For Evening Entertainments Berliner A: Hame, In Church o Ch p.l Gram-o-phone Automatic Operation - Cannot Get Out of Order The Most Perfect Talking Machine WONDERFULLY ADAPTED FOR A NOVEL MONEY-MAKING ENTERTAINMENT WI Short and Savet Hear den Riells I Want Yer, Ma Honey Side Shoes Orator French Laughing Song You will fad our number for roch selection in the list of our recurds E here reproduce the whole programine es rendered at this evening's This special talking machine, the Berliner Gramophone, is the There is no musical instrument that the dramophone does not We have two other styles, for $10 and $15: the $10 machine is run by SEND FOR CATALOGUE Send Money by Registered Letter, Post-Office Order, or New York Draft b National Gramophone Company 874-880 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY NOVELTIES. Micro- RECORDER AND EDISON'S Give the most faithful reproduction in a loud, clear al natural fone. Female Voice. Also on hand: Phonograph, Oraphopbone and every kind of Musical and Other PHONOGRAPH LABORATORY 110 FIFTH AVENUE I Prase mention THE PHONOSCOPE New York City FUNNIEST THING ON EARTH. OBJECTS MOVE AND PEO- SOLE AGENTS, NEW YORK PHONOGRAPH AND GRAPHOPHONE RECORDS * Lowest Price, Best Quality. Send for Catalogue of Good Things, etc. * NOVELTY EXPORT CO. THERE ARE thousands of printers in New York City, THE PHONOGRAM (page 138) 1891 THE MOST PROFITABLE PHONOGRAPH. & HE Louisiana Phonograph Company claim the most profitable phonograph in the country. On March 7th, 1891, that company placed Phonograph No. 8,804, with nickel-in-theslot attachment, in Eugene May's drug store, corner of Canal and Chartres streets, in the city of New Orleans. This was the first machine placed, and the location was all that could be desired, being a fashionable drug store, with a magnificent and largely patronized soda fountain. The phonograph took from the start and kept its custom, as is shown by the following record: Receipts to April 8th, one month, $518.85; to May 8th, two months, $1,017.83; to June 8th, three months, $1,420,80, During all this time the phonograph and attachment ran with remarkable steadiness, and did not lose a day, nor did either of them have to be taken out or changed. The receipts were exceedingly uniform, ranging from $14 to 20. The biggest run was on March 21st, when $21.45 were taken in, and on April 11th and 12th, when the receipts for, the two days were 46.85. The least return during the whole time was one bad day, when the receipts fell to $8.90. Since then five other phonographs have been placed within two blocks from this location, and its re ceipts have fallen off to about $250 month. The company have also had good returns from a battery of eighteen phonographs and attachments placed at the great place of evening resort for New Orleans, the West End Lake Front. Each cabinet in this arrangement has a small incandesceut lamp, placed inside just above the phonograph, which adds greatly to the attractiveness of the exhibition. To burn these lights takes four of the ordinary Anglo-American batteries, the same as are used to run the phonograph. The Louisiana Company puts out but a limited number of nickel machines, but puts them only in the best places, and never pays any percentage. The favor has been the other way, and, unless the place was very desirable, they have charged the proprietor for putting the outfit on his premises. Only the best music is used, and unusual care is taken to watch it and to remove it before. it shows the signs of wear. The attachment used is the Hartford Model, a purely automatic machine, which fact has in no small degree contributed to the success achieved. The company have not a suflicient supply of phonographs to do much at placing business machines as yet. They have out a limited number in good places where the parties can familiarize themselves with its workings as practical examples for others. Later, when the cotton season opens, it is probable from the applications already filed, that they will have as much of this sort of custom as they can attend to properly. THE AUTOMATIC PHONOGRAPH IN ST. LOUIS. A NEW INDUSTRY YET IN ITS INFANCY. Mr. J. C. Wood, the general manager of the Missouri Phonograph Company, controls the Indiana and Missouri territory, the Arkansaw territory being leased to the Arkansaw Edison Phonograph Company, with head-quarters at Little Rock, where Mr. H. G. Allis, President; Mr. N. Kupferle, Vice-President, and Mr. W. G. Brown, Secretary and Treasurer, are ably pushing the phonograph business. The cylinders upon which the sound is impressed are made of wax. The securing of musical selections has grown to be quite an industry. It is done mainly by the Columbia Phonograph Company, of Washington, D. C., the New Jersey Phonograph Company, of Newark, N. J., the New York Phonograph Company and the Ohio Phonograph Company. The Columbia Phonograph Company places from three to five hundred cylinders on the market each day. Their specialty is music by the worldrenowned United States Marine Band, which plays at the White House. The next most popular band is Issler's, of Newark, N. J. The "Gondolier's Lanciers" has the greatest success for phonographic dance-music. Cappa's 7th Regiment Band and Gilmore's, of New York, are world renowned; they captivate the ear and senses by their magnificent melody. Mr., Wood, the general manager, says that from a monetary point of view the automatic onograph is a great success. They have placed from fifty to one hundred machines in the large saloons and 52-380 0-66-pt. 1- 42 restaurants. It is surprising how well patronized they are. There is one machine on Broadway that nets one hundred dollars a week, while some on Olive Street net from fifty to one hundred dollars. Occasionally worthless coins are placed in the slot, but the percentage of loss by such deception is not near as great as the risks taken in other businesses. The nickel-in-the-slot machine has kept steady growth with the other improvements, and it is almost impossible to succeed in operating them without placing the necessary nickel in the slut. Two men attend to the fifty machines each day, visiting them twice during the twenty-four hours. New airs are placed on the machines each day, unless by request a popular air is retained longer. Each cylinder can be used about fifty-five hundred times before its value is destroyed. Strange to say, in the saloons the most popular are vocal church hymns. The greatest success financially is the hymn "Nearer, my (iod, to Thee." Mr. Wood says he placed it in one saloon as an experiment; when the man went around the next day to change it, the proprietor asked to have it left, and it was still in demand at the end of the week. Mr. McMillan, President of the Missouri Car Company, has one at his house, simply for entertainment. Mr. F. C. Bradford has one in his parlor. Mr. William Speed Stephens, the Booneville banker, has had a phonograph for several years, using it for business and entertainment. The most peculiar use to which the phonograph has been put is that of the Washington professor of languages, who speaks his lessons to the phonograph and sends them to his class in order to teach the proper pronunciation. January 4, 1908 300 PER CENT. CENT. 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