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EDISON GENERAL FILE SERIES

1915

Edison General File Series 1915. Phonograph - General (E-15-65)

This folder contains correspondence, interoffice communications, and other documents relating to the commercial and technical development of Edison's cylinder and disc phonograph. Included are letters pertaining to the selection of talent, music, and musical instruments for recording; customer relations; and activities among Edison’s agents and competitors. Many of the incoming letters bear Edison's draft reply in the form of marginalia. Among he documents for 1915 are numerous items regarding the marketing of the Edison Diamond Disc phonograph. A communication from Walter L. tcKert general auditor of Thomas A. Edison, Inc., lists monthly expenses for recital and demonstration work from September 1914 through January 1915 There are also references to recitals sponsored by local phonograph dealers. In addition, there are testimonial letters and reports by demonstrators in regard to a series of non-commercial recitals at churches, hospitals, schools, police and fire departments, fraternal lodges, and other organizations. A sample of these documents has been selected.

Other items relate to the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego and the Panama-Pacific Exhibition in San Francisco, the preservation of sound recordings, and product quality testing. Also included are recommendations of songs and recording artists, complaints about the technical and artistic quality and limited repertoire of Edison recordings and suggestions for improvements in the phonograph, some of which Edison referred to members of the laboratory staff for consideration and comment. Several documents refer to an attachment that would allow the lateral-cut records produced by Victor and Columbia to be played on Edison Diamond Disc phonographs. At the end of the folder is a 72-page pamphlet with annotations by Edison, entitled Edison Retail Salesman's Sales Manual along with a promotional brochure for the Edison Dictating Machine entitled The Goose, the Typewriter, and the Wizard.

The correspondents include George L. Babson and L. S. McCormick of the Phonograph Corporation of Manhattan M M. I B|acJman of ^ Phonograph Co. (Kansas City), Herbert E. Blake of Blake & Burkart, H. H. Blish and George C. Silzer of Harger & Blish, C. E. Goodwin of th Phonograph Co. (Chicago), and numerous other phonograph dealers and marketing representatives. There are several letters by Thomas P.

Westendorf, composer of "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen," which reportedly was Edison’s favorite song. A letterfrom investment banker, benzol supplier, and phonograph enthusiast Clarence Dillon recounts an amusing anecdote about his six-year-old son (and future U.S. Secretary of the Treasury) C. Douglas Dillon.

Approximately 25 percent of the documents have been selected. The material not selected includes unsolicited suggestions and inquiries from inventors and other unsolicited correspondence receiving no substantive reply from Edison. Also not selected are lists of phonograph dealers, letters of transmittal and acknowledgment, and daily and weekly reports concerning quality testing, sales, and other commercial matters.

Edison General File Series 1915. Phonograph - General (E-15-65)

July - December

Doar Mr. Meadowcrof t :

The Edison Phonograph arrived a few days ago and it was put into opera¬ tion by the man you kindly sent. It is oortainly a wonderful instrument and I have greatly enjoyed some of the splen¬ did rooords.

Please aooept my best thanks for your kind interest in this matter.

Mr. YJ. H. l.toadoworoft ,

Edison Laboratories, Orange , H . J .

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My dear Mr. Edison:

I wish to express to you my best thanks for your kindness in send¬ ing me the new phonograph and reoords and particularly for the highly valued dedioatory plate. I have already enjoyed several of the splendid reoords, among which I have found the Female Solos and Violin Reoords to be exceptionally fine.

I shall treasuro this gift most highly and valuo it also for the friendly continent with whioh it was convoyed, as indicated by tho namo plate.

Again thanking you most sin-

Thomas A . Edison , Esq . , Orange ,

Hew Jersey.

Master and Miss Paradofska

WJ at

^ j July 6, 1915.

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Mr. Thomas A. Edison. . ) ixurfi*—

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Dear Sir: at^' " j

It is with a great degree of satisfaction that I offer the recital of Master and pHUs E&r adof ska r ^

In these two children we have a jreally distinctive musical novelty. Already they tove made a place for themselves here in Town, and have been accorded the recognition of the musical world.

I am now hooking their Summer engagements and should he very glad to arrange an appearance for you.

Yours faithfully,

-fcr,«£ <-cc*<n-"'4aS:

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[ATTACHMENT/ENCLOSURE]

Once in a blue moon tbe musical ’world is startled bp tbe appearance of some Mouthful pro¬ digy who, bp bis Voice or playing seems to con¬ trovert all known rules and theories as to study and practice. Last Winter there arrived in New York two such musical phenomena in the per¬ sons of Master Alado and Miss Olga Paradofska. They are brother and sister and are sixteen and fifteen pears of age, respectively.

The boy has a vJonderful personality and is a truly great pianist. He plays the composi¬ tions of Chopin, Grieg, Schumann, MoszkovJski, Bach, etc., vJith all the soul and temperament and fire of a master. He has committed to memory oVer one thousand pages of^music, and plaps such difficult things as the “Tann- hauser Overture,” the “Spanish Rhapsodp of Liszt and the “Riggoletto Paraphase” with finished individuality.

[ATTACHMENT/ENCLOSURE]

The girl has a coloratura-soprano voice of surpassing beauty and tone. It is permanently placed and has a Wonderful range. She has a repertoire of over thirty arias from grand opera, and sings the “Mad Scene from Hamlet,” “Vissi de Arte from Tosca” and the “Pleading Song from Robert le Diable” with the grace and force¬ fulness of a Prima Donna.

From a cultured family and speaking over six languages, Master and Miss Paradofska are a most picturesque little pair. It seems extraordi¬ nary that at their age they should be able to gWe a recital worthy of the critical attention of the most discerning music lover, and at the same time retain all the sweet and simple ways of children.

Unassuming and modest vjhen they appear in public, their audiences are thrilled and aston¬ ished at the positive power and musical expres¬ sion of these two children.

This Summer they will accept a few en¬ gagements to appear in private drawing-rooms, and vJill furnish a complete surprise to those who can arrange to have them.

Peter NevJton.

Aeolian Hall,

New York.

Telephone, Bryant 8538

July 6, 1916.

Mr. Mitchell:

In the minutes of the sixth engineering committee meeting, will he found a memorandum as follows .

"A test was made to determine whether the Edison Diamond Grease which is now used in the Assembling Department could he smeared on steel parts to prevent rusting. A pieoe of steel was partially ooated^with this greaie and left e^osed out of doors for several weeks. When the grease was removed, the metal was found to ho in A-l .oondition. 0/e ,,

this grease for use for such gurposo.

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indicated.

M. S. HUTOHISOM.

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Orange, A Hi <vw\

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Bear Sir. Heoently> j ‘h^'g^jnterr^iew^ ^Lth Cha^es^Jiankel the composer who has set helore theWrld snesd “aaterfly musical themes a^K‘p!S|§pxtl^y ^ }ff PJfif

This man',1'' ^ ‘feTar n'^'i e ,, a 'ataunch friend of Philip

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Sousa many of whose Best compositions havejjsen submitted to him (Kunkel) for criticism. Mr. Kunkel egj^Llarge £®es for his criticisms of other composer'e themes.

This Kunkle is an admirer of the DIAMOND DISC and the object of the interview, at hie own solicitation, was to

records and instrumental solos. He criticises these severely, not alone our instrument but all reproducing machines claiming that these accompaniments far from being executed correctly as to balance etc. Ee informs me that this Pall he intends negotia¬ ting with the Victor Co. to produce some "perfect piano records" and "perfect piano accompaniments such as have never been known before". He imploys, he tells me, a' method ¥hat renders the ree- ording of the piano nearly perfect and, as relatives of his (one a son) are local representatives for the DIAMOND DISC under the name of Kunkel & Kenkel he is as willing to perfect these accom¬ paniments and produce piano records for you as for the Victor Co. if sufficient inducements are tendered him.

Mr. Kunkel' s address ie *2828 Nest Pine 3oulevard,St. Louis. Very respeotfully ,

01tc Ituiuersity nf jEttutcanta

(Enllrgr of Srlcitcr. Sitcralurr. anil tljr Arln ffllm iirnlta

July

Mr. Thomas AlvaJjt Edison,

Elizabeth, New Jersey.

Dear Sir:-

The enclosed circular is self-explana¬ tory, and X need not dwell on the national im¬ portance of the undertaking. Permit me to men¬ tion, however, that under no circumstances is there any hope for personal gain of any kind whatsoever connected with this on the part of those who are starting this enterprise. We are sending thi3 letter to about fifty men of na¬ tional standing with the intention of using their endorsements as an exhibit in our petition to the Carnegie Institution, and should be very glad if you would consent to express your approval by your signature on the enolosed card.

Permit me to add a request for commercial advice , which I ask you to refer to the appropriate department. In submitting the petition it will be essential to give an appropriate estimate of the probable oost of the undertaking. On the basis of collecting one thousand records a year — assuming one thousand to be a minimum which could be multi-

piled as the financial appropriations may permit— what would he the cost of preparing these records merely from the technical side; that is, not count¬ ing expenses for field work, correspondence, and similar matters.

Trusting that you will he willing to co¬ operate with us in this important scientific enter¬ prise , I am

P-P

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Very sincerely yours.

[ATTACHMENT/ENCLOSURE]

To the President, 'Jarnegie ins

intt rrusuees 01 me Dilution ,

Washington, J).0.

I support the petition for the estab¬ lishment of a national Phonogram Arohivo for the purpose of collecting, preserving, reproducing and distributing records of American speech, and for the purpose of preparing an American dialect atlas.

July 10th. 1915.

Ur. EDISOH:

Here are all the papers relating to this invention. I suppose there Is no such Immediate hurry that it cannot wait un¬ til 1 return from vacation. If you think it can wait, this memo¬ randum and these papers can go to my stenographer and he will file them so that I will take them up again on my return.

M5ADOWCROFT .

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ST. LOUIS, MO. July 12( 1915, V

A. Edison, \ C “ '

ange , N, J.

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We are enclosing herewith a, com: a ~uJ

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e Globe-Demo crav; one of our leading da:

have forwarded a copy to all of

Thie series of articles was gotten up by our Ur* Silverstone and published twice a week

- Automatic) Stop Arm

Mr. Edison:-

A model of this device, like the attached photograph,

has been made and teeted out.

There many difficulties in the nay to make it success¬ ful and believe that the call for it uould be small.

Advise that nothing further be done uith it, and can see no objection to aliening Hr. Pettlbone to manufacture this de¬ vice as an attachment to the phonograph, if he nisheo to.

John P. Constable. Assistant Chief Engineer.

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FRAMHNHJIIIA.M CENTER IHL^SSACJJUUJSllCTTS

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'Summer addrees Box 231 ::::::

Ogunquit Maine

Ogunquit, Maine, July 15th 1915

Bear Mr, Edison:

In one of your kind letters you Bpoke of a new series of Diamond Disc phonographs. May I trouble you once more, to aek if the mechanism of the later instru¬ ments io "an improvement" over the present machines, or just the same? As soon ,as they are ready my intention is to order another (my fifth order, by the way!) and thiB is why I ask. I take a sincero interest in the ”£(d this afternoon a party of music-loving f our bungalow to hoar what the diamond d Very truly yours,

Mr.Thos A. Edison.

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Keokuk, Iowa

July’ 17, ISIS .

. . with off Ar> OOO

Kr. H. t . Miller, Secretary,

Thos. A. Edison Laboratory,

Orange, H. J.

Dear Sir, ^ b(jg to ROknowledge yours of the 14th. inst. viith Ar < ■

th- invention that 1 made for you. I will accept on those terms thrft tn- invou draw up your contracts at once if you ffflBn

proceed to Jet the asoiSenfmade over to you exclusively. > can correspond to me concerning what I should do, and I will meet/our commands. /

As for getting a patent, I think you will have no tXble.

T .h1nk that thisSwill not conflict vith the French patent i/^lOlas, L 5; os not encase the speaker like the French patent but i filler of Rubber which is a marvel and peculiar to itself on the 2d i- son monograph. Ijill^end to ^ich^you c^

and"sof tness of the tone is marvelous in the voices especially.

Have Mr. Edison inspect this devise that I send and Judge as + n merits . I sent the diaphragm arm that tho oevise v.as attached tn T'r readoweroft, Mr. Edison's assistant. This diaphragm arm has a feed nut of the series #22409 *hich I cannot get from the agen- rv If “on can send me a duplicate so that I can preserve my machine, I will remit on price if it is at your convenience.

vou will understand that any improvements that I may be able to make at any time will be gratis to the ;,d is on Co., that is, if it is anything of Importance to your corporati n.

Yours respectfully,

<T

E. Eo FITZHUGH & CO.

FIRE INSURANCE

Waco, Texas, _ iTvtly 17th 1915 —

.Thomas A. Edison )

_ Oronge N.J.

r Sir -' Sometimes a valuable idea strikes even an ordinary brain which if followed up would be of value- This has probably been worked out already-

The idea I have is that a contrivance might be invented by- means of whioh a record may be made on a tablet or something of the kind in connection with the telephone to record the number of the phono whence the call eminatos.

This would bo a great convenience to the owner of a phone- should ho be absent from his offioe and return and find a rec¬ ord of the callB that had been made, during his absence- . this would give him the information,^ to who had called him. Has anything of this kind ever been- tried out- An answer would be highly appreciated-

d. <£.

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Frederic A. Whiting

t.-'Vftrc,.

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I "hato awfully" to corua ao 3oon with another quoation.but it io not a matt or of curiosity but deep intaro st and musical enthusiasm.

About two months ago you spots of the improved mechanism of the now phonographs, and the now circular announcements, which I 'nave seen, speak of the same feature . . . improved mechanism. That io vrhat X wieh to make suro of. If there is to be any improvement in the mechanical construc¬ tion X wish to wait for that; but if not (ao you* note just received implies,) I might as well order my fifth "Edisona" now. Your note says "the improvement is in the records. " Good'. Maybe you'll oliminate the friction and noise.

But-— io tho mechanical construction to remain unchanged? That is what I auk

I heartily approve the largo orches¬ tra and the reproduction of Boothoven's works. They will bo received by music lovers with enthusiasm. Some of the bout impressions I have made on listenors is with the oorioua and sacred records. .the oimvle hymns (such as O; love that will not let ma go'Caung so evenly and well, by a well balanced quartet; ). .and when any one questions the supremacy of the "Edi- oona" I wive one of the bout Victor rec- ors -one of Yelba's- and follow that with your #82059 . . or 82525.. or 82076.. or some othor absolutely truthful reproduction of a perfect voice.

The Canadian Mutoscope Co.

OFFICE: 282 ST. LAWRENCE BOULEVARD

MONTREAL, CAN . Jm? 81 / 15

Thomas A. Edison, Inc, ORANGE. N.J.

Dear SirB:-

There is a Big Demand for the £

WEN IRISH EYES ARE SMILING,

I enolose a Newspaper Clipping from The Montreal Daily Star.

You ought to make a Record of this Song by Manuel Romain. and get-tout as soon as possible,

making

There are Two Singers that you have been^Rocords from and putting on good Songs and they have been Killing them,

No One will listen to the Songs they sing,' even at a Cent Game, these Singers are Frank X.Doyle and Owen J. McCormack,

You should Cut them from your Record Making, for they are Punk,

another thing I would like to draw your attention to,

is the Blue Amberol Records are not near as Good now as they were

at First ,

They Tone is not near like what they used to be, they have a far Off distant Tone as though the Singers were Singing Through a Megaohone ,

You ought to look into this matter and see where the trouble is,

I Told Mr Coleman of The R.S. Williams & Sons Co .Montreal, several Times about the this defect in the Blue Amberol Records,

I dont know how you expect Dealers to Sell these Records @ 70^ when the Public refuse to Pay One Cent to listen to them,

I am speaking from the experience I am having in Our Arcade,

Your3 very truly

262 St Lawrence Blvd,

MONTREAL. CAN,

[ATTACHMENT/ENCLOSURE]

THE MONTREAL DAILY STAR: SATURDAY, JULY

A SERIOUS COMPETITOR WITH "TIPPERARY" A T THE FRONT 1

"When Irlih- Eyes -Are Smiling”— an extremely catchy tune which is familiar to most Londoners— has to a certain extent ^challenged . “Tipperary” in popularity qt the front. . Its .original melody and sirong -'undercuri-ent of 'em otion appeal strongly -to . Tommy’s fancy. All up-to-date regiments, are humming -it, says the London Sphere. Here is the chorus:

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July 23, 1916.

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Hof erring to the attaohod memorandum from Hr. Edisoh. X thoroughly agree that we should he able to place a Diamond Disc Phonograph in every good motion picture theatre.

In the past we have made several abortive efforts in this direction. The obstacle encountered in the ordinary solicitation +vn+ +Vi« i Yin'fc-mmprit . not being ablo to ploy music cues for the pictures, simply represented an added expense in no way neoesBary to the oonduct of the theatre. It requires actual demonstration in a motion picture theatre and proof that music on the Edison Diamond DIbc draws patronage to separate a h. P. man from his money. The Phonograph Company, Kansas City, is experimenting in the motion pioturo field and urging its dealers to** do so, hut as yot no very satisfactory plan of procedure has been developed.

One plan of prooodure that we might try is to run an ad in tho Kinetogram, the Motion Picture Division's house organ whioh reaches a largo numhor of motion picture oxhj.bivorB.

In this advertisement we could urge motion pioturo theatres to add the Diamond Disc as a special feature of their program, and suggest that thoy try tho experiment hy borrowing an instrument from the looalnBdison dealer. A y^y jfgotlve could he written along this lino ///that the theatre would m, cmnA Anal of monev to have Anna Case oomo there and sing. ^Jests CS si that when Caso sings with her Diamond Di^c records

tho recreation of her voioo cannot bo distinguished from the original, eto., etc.

in the Phonograph°°tonthlyfetheradvertileSenthwe run In *£®t^t0"

fheatras^for^the opportunity^to'demonstrate^hetoer the Edison

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and we would of course invoice the co-operation of the Jobbers.

The foregoing is simple enough ,

•d) Should we prepare a one sheet poster to he state that the artist is singing at the theatre?

Mr. Hlley -2-

(2) If a one eheot poster 1b not the thing for ub to use , should we have oomo oort of placard?

(3) Should wo prepare b ample advertisements and preo8 notices for the theatre to uso?

(4) Should we prepare slides, and If so, along

what lines?

I should like it very much If you would have your men, or at least your squad managers, give ub their suggostions.

WH-AB

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Regarding the use. of the Amberola "30" for the International Corron-

Same tine ago, when we decided to make experiments on Eamo Recording fo/^this machine. It was deoided to sell the same equipment, if it was ssooeosfnl, e International Correspondenoe Schools.

I enclose correspondence from Ur. Durand and understand from him that . 0. S., require a two-minute machine. For home recording we axe working on >! th/e four-minute machine only and 1 would like to he advised as to whether we want to go Into this matter for two-mlnute machines , which will necessitate a twoemin- ute Recorder, a two-mlnute Reproducer, two-mlnute Feed Sorew, and a two-ainate Feed Hut, which will he different from the regular standard tohorola "BO".

As I understand at the time the I. 0. s were to use our standard equip¬ ment for the Anfcerola "BO" except the Recorder end Roprodnoer, and that would he standard for the Home Recording on this machine. Kindly . advise me on this

matter and I will take It up with Ur. Edison, to see what he wants me to do on the subject.

Might report for the present, that the Home Recording hoe been held up for some more Important work vtoloh Ur. Kennedy has had to take care of ftoe for lhax Mr. Edison. Also that this work shows progress, hut it will be some houtho be¬ fore we will be able to put anything on the nniket for Home Recording, and that there are still a good many difficulties to be overcome.

John F. ConB table.

P

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t\)^[ ^pg^uitjMaino, July 28th 191^/r

My dear Mr. Edison: ■ . „ _Jk} &$&v> f/^Ct

tiger • comas that plaguoy Mr .Whiting againl Tou floa I am an^disona" enthusiast, and am studying my inatruj^^^ y>J

°°nwh^ri1«pra8Bed tha personal opinion thaVthe inatruuente of the a ana number or prioe did not give equal results, the agents in Boston \ ^

smiladl Wall, I an constantly more sure of it, and there must be a reason, and the reason is important to you, Whatever it may be. . J/ux

• Yesterday I received the large and impressive folio of kta the ^ lA < Aeolian-Vocalion. It is surely costly advertising, but is very inter- iUt^

eating to real mueio lovers, instructive if true,and giving many sug- ^ gestions in regard to phonographs generally. Of course you have seen this, but if not by all means send for it to the Aeolian Company, Hew York. /h_i I"/ Part of it tends to confirm my opinion that the construction of LJ v

the motor is far from the whole. That the box or case has a good deal '

to do with the result. Experiments along this line might lead to something. 1 ■

Aside from my personal experience or ob servation, other sliave re¬ ported to me their ideas. Yesterday a guest who was delighted with the little "80" we have here, was surprised to findit an Edison.

A friond and neighbor of hers, at her home,had a "250" Edison and it was inferior to the Viotrola next door. I gave a son and a daughter eacg a "250" Edison. One of the sane aiae was bought^ a friend (at Framingham, Mass. ) and is inferior to the first two. Now I realise that this may be partly owing to environment. The room may be unfa¬ vorable to best re suits; but I think the instrument is not equalto the others. I have ordered from F.H.ThomaaCo. .Boston.thefirst of the new series Model A-I00, that is received by them. But this "80 I have here is so dear, so free' front defsots of tone-reproduotion, from noise (comparatively,) that I would not give it up for anr larger instrument unheard.. So I am still more convinced that the in¬ struments of same sise vary, and that they cannot be turned out auto¬ matically, like the parts of a Ford Motor.

You seo I am a sort of volunteer and unreoompensed preBS agont for The Edisona.out of personal enthusiasm and admiration,and also gratitude for the pleasure I have realised and given others; so I can't feel it quite intrusive when "an idea" comes to me that may possibly be of value, to pass it along. Sometimes oven .the Pulpit may get a useful hint from the Pews!

I have taken a page or two from the Vooalion folio and enclose it on the mere chanoo that you may not have seen it.And if I “*®“ “ aive or over-persistent, pray lay it to genuine and admiring interest and not at all to oritlcism. __

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“TIIK GllADUOLA”

I1E second great fenlure of The Aeolian- Yociilion is Ihe means it offers for controlling tone.

The desirability, if not the actual necessity forsueh a feature, is obvious. That it is recognized by all manufacturers is shown by the various methods provided, such as doors, shutters, mules, etc., the use of different toned needles, and by dozens of inven¬ tions on record in the Patent Offices here and abroad.

It may be said, however, without fear of successful contradiction, that The Graduola, invented by Mr. F. J. Empson and used ex¬ clusively on The Aeolian- Yocalion, is not only the most simple and efficient means of phono¬ graphic lone-control yet devised, but that it is the only device that fully meets both scientific and musical requirements.

It will be perhaps just as well before going on to describe the uses and construction of The Graduola to explain that it is not an arbitrary feature.

Tone-Control is no more a necessity with The Aeolian- Yocalion than with the ordinary phono¬ graph.

Indeed, the ability of The Aeolian- Vocalion to render a more perfect reproduction of the performances of a great artist, renders tone- control less necessary than with other phono¬ graphs.

It must be understood Unit The Aeolian- Vocalion will play a record without any more attention than other phonographs require.

It is only necessary, however, to hear The Aeolian-Vocalion played with The Grnduola

in use, to immediately grasp the enormous possibilities offered by this extraordinary fea-

One listens with delight while some favorite record is played ; hears the masterly inter¬ pretation of the artist given delicate varia¬ tions in detail that impart to it fresh beauty and interest.

And one realizes that at last a method has been found to prevent these marvelous rec¬ ords ever becoming monotonous through repe¬ tition — a method for introducing just those subtle and changing shades of expression with which the artists themselves, vary each per¬ formance.

If the Graduola could do no more than this — change valuable records from stereotyped per¬ formances into warm, living, personal renditions without essentially altering the artist'sexpression — it would be immensely valuable to both the phonograph and to those who buy it.

The Graduola has other vital functions, how¬ ever. It compensates in large measure for the limitations of record making by present methods, and it furnishes a well-nigh perfect means by which every music-lover may give expression to his musical instincts.

si Remedy for Faults in Reproduction

As has already been said, no machines have yet been made which can record a tone-wave with scientific exactitude.

While it is perhaps not necessary that they should do so in every particular, there is one vital point where their shortcomings seriously

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u fleet, the niusicul result. This is in their inability to record a perfect pianissimo.

This defect is recognized by manufacturers, but is apparently impossible yet to overcome.

The reason for it lies in the fact that if the artist whose performance is being recorded sings or plays as softly ns he would ordinarily, the lone-waves he creates have not sufficient in¬ tensity to make a distinct impression.

been used by the artist himself when ho made the record.

Personal Interpretation It is probably safe to say that, no one who has ever owned a phonograph, has not felt the desire more or less keenly, to lake some part in its performances.

It. mny .be to vary ever so slightly some of his

Hence in making records the artist is not

Everyone familiar with music can realize the seriousness of this.

The pianissimo is one of the most important as well as beautiful musical effects. Its absence must definitely mar an otherwise perfect per¬ formance.

Here the Crnduola on The Aeolian-' Vocation is invaluable. Its marvelous capacity for tone¬ shading permits it to be used to produce an ideal pianissimo, and its wonderful construction is such that the most experienced ear cannot tell that this delicate and beautiful effect has not

best records that are becoming tiresome; to give a needed lone-contrast to records which entirely lack this feature; or simply to grul ify the creative musical instinct which every normal human being possesses to some extent.

Whatever the desire, however, the Graduola furnishes the means to gratify it.

Its simplicity and the manner of using it lend themselves to the perfect expression of the performer’s musical taste. Its controlling motions are so slight and the fact that one may stand, or sit, at an appreciable distance from the instrument, arid greatly to its artistic value and charm.

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Till! frequency of these vihral ions may be very high, particularly in the ease of the upper notes of the musical scale. For example, the fundamental of the lowest note on a piano (tuned to international pitch) is 27-2/10 lmek and forth movements to the second; that of the fundamental of middle C is 258-0/10 to the second, and that of the highest note, 4138-1/10 to the second.

The lower notes on the piano have the greater number of part inis (20 or more), while the highest note probably has no more than 1 partial, besides its fundamental. JCven so, however, the frequency of this 1 partial is twice that of its fundamental, or approximately 8270 movements to the second.

Marvelous Delicacj/

When it is realized that the reproducing dia¬ phragm of the phonograph must definitely move backwards and forwards with the frequency of vibration not only of every fundamental in a musical tone, but with that of all its partials as well, the marvel appears that anything can be made so inconceivably sensitive and delicate.

And it must be remembered that these in¬ credibly swift movements must be transmitted from the sound-line on the record to this dia¬ phragm; that they must be taken up by the needle, carried through the needle and needle- bar and so accurately impressed on the dia¬ phragm that it will itself vibrate and start new sound-waves of the same frequency and character as the originals.

II will not be necessary lo go further lo convey

some idea of the prof . id problems eonneeled

wi(h making a .scientifically aeeurate sound-box.

While exact accuracy is not claimed for The Aeolian-Vocalion sound-box, it is claimed and can be demonstrated that this feature comes much closer lo scientific exactitude than any other yet produced.

It would be impossible for any one lo judge by casual inspection the technical efficiency ol this new and patented sound-box. Such an inspection will disclose, however, the unparal¬ leled degree of care and obvious skill shown in its construction.

Tiik Tonk Arm

The shape of the tone-arm used in The Aeolian-Vocalion is absolutely cylindrical from end to end. It has been demonstrated by experiment that this is the most practical as well as satisfactory design that can be used.

This tone-arm is of novel construction. It swivels freely on the neck of the horn without, either exerting a retarding movement to the revolving record or affording any opportunity for leakage.

This latter defect, particularly, is a serious drawback to tone-arms less scientifically con¬ structed. Any leakage whatsoever tends to absorb from the tone-wave certain configurations that are essential lo maintaining its distinctive character.

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Tim Sym phonetic Horn

The horn of the phonograph is used to amplify the tones produced in its sound-box. It does this by increasing the energy and size of the

of machine may be very successful in reprodu¬ cing certain fluidities of the human voice fir of certain instruments, and distinctly inferior in reproducing other tones, while another make may be exactly the reverse.

It should be understood that in the process of recording the original sound-waves are luken from the air, as it were, and translated into a microscopic line engraved in wax, and that undoubtedly they are reduced both in energy anti size fluring the process. Also that when the sound-box retranslates this line back into waves they still lack both their original energy anti dimensions.

The horn to perform its function must re¬ store these ami just to the extent that it is capable of delivering a faithful counterpart of the original wave, does it serve its purpose.

It is a recognized fact that in spite of the general excellence of the horns used to-day on the best instruments, all of them present more or less serious faults, l'or example, one make

A knowledge of what it is that constitutes the distinctive quality of any tone or voice, as well as the definite ell'ccl the design of the horn has on lone-waves, helps to explain these irregulari¬ ties of result.

Experiment has indicated that the distinctive string quality of the violin is due to the emphasis of its 3rd and nth partials; while that of the Clarionet is due to the emphasis of its 7th, 8th anti Olh partials.

Preserving' the Tone Quality

Now, if the emphasis were removed from these partials, the 3rd or olh of the violin, for instance, the musical tone Would still be heard, but it would nt> longer be that of the violin; might indeed sound like that of an entirely different instrument.

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st rail'd Ilian l>.v ils remarkable success in per- In the order of llicir functioning these parts

feel ill)? The Aeolian-Vocalion. are as follows: _

The Perfected Phonoffraph

Referring lo I he wave which carries llie eom- plcle ell'cel, of an orchestra (shown on pages 1‘2 and Itl), it. will be seen that, all the microscopic variations in the contour of the wave, or wlnil maybe called the sound line, are important, and indispensable factors. Kvery variation in the sound-line represents the elfecl. of partial tones, tile number and character of which absolutely determine the quality of the lone and its identity.

Just, lo the extent, that a phonograph is able to create an exact, counterpart, of the original lone-wave, it may be said lo be a perfect iiislru-

W’liile scion I ideally speaking, no phonograph has vet been able lo do this, il is a fact llial The Aeoiian-Yocnlion conies far nearer lo it. than anything hitherto produced.

Due lo the unparalleled conditions under which this iiislriimcnl has been constructed, il is able to deliver an almost faultless reproduction of any recorded musical lone.

Exclusive Tonal Features

While not generally recognized il is a fael that every part of a phonograph has a more or less definite elfecl upon the supremely sensitive • contour of a lone-wave.

This being the case il will be readily seen how vitally important, it. is llml every factor em¬ ployed in actually generating and delivering the sound-wave, from the needle itself to the extreme outer rim of the horn, shall be designed and con¬ st rueled on strictly scientific lines. Only under these conditions can the recorded lone be de¬ livered from the instrument without over emphasizing, minimizing or obliterating certain of ils pari mis and thus definitely changing its finality, if 110L its entire character.

In constructing The Aeolian-Vocalion, each of ils parts has been the subject of careful study, and il is due largely to this and lo llicir perfection both as units and as a correlated whole, that the lone of this instrument arouses amazement.

THE Needle

It will be remembered that the function of its needle is lo trace the sound-line made by the cutting-tool, and lo transmit, its variations to a reproducing diaphragm.

To fully grasp the part the needle plays, it should be realized that the sound-line it traces is micmsmpic. It is imposed on tile side walls of a groove approximately 4/1000 of an inch deep and so minute, that 00 of these grooves, separated by relatively substantial side-walls, occupy but one inch of space.

Now also bearing in mind that this sound-line must faithfully reproduce the variations in a tone-wave conveying I he effect, of a fiill-orchcsl ra

—that is, a tone-wave with an almost infinite number of definite variations, the necessities of the case become apparent. The reproducing needle must represent the most delicate balance of adjustment, just rigid enough lo respond to and transmit even the slightest impress.

Experience has shown that among the different reproducing points employed on phonographs, what is known as a stiff needle is most satis¬ factory.

This type is the only needle capable of trans¬ mitting the impress of all the minute variations in the sound-line lo the diaphragm and hence of generating a faithful reproduction of the recorded tone-wave.

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The idea is to use a phono "for (Vtend^d printed

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A great many people have trouble with their eyes. (

and would ce glad to have some one read to them if they could o-at someone : .but unless one is wealthy a reader is a luxury. My idea is to use the phonograph for a reader.

Use a.cydinder Machine with a stationary reproducer ana have the long work recorded on a continuous, flexible tape' or film, made rfof a material fairly durable and suitable for receiving a record of vibrations . It is to be wound on a spool or bobbin on one side of the machine, passed over the cylinder when reproduced, and rewound upon a spool or bobbin on the other. side.

I am not a mechanic, but it looks to me as though such a thing was practical, so I send it to you for whatever it may be worth. I think entire novels or operas could bo recorded. If they could be produced at a reasonable price, it seems to me a large sale could be worked up for them. It would be a new adjunct to the publishing business, and could be used in lecture, club or educational work.

Hoping this may prove of some value, I am

Yours truly,

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Mr. Meadowcroft:-

'< The idea of put tin" an oil, or sreaoe, pan under the Spiral Goar of the "A" type motor, as per LIr. Lininger's letter, was developed here and the drawings issued to the factory for this part, io dated February 13th. 1911.

A blue nrint of this drawing i3 being enolosed with this memorandum.

You will note that Mr. lininger cuggcsts a Fan to contain oil. Also , of ouch sice that it covers the whole lower end of the turn table support

frame and extends under the spiral gear.

In my letter of June 7th., I said that the idea of putting oil in the gear pan was very good, which io perfectly trye, but we cannot uso oil in this part because of the shipping of the phonograph. We are forced to use grease to overcome the danger of the oil opining out. Oil would he better than grease

:or this part, but we adopted grease for the foregoing reasons and have put this on 0.1 "A" * type machines, except a few of the vory first ones shipped out. Mr. I,in- .ngor probably has ono of those very first machines.

As I have said, the use of oil on this part and a properly de¬ signed pan would be very good but impracticable from our standpoint, hence we have seen using the small drip pan filled with groaso. »ia pan, as put on our modele Ln the past, ie not suited to the use of oil, honoe I said, there ie no objection to his using a special pan designed for oil. but of course this would be impracU^ for us on account of tho oil spilling in shipment. ' ^

Trusting that this information will be satisfactory, '

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the ring ana vibration of the stringy as well as a. mere staccata rap on the pitch cf the note. e^irunJ &•*■*'*

May I suggest that a^n^thoi^posiUg^-wh^^- not be very satisfactorily played *onanyt!uhg bjut a piano thrpe j of those best liked by a large number ^re-^ottsehaife 1 s

"Ihe Last Hope", Mendelssohn's "Spring Song" ana Liszt's "Liefc- straum" (No.c, Opus 62). Paderewski ' s "Minuet in G " and Cbaminade's "Ihe Flatterer" are also very popular numbers of this description.

I hope "you may find it convenient to offer us some of these in the near future, since the one you have brought out proves the Edison machine can actually give a satisfactory reproduction o'f the piano's swiftly vanishing tones.

Very truly yours,

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Montpelier, Verscnt, August 12th, 1915.

JOHN BELLAMY TAYLOR

CONSULTING ENGINEER

Soheneotady, Hew York, August 14, 1915.

Mr. Thomas A. Edison, Orange ,

Hew Jersey. Dear Sir:-

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I have been making a miorosoopio study of past and present phonograph reoordB , reoording and reproducing sapphires, steel needles, eto., andvthink- ing that some of these may be of interest to you .have pleasure in selecting and sending a few photographs attaohed. The pieoe of tin-foil made on February 27th, 1878, at the demonstration of the phonograph by Wm. H*

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■ Priest (later Sir William) at meeting of Sooiety of Telegraph Engineers, London , is the oldest reoord that X have had opportunity to photograph. Possibly you have in your poBsdsfiion, tin- foil ante-dating this.

X will appreciate it if you can give me authen¬ tic information on the various steps followOd-on the pitoh of your reoords. The 1878 London demonstration tin-foil has 12 lines per inoh. A small experimental tin- foil phono¬ graph whioh I have before me as I write, serial # 1043, property of my friend Mr. A. H. Eruesi, worked at 24 per inoh. The early model of phonograph exhibited for some

time in window of Fifth Avenue shop, appeared to he about 24 per inoh, though I did not have ohanoe to meas¬ ure this. I understand that your wax oylinders for a long time were 100 per inoh, that the business diotat- ing maohines are 150 per inoh, that the 4-minute and "Amberol" reoords are 200 per inoh and Diamond Diso /reoords 150 per inoh. Should I understand from phono - i graph artiole in Enoyolopaedia Brittanioa that oylinder 1 reoords working att 200 per inoh were put out a number V of yearB ago and then withdrawn?

X would also appreoiate having authentio infor¬ mation on your standard speeds at the several stages of the development , as the published literature is weak in this direotion, and .when studying or demonstrating old reoords , knowledgeA# the speed at whioh the reoord was made is of oourse ^sential for oorreot pitoh and quality.

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To quote from Uncle

Josh; ’I am so mad right now, that if I had have bitten my self, I -would have hydrophobia, and if I was able to put into words, just what I mean, you would certainly «nM investigate the present mode of man¬ ufacturing Blue Amber ol records. 'I dont know just how records are made, - but I do know that the later Blue Amberol records are not made like they were formerly. It seems to mo that they are not originally wade from the artists, but are duplicated fdom the Disc records, for I no- tice that whertOver the same record is on both the Disc & Cylinder, . fafaat # they are exactly alike, h<nce I draw the conclusion that you are making the double mistake of making the Disc records short enough to be

played to, and recorded by a cylinder recording Phonograph, and by this you are probably saving some expense, but you are turning out a very poor record, and the public will not stand for it; they will not have A them; we can not sell them, and you are fast killing the cylinder \

trade, for the public impression is; 'that you are going to discon- . \

tinue the manufacture of Cylinder machines & records. . '

I hope you will take my remarks Well, and compare some of the later records to some of the older ones, for instance:- 1840 to 2587. 1859

to 2641. 1712 compared to 2598. 1550 compared to 2275 etc. I could

give you many others, but if you will compare those, you will certainly note the difference if you have a musical ear. All of the later records

are very harsh, and give me and my customers the head ache, while the blue Amberol records up to about #2200, are clear cut and pleasing to / listen too. Hoping that you will investigate this matter for the / betterment of the Edison record trade, I am yours Truly. / 1

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Y/orcester Mass. August 19 1915

The mine is like a garden rich and rare..

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Many are the kinds within these flowery fields ,

Many like the little grainB on sanded shore That look and seem alike . Their modest yields Are what kind nature planned for them . Ho more.

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Alone; among these mental flowers is one Fashioned unlike the others by its side.

Standing preeminent . Like the glowing sun Whose stronger light the other orbs will hide .

This the master mind, Nature gave him the key To her wondrous workshop . There through the night He pondered o'er her secrets . There worked he And chenged the derkness to brilliant light .

And yet more wonders wrought . In one volume found As pege he turned within that saored place , Vibrations oould be made to sweetly sound Even like the voice . Each note and cadence traoe.

And thus he taught inanimate things to sing In joyous voice or murmurings Blow and sad .

The breath of life he put in wheel and Bpring As in the soul . Both sorrowful and glad .

Taught he mans shadow on the wall to walk Take mens excentrio movements of arms and feet , pat soul and voice within so it oould talk ,

This shadow then, e living man complete.

Long live the Magic King . Long after the fire burns low And the flickering embers partake the hues of night The name of Edison will in fire lit letters glow Even like the starB in heaven . With radiant light .

August 2Cth. 191!

Mr. John B. Taylor,

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Sohan-oetady. 11. Y.

Dear Sir:

T am in recall" of y°nr favor of the 14th instant, together with the four photographs which you have so kindly sent mo. This is all very interesting indeed, and T am glad to receive them .

Lot me say in reply to ycur question that we dold CO ,000,000 phonograph records having 200 threads to tho inch, and about 79,000,000 other rec¬ ords sold had 100 threads to tho inoh. Tho first -??phBhograph was 24 per inch.

If you are not going to ptiblish the photo¬ graphs which you have sent mo, I would like to have your permission to uso them in tho "Phonograph Month¬ ly" , which is a house organ published by us.

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Mr. Edison:

Referring to attached, Mr. Hayes is undoubtedly right, and it is no part of our plan to use local vocalists. There have been several cases where this was done in order to attract an audience to the recitals. Y/e even did it once in East Orange, hut vocalists other than our own talent (singing in unison with their own records) have no part in tone test recitals. The only use of local artistB that we have in mind is of instrumentalists to show that the Diamond Disc reproduces the true tone of the various instruments.

While we cannot absolutely control all dealers in this tone test work, I think Mr. Puller will be able to exercise sufficient control to get most of them to carry out the work along approved lineB.

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Aug. 23, 19X5.

Mr. Prank B. '’.'aite, '"oroeater , Mass. Dear Sir:-

I beg to acknowledge receipt of your favor of the 19th inst., together with the verses you enclosed therewith. You need not have had any misgivings about sending them to ne , for I have enjoyed reading them and appreciate them very much as 'well as the kindly sentiment which prompted the writing of them. I beg to ask that you will kindly accept my thank3 for them.

If there are no objections on your part I should be glad to have the privilege of publishing these verses in our Monthly House Organ called "The Phonograph Monthly.

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7 The Victor racorda I have, by the moet famous plan- . a iota, are only satisfying in technique. They soubd ““‘"•g ao if played on antiquated planou, ready for the tin ahop.as to tone and vibration.

After trying repeatedly I have at last obtained £ <p your record 83063—a wonderfully impreooive violin I

f aolo (Avo Maria) in which the piano accompaniment t

in sweat and liquid with no hint of tinny tono. It is fine. Evory listener exclaims. . .and if there, "

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ti / 50200 but not yet received it.) W

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Tho Wrightsona have .asked bo to build a bungalow lor thon on our estate hero.as this is whoro they pass thoir suiuuora— until Octobor,

Pardon my long ocrood— bom of enthuaiaaa for your "Edisona". ,

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Ur. Thomas A. Edison, (feat Orange, N.J.

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Aa I am an owner of your most excellent phonograph, you will ^ ^ ^ (^ft

lard.n , I know, a suggestion, the adoption of which I personally

'ould add much to the efficiency of filing records. /

Why would it not be a good idea to have printed In white .otters similar to the numbers which now appear, the subject of the re- /

•otd itself on the circumference of the record. It would seem that this ,ould be done very easily because of the thickness of the Edison Disc.

If this were done, the records could be filed in your cabinet ,1th the name visible on the top and there would be no need of any Index whatever , as Is necessary with all other mohines.

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August 27, 1915*

Mr* Edison: / dated August :^5tli,

X am in receipt a letter from Captain Hurd,

the Brooklyn Hard, from wh*4 1 quote as follows:

•■yesterday I Heard Hr. /Wricks play for records at the recording studio. He /d not know the maximum or minimum ti. Ximit and some of the pieces that he played were too long a: - -o short. However, he had one that appeared to he of

proper length and sounded weii when played with the reproduce: in the studio. This was the first that I have heard a reprodu< the original wax and no douht it sounds quite differ

3 cord will give out.

3 I cannot say what

I think of Ur. Fredericks' record. However, he told me that he is to go away on a concert tour on September 8th, and hoped that a decision would he given as to his records before he left.

Does nr. Edison pass on all these records personally?

I read in the Herald this morning that Hr. Edison narrowly escaped a serious accident yesterday, and it made my hair stand on end to think wh?t might have happened.

I suppose it is impossible to keep him from taking risks and we will have to trust to his good luck to keep him from being injured. I certainly am thankful that it was no

3 above for your infoimatioi

r. HUTCHISON.

August 31st, 1915.

Miss Ala S'. Gardiner, HOTEL LAFAYETTE , Portland, Maine.

Dear Miss Gardiner:

T mi,q 4* oak vou to kindly arouse the long delay in aoknoKing t J Ifmffime

letter of appr eolation. ®°rv^y largely to my new

^emSaf SStf^d X6tefe been obliged to allow my c orre s pondenoe t o loll into arrears.

Your letter £**«■„■£ Xigb^thrown upon it by Mr. Meadoworoft Bel myself, a

has given me si*°er< ^mSio my OTathies^ are with those great lover J00*XravooMtaiitinoentive through my

of the same mind, ana wy oons^ hon raph has been to

many years of hard worK on p really fine musio. It feed the soul that from many others whioh

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appreoiated.

no™ In regard to the matter vfhioh you took

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idea you suggest of a there is not one person in a ing to our «per^°!* a record, and if they did

thousand that would buy 0™h a r e regulate the instrument they would not take the pain0 bo regu^a faot is

to it. Possibly you do not realis® ^ re0ording that the repr oduot ion at J^naT o onoopt of the phonograph,

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Mia a Ada P. Gardiner, Page -2-

Auguat 31st, 1915.

and perseveranoe enough to auooeed, and you are reaping the benefit. One of the moat emphatio of our dnstruo- tion8 to our ouatomera ia about the regulation of apeed, and we try to drive the point home in a score M different waya. Aa you are aware, there ia a stop pin in our regulator to prevent excessive apeed, but you will aoaroely believe it when I tell you that we have aotually found on investigation that many people have aotually taken theae atop pins out. Heed I say more?

Ihese things aometimea make me despair, but on the other hand when I hear of the careful and intelli¬ gent oare that you and some others give to tto instrument Ind reoorda, I am enoouragea to go on ana try for still fnrth* and higher oualities. When my new building is finished, I hope to have the pleasure of putting out some of the symphonies ana sonatas of the great masters.

yours very truly.

"US

September 3, 1915,

Mr. Ireton:

I am planning to leave on Sunday , the fifth, for a fortnight * s vacation, ana oall the following matters specially to your attention:

Pi vis ion of the Baltimore Zone Confirming our conversation on the Bubjeot, we have agreed to divide the Baltimore zone

Company ana C. B. Haynes & Company, Richmond, on the basis of

££S: ..

?heaEl?lon°phono^aph bustoes^of c!B^ynes ^jpa?an amount ^.poo, ?«=.”£»•

oounted.

I saw Bauman on Monday, and as far as I was able to judge, the deal is going through. This morning I hav following telegram from Haynes:

"Everything 0. K. Will be closed on Monday and all papers sent on."

The papers to wh*°* [/^ne^pa^J^iPS** aHJopy^f

license Agreement signed by Pinanoial statement showing

the articles of i™«porat ion; W You will note

the financial condition of the new parser * t l)ar let OBrbon from my letter to 0. B. Hayne s &< Compa ny oi^ | ment lB not to

met.

You and Mr. Philips should submit the articles of co¬ partnership to Mr. Holden, and if they are in satisfactory form we should obtain a letter from the new partnership formally enumerating and as sinning all of the old company’s liabilities to us. This method is suggested instead of getting new notes,

) the old notes have been discounted.

As soon as Haynes meets our conditions, a new License Agreement should be sent Girard Phonograph Company for their signature, and letters of notification in the usual form despatched to the disc and combination dealers affected by the new^ division of the Baltimore zone. A list of all dealers fdiso, oombination and cylinder) gained by each Jobber should be forwarded to suoh Jobber, and the Jobber should be reminded that the notification has been sent only to disc and oombination dealers, and that it is therefore necessary for the Jobber to get in touch with the oylinder only dealers. In accordance with fur praotioe, the Jobber should be cautioned not to intimate to oylinder only dealers that they are required to buy their cylinder goods from the zone Jobber.

The MoKee Company has about $6000 worth of goods which it wishes to dispose of when it discontinues 3® a^+^non8 worth ' These goods are all at Baltimore and consist of about §2000 worth

of records, nearly all disc, and $3000 worth of B-160 and B-200

instruments. These goods are to be divided between C.B. Haynes & Company and the Girard Phonograph Company on the following baBis: Mr. Davidson will immediately determine as nearly aB possible the amount of business done by the dealers acquired by eaoh Jobber through the division of the Baltimore zone, and each lobber will be required to take his proportionate Bhare of the aforesaid $6000^0 rth of goods as determined by Mr Davidson’s figures. It is understood with the McKee Company that uo phonographs or reoords may be returned unless in merchantable condition. Mr. Gibson has assured me that all of ^he goods are

in merchantable shape, and that the instrument e which he wish® s

to return have never been removed from the originoloasings.

He understands that the factory is not going to take the goods back end that they are to be divided between Girard Phonograph Company and C. B. Haynes & Company.

As you are aware, we allotted to the MoKee Company fifty- nne (61) B-250 phonographs vdiioh they refused to take. This allotment will be divided between Girard PhonographCompany and C. B. Haynes & Company on the same basis as the goods whioh MoK desires to return.

All of the foregoing is fully understood by Gtr^>. Haynes and MoKee. It is possible that Haynes, in his oharaoter- ietio way, may raise some minor objection to some of the that the^MoKee Company wants to turn over, but ^^^th^reoords upon him that it doesn't make any difference whether ^ereoords axe ones that he wants or not, and you should insist that he take his share.

As soon as the Haynes papers are in approved form, you should immediately appoint a day in Baltimoreandtheremeet the Girard, Haynes and MoKee people and put through the transfer of

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these goods. It is possible that MoKee will require Haynes to pay oash for his share. The Baltimore allotment of B-250's to Girard and Haynes should he shipped out as soon sb Haynes has met our conditions.

When at Baltimore you will also please mate arrangements with reference to any reoord return allowances earned by dealers from the MoKee Company but not yet credited.

If, when the papers are reoeived from Haynes on Monday, Mr. Holden discovers anything that will delay the acceptance Of Haynes & Company's new license agreement, you will please send to the dealers in the Baltimore zone a notice similar to that recently sent out to the dealers in the Houston zone, naturally the MoKee Company is not taking muoh interest in the jobbing business at present, and we must see to it that the trade does not suffer. In addition to sending notices to the disc and combination dealers in the Baltimore zone, you should of oourBe send each jobber a complete list of the dealers he is going to get (including oylinder only dealers), so that the jobber oan aolioit oylinder as well as disc business.

On Tuesday I visited the Juelg Piano Company #13 G Street, Washington, D. C., and the manager, Mr, Posey, deoided to take on the Edison line on a Class A basis. I named §6000 as the initial order. The annual quota should be §12,000. The manager had to obtain authority from Mr. Arthur Jordan of Indianapolis before signing the application and license Agreement, but Mr. Jordan has already told me that he is willing to have Mr. Posey handle the Edison line, so that this matter should be dosed up very shortly.

When you go to Baltimore to divide the $6000 worth of goods between Girard, and Haynes, you will of course also make settlement with MoKee. Ypu are, familiar with the condition of the account and the his September note.

After you get everything oleaned up you will please have the McKee Company write us and deliver to you the following letter:

"Referring to Jobber's lioense Agreement signed by us and dated April 12, 1916, we hereby waive notice of the termination thereof and desire you to treat same as terminated herewith."

You will also please have the McKee Company execute Class A agreements for both Baltimore and Washington, it having been deoided, as you know, that they will continue as Class A dealers.

In Re Division of Albany Zone

Ab you know, Griffin's hands are Company, Hew Haven,

suoh goods as it is necessary to take off to be distributed among Pardee-Bllenberger the Phonograph Corporation of Manhattan and

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F. E. Bolway & Son, Syracuse, aooording to the territory each ao quires. Mr. Davidson has already prepared a statement showing the purchases of eaoh dealer in the Albany zone, hut owing to the fact that Griffin has worked his territory bo in¬ differently and is so poorly represented, it is difficult to make an estimate based on the dealers' purchases, undoubtedly flew York will get the best towns in Griffin's territory, yet none o f these towns in the past have shown anywhere near the amount of business they should, and I think if we divide the goods among the three jobbers strictly on the baBis of past purchases. New York might gain a slight advantage. However, as soon as the territorial division of the Albany zone among these three jobbers is worked out by Mr. Rogers, you will please oaloulate the percentage of business in each sub-division !nd see whether it affords a fair basis for allotting Griffin's stock. If it does not, then readjust the allotments in acoordanoe with your beBt judgment. Wo have written all of the ■jobbers oonoerned that our division among them of Griffin s stock oould not be very exact, and that it would be necessary for them to acoept our decisidn. If any of the other jobbers balk on taking the quantity of goods we allot to them from

of territory allotted to him. You will probably see Bolway in a day or so at. Syracuse. From hie correspondence apparently he is willing to take his share, and Mr. Eardee has signified a similar willingness.

In the event that Griffin requires us to give him sixty days notice of the termination of his Jobber s lioense Agreement, we should nevertheless open his territory immediate¬ ly to the other jobbers in the same way we have done in the Houston zone.

You will please consult Mr. Holden with reference to sending Houston Phonograph Company a sixty toy termination notice? As you know, th<T dealers have already been notified according to their location that they can get goods from Bexas- OkLahoma Phonograph Company, Dallas, or Diamond Music Company, flew Orleans.

In Re Walter Kipp

Mr. T,„nn>mn and I have had some trouble with the speoial agreement, but I think we are now on the right track, ante, final draft will be completed sohb time next week. * suggested to Mr. Wilson that it would possibly be advisable for mo to stop off at Indianapolis on my return in order to get this agreement signed. However, there is a Kipp will oome to the faotory before long. If it seems advis¬ able for me to stop at Indianapolis, please send me the agree¬ ment so that it will reaoh me at #1406 East Fremont Street,/ Galesburg, Illinois, prior to September 18th. Bhis address is

way out in the oountry ana there is hut one delivery a day, so ^greemerX’is^aiLed’so lha?k I

shall he expecting it. In case thiB agreement is sent to me.

Hr, Philips will pleaso forward me a statement of Eipp s account and notes.

You have on your desk a letter from CeJ?s-0^0“* graph Company, Balias, addressed to me, in whioh they agree to take their entire allotment. ’Jill you please have this order entered up and shipment made. I attaoh letter from El Paso Phono- CTaph Company, El Paso, in whioh they finaUy agree to take twenty (20) B-250's, shipment to he dividod hetween Octoher 1st, Jfovemher 1st and Beoemher let. You will note that seven (7) of the twenty they express willingness to order must he fumed oak, whioh we oannot furnish. In their case I think we shall have to content ourselves with the mahogany, weathered and S°l^en oak models, thirteen (13) in allr that they are willing to take.

I believe you have the correspondence with Montana Phono¬ graph Company concerning their allotment. Ehey should he required to take at least part of their allotment.

X note that while Southern California MusioCompany agreed to take their entire allotment, only half of the allotment is marked down as specified. You have the correspondence: possession. The remainder of their allotment should he marred 10 r shipment.

Edison Week

I am taking all of the papers with me with a view to working up press matter, cards, eto. while 1 am away.

In He History of the Experimental Store I dictated the final chapters Ihursday night. This part of

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me - very carefully - if you will.

Buring my ahsenoe I shall he very glad to hear from jou oooasionallyas to how things are going, partioularly shipments.

C. C. to Messrs. Edison, Wilson, Philips and Bavidson.

COPIES TO MESSRS. T. A.

)ISON, CHARLES EDISON, WILSON, MAXWELL:

APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED SEPTEMBER 4-1915.

PHONOGRAPH COMPANY OE KANSAS CITY.

MORGAN BOOK COMPANY, BALDWIN, KANSAS.

Population 1,386 Business - Books & Staty.

One poor cylinder dealer in town.

Initial order: 1 each B80, A150, A200 and 150 Disc Records. To handle Diso only.

Edison exclusive.

L. H. LUCKER.

WALTER EOLSOM, B RAISE RD, MINNESOTA.

Population 8,951 Business - Pianos, etc.

Two poor cylinder dealers and 1 Diso only dealers in town.

Initial order: 1 each Amberola 30, 50, 75 and 150 B. A. Records.

1 each B80, B100, C150, and 150 Diso Records.

To be combination dealer.

Edison exclusive.

MUSICAL PHONOGRAPH DIVISION. Phonograph Agreement Department.

E. E. Davidson,

OEFICE— SEPT . 7-1915.

DISC DEAI'Epg .OBALIEIED PROM AUGUST 3QTH TO, SEjPT^TTH.

»5000.00

JSS'S.nSS? M“lnS “-"IS i Columbia .

HEW DISC ONLY DEALERS..

Through Chan oxer & Co^ggf°^eld> He. Exol. 494.00

J • E« Willey

Through Diamond Music Co., Inc. 425.50

Morgan City Ele^rT^CoTj^r; MorgaiTBity, I*. Exol.

+ through Harger & Excl. 442.50

j, L. Wightman 360 No .Broad St.

Edwin Kuestner P. J. Schuaacher

B1 Paa. , „ „lc

(Suo. to lenorJi Piano & Music / Co.)

Through. iii- -H-.-^U-C^.Spr lng Grove, Minn/ Exol. 360.50

Through Phono .Co . ¥/is00nsin. Exol. 393.00

ar Evansville, Wis. Exol. 330.50

^^R^o^C^ansaSiClt^KanBas . Exol. 605.00

Through Pacific Phono. San Francisco..

Santa Rosa, Cal. Edison &

Columbia. 507 .60

If DISC & CYLINDER DEALER,.

E. J. Parvin & CoT - Hutchinson .Kansas . Exci. ^ox.w

4 No .Main St. CYLINDER TAKING ON DISC.,

Thre^_Texag-oxianoma^hox,ugo. exas . Exeluslve 471>84

Lubbock ug ° Through Harger pWa, Exclusive 360.50

F* ^ 6 S 6r Through, Texas-Oklahoma Phono. Og^ EdiBOn &

Crescent Drug Co. * Victor. 361.89

rrzr -* ™ ^ *• *• Th°rne ^iv^a

B. E. Smith TOTAL $11,626 .73

W, W, Eagely, Bloomsburg,Pa.

Continued . . .

NO. 2. . .Continued.

REMOVED AS DISC DEALERS:

Kpb. Mary Holding, Friday Harbor .Hashingto: Fred Waster lain, Enumclaw, Washington.

C. V. Brubaker , Napoleon, Ohio.

J. M. Hart Music Co., Abilene, Sexas.

DISC JOBBERS .

CLASS "A" DISC DEALERS.,

DISC ONLY DEALERS .

DISC & CYLINDER DEALERS

TOTAL DISC DEALERS .

CYLINDER ONLY DEALERS..

...42

,.128

,.850

.1713

.2563

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PHONOGRAPH AGREEMENT DEPARTMENT.

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a cylinder record that would he practioally indestructible. By this we mean a record that would reproduce with a fair degree of volume and elearnese in the neighborhood of three hundred thousand to five hundred thousand time8, the requisite being clearness but notpartloularly very much volume, and the matter of artistic requirements not being of any

We wish to get a cylinder that would he of sufficient diameter Q

that during one revolution would reproduce three or four short words, it being our intention to use a multiple of reproducers each traveling around jp i it its own groove but their being no longitudinal movement of the reproducers.^

Is it possible to make up a cylindrical record of sufficient wear- >- resisting material to withstand this number of reproductions? In that the volume of sound produced need not be very great we did not know but what the sound wave engraving might be made comparatively light and thereby possibly i)

might be provided to revolve the cylinder in Borne lubrioating medium.

The matter of the oost of the cylinders would not be of a seriouB

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oonsequenoo unless they ran ovor several dollars eaoh.

A special machine will be required to accommodate the enlarged cylinder and the several reproducers, for instance, we might have as many as twenty or more reproducers in a row operating on a single cylinder. We have the balance of the requirements from a mechanical point of view all worked out and the whole matter hinges upon whether we can obtain a practically indestructible record or not.

If you oould furnish us with this information we assure you it would be greatly appreciated, tinder date of Aug. 27th we misdirected a letter to the Edison Phonograph Co., Camden, IT. J., and we are writing this covering the points brought up in that letter not knowing whether you had received the letter sent to Camden on account of the mistake in

address.

Yours very truly.

Sopt. ‘;£h.

1915.

Prof, luigl Homa.no , Station S , Bos 27, How Yrk City.

My dear Prof. P.omano :

I have receivod your lotter of the sixth instant, together with the five dol'ars enclosed, and I am having sont to you h parcel post, five disc records of the Kinatophone .alts, which X trust will ho received promptly and in good order.

Those records cost one dollar each in the store, hut X am allow a discount of 25":., so thajr cost ine seventy- five cents each. I will give you the honofit of this discount, hut must ask you to ploaso say nothing of it to anyone. If you sell thorn, you must he sure and charge one dollar each for thorn. Do not sell them it any lower price, as it would make trouble.

Those five rooords at 75^ each would ho $3.75, and I suppose the postage would ho 20$?, so I am returning you Cl. 00 herowith.

I have noted all you say in your letter, and re- grot to think that there might havo boon any prejudice in regard to yoursolf. X tiust that such was not tho cas .

I am very glad to loam that you expect to sur¬ prise me with soro good news shout yourself. I shall always ho veiy glad indeed to'hear any good nows concerning yon, and hope that there will ho much of it.

Yours voiy truly.

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I quit e TTeoently received a letter from Mr. Frederick W* Rice, one of your demonstrators, advising me that he had made inquiry of you as to the horn which Mr. Edison used for the pur-v^~ pose of properly hearing the re-produotions of sound on your <- phonograph. From the letter whioh X received from Mr. Rice, I c understand that you can have a similar horn made to he used hy \ my mother, at a nominal charge; Mr. Bice stated in his letter that the charge would he anywhere from ^?3.00 to .j5.00.

I should he very glad, indeed, to have one made up, and trust that it may prove satisfactory. H whether satisfactory or not, I am entirely willing to make the ex¬ periment .

Would he very glad, indeed, to have an acknowledgment Horn you, as to whether my understanding is correct, ana also whether you will have this horn made up for me. If you do, kindly have it forwarded to me in any way that you may find most convenient to yourself, sending it to Pottstow£, Pa. , with transportation charges oolleot.

X would understand that this is entirely aside from any¬ thing pertaining to your regular line, and would therefore, all the more8appreoiate8anything that you may do in having this horn made for me.

HeverlhelS

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T6ry truly yours,

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I want you to go bao4c ovSjf^t!ueJ*Ia'?rwrt)ur or five supplements and see ’now many 'nits you can pick out ■£*. . of them.' You a.re filling up our shelves with a lot of old ”*• stuff and no new and popular records among them. V/e send these lists out to our customers and do not get any res- (

pond and I want to tell you the truth, we think the Ir-’- four or five supplements pretty punc. I know if this tinues much longer you will get kicks from all Jobber fact they are beginning now.

We wish the lord you would see the day of g< ting out popular stuff, cutting out this old stuff tin has been dead for years. I wish you were in the deale: ship-end for a little while, it would give you experience that would benefit you in your position very

Yours very truly,

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Mrs. Ii. I". Llnlngor , 2909 Hewbury Street, Berkeley, Cal.

Dear Madam:

Chore has Been sons delay in replying to your favor of the 8th ultimo. This delay has been occasioned hy reason of Mr. Edison doairing to havo a full investigation made of the whole matter to which your let- tor refers.

In Mr. I-ininger'ti original letter of April 30th,. he suggested a pan to contain oil.

IV a think we cannot do letter than give you he low a copy of the rrport made hy our Assistant Chief Engineer to nr. Edison. This explains the whole thing.

"The idea of putting an oil, or grease pan under the spiral gear of the "A" type motor aB pek Mr. f.ininger' a letter, was developed hero and the drawings issued to the factory for this part, is dated Eohruary 13th, 1911.

A blue print of this drawing is being en¬ closed with this memorandum.

You -will note that Mr. Lininger suggests a pan to contain oil. Also, of such size that it covers the whole lower end of the turn table support frame and extends under the spiral goar.

In my letter of June 7th. I said that the idea of putting oil in the goar pan was very good, 7/hioh is perfectly true, but wo can¬ not use oil in this part leoauBe of the ship¬ ping of the phonograph. We are forced to uso groaso to overcome tho danger of the oil spilling out. Oil would be better than graase for this part, but wo adopted grease for tho foregoing reasons and havo put this on all "A" type machines, except a few of the very first ones shippod out. Mr. Lin- ingor probably has one of theBo very first machines.

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As X have said, the use of oil on this part and a properly dosigrod pan would he very gocd hut impracticable fro our standpoint , hence we have been using the small drip pan fillod with grease. This pan, as put on cur models in the past, is not suited to the use of oil, hence, I said, there is no objection to his using a apodal pan d ’Signed for oil, but of course this oul d ha impracticable for us on account of the oil spillin? in shipment”.

You will see from the above that inasmuch as we covered the device in question by. regular manufacturing orders to our factory over four and a half years ago, we have done no injustice to J.'r. Lininger, nor have we appropriated his idea, which was over four years old when he wrote to us last April.

Yours very truly,

Edison Laboratory .

Gundlach Advertising Co.

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;o you a young man / i Sala, to make someX

Some months ago I sent to you a young man / from Spain, by the name of Antonio Sala, to make someX 'cello records. This man is an artist of the vory highest rank, but not yet known in this country and I suggested particularly getting hold of an artist of this type.

Bruno Steindel is a very excellent ’cellist and a true artist, but Sala' 3 emotional and tone power would probably appeal to the public even more, besides being, like Steindel' s, a high order oi art.

It is certain that Bruno Steindel or Sala, either one, is worth two thousand of the Gruppe and Kronold records that we are now calling real art.

How today Hr. Sala sends me a letter signed J.A.L., Recording Department, saying that these records can not be used.

just for curiosity; I would like to see the regular record that was made from the master by which this was judged. Also X would like to know whether you heard these records yourself.

When I first wrote you about this, I did not care anything about Sala, but thought I was starting something which was advantageous for the Edison_Company. I have since become very friendly with this young man.

At the same time, does not the Edison Company want all the good new artists that it can get when the oppor¬ tunities are offered?

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Dear Mr. Meadowcroftj-

Our Retail Sales people have been reporting to us ouite frequently an argument which we bfclieve must have originated with our friends of the steel needle type. We have some very vieoious competition in a Retail way and we wonder whether you would kindly write us putting into our hands exactly the kind of an argument or come back that you would like to have our Sales people use.

Our Sales people in running aoross people, who are in touch with our Steel Needle Competitors or in running across people who own Victrolas freo.uently have thrown at them the fact^ that Mr. Edison is not a judge- of music. It is a matter of xac. that he is as deaf as a stone post, etc., etc.

We would appreciate a reply from you as to just what you would prefer to have us say to the public on this subject*

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West Orange, IT. J.

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My purpose in writing to you again is to call to your attention the matter of 7fiss IT. helphine Rauch who has made one or two trial disc records for Mr . Edison, who, as you will no doubt remember, thought so much of her voice and said that he would want her as one of his recording artists. You will recall that Mr. Edison odd the voung lady and me at the time of our visit to Orange at Hr. Edison's request, that many of the singers have to try and try again before they master the art of recording.

Hiss Rauch tried but twice at long intervals, and while her work seemed to not quite reach the point of perfection that Mr Edison requires in accepted records, she was given to understand that yet another chance would be given her. Be¬ cause of the fires you had last winter, I have let the matter rest so, long and X am now taking it up again in the belief that Mr Edison is in a position to give attention to Miss Rauch' s’ request for another chance, and I take some hope that this chance will be given her by a reference to your letter to me of -necember 19th, 1914, in which you say:

Your favor of the 16th instant was received, and I have called Mr. Edison's attention to the matter.

Me requests me to say that the records made by Miss Rauch, which he heard, were not quite good enough for our purposes. Either she was” not in good voice, or she was nervous. Me

thave a great deal of trouble even with old ex¬ perienced singers. More than half the time they are not in good voice.

The recordings referred to in your letter were made, as X remember, on an excessively hot day in June and that may account for the imperfections noted by Mr. Edison.

Triss Pauch, as Mr. Edison said, lias a glorious voice and all the operatives at the recording studio say that her voice is peculiarly and decidedly a "recording" voice, and I am sure she could render valuable services to your company.

We have made no attempt to try for new record¬ ings because we were referred to Mr. Edison for further advice.

I should be glad to hear from you that Mr. Edison desires and directs Miss Eauch to try again.

With sincere respect and regards to Mr . Edison and to you, I am,

Pespectfully y

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DIAMOND IMPORTERS 82.1 KANSAS AVENUE

Thoms. e A. Edison, Edison la.bratory, Orange, If. J.

Dear Hr . Edison: —

We are jui the medallion which suggests a matter t( ally otout for some

TOPEKA, KANSAS, September l6th, 1915

Qr^LO 6ujb (SUx^C UXJ&

n receipt of a circular letter reS»*tive to to he placed on nil ?2?0.00 machines. This > which we have been going to write you persor.-

Our competitors in the Victor and Columbia line insist upon explaining to all prospective buyers of Phonographs or Victrolas that you are not interested in the Edison Diamond Disc proposition in any way except to loan your name and that the machine ie manufactured by a. factory and labratory entirely separate from your factory. They claim that you are -naid a. certain royalty, etc., for the use of the name Edison.

A personal letter from you that we could display in our Talking machine room setting the facts forth as they are would be invaluable to us. Will you kindly give us something of this kind

Thanking you in advance for your kind consideration of this request, we are

COMPANY

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Edison Phonograph" Co .. v^'

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9j wufe^lLike tohave you supply mdl with then, information as to how the Edison people select the Artist that mate the new Edison Diamond Disc records „ the reason I ash for this information is, oeacuse there is a cert*! an young man in this city that has just returned, from Europe where he has been studing voice ,, s

He has just started the report aroma town that the Edison people go to the schools and pick out some of^the students to make records , He told this to one of our customers where we have a new Edison Machine on approval and has almost qjieered this sale

This is the reason I would like to h&ve you furnish me with a letter that I could show to this lady and cmvince her as to how the Edison People select their Artist .. /

I. would also like to have you put my name on your mailing list for all of the late circulars whljch are mailed out from your Factory as I am manager of this Department and. some of the literature n never reaches my department unlesg/it is addressed to me personaly,,

Trusting that I will" have the pleasute of hearing from you s

September 16, 1916.

Paoifio Phonograph Co.,

Mr. A. R. Pommer, President, 140 Geary St.,

San Frnno i sco, Cal.

Dear Ur. Former:

On April 17th last Mr. Edison personally agreed to donate to the Panama-Pacific International Telegraphers Tournament Association a #160 Disc Phonograph and 26 Disc Reoords. Ur. E. Cox. Secretary of said Association, adviseB that they would now like to have this maohine, and instead of shipping it direct from here I am going to intrude on your kindness by asking that you deliver it from your stock and charge Bame back to us at price billed to you together with any expense you may be put to in the transaction. Kindly let me know by return mail if you oan ao- commodate us in "this mat/ 'tor*

I have sent to Ur. Cox an order {oopy enclosed) with advice that when presented to you you will deliver the outfit to him.

Thanking you in advanoe for your kindness, fours very truly,

CHff/lWtr

Vioe-Pres. & Gen. Mgr.

September 16, 1915.

Mr. E. Cox, Secretary,

Panama-Pac 1 f ic International Telegraphers Tournament Association,

100 £ Postal Telegraph Building, San Prahoisoo, Cal.

Bear Sir:

lour letter of the 4th inst., to Hr. William H. Uoadowcroft, Assistant to Mr. Edison, has been handed to me for neco3sary atten¬ tion.

Rather than ship the outfit from here, I have to-day written our San L'ranoiaoo distributors, Paoifio Phonograph Company, 140 Geary Street, to deliver it to you from their stock. Therefore, if you will kindly present to them this letter they will do so.

Yours very truly.

CEW/ IWW

Vice-Pres. & Gen. Mgr.

O&C-WHU

THE DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY, OFFICE OF ASSISTANT TgVrESIEENT, < j/'\i CUIRKE, SCRANTON, FA. I

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My dear Mr. Meadoworoft, /

Can you infornyni where the Edison (D.D.) reoords can he purchased in Hew Ycnfk? X have tried every other way to ascer¬ tain - except the CVfcy Directory, and I didn't think of that - and on last Wednesday, I tried several places by 'phone while I was in Hew York.

I want to get some new records not obtainable in Scran¬ ton.

Very truly yours,

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Yf. H. Meadoworoft , Esq. ,

Secretary to Thos. A. Edison,

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Sept. 22nd. 1915.

Prof. luigl Roman o,

Stution S, Box 27,

;!ow York City.

My dear Professor:

I must ask you to kindly pardon the long delay In replying to your favor of tbe 14th Instant. I have heap so exceedingly busy tho last week that all my correspondence is In arrears.

1 should ha very glad Indeed to oblige you by sending you a reproducer that would allow the Rdison records to bo played on a Victor or Colximbia phonograph, but we do not hayo any such thing, so 1 return tho money herewith, sending it by Registered Mail.

I think you will find thaks reproducers are sold in some of th' stores where they sell the Victor and Columbia machines, hut I don’t know.

With kind regards, X remain,

Yours very truly.

DISTRIBUTOR

THE DIAMOND AND THE DISC

THE DIAMOND AND THE BLUE AMBEROL

EDISON HOME KINETOSCOPES, FILMS AND SLIDES MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND STRINGS^'

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I wiBh to express my hearty appreciation of your kindness in trying to secure the selection "Come Where the lilies Bloom" hy Will Thompson. X would cheerfully pay $5.00 for a record if that were necessary. In case you produce a record, kindly have one sent to my address at once. The hass solo in this selection is the finest X ever heard. The soprano ohlagato is also very fine.

Yours very truly, ;

Sept, as, 1915.

1®. MAXWELL:

S Recording Department is plan¬ ning to give us soraa/€hristmas selections, I under¬ stand there 7/ill b^r about six new numbers, which to¬ gether with four/ftuinbers already listed will make a fair showing unit enable us to get out a Christmas Sup¬ plement. i Should like to handle thiB special sup¬ plement independent of an separate from our regular numbered supplements and the printed matter should be more attractive in design and make up thun the other supplements. Think also that a special Christmas window hunger should be prepared und shipped wi.th the records to Jobbers for distribution among their dealers.

As soon as the new selctions are approved by Mr. Edison and catalog numhers assigned, the information should be given to Mr. JicChesney, so that he cun proceed to procure the supplements which should be ready not later than October 15th, so that he can mail them to distant points and receive the Jobbers' orders to begin shipping on November 1st.

If this schedule cun be adopted and followed, it will enable ua to make deliveries to all points about December 1st, at which time the records should go on sale to the public.

If you approve this j/lan or have any suggestions to offer, please let me know at your ear lest convenience.

C. C. TO MESSRS : EDISON, WILSON, MCCHE3NEY.

Sept, 22, 1916.

Ur. H. T. Learning

On Saturday Sept, 18th, Messrs. Walter Hiller, Hayes and Simpson met in the Laboratory to consider reproducers which had been returned from the outside.

Sixteen reproducers were listened to, these had all been previously inspected with reference to the Diamond which were pronounced to be O.K.

Of the sixteen,- seven were found to be commercially perfect, one the tone was O.K, but the Gold Plating being worn the reproducer was poobably return¬ ed for that reason. In one case a readjustment of Clamping King brought the reproducer to an O.K. condition. In two other cases resorting to the same readjusting of Clamping Ring improved the reproducers some what but did not bring them to commercial standard. Following ie an itemized report of the sixteen reproducers.

Phono. Corporation of Manhattan, New York City.

R. S. Hos. 22269 & 22271.

Reprod. Ro.jU.8429 - Gold Plate O.K. , Diaphragm weak, slightly buckled.

Rcprod. llo. 40786 - Gold Plate O.K. , Tone is fussy, gasket readjusted, quality improved but not quite commercial.

Reprod. iio. 30419 - Gold Plate Horn, Reproducer otherwise in perfect condition Tone good.

Reprod. Ho. jU.6589- Gold Plate O.K. Reprod. otherwise in perfect condition, Tone &ood.

Reprod Ho. 32644 - Gold Plate O.K. , Swivel Stud in reprod. so tight that it was impossible to test.

Reprod. Ho. 35745 - Nickel Plate O.K. , Reprod. otherwise in perfect condition. Tone Good.

Reprod. Ho. A7932 - Hickel Plate O.K., but very, very greasy & dirty, Reprod. otherwise in perfect condition, tone good.

Buehn Phono. Co. , Pittsburg, Pa.

RL 8. Ho. 22294.

Reprod. No. A7161 - Nickel Plate O.K. , Reprod. otherwise in perfect condition Tone good .

Reproducer Ho. 38621 - Gold Plate O.K., Diaphragm buckied, tone slightly fussy, readjustment of Clamping Ring big inprovement, ugter adjustment would pass commercially.

Reprod. Ho. 22391 - Gold Plate O.K. , Reprod.. perfect condition, tone good.

Reprod. Ho. 14877 - Gold Pl9.t£„Q.,lC. , Tone muff led, 'Diamond Point Arm too ^ 1 tight" causing this' def eot^. ■'*' - * - "

Husical Record Co., Los Angles, Oal.

R. S. Ho. 22227. .. .

Reprod. Ho. 13906 - Nickel Plate O.K. , Reprod. too loud causing blast.

Reproducer No. A 13734 - Reprod. has a buzz, cause unknown, diaph. not buckled

Leeraing;

Mr. H. T.

L. H. Lucker, Minneapolis, Minn.

R. S. 1408. 22229 - 22267.

Reprod. No. 25900 - Nickel Plate O.K.

and v/ith a buzz, tone almost to a

, Diaphragm 0. K. Reproduction is muffle readjustment of Clamping Ring improves commercial standard.

Reprod. Ho. 9915,- Gold Plate O.K., Reprod. perfect in every respect no evident reason for returning.

The Key Co., Baltimore, Md.

R. S. Ho. 22262.

Reprod. Ho. Al 59 33 - Hickel Plate O.K. , Reprod. perfect in every respect, tone

It v/as decided to offer the following suggestion:- That a suitable number of questions be supplied to our dealers with the request that whenever a reproducer is returned for repairs that these questions be answered. At the bottom of this List of questions the following recommendation might be used(B» SURE YOUR RECORD IS TRAVELING AT 80 REVOLUTIONS i’KR MINUTE WHEN ANSWER1 liG ABOVE (iUESTIOHS) .

J. E. H.

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Kranlch &*Bsch Kurtzmann Smith at Allen

Victor Victrolas Edison Diamond Disc Phonographs

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certain ftrittc ln(tto h»rt ntangiblo conneotionwith your eonoorn. mV record, von a brief one, w^^a^ovT : characteristic^ remarks by ourself would ho most enthusiastically received by housands of ovmors , and undoubtedly would bo tho most idely troasurod record in their entire collection, now nd in the futuro.

I asked "r. Lueker to mention tho above matter to you

when ho went to the factory last Feb. , but very likely it was overlooked in the pressure of business.

The writer, a short time ago, assumed oharjje of the Edison Disc Department of this company, and I miBht say

5MITH THE

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PIANOS:

Kranlch SBaoh Kurtzmann Smith * Allen

309-3//WEST E/RST STREET

DULUTH

that ray purchase of an instrument from Hr. Luoker, in Minneapolis, two years' ago, was the main factor in causing me to embark in this line.

Trusting you will not consider this an unreasonable request, and assuring you that you will contribute great¬ ly to the pleasure of many of your customers if you accede to it, I remain

Very truly yours, ^ _ /

n. S. Enclosed photographs represent; our pro lini nary shipment for tho fall trade.

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ANNOUNCEMENT

TO THE OWNER of AN EDISON DISC

Phonograph

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iF YOUR EDISON Disc Phonograph

hos no tone-modifying device we Will odd one to it at -Cer? small expense, q Please send in your order now so that we may correctly estimate tke number of these de-dices which Will be necessary to bring ever? machine we ho-Oe sold

down to date. q We are glad to be

able to announce that the factory is ogam able to produce the promised quota of six nerd records each week. q NeW artists are being engaged continually, and the quality of the productions in the 28th to the 37th lists leads us to expect a Oer? large demand for Edison records this fall, q We maintain 0 complete stock of all records made and incite you to come in at any time to hear tke newer numkers. q George M.EyferthJs no* in charge of our Edison Disc department, q Mr. Eyferth -dill appreciate an opportunity to

learn your needs and to be of service to ?ou.

q We wont <rOer? Edison machine sold hy us to remain in the very best running order so that it mo? give the greatest pos¬

sible pleasure and satisfaction to its oWners. q Whenever your machine seems to need adjustment we invite and urge ?ou to ca upon us. q We -dill attend to it With- out charge, anywhere in Duluth and Superior. qWe make onl? 0 most mod¬ erate charge for such actual repairs as may, from time to time, become necessary q In conclusion, we want ?ou to feel that our sincere efforts Will always be directed towards retaining your complete satisfaction with anything you ma? pur-

SMITH & ALLEN CO.

THE HOUSE OF MELODY 309-311 West First Street DULUTH

5 Beulah Avenue,

Hamilton, September 25th.

Dear Mr. Edison:-

you will he surprised receiving a letter from me hut have been going to write you for some time. We bought an Edison last fall but have not bought an Edison record d noe Xmas. You will say this is my bad taste in music but I do not think so for classical music we have some fine records for our Edison but for ordinary music which anpeals to most tastes.

I mean tuneful music not too classical I find we cannot get on the Edison for example "Bendezvous " and Oanzouetta both by prince's Orchestra. We are all dancers in our house and the dance music is old by the time it comes out on the Edison.

The Columbia records are so up-to-date and the price. Beople with limited incomes is quite a consideration. Now do not write and tell me I do not Snow good music for I am sure if you were to hear some of our Columbia records you would agree with me we have, an attachment and can play any reoords. Now I shall close would be pleased to hear from you if you can find time for such a small customer but one who loves music.

Sinoerely yours,

(signed) Annie Carroll.

My address Mrs. V. J. Carrfcll, 5 Beulah Avenue, Hamilton, Ont.

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Dear _ir'^ £rt|^ U>

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Talking Machine Suggestion .

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1 » There are many evenings at

home when I like to hear a little,musio and sometimes it seems sweeter wiveti the central lights in the room are cjjstrkened and the only light comes from af shaded lamp in the corner or from the fireplace

When the room is thus darken¬ ed, it is difficult to manipulate the machine carefully and to substitute records with any great precision. For this reason, I suppose, the idea came to me, that it might be a good plan to have a little light set in the case, or the top, in such a way that while inconspic¬ uous, it would automatically burn when the top was opened and shine directly on the parts under adjustment .

This light could be "frosted" so as to avoid brillianoe and could be

switched, off when the machine ia used in the daytime.

The above ia simply a sugges¬ tion, but to me, and perhaps to others, it would be an aid at such a time to the impressions received from the music.

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Orange , N . J , Gentlemen:-

iept. 27, 1915. { . £,tJ'***»**

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having more or%fei^mpl^7t from our dealers /

who handle the Edison goods in regard '

This that I speak of i^n% of recent date hut\has extended over several months^,

You take a record and they do not sound as cleg] the fire. There is not i little tremble in it.

We are having <!

(undoubtedly this thing has”! by others) and we would L"

relief that can be given us.^p^ I (/ **

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Sort. 28th. 1915.

Prof. Luigi Romano,

Station S, Box 27,

How York City.

;-y aaar Prof. Romano:

I havo received your favor Of the 26th instant , ana of course am vary sorry to learn of your d is anointment. Thora is an attachment sold hy some of the phonograph dealers. With this attachment you could play Edison records on The Victor or Columbia machine. I do not know the names of the dealers, hut you might try Sol Bloom, 366 Fifth Avenue, or 1429 Broadway, or the Blackman Talk¬ ing Maohine Company, 97 Chamber Street.

Pleaso ao not tell Them that I sent you there. I think you might also inquire in any other store where They sell Victor or Columbia phonographs. If they do not sell these attach¬ ments, perhaps they could tell you where you coulfl buy one. You could not use a diaphragm or reproducer that is used on the cylinder phonograph. Of course, I should bo very glad indeed To help you out if I could, but there Is no way of doing it, so far as I know. You can only play disc records on a disc machine. You oouia not play them on a cylinder machine, nor -would the reproducer for the cylinder machine be right for disc records.

Uy residence address is 428 Lathrop Avenue, Boonton,

II. J.

With kindest regards, I remain.

Yours vory truly.

Sept. 29, 1916

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proposition within th> e ni oxt Xhat^reports you are rendering to

immediately to advise me Jast/vhatrepor ^ that you U80 in Mr. Edison and from whom y leave 1 may arrange

g^tS-TS: Sr&mV office tha/you yourself have heen handling up to this time, i

H. E. Learning

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Thomas A. Edison, Ino,

Orange, New Jersey.

Gentlemen:

We are this day returning to our jobbers a quantity of defective Diamond Disc Records for credit'. We regret very much that we are still laboring under the defective record difficulty, and are more than sorry that this condition nOt only exists in old issues, but in many of the late numbers, such as the piano. record ana the last Spalding record, also the Oberon overture.

We do not want you to feel.that we are "kickers" although this trouble is a great annoyance to us and to our customers, out we do want to appeal to you to eee if this can not be overcome. It is certainly not helping sales any, for as you know, the bad points oi an article usually obtain greater publicity than its virtues.

We will thank you for a prompt reply and a thorough in¬ vestigation.

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September 30th, 1915.

Mr. T. A. Edisons-

Please note 9 records with cracked varnish are' in the lot to go out with the 42nd Supplement this week and 8 in the 43rd Supplement which will probably go out week ending October 9th.

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Oct. 6th. 1915.

Mrs. . K. Jenkins,

116 Ho. Frnncosco Kedondo Beach, Dal.

Dear Madam :

Your reoent favor to :.r. Edison has been received, and he requests me to say that the phenomenon you mention is a strange one to us, as wo have never had this experience. 'Ye aro anxious to learn what has hanponed to your records, and Mr. Edison v.ouia he very glad i you would kindly send us half a doze of the records you mention, either by parcel-nost or express. ’.Ye will send new ones in exchange for them without charge to you, and if it develops that the fault is o irs, wo will roplnce the records so complained of at our exponso.

Then you send the records, please for¬ ward the", to W. H. Moadonoroft, Edison Laboratory, orange, 11. J. , and mark them as coming from you, so that wo can identify then.

Yours very truly.

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Assistant’ to Mr. Edison.

Messrs. Wilson, looming. Maxwell and files-

DISC RECORD REPORI OF DELIVERIES AMP SHIPMENTS Saptamber. 191S

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23537

236990

AVERAGE DELIVERY Pi

February - 5827 Maroh " 6623 April - 8640 Mby - 8369 Juno — 10691 July - 8060 August - 9175 September- 9984

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C.C. Mr. T. A. Edison.

AVERAGE SHIPMENT I

4267

6118

6098

6636

8100

8929

6996'

9480

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Ootober 1, 1915.

VV

Mr. Leonard.:

Mr. Davidson reports the completion of the oounty

card file.

Mr. Davidson will please take note that these cards are to he kept up to date hy Miss Scott in the following respects:

(1) Each month’s purchases of eaoh dealer

(2) Eaoh visit of a jobber's traveler, the

date thereof and the traveler's estimate of the dealer - "good", "fair", "poor" or "remove". Also eaoh visit of a supervisor should he similarly annotated and preceded hy the abbreviation "Sup.". , , . , „ .

(2) The information aB to other lines handled on the jobber's monthly sales report should be oheoked with the card, end if the dealer has added or discontinued competing lines, a corresponding change should be made on the oard. The oards must at all times Bhow what <d mpeting lines are handled. Jobbers who have. in the past been negligent in furnishing this Information must bo required to provide it promptly and accurately. ..

Ihe oards are now annotated with the jobber's estimate of eaoh dealer. If the jobber's monthly sales report shows a change in his estimate of a dealer, this should be annotated. In other words, the oard should at all times show the amount of goods the dealer is buying, the jobber's estimate of him, the Jobber's traveling man s estimate of the dealer and our own supervisor's opinion. These facts, coupled with knowledge of the competing lines handled, gives us a pretty good pioture of eaoh dealer.

(4) The fact and date of eaoh removal notice.

You will please arrange to have Mr. Taylor commence working these oards in the following manner:

SOLICITATION 0E DEALERS

He will Btart on the zones not yet circularized. He will go through eaoh zone, oounty by oounty, and reach a pre¬ liminary opinion from the number and location of the dealers in eaoh oounty and the information on the oards as to whether the- oounty contains sufficient representation. It will be neoesBary for him in all oases to refer to the geographical atlas, and in many oases to the Government statlstioaX atlas* He will oneofc his preliminary conclusion with the jotter's opinion* as shown

in the jobber's zone analysis. Where hiB own conclusion is at variance with the jobber's opinion, he will consult you. Having determined that a given town is to be circularized for new dealers, he will consult the town file and proceed as he has been doing when working solely from the jobbers zone analyses. Where it is deoided that we need representation in a town in whioh we have no dealer (and consequently no oard), he will make up a oard for that town. Red metal signals are to be plaoed on the oard for eaoh town in whioh new dealers are desired. All cards are to be annotated with the fact and date of eaoh solicitation of new aooounts by Mr. Taylor - and whether disc, combination or oyltnder.

DETECTION OF JOBBERS' NEGLECT. _

The Jobber 'b License Agreement requires that a jobber s traveler visit eaoh town of 10,000 or more at least onoe per month, and smaller towns (where there are dealers) at least six times per year. It Ib not intended to enforoe this rule unreasonably, but there must be a substantial complianoo therewith, and where a oard showB that the jobber's man is not calling on a dealer with reasonable frequency Mr. Taylor will consult the town file and write the jobber in an approved manner. An orange metal signal nTmii be used to indioate all towns whioh we think are being neglected by jobbers' traveling men, and Mr. Taylor will follow up his letters if travelers' visits are not annotated within a reasonable time thereafter.

WP.mVU, OF DEALERS

Where the purohases and other information concerning any dealer Indioate that he is dead, or for other reasons should be removed, Mr. Taylor will draw the matter to Mr. Davidson s attention. He will put a black metal signal on the card, and if there is more than one dealer on the card, will check the dealer's name to whom his recommendation relates and note the date of such recommendation. Mr. Davidson, when: he lenjn® ** other sources than Mr. Taylor the desirability of removing a dealer, will place a blaok signal on the oard and check the dealer's name in the same manner.

Mr. Taylor's follow up of dealer prospects will be the same as heretofore, wioh such changes in form letters as are made from time to time. In addition to this he will follow up the orange signals indicating jobbers' neglect of dealers, and the black signals indicating the desirability of dealers removal, so that none of these matters will be lost sight of.

The signals on the county oardB will serve B® «««! St.ntlon to

sr ™.« j-j. -as: ■rgs.m

of ohief deteotive.

Ur. Bums will take over the work Hr. Taylor has Been doing as your immediate assistant.

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0. C. TO MESSES. DAVID30H IBETOH MoCHESHEX.

TAYLOR BORES ED I SOU WI130H MAMBBRT

Mr. Edison:

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Stock phonographs reoently tested by me gave the following results.

A-100 #2132 - Bare spots on horn neck and paint

on muting hall gave had appearance. Otherwise OK.

A-100 #2380 Found OK

C-100 #2642 " "

C-150 #2649 " "

C- 150 #6750 Reproducer poor - blasts.

( Called	to Mr. Simpson's attention]
" #6741 Found OK	L
" #6747 " "	AvJ
Amherola 60 #1457	- ly
ii n 1450	OK y
ii 'I 1629	OK
ii I' 1693	OK
ii •• 1855	OK
ii '• 1886	OK

" 1866 Barrel Spring either broke or

slipped from spring hook after running two days.

C.C. TO Messrs: Bachman, Monahan, Leeming^fe file.

Got. 4th. 1915.

Chandler & Company,

84 Hammond Street,

Bangor, Maine.

Gentlemen:

Your favor of the 27th ultimo was handed to me, a nd I would say in reply that I would like to have you send me tho rec¬ ords you complain of. let me bay that the roBultB of the investi¬ gation of all the complaints we have thus far received indicate that tho machines were run very much above speed. When machines were put at proper speed, owners were satisfied.

Please send the faulty records to my Assistant, Mr. W.

H. Meadoworoft, at this address. He will see that they are brought to my attention and I will investigate and ' if .' the fault is ours we will return new records to you.

Yours very truly.

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MAXWELL, IRETOB, LEONARD , McCHESNEY. OEEICE — OCT. 4- 1918.

DISC DEALERS QUALIFIED EROM SEPT.27TH TO 0CT.4TjL_

Tlirougl

The Ludwig Piano Co. 1103 Chestnut Street.

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The Phonograph Sales Co.

430 Bloomfield Avenue.

NEW DISC ONLY DEALERS. Through" E. E. Bo 1 way *^0 n. George L. Starks 3T5o 7 Saranec TSke.N.Y.

Main Street.

C. R. Rodgers Gouverneur.N.Y.

67 Main Street.

H. 0. Keefer 316 Main Street.

Exclusive

728.36

622.75

C. C J. E

, LaEollett , Ruffing & Son

Delphi, Indiana.

[ison Sr. Col . 605 .00

605.00

1110.00

Through Harger & Bllsh.Des Moines. Thornton Drug Co. - - ^WdSoIaflowa. Exclusive

V/. E. Chandler

442.50

490.50

Through Girard Phono .Co . Ph i 3. a deljphi a^ Pa^

Ross W. Quicksall Mt. Holley, ll>. Excluslv

44 Main Street. Throl>gh phono .Corporation Manhattan.

Snowdon ft Wicks - E - PittStoT^a. ESIson & Victor712.25

14 Ho .Main St . piSC & CYLINDER DEALERS.

^8.00

14th Street. (McAllister & Reynolds, Props . )

Through

E. A. Sheldon 100 No .Main Street.

Through Harger & Bllsh. Sioux City,

Larrison Brothers - Mitfcireil, South Dakota. Exclusive 337.76

210 No .Main Street.

Continued. . .

Continued. .

H. M. Huemann Kellog, Idaho. Exclusive

McKinley Avenue.

Through Phonograph Co, .Kansas City,

Jacoby & Lee " Enid .Oklahoma. Exclusive

Commerce Bldg. -Grand Ave .

$277. SO 900.00

OLD CYLINDER TAKING OH DISC.

Through Texas% Oklahoma" Phono .Dallas .

L. Landgraf * Brenhom, Texas. Edison

5-7 Alamo Avenue.

& Victor 280.85

H. M. Hodges & Co . Caldwell, Texas. Exclusive

706 Buck Street.

Through Montana Phono , Co , .Helena,

A. VT. Huxsol Culbertson, Mont. Exclusive

467.87

360.50

Through Harger fc Blish, Des Moines.

Frederick Heyl * Marble Hock, Iowa. Exclusive

Through R. S .Williams, Toronto.

H Forsyth Norv/i ch , er.t . , Canada . Exclusive

1 TOTAL

490.50

508.15

REMOVED AS DISC DEALERS:

•DISC JOBBERS .

CLASS "A" DISC DEALERS..

DISC ONLY DEALERS .

DISC & CYL. DEALERS .

TOTAL DISC DEALERS .

CYLINDER ONLY DEALERS...

F. D. Weaver, Ackley, Iowa.

V/. J. Litzenberger & Son, Belvldere, H.J.

Sam Christensen, Hot Springs, South Dakota.

E. 0. Osborn, Knoxville, Iowa.

Bowman & Kohl, Osage, Iowa.

Frederickson-Kroh Music Co. .Oklahoma City,0kla. . . . .40 .. .141 . . .888 , ,1746 . .2633

..5953 PHONOGRAPH AGREEMENT DEPARTMENT .

E.E. Davidson.

copies’ TO MESSRS. T. A. ED^jBON , CHARLES EDISON, .: WILSON, MAXWELL: APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED OCTOBER 5-1915.

TEXAS- OKLAHOMA PHONOGRAPH COMPANY.

E. D. COATS, MERKEL, TEXAS.

Population 2008 Business - Pianos & Sewing Machines.

No dealer in town.

Initial order: 2 Amberola 30, 1-50 and 150 B. A. Records.

To handle Cylinder only.

Edison exclusive.

LAWRENCE H. LUCKER.

W. J. PHILLIPS, RED WING, MINNESOTA.

Population 9696 Business - Pianos & Photos.

No dealer in town.

Initial order: 1 each 100, 150, 200, 260 and 150 Disc Records. To handle Disc only.

Edison exclusive.

PHONOGRAPH COMPANY OF CINCINNATI.

CHARLES M. LAMBERT, JACKSON CENTER, OHIO.

Population 685 Business - Pianos.

No dealer in town.

Initial order: 1 each Amberola 30, 50, 75 and 150 B. A. Records.

To handle Cylinder only.

Edison exclusive.

PHONOGRAPH COMPANY OF DETROIT.

H. S. BLANK, FOWLERVILLE, MICHIGAN.

Population 1175 Business - Jewelry.

One Cylinder dealer in town.

Initial order: 1 eaoh 100, 150, 260 and 150 Disc Records. To handle Disc only.

Edison exclusive.

PHONOGRAPH COMPANY OF KANSAS CITY.

C. D. HUNTER, VERSAILLES, MO.

Population 1240 Business - Books, Drugs & Phonos.

Only dealer in town - handling Cylinder.

Initial order: 1 each 100, 150, 200, 2-250 and 150 Diso Records. To he combination dealer.

Edison exclusive.

PHONOGRAPH CORPORATION OF MANHATTAN.

T. H. KEFFER, BAYONNE, N. J.

Population 55,545 Business - Phonographs.

One Cylinder only dealer in town.

Initial order: 1 each 100, 150, 165, 200, 250 and §150.00 Disc Records. To handle Disc only.

PHONOGRAPH CORPORATION OP MANHATTAN.

THE PHONOGRAPH SHOP, 2945 B'way. , NEW YORK CITY.

Business - Phonographs.

Initial order: 1-100, 2-150, 1-290,1-250, 1-276 and §600.00 Disc Records To handle Biso only.

Will handle Columbia but to give Edison equal show.

PHONOGRAPH CORPORATION OP MANHATTAN.

R. V/. OLSEN & CO., 926 PLATBUSH AVE. , BROOKLYN, N. Y. Business - Sporting Goods, etc. ,

Initial order: 2 each 100, 150, 200, 1-250 and Bisc Records. To handle Biso only.

Edison exclusive.

B. S. WILLIAMS & SONS CO., WINNIPEG, MANITOBA.

WINNIPEG PIANO CO. , WINNIPEG, MANITOBA.

Population 203, 265 Business - Pianos, etc.

Two combination, 1 Bisc only and 5 Cylinder only dealers in town. Initial order: 6-80, 14-100, 12-160, 8-200, 1-250 and 420 Bisc Records. Td be elevated to Class “A" Biso only dealers.

Handling Victor but to give Edison equal show.

PROUBPfflT SPORTING GOOBS CO.

EBEN PHARMACY, EBEN, IBAHO.

Population - None given. Business - Mrugs.

No dealer in town. ' „

Initial order: 1 each 80, 100, 150 and 150 Bisc records.

Now only dealer tin Ileyburn, Idaho and moving to Eden and becoming combination. Edison exclusive.

v. E. BOLWAY & SON, SYRACUSE, H. Y.

PRAHKLIN B. NELLIS, AUBURN, N. Y.

Population 34,000 Business - Pianos.

One Bisc only and 4 Cylinder only dealer in town. ~

Initial order: 2-100, 1-150, 1-165, 1-200, 1-250 and $375 Bisc Reoords. To handle Biso only.

Edison exclusive.

RUEHN PHONOGRAPH COMPANY.

HARVEY TOBIAS, GRAPTON, W. VA.

Population 10,000 Business - Musical Goods.

One Cylinder dealer in town. (Applicant)

Initial order: 1 each 80, 100, 150, 250 and 1 each all Bisc Records. To be combination dealer.

Handling Victor but to give Edison equal show.

MUSICAL PHONOGRAPH BIVISION. Phonograph Agreement Bepartment.

E. E. Bavidson.

Mr. Wetzel:

Oot. 5, 1916

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Please arrange to put the Amberola 30 phonograph e l schedule of 132 per day, effective immediately.

H. T. leeming

Copies to Messrs.

. Bdil@<fn^Wil8ont Baohmon, Mamhert, Sohiffl

Waterman, Parkhurst

COP IKS TO

EDISON, CHARLES EDISON, WILSON, MAXWELL :

APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED OCTOBER 6-1916.

PACIFIC PHONOGRAPH COMPANY, PORTLAND, OREGON.

HILL'S PHARMACY, ONTARIO, OREGON.

Population 1200 Business - Drugs.

Only dealer in town - handling Cylinder.

To he oomhination dealer.

Initial order: 1 each 100, 115, 150 and 160 Disc Records. Handling Victor hut to give Edison equal show.

DIAMOND MUSIC COMPANY.

THE BOGALUSA STORES CO. , BOGALUSA, LA.

Population 1600 Business - Gen. Mdse.

Ho dealer in town. , , ,

Initial order: 5-A100 and 150 Disc Records. Special To handle Disc only.

Edison exclusive.

poor section.

PHONOGRAPH COMPANY OP CINCINNATI. _

HUNTINGTON TALKING MACHINE CO., HUNTINGTON, U.VA.

Population 31,161 Business - Pianos & Music Store.

One combination dealer in town. „ „

Initial order: 3-100,3-150, 2-200, 3-250 and &200 Disc Records. To handle Disc only.

Handling Victor hut to give Edison equal show.

KIPP-LINK PHONOGRAPH COMPANY.

H. BROWN & SONS, WARREN, INDIANA. , . , .

Population 2000 Business - Furn. & Undertaking.

Initiaieorder?°ineach 100, 150, 250 and 150 Disc Records. To handle Pise only.

Edison exclusive.

PHONOGRAPH COMPANY OP DETROIT. _

ROTHFUSS PIANO CO. , BLISSFIELD, MICHIGAN.

Population 1500 Business - Pianos.

Only dealer in town^handling Cylinder. H

Initial order: 1 each 100, 150, 200 and 150 Diso Records. To he combination dealers.

Edison exclusive.

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KIPP- LINK PHONOGRAPH COMPANY.

ALLES BROS. PURN. CO. , MT. VERNON, INDIANA.

Population 5000 Business - Eurniture.

Only dealer in town - handling Cylinder.

Initial order: 1 each 150, 200, 250 and 150 Disc KecordB. To be combination dealers.

Edison exolusive.

BUEHM PHONOGRAPH COMPANY.

JOHN A. SCOTT CO. , PITTSBURGH, PA.

Population 533,905 Business - Eurniture.

Three combination, 2 Disc only and 2 Cylinder only dealers in town, ^handle^iec only°h 10°’ 15°’ 2°°’ 2S° a"d 1 eaoh a11 available Recordi Handling Columbia but to give Edison equal show.

BUEHN PHONOGRAPH COMPANY.

G. W. EINCIK & CO. , JEANETTE, PA.

Population 8077 Business - Music.

One Cylinder and 1 Disc only dealer in town.

Initial order: 1 each Amberola 30, 50, 75 and 150 B. A. Records. To oe combination dealer.

Edison exclusive.

PROUDEIT SPORTING GOODS CO.

LOST & THOMAS, OGDEN, UTAH. Population 25,580 Business

Only dealer in town - handling Di Initial order: 8-100, 8-160, 4-20' To be elevated to Class "A". Disc Edison exolusive.

- Dept. Store, sc. (Outside of Jobb< 0, 2-250 and 835 Disc only.

MUSICAL PHONOGRAPH DIVISION. Phonograph Agreement Department.

E.E. Davidson.

Report for October 5th, 1915.

J

Mr. T. A. Edison:-

The following report of defective DisorecordB

Sel. Total

No. _ 0.

50063 204 50138 210 50194 230 50179 219

50273

80074

80184

80127

80165

80150

80219

80239

82048

82049

82050

222

217

185

82062

82076

82077 82081 82630 82634 82634 83012 83018 83025 83028

220

109

163

169

160

Cracked

Varnish

2

0

2

4 21 10

2

5 3

3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1

. 1 0

10

4 0 0

11

0

Varnish Scratches

Spots _ & Dents

Total

Inspected.

0

1

0

2

0

0 ■ 0 0

3

4 0 0 0 0 0

0

1

0

1

0

5

1

0

2

0

2

0

2

208

230

220

209

221

110

166

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Report for October 5th, 1915.

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Mr. T. A. Edison:-

Pleaae note 6 records with oraoked varnish are in the lot to go out with the 43rd Supplement which will probably go out this week.

Sel.

No.

Total

0. K.

Craoked Varnish Scratches Total

Varnish Snots _ & Dents _ Inspected -

50255 1210 4

82532 330 1

1218

331

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INTERNATIONAL PHONOGRAPH: DEALERS’ ASSOCIATION

Organized at West Orange August 10, 1915

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.■ V Dealers’ Association, and is entitled to all the rights and privileges of such mem- jjj bership as long as he or she abides by the pledge made at the time of his or her |! application for membership.

3Ju HitttPHH The International Edison

. Phonograph Dealers’ Association’s Executive Committee has

caused the Association’s duly authorized officers to sign this Certificate and affix the Association s seal.

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T.rr . Th brans A. Edison, . , Edison Phonograph Co.)-' Orange, Hew Jersey.

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Dear Sir:

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a #250 Diamond Disc Machine,

1 satisfactory explanation from ' ■ - and

Being the owner of and having tried to secure 1

others in your company, I turn to you - --- — -- _ trust you will pardon the intrusion on your valuable time.

t ain an enthusiast over the Diamond Disc, and record-.:, hut cannot understand why Jour producer rasps, shatters, or harmonises with certain notes, take \or instance Record £80210, in this record the voice shatters out, and the string orchestra harmonises spoiling an otherwise perfect rendition.

Record £82531 , you will note Emmy Destinn actually scuawks on the high notes, and in most of the Anna Case records, the same thing occurs, in fact all the Grand Opera ■ records, the singers fly off the key on caching a high note.

You will note the same tning in record? #03003 >

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new producer received with the machine to your llew York Distributors and received a scratched second handed one in return (which was not fair treatment) but reproduced much better than the other for a time.

Raving disposed of a high priced Victrola in .

preference fo an Edison, 1 am - frankly - very muen disappointed, and would appreciate your inveotigation and reply, or irom some¬ one who j„y stylus and records mentioned out to

Orange, if 1 can better explain my criticism, or should be pleased to meet n representative at my home ary time, by appointment.

Thanking you for your courtesy, 3 am

Very truly^yourB

CF.ll/WU.

Oot. 11th. 1915.

Prof. Luigi Komano,

Station S, Box 27,

New York Oity.

Hy dear Prof. Romano:

Your favor of the fourth instant has been reoeived, and I have shown it to Ur. Edison in order that he might bo acquainted with the nature of your request. Ho says that if you will refer Carl Pisher to him, he will write them a letter stating that you have done composing for him, and that your work has been very satisfactory. X would suggest therefore, that you tell them to write direct to Mr. Edison, and then he will write direct to them in reply.

Yours very truly,

MB/n.

Ootober 13, 1915.

Mr. Wilson:

From investigation thuB far made it appears that a considerable number of perfectly good reproducers are being re¬ turned to us for replacement beoause of blasting, although if played on instruments with the horn properly adjusted, they would not blast at all.

Mr. leeming and I discussed this matter at some length. He is preparing instructions for dealers, showing them how to determine whether a horn is properly adjusted and

adjustment. When these instructions are complete we shall require the dealers to test each reproducer before returning it to the jobber. If a reproducer plays all right on the dealer's testing instrument, it will then be up to him to adjust the owner s in¬ strument.

As you know, we are at present asking dealers to see that a diagnosis card is attached to each reproducer returned.

It has been suggested that a question blank be prepared for this purpose, but I am afraid the use of such f ^lank would be^cited by our competitors as indicating s our reproducers.

l large amount of trouble with

I wish Mr. Simpson would take this r - - ,

request that the inspection report shall always show the content s of the diagnosis card attaohed to the reproducer *ken returned.

I believe that the Eeoeiving Department has been instructed to note on the reproducer return sheet whether a oard aoocmpanied it. but in any oase where they omit to do so, I wish Mr.

Simpson would supply the omission, as it is important for us t know what dealers and jobbers are failing to carry out our instructions.

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AMERICAS BIOHOGRAPH SUPPLY COMPANY,

Adelaide, South Austral

agar, Export Division, Thomas A. Edison, Inc U. S. A.

Your kind letter dated July 3rd, duly to hand.

You will be pleased to learn that I have arrived Bafely sunny South Australia, the land of sunshine and possibilities.

My reoent trip through your country and Canada has an eye opener to me, I had no idea that there were such big possit in the talking machine trade. I have come back full of enthusiasm new ideas. I am quite satisfied that the Edison Diamond Disc 1b a

jrtainly nothing like

was on his way to the convention.

lllss Christina Miller's delightful photographs to hand. \7e have had same framed and hung up in oonsplououe place. Everybody is in love with them. 7fe would just like her to come to Australia. V/e feel sure she would

have a hearty welcome.

You mention that you may he able to get me a copy of Hr .Edison's photograph with his autograph. I would esteem it a great personal favor if

you oan secure me a copy.

Have you been able to secure me a copy of the two little children manipulating the phonograph. You will remember the post card showing the simplicity of the Edison Cylinder phonograph.

In conclusion I thank you very heartily for the many courtesies that you have extended to me during my stay in Hew York.

With kindest regards to Hr.Haxwell and your good-self,

YourB very truly, e. WILLIAMS.

The Phonograph Co.

Exclusive Edison Distributers

Snlosrooms & Offices-229 So.Wobosh Avo.

Chicago Oct. 19,19X5.

Mr. W.H.Meadowcroft, Thomas A.Edison.Inc. , Orange , N . J .

Dear Mr. Meadowcroft,

Enclosed letter for Billy Bee can best be handled by you perhapsjyou must have the itinerary of the party. Will you be so kind as to forward it?

When Mr. Edison arrived the other night, they hooked on an engine and jerked him around considerably getting him over the Northwestern station.

Sincerely,

CEG:M

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ou must bo alive to whatever transpires the -phonograph world, -^buf'swtf or some reason my enthusiam over^sj "Ediaona" has become publio property, and 1 am reoeiving froquo* aunioations from new contributors toxtho field of interest.

i Pathe people have opened an agenoy in Boston and write to as X will "entertain a proposition." They start Hhe needle or point ' the inside of the reoord and work outwardly. It is powerful id equal to the Viotrola. They used some of your rebqrds in showing j „

;he instrument to mo. They use one point and draw it aqross their -4- •ecords to show their indeatruotability. I fold them if-was qs good A » j uiy but The Edison,and that I had no use for any but Tlrt^Best. J .

Vooalion peoplo have a docen times asked to place an ina-t^ument . 4-j-

_ iy homo on trial — but I have refused— and still they "keep 'over- (T

Lastingly at it." Their cabinets ( in the illustrations) far surpass iBe Edison and all other cabinets. With the unequalled Edison TONE Lt dies seom as if ths motor might be housed attractively, and the Idison oabinets are less attractive than almost any othere mads. If ;he Vooalion can be put in artistic cases, no more costly than the \ boxes generally used,why not the EdisonT Last weok I bought another "250" Edison, but the coffin-like oabinet is really no artistlo addii tion to the furnishing of a room. ( I don't hesetate to be frank, a*^ this is the 7th or 8th Edisona I have purchased.)

Now comes The Operatone. I enoloso their circular and another. The Path e^ is not on my desk or I would inflict that also!

Yours very sincerely

V My friend Sydney Lloyd Wrightson of Washington, of whom I spoke to you,tells me that ho is having (from the publishers)

100 copies of # Sifia 80168, "Dear Spirit" etc. for his choir. X wish we had more saored records sung as that is, — by an evenly balanced quartet. The reverse is equally good.

V I fortunately have "Miserere" #82501, with "Jtabo nati" etc. on the reverse. In this reo¬ ord the Miserere is most impressive— but the

present rendering is most disappointing. I infer the first matrix was destroyed in some way. My daughter has this later record and thinks it very inferior to mine.

1 More piano reoorde,pleasel #50200 is not perfeot but it is far in advance of other piano records.

V I am told that Miss Hinokley is singing for the Victor people. I am to hear her at Symphony Hall on Sunday.

F.A.W.

[ATTACHMENT/ENCLOSURE]

The Aeolian Company

NkwVouk, October 16th, 1915.

11 r. Frederic A. Whiting, Ogunquit,

Bear Sirs-

While you are considering the purchase of an Aeolian Vooalion it is well to dwell somewhat on those features of these new instruments that have combined to make them so superior to other phonographs.

After much experiment with the different mediums for transfering the vibra tion from the record to the diaphragm, it was decided by the Aeolian Company that the steel needle gave the greatest satisfaction. The present success of the Aeolian Vooalion is the best evidence that this judgment was correct.

It is, of course, impossible to totally eliminate the so-called "soratch" — the very fact that there must be a point of contact with the record, and a certain amount of pressure, doe3 not permit of total elimination of the sound that results from friction. The Aeolian Company, however, haB in these new Vocalions, succeeded in eliminating much of this objectionable noise.

These Vocalions have been played from the stage of Aeolian Conoert Hall before large and discriminating audiences. They have received the applause of the entire assemblage. No one had believed it possible to refine a phonograph to a point where it reproduced the instrument or voice with suoh wonderful clearness, richness and volume of tone. Here was a phonograph, that due to its unusual tone volume could be used before large audiences I

Aeolian Vocalions, exoept only in the least expensive styles, possess the Graduola, that new device for controling the tone volume as the record is being played, and which, by the way, is a feature of these instruments that is not found on other phonographs. It is difficult to define the Graduola in a letter One must feel the music, hold the Graduola in his own hands, and then by the slightest pressure, vary the tone-shadings -- play the record with new feeling -- mirror, as it were, his own emotions.

In judging a phonograph, one must take many things into consideration. The true measure of the value of an instrument of this kind is its ability to repro¬ duce tone with life-like exactness and with adequate volume. These two things the Aeolian Vooalion doos better than any other phonograph. Upon this basiB, and upon this basis alone, should you consider these instruments seriously.

[ATTACHMENT/ENCLOSURE]

While the vast experience of the Aeolian Company in building musical in¬ struments of exquisite design and finish has contributed to make these Vo- calions extremely beautiful in appearance, we ask that they be judged for their tonal quality alone, and in frank comparison with other phonographs.

In order to prove all that is claimed for these new instruments, and in

view of the fact that we have no agency in your neighborhood, we are prepared

to send one of them subject to your approval for ten days, all charges pre¬ paid, and entirely at our own risk. In this vi ay we offer you a chance to see and hear the Vocalion — the opportunity to play it in your own home and at your own leisure before deciding upon its purchase .

Nor need you feel that your choice of a Vocalion is necessarily restrict¬ ed to those more expensive styles described in our large Catalog, a3 we have now introduced two new inexpensive models without stand or cabinet, but possessing the true Vocalion tone quality. These two new styles are known as Styles "D" and "E", and cost $35.00 and $50.00 respectively.

He have enclosed two order forms — one, to be used where the approval plan is adopted with a view of purchasing one of our more expensive Vocalions -- and one, an order for either one of these new models.

Your order will receive prompt attention.

Yours very truly,

W.O

[ATTACHMENT/ENCLOSURE]

. . CASH APPROVAL ORDER

AEOLIAN COMPANY r

29 Wcl 42nd Street, New York *■

Gentlemen: —

I am enclosing $ - in the form of - on receipt of which please

ship to me one Acolian-Vocalion, Style - - I understand that you will pay all

forwarding charges and that you agree to submit this instrument subject to my approval

purchase price stated above, less only the return freight charges as per bill of lading.

Signed. - i _

My address is - - -

ACCEPTED FOR THE AEOUAN COMPANY

PART CASH WITH INSTALLMENTS, APPROVAL PLAN

[ATTACHMENT/ENCLOSURE]

YOU want to see and hear the Acolian-Vocalion before you buy a phonograph of any make. Choose one of the two approval propositions outlined on this order form and let us send you an instrument to test. Remember, there is no obligation on, your part— the Vocation satisfies you fully or you do not pay for it.

[ATTACHMENT/ENCLOSURE]

.THE AEQUAN COMPANY

29 W«.t 42nd Street, New Veil City Dale-

Gentlemen: —

FOR

CASH ORDER STYLE "D" FILL IN HERE

I am enclosing $35.00 in the form of - on receipt of

which please ship to me one Aeolian-Vocalion, Style "D," finish -

1 understand that you will pay all forwarding charges.

FOR

CASH ORDER STYLE "E" FILL IN HERE

I am enclosing $50.00 in the form of - on receipt of

which please ship to me one Aeolian-Vocalion. Style "E,’ finish—. -

I understand that you will pay all forwarding charges.

FOR

INSTALLMENT ORDER STYLE "D“ FILL IN HERE

I desire to take advantage of your offer to ship me an Aeolian- Vocalion. Style “D.” finish - - to cost $35.00 on the install¬

ment plan of payment, with the understanding that I am to remit $7.00 of the purchase price stated above and $3.50 of the purchase price each month thereafter with interest at 6% on the unpaid monthly balances, until the total amount shall have been paid, and I herewith enclose $7.00 in the form of - - which covers my initial payment.

INSTALLMENT ORDER STYLE ", E" FILL IN HERE

I desire to take advantage of your offer to ship me on Aeolian- Vocalion. Style “E.” finish - - to cost $50.00 on the install¬

ment plan of payment, with ihe understanding that I am to remit $10.00 of the purchase price slated above and $5.00 of the purchase price each month thereafter with interest at 6% on the unpaid monthly balances, until the total amount shall have been paid, and I herewith enclose $10. in the form of - - which covers my initial

1 submit the two following references:

INSTALLMENT ORDERS FILL IN HERE

It is understood and agreed by you that upon receipt of this information you are to forward contract form which 1 am to sign as directed and return to you, and that upon receipt of this signed con¬ tract you agree to ship the Vocation immediately, forwarding charges prepaid by you.

[ATTACHMENT/ENCLOSURE]

Operatone phonograph Company

WORKS AND LABORATORY

38 WAREHAM STREET Boston, Massachusetts

October 15, 1915.

Mr. F. A. Wilting,

Framingham Centre, Mass.

Dear sir:

The number of enquiries we have received regarding the Operatone Phonograph Company prompts me to send you our Circular Ho. 8, which will give you a more adequate idea of our large sales organization which thiB Company controls, and other salient features.

Our representative, Ur. V. A. Sears, will be in your town soon and will be glad to call upon you relative to the proposition.

Orders so far received by the Company insure very large returns, and we trust you may become financially interested with us if you are in the market for a first-class industrial invest-

Very truly yours,

[ATTACHMENT/ENCLOSURE]

The Building of a Great Manufacturing and Sales Organization

THE OPERATONE PHONOGRAPH CO.

Large success in a manufacturing enterprise comes with the right The wisdom of providing in advance an adequate method of marketing 01 large way. We have the model method with the Operatone Phonograph, y ginning, you know the answer. Success is assured from the start.

Ours is the Easy Running, Rubber Tired Method and it gets its results by a simple directness, with personal representation in the field at all times. To illustrate again :

Graiiid Opera and The Operatone in Every Home Price Factory to Family, S15

[ATTACHMENT/ENCLOSURE]

Our Market Ss Reached through IOOO Experienced Agents in the Field

In Our Unique Sales Organization we have a Most Powerful Asset. It is absolutely different. It includes one thousand experienced men and is so devised that it assures automatically the placing of 150,000 Operatone Phonographs the first year in American homes.

This being an acknowledged fact we are going ahead with perfect confidence and are placing con¬ tracts with various manufacturers for the several parts, which will be made under our own supervision, in sufficient quantities to insure us the lowest possible costs, and j

In the second place we shall at once increase the facilities of our New England assembling plant to turn out not less than 500 complete and perfect Operatone Phonographs every 24 hours.

We know we have the market. We have provided the Coast- to-Coast Automatic Distribution — it only remains to turn out the machines in order to make our profits and pay dividends with the regularity of clock work.

A World narket of Great Hagnitude is Waiting the Delivery of Our Product.

IT IS A FACT that the two largest phonograph companies in the world (manufacturers of high priced instruments) are 250,000 machines behind on their orders ;

IT IS A FACT that in the next twelve months not less than 1,000,000 talking machines will be sold in America ; and

IT IS A FACTthat there is a constant and especially strong demand for reliable machines of med¬ ium price such as the Operatone Phonograph.

These Facts, together with our unequalled sales organization ready to invade the field

our Company.

One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Operatones Sold This Year, Means Half a Million Sold Next Year.

Official Letter to Our Shareholders.

In this connection we desire to call especial attention to a confidential letter submitted by the President of the Operatone Phonograph Company to the shareholders.

Executive Offices

Ol’KKATONE PlIOXOfUtAI'll COMPANY

To the Stockholders of The Operatone Phonograph Co. Huston, Mass.

Gentlemen ;

I have been much gratified at the really remarkable success of the first month’s public demon¬ stration of the Operatone Phonograph. It has proven, beyond any doubt, that the Operatone is a wonderful instrument, fully equal to phonographs sold for three and four times its price.

In my opinion the Operatone Phonograph Company will sell not less than 150,000 machines the first year and I believe this estimate is very conservative.

I base these statements on the fact of the market ready and waiting and the splendid sales or¬ ganization, which is no arranged as to insure the automatic distribution of this number of machines.

It is also proper for me to state to the stockholders at this time that the production of The Operatone Phonograph in such quantities assures us of the delivery of all parts ready to assemble at the minimum cost, including assembling, overhead, freight, warehouse charges, depreciation on machinery, insurance and advertising, the total cost sheet will not exceed S7.00 f. 0. b. warehouse de¬ pot to ship to agents.

As each instrument will be sold cash with order, this gives the company a net profit of S3.00 on each instrument sold, which would mean an annual net profit of 5450,000 on 150,000 machines — surely a return sufficient to pay a satisfactory amount on all money invested.

Very truly yours,

WILLIAM T. RICHARDSON,

President.

[ATTACHMENT/ENCLOSURE]

Run. U. S. Pat. Off.

Unusual Profits are Assured

BECAUSE every home is a possible customer;

BECAUSE we have a well defined business policy outlined ;

BECAUSE the business is based on a fundamentally sound idea ;

BECAUSE our product is high grade at a price within reach of all ;

BECAUSE we are properly organized and will have sufficient capital ;

BECAUSE we have ready a large and experienced sales organization ;

BECAUSE the Operatone is the Phonograph of to-day and sells direct ;

BECAUSE we have the continuous renewal business from the sale of records

cHew England Made for the World’s ‘Trade

Price — Factory to Family, $15

Millions of dollars are spent annually advertising phonograph records and accessories— all of which materially helps the sale of our product.

Renewal Business — Second Sale — Forced Come Back

Phonograph statistics have established the fact that each owner of a phonograph will average S20 worth of records the first year. As each of our agents will be equipped to supply records of standard make in any quantity, 150,000 Operatones at an average of only S5.00 worth of records yearly should give our company the great additional gross revenue of 8750,000 a year.

Records wear out. They cannot be repaired. Therefore we are assured of this continuous source

Surely we have a Unique Manufacturing and Selling Enterprise.

Have you done your part in making it possible?

A Fair Share of flits Prosperity Helmuts to You. It is an Opportunity Almost Forciiu* Itself into Your Hands.

It is action that counts to day. It will convert itself into real tangible profits, It is industrial enter¬ prises of this character that are expanding rapidly. We have in the Operatone Phonograph an enterprise of achievement, and its growth is as healthy as it is realistic. Don’t delay— join to-day— be a shareholder with us.

Shares — Price, $10 Each

Operatone Phonograph Company

Work* nud Laboratory*

[ATTACHMENT/ENCLOSURE]

Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.

Operahmo Phonograph Comp;

UNDER MAINE STATE LAWS

Capital Stock, all of one class .

SHARES $10 EACH No preferred stock, no bonds, no mortgages.

OI-TICKRS AND DIRECTORS. President : WILLIAM T. RICHARDSON, Iloston Vice-President: EDWARD A. TROWBRIDGE, Boston Secretary: GEORGE W. BOND, Newton Treasurer: WM. F. E. ROELOFSON

The Company has associated with it in its organization and management, n nd authority in manufacturing and in its sales distribution men recognized for I

( FRED JOY, 95 Milk Street, Boston

Counsel:

l GEORGE M. HEATHCOTE, 6 Beacon Street, 1 Patent Attorney: CLYDE L. ROGERS, Trcmont Building, Mechanical Engineer: ALBERT W. MENNS Stock Transfer Agents : Liberty Trust Company, Bostoi Depository: Mutual National Bank, Boston

a - We are anxious that arf music lovers shall know

Ait dlmutatum what thc^ton^Zdo. We cannot translate

ies. We therefore invite you and your frienclvto visit our studios, Hotel Nottii 3oston, between 9 A.M. and 5 P.M. You wjHbWlcomc any day. Admission F 00m, any records you desire — to be playedTor you.vlf convenient, we suggest that >r two of your own familiar mords. /Further informakipn upon request.

Operatone Phonograph Company

Treasurer's Office: Demonstra

909 Tremont Building, Boston Hnlnl.I

Ur. Deeming, Ur. J. E. Simpoon, Mr. Konnody and. Ur. Uarabert.

I have received a memorandum from Mr. Edison as follows: "I hear lots of bad reports on Blasting Reproducers. Suppose you take 50 Reproducers and get some loud records and test them all. I think that our diaphrams, that is the separate papers, after shellacing, are not dried long enough before putting to-gether and pressing. Also, large lots of Diaphrams should bo made up ahead and thoroughly treated and given a final pressing as the alchohol will be all out then';'.

Ur. Halpin now has 50 stock Reproducers - these are to be tested by Ur. Kennedy and Ur. Hayes, on a record whioh is liable to give trouble from blasting and a careful count kept of the number of Reproducers showing this trouble.

These Reproducers can then be returned to stock.

Ur. leoming and Mr. Simpson will take steps to follow out Ur. Edison' b in¬ structions regarding the "ageing" of the shellaced paper and after several months 50 more Reproducers will be sent to Mr. Halpin for another test. Those Repro¬ ducers are to be equipped with Diaphrams which have been made up "aged" according to Mr. Edison* instructions.

Please arrange to have a sufficient quantity of Diaphrams kept in stock as per tha above suggestions from Mr. Edison so that if this test proves successful this method can be adopted at onoe.

Ur. Kennedy and Ur. Simpson, in the investigation of the manufacture of these Diaphrams have found out several points whioh might give more uniform results.

They will co-operate and see from now on, all Diaphrams are made according to the most approved process of manufacture.

Assistant Chief Engineer.

jpc/pu

c. c.

Mr. Edison.

Heport on Reoroducsrn teatod Lot £ 8-9-

jiickel (Pine)

Speaker Humber

" A- 324 75

" A- 3234 7

" 42484

" A- 324 68-

" A-32458-

“ A- 6999-

" A-29593-

" A- 30361-

n A-29587-

19331-

“ A- 30 324-

“ A-31485-

” A-31460-

" A- 30909-

" A- 314 74-

" A- 3090 5-

" A-32305-

" A-29561-

" A- 31 4 69-

A-21100- A- A-31645-

" A-32441-

" A- 32339-

” 53893-

Tone quality O.K.

0 .It.

swivel stud in reproducer tight cannot teat.

"buz" in this.

O.K.

O.K,

O.K.

O.K

o!k

O.K

Total 24

(The reproducers ore commercial, but do riot run oe uniform)

/

Sdisoi

I.B.jmyoa.

10/25/15-

Copy to 5Sesars Sdison-Leemingr Simpson file,

Oct • 25 , 1915

J. Borggren;

1()t me iuj.vo certified copy of resolution ud opted at

5

12000 So typo 150. 8000 «o typo 200 and 11000 arc typo 250.

l.o); for style 100,

■ stylo 250.

0. B.

Pricos, £L6 oacl: for stylo 100, j £27 eaoh for stulo 200 and \j32 each i<

Orange, ii. J.

'forms , 60 day a.

It is a soecial condition of thin arrangement that this order

WMii&S-pMktM-

B0ythatWat SfSfao in thoefaturt:f tS ardor will' total ioOO oabi- notn.

s?:ris-.- ;ss.sisnnn: »$s *>» -«*•

lot has Been dolivored.

ft further a orovlsion of this arrangement that these prioos

are leS than

with the prosanu provailin.^ f the oahinoto in oxoooc of

thSfirS“0°00^So°Saho’rog1aatod accordingly on a basis to ha mutually agreed upon.

EliSi IllsIsiS

K21.BB

11. 2. looming

Copies to iiossrs. ijdison, Wilson, iioadov.oroft, H. iii^or

October 26, 19X6

Mr. Learning

Mr. Berggren has referred your memorandum of October 26, 1916 relating to the purchase of phonograph cabinets from the Bruns wiok-Balke-Collender Co. to the Legal Department to have prepared a resolution to be adopted by the Board of Direc¬ tors of the Edison Phonograph Worte. Y/e have gone over the letter of October 6th from the Brunswiok-Balke-Collender Co. and your reply of October 26th, and are of the opinion that the agreement is not set forth therein with sufficient clearness.

We therefore suggest that you have a conference with either Mr. Holden or myself to discuss the advisability of having the agreement embodied in a formal contract. In the meantime, I have notified the Purohasing Department not to send out the purchasing order until the same is submitted to the Legal Department.

M

HL-JS

C.C. to Messrs. Edison, Wilson, Berggren and Cheshire

ure of 'bearing a nipger whose voice seemed to me very' good, hut it needed further cul¬ tivation. This young lady - she is very young , possibly not over nineteen or . twenty - had a "bug" of being very desirous of singing for the Edison Phonograph- Her name An hiss I.:. G. 1'unn, 1158 Halsey Street , Brook¬ lyn, K. Y.

If it is practicable I w.ould be glad if you would favor me with a card or note of introduction so that she may pre¬ sent herself at one of the Edison Studios and be heard.

Thanking you for your courtesy in this matter , I am,

Youre

Mr • Y7 . II • lieadowcr of t ,

Orange , K . J •

Recording Department,

l’hos. A. Edison, Inc.,

79 Fifth Avenue,

flew York City.

Dear Mr. Miller:

You probably know Mr. John W. Lieb , Vice President and General Manager of the flew York Edison Company, who is one of Mr. Edison's oldest associates in the electric light business. Mr. Lieb is a very good friend of ours, and Mr. Edison thinks very highly of him.

He has asked us to take a trial record of a Miss Munn, a singer whom he has heard and thinks well of. She has an ambition to sing 'for the Edison Phonograph. I have written to Mr. lieb sending him a letter of introduction which Miss Munn will present to you.

Bill you kindly give this young lady every oppor¬ tunity, and be sure to send the trial records over here with a special note requesting Hayes to call my special attention to them.

Will you kindly give this matter your special care and attention as I know Mr. Edison wants everything done that is possible to please Mr. lieb.

Yours very truly,

Messrs. Wilson, learning. Maxwell and files-

Biso Record Report of Deliveries and Shipments October. 1915

DELIVERIES

SIlIPMBHgS

October 1 9406

2 6859

4 7467

5 8856

6 10118

7 10603

8 10051

9 6811

11 10061

12 10202

13 10133

1A 10713

15 10735

16 11132

18 10103

19 12012

2439

0

7083

5120

9201

6176

7494

6094

2857

14365

9913

20183

12407

6466

3461

4761

4696

5302

506

7700

7096

7912

4200

7983

26621

12645

200678

Average Shipment ner day

February - 5827 Maroh - 6623 April - 8540 May — 8369 June - 10691 July ~ 8060 August - 9173 September - 9984 October - 10097

GHB/AMO. C.C. Mr. T.

4257

6118

6098

6636

8100

8929

6995

9480

8027

Hovember 1, 1915.

Mr. William II. Uaadowcroft , o/a Edison laboratories.

Dear Mr. Uoadoweroft:

Further