn. .Ch.
Dear Louise. Gaskin W. & L.
Dorrie Dean. Gaskin W. & L.
Don't Tell Her that You Love Her. Gaskin.. W. & L.
Dear Old Pals Be.
Dreaming of Love Be.
Drink Up, Boys Be.
Danze delle Slemorie (in Italian). Stoppa U. S.
Every Boy Has Quarrelled with His First Sweet- heart. Myers M.
Every Xight I See that Xigger Standing 'Round. Spencer U. S.
Funiculi Funicuia (in Italian). Stoppa U. S.
Gounod's Ave Maria Be.
Gounod's Message d' Amour Be.
Going for a Pardon. Quinn Ch.
He Didn't Get Exactly What He Though He Would. Hunting H., U. S., W. & L.
Hole in the Wall. Quiun U. S.
Hugh McCue. Quinn Ch.
He's Xo Common Kind of Coon. Quinn Ch.
Hurrah For Bill McKinley. Favor Col.
Hogan's Home Again. Mvers M.
Hot Time in the Old Town To-night. Gaskin Ch.
Hot Tomale Alley. Gaskin Ch.
I Don't Love Xobody. Quinn Col.
In the Baggage Coach Ahead. Quinn U. S.
In the Baggage Coach Ahead. Gaskin W. & L.
Isabelle. Gaskin W. & L.
I Thought I Was a Winner. Gaskin W. & L.
I'll Take Care of You. Grandma. Gaskin. .W. &. L.
I'll Take My Dolls and Go Home. Gaskin Ch.
I Thought I Was a Winner. Gaskin Ch.
I Never Knew I Loved You So. Myers M.
I Want Dem Presents Back. Myers M.
If I Were Really a King. Myers M.
Interfering Parrott. Quinn U. S.
I Can't Give Up My Rough and Roud'ish Wavs. Quinn U. S.
Irene McNulty. Hunting H.
I Did It— But I'm Sorry That I Did. Hunting H.
Jack's the Boy. Quinn U. S.
Jack's the Boy. Quinn Ch.
Just In the Same Old Way. Myers M.
Louisiana Lou. Favor Col.
Listen to Mv Phonograph. Gaskin \V. .V: L.
Loan Me a Nlckle. Gaskin.. W. & L.
Like a Good Little Girl Should Do. Quinn Ch.
Loved Ones Are Waiting. Myers M.
Love. I Adore You. Myers M.
My Beautiful Irish Maid. Gaskin Col.
Mary Black From Hackensack. Hunting H.
Miss Jones. Hunting H.
My Gcrt. Mye-s M.
Mv Young Man. Myers M.
May tn. May'm. Come Tell Me That You Love Mo. Myer» M.
My Sweat heart At Home When a Bov. Mvers M.
Molly, on the Trollv. Oaskln Ch.
May M<- Mary Didn't See New York. Gaskin fin.
My Polly's a Peach Be.
Manoln. (In Italian.) Stoppa U. S.
MollT "n the Trollv. Gaskin W. .t L.
My Gal's n High-born Lndy. Gnskln W. & L.
Move I'p, Johnson. (Raskin W. & L.
Move Up. Johnson. Quinn Ch.
Miss Olivette. Quinn Ch.
My Young Man. Quinn Oh.
My Gal's a High-born Lady. Quinn Ch.
My Little Country Girl. Qulnu Cn.
Title. Talent. Sold by.
Nigger With a White Spot. Gaskin W. & L.
Xellie, Darling. Gaskin W. & L.
Xellie Casey's Roof. Myers M.
Oh! What a Disappointment. Hunting H.
Once or Twice. Hunting H.
Oh! It Is Sad. Hunting U. S., W. & L., H.
On Sunday. Mvers M.
O' Gust. Original Polka Be.
Only a Tangle of Curls Be.
Oh! Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose. Quinn Ch.
Oh! Aunt Jane. Quinn Ch.
Perle de Brazil. (With Flute.) Be.
Put Me Off At Buffalo. Spencer Col.
Phoebe Johnson. Quinn Ch.
Pride of the London Stage. Quinn .U. S.
Parlor Sofa Politics. Quinn Ch.
Rory Darling. Myers M.
Rosemary, That's For Remembrance. Gaskin.W. & L.
Rastus on Parade. Quinn Ch.
Round His Bed I'm Going to Creep. Quinn.... Ch. Send Back the Picture and Ring. Gaskin. .W. & L.
Serenata di Mefistofile Be.
Sorry for the Girls. Hunting H.
She's the Only Real Thing in Xew York. Myers.. M.
Se Fossi: Romanza di Quaranta Be.
She Knew It All the Time. Hunting H.
Sweet Mollie Morin. Quinn Ch.
Swei.t Mary Mullane. Quinn Oh.
Sweet Rosie O'Grady. Quinn Oh.
Se Fossi: Romanza di Quaranta Be.
Sweet Rosie O'Grady. Myers M.
Savannah Sue. (With Clogs.) Quinn U. S.
She's Mv Girl Xow. Gaskin W & L.
Sweet Mary O'Grady. Gaskin W. & L.
She's My Girl Xow. Myers M.
Santa Lucia. (In Italian.) Stoppa U. S.
The Blow Almost Killed Papa. Hunting H.
Those Wedding Bells Shall Xot Ring Out. Holcombe.
Col.
That Xaughty Little Twinkle in Her Eve. Hunt- ing H.
The Maiden Didn't Know a Single Thing. Hunt- ing H.
Things I'd Like to See Be.
The Old, Old Home. Myers M.
Two Heads Are Better Than One. Myers M.
The Bullv's Weeding Xiyhr. Spanuer U >'.
The Chill v Widow. Gaskin W. & L.
The Chilly Widow. Quinn Ch.
The Summer Girl of Brighton Beach. Myers M.
They All Love Maggie Grady. Mvers M.
The Forgotten Word; or, What D'ye Call it?. Quinn.
Ch.
That's What I want "Santie" to Bring. Quinn. .Ch.
The Handicap March. Quinn Ch.
The Hole in the Wall. Quinn Ch.
The Amorous Gold Fish. Quinn Ch.
The Interfering Parrot. Quinn Ch.
The Pride of Shanty Town. Quinn Ch.
The Dear Little Japnv. Jap— Jappv. Quinn Ch.
'Twas a Sad Trln Coming Back. Gaskin.. .W. & L. The Men Who Came Over From Ireland. Gaskin.
W. & L.
There'll Come a Time. Gaskin W. & L.
Un Primo Bacio: Romanza Be.
Very Sorry to Hear It. Huntinsr H.
Vedo U'nombre. (In Spanish.) Stoppa U. S.
Whistling Coon (In French.) Stoooa U. S.
When he Girl You Love is Many Miles Awav Gas- kin W. & L.
When We Go to Church as Lovers and Come Back as Man and Wife. Myers M.
When It's a Boy. Myers M.
Whisper Y'our Mother's Name. Myers M.
Whisper Y'our Mother's Name. Quinn Ch.
Where Am I At? Quinn Ch.
Y'ou Don't Have to Marrv the Girl. Hunting.. ..Col
You've Been a Gold Old Wagon. Quinn Ch.
You've Been a Good Old Wagon. Myers M.
Y'ou're Not the Only Pebble On the Beach. Quinn. Ch.
Y'ou're So Good. Daddy. Myers M.
Y'er Baby's Comln' to Town. Myers M.
You'll Be Sorry When I'm Gone." Myers M.
Zanzibar. (From El Capitan.) Spencer Col.
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Tltle. Talent. Sold by.
Casey, as an Auctioneer. Hunting H.
C isey's Wnod"ii Wedding Hunting H.
Hiram's Visit to New York. Hunting H.
Hiram's Girl, Hanr.ah. Hunting H.
Hiram on Superstition. Hunting H.
Old Jed Prouty Crossing the Track. Bangs Oh.
P. T. Itanium's Side Show Shouter. Bangs Oh.
Bock Me to Sleep. Cunningham Oh.
Socery Setting a Hen. Bangs Oh.
The Funny Story. Bangs Oh.
The Champion Snorer. Bangs Oh.
The Smack in School. Bangs Oh.
The l ace on tne liar Itoom Floor. Cunningham. .Oh.
The Face on the Bar Room Floor. Hunting H.
The Cock Fight. Bcckenbaugh Col.
The Irish ami the Germans. J. W. Kellv. ,W. & L.
The A. P. A. Story. J. W. Kelly W. & L.
The Tlnsv Irishman. J. W. Kellv W ft L.
The Rolllnp Mill Story. J. W. Kelly W. & L.
Title. Played by. Sold by.
Black America March. Issler's Col.
Cake Walk Patrol. Bonnell's Ch.
Chicago Athletic Club March. Bonnell's Ch.
Darkie Tickle. Issler's Col.
Geisha Selections. Issler's U. S. & Col.
I'll Follow Thee. (Piccolo Solo.) Issler's.U. S. & Col.
Major McKinley March. Issler's U. S. & Col.
Napoleon March. Bonnell's Ch.
Oh! Uncle John March. Bonnell's Oh.
Passicalle Intermezzo. Bonnell's Ch.
Symposia Waltz. Bonnell's Ch.
Zenda Waltzes. Bonnell's Ch.
Zephyr Dance. Bonnell's Ch.
The Xightingale and the Frog. Issler's Col.
Banb.
Title. Played by. Sold by.
Blending of the Blue and Grey. U. S. Marine. . .Col.
Circus Galop. Sousa's 7 Col.
Darkville Dance. Voss's U. S.
Medley of Southern Airs. Voss's U. S.
Off to Camp. Voss's U. S.
El Capitan. Sousa's.. Col.
Pilgrim's Chorus. Gilmore's Col.
Rastus on Parade. U. S. Marine Col.
The Broadway Two-Step. Washington M. Cone. Col.
The Handicap March. U. S. Marine Col.
Yale Two-Step. Washington M. Cone Col.
IFnstrumental, (soio.
Played by
Sold by
Title. CORXET.
Arbucklenian Polka Re.
Alice. Where Art Thou. Levy Col.
Du, Du. (German Song.) Levy Col.
Levy Concert Polka Be.
Lizzie Polka : Be.
Don't Be Cross. U. S. Marine Band Col.
The Palms. U. S. Marine Band Col.
Lizzie Polka Be.
FLUTE.
Gounod's Serenade.
.Be.
ZITHER.
Dream Waltz Be.
Selection From Faust Be.
Stephanie Gavotte Be.
XYLOPHONE.
Bohemian Girl Be.
Du, Du, Medley. Chas. P. Lowe Col.
Carnival of Venice Be.
Plantation Medley Be.
Pretty Dark Blue Eyes Be.
BAXJO.
Medley Be.
Chinese Picnic Be.
OLARIOXET.
LuIIabv From Ermlnle. Andrea Coda Col.
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SELECTIONS BY ISSLER'S ORCHESTRA.
"Titl's Serenade'"— l'iccolo and Cornet Duet by Schweinfest & Dana. "Nightingale and Frogs" — Piccolo Solo "
«TU Follow Thee"— Piccolo Solo " " "
"Laughing Polka" — Very Humorous.
"Night Alarm"— Fire Bells; Horses' Hoofs; Firemen's Gong, etc. "El Miserere" (from II Trovatore) — Cornet Solo by Dana. "La Paloma" — Spanish Air with Castanets. "Santiago Waltz" — Spanish Air with Castanets. "Till We Meet Again"— Beautiful Waltz. "King Cotton March"— by Sousa.
"El Capitan March" — from John Philip Sousa's latest opera. "Birds of Spring Yorke." -
"Dancing on the House-tops" — Song and Dance with Clogs. "Virginia Skedaddle" — Negro Shouts, Clogs, etc.
"Wing Dance"— Negro Shout with Clogs, Cock-crow and chicken-cackle. "El Capitan Lanciers"— with figures called.
"Selections from Geisha" — from new Japanese Musical Comedy. "Happy Days in Dixie" — new and pleasing by author of "Rastus."
SONGS BY MR. LEN SPENCER.
"I Thought I Was a Winner" — latest negro hit.
"Martha Jane Green" — Negro Wench Song with Dance.
"Alabama Coon" (always popular) — Baby cry and clog effect.
"Put Me Off at Buffalo."
"New Bully"— One of Spencer's best.
"Mrs. 'Enery 'Awkins" — Chevalier's success.
"Oh, Mr. Johnson"— A Bag Time Melody; Immensely Popular.
SONGS BY J. \V. MYERS.
"Sweet Rosie O'Grady."
"Laugh and the World Laughs With You."
"Everybody Has Their Day."
"She Might Flirt With Others."
"Sweetest Story Ever Told."
SONGS BY GASKIN.
"You're So Good, Daddy"— Sure to be Popular. "Sweet Rosie O'Grady"— All the Rage.
"Just Tell Them That You Saw Me"— Paul Dresser's Great Success. "I Told Them That I Saw You." "She May Have Seen Better Days."
"Drill, Ye Terriers. Drill"— (with drill effect, shouts, etc.).
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"Off To Camp" — Drum Solo and Bugle Call (new and catchy). "Manhattan Beach March." "Handicap March."
GILMORE'S BAND.
"Hapsburg March." Grand March "Tannhauser." Sextett from "Lucia." "William Tell" Overture. "Semiramide" Overture. "Poet and Peasant" Overture. "Zampa" Overture.
VOSS'S FIRST REGIMENT BAND.
"Jolly Coppersmith" — with Anvil and vocal chorus. "Forge in the Forest" — with Cock-crow and Anvil. "American Cadets' March." "Spanish Fandango"— with castanets.
"Darkies' Dream" — with Clogs and Shouts. .
INSTRUMENTAL SOLOS.
"Patrol Comique" — Piccolo Solo.
"Bobolink Schottische"— Piccolo Solo.
"Irish Reel"— Piccolo Solo.
"Medley Jig" — Piccolo Solo.
"Fire-Fly Galop" — Xylophone Solo.
"Mockiug-Bird" — with variations— Xylophone.
"Home, Sweet Home" — with variations — Xylophone.
TALKING RECORDS.
Reading of the 23d Psalm and the Lord's Prayer.— Very Loud and
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Major McKinley's Speech on the Threat to Debase the National Cur- rency. As delivered by the distinguished Republican nominee at Canton. July 11th. Very loud and. distinct. Applause. No announcement.
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December, 1896.
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T DESIRE to state that during the last five years I have sung over 2,500 different songs before the Edison Phonograph, some people are not aware of this fact; make a few inquiries and be convinced. Most of my work was for the U. S. Phonograph Co. as I was under exclusive contract for two years with that company, and I bear willing testimony to the fair and business-like treatment received at their hands. I also desire to take this oppor- tunity of expressing my thanks to the Chicago Talking Machine Company for their kindness to me during my several weeks' stay with them. I am under no contract whatever, and free to sing for any one desiring my services. I shall always be glad to do all in my power to advance the interests of any company who may desire to engage me to sing. Cordially yours, DAN W. QUINN, 506 West 20th Street, New York.
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"I have this day purchased a 4-way hearing tube from Mr. Hunting, and after a careful test, I find that it transmits sound from the 'phone diaphragm at least twice as loud as the tubing * which was furnished with my machines. — It is the best tubing I have ever seen.
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The Phonoscope.
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A Monthly Journal Devoted to Scientific and Amusement Inventions Appertaining to Sound and Sight.
Vol. I. NEW YORK, DECEMBER 15, 1896. No. 2.
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Thomas A. Edison's new autographic tele- graph, on which, in conjunction with Patrick Kenney, he has been for many months at work, will revolutionize the whole system of newspa- per illustration from distant points.
By the aid of the autographic telegraph it will be easy for the artist to transmit by wire any kind of sketch with the certainty that it will be reproduced at the other end of the line.
"There is nothing absolutely new in this idea," said Mr. Edison lately, to a World re- porter. "It is simply a development of the old Cassella system, in which the transmission was made along a sort of pendulum. I had thought out and perfected the machine some years ago. when the telephone came along and stopped me. A business man desiring to give a practi- cal description of a design in dry goods prints or in forms could make his meaning readily clearer over the telephone.
"It afterwards occurred to me that the per- fection of this little instrument might benefit my friends in the newspaper profession, and it Is for them that I have designed it. I want to say that no newspaper has or will have a mo- nopoly in the use of the auto-telegraph. I shall reserve the patent and sell the machines to any newspaper that comes to buy it.
"The process is simple enough. The artist makes his sketch in the usual manner. It does not matter what it may be. Directly the draw- ing is finished he wraps it around the little cyl- inder on top of the machine; he presses a button and in that same instant while the machines revolves the man in another room, say a thousand miles away, is reproducing that sketch.
"He isn't necessary, as the cylinder removes a tiny steel needle finger, touches it and in that moment establishes the electrical connection at the other end. where another needle or finger, just as you choose, is touching another cylin- der.
"When the needle has traveled over all the lines of the original sketch you would see on the receiving paper at the other end a series of lines occupying positions corresponding with those in the original sketch. After each revolu- tion the needle drops a trifle and when the lines come around again the dots are a little lower. And when the needles have gone from the top to the bottom of the cylinder you thus have a reproduction of the drawing.
"I can say now that the instrument is ready for use. You could handle it at once with ab- solute certainty. Before I attempt to put it in the market I shall try to reduce it to a port- able size so that the artist sent to Chicago or St. Louis may carry it in his pocket, dump it down on any kind of telegranb table and trans- mit the drawing with just asTnuch ease and as little ceremony as he would use in telegraph- ing a 200-word story.
"Oh," said Mr. Edison, rumpling his hair with the characteristic gesture which has become fa- mous, "I don't expect to achieve any marvelous thing with this little improvement— I don't say invention. The model belongs to Casella. I have only tried to get something to help the work of the newspaper boys. I don't look for a large sale or an extended market. Only the big dailies here and in Europe will have any use for it or care to buy it.
"We can now use the instrument at 500 miles with ease, at 1,000 with reasonable accuracy, and before I have finished will try to span the continent from 'Frisco to New York."
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Wbere Dotces of /IRoteO artists are Stereo.
SARAH BERNHARDT LISTENING TO THE BETTINI MICRO-PHONOG.RAPH.
Actors and singers of a century ago who made history in their social meetings in the green room, would no doubt have been aston- ished had they been told that their most noted successors would meet to talk or sing into a machine that would faithfully reproduce their voices. There is a pleasant room on the eighth floor in a big building on Sixteenth street, New York City, where men and women who are footlight favorites meet to laugh and talk, smoke cigarettes and exchange gossip. Their chief business there is to record in the phono- graph some of the gems of operas or striking passages in plays. But incidentally there is a deal of enjoyment in hearing repeated the voices of other artists, perhaps on the other side of the world. The room is the studio, work shop and office of an inventor who has made many valuable improvements on the won- derful machine— the phonograph.
He has a very large acquaintance among noted entertainers who come to this country, and his studio has become a resort for them. Nearly ail the noted visitors leave their pho- tographs, on which are written sentiments of a more or less personal nature, and these are arranged on the wall in an attractive way. Taking one as an example there is a picture of Mme. Rejane, with this sentiment: "Ah, e'est admirable; j'ai n'en revie pas. Merci!"
Taken altogether, there are stored away on cylinders, in properly labeled boxes, the voices of some of the most famous professional artists and singers in the world, and the collection is unequaled anywhere. There are songs by Yvette Guilbert, who sang into the phonograph on her recent visit to this country. When the writer visited the studio lately, Yvette's voice sounded from the phonograph, one of her Eng- lish songs, "I Want You, My Honey." Then the voice gave "La Soularde" and an imitation of Bernhardt's style of delivery in a favorite character. Then followed a selection from "Izeyl," by Bernhardt herself, with all the pas- sion in which the passage was recited on the stage. By way of variety Mr. Parko of the "Artist's Model" company gave a laughing song that was infectious. It was accompanied by the piano and was a revelation to those who have only heard the phonographs in the ferry houses and saloons.
The next cylinder was one labeled "Melba," which was truly wonderful; the phonograph re- producing her wonderful voice in a marvelous manner, especially on the high notes which soared away above the staff and were rich and clear. Mark Twain interrupted the singer with a few remarks on the experience he had had in trying to make practical use of the in- strument. The humorist is now on his lectur- ing tour around the world and the record he made in the phonograph was taken in Decem- ber, 1893.
. The capacity of the phonograph was then tested with a banjo solo, and the peculiar twang of the instrument could be heard even in the adjoining rooms. A cornet solo followed, with a piano accompaniment. Mrs. Lillie Lang- try's voice followed in a selection from her play of "Gossip." It was obtained on her last visit to this country. John Drew then told a story. It was told at a dinner in January last given by Clyde Fitch in New York, at which there were many artists as guests. His story was about an experience he had in a little country town with James Lewis. A funny allusion was made to Mr. Lewis' dialogue in the hotel office with a bucolic person, who had witnessed the play on the same evening, and Mr. Drew was interrupted with laughter by Mrs. Drew. The phonograph faithfully reproduced the merry tones of Mrs. Drew and her husband's com- ments. A Nordica cylinder replaced that of Mr. Drew and the notes of a refrain from one of the operas resounded through the room. It would be tedious to name all the artists repre- sented in the collection. Some, however, should be mentioned. Among them were Vic- tor Maurel, the well-known baritone singer, who is remembered by New Yorkers in his first appearance in this country in 1873; Bensaude, another baritone not perhaps so well known, but who has a fine voice; Tomaso Salvini, who rolled out a grand passage from "Othello" in the Italian translation; M. Coquelin, the fa- mous French actor, whose visit to this country will be remembered; Pol Plancon and Mme. Saville, the beautiful Frenchwoman who war- bled a bit from the opera of "Rigoletto," and another from the opera of "Carmen." Then there were Lola Beeth, Ellen Terry, Julia Neil- son and Olga Nethersole. Signor Nicolini has a cylinder to which he sang on his last visit to this country with Mme. Patti three years ago. Nicolini was never much of a singer and the phonograph of to-day does not give him even justice* as it has been considerably worn from repetitions given to those who wanted to hear Mme. Patti's husband sing. Sigrid Arnoldson's voice was heard in a cylinder to which the art- ist sang three years ago.
All these and very many more cylinders are packed away in pretty wooden boxes and put carefully into a cabinet with glass doors that occupies one side of the laboratory. On an- other side are instruments in the process of manufacture. The artists who call at the stu- dio are in the habit of using the cylinders to test their voices and in this way they make a practical use of the machine. When they are in good voice they register their notes on a cylinder and put it away. By reproducing the notes they are enabled to compare their voices with their own records at the time comparison is needed for study. When singing the artist is unable to hear and judge correctly of the quality of their performance. Another use which the phonograph is put is to send mes- sages to relatives far away who want to hear the sound of the voice. Our host predicted that it will soon be practicable for persons traveling to step into a room at a hotel, record a long missive in a few minutes conversation and dis- patch the cylinder, perhaps half way around the world.
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THE PHONOSCOPE.
December, 1S96.
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That the multiplex attachment will aid the phonograph as a commercial article, must be admitted by practical minds when the merits of the invention are thoroughly investigated. It is so simple in mechanism, and so practical in detail, that a glance at it is sufficient to cause any one to wonder why the original in- vention should have not embodied its principles as a primary instinct.
The illustrations which appear above render anything like a technical description unneces- sary. A casual inspection is all that is re- quired to explain the principle involved in the operation of the attachment
You simply lift the body of the Edison ma- chine off and put the ^Multiplex" in its place, there being a slot in the framework where the screw fastens it to the back, and for regulating the tension of the belt, similar to the Edison pattern.
The rotation of the Multiplex group in the regular order is controlled by the means of a compound reacting ratchet lever, the knob of which is seen protruding in front of body box.
One movement revolves the Multiplex group and brings the next cylinder in position. When the mandrel is in position to reproduce its rec-
ord a spring attached to the extremity or righi- hand end, forces connection of the mandrel in the main shaft and an automatic dowel-pin at-
taches itself to the main frame, thereby giving absolute firmness, and steadiness, while the record is being recorded or reproduced.
When the Multiplex is used as a slot ma- chine, the mandrels are numbered in regular order. These numbers are intended to desig- nate the various records in the repertoire of the machine, and to enable the patron to make a selections from numbered list which is on an- nouncement card.
If the record in position when you approach the machine does not suit your fancy, you have simply to take your choice from the index on the top extension of the phonograph, and pull the lever back and forth until the desired num- ber revolves into position. Then drop a nickel in the slot and a reproduction of the record be- gins. Should the record not please you. another one can be brought into place by simply pull- ing lever while the machine is running.
The system by which the mandrel frame of the Multiplex attachment is filled or emptied is very simple, and involves no more labor than that of loosening several thumb screws.
The mandrels which are to be moved are re- volved to the top in consecutive order, and are taken out one at a time when they appear in position. The frame is refilled in the same manner.
The foregoing detail concerning the inechin- ism and operation of the Multiplex attaclunenT are sufficient to give all who are familiar with the use of the phonograph a clear and concise idea of its construction. It is virtually an im- proved substitute for the single cylinder ma- chine, combining all of the desirable features, and meeting the demand in an unlimited sphere of employment, which the other, by reason of its physical limitations, cannot fill.
The idea of economy, which is the point of all valuable invention, impelled the inventing of this machine, which would quintuple the ac- tion and resources of the original without any increase of expense save that of the attach- ment alone. Following this line of thought, there was suggested to the inventor a Multi- plex group of five cylinders with the view of placing them in the cabinet of the slot machine without making any alterations on the cabinet or doing violence to any of its mechanism.
The Multiplex, as now constructed, can be used for any business purpose, public or pri- vate entertainment.
There is no reasonable limit to the rapacity of the machine, so far as the number of cyl- inders are concerned.
The attachment can be furnished with five, ten. fifteen, or twenty cylinders, and where ex- igencies require the cylinders can be made dou- ble the length of those used in the slot machine.
As a talking machine and office accessory the phonograph should assume the dignified prac- tical scope of employment presaged as its high- er and most useful mission.
There is no reason now why it should not fill every demand of the business man, lecture room, college, professional man, and is, in fact, of primary importance.
As a prospective factor of this kind the world welcomed its advent, but its use was hampered because it was inadequate by reason of its ab- breviated resources to perforin the duties as- signed to it.
The whole trouble was in the single cylinder, which did not allow sufficient space for the mass of dictation necessary associated with the routine of daily business.
When the space on one record blank was reached the only alternative was to remove the cylinder and insert a new blank. This oc- casioned no little annoyame, and consumed val- uable time, besides giving an intricate detail to office work, which seriously interfered with its dispatch.
The Multiple attachment removes this defect; its five or more cylinders give all the space nec- essary for this amount of die-ration, from one sentence on to a book of five hundred or more pages.
The pause between filling one cylinder and beginning another involves no more labor or time than that of pulling the eccentric rod. which instantly throws the desired cylinder into position.
The Multiplex for commercial business pur- poses can be manufactured to meet any de- mand. When made for particular purposes they are especially designed to meet the emer- gencies involved, as the case may be, with five, ten, fifteen, or twnty cylinders, and twice the length of those now in use. if desired.
The Multiplex attachment fits the phono- graph for position especially in the schools, col- leges, and lecture rooms of the country, as a sources of instruction in any study or from any great teacher.
Phonographic Clocks
The phonograph is well known, but as us- ually constructed it is a tolerably large instru- ment. An English firm, however, has succeed- ed in getting such an instrument into an ordi- nary-sized drawing-room clock. There are many amusing and useful possibilities of this phono- graph clock. Imagine sitting in a room wiTh not a soul near and suddenly hear The "Star Spangled Banner" or a voice in a sudden, ma- hatma-liko fashion crying out: "Don't forget." With a phonograph clock, now a trade novelty, all this is made a possibility. The phonograph is set to go off like an ordinary alarm, and the hands are set for the phonograph to commence its operations at a certain time, either to amuse or startle friends or to give a gentle reminder that you have an engagement or have at a given time to perform some business.
Novel Application of the 'Phone
A novel application of the phonograph is re- corded by New Ideas. A telephone company uses the phonograph to notify subscribers that their calls cannot be answered because the number called is "busy." An ordinary office phonograph is connected to a solid back, long- distance transmitter by means of a soft rub- ber tube, the tube being centered to a mouth- piece of the transmitter. From this transmit- ter the ordinary telephone connections are made to a spring jack or switch, appearing on each section of the switchboard. Whenever a sub- scriber calls a number that is "busy." as soon as the operator learns this she inserts the call- er's plug in the "busy" spring jack connected to the phonograph, which throws out the words "The wire is busy, please call off: the wire is busy, please call off." in a most industrious manner.
It may be new to most of our readers that the nickel 5-eent pieces now in use are not of equal size, but that the one with a V. stamped on it Is considerably larger than the one stamped with a 5. This is important when approaching nickel in the slot machines, where the smaller nickel generally fails to act. and the confiding customer loses his money through no fault of the machine, but through an inexactness on the part of the mint
Vol. I. No. 2.
THE PHONOSCOPE.
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An Illustration of Its Practical Uses
The advancement made in newspaper work is in no way shown more prominently than in reporting long speeches. During the past few months, the readers of the Louisville (Ky.) Cou- rier-Journal have read page after page of close- ly printed speeches made the night before and have no doubt often wondered how it was pos- sible that a full and accurate report of three or more speeches, each one taking an hour, more or less, in the delivery, could be given to them at breakfast, in a comparatively short time. When it is known that the work was done so that it could be set up in type by 1:30 o'clock in the morning, the result is more a matter of wonder.
The reports of the late campaign meetings, where long speeches were made, can be taken as a fair example of the work that must be done. The stenographic report for the Courier- .Tournal was handled by Mr. Clarence E. Walk- er. His force consisted of himself and one other expert stenographer and four typewriter operators. Besides these he pressed into serv- ice a system of improved graphophonos, which renders easily possible with a small force what would require perhaps a half dozen stenograph- ers and twice as many typewriters.
Mr. Walker used five machines in reporting a meeting. One of these is the recording ma- chine, while four are reproducers. The re- cording machine stands alone, while the other four are placed in a group forming a square. Clustered around this group are the typewriter operators with their machines. Attached to all the machines was a current of electricity ready to be turned on.
At the Palmer-Buckner notification meeting Mr. Walker sat at his table on the stage ready to take a senographic report of the speeches. .Mr. Walker took the first speech for fifteen minutes and then made way for his partner, Mr. F. M. Williams. While Mr. Williams was talking stenographic notes, Mr. Walker hurried to the rear of the stage, where the machines and operators were in readiness. He seated himself at the graphophone which stood alone, and placed a cylinder in the machine. He re- peated his notes deliberately to it, and in ten minutes the cylinder had been filled. Each cylinder holds about eight pages of typewritten matter, or what would be a column in the Cou- rier-Journal. Mr. Walker shut of the current and handed the cylinder to one of the type- writer operators. She placed the cylinder in her machine, which is a "reproducer," placed in her ears the conveyor, which is a pronged pronged piece of rubber tubing attached to tht. "reproducing diaphragm," and turned on the current.
The cylinder began to revolve, and every word Mr. Walker had spoken was reproduced. The words often tumbled out so rapidly that it was impossible for the typewriter to keep pace with them. She simply turned a small lever to her right, which stopped the revolu- tions of the cylinder instantly. This enabled her to catch up and was frequently resorted to. While the typewriter was transcribing the cyl- inder, Mr. Walker was filling a second cylinder, which was in due time finished and handed to a second operator. When he finished his notes he relieved Mr. Williams, who proceeded to the rear of the stage and also dictated to tne graph- ophone. In this way the stenographers alter- nated until the speeches were complete. And when the last speaker had finished, the stenog- raphers and typewriters were only about fifteen minutes behind them which meant about half an hour's hard work.
Of course there were a hundred pages or more of typewritten matter, handled by differ- ent persons, and some may wonder how all of those pages could be so arranged to. fit in with- out a mistake. This was done by a system of marking. For instance, the matter on the first cylinder was marked A-l-2-3-4 up to eight, which completed it. The second cylinder was B-l-2-3-4 and so on, and the third cylinder C-l- 2-3-4. When they were all completed it can be seen how handily the pages were arranged in their exact order. ' as rapidly as the pages were turned out by the typewriters they were hurried to the Cou- rier-Journal office by messengers on bicycles,
and by the time the last speech was finished most of them were in type. Thus one greai practical use of the talking machine was illus- trated.
The wonders of the graphophone were exhib- ited last month by Manager PL S. Woodhull, of the Columbia Phonograph Company, 919 Penn- sylvania avenue, to some admiring friends. A Columbia 'phone was put in operation. It ren- dered good music, sang ballads, and made speeches. The wires to the offices of the com- pany in Baltimore, New York City, Columbia, Harrisburg. and York, Pa., were opened, and in each of these places the graphophone in the local office was heard with distinctness. The managers of each of the offices telephoned that the graphophone was heard as plainly as it would have been if it was in the room where they were. — Washington Post.
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The Metaphone, of which we gave full de- scription in our November isue, has been re- named the "Echophone." It has been recon- structed and improved and is now ready for the market. In the first machines the glass rod which transmitted the sound to the dia- phragm, was not an absolute success, as it was continually "falling out of track." This defect has been remedied by applying a small spring to the base of the glass tube which furnishes sufficient downward pressure to hold the stylus in track.
The machine in its present state is very at- tractive in appearance and serves to illustrate the wonder of the talking machine in its sim- plest form.
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The Cyclo-Telegraph
Mr. Leo Kamm, an inventive Englishman, has perfected what he calls a cyclo-telegraph. which is carried a coil of wire with which con- He has combined an instrument which is prac- tically a combination of typewriter and tele- graph. The whole is mounted on a bicycle, on which is carried a coil of wire with which con- nections are made by means of an earth rod, used to complete the circuit. The apparatus weighs seven pounds. Five miles of wire are carried. Each mile of wire weighs ten pounds. It is very fine and very light, but answers the purpose.
The telegraphing is not recorded in the usual way. The message is printed on paper by the typewriter-like instruments, of which there is one at either end of the wire. The line can be operated by anyone who typewrites, and the services of a telegrapher are not required. So says the inventor, and he ought to know.
As it is fitted on the bicycle, the apparatus is intended for laying telegraph lines for military purposes. When one end of the wire has been made fast to the telegraph receiver the one con- structing th lines has only to mount the wheel and ride to the point at which it is intended to end the line. When the wire has been unwound from the drum a bell rings and gives wamiucr of that fact.
With this invention, Mr. Leo Kamm says that not only will the ordinary difficulties of field telegraphy be overcome, but the work will be done with a speed and precision never dreamed of by army officers.
The Stethophone
The "stethophone," by which physicians are enabled to distinguish the difference of sound of the action of healthy and unhealthy organs, has been invented by Rev. . B. Marsh, of Black- heath, Wentworth County, Canada.
William A. Eddy, the scientific kite flyer, who has succeeded in taking pictures by a camera suspended in midair, has discov- ered that such pictures can also be taken at night, owing to the common use of electric lights.
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This column is open to any of our patrons who have a complaint to make, a grievance to ventilate, infor- mation to give, or a subject of general interest to discuss appertaining to Sound Producing Machines, Picture Projecting Devices, Slot Machines,
Amusement Inventions or Scientific Novelties in general* ^ <M
Boston, Dec. 8, 1896. The Phonoscope Publishing Company.
Gentlemen: Would you allow me to use up a little space in your valuable journal? I am a traveling phonograph exhibitor and am very- much interested in the business; present and future. In visiting the different cities in differ- ent parts of the country, I am very much amused by the great wail that the exhibitors offer up in reference to duplicate records. Now, I am not praising duplicates, but I should like to ask some of the exhibitors what difference it makes to them if the records they purchase are made with a pickaxe or a plow, so long as they give a good, loud, clear and brilliant re- production. It seems to me that anyone would prefer a good duplicate to a bad origi- nal.
Whenever the general run of exhibitors get a bad record they immediately cry, "Oh! that's a duplicate;" when they get a good one they say, "That's a fine record; it must be an origi- nal." Let me tell them it is just the other way. When they get a good, loud, clear record it is generally a duplicate and the bum ones origi- nals. I'll tell you why. Most all of the phono- graph singers sing to five or six horn at a time, and about two of the records are good; the rest are only fair.
Now, which is best, a duplicate from the good ones, or one of the bad originals?
When I send for records I get some good and some bad. I don't loose any sleep over it; I know how hard it is to make a good record, and if I get my share of the good ones I am satisfied. Why don't we run around to our printer and want the type he uses to print our circulars? Why don't we ask our photogra- phers to give us all negatives when he fur- nishes us pictures? When I buy records, I buy them for the results they give, I don't care whether they made with a tack hammer or a steam engine.
I notice one of the New York phonograph companies, who used to toot and toot in every paragraph, on every page, of their circular, "These are original records" — has reduced their records to 50 cents each, and dispensed with their pet "toot." How about this? I predict that in five years we will have all duplicates. As for myself, I would rather buy two hundred records for one hundred dollars, and run chances, than to give one dollar each for them and only have one hundred.
The way things are being run now in the business, your going to get "done" anyway, so we might as well take it easy and "let nature take its course," as Casey says. G. A.
Pottsville, Pa. * * * * * The optical il- lusion in your title makes the E appear much larger than the H, caused by the darts issuing out. of the trumpet. Nevertheless, they are of equal size. Operating the phonograph in the open air has not affected my records any, but they are more susceptible to cold than heat. Records produce much better at midnight than at high noon. The cause of it, I attribute, to the humidity of the air, it being denser or heav- ier at night.
I would not use cotton batting to brush dust from records, but only the soft camels hair brush, which is furnished with each machine.
Talk about ignorance of operators, I recently met a gentleman who tried to adjust the style to locate the music with the speed regulating thumbscrew of the phonograph standard speak- er. In regulating it myself to proper adjust- ment, he remonstrated with me for interfering with the machine and what I did it for. He of course, did not know who I was. I received his thanks afterwards. Yours, C. F. D.
[We do not know what the "speed regulating thumb screw of the phonograph standard speaker" is, but trust Mr. D.'s views will inter est, or amuse, some of our readers.— Ed.]
8 THE PHONOSCOPE. December, 1896
AUTOMATIC LUNCH COUNTER, WITHOUT WAITERS.
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Automatic Lunch Counter, Without Waiters.
One of the most elaborate applications of the "nickel-in-the-slot machine" is that which forms the subject of the above illustration, which shows the interior of a cafe in the Pots- damerstrasse, Berlin, equipped with automatic lunch counters. There are several establish- ments of the same kind in this and other Ger- man cities which are controlled by what is known as the Quisisana Company. It will be seen from the illustration that in place of the ordinary counter served by waiters there is a set of ornamental cabinets ranged along one side of the room -which have a shelf projecting at a convenient height, upon which are placed the necessary glasses or cups. Above the drink- ing vessels are the faucets and a slot to re- ceive the coin. The customer places a glass or cup beneath the faucet bearing the label of the drink which he desires and the money is in- serted in the slot. The apparatus will then au- tomatically, without further action of the buy- er, deliver the liquid. The establishment in question offers a customer the choice of a large variety of drinks, the various liquors being ob- tainable at all seasons of the year, and the iced drinks of summer being replaced by a variety of hot drinks in the winter.
The liquors, etc., are kept in glass vessels and the hot drinks in nickel tanks surrounded by a hot water bath which is heated by gas. In or- der to insure perfect cleanliness no rubber is used, the liquids being conducted to the fau- cets through silver tubing. The measuring out of the drinks is controlled by clockwork located within the casing of the stands. Each stand is provided with an automatic spraying nozzle for cleaning the cups and glasses. It is located in the center of a disk which is provided with a groove to receive the rim of the inverted glass. Upon pressing down, a spray of water rinses out the vessel.
The eatables, such as sandwiches, cakes, etc., are contained beneath a large bell glass, as shown in the third stand from the right. The glass contains about one dozen sandwiches, each of which is placed in a paper dish. They are arranged in a circle upon a revolving tray, and whenever the purchase coin is put in the slot the tray revolves far enough to bring a sandwich opposite an opening through which it is automatically presented to the purchaser. Other stands provide hot chicken, beef or oth- er meats, and, indeed, the Quisiana cafe has a bill of fare which would compare favorably in point of variety with a first-class restaurant of the common type.
The Slot Machine In House Keeping
We are living, we are dwelling,
In a mighty handy time; 'Tis an age when there's no telling
What we can buy for a dime.
It was thus*, or something like it, that Long- fellow spoke; if not in precisely those words at least that was about what he meant, and the facts fully justify the assertion. The truth is, there never was such an age in all time as this, nor such times in all the ages as now, with liv- ing so easy for poor folks. They can get more for their money in these times— especially since the defeat of the "free silver" heresy— which doesn't, as some seemed to think, mean a free distribution of silver to all comers, than they were able to get in earlier times, and, what is fully as important, it is easier to get the "wherewithal" than it was once upon a time.
These remarks are suggested by the story that conies from Paris, by way of "the old country," of the wonderful doings of the "drop- a-cent-in-t he-slot" machine, which has actually been developed iuto an apparatus of some util- ity, instead of being largely a nuisance as it is known in this country, where it is still in its primitive state. The slot machine in Paris has been "evoluted" into a purveyor of hot water, at a cent a gallon, and poor people who found
it expensive and uncomfortable to maintain fires in small tenements during the hot summer days, have recourse to the hot water slot ma- chines, and their wants are supplied with little trouble or expense.
The way it is done is this: The slot machines are a part of the street lamps, which are large and ornamental columns, with a reservoir for water. The heat of the lamps is utilized to boil this water instead of being allowed to waste it- self in the air. The machine stands at the foot of the lamp, and a cent dropped in the slot brings the desired flood at any time of day or night. Each machine is capable of supplying fifteen gallons of hot water per hour, or a gal- lon every four minutes.
It is estimated that §500,000 worth of heat power is wasted in New York annually in street gas lamps, which might be saved and made a convenience and a blassing, by means of this hot water heating attachment. They would be cheaper than fires and more comfortable, as before intimated, to the dwellers in close tene- ments. The plan has been introduced into Eng- land and has become popular. The slot ma- chine has also been utilized there by the gas companies, and a small coin dropped in the slot of a gas machine gives a consumer so many cubic feet of gas. When that is gone, if he wants more light he can repeat the operation. In this way he doesn't have to pay for leaky meters, the company can't overcharge the con- sumer, and the consumer can't "beat" the com- pany. Again, the slot machine has been util- ized to assist railroad passengers who desire to read. A cent in a slot starts a little electric lamp on a side bracket convenient to his head, and there he is.
But these blessings are all elsewhere. In time, perhaps, the slot machine in the United States will cease to be merely ornamental and become practical and useful.
The American Talking Machine Company, Henry C. Spencer, manager, are rapidly filling orders for the new "Columbia" graphophone.**
Vol. I. No. 2.
THE PHONOSCOPE.
9
i An Automatic Bank
| The automatic machine idea has been turned to new account in Italy. Put a coin in the slot and take out a receipt and the thing is done. The workingman's "honest penny" is banked without the trouble of going to a savings bank or postoffice. When a sufficient number of re- cepts have been collected the can be ex- changed for a "libretto" at the regular savings bank. Interest at 4 per cent, is paid on depos- its, and the depositors are entitled to a share of the profits derived from the bank's opera- tions.
The Automatic News=boy
The automatic newsboy, an ingenious ma- chine in which the penny-in-the-slot principle is applied to sale of newspapers, was oil exhibi- tion at the Astor House, New York, last month. The machine can be set to deliver newspapers of any price or size simply by dropping the re- quired coin in the slot and turning a crank. The boxes are made in various sizes, so that the capacity may be according to requirements. The machine can also be made and regulated for any size paper or magazine.
It is intended for use in hotels, stores, rail- way and elevated stations, suburban districts and in public conveyances. The inventor is W. S. Barnett, wbo also devised the Ferris wheel, jack-pot and other card-playing ma- chines.
Coin=in=the=slot Bicycles
Slot machines are the latest addition to the bicycle outfit introduced at Berlin. They are attached to bicycles that are rented and those using them must drop a nickel into the machine to keep the wheels in motion. A Frenchman has succeeded in the construction of a bicycle that can be taken apart and carried in a bag without inconvenience.
The penny-in-the-slot machines have at last
made their appearance in Springfield, Mo. It is satisfactory to know this, as it shows that Springfield is not entirely beyond the elevating influences of civilization.
Doings among tbe pbonograpb ano (Srapbopbone lEybibitors.
At a fair given in Brooklyn last month Mr. C. H. Oxenham, with a phonograph exhibition, added much to the amusement of those who attended, and succeeded in getting a "record" for his mysterious little machine that he con- siders one of the most novel ever taken. The "record" included a chorus by young folks, the screams of a fainting woman, and a song by three Windsor Terrace Chinamen. The screams belonged to Mrs. Jeremiah Earle, and the Chi- nese song was executed by Charles Washem Foo, a laundryman residing on Adams place, and his two assistants. The young folks had just finished one verse of their chorus when Mrs. Earle, who was sitting near the phono- graph, uttered two sharp screams and fainted away. In an instant there was confusion and the chorus was about broken up, but Mr. Oxen- ham kept the singers together and the second verse was sung without interruption. Then the three Chinamen were put in front of the funnel and went through their little act with about as much giggling as would be expected of three school girls, and then it was all over. Mr. Oxenham did not think that Mrs. Earle's screams would be reproduced, but the machine had been only too alert, and that lady then had the opportunity of not only hearing how a woman screams when she faints away, out her own screams. She could not be induced to listen to them, however. This particular cylin- der proved quite a drawing card and resulted in big and unexpected receipts.
Mr. Frank Thayer, one of the leading West- ern exhibitors, reports business as very dull in the West.
D. H. Armstrong is giving very successful ex- hibitions with the Phonograph in Arizona. His catalogue of records is very neat and illus- trates the class of exhibition that is bound to succeed.
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Myers tells me that some one sent him an order for a record of the song, "I Love to See My dear Old Mother Work."
The man who wrote the song, "It Never Came Back" should see the "Home." A great chance for a companion song.
Some one said Walcutt leads (ain't that a wonder), but he'll never get there at 50c a bunch. They fade too quick.
The people in Topeka who know "George," will be pleased to know that he "rides a bike" now. And the wind— .
'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song; But the man worth while, Is the man with a smile. When the "push" in his battery's gone.
Corbett and Fitzsimmons would be a frost in front of the kinetoscope. But if you could get a good strong phonograph — well I guess yes.
I heard this in a phonograph parlor the other day: Proprietor— "Excuse me, this is a bad nickle." Patron.— "Is it? Well, you just gave it to me in change." Proprietor. — "Did I?" Pa- tron.— "Yes." Proprietor.— "Oh."
The funniest thing in the business is Len Spencer, who weighs a good 200, singing "Wait, Mr. Postman, Wait," and trying to im- agine he's a little one, as suggested by the song.
An exhibitor tells us it is a fact that his phonograph "talks louder" at midnight than in the day time. I heard a phonograph last Sunday in a Raines law hotel and I was sur- prised. I never knew she spoke so loud.
I understand that a scientist has invented an instrument to photograph your thoughts. I'd like to see a photo of mine when I looked at the motor of my "Home," after I'd wound it up too hard.
Lincoln once said: "You can fool some of the people all the time, all the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time." But still the two Mc's and Bryans are great sellers.
Some of the song writers should sing their songs to the 'Phone or 'Graph, and hear them reproduced before they publish them. I tried to wrestle with "Her Thoughts Seemed Fixed on Something Far Away" in a patter song, the other day, and had to bend my face back into shape again.
Why do all the song writers always have their "demure, innocent, pious, simple, gawkish, tender, bashful maidens go to the Bowery and on Broadway to see things? What's the mat- ter with Fourteenth street and Fifth avenue for a change? They're there just the same.
I spoke last month about the Prince of Wales scratching his head, etc., as reproduced by the cinematograph. I see one paper explains it thus: "The movement referred to is simply a momentary placing of the hand to the ears, probably to brush away an intrusive fly." I've always heard it said that there were no flies on Al. How about this?
I've corns on my fingers from writing, and a dislocated jaw from pronouncing some of the names of projecting machines, but I'm going to tackle this one if I loose a finger, phronothana- toletron! Oh! Ain't that a bird? and 1 under- stand that it was invented by a woman in Ar- kansas, and turns with a crank (I mean the machine). I'm going to call mine the Trunup- movingpicturesonascreenoscope, and do 'em all up.
The phonograph has a surprising number of friends. The phonographs in ferry stations and other public places are listened to with expres- sions of rapt delight that is amazing. It can- not all be a scientific interest, in the marvel of the apparatus, and if it isn't what is it? Re- fined-looking women who would be shocked to find themselves in the music halls where the songs are sung on the stage cloister around the phonograph with delight. They not only do that, but also they go to accept a free treat of music from some one who has paid an honest penny for it.
(Beneral IRews
As predicted in this column last month, a New York Phonograph company has gone out of the business. The firm of Miller & Hagan, known as the Phonograph Record and Supply Company, have sold out. Their stock was bought up by a number of New York parties, principally G. Bettini and Russell Hunting.
The Columbia Phonograph Company have in preparation a new machine which they will style the "Columbia Type B." We have seen the model of this machine. It is, or will be, one of the most practical talking machines on the market. It is the same style as the present Columbia, fitted with a spring motor which will run one hour with a single winding, and will be supplied with cylinders 6% inches long, upon which a selection of fifteen minutes dura- tion can be recorded.
We understand that Mr. C. G. Childs has sev- ered his connection with the Ohio Phonograph Company.
The Columbia Phonograph Company have leased the whole building over their Broadway parlor, and are going to move their headquar- ters from Washington to New York.
We have tested a battery manufactured by the Southern Battery Company, which, in our opin- ion, far outclasses anything in that line yet put on the market.
We have heard some vocal records taken by Chicago Talking Machine Company; that are sold for 50c, which far surpasses some offered by rival companies for $1.
We have received illustrations and informa- tion pertaining to the Kinematograph, the lead- ing English projecting machine, now being ex- hibited at the Royal Aquarium. Full descrip- tion and illustrations of this machine will ap- pear in our next issue.
We have had an interesting interview with Mr. Moore, of the Multiplex Phonograph Com- pany. He is very enthusiastic over the Multi- plex. We share his enthusiasm, and recom- mend his Multiplex attachment to all users of the 'Phone.
There are 2,827 automatic slot machines in the city of Brooklyn. These figures were com- piled from a census taken by the city authori- ties who contemplate levying a tax on same.
man H. Howe's Phonograph exhibition, reports man H. Howes Phonograph exhibition, reports business in Pennsylvania as Al.
Mr. Thos. Wardell has let his Phonograph parlor in Lowell, Mass. He says "winter busi- ness in Lowell is very bad. I cannot under- stand why people are so changeable. In spring, summer and fall they spend money freely, but in winter — not a cent."
The International Film Company have been vigorously at work perfecting their new pro- ing machine. They claim it will surpass any yet on the market. Judging from the trial ex- hibition, which we were fortunate enough to attend, their claim is a just one. A full de- scription and illustration of this machine will appear in our January issue.
Mr. C. S. Rhea, of the Traveling Edison Ex- hibition Company, Messrs. Wainwright & Rock, of Edison Vitascope Company, New Orleans, and Mr. J. P. Harris, of Eden Musee, Pittsburg. Pa., were in New York last month purchasing films, etc, for their "projectors."
Raff and Gammon report that there is a good demand for the Vitascope for church fairs, etc.
The San Antonio Phonograph Company have taken some very fine Spanish Records