>0 ^, a,v ^ £tw//y/Z? 01 X , V » « '0. x ,0- a> .0 o. ' * * S ,}> . vi » , -/'0 f «> J I I & - A*" *N 1 ^ . s » « r — Library of Congress— Central Charge File Call No. TS P301 .P3A5 Date 22 July 83 Author Phonoscope 1-3 (1896-99) Title m/b/rs Division F. Smith cd. #8-3566(?) Employee LW 5/58 (See LCR 813) >0 .0 o. "bo* .0 C> <5 ^ 1 o- o> ■ an z ^l^?o> AT- v * It* + i* Bli « ,0 q. c ~ 0 & J n i * Xi ' .0 ■ ^ x0^ * 'Jfe'- **^* v/# ***** * °o 0 , * 0 ■ 0l Scanned from the collections of The Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation www. loc.gov/avconservation Motion Picture and Television Reading Room www.loc.gov/rr/mopic Recorded Sound Reference Center www.loc.gov/rr/record 5%, §CIEIiTIFIC*^MU5EMENT INVENTIONS X APPERTAIN IIS G TO Sovad & Sight. \ f ^3 1Ro. 1. 1Re\v Jgorh, IRovember 15, 1896, e<5^ ^> principal features of tbis IRumber, VOICES OF THE DEAD. The Possibilities of the Talking Machine. EDISON. How he Works and Rests. TALKING MACHINES. The Phonograph, Graphophone, Gramophone and Metaphone. AUTOMATIC SLOT MACHINES. New Devices and Items of General Interest. 'GRAPHS, 'PHONES AND 'SCOPES. The Allograph, Zero- graph, Radiophone, Megaphone and Cathoscope. THE X-RAYS. Its Successful Practical Uses. Dangerous Effects by Its Use. RECENT INVENTIONS. The Duplex Diaphragm. The Multiplex Phonograph. THE TALKING MACHINE LITIGATION. Dispute Be- tween the Phonograph and Graphophone Interests. PICTURE PROJECTING DEVICES. Devices for Project- ing, Enlarging and Animating Photographs of Objects in Motion. The Vitascope, Phantoscope, Eidoloscope, Bio- graph, Cinematographe, Theatrograph and Kineopticon. NEW RECORDS FOR TALKING MACHINES. New Rec- ords Manufactured by the Leading Companies. THE LATEST POPULAR SONGS. List of the latest suc- cesses. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Trade Notes. News and Inter- views. Foreign Correspondence. New Films for Project- ing Devices. Exhibitors Directory. Letters. Talent. Screen Squibs. 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I hare made thousands of records for the Chicago Talking Machine Co., and they 7i'ere loud, clear and distinct. Very truly yours, DAN. W. QUINN. TO THE PUBLIC. I take pleasure in saying I have made several hundred original records for the Chicago Talking Machine Co. In quality and enunciation they are the equals and in volume the superior of any I have ever made. Faithfully yours, HERBERT HOLCOMBE. The Ghicago Talking Machine So., Sent" for our new big Catalogue. 107=109 Madison St., CHICAGO, U. S. A. References : First National Bank, Chicago ; Bradstrcefs and Dun's Commercial Agencies ; The Cits' Bank of London, England. Vol. I. No. i. THE PHONOSCOPE. 7' 7 RUSSELL HUNTING ' y T' T' THE ORIGINAL "MICHAEL CASEY. 99 I am devoting my entire time, energy and facilities to originating and manufacturing Talk- ing Records for Talking Machines^ Benefited by over six years' experience and experiment, I can supply you with a meritable record at a reason- able price. I do not copy, imitate or mimic others^ I originate, manufacture and sell my own records. Price of Records OR^'LNYALS 80c, Reme mber _^ I am the originator of the Casey series — [% which have been the standard talking records for the past six years. Reme 11 1 1>0 1- That there are "Casey" Records on the /g\ market which are not manufactured by me, but are made by others, using my subjects, in order to deceive the public. Remember ,->. A poor article is never imitated, GOOD (•) ONES ALWAYS ARE. Imitation is the highest flattery. Reme m ber That certain unprincipled individuals and _^ corporations are duplicating my work. (#) thereby deceiving the public by furnish- m ffffff ;;;;;; mg a record about one-third as loud as the original. Remember "Casey's" are the Standard Humorous Talking Records. There have been over 50,000 manufactured and shipped to all parts of the English speaking world, giv- ing universal satisfaction. Remember "Casey" Records are loud, clear and dis- tinct, and are especially recommended for horn use. Remember That all genuine "Casey" §) Records are recorded and tested by me, and are abso- utely guaranteed. NEW RECORDS. ,* NEW SERIES. By RUSSELL HUNTING. , NEW OASEYS. CASEY'S WOODEN WEDDING. Casey thanks his friends for their wooden presents, made of wood. He called the figures to a dance. Music by full orchestra. All full. CASEY AS AN AUCTIONEER (NO. 1). Casey tries to sell a pug dog. Pair of gentleman's pants and a photo- graph picture of Napoleon Boneypart. Exciting bidding. NEAZV SERIES. HIRAM'S VISIT TO NEW YORK. Hiram relates his experiences. Says he spent almost 60 cents in three days. Just threw money away. HIRAM'S VIEWS ON SUPERSTITION. Says he don't believe in the unlucky thirteen, as he would ra have $13 than $12. HIRAM'S GIRL— HANNAH. Tells about his girl Hannah. A lovely girl; weighs 300 in bathing. Hiram is very enthusiastic about her feet and nose. NEW SONGS. CASEY ON PARADE. HE DIDN'T GET EXACTLY WHAT HE THOUGHT HE WOULD. ONCE OR TWICE. I DID IT, BUT I'M SORRY THAT I DID. AND THEN HE WOKE UP. THE BLOW ALMOST KILLED PAPA. OH! HOW SAD, MY MOTHER-IN-LAW IS DEAD! ARRAH, GO ON. VERY SORRY TO HEAR IT. SHE KNEW IT ALL THE TIME. MARY BLACK PROM HACKENSACK. THAT NAUGHTY LITTLE TWINKLE IN HER EYE. IRENE McNULTY. THE MAIDEN DIDN'T KNOW A SINGLE THING. SORRY FOR THE GIRLS. THE CHILLY WIDOW. MISS JONES. OH! WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT. ^ Russell Hunting, 45 CLINTON PLACE, NEW YORK THE PHONOSCOPE. November, 1896. Records Walcutt & Leeds 53 E. 11th STREET, NEW YORK AFTER NOVEMBER 20th OUR FAMOUS RECORDS, NOW $1.00 WILL BE SOLD AT 50 CENTS EACH. Send for Catalogue. Discount to dealers. The "New" Edison Spring Motor Phonograph, $40.00 With One Dozen Records and Horn, = = 45.00 Edison 'fill' The Very Latest ! Just Out ! ! 9t THE EDISON HOME PHONOGRAPH, ' Machine for the Millions. 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IDoices of the ©eab. Everything on earth serves two purposes: a present and a future one. The deed of the hero and the saying of the wise man besides bene- fitting their immediate contemporaries serve as examples and guides to the succeeding genera- tions. From time immemorial, therefore, the deeds and learning of the illustrious men and women of the world, have been recorded on stone, vellum, and papyrus, in manuscripts and books. These records have always been held in the highest esteem and veneration. Even amongst the lowest types of the human race we find some sort of record of their travels and their heroes. The celebrated libraries of Egypt, Greece, and Italy, attest the importance attri- buted by the ancient people of these countries to the preservation of the records of their thoughts and deeds; while to-day there is hard- ly a village, be it ever so humble, that boasts not its library and annals. The foremost amongst the public buildings of our great cities are the libraries— the storing place of the thoughts and the record of the deeds of our raee. Yet, at best, these records give but a poor re- flection of the times and deeds they are in- tended to perpetuate. Like preserved fruit, however delicious, they lack the bloom of life: they are dry and difficult of digestion. We read in them in a third-hand fashion. The historian with all his personalities, the growth of the language, the monotony of the reading, all com- bine to cast about these records, a mist of un- certainty and doubt, which it requires assiduous work and study to dispel. Recently the writer had occasion to attend a phonograph recital. Among the cylinders used that night there were some whereon Hon. W. E. Gladstone and the venei'able Bismarck had recorded their voices. I have always been an ardent admirer of these great statesmen, both shoulders above all their contemporaries, but, as my means and leisure do not permit of my leaving home, my conception of th^m had been derived mainly from newspaper re- ports—the echo of the world, alas! so fre- quently twisted and tainted to suit the audience. Thus I have read the speeches of Gladstone and of Bismarck, and become familiar with their respective work, but I did not know their spirit until I heard their voice on the cylinder of a phonograph. The body, the strength, the soft modulation, the emphasis, so faithfully re- produced by this delicate mechanism, the life thus imparted to the words, made them sink indelibly into my soul, showing to me in the fulness of their power, the men whom till then I had known only vaguely. I felt their pres- ence; their spirit pervaded me; I understood the secret of their greatness, as the subtle per- suasiveness of their voice held me spellbound. If thus we could but listen to the voice of the great founders of this mighty commonwealth: Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln and others, how easy it would be for us to grasp their great ideas and teachings and follow in their footsteps. But in their time the talking machines had not been thought of. To-day we are in a position to reap the full benefit of the genius of our great inventors. How salutary and consoling it is for loving children and friends to be able to retain the voices of their dear departed ones for com- munion in time of trouble, and of pleasure. The voice of that mother whose every thought has been for our welfare, whose last prayer was to call blessings down on us from Heaven; of that father whose stern, unbending, yet loving char- acter first instructed us in the hard realities of life. Death cannot now deprive us of their help, advice and encouragement, if we will but record their voices whilst they live, and treasure them not only in our- hearts, but in a certain and lasting form, on the surfaces of phono- graph and graphophone cylinders. It is by the voice that men communicate with each other in all the fulness of their in- dividuality. The voice, formerly invisible and irretrievably lost as soon as uttered, can now be caught in its passage and preserved practi- cally for ever. The great speakers, singers, actors of to-day have it in their power to transmit to posterity all the excellencies they are so richly endowed with. Art in its perfection need no longer be lost to succeeding generations, who now shall be able to enjoy all its benefits by setting in motion the wheels of a simple machine. In future there need be no disputed readings, no doubtful interpretation of text or delivery. The phonographic record, being absolutely true, avoids both by preserving all utterances with every modulation and inflection of voice. Death has lost some of its sting since we are able to forever retain the voices of the dead. HOW HE WORKS AND RESTS. Thomas A. Edison went up to Lake Chau- tauqua, N. ¥., last month to bring home his family who had been spending their vacation at that place. On his way home Edison stopped in Buffalo and was interviewed, in part as follows, by a reporter for the Buffalo "Express": "Have you been taking a rest . ' was the first question asked of Mr. Edison. "No, no," laughed the inventor. "What do I want of a rest? I never rest; what's the use of it?" The "Express" man agreed that a rest was not needful to Mr. Edison's robust appearance, and he asked the following: "Don't you ever rest?" "Well that depends what you mean by rest. I sleep, of course, but I hardly ever go on a vacation. My family go on vacations and I go after them." "What are you devoting your efforts to just now ?" "Oh twenty or thirty things. I always have that many things in prospect. I am striving to make a contrivance whereby I can use a phonograph and a vitascope in conjunction. This will make a regulation-sized theatrical pro- duction, with the scenes, acting and speaking. The kinetoscope was one step toward this, the vitascope was the next, and now I hope soon to have the climax. I have it about completed, but not quite so." It was noticeable that the inventor pro- nounced vitascope veetascope," which he says is correct. "Have you completed your autographic sys- tem of telegraphy?" "I have it completed, but it is not now in use. I expect it will be utilized for newspaper work and not for general telegraphy." "Have you anything in prospect which, when introduced, will be revolutionizing?" Mr. .Edison laughed, snapped the ashes off his cigar and answered: "The public doesn't like wind; it likes reali- ties. I never like to tell what I may do, but when I have it done I am willing to discuss it. We are getting wind enough from the free- silver men, aren't we?" "Have you had any dealing with Li Hung Chang during his present visit here?" was asked by the reporter. "None whatever. Li Hung Chang tele- graphed from New York to my Orange offic ! that I meet him at Niagara Falls. The tele- gram was forwarded to me, but I did net comply with it. I couldn't leave my famil. alone. I have no idea what he desired to se : me about." "Did any of your representatives meet him?' "No." "Have you scruples against discussing yom- personal habits?" "Scruples, no!" declared Mr. Edison, half- laughingly and with feigned amazement. have had too much experience with newspaper men to be modest. I am 49 years old, was formerly a telegraph operator and have been an inventor for 32 years." Mr. Edison laughed and asked, "Is there any- thing else you desire to know?' "How much do you sleep a day?' "I can't estimate it. Some days I don'v sleep; other days I sleep nearly all the time." "Is it a fact that you work sometimes for forty hours without sleep?" "Yes, yes; sometimes I go seventy hours with- out sleep. Very often I go forty-eight and fift;, and not infrequently sixty and seventy." "You eat regularly meanwhile?" "Yes, my meals are brought to me." "Do you ever have trouble sleeping?" "No, never. I can sleep anywhere, at any time, at a minute's notice. If I had trouble sleeping, I could not get along in my business. I very often take a few minutes' sleep for ; bit of refreshment." "Do you take long naps after a seventy-hour siege?" "Sometimes I sleep eighteen hours withoi waking. Sometimes I sleep but six or eight.'' "Do you feel any bad effects from this irregu- larity?" "None. I am perfectly well, always have been, and it looks now as if I always would be. I fear if I should become too regular it would have bad effects on me. People who claim to be regular in their habits are broken up by a day or two of irregularity. I, who am irregu- lar all the time, have no such trouble." "Does not the constant thinking have a weak- ening effect on you?' "Certainly not. It is not hard work. It re- quires no physical exertion. It is a pleasure. I like it, and what one likes is never tiring. I always feel well. The papers in New York recently had me broken down in health and seeking a place of rest. You can see the falsity of those statements." "Do you think there is a limit to the possi- bility of electricity?" Mr. Edison hesitated a moment, winked one eye, as is his habit when he is deliberating, and answered: "No, I do not. Electricity will accomplish great things in the near future. The improve- ments of the next twenty years will, in my opinion, be as great as have been those of the last twenty. They will not be so amazing, be- cause they will not strike us as having been so nearly impossible. Nothing now seems to be too great for the people to comprehend. "Will electricity supplant steam on the rail ways?" It will, yes, but just when I cannot predict. It will do so on many of the shorter lines righi along now, but on the trunk lines, not for some time — or until the electricians get what to them is the philosopher's stone; that is, generating electricity direct from coal. This is what all electricians are striving for now." "Are you working on i*"5" was asked of the inventor. "I have been working on it for several years." "Do you expect to make the discovery?" "There you are again," laughed Mr. Edison. "I --\ally can't say; but I will say that the problem is a baffling one." 6 THE PHONOSCOPE. November, 1896. I TLhc pbonograpb K -P The Edison Home Phonograph After patiently waiting for a number of months, we may say years, the patrons of the Phonograph will be pleased to learn that Mr. Edison has constructed a light, serviceable, practical Phonograph, that can be purchased for a nominal figure. The people interested in this machine have been buoyed along on prom- ises, that have at last been fulfilled. If "a good thing is worth waiting for," the Edison Home Phonograph was worth waiting for, as it is "a good thing." In the "New Home" model the Edison people have built a machine that practically gives the same results as their standard type, but which sells for less than half the money. This machine should please the most fastidious, and meet with a ready sale, as none of the superior qualities of the standard Phonograph have been dispensed with. The machine is substantially built of iron, brass and steel, and finished in black enamel and gilt. The top casting is about the same size and design as the standard machine, with the exception that it is much lighter, all un- necessary heavy parts being dispensed with. The diaphragm arm, mandrel, swinging arm, etc., are practically the same as in the standard type. The back rod is a little smaller, being about % of an inch thick. The machine is supplied with a very ingenious device for shaving cylinders, and is equipped with either the standard or automatic diaphragm, which guarantees the same results in recording and reproducing as in the higher price machine. The straight edge that the diaphragm arm rests upon, is a part of the casting. To dispense with all extra frictiou, a small wheel is at- tached to the diaphragm arm, rolling on the straight edge when the carriage is in motion. There is one feed nut instead of two. The power is derived from a clock work motor, which furnishes sufficient force to re- cord or reproduce two and a half cylinders from one winding. The starting device and speed regulator are combined in one switch, which, on being moved to the left, starts the machine at a slow speed, that can be increased by moving the switch further in the same di- rection. The machine is encased in an oak body box, which has a cover of the same ma- terial upon which is inscribed in red and gold, "The Edison Home Phonograph." The total weight of the machine, case and all, is 19Mi pounds. IT be /Ifoetapbone The Metaphone is the very latest talking ma- chine. It is a very simple device for repro- ducing Phonograph or Graphophone cylinders. The machine proper is built on a hard wood Hard, 7 inches wide, by 10V& inches long, upon ' 'Inch an upright casting 4 inches high is fastened, supporting on one end a clock work Rotor, and a wooden mandrel on the other. The mandrel is revolved by means of a silk thread passed over a groove at one end of it, BSd attached to the main pulley of the motor, which with one winding has sufficient power to reproduce one record. v friction governor Is provided In the shape of a break, acting on the main pulley, and can Ik: regulated by means of a thumb screw. The sound is transmitted from the cylinder by means of a glass tube about 8 inches long, restling lightly on the revolving cylinder. The end of the glass tube which rests on the cylinder, is blown in the shape of a Phono- graph or Graphophone stylus, the other end is attached to a peculiarly constructed dia- phragm of wood and rubber. This simple device gives a really wonderful reproduction. It is made to retail at $5. %\ Ibuitfl Cbano entertatnefc witb Zbc phonograph. During Li Hung Chang's visit to the Niagara Falls, Col. Gouraud, a friend of Mr. Edison's, tendered him a reception at the Cataract House. This was where Li had his first experience with the phonograph. Col. Gouraud entertained the Viceroy by reproducing a number of interesting cylinders, chief among which was a cylinder whereon Mrs. Grant and some of her children had spoken. This greatly interested Li, as Gen. Grant had been a great friend of his. A speech pertaining to China and its indus- tries had been prepared, which was reproduced in English to the Viceroy's first secretary, who spoke it in Chinese to the phonograph. When this cylinder was reproduced, Li was greatly surprised, and for a moment lost the plastic indifference that has characterized his actions during his visit to this country. He was ex- tremely interested and expressed a desire that the machine be taken to pieces that he might be shown its "inner workings." The greatest hit of the evening, however, was scored when Po Ping sang a Chinese song to the machine, and then his countrymen and him- self heard it reproduced. Po Ping was so de- lighted that he capered and applauded his effort like a little boy. Colonel Gouraud made a little speech at the end of the reception. He mentioned what had been done by Edison in the interests of science and towards aiding the progress of our great nation. Lord Li replied for his father, the First Secretary of the Embassy translated the speech. The Viceroy expressed his pleasure at the sur- prises he had experienced during the day and paid high compliment to the inventive genius of Americans. The following day Col. Gouraud presented Li with a phonograph cylinder, upon which was recorded the following matter in Chinese: "The phonograph's salaam to His Imperial Excellency, the Viceroy, Special Ambassador from China. The latest bora of Americau genius bends its knee of steel and bows its neck of iron in respectful salutation to the emi- nent soldier and statesman who has honored America by visiting it. The phonograph sleeps not. Neither does it drink or eat, yet tires not. Seeing nothing, it hears all things; once hearing, forgets not, and with unerring truth preserves through all the ages its exhaustless treasures of word and song, rendering again throughout eternity from its incomparable treasure the priceless words of immortal man. This soulless body, through the hand of its creator— Edison— whose rare genius is the pride of his country, surrenders itself into the gra- cious hands of the favored Envoy of His Im- perial Majesty of China, and begs that it may be so much honored as to be permitted to ac- company His Excellency throughout the re- mainder of his remarkable journey around the world, carrying as it does within itself ever responsive to the signal of its new and imperial master, the voices of some of America's most distinguished sons, and, above all, the voices of the venerable widow and much-loved chil- dren of America's greatest and most lamented soldier, Grant, to whose memory it has pleased His Excellency to pay a tribute of affection and regard so tender and so impressive as to cause the hearts of seventy millions of freemen to vibrate in silent and respectful sympathy. (In reference to the above we think it only fair to let our readers know another version, as related to us by a disinterested party who was present at this "much talked about" ex- hibition. Li Hung Chang had expressed a de- sire to meet Mr. Edison, but the modest "wizard" of Orange is no hero-worshipper, and therefore did not think the invitation important enough to interrupt his stay in the hills by the side of his wife and family. Nor did he send a representative. Col. Gouraud ran down to Niagara Falls on his own account with two Graphophones, but when he got there, found that he could not operate them. In his trouble he appealed to Mr. Gibson, of the Ely Phono- graph Company of Niagara, offering him $50 for the use of a Phonograph. Mr. Gibson went with Col. Gauraud to Li and showed him the workings of the Phonograph. Next day Li wanted to see the Phonograph again, and it cost Col. Gauraud another $15 before Mr. Gib- son would take his Phonograph before Li a second time. There was some trouble over the payment of the $15, but it was finally settled by Col. Gauraud's son. Sapienti sat. Ed.) 1bo\v to IReep Uour IRecorbs in <5oob donation. Nothing is richer in startling surprises than the business connected with the phonograph and graphophone. Having occasion once to pay a visit to a phonograph company in Louisville, Ky., I came across an extraordinary case of innocence or stupidity. I could not believe my senses, when I found the young man in charge of the office coolly breathing on some phono- graph cylinders, and rubbing them with his coat sleeve. He assured me unabashed that this was the only way to "clean" cylinders that had become dirty in the slot machines. No wonder the public complained about dull sounds and indistinct reproductions. It is a source of regret to note the hundreds of cylinders that are ruined through the poses- sor's inability or thoughtlessness to keep them in good condition. The phonograph or grapho- phone cylinder is a peculiar article, inasmuch as it is susceptive of the minutest cut by the recording stylus, yet strong enough to resist almost any degree of temperature and to with- stand a great amount of rough usage. But some exhibitors, whom the public are supposed to look to for the best results, considerably injure the reputation of the instrument by publicly reproducing records that they have exposed to dirt and dust, which causes them to give very poor results, which are generally attributed to the machine and never to the operator. This is not just, keep your records in good condition and educate the public up to the possibilities of the machine rather than disappoint them through want of care, attention and precaution. How is this to be done? Keep your records in good condition, and when they wear out, as they will in time, replace them with new ones. Keep your records in air-tight boxes of tiu or wood, and when not in use be sure to keep them covered. If possible, do not reproduce your records in the open air. Keep your repro- ducing point clean by wiping it occasionally with a bit of cotton dipped in alcohol. Do not keep your records wrapped up; anything con- stantly resting against the surface of a cylinder injures it. Always brush your record care- fully before reproducing it, but do not use a brush, as brushes, no matter how fine, leave an impression on the wax, which eventually develops into a roughness that is distinctly audible in the reproduction. The best way to brush a cylinder is to use a piece of sheet-cotton wadding, which has been previously split to expose the soft side and then frayed at one end in the form of a brush. Al- ways brush your cylinders at right angles (the same way as the impression runs), and do not brush cylinders length ways. Never touch your records on the outside sur- face under any circumstances with auything other than the soft cotton mentioned above. The most important point in keeping your records in good condition is to know when they are worn out and to use judgment in not attri- buting the poor reproduction of an old record to your diaphragm or machine. Ir Vol. I. No. t. THE PHONOSCOPE. 7 XTbe ©rapbopbcme botanists, entomologists, crayon artists, fresco painters, china decorators, flower painters, lithographic artists, stained glass workers and in all branches of industrial art. The "Columbia" Graphophone The Columbia Phonograph Company have put a new model Graphophone in the fleld, which they style "The Columbia." This ma- chine in our opinion surpasses any of their former efforts. "The Columbia" is practical, durable, simple, and in size, weight, appear- ance and construction seems to be an ideal talking machine, that is destined to And its way into the homes of those who desire enter- taining and instructive amusement. The "Columbia" type differs from the "Bijou" and "Baby Grand" model in various ways. The end gate, heretofore deemed necessary, has been dispensed with. The cylinder is put on the mandrel without opening or closing any gate or device. The mandrel instead of run- ning on bearings or centres at both ends, re- volves on the main shaft, which uses the in- terior of the mandrel for bearings; which is an ingenious and brilliant idea. Ihis, however, is but one of the many good points possessed by this new machine. The governor is the same style as that in higher priced types, and the speed is regulated in the same manner by a thumb screw located in a convenient part of the machine. The power is derived from a newly designed spring motor, easily wound, which will run two cylinders without rewinding. The dia- phragms are practically the same as in preced- ing types, requiring no adjustment. The ma- chine is enclosed in a neat oak body box, with oval cover, and, complete, weighs about 19 pounds. When Li Hung Chang was dined at the Chi- nese Embassy in Washington, he was very much interested in the graphophone which was used to entertain him during lunch. Minister Yang is partial to all kinds of amusement in- ventions and has many quaint and curious specimens which he has gathered in this and his own country. 'Graphs, phones •* ■<* <* anb 'Scopes The Artograph The Artograph is a device for sketching, drawing in pencil or crayon, or painting in colors, anything visible in nature or still life, in exact reproduction of figure, form and color. This is a very broad statement, but is never- theless a fact. Pictures, objects, views from nature or anything that can be seen, can be reflected on any kind of working material and focussed any size desired. The operator fills in the outlines and goes over the colors, simply fixing the reflection on the working material, thereby obtaining a faithful reproduction of the subject. For painting, sketching, copying, enlarging and reducing anything in nature or still life its uses are innumerable, and it will prove valuable to, portrait painters, art amateurs, textile designers, wood and metal engravers, The Zerograph Details have reached us from England of an improved telegraphic device, "The Zero- graph," which promises to make a revolution in telegraphy. It is a telegraphic instrument that, instead of printing dots and dashes on a strip of paper, typewrites a message on a sheet of paper at both ends of the wire simultane- ously. There are various automatic appliances for moving the paper, adjusting the alignment, inking the letters, etc. It does not require an experienced telegraph operator, but it can be used by any one who typewrites. It is auto- matic in its action and delivers its messages whether there is or is not some one at the re- ceiving end. It dispenses entirely with clock work and can be worked on the exchange system: it combines, in fact, the functions of typewriter, telegraph and telephone, and if it comes anywhere near justifying the claims made for it, it will not be long before every business office is provided with its Zerograph in addition to its telephone and typewriters. The Radiophone All the trend of modern physical science is toward establishing the close relationship of the different forms of molecular motion, which for the purpose of distinction, are variously called: light, heat, electricity and sound. And the farther science has gone the more it has been shown that the only difference between light and heat, and electricity and sound is merely a difference of form and rapidity. The conversion of heat or electricity into light is familiar to all, but now we are able by means of Prof. Graham Bell's Radiophone to convert light into sound, practically to hear a shadow fall. The apparatus is practically a telephone minus the connecting electric wire, instead of which the receiving and transmitting dia- phragm is provided with a strong reflector at the back which transmits to the rays of light reflected the molecular waves of the voice. Obstacles in the way do not in any way stop the transmission, as this is mainly carried on by invisible rays, X-rays. The Megaphone The Megaphone is a pe- culiarly constructed cone of light weatherproof material. When spoken into it carries the voice with wonderful power and clearness to a great distance in any direc- tion to which the 'Phone is pointed. On the water, shore, or in any open country where there are no obstructions, and no local sounds to inter- fere, it is not difficult to talk and hear to and fro over a distance of a mile with this instrument, while a loud call or hail can be heard about two miles. Voices and other sounds from a distance, which would otherwise be inaudible, can be heard with great distinctness when using the instrument as a receiver, that is to say, listening at the smaller end while the 'Phone is pointed in the direction from which the sounds proceed. The Megaphone is four feet in length, the weight of the complete apparatus, including stand, seven pounds. On the deck of a pleasure craft, at yacht club and other shore houses, it is capable of great practical use. It is being used to great advantage by a number of campaign orators, and out-door speakers in general, who find it of great prac- tical value in speaking to great gatherings, as by its use they can be distinctly heard by people in the remotest corners of the crowd, no matter how great it may be. The Cathoscope There is nothing more interesting or instruc- tive than the machines for producing X or Riintgen rays. The public is as quick as ever in its appreciation of their facile adaptibility to almost innumerable purposes. Hamerschlag's Cathoscope, so called because it is the result of inventions of Arthur A. Hamerschlag, of New York, enabling people to see and appreciate the cathode rays without effort, and without darkened rooms, embodies certain new principles, among them being an in- duction coil of peculiar construction, and es- pecially covered by patents which gives great penetrating power to the rays as well as an almost perfectly steady light. The tubes used are sold to users at a lower price than they can I > made by others and are of the focusing pat- ti m. The entire machine is in cabinet fi'-ni with fluoroscope attached, all controlled by either a hand switch or coin contrivance i which broad patents have been granted in is and other countries. The Hamerschlag Cathoscope has proven it- If one of the most perfect developments of tie Riintgen or X-ray machines. It is being used in innumerable cities by exhibitors, phy- sicians, and the scientific fraternity, and being protected by patents, offers a lucrative field for investment as its money earning capacity is far larger than that of any similar machine in the world of equal cost. To demonstrate this they have testimonial letters from users one week after they have purchased the machine stating it had more than paid for itself in that time. At the recent American Institute Fair in Madison Square Garden, New York, the New York "Sun" called it the feature of the fair although thousands of exhibitors were under the same roof. To prove its earning capacity, over 8,000 peo- ple paid to see it operate at that fair alone, and many more endeavored to do so, but were prevented by the crowds. Its record has been one long continued suc- cess wherever it has been placed, and its radio- graphs, or photographs, taken for physicians and others, are universally pronounced perfect. The Sympsychograph It is an instrument, devised by Mr. Asa Mar- vin, president of the Astral Camera Club, of Al- calde. Its object is to photograph the image of a thought w'hich the experimenter holds sharply and fixedly in his mind. The Astral Camera Club's achievements show that this can be done. The members first experimented with the X-rays, obtaining the usual results. Then they began on "the larger problem of photographing objects without visible light. President David StaiT Jordan, of Leland Stanford University, gives in "The Popular Science Monthly" the result of the strange experiments. The club sat silently in utter darkness for a considerable time. President Jordan says: "Then those strange rays of light or odic force, invisible to our eyes because none of our ancestors ever had a chance to gaze upon them, disclosed the pres- ence of objects which had else lain forever in darkness." In addition to this there was vis- iuie a green light along the vacuum tubes of the X-ray apparatus. The next step was to try to photograph some- thing by the strange luminous rays which the members of the club perceived in the darkness. Mr. Marvin devised an apparatus which should electrically connect each man's head with the sensitive plate of the camera. Then seven persons sat in the darkness and thought of the face of a cat. This they did for 16 minutes, concentrating their minds as much as possible. Result, a faint, queer looking, but unmistak- able image of a cat upon the sensitive plate. The Sympsychographic picture is reproduced in "xhe Popular Science Monthly." s THE PHONOSCOPE. November, 1S96. TLhc ©ramopbone THK LATEST MODEL. The above cut represents one of the neatest, simplest and withal practical machines for re- producing sound, that has as yet come under our notice. It reproduces -with wonderful fidelity the sounds recorded on discs which here take the place of the cylinders, not only the human voice, whether in speech or song, hut also any other sounds, bands, orchestras, etc. It cannot record sound: this is done by means of a special machine. But the record plates or discs are to be had at such a low figure, and they are so durable that this is hardly to be considered a serious drawback. It is, therefore, quite correct to say that its field is practically without limit. The Gramophone is the invention of Mr. ^mile Berliner, whose name and fame as an iuventor are known wherever the Telephone is in use. It is entirely different from all the Cher Talking Machines so far in the market, and it embodies everything necessary to make it a universal favorite, as a child can work it, ■ ithout risk to itself or the machine or record. It is worked either by the old fashioned crank- mdle, or a spring motor, and there seems to be no delicate mechanism to derange. It is built to stand rough handling and to last. The Gramophone records are made of hard rubber or other practically indestructible ma- terial. They are in the form of thin discs 7 inches in diameter, and can be transmitted by mail in safety; they can be freely handled, will wear almost indefinitely and are not at all sensitive to climatic changes. The price is so low as to bring it within the reach of all. £be {Ealfcino Machine Xitigation. SHspute between tbe Orapbopbone an& pbonograpb interests. An extensive and important litigation on the Phonograph, pending for quite a number of years, at length came to a hearing before Judge Greene at Trenton, N. J. There were two suits: 1 he American Graphophone Company, of Wash- ington, D. C, being the plaiutitt in both. The Edison Phonograph 'Works was the defendant in one case, and the U. S. Phonograph Com- pany in the other. The suits in both cases were brought on two patents, dated May 4, 1880, one issued to Ch. A. Bell & Sumner Taiuter, and the other to Mr. Tainter for what is now known as the Graphophone, and the claims which are in- volved cover the method of engraving the record of the sound waves on a cylinder or other tablet of wax-like composition. Mr. Edison brought out his first Phonograph in 1878. This machine he had been constantly improving and finally placed upon the market shortly after the Graphophone had been brought out- These conflicting interests were successfully combined in the person of J. H. Lippincott, of New York, who organized a company that was incorporated as the North American Phonograph Company to introduce lioth the Phonograph and the Graphophone. Mr. Lippiucott subsequently failed and died. which caused a complicated tangle of litigation to follow. The Graphophone company claim- ing that failure and death of Mr. Lippincott left their patents to revert to them free and clear of any obligation, brought suit against the Edison Phonograph Works, and against various of the sub-companies of which the U. S. Phonograph Company is one. For a number of years the Washington cor- poration has been prosecuting alleged infringe- ments of its patents, and the Edison interests, backed by Mr. Edison, have been as vigor- ously defending themselves from all assaults, and the first grand battle, succeeding numerous smaller skirmishes, came off at Trenton Sep- tember last Unfortunately Judge Greene was taken sud- denly ill and died without rendering a decision, and this will probably necessitate a rehearing of the entire case. The whole case seems to hinge, as stated by plaintiffs, on the mode of recording sound- vibrations on a revolving cylinder: they alleg- ing that they have an absolute claim on the incision or engraving process, which is totally different, so they say, from Edison's earlier in- dentures. They claim, broadly, a monopoly of all the methods of sound-recording which con- sist in engraving or cutting the record in a material of wax-like or amorphous nature. They maintain, moreover, that all rights to Lippincott terminated at his death, being of the nature of personal licenses, and that they could sustain their patents against the world. Mr. Dyer, who is Edison's personal counsel, having fought nearly all of that inventor's patents within the last ten years, presented the de- fendant's side of the case in a decidedly differ- ent light He eloquently set out the origin and development of the practical Phonograph by Mr. Edison, and dwelt at length on the numer- ous important improvements which Edison had brought out since 1889, which constituted all that was really valuable in the Phonograph of to-day, as well as in the Graphophone. He claimed that the Graphophone of Messrs. Bell and Tainter was a commercial failure; that the wax-like compositions of the Graphophone were utterly worthless, and that the present Edison cylinder of mineral soap was the im- portant and necessary thing. He submitted testimony to show that Mr. Edison and others used the cutting or engraving method of mak- ing sound records long before the Bell and Tainter invention and pointed out many de- tails of constructon which were necessary for success, and which were Mr. Edison's inven- tion, embodied in the present instruments. Mr. Howard W. Hayes, Edison's chief coun- sel, and also a counsel for the U. S. Company, argued the second point of the defence. He claimed that all transfers and contracts made between Mr. Lippincott and the Graphophone Company were good and valid at law in spite of that gentleman's untimely demise. He argued that the American Graphophone Com- pany stood silently by while the contracts were being made between Mr. Lippincott, Mr. Edison and the various sub-companies, and by this act gave its tacit consent to them. It was by reason of these contracts that a vast amount of money was invested by Mr. Edison and all of the companies. Mr. Hayes claimed it to be a good principle in law that a man that does not speak when he should, may not speak when he would. He also submitted a decision of Judge Carpenter, of Boston, in favor of Col. A. N. Sampson, of the New England Phono- graph Company, which defence was a case of estoppel. The court room was filled with specimens and models of the different machines, including the ponderous affair of Edison's early construction, his latest improved Phonograph, and the vari- ous types and models of the Graphophone. A. W., Chicago, 111.— We are sorry to disap- point you, but we cannot print your letter. We are ready and willing to answer all legiti- mate inquiries in this department, but we can- not enter into any debate as to the comparative merits of the different talking machines. We propose in this journal to use our columns for the combined and general benefit of all talking machines, and not in the interest of any par- ticular oue. Hnswers to - - - ^ ~ Correspondents All questions pertaining to Talking Machines, Picture Projecting Inventions, Automatic Coin-in-Slot de- vices, Amusement Inventions, etc.; will be cheer- fully and fully answered in this column. Inauiries for this department should be addressed — Information Department, The Phonoscope, 822 Broadway, New York, U. S. A. J* J* J* <£t <£t Jt Jt jt New Orleans. To the Editor of "The Phonoscope.'' Dear Sir. — In the prospective copy of your paper sent me, I noticed a column headed, "Answer to Correspondents." I should like to avail myself of the opportunity and ask you if you know anything about the new cylinder Mr. Edison is working on. I saw in the paper that he had a cylinder that would not wear out. Can you tell me anything about it? Yours truly, J. J. F. (We do not know of any such cylinder being manufactured by Mr. Edison. We are informed by competent authority that he has not enter- tained any ideas, or made experiments in this line. The present method of recording and repro- ducing would preclude any such cylinder as you mention being used.) Berlin, Germany. Editor "Phonoscope," New York. Dear Sir. — Many thanks for information in reference to your paper. I am sure that your journal will meet with a ready sale, as we peo- ple in the business have long felt the need of an impartial sheet that we could refer to for information. * * * Can you give me any par- ticulars privately or through the columns of your journal, in reference to the new small Phonograph that is about to be put on the market? * * * J. N. (See full particulars this issue in another column.) Bangor, Maine. Editor "Phonoscope." Dear Sir. — In the specimen copy which you sent me, I notice a column heaaed, "Answer to Correspondents," will you kindly favor me? I am anxious to know if Mr. Edison has made any improvements on the Phonograph lately, and what Phonograph does the "New York World" refer to in enclosed clipping. Yours respectfully, A. N. A meeting has been arranged at Niagara Falls ou Monday between LI Hung Cbang and Edison. The latter will then show the Viceroy the first models of his improved Phonograph and new Tele- phone and present them to him. The Telephone Is one that dispenses with the use of an ear trumpet, and trausmits sound more clearly than at present. The Phonograph is a vast improvement on the In- strument now in vogue, and transmits sound perfect- ly to any distance. Li wishes the Wizard to go to China with him: evidently with the idea of introducing the Telephone there. (We do not know what Phonograph the above article refers to. Evidently the reporter who wrote this was a little "twisted" or his matter got so when it was set up.) Milwaukee, Wis. Dear Sir.— raper received, accept my thanks for same. Can you let me know what the chances are for an exhibitor in Europe, say France and Germany? I think 1 could do well, as I speak both languages, French and German. Yours, M. L. (Your inquiry is very indefinite, as you do not state what you want to exhibit. If it is the Phonograph or Graphophone, wo would say that a good Talking machine outfit con- ducted by a competent operator would be ap- preciated and patronized in any country. You have, however, named two excellent countries, as the people of those nations are especially susceptible to amusement such as the Phono- graph or Graphophone can supply, namely, vocal and instrumental music. Sec our in- terview with Mr. Yil'quin, of Paris, in ano;her column.) Vol. I. No. i. THE PHONOSCOPE. 9 -* Xetters. ** * This column is open to any of our patrons who have a complaint to make, a grievance to ventilate, infor- mation to give, or a subject of general interest to discuss appertaining to Sound Producing Machines, Picture Projecting Devices, Slot Machines, Amusement Inventions or Scientific Novelties in general, jtjtjtjtjtjtjtjijt^t Boston.— Is there any redress for a person who gets buncoed in this business? I sent an order to the Phonograph Company last summer for twenty-five records, for which I gave twenty-five of my hard earned dollars. In about three weeks sixteen of these records were useless, as a foggy scum, or mouldy sub- stance began to form on the outside of the record. This made the records useless. I wrote to the company and asked for a rebate or some satisfaction, and they told me that they could not help me out, as they didn't make the blanks, but purchased them from the Edison Works. This did me a lot of good. Not. Do you think that I could make them return my money or give me good records? C. W. (Will some of the companies answer this gentleman? Ed.) ~©ur ITattler- The following communication, written on a postal card, was received by one of the Eastern Phonograph Companies: "Dear Sir: I have gut a talking machine. I here you make barrels. How much do you charge for them apiece. Please answer soon. "PROP. ." I should like to hear one of "Professor's" lec- tures. He must "do good." Hunting has written a song called "I Did It But I'm Sorry That I Did." So am I, and a good many others, but this is one of Russell's quiet jokes, so we'll let it pass. 1 ran up against George Gaskin last week. I noticed he wore a very careworn and anxious expression. George says — ■ is trying "to do" him, but he's going to "fool 'em all." Go it, George. Good luck! but don't sing any more comic songs. Our cousins across the herring pond stand aghast before a picture projected by the Cine- matograph representing the Prince of Wales in the act of scratching his head. I fully appre- ciate their feelings on this score, but then 1 suppose Al scratches his coco different from us ordinary people over here. One of the young men connected with the United States Phonograph Company recently remarked that all the employes of that concern had wheels. (He meant bicycles.) 1 met Mr. Walcutt (of the firm of Walcutt & Leeds) last week, wearing the "same old smile;" on being asked how his lawsuit was getting on, he replied, "Which one; we're in five." P. T. Barnum once said (or wrote), "the American people like to be humbugged." What would he say if he were living now and .heard some of those lovely duplicates? —This is good. I read it the other day up in Maine: "For Sale— A Phonograph by a gentle- man with a large horn and 50 Records." He'll do well if he makes money. A young man from Dover, Del., wrote me last week about a slot machine. He said he has a new scheme. If he has anything new he's a wonder, as I understand that a Chicago man has a machine where you drop a dog in the slot and get a sausage. "MIKE." - Xlrabe Botes - The Columbia Phonograph Company had a very creditable exhibit at the American Insti- tute Fair, held at the Madison Square Garden, New York, last month. The Ohio Phonograh Co. are making some very fine band records. Their recording de- partment is under the charge of Mr. C. G. Childs, late of the Columbia Phono. Co., and formerly with the New England Phonograph Co. The Manhattan Phonograph Co. pay one thousand dollars a year for the privilege of placing their slot machines in the different ferry houses of the Union Ferry Company. The United States Phonograph Co. have sold over five thousand campaign cylinders this season. We understand that the Columbia Phono- graph Co. has already received an order from one party for $20,000 worth of the new "Colum- bia" model graphophone— their latest product. The Chicago Marine Band, which is a very popular organization in the West, is about to play for the Chicago Talking Machine Co. for record making. A bill was filed in the United States Circuit Court in New York City, Oct. 9, by the Ameri- can Graphophone Company, of Washington, against LeRoy W. Baldwin, Loring L. Leeds, and others, for injunction, damages, account- ing, etc., for infringements of letter patent of the Graphophone Company for talking ma- chines. The New England Phonograph Co. are ex- perimenting on new methods for taking their Baldwin Band Records. Col. Sampson prom- ises to surpass any of his former efforts. We must candidly say that we doubt it, as we have heard "Baldwins" that were as near perfection as will ever be obtained with the present phonograph. There is to be a new phonograph parlor opened on Broadway, New York, in the near future. Mr. Geo. J. Gaskin, the ever popular tenor, is now spending about one-third of his time in front of phone horns. Mr. G.'s voice is a staple article and sells as fast as he can record it. The Gramophone Company are making exceedingly rapid strides in improving their machine. The latest type machine which they have put on the market shows a careful atten- tion to little details whicii will benefit and interest their patrons. Our correspondents from the West in two different States write us that Mr. Frank Thayer has the most complete phonograph ex- hibition on the road. The Phonograph and Graphophone com- panies report July August and September last as the three dullest months ever experi- enced in the talking machine business. The cathoscopes which are being exhibited in the phonograph parlor on Broadway, New York, attract unusual attention. This machine is a great invention, inasmucn as it can be used for either scientific, amusing, instructive or educational purposes. The Chicago Talking Machine Co. are tak- ing some new records of Bonnell's Orchestra. Some we have heard are very fine, and are des- tined to become very popular. The records taken with the Bettini Micro- Phonograph Diaphragms are wonderful for their solidity of tone and resonant carrying powers. Records of the female voice taken with this attachment are truly marvelous. J. W. Myers, the popular baritone, has added a number of new songs to his already large repertobe. Mr. Myers is making and selling his own records, which have always been of the highest standard. We have recently seen a new mailing de- vice for phonograph and graphophone cylin- ders. It is the invention of Mr. Sohow, of Washington, D. C. It is indorsed by the Co- lumbia Phonograph Co., who have given it a practical test, by mailing cylinders containing personal Correspondence between their various offices. It will fill a long felt want. Mr. Henry C. Spencer has opened an at- tractive office in the new Hartford Building, Union Square, New York. He has completed arrangements with a number of the leading Phonograph and Graphophone companies to supply him with their latest products, for which he is receiving large orders as a pur- chasing agent. The films manufactured by the Interna- tional Film Company are as fine as we have ever seen. Mr. Webster who has charge of taking the originals, is without a doubt the highest authority in this art in the country. He recently made a tour of the European cities, where he obtained some wonderful views. Walcutt & Leeds have reduced the price of their records from $1 to 50 cents. There is to be a new Talking Machine put on the market in a few months. The inventors claim that it will surpass any machine hereto- fore offered to the public. It is rumored that one of the New York Phonograph companies is about to go out of the business. — Russell Hunting is now selling his original records at 80 cents each. As Mr. Hunting makes his records one at a time and gives his personal attention to each and every record, this price is exceedingly low, considering the class of his work. Doings among tbe pbonograpb an& (Srapbopbone lEybibitors. A Phonograph Exhibition Where "Casey's" Brother Got "Twisted" The exhibition of the Edison Phonograph last evening, by Prof. Clifford Hunting, of Boston, eclipsed anything in the way of lodge entertainment ever given by Anchor, No. 40, N. E. O. P. Every seat in Red Men's hall was filled with those who came to celebrate the eighth anniversary of Anchor, the oldest Ldge in the city of this order. It was evident that they expected something out of the ordinary, and their expectations were more than ful- filled, for the instrument shown is perhaps the finest Phonograph ever made, being dis- tinctly heard all over the hall. The collection of musical and talking records was one of great variety, comprising 81 numbers on the pro- gramme with several extras, and Prof. Hunt- ing proved a most affable and accommodating exhibitor. The audience was permitted to nominate selections from the programme, copies of which were distributed to those pres- ent, and the range of selections given varied from topical song to touching ballad, from the ridiculous "Village Orchestra" to Sousa's clas- sic selections, and from humorous records such as "Casey Taking the Census" to the awful ravings of poor John McCullough that were taken from in front of his cell in the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum. One selection, "I Loved You Better Than You Knew," was given an added touch of pathos in the minds of the audience by the fact, announced by Prof. Hunting, that the man whose clear tenor voice was then heard, George J. Gaskin, had died quite suddenly only a fortnight ago. The lodge entertainment committee had other at- tractions for the evening in the way of music, singing and recitations, but the audience would have nothing but the Phonograph and these were all crowded out, to be given at another time. Ice cream was served during the even- ing and Prof. Hunting was again called upon afterward, most of the audience remaining clear up to midnight to listen to the wonderful instrument, many of the selections being as heartily applauded as though the living actors were delivering them in person. It was a great night for Anchor lodge, and they have no words too strong in praise of their entertainer, Prof. Hunting.— Waterbury "News." (Gaskin called at our office last month and positively assured us that he was not dead. Ed.) I I c THE PHONOSCOPE. November, 1896. THE PHONOSCOPE. Copyrighted, 1896. PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE PHONOSCOPE PUBLISHING CO., 822-824 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, U. S. A. SUBSCRIPTION : United States and Canada $100 per year Foreign Countries 1.50 " Single Copies, ..... . . 10c. each. ADVERTISING RATES FURNISHED ON APPLICATION. THE PHONOSCOPE is the only journal in the world pub- lished in the interest of Talking Machines, Picture Projecting and Animating Devices, and Scientific and Amusement Inven- tions appertaining to Sound and Sight. Correspondents in London, Pans, Berlin, Amsterdam, Ma- drid, Alexandria and Constantinople. Australia, South Amer- ica, Central America, Canada, and 108 cities in the United States. There is one great desire which animates all mankind, from the cradle to the grave, encom- passing all: — the desire for amusement and en- tertainment From this one desire even the most serious pursuits receive their great im- pulse, and we do not fear going astray if we endeavor in this journal to unite for the benefit of our readers all those discoveries in the field of science and mechanics, which are intended mainly to add to our store of enjoyment. If, whilst following this course, we shall also have occasion to discuss purely scientific mat- ters, we shall strive to do so in an interesting fashion, easily understood by the general public. Our title, "The Phonoscope," signifies "Sound and Sight," the two senses which add most to our happiness by procuring for us the greatest amount of pleasure and amusement. Their capacity is practically unlimited, and their in- fluence on our moral being of the greatest im- portance. The eyes give pleasure by disclosing to the mind the ever changing, ever beauteous Kalei- doscope of the universe; the ears provide a never ending concert as various and as grand as the music of the spheres. The talking machines, and the different de- vices for projecting and animating scenes (by means of a succession of views of the same taken at minute intervals of time from each other), all are contrivances for the purpose, as it were, of concentrating sight or sound, and thus to present the quintessence of beauty and pleasure in an agreeable and facile manner. These machines enable us to enjoy all the world can offer in the shape of refined and pure amusement, without our leaving the peace and quiet of our home, as they bring within our own narrow precincts all the life of the world with its social, commercial, mili- tary and dramatic phases. By this means we can keep in closest constant contact with the throbbing life of humanity and derive from such contemplation ever varying, ever Instruc- tive entertainment. There is hardly a city of any size in the ■United States which has not its Phonograph or Graph op bone parlor, where popular music ira malic and instructive selections are auto- matically given to the public, and thousands of families living in the remotest corners of the world are now able to keep in touch with the great centres of progress, by having in tlirir homes these wonderful machines that seem to partake of the power of spirits as they transmit in an actual living manner what has been breathed into them, conquering distance both of time and place. The Talking Machines have long since passed the point of novelty, occupying to-day a foremost place among the standard inventions of this progressive age. It must appear strange, on that account, that up to the present, the ever awake pro- moters of trade journals have let this interest pass by without a thought. The individuals and companies engaged in this particular busi- ness have each contented themselves with sounding their own praises* in order to secure their own particular advantage, totally un- mindful of whatever else is of interest to the general public. Conscious of this fact we purpose to devote ourselves entirely to this part of the great field of journalism, trusting that by scrupu- lously searching and reporting whatever will be of interest in this branch we shall suc- ceed in aiding the progress of instructive and entertaining science, business and amusement. We have planted our standard: "THE PHONOSCOPE," and we shall stand by it firmly in the inter- ests of science in general, and the inventions devoted to sound and sight in particular, as well as to every kindred scientific and amuse- ment novelty. Possessing, as we do, exceptional facilities and connections all over the world, we propose to gather news and information pertaining to the above subjects from every corner, and to present it to our patrons through these col- umns in an interesting, clear and instructive form, but without auy partiality or bias. In order to add to our already excellent con- nections, we respectfully request correspon- dence from all our patrons with information, suggestions or inquiries relating to any of the subjects treated in our journal. We mean to keep well abreast with the ad- vance in these branches of science, industry and amusement to which the greater part of our life has been devoted. Thus we start in the journalistic race for enlightenment: we shall ever strive to be first at the goal for the benefit and profit of our respected patrons. * * * * The curiosity of hearing a machine talk has given way to a more serious consideration, and to-day the general public are convinced of its great possibilities, and are prepared to wel- come its entrance into practical utility in almost any sphere. The Phonograph has made its way into many institutions, where it is used for educational and scientific purposes; the Graphophone has en- tered into the sanctuary of various Govern- ment departments in the character of an accu- rate and ever ready amanuensis, in which capacity it is now being used by a number of officials who prefer to dictate to the Grapho- phone, instead of to a stenographer, whatever matter they may have for transcription. An eminent New York throat specialist tises the Phonograph for recording the voices of his patients suffering from affections of the vocal organs. By recording their voices from time to time he is enabled to gauge the exact in- tensity or nature of the ailment, which greatly aids him in locating and curing it. There can be no doubt that the practical employment of these wonderful coutrivancTs will become more general as they become more generally known, and their handling still more simple and easy. Screen flachine Politics For the first time in the history of elections the aid of science has been invoked by the can- didates for Presidential honors. One of the at- tractions at Hammersteiu's Olympia in New York during the past month has been a lifelike representation of the silent Colonel from Ohio. "Win. McKinley, jr., by means of the Biograph. It showed the American Napoleon as he is in all his movements, methodical, exact, careful. The way he adjusts his spectacles to read a telegram is a study, and characteristic of the man. From the country we hear that the ubiquitous and loquacious silverite has sent watchwords and messages to his dutiful followers by means of Phonograph and Graphophone cylinders. Who knows but that all future electioneering campaigns will be carried on entirely mechan- ically, and that we shall be able to buy catch- ing speeches, with the accompanying parapher- nalia, by the yard. Qui vivra verra. * * * * Sudden Zeal In the war which is just now being waged against harmless slot machines all over the United States, designated as gambling de- vices, we notice a great deal of contradictory inconsistency. Thus, for instance, whilst in Omaha, Neb., the order applies only to such machines by which money is obtained by the winners, expressly exempting those which offer cigars and similar things as prizes, in other States the war is being carried on with unrelenting vigor against all of them. In Michigan, in particular, the mayors have or- dered a general cleaning out of every nickel- in-the-slot machine, coming under the designa- tion of gambling devices. Seeing that they were allowed to do a great and lucrative busi- ness during the summer months, one cannot help smiling at this sudden growth of righteous indignation in the bosoms of the honorable guardians of law and order all over the coun- try.. * * * * New (?) Chimes A New York daily newspaper lately devoted almost a whole column to an article headed, "Now for Chimes by Phonograph." •■Experi- ments to Get a Clear Reproduction of the Merry Bells at Last Successful." "Tried in Trinity Tower." "Twelve Selections Have Been at Length Secured After Very Many Failures." "To Make Diaphragms of Copper," etc. etc. This was no doubt very instructive and entertaining, but, considering the fact that an Eastern Phonograph company has been taking and selling successful Chime records for the past five years (which were recorded in the belfry of a church nearby), the news was not strictly "up to date." * * * * Chic Paree In Paris it is rumored that the Cinematographe is going to be the main attraction of the sea- son, and it is added in a whisper, that the gay city on the Seine is going to be startled with the most fin-de-siecle show that ever bald head dreamed of. The tombstone of the whole scheme is that the real people will not be there, but only, of course, their moving photographs. The influence of this truth on the "risque"' is. easy of appreciation. Whatever is shown ou the screen— well, it happened long ago and no- body is any the worse for it now. So with bull- fights, beheadings in China, atrocities in Arme- nia, and lynching in Texas, some people are going to make barrels of money. Vol. I. No. i. THE PHONOSCOPE. 1 1 Abberation of Taste We are at a loss to understand why sober peo- ple should find a delight In watching every day actions at a theater, which in their own privacy they prefer to perform in private. There seems to be nothing more the go to-day than dressing, undressing, bathing, and similar scenes, and where any artistic or elevating merit comes in we fail to see. Yet they continue to rage, and the disappointment depicted on the faces of the audience of Miner's Bowery Theater, when Ve- nus was forbidden to take her bath, and the couchee couchee dance stopped, fully proved the degeneration of the taste of the present age. How long will it last? A Settled Dispute We are glad to note that the difficulty be- tween Messrs. Walcutt & Leeds and Mr. Geo. Gaskin has at last been amicably settled. It appears that this record maker was under con- tract with the former only to sing for them. Iu spite of this he sang for others also, notably for the Chicago TalkiDg Machine Company, and as a result the law was set in motion, bringing Mr. Gaskin into a very unpleasant predicament. We congratulate Messrs. Walcutt & Leeds on the generous and conciliating spirit shown and trust that all trouble is well over now. & * ik * Boys Boys will be boys always and all the world over. Their latest exploit is the helping them- selves to chewing gums out of automatic ma- chines by inserting not nickels, but brass but- tons, campaign-buttons, and iron washers the size of a nickel. We have lately seen a col- lection of these, so incongruous and curious that nothing better could have been found even in a junk shop. It is breaking the machine by unfair means, or, politically speaking, a use of McKinley tin with too much Democratic free- dom. Phonograph Funerals A New York paper recently published an ac- count of a Phonograph Funeral, which was greatly garbled by the writer's ignorance of the working of a Phonograph. There is nothing in- trinsically impossible in the idea of having the funeral oration and service delivered through the horn of a Phonograph, but so far it has not been attempted, and it will surely take some considerable time yet before even our matter of fact fellow-citizens will stand a mechanical flow of eloquence and piety at the grave side of any of their friends. riechanical Detectives That the Cinematographe has great possi- bilities we never doubted, but we never ex- pected it to do detective work, as we find it did at Keith's in Boston some day during the past month. One of the scenes displayed was the bridge at Hamburg at its busiest time. Among the passengers seen flitting over the bridge was recognized a man who has been missing from his home and family for some years, and whose whereabouts are anxiously sought. Inquiries have been set on foot, and there is an interesting story connected with the matter, which will come out if the party is located. Our jforcion = = = = Corresponbence Buenos Ayres, August 28, 1896. My dear R.— You will be surprised to get a letter from me out of this corner of the world, and, knowing as you do my dislike to letter-writing, you will be doubly surprised at getting such a voluminous one. But then, my friend, I have been surprised myself, and I am so full of all I have seen that I must find an outlet somewhere, and aware of your good nature and patience, I hasten to make you my lightning rod. The object of my visit here is to introduce some new kind of agricultural machinery, the nature of which is so sublime and complicated as to be far beyond the reach of your massive mind entirely enthralled by the charms pos- sessed by Phonographs, Kinetoscopes and all the other 'Graphs and 'Scopes in creation. Suffice it that I am here on business, not un- mixed with pleasure, bien entendu. Somehow in the States we all seem to have an idea that anything below the equator is nothing short of wild and deserted, peopled only by slouchily dressed Creoles, Spanioles ami other oles, living in mud holes, thatched with palm leaves, more or less tight. Well, there is some truth in it, but it is very little, as I found out to my surprise and joy. To begin with Rio de Janeiro, the capital of the Brazilian Republic. Its harbor is simply superb; its surroundings are unsurpassed; in beauty its centre the city itself, is the filthiest, most unhealthy hole on earth. The main busi- ness street is the Rua Ouvidor, about 18 feet wide, and a mile long, with an atmosphere as high as that of a bakeoven in full blast, and an aroma, which seems to be a concentrated quintessence of all that tends to offend our olfactory and pulmonary organs. Well, I got through, not once, but several times, for the shops and warehouses located here can vy in many respects with the best Broadway can show. There is a good theatre here, but after I had reached my hotel on the hill of Tijuca, about 4 miles out of town, I found the attrac- tions of a charming home, in the midst of flow- ers and palms, and the coolest and most agree- able atmosphere so very enticing that I had not the heart to go back to town to see even the best of theatrical offerings, especially as my host, Mr. Moreau, an excellent old Frenchman, did his best to entertain me by detailing to me in a drastic fashion the surrounding points of interest. Corcovado with its railroad, looking from a distance like a huge rope-walk; Petrop- olis, across the bay, and the magnificent pano- rama in the hollow: the brilliantly illuminated City of Rio. From Rio I came to Montevideo, the capital of the Oriental Republic, at the mouth of the River Plate, on the opposite side of which, right facing, is situated the most important city of all South America, Buenos Ayres. I stopped a't Montevideo only long enough to catch a glimpse of its beautiful, clean streets, squares, fine buildings and— its lovely women. They are justly famous all through the South for their beauty, bewitching manners and un- restrained freedom, preserving withal absolute purity and modesty. The Platense steamers that ply between Montevideo and Buenos Ayres are a thing of beauty and a joy to be remembered forever. You board them just in time for dinner, which is simply superb, enjoy a good concert and a quiet sail, go to bed in a luxuriously fitted, comfortable cabin, awake for breakfast and find yourself in another country, the richest in the South, Argentina, the silver republic. As you leave the breakfast table and come on deck, you see before you on a gently rising slope the expanse of the city of good airs and breezes. You at once feel that you have ar- rived in the midst of fields of activity, busi- ness and progress, and you shake off, with a sigh, the indolent luxury which a fortnight's life of ease may have accustomed you to. Buenos Ayres is the centre of all the activity that pervades this immense Republic. From here start all the railroads: to the Andes, to the centre and to the east. It is the seat of the national Government, and the homestead of all the learning of the Southern Continent. It is clean and healthy, having a climate as balmy and temperate as that of Italy. Its population is composed mainly of Italians and Spaniards, and their descendants and a sprink- ling of Germans, Americans and Englishmen. Well, my dear R., one evening I happened to stroll down Florida street, and coming to the corner of Cuyo, I noticed a crowd of people going into a large hall, the doors of which istood invitingly open. On closer inspection 1 found it to be a Phonograph parlor. I natur- ally felt an interest on your account and walked in, and I do not regret having done so. There was quite a crowd present, and it was a study to watch the various expressions produced on their faces by the mysterious sounds and words that came from a Phonograph of tue oldest pattern. Some thought it the trick of a clever ventriloquist, others opined that it was the work of the d— 1 and devoutly crossed them- selves. Others again thought it was a decep- tion of the senses. But none attributed it to the genius of a great mechanic; nobody as- signed its origin to science. I staid until the people had thinned some- what, and then managed to get into conversa- tion with the demonstrator, who styled himself Professor Kyj. He was a wiry little Vene- zuelan, and his one aim seemed to be to make as much money as possible, with the least possible trouble and expense. He was by no means an apostle of science, his whole stock in trade consisted of an old second-hand Phono- graph, about a dozen records, a black gladstone back, and an unlimited supply of cheek. He told me of the success he had met with up the river, at Rosario, Santa Fe, at the foot of the Andes, at San Juan del Estero, and all the other inland places of importance. I list- ened with interest, thinking all the while of you. Well, my friend, I showed my gratitude for the information he had given me by invit- ing the Professor to a small bottle, which we quaffed to the progress of the mystic Phono- graph. This shows that there is a good field open here for phonographic and kindred business, and as I never allow my or any enthusiasm to cool down, I immediately started to turn my unexpected knowledge to good account on your behalf. With a number of friends of mine, all people of influence, I repaired next day to the Phono- parlor, where they listened with pleasure to my explanations of the Phonograph, but when I recounted to them the advances made in this machine since, and told them about the manu- facture of records, they all saw that there was business right here. The addresses which I herewith enclose are the result of that day's work, and if you deem it worth your while to write to them full details, price lists, etc., I am sure you will do a large business in the South. The card which I have marked with blue pencil is that of a first-class business house in Buenos Ayres, having branch estab- lishments both in Rosario and Santa Fe, the chef of which is a particular friend of mine, and in every way the proper man for this work. So be wise in time, oh Phyllis mine, and see what you can do. Hoping that you are getting on swimmingly, I remain with kind regards, Sincerely yours, AREVALO. Edison Edison has accomplished so much in the line of invention that it is popularly believed he has made no failures in that direction; but the truth is that he has been at work for years upon several hard problems which seem to be no nearer a solution to-day than they were when he began. For the last seven years he has been trying to derive electricity directly from coal without going through the usual process of heat, steam power and dynamo. "There's enough latent electrical energy in a pound of coal to carry it across the Atlantic," he said the other day, "yet we have never been able to utilize more than a very small fraction of it. I know how to get electricity from coal direct, but I don't know yet how to get enough of it." I 2 THE PHONOSCOPE. November, 1896. The Vitascope The Vitascope is a device, logically follow- ing upon the Kinetoscope, for exhibiting upon a large screen a series of practically continuous pictures, the result to the eye being that of a person or scene in motion. The Vitascope has been called an improved Kinetoscope. It is more than that. It is a Kinetoscope enorm- ously enlarged, showing its subject in the de- sired colors. As a matter of fact, the latter instrument was never considered seriously by its inventor (Edison), but only as a paving the way for a more perfect instrument he had in mind, and which he later perfected and ap- propriately named the Vitascope— meaning, literally, "the exhibition of life." The machine, as it now stands, differs ma- t"i- ally from the original model of the inventor, which cost months of labor and an expen- diture of about $20,000. In the discarded model he had used a shutter, on the principle of the one employed in the Kinetoscope, but it gave blurrirg effects, which, of course, were unsatis- factory. In the later model he dispensed with a shutter, and secured the effects he desired by the use of lenses and an arc-light. The Vitascope, as finally completed and put into public operation, notably upon the vaudeville stage, consists, as to its mechanism, of a small lens, such as is used in a small camera. This b us is nearest the exhibition screen. Just be- hind it is a metal frame, about an inch and a half square, over which the picture to be re- produced passes. Behind this is a large lens, and just back of this lens is an arc light of 2.000 candle-power. The pictures reproduced have been previously photographed on Kineto- scope films, and are in size about as large as one's fingernail. The films, as prepared for scenic reproduction, are each fifty feet in length, and contain several hundred pictures tliat go to make up a panorama. In use, the film passes over a series of wheels at a very rapid rale, propelled by eleclric power, and, as the picture passes the frame, behind the small lens above mentioned, the light from the arc lamp, passing through t ho large lens and being focused upon it. throws the picture through the smaller lens upon the screen, magnified 000 limes. In this manner the miniature picture 1 a ken by the Kinetoscope is reproduced life-size, or larger, with every minute detail of life and action on the screen. In the operation of the machine, the problem of how to prevent the film from being melted by the focused light from the arc lamp, which is intense, has been solved by suspending a magnet before the frame over which the film passes. Close to this magnet is a small dyna- mo. When the current is turned into the Vita- scope, and its wheels carrying the film are set in motion, the magnet is drawn toward the dynamo, so that the light may strike the mov- ing lens and send its picture through the smaller lens. The film being at this time in motion, of course is not in danger of being melted. When the current is turned off, the magnet falls from the dynamo again to its former place in front of the film, resuming its protective function. What to many is the most surprising feature of the Vitascope is that it throws, in the pict- ures exhibited, any and all colors upon the screen. But the explanation of this is quite simple. The colors are not obtained by any photographic process— the film produced by the Kinetograph is in monochrome. They are painted on the films later by hand, in such a way that the color will not rub off as the film passes over the wheels of the Vitascope. In subsequent machines it is designed to increase the size of the films to something like 500 feet, for the purpose of displaying such scenes as Niagara Falls, an ocean steamer leaving port, and other pictorial subjects. The Cinematograph The Cinematographe consists of a box S in. x 10 in. x 4, containing a series of reels upon which the band, about 18 yards long, of photographic films is rapidly wound behind a set of five magnifying lenses. Each quoto- graph is not larger than a postage stamp, and a powerful light reflects them on a white screen in such rapid succession as to repro- duce all the infinite and varied movements of nature. The film is made of celluloid and gela- tine and so thin that it easily rolls up into a box about I! inches in diameter. The lenses magnify the tiny pictures so as to cover a space on the stage 14 ft. x 18 ft. The pictures themselves are taken at t lie rate of about 45 in a second, so that no movemeut however rapid can escape them. The Biograph The most recent of the inventions for project- ing moving pictures is the Biograph, which is now on exhibition at Hammerstein's Music Hall. It is the invention of Herman Casler, of Cana- stota, N. Y. The Biograph made its debut at Olympia. under splendid auspices, a special interest be- ing given to its performance by the semi-poli- tical character of the views and scenes repre- sented. The house was crowded and cheered to the echo each appearance "on the sere u" of the Ohio "Petit Gaporal." The Eidoloscope MOBILE, ALA— Thirty years ago the man who dreamed of talking over 500 miles of wire would have been laughed at. Still, to-day, the Telephone is in universal use throughout the civilized world. The same wonderful inventive gift that prompted Edison to give to the world the Telephone, has made itself manifest in "The Eiuoloscope." This instrument is to the eye what the Telephone is to the ear. It annihilates space, it places before the eye incidents that transpired at a distance of ih.»u- sands of miles. It perpetuates action, it over- comes death; its resources are so unspeakably wonderful that mere words fail to give any com- prehensive idea of its really magic power. The principle involved in the operation of the Eidoloscope is simple, but the actual operation and construction are complicated and intricate, the details of which are kept a profound secret. A sensitive film is fed from a spool to pass be- fore the exposed lens by means of an electric motor, at a uniform but amazing speed. Thus the entire incident of the scene to be photo- graphed is transmitted to the film and indelibly fixed on it by the usual process of development. The spool is now placed in front of the Eidolo- scope, and unwound in the same rapid fashion in front of a strong light which throws it, en- larged to life size, upon a large screen, reproduc- ing the incident exactly as it occurred. As the camera can easily take 2,000 impres- sions pel- minute, the photographs, displayed before the vision with such rapidity, form an ever moving living picture. In the bull fight, shown in Rosabel Morrison's production of "Carmen," the possibilities of the Eidoloseop.- are well exploited. Clouds of dust kicked up by the bull hiding him from sight, and then rolling slowly away, make it hard to believe that the actual arena is not a tangible reality. The Phantoscope CHICAGO, ILL.— At the Imperial Theatre, the Phantoscope has proved itself a drawing card. The pictures are all French views and include military scenes, and pictures of French street and country life. There is a very large selection, and the films are said to be amongst the most perfect made. Among some recently invented instruments brought to the notice of Chieagoaus, a couple of marvelous ones are those which register the changes in a person's emotions. They are; "The Kymographion" and "the Plethysmo- graph" of Mosso. The former measures the effect of mental and emotional states upon the chest, and the latter upon the circulation of the arterial blood. The Thealrograph ST. PAUL.— In St. Paul an ingenious device, the Theatrograph. has recently been exhibited at the Grand by an Englishman. The Theatro- graph is to all intents and purposes a powerful storeopticou provided with a series of wheels, over which is passed a spool of films or pict- ures, taken of the same scene at innuite'y shoit intervals. By this means a continuous action is projected on the screen, whereon the scene appears as real and animated as life. The Theatrograph. in short, is an English adapta- tion, more or less perfect, of an American in- vention, the Vitascope. X >< Vol. I. No. i. THE PHONOSCOPE. 13 Slot /Ifoacbines mm mSmt HP* XLhc Ikinetoscope In all exhibitions, the neater and the more attractive the show, the greater is also the financial success. This is especially the case in exhibitions of 'Scopes and 'Phones, where it is desired to attract all classes of society, even the most fastidious. The above cut rep- resents an exhibition parlor which it would be well to study in order to use it as a model, wherever practicable. Tasty yet simple deco- rations act as frames to the various appa- ratuses, a bust of the great wizard occupies a central position, and everything is arranged so systematically and withal so artistically that all is seen at the greatest advantage. No- body would ever hesitate to enter such a par- lor: it invites and attracts all. A Nickel=in=the=SIot Bicycle Locking Device One of the latest coin-in-the-slot inventions which appears to be practical is a nickel in-the- slot bicycle locking device conceived by a Providence man. The apparatus is a black enamelled box, about three by four inches. At- tached to one side is a small strong chain. The box can be fastened to a post, fence or wall. A rider wheels up, runs the chain through the wheel, fastens the loose end to a bolt, shoves the bolt back and it snaps sharply; then a key is turned and the only way the bicycle can be stolen is to take an axe and smash the entire outfit. When the owner wants to release his wheel, he has but to drop a nickle in the slot, take the key of the lock from his pocket and unturn the bolt. The lock cannot be picked, it is claimed. (We have not been able to ascertain the real inventor of this device, as different papers from different sections of the country attribute it to different people. Ed.) The Automatic Banjo The automatic Banjo is one of the latest and most ingenious mechanical musical in- struments, as it does all that human lingers can do to produce tuneful melody. It is pro- vided with four metallic strings and forty stops placed closely together over the strings, and it is incased in glass, standing upright in full view. At the bridge are four prongs or picks which project from either side. The instrument is operated by dropping a nickel in the slot, whereby an electric motor in the base of the machine is started, which pro- pels a series of bellows, forcing the air through a cylinder, over which passes a roll of perfo- rated sheet music. There are a number of pneumatic tubes which lead to each pick or fret; the perforated notes coming in contact with these tubes allow the air to escape, where- upon each pick or fret acts accordingly. Thus the most difficult music can be played auto- matically with the same effect, both in time and harmony, as if performed by a professional baujoist, and what is more any stringed instiu ment that is played with the. fingers can be adjusted to this automaton. The Automatic Gas Meter The penny-in-the-slot gas meters have not yet reachced New York, but they have found their way into every large city in England. The re- ports of meetings of gas companies and of cor- porations owning gas works that are published there from day to day show that the demand for them continues almost unabated. During the past year alone one London gas company has sent out more than 30,000 of these meters. A few months ago the demand was so very great, and the meter makers so little able to meet it, that the company had to discontinue supplies for a while. Now the demand is as great as ever. Another London com- pany— the South Metropolitan — has sent out during the past four years not less than 50,000 of this class of meter. In Manchester the penny-in-the-slot meters are being sent out at the rate of from S00 to 1,000 a month, and in Liverpool, Birmingham and other northern cities the demand is equally great. These machines, which are really a boon to small householders, and a corresponding trial to small dealers in wood and coal and burning oil. are now being made proof against human guile. The gas companies through long experi- ence have become wary, indeed. In the new meters French pennies will no longer work the oracle. The penny which used to be attached to a string and withdrawn when value had been received is now irrecoverable, for the string is cut by a concealed blade. The sticky penny, which used to keep the gas "on," can- not effect a fraudulent lodgment either, and among the English slot patrons now there is nothing for it but dull, prosaic rectitude until their ingenuity can devise some fresh device for "beating the machine." IRecent Inventions The Duplex Speaker The Ediion -Phonograph Works are cow mak- ing a new Speaker, which, when used in the regular way, prevents outside listeners from hearing the reproduction, as the diaphragm or glass set in its upper part is encased so as to retain the sound — vibrations from the lower face of the glass within the enclosure. It has two outlets for sound, one from above and one from below the diaphragm. Enclosing the glass gives to the speaker another advantage by enabling it to utilize the vibrations from the lower side of the diaphragm which now are lost. Thus the tone is considerably strengthened, and the carrying power of the Speaker is increased when both outlets are used either with two horns or in connection with the multiple rails. By using but one out- let no increase of tone or power takes place, which, however, is very pronounced when both are used, making a reproduction most effective even at a distance. The Muliplex Phonograph The Multiplex Phonograph— illustrated above —is the standard Edison machine with the Multiplex attachment. This attachment con- sists of a frame containing five mandrels, which can be attached to the standard Edison machine. A lecord can be put on each mandiel, and any one reproduced at will by simply bringing it into place, which is done by means of a compound reacting ratchet lever, the knob of which is exposed in the front part of the machine. It is especially adapted to slot ma- chines, as anyone patronizing such a Phone with this attachment on can have their choice of five selections. It is also very valuable for commercial purposes, as five cylinders may be dictated to at one sitting, without changing cylinders. "Screen" Sqnibs The Little Rock, Ark., "Democrat" gives a very interesting account of the success of Edi- son's Vitascope at the Capital Theatre. The exhibition was accompanied by phonograph recitations of songs and instrumental pieces. There was one concensus of opinion: Marvelous! Alexander Promio, of Paris, has taken differ ent views of Chicago with the cinematograph. Amongst other very interesting scenes of life in the Windy City, he took several views show- ing firemen and policemen in action. They are to be exhibited in the old world, where they will certainly prove very interesting. The Bostonians are always in the lead. H. A. Hill, of the Grand Opera House, brought the latest screen picture projector from Europe: the Animatographe, and delights large audi- ences with life like views and scenes from London, Brighton and Calais. The Anima- tographe is sure to prove a great card. The pictures of the Kineopticon move and act true to life, they actually seem to breathe. These Kineopticon actors skurry along the streets, dodging bicycles and carriages, smil- ing and laughing, scowding and frowning, until the spectator would almost believe that he was looking out of a window on a dull gray day, watching the procession of real life go by. The instantaneous success of Edison's Vita- scope at Proctor's Pleasure Palace shows how keenly the public is interested in the fascinat- ing pictures of real life, endowed with move- ment. No subject is allowed to grow stale and every view is new, except that which shows Edison's portrait developing under the rapid crayon of Blackton, the cartoonist, who turns and bows to the audience at the finish. . These wonderful photographs in action are an ever growing sensation. Mr. Edison himself is manifesting unusual interest in the Vitascope. THE PHONOSCOPE. November, 1896. Mr. Leonard Spencer The subject of the above illustration, Mr. Leonard Spencer, better known among his friends as "Len," was born in Washington. D. C, January 12, 1S67. His father was the famous Henry C. Spencer, of the Spencerian Business College of Washington, and joint author of the Spencerian system of penman ship. From his eighteenth to his twenty-first year Mr. Spencer taught in his father's college. He then accepted an offer of the Columbia Phonograph Company, of Washington, D. C, to sing to their Phonographs. This is a fine art, and few make a success of it, but Mr. Spencer's remarkable powei-s gave a big im- petus to the business of the company. First one company, then another outdid each other for his services. Finally he was secured, at a fat salary, by the U. S. Phonograph Company, with whom he has now been for more than 6 years. Mr. Spencer has an original way of singing the best negro songs that makes his records of splendid merit in that line. His sympathetic, well-cultivated voice also enables him to render familiar ballads with great sentiment and feel- ing. The gifts of comedian and vocalist he combines in an unusual degree. He is the originator of the darky shout in Phonograph work. His efforts are always original and his resources seemingly without limit. He has a repertoire of fully COO songs, of which more than 300 are being catalogued at the present time, and the total records he has made ex- ceeds 62,000. Some of his great hits are: "Nigger and the Bee," "Little Liza Loves You," "Little Ala- bama Coon," etc. "The New Bully" he has sung ten times a week for 6 months with great success. May Irwin having complimented him especially on his rendering of this song.. Mr. Spencer is one of the few successful imitators of Chevalier's coster-songs, where he seems not only to have caught the spirit of the original singer, but also to have entirely donned the character of the East end Cockney. In the descriptive selections played by Issler's Orchestra. Mr. Spencer manipulates the Casta- gnettes, Clogs, Tamborines, etc., making also the necessary announcements and the remarks that cause so much laughter by those who have listened to these popular selections. Gifted with a powerful voice he utilizes it to great advantage in announcing for band and other records where a number of machines are used, necessitating great vocal power to fill the horns of the several machines which are running at the same time. He has lately formed a co-partnership with the popular artist, Mr. John 1'. Hogan, for the production of a sketch called: "Our Sunny Southern I Ionic," a true character deline- ation n|' the Southern Negro, with all his wit. humor and pathos. This sketch has been produced at a number of the leading theatres in and around New York, meeting with the ap- proval of critical audiences. Mr. Spencer is a universal favorite as is shown by the many songs that have been def- eated to him by such popular composers as Monroe H. Boeenfejd, Addison Kent, Will Carl- ton and others. ©ur Gorresponbents FRESNO, CAL.— California is noted for having more Phonographs than any other Western State. At the present time, many Phonographs are lying idle, the owners of them not being able to make their support exhibit- ing, and not even taking enough interest in them to keep them in running condition for their own enjoyment and that of their friends and families. The Phonograph business in San Francisco is very good, but in the smaller towns where a Phonograph is exhibited, and where a person is asked to hear it, he invari- ably says: Oh, I heard that in "Frisco" (they seem to think they are better in the larger cities); this is due to so many "green hands" trying to travel with a Phonograph, and not knowing how to take care of their machines, and because they have poor records. Dupli- cate records have hurt the Phonograph busi- ness in this section of the country a great deal. There are a large number of official court re- porters in California who use the Phonograph in their business with marked success. It has been my experience that "Comic Songs," such as "Casey's," take the best. I have had a great amount of trouble in getting good rec- ords, the later ones not being nearly so good as those made three and four years ago. It would be a great help to me to find some company which I could depend upon to buy first-class "Original Records" from. It is my belief, that if the companies still continue to make "Duplicate Records," the Phonograph will not advance very much in California. It is not the quantity and cheapness we want, but the quality; give me one good original rec- ord in preference to two dozen duplicates. The material used in making the blanks (white ones) does not give good satisfaction, they are too soft and will wear out much faster than those used two or three years ago. All the companies here of late have sent me duplicate records, when I invariably state to them in my order that I do not want them, still they send them and think I will not know the difference (I mean by this, all whom I have been dealing with, of course I cannot say all the companies use duplicates, as I do not deal with all,). Attractions, such as Dime Shows and Operas, are so numerous in California, that it injures the Phonograph business. Machines are not used in California in pri- vate residences, and there is seldom, if ever, a private concert given with a Phonograph. (Fresno is located exactly in the centre of Cali- fornia, in the great San Joaquin Valley.) LEONARD. LAFAYETTE, INDIANA. — Less than five years ago the various sound machines were practically unknown in this part of "Hoosier- dom." Not so to-day. The people of La Fayette — the second richest city, per capita, in the United States— take a lively interest in Phonographs, picture projecting machines, and up-to-date musical inventions. In exhibiting — as in every other enterprise — the man or wo- man wishing to succeed, must not be a cheap peddler of cheap "Phones," etc., but a person proud of the business; one who is willing to give the best to the best. I am thoroughly interested in sound produc- ing machines, and have awakened a deep in- terest in every contrivance calculated, when rightly handled to please. The establishment of "Musical Parlors" in cities is to be an enter- prise of the period. I will look for the "Pho- noscope," as such a paper will be of great in- terest, and will undoubtedly fill a place in journalisln now unoccupied. CLARK. BANGOR, ME.— The Phonograph Exhibition business in this location has been very fair this tall, especially with those who are carrying a good quality record; cheap records are criti- cized keenly. Most of the exhibitors find it to their advantage to buy the best only. Spring Motor talking machines are being put into resi- dences to quite an extent, and that trade de- mauds only the best of records, 1 find the class of records made by Mr. Myers are very much sought after by people who have machines in their homes, although the Gaskin and Quiuu records meet with popular favor here. I find that there are more Issler orchestra records sold than any other instrumental records in that line. The "Casey" records are now, and always have been, in good demand here; their execu- tion and original idea of fun and humor insures their permanent popularity by all users of the 'Phone. Kinetoscopes do not seem to do a very thriv- ing business in Maine. The Yitascope and sev- eral other scopes are making tom-s of this State; crowds are attending these wonderful exhibi- tions. Illustrated songs by stereopticon are making quite a hit East; some of the illustrations are very clever, and produce great amusement in a decidedly interesting manner. The X-Ray out- fits have been exhibited here and are being practically used by several physicians and den- tists with good results. Illusion X-Ray exhibit- ors stood around the fair grounds in all parts of Maine this fall and sighed for the dollar that never came. GREENACRE. Memphis, Teun., Oct. 24, 1&9G. 'i he Editor of "The Phonoscope," N. Y. City. Dear Sir.— I am real glad you are to put forth such a journal, as we need one that is not merely an advertising medium for some par- ticular firm. I shall be glad to give you a few thoughts from time to time on matters that may happen to come under my notice in the course of business. There is one thing we should look to imme- diately, and that is the tax or license nuisance here in this city. We are classed with gam- bling and skin game machines, and the tax al- most amounts to prohibition. I think Congress or the U. S. Supreme Court should interfere in behalf of right and justice. BROOKS. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.— The Slot Machine business is splendid here on the Coast. Pho- nographs, Kinetoscopes, Card Machines and all kinds of vending machines are licensed at $1 per month, payable quarterly in advance. There is a large number of traveling ex- hibitors on this coast, and they all seem to do well, and to them, I feel sure, the Phonoscope will prove a great boon. The Chicago Recording Scale is a great taker here. BACIGALUPI. MILWAUKEE. WIS.— Mr. J. B. Shaw, busi- ness manager of the American Travesty Com- pany, during his visit here last month enter- tained a number of his friends with a Gramo- phone, which he carries with him on the road. This little machine is a gem. and is a great novelty. The records that are used with it are discs about the size of breakfast plates and are made of rubber. The selections are r produced through a horn, and are audible to all in the room. Mr. Shaw is very much interested in the machine and has a number of interesting records by popular artists. ROCKLAND. ME. — Edison's wonderful Vita- scope, as seen he:e at the Farwell Opera House, has eclipsed all expectations. What the Phono- graph is to the ear, the Yitascope is to the eye. The camera records the view, the Phonograph bottles up the sound, and the Yitascope pre- serves the action for future use. Surely, sci- ence is progressing wonderfully— what next? PORTLAND. ORE. — The Camera Club re- cently gave an entertainment here in aid of the woman's auxiliary. The chief attraction was a Stereopticon exposition of a picked co'- leetion of views of California scenery, which were projected on a 24-foot screen, by a power- ful calcium light, every detail of the pictures showed clearly and distinctly. Several moon- light effects were especially good, and their ap- pearance upon the screen was almost too brief to suit Ihe spectators. The announcement of each subject was made by Mr. T. E. Shields, who kept the audience in laughter and good humor by his flow of remarks and sallies, espe- cially those touching on the political parties. Vol. I. No. i. THE PHONOSCOPE. 15 ftevvs anb Interviews We have had an interesting visit from Mr. Vifquin, of the "Coinpagnie Americaine du Pho- nographe Edison," of Paris. He gave us some very useful information respecting the Phono- graph business in France, which we take pleas- ure in communicating to our readers in Mr. Vif- qnin's own words. After the customary exchange of courtesies Mr. Vifquin continued: "Yes, the best season for our business is summer time, when all the > resorts are crowded with a crowd of people of leisure, who are only too glad to patronize such in attractive novelty as the Phonograph. Ex- hibitors all through the country are well aware ' of that, and they keep us busy supplying them with cylinders. The stock of an exhibitor gen- erally comprises a 14-way tube Phonograph and about 75 cylinders, of which about 5 are instru- mental pieces and the rest vocal records. There seems to be a feeling among exhibitors that there is a falling off in the quality of the rec- ords, but whether this is due to the bad taste of the public or to careless manufacture, I do not j like to say. "It is certain that people prefer horns to tubes, and it is my devout wish that something may soon be done to put into the hands of exhibitors a horn that will answer every requirement. Tubes, at best, are unpleasant, and in some countries, Austria, for instance, they are posi- tively forbidden by the authorities. "The fairs and festivals so prevalent on the continent of the old world during summer are • another source of lucrative business to exhibit- ors, who, in spite of three comparatively heavy taxes, yet manage to reap a golden harvest of coin. In France exhibitors are subject to three I distinct taxes: (1) A tax of $50 a year, which is ; called 'Droit d' Auteurs,' then (2) $1 a year, the 'Droit des Pauvres,' and, lastly, the regular lo- cal license, which varies according to place and plant. "As to private business, I may say it is im- proving, but would do so still more if we could supply a cheaper and still simpler machine. People dread the original heavy outlay. Once i this is overcome, we shall have a flourishing trade in supplying records, and all the other re- quirements connected with Phonographs. I am sure that if Talking Machines were manufact- ured on the same scale as Sewing Machines and sold in the same manner, records would soon become a staple article of commerce as much as reels of cotton are to-day." (* We take much pleasure in informing Mr. Vifquin that both the Phonograph and Grapho- phone companies have, at last, put a simple practical machine on the market, that can be purchased for a reasonable figure, from $25 to $40. See articles on Phonograph and Grapho- phone, this issue.— Ed.) IRew Corporations The Cinographoscope Company, of New York City, capital $10,000, was incorporated < October 21st. Directors:— Charles H. Webster, Charles G. S. Baker and William G. McGrath, of New York City. The Electro-Chemical Storage Battery Com- pany, Belleville, N, J., has been incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000. Those inter- ested are Sigmund H. Rosenblatt, K. N. Cham- berlain and A. S. Hubbard. The United States Animatoscope Company has been incorporated by William L. Wright, Benjamin A. Badger, Gustav Walter, Charles 1 L. Ackerman and J. E. Brien. Its capital 1 stock is $25,000, of which $125 has been sub- scribed. Its purpose is to deal in machines for reproducing photographic films in an en- larged form on canvass. The National Graphophone Company, of Yonkers, New York, has been incorporated. Capital, $50,000. Directors, Frank Seaman, of \onkers, Henry Boutz and William B. Owen, of New York. There Is an optical Illusion In our title "Phono- scope" on the cover. Can any of our readers point It out? practical XHses of tbe x=1Ra£S The "Herald," of Los Angeles, Cal., has es- tablished a free clinic in order that the poor and indigent may profit by the wonderful new light, known as the X-rays. It is not our in- tention to dilate on the nature of this light in detail, we will rather restrict ourselves to the practical uses to which it is being put, and to do so more easily we shall ask our l-eaders to observe with us one day's work at the "Herald" clinic. A patient enters but gives no information as to his ailment. Dr. Yoakum exposes him to the X-rays and a bullet is found embedded in his thigh. In addition a number of cases of bone fracture, necrosis of bones, stiff joints at knee, wrist and hand are properly diagnosed and explained by the aid of this invisible light. One man had a bullet in his knee, another a broken ankle, a woman "something the matter with her thumb," which turned out to be a needle plainly visible; another's ribs, breast- bone, heart, etc., could be plainly discerned. C. Galvin suomitted an arm and hand woe- fully injured years ago in collision with a shot- gun. The X-rays located several of the small shot left in the arm. Miss Bedient, of Pico Heights, ran a needle in her left foot, which the X-ray located, and Dr. Stewai-t operated upon the member and re-submitted the patient to the X-rays. A small point of needle was found still lodged in the bone, but its removal determined against, be- cause of possible danger to the ligaments of the metatarsal junction. The X-rays are also going to be used in the detection of the adulteration of food-stuffs, which is rendered possible by the varying de- grees of transparency possessed by the different substances composing them. The following are some of the cases exam- ined under the X-Rays at Los Angeles, Cal., and subsequently cured: Case No. 43— An adult ma'e; physician— Com- plaint, pain in joints of hands. Showed enlarge- ments in joints of hand caused by rheumatism. No. 47— Boy— Complained of pain in upper fore arm; contusion of humerus visible. No. 57— Adult woman— Complained of pain in lower arm and eccentricity of motion in it; could turn outstretched arm with palm down- wards, but could not turn the palm upwards; examination showed un-united fracture of the radius (larger bone of lower arm); when trial was made to turn the palm upwards the overlap- ping ends of the broken bone for a space of about an inch were plainly visible to all pres- ent. No. 03— An adult male— Complaint, pain in knee; thought there was a nail in it. Examin- ation detected no nail but showed considerable enlargement of tibia (shin bone) due to chronic inflammatory condition of bones. An old frac- ture of the tibia was also visiDle in this case. No. 71— Adult woman, complained of enlarged knee point and stiffening. Inflammatory depos- its shown on examination. No. 66— A girl with stiff ankle joint, shown by examination to be due to inflammatory con- dition of all bones at the ankle. No. 78— An adult male; six birdshot in fore- head, lodged there twenty years ago. Location clearly shown. No. 72— An adult woman; showed abnormal development of metacarpals, caused by rheuma- tism. No. 83— An adult male; complained of pain in the ankle. Examination showed unnatural enlargement of lower ends of lower leg bones at ankle. The apparatus is now working so steadily and efficiently that its engagements for the future are daily becoming more reliable. All through the United States the X-rays are now used for the location of foreign bodies, such as bullets, splinters, etc., in the flesh or bones. ^Dangers of tbe * % % x=1Ra£S It seems to have been satisfactorily proved by eminent physicians and scientists that fre- quent exposure to the action of the X-rays leads to a decomposition of the tissues which generally manifests itself as dermatitis or alopecia, skin diseases, baldness, and affection of the eyes. Tesla asserts with great positive- ness that the X-rays do produce physiological effects in the human features — in the skin and eyes. He states that they have affected him and that they produce a feeling of weariness and lassitude. Other cases tell of loss of fingernails in hands that have been radiographed, and of hair turn- ing white or coming out entirely after the head has been exposed to the influence of the rays. Mr. Geo. L. Newcomb, an electrical expert of Salem, Mass., has had a very sad experience with Crooke's tubes. After a short operation with them he felt a pain in his hands which soon became unbearable, the skin peeling off in strips. His symptoms are identical with those of a Mrs. Gill, of New York, from simi- lar causes. Yet Mr. Newcomb maintains that the short exposure required for locating a bullet, etc., can in no way affect the patient. Interesting litems Prior to his departure for Europe Cardinal Satolli, former Papal Delegate to the U. S. A., paid a visit to the Wizard at Orange. Mr. and Mrs. Edison showed the Roman dignitary all about the place and gave him an opportunity to see the X-rays, the Phonograph, and the Vitascope at work. The Cardinal remained With the inventor for nearly two hours. The Wizard, while conducting the exhibition, watched with amusement the changing expres- sions of wonder and amazement on the face of his visitor. By means of the X-rays he showed him the bones in his hand, a coin through the covers of a pocketbook, penetrated 2,000 pages of a book, and performed a number of other experiments. He did about everything but photograph the thoughts of the party, and he promised to do that some other time. In the Phonograph laboratory the Cardinal was entertained by several high class selec- tions, and the visit ended with a Vitascopic display. That the Telephone should make a good teacher for Deaf and Dumb people is certainly startling, yet such is the case. At the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Margate, England, the Tele- phone is already being used in teaching children who possess even the tiniest fragment of hear- ing. Several receivers are coupled up to one transmitter, so that the teacher can instruct a group of children at the same time, without in any way hiding his facial expression and lip movements, as is the case when he has to direct his attention and his voice into the mouth of speaking tube or trumpet. A new lamp which has just been invented by an Italian will, if all that is said of it be true, bring joy to the heart of the housewife. The lamp, which is declared to be no heavier than one of the ordinary kind, generates its own gas. The cost, however, is only one-fifth that of ordinary gas, while the illumination is as bright as that of an electric lamp and much whiter. A single lamp floods a large room with light, and as, in addition, it is clean and odorless, one cannot wonder that both the electric light and the gas companies dread its rivalry. But un- fortunately the' promises of inventors are not always carried out to the letter. There are more than 45,000 Talking Machines in the United States alone. Supposing every one of these machines to be supplied with 10 records, this would mean a total of about half a million cylinders, which put together would form a tube nearly 4 miles long. THE PHONOSCOPE. November, 1896. IRew films . . . for . . . "Screen" Machines PIER AND WAVES, taken at Coney Island during the great storm of Oct. 6th, 1896. A tremendous hit WAVES AT FAR ROCKAWAY, same as above. MONDAY MORNING WASH DA ST SCENE. Showing washing and hanging of clothes. True to life and very popular. OLD-FASHIONED SPINNING WHEEL SCENE. This is an unusual clear and bright film. Shows fine smoke effects, turning of wheel, and Newfoundland house dog. LOVE SCENE. Showing lovers, entrance of mother, exit of lover on bicycle. A decided hit. FARM SCENE. Feeding of hens and ducks. Unusually fine effects. BACKYARD PARTY. Showing party of col- ored pickinninies eating watermelon for a prize. This is a most popular film. THE STEAMER ROSEDALE. Showing the ill-fated steamer, which, while loaded with passengers, was recently sunk in New York Hi i-bor in collision with the ferry boat Oregon. PAT AND THE POPULIST. Showing the Populist endeavoring to convert Pat to his own political views. IRISH POLITICAL DISCUSSION. Showing two Irishmen discussing politics over a glass of whiskey. FIRING OF CANNON AT PEEKSKILL BY THE BATTERY OF ARTILLERY. This film shows very fine smoke effects upon the dis- charge of the gun. LI HUNG CHANG. Shows Li Hung Chang entering his carriage at the door of the Waldorf Hotel, with a file of the Sixth U. S. Cavalry, with drawn sabres, standing nearby. SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK. This view is taken in Mott street, New York City, and shows a busy throng of people. THE N. Y. "WORLD" SICK BABY FUND. Showing the children of the poor people en- joying themselves in swings and on hobby- horses. THE HAYMAKERS. Showing the cutting of grass with a scythe and sickle in a manner true to life. BLACKTON SKETCHES. The New York "World's" caricature artist, drawing sketches on a screen. No. 1 represents him as drawing a large picture of Mr. Thomas A. Edison. No. 2 showing the artist drawing pictures of McKinley and President Cleveland. No. 3 Is a humorous selection, showing the artist drawing a life-size picture of a female figure, in which the expressions of the coun- tenance are rapidly changed. THE FISHERMAN'S RETURN. This shows the surf breaking upon the shore, and in the distance, two fishermen in a boat, re- turning from a day's fishing. THE CARPENTER SHOP. Showing three carpenters busily engaged at the work bench. THE OLD GERMAN MILL, in which one of the millers thrusts a woman into the hopper of the mill and she soon emerges from be- neath it, having apparently been run through the machinery. CAMEL PARADE. Showing young ladies and children riding on camels. GERMAN CHILDREN. Showing a procession of children and adults, with a German band. THE SAILING OF THE AMERICAN TRANS- ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP, ST. LOUIS, FOR SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND. Showing ono of the fastest transatlantic steamers afloat, sailing down the river, as she starts on her long voyage. THE FOREGOING FILMS ARE MANU- FACTURED AND SOLI) BY THE INTER- NATIONAL FILM COMPANY, 150 WORTH STREET, NEW YORK. *phe Latest Popular ^ongs. % ¥ $ THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF THE VERY LATEST POPULAR SONGS PUBLISHED BY THE LEADING MUSIC PUBLISHERS OF THE UNITED STATES- .jt .j* j* jt jt j* jt descriptive Songs anb Ballabs. Title. Publisher. Author. An Revoir. Sweetheart. 6 Trevalyn A Picture of My Best Girl. 3 Moreland A Dream of My Boyhood Days. 3 Dresser Bright Happy Days. 6 Walker Dreams of My Own Land. 6 Dean Don't Tell Her That You Lore Her. 3.... Dresser Don't Forget. My Boy. you're leaving home.6.Wheeler Don't give Up the Old Love for the New. 6.. Thornton Down in Tomale Town. 4 A mauds First Love, Dearest Love. 6 Penn. Going for a Pardon. 6 Thornton His Last Thoughts Were of You. 6.. Marks ft Stern In the Baggage Coach Ahead. 3 Davis I'll Be Home To-morrow Night. 6 Howard In the Language of the Flowers. 1 Coburn I Love You, Dear. 6 Stromberg Just Another Girl Who Left a Happy Home. 4.Petrie Johnnie. 4 G. Evans Kiss Me Good-night, Mother. 1 Moran Kathleen. 6 Mora Love Makes the World go Bound. 5 Smith & Englander Love. I Adore You. 5 Cooper & Osborne Love's Souvenir. 6 Feist Let me Call You mv Sweetheart Again. 6 Thornton My Dad's Old Violin. 1 Golden My Gert. 1 Golden & Outcault Mother Was a Lady. 6 Marks & Stern Xo one Ever Loved You More Than I. 6 Marks & Stern On Sunday. 3 Flynn Polly. 1 Blandford & Chase Pebbles on the Beach. 1 Mann & Starr Serenade. 5 Smith Summer Girl of Brighton Beach. 1 Rogers She's a Stranger to Him Now. 1 Campbell Streets of a City Grand. 1 Gillespie Sunday Night In Lover's Lane. l....Ford & Bratton She's been a Mother to me. 1 Ford & Bratton She Might Flirt With Others, Still She Loves but me. 4 Marion Those Lost Happy Days. 6 Feist Two Heads are Better Than one. 5 Goodwin & Morse They All Love Maggie Grady. 3 Slafer The Teacher and the Boy. 6 Marks & Stern Tell Her That we Love Her Jnst the Same. 4 Petrie The Belle of Hogan's Alley Bernard & Blake The Sweetheart I Left at Home. 6 Braisted The Desert Way. 1 Braisted Whisper Your Mother's Name. 6. . .Braisted & Carter When it is Love at First Sight. 1 Mock When the Girl you Love Is Many Miles Away. 6 Cohan & Koepen Wont' Somebody Give me a Kiss? 4 Smith You're so Good, Daddy. 1 Starr You'll be Sorry When I'm Gone. 3 ..Rosenfeld You, Only You. 4 Keene Malt3 Songs. Grace O'More. 6 Witt I Will be Your Sweetheart. 2 Cohan I Love my Girl. 6 Rosev & Reed My YonDg Man. 6 Stromberg On the Benches in the Park. 6 Thornton She's the Sweetest Little Girl in Town. 6 Trevelyan She's the Comfort of Their Home. 6 Rogers Sweet Rosie O'Grady. 6 Nugent Comic Songs. As They Did in Days of Yore. 1. .. .House & Seevers And Then he Woke up. 2 Johnson Appearances Were Against Her. 6 Stromberg Bold Pierre. 5 Smith & Englander Cod Fish Ball. 1 J. & H. Dillon Come Play With me. 5 Hawtrey & Plumpton Down to Coney Isle. 1 Gilmore & Leonard Finigan's Fancy Ball. 3 Gilmore & Leonard Games we Used to Play. 6 Marks & Stern Handicap Vocal. 6 D. Reed, jr. Honeymoon Vocal. 6 D. Reed, jr. Hugh McCue. 2 Cohan I am so Different From the Rest. 4. .. .H. W. Petrie I'll Tell my Big Brother on You. 1 Edgar Selden If I Were Really a King. 5 Smith & Englander Johnnie Took the one I Wanted. 1 J. & H. Dillon Isabelle (a Girl who is one of the Bovs). 1 Ford & Bratton Mary Black From Hackensack. 2.. ..Lew l>o -k^'mler Moonlight on the River. 1 Golden ft Dolen Oriental Echoes Vocal. 6 Reed Oh! Aunt Jane. 4 Petrie Oothcey Koochey. 5 Goodwin & Morse Parlor Sofa Politics. 6 McLaughlin Pebbles on the Beach. 6 Starr & Mann Rootie Tootie. 2 Golden Singing in a Trolley Car. 1 Fuchsius The Real Thing, March Song. 4 Petrie The Day the Farmer Came to See the Town. 4 Keen That's What— By Gosh. 4 Parker There are Things That Cannot be Explained. 1 Horwitz & Bowers When it's a Boy. 4 Goodwin & Morse You're all Right, But You Won't Do. 3 Goodwin & Morse Coon Songs. Ain't I Your Honeyboy no More? 3 Davis Black Four Hundred Ball. 3 Johnson & Cole Dere's a Bully Gone to Rest. 3. .Dryden & Mitchell De Bully's Weddin' Night. 7. .Carleton & Cavanagh Dead Swell Colored Lady. 3 Burke Dancing With the Girl You Love. 2. . . .Schackford Eighth Battalion on Parade. 1.. Williams ft Hogan I'm Lonely Since my Baby's Gone. 4. . . .Emmersou I'se Your Nigger if You Wants me, Liza Jane. 3 Dresser Looking for a Bully. 6 Howard Louiser. 1 Francis My Gal is a High Born Lady. 1 Fagan Raccoon and the Bee. 1 Abeles That'll be all Right, Baby. 2 Cook When Miss Maria Johnson Marries me. 2 Williams ft Walker Yer Baby's a Comin' to Town. 1 Kelly *♦<•>♦<•>♦ fUMscellaneous. All Over Town Booze, Glorious Booze. 2 Deane Boys, She's a Dream Dillon & Levi By a Brook Sat a Lady. 6 D. Reed, jr. Caprice, a great character song. 6 Marks I'm Saving up to Buy a Home for Mother. 2 Cohan Like a Good Little Girl Should do. .Ford ft Bratton Modern Century Girl. 6 Packford Old Jim's Christmas Hymn. 2 Gray Send me a Picture of the Old Home. 1 Arnold Would You Ask. 5 Smith When the Light is Turned Away Down Low. 2 Spauldlng NOTE.— The publishers are designated as follows : 1. Whitmark & Sons: 2. Spaulding & Gray ; 3. Howley, Haviliuid ft Co. ; 4. Petrie Music Company: 5. T. B. Harms & Company: 8. Jos. W, Stern A Company; 7. Carelton & CavanaUffh. We have received lists of numerous other new songs, too late for classification in this issue. 8° a IS T-r^OR THE VERY LATEST i ts METROPOLITAN SUCCESSES — SONGS!! Write to = Spalding & Gray, | 16 West 27th Street, 9 NEW YORK. IAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Vol. I. No. i. THE PHONOSCOPE. Exhibitors' ©irector? Plants anb for Sale $ Adams, H. S., McConnelsville, Ohio. Bailey, C. F., Louisville, Ky. (5th Ave. Hotel) Bobbitt, C, Leon, Iowa. Clark, Forrest H., La Fayette, Ind. Coller, J. B., Macon, Mich Ehlers, Ferdinand C, Dunkirk, N. Y. Freemyer, G. W., Portland, Ind. Gladden, M. C, Lowell, Mass. Greenacre, George, Bangor, Maine, Honoeywell, N. A., Big Rapids, Mich. Kaiser, John, 97 Reade St., New York. Concerts, Fairs and Parlor Entertainments. Lalime, A. G., Worcester, Mass. Leonard, Thos. H., Fresno, Cal. Manhattan Phono. Co., 202 Broadway, New York. Sears, L. W,/ Ashland Block, Chicago, 111. Shapiro, M., College Point, L. I., N. Y. Thayer, Frank, Special "Want" and "For Sale" advertisements will be inserted in this column at the uniform rate of three cents a word, each insertion. Answers can be sent in charge of " The Phonoscope " if desired. All letters received will be promptly forwarded to parties for whom intended, without extra charge. FOR SALE.— A new Pierce Spring Motor, nickel plated, cost $G0, to sell for $15. Ad- dress, M., care of Phonoscope, 822 Broadway, N. Y. FOR SALE.— Phonograph outfit: One Phono- graph, 50 cylinders, cabinet, horn, batteries, etc., all complete, as good as new— $115. Ad- dress Charles Lawrence, care of Phonnoscope, 822 Broadway, N. Y. FOR SALE.— Collection of 100 records, bands, orchestras, vocal solos, by Gaskin, Myers, Hunting, Quinn, Spencer, Leachman, etc. Cornet solos, Piccolo solos, Quartettes, Xylo- phones, Chimes, Whistling, etc., all in first- class condition. Price, $45. Address, M. L. H., care of Phonoscope, 822 Broadway, N. Y. FOR SALE.— Three- slot cabinets complete (2 New England and 1 Kansas device), price, $20 for the three. Address, Box 112, Sta. A., Boston, Mass. FOR SALE.— One Automatic Speaker, $3; one Standard Speaker (new), $5, regular price, $9. Address, Cash, care of Phonoscope, 822 Broadway, N. Y. City. FOR SALE.— Six new Edison Home Phono- graphs. Price, $33.50 each. Address, James M. Davis, 1874 Third avenue, New York. FOR SALE.— Six Edison Kinetophones, prac- tically as good as new, for $100 each. They cost $300 each. Also 2 Kinetoscopes at $67.50 each. In splendid condition. Will divide the lot if desired. Address, K., care of "The Phonoscope," 822 Broadway, New York. Waterloo, Iowa. Toney, A. T., Spokane, Wash. Wardell, Thos., SPECIALS j as OEDISON \ oe AUTOMATIC* '. The Chill v Widow. Gaskin W. & L. The Chilly Widow. Quinn Ch. The Summer Girl of Brighton Beach. Myers M. They All Love Maggie Grady. Mvers M. The Forgotten Word; or, What D'ye Call it?. Quinn. Ch. That's What I want "Santie" to Bring. Quinn. .Ch. The Handicap March. Quinn Ch. The Hole in the Wall. Quinn Ch. The Amorous Gold Fish. Quinn Ch. The Interfering Parrot. Quinn Ch. The Pride of Shanty Town. Quinn Ch. The Dear Little Japnv. Jap— Jappv. Quinn Ch. 'Twas a Sad Trln Coming Back. Gaskin.. .W. & L. The Men Who Came Over From Ireland. Gaskin. W. & L. There'll Come a Time. Gaskin W. & L. Un Primo Bacio: Romanza Be. Very Sorry to Hear It. Huntinsr H. Vedo U'nombre. (In Spanish.) Stoppa U. S. Whistling Coon (In French.) Stoooa U. S. When he Girl You Love is Many Miles Awav Gas- kin W. & L. When We Go to Church as Lovers and Come Back as Man and Wife. Myers M. When It's a Boy. Myers M. Whisper Y'our Mother's Name. Myers M. Whisper Y'our Mother's Name. Quinn Ch. Where Am I At? Quinn Ch. Y'ou Don't Have to Marrv the Girl. Hunting.. ..Col You've Been a Gold Old Wagon. Quinn Ch. You've Been a Good Old Wagon. Myers M. Y'ou're Not the Only Pebble On the Beach. Quinn. Ch. Y'ou're So Good. Daddy. Myers M. Y'er Baby's Comln' to Town. Myers M. You'll Be Sorry When I'm Gone." Myers M. Zanzibar. (From El Capitan.) Spencer Col. ©rcbestra. +®+®+®+ Tltle. Talent. Sold by. Casey, as an Auctioneer. Hunting H. C isey's Wnod"ii Wedding Hunting H. Hiram's Visit to New York. Hunting H. Hiram's Girl, Hanr.ah. Hunting H. Hiram on Superstition. Hunting H. Old Jed Prouty Crossing the Track. Bangs Oh. P. T. Itanium's Side Show Shouter. Bangs Oh. Bock Me to Sleep. Cunningham Oh. Socery Setting a Hen. Bangs Oh. The Funny Story. Bangs Oh. The Champion Snorer. Bangs Oh. The Smack in School. Bangs Oh. The l ace on tne liar Itoom Floor. Cunningham. .Oh. The Face on the Bar Room Floor. Hunting H. The Cock Fight. Bcckenbaugh Col. The Irish ami the Germans. J. W. Kellv. ,W. & L. The A. P. A. Story. J. W. Kelly W. & L. The Tlnsv Irishman. J. W. Kellv W ft L. The Rolllnp Mill Story. J. W. Kelly W. & L. Title. Played by. Sold by. Black America March. Issler's Col. Cake Walk Patrol. Bonnell's Ch. Chicago Athletic Club March. Bonnell's Ch. Darkie Tickle. Issler's Col. Geisha Selections. Issler's U. S. & Col. I'll Follow Thee. (Piccolo Solo.) Issler's.U. S. & Col. Major McKinley March. Issler's U. S. & Col. Napoleon March. Bonnell's Ch. Oh! Uncle John March. Bonnell's Oh. Passicalle Intermezzo. Bonnell's Ch. Symposia Waltz. Bonnell's Ch. Zenda Waltzes. Bonnell's Ch. Zephyr Dance. Bonnell's Ch. The Xightingale and the Frog. Issler's Col. Banb. Title. Played by. Sold by. Blending of the Blue and Grey. U. S. Marine. . .Col. Circus Galop. Sousa's 7 Col. Darkville Dance. Voss's U. S. Medley of Southern Airs. Voss's U. S. Off to Camp. Voss's U. S. El Capitan. Sousa's.. Col. Pilgrim's Chorus. Gilmore's Col. Rastus on Parade. U. S. Marine Col. The Broadway Two-Step. Washington M. Cone. Col. The Handicap March. U. S. Marine Col. Yale Two-Step. Washington M. Cone Col. IFnstrumental, (soio. Played by Sold by Title. CORXET. Arbucklenian Polka Re. Alice. Where Art Thou. Levy Col. Du, Du. (German Song.) Levy Col. Levy Concert Polka Be. Lizzie Polka : Be. Don't Be Cross. U. S. Marine Band Col. The Palms. U. S. Marine Band Col. Lizzie Polka Be. FLUTE. Gounod's Serenade. .Be. ZITHER. Dream Waltz Be. Selection From Faust Be. Stephanie Gavotte Be. XYLOPHONE. Bohemian Girl Be. Du, Du, Medley. Chas. P. Lowe Col. Carnival of Venice Be. Plantation Medley Be. Pretty Dark Blue Eyes Be. BAXJO. Medley Be. Chinese Picnic Be. OLARIOXET. LuIIabv From Ermlnle. Andrea Coda Col. Note— The following abbreviations designate the firms and Individuals who sell the records listed above: Ch., Chicago Talking Machine Co.; Col., Co- lumbia Phonograph Co.; W. & L., Walcutt & Leeds; U. SM United States Phonograph Co.; M., J. W. Myers; Be., G. BetUnl; H., Russell Huutlng. Vol. I. No. i. THE PHONOSCOPE. 19 prank £)# ^hayer, WATERLOO, IOWA. The FINEST EXHIBITION OUTFITS in the UNITED STATES The Edigon Cji^nd Goncertfc phonography One Thousand Records, and Five Hachines with operators that understand how to run them. The Manhattan 202 Broadway, NEW YORK. Phonograph Co. THOMAS H. LEONARD, fresno, cai. TALKING MACHINES, RECORDS AND SUPPLIES. The Celebrated "CASEY" Records. Lieutenant Bettini's (TWtcro; RECORDER AND REPRODUCER A TRUE MIRRO=l Of SuUNDS. Edison's Phonograph. THE IMPROVED MODEL. Gives the most faithful reproduction in a loud, clear and natural tone. Is distinctly audible in the Largest Hall or Theatre. The only Machine that can successfully record and reproduce the Female Voice. Also on hand : Phonograph, Graphophone and every kind of Musical and other Records, includine iliuse of many of the most world-famed artists. HO Fifth Avenue, New York City. Phonograph Laboratory, Please mention THE PHONOSCOPE. Empire State^ (EDISON) ^Phonograph Co., 4 East 14th Street, New York. 2 PHONOGRAPH SUPPLIES, RECORDS, DEALERS IN BATTERIES (Primary and Storage), KINETOSCOPES, f VITASCOPES, Etc., the; ejx>isoi« spring motor. All kinds of Phonograph repairs. We are the sole dealers in the handsomest nickel-in-the-slot cabinets, and the most reliable return mechanism in the world. This mechanism has made the nickel-in-the-slot business practical. The Globe .... Phonograph Record Co. Manufacturers of —=3^ J^[usical Phonograph Records. J. W. MYERS, Manager. I would like to call attention to the fact that I am making my own records, and can guarantee each one first-class in every respect, loud, and each word distinct, and also without that disagreeable noise found in duplicate records. My records are of the highest grade only, un- equaled for brilliancy, loudness and general excellence. My repertoire is larger than that of any other American singer. I have been with the best theatrical companies ever seen in this coun- try, and my reputation as a singer is well known. I have also made phonograph singing a special study, and am now ready to furnish the best records of all the latest and most popular, descriptive, sentimental, sacred and comic songs. There is no advertising announcement on any of my records — merely the name of the song— but I will make records with a special an- nouncement, if so desired. All orders will be executed within twenty- four hours of receipt. 1 'rioes <>* all W 1» co i-< 1 -4 are $1.00 each or $10.00 per dozen; special inducements made to purchasers buying in lots of fifty or more. Terms invariably cash, or customers can remit with money order, bank draft, express order or registered mall, and save return express charges. C. O. D. orders from remote points must be accom- panied by sufficient deposit to defray express charges both ways, in case goods cannot be delivered. I will not be responsible for damage caused in transportation. No records sent out on approval— the fragile nature of the cylinders pre- cludes this. Catalogue of songs sent to any address gratis. FILMS! FILMS!! FILMS!!! Films for Projection, Films for Kinetoscopes. ST™™™ ^ Films for All. the: acme of perfection. dND LENQTM5. No Flicker or Jumping. As Steady as a Stationary Picture. SEND FOR SAMPLES. SEND FOR OUR NEW LIST. SPECIAL PRICES ON LARGE ORDERS. SPECIAL SUBJECTS TO ORDER ON SHORT NOTICE. t^1 tj^* THE INTERNATIONAL FILM CO., ISO «& 152 Worth Street, NEW YORK!, IT. FRIENDS IN THE PHONO- GRAPH BUSINESS THAT I AM AT LIBERTY TO SING FOR ANY COMPANY DESIR- ING MY SERVICES, "WITH- OUT RESTRICTION BY ANY PARTICULAR ONE. Jt jt jt J- j> THE THOUSANDS OF CYLINDERS THAT I HAVE MADE SPEAK FOR THEM- SELVES AS TO MY ABILITY. I ALSO wish to state that I have not surig solos for the Columbia Co. since '95. The only companies handling my- 'original Records at the present time are Walcutt & Leeds, The Chicago Talking Machine Co., the United States Phonograph Co., and the Gramophone Co. & J- George J. Gaskin, ^838 East 170th St, New York. I shall keep my patrons advised through j1^ Grade Records of Every Description. Gramophones, Kinetopliones, The Edison Home Phonograph, The Edison Standard Phonograph, The Edison Spring Motor Phonograph, The Standard (iraphophone, The Spring Hotor Slot Graphophone, The "Columbia" Graphophone, The "Bijou'" Graphophone. Kinetoscopes, Vitascopes, Phantoscopes, . ' Etc. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. PRICES CHEERFULLY QUOTED. Reference: WM. F. McCLENNAN, Chief. Div. of Ranks. I". S. Treasury, Washington, D. C. 3 1^^^*J Monthly Journal Devoted W*3*^. ^^CIEHTIFIC^MUSEMENT lf1VEli|0lT§x 52- APPERTAINING TO Sov/nd & Sight. (f IM. I. 1R0. 2. IRew HJorfe, December 15, 1896. principal features of tbis flumber. tzfc A PHONOGRAPH STUDIO. Where Voices of Noted Artists are stored. EDISON'S AUTO-TELEGRAPH. An instrument to repro- duce Sketches 1,000 Miles Away. TALKING MACHINES. The New Multiplex Phonograph. The Commercial Graphophone. The Metaphone. Phono- graphic Clocks. AUTOMATIC SLOT MACHINES. Description of the most Elaborate Slot Machine Ever Made. The Automatic News- boy. The Coin-in-the-slot Bicycle. 'GRAPHS. 'PHONES AND 'SCOPES. The Stethophone. The Cycle-Telegraph. THE X-RAYS. Its Successful Practical Uses. An X-Ray Machine with no X-Ray. BATTERIES. The "S and S" Battery. An Orange Battery. HORNS. For recording and reproducing. PICTURE PROJECTING DEVICES. The Vitascope, Phanta- scope, Cinematographe, Biograph, Projectoscope, Magni- scope. Cinagraphoscope, Animotoseope, Kineniatograph. Eidoloscope, Viveoscope, Veriscope and Cinemetroscope. FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE. Letters from Cuba, Eng- land and Germany. NEW RECORDS FOR TALKING MACHINE. New Records Manufactured by the Leading Companies. THE LATEST POPULAR SONGS. List of the liitest Metro- politan successes. NEW FILMS FOR PROJECTING DEVICES. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Trade Notes. Answers to Corre- spondents. Exhibitors' Directory; General News Relating to Inventions Appertaining to Sound and Light. PVBLISHED BY \ ^THE PHONOSCOPE PVB. /*EWYORK,VS.A 2 THE PHONOSCOPE. December, 1896. Are You Interested In Musical Records? WHAT WE DO. WE GUARANTEE ABSOLUTE SATISFACTION. We handle High-Class Original Records only. We Personally Test all Records sold by us. We Guarantee all Records we handle. We Refund Money if Records are Not Satisfactory. We Advise our Customers of the Newest, Latest and Best Records. We Strive to Please Our Patrons in every way. We Ship Goods Promptly C. O. D. to all Parts of the World. Send us your name and permanent address and we will mail you our handsome Illustrated Catalogues. The following is a partial list of the records we have in stock — all of which are loud, clear, free from blasts and are GUARANTEED. Price $1.00 each. YOU TAKE NO RISKS WHEN YOU ORDER FROM US. SELECTIONS BY ISSLER'S ORCHESTRA. "Titl's Serenade'"— l'iccolo and Cornet Duet by Schweinfest & Dana. "Nightingale and Frogs" — Piccolo Solo " «TU Follow Thee"— Piccolo Solo " " " "Laughing Polka" — Very Humorous. "Night Alarm"— Fire Bells; Horses' Hoofs; Firemen's Gong, etc. "El Miserere" (from II Trovatore) — Cornet Solo by Dana. "La Paloma" — Spanish Air with Castanets. "Santiago Waltz" — Spanish Air with Castanets. "Till We Meet Again"— Beautiful Waltz. "King Cotton March"— by Sousa. "El Capitan March" — from John Philip Sousa's latest opera. "Birds of Spring Yorke." - "Dancing on the House-tops" — Song and Dance with Clogs. "Virginia Skedaddle" — Negro Shouts, Clogs, etc. "Wing Dance"— Negro Shout with Clogs, Cock-crow and chicken-cackle. "El Capitan Lanciers"— with figures called. "Selections from Geisha" — from new Japanese Musical Comedy. "Happy Days in Dixie" — new and pleasing by author of "Rastus." SONGS BY MR. LEN SPENCER. "I Thought I Was a Winner" — latest negro hit. "Martha Jane Green" — Negro Wench Song with Dance. "Alabama Coon" (always popular) — Baby cry and clog effect. "Put Me Off at Buffalo." "New Bully"— One of Spencer's best. "Mrs. 'Enery 'Awkins" — Chevalier's success. "Oh, Mr. Johnson"— A Bag Time Melody; Immensely Popular. SONGS BY J. \V. MYERS. "Sweet Rosie O'Grady." "Laugh and the World Laughs With You." "Everybody Has Their Day." "She Might Flirt With Others." "Sweetest Story Ever Told." SONGS BY GASKIN. "You're So Good, Daddy"— Sure to be Popular. "Sweet Rosie O'Grady"— All the Rage. "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me"— Paul Dresser's Great Success. "I Told Them That I Saw You." "She May Have Seen Better Days." "Drill, Ye Terriers. Drill"— (with drill effect, shouts, etc.). BAND SELECTIONS BY SOUSA. "Off To Camp" — Drum Solo and Bugle Call (new and catchy). "Manhattan Beach March." "Handicap March." GILMORE'S BAND. "Hapsburg March." Grand March "Tannhauser." Sextett from "Lucia." "William Tell" Overture. "Semiramide" Overture. "Poet and Peasant" Overture. "Zampa" Overture. VOSS'S FIRST REGIMENT BAND. "Jolly Coppersmith" — with Anvil and vocal chorus. "Forge in the Forest" — with Cock-crow and Anvil. "American Cadets' March." "Spanish Fandango"— with castanets. "Darkies' Dream" — with Clogs and Shouts. . INSTRUMENTAL SOLOS. "Patrol Comique" — Piccolo Solo. "Bobolink Schottische"— Piccolo Solo. "Irish Reel"— Piccolo Solo. "Medley Jig" — Piccolo Solo. "Fire-Fly Galop" — Xylophone Solo. "Mockiug-Bird" — with variations— Xylophone. "Home, Sweet Home" — with variations — Xylophone. TALKING RECORDS. Reading of the 23d Psalm and the Lord's Prayer.— Very Loud and Distinct. (A splendid record for church work). Hon. W. J. Bryan's Crown of Thorns and Cross of Gold Speech.— The peroration of the famous address that won him the Presidential nomination at Chicago. Very loud and distinct. Applause. No announcement. Major McKinley's Speech on the Threat to Debase the National Cur- rency. As delivered by the distinguished Republican nominee at Canton. July 11th. Very loud and. distinct. Applause. No announcement. A TRIAL ORDER IS SOLICITED, TERMS. C. O. D. American Talking Machine Company, HENRY a SPENCE*aBer. Hartford Buiwinn. cor< Broadway & 1 7th St., New York. THE PHONOSCOPE. 3 WE CIVE THESE MOINES AWAY For Full Particulars *g Write to Us, The Phonoscope Publishing Co., 822 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, U. S. A. 4 THE PHONOSCOPE. December, 1896. Dan W. 0uinn, Up=to=Date Phonograph Vocalist. SPECIALTY.— DISTINCT AND CLEAR ARTICULATION. Jeleetions from all of tl?e latest eomiG opera and musical comedy sueeesse$. ^aue made ouer 15,000 re- cords for tf?e QtyKa^o Jall^i^ /T\ael?ir^ ^ompar>y, u/itr/ii} five moDt.75. /T\ade ouer 5,000 records for tr;^ Columbia Qd. flluyays abr^t of tl?e times. unlimited repertoire of tl?e best eomie 5000,5. I /T\ade ou<^r 300 records for tl^ U. 5- Pfyooo^rapr; CXKX>C<>CHXX>C. for sale, Box 112, Sta. A., Boston, Mass., a re- liable party so far as you know. [We are in receipt of the above communica- tion. Although you do not use and ? marks in your letter, it is very apparent that you intend to convoy the idea to us that you wisli to ask a few questions, which we cheerfully answer as far as lies in our power. 1. — Kinetographs, Kinetoseopes, Kineto- phones. X-ray Devices, Automatic Picture Machines, Cosmoramos, Toy Kinetoseopes, Metaphones, Graphophones, Gramophones, a Visual Telegraph signal in the win- dow. Automatic Optical Illusions, etc. 2.— Yes. 3.— Write and ask Mr. Bettini. 4.— No. 5.— Yes. 6.— $150. 7.— The Multiplex Phonograph Co. 8.— Read article on horns. this issue. 9.— We have ordered sketch. 10.— Do not quite understand.] T. D.— [We do not know of any Phonograph of Graphophone that sells for $10. Your friend probably had reference to the Gramophone. M., Bangor, Me— [The Phonograph, by all means.] B.— [The only thing for you to do is to get a primary battery and charge it yourself. See our article on batteries— this issue.] W. M., Atlanta, Ga.— [Mr. Edison is the in- ventor of the Yitaseope. The scientific world in general concedes this to him, and we cannot find any proof to the contrary.] J. H. G— [The manner of hearing the Graph- ophone must be determined by the taste of the people to whom it is to be shown. It is a ques- tion as to the '"best way." To obtain the best results, as far as tone goes, the tubes give the most natural and clearest reproduction.] Mrs. P. — [The Edison Spring Motor is an ab solute success. The body on your machine can be attached to it by simply using the two body-holding screws which are already on your phonograph.] St. Louis X-Ray Co.— [Write to the Interna tional Film Co.. 150 Worth street. New York.] ••Inquiry," St. Louis.— [No. No company or individual can supply you with good origin;! 1 records at thirty-five cents. They might give you a few at that price, but cannot do so legiti- mately.] G. Paris.— [To obtain a good vocal record, ele- vate your machne so it is about five feet from the floor. Attach horn, and elevate it so the bell will be directly opposite singer's face. Have artist stand about eighteen inches from horn, and sing in natural tone without forcing his voice. Place piano directly behind singer. Do not use forte pedal when playing. The most important thing is to have a good diaphragm. If your recording stylus is dull, or your dia- phragm glass too sensitive, you cannot get a good result] Geo. P. — [The various companies in the Unit- ed States all keep a large stock of records. No company has the best. They all have good and bad records. Some make a specialty of some particular class of records to which they give their special attention, but no company has the best. They may have some of the best, but not all. Advise us what class of records you wish, and we may be able to help you out.] A. E.— [We do not know where the "French" glasses come from. We do know, however, that that three dealers in Paris, France, buy their diaphragm glasses here. We think that most of the "French" glasses are manufactured in or around Rochester, N. Y., U. S. A.] J. C. C— [We have never seen the Megaphon- ograph. and cannot find any one who has. We have seen and heard several phonographos- copetcons, but not the Megaphonograph.] H. W. G.— [You cannot record on the Meta- phone. We can supply you with one. Price, $0.] The suit brought by Reed & McFarland to obtain judgment on a note for $1,900 given by W. F. Zoller and others was decided in favor of the latter by Judge Lamson. in the Com- mon Pleas Court at Cleveland. O.. lately. The note was given to secure Reed & McFarland in the payment of a number of nickel-in-the-slot machines which they sold to Zoller. It was decided that the machines were gambling de- vices and contracts relating to them were in- valid. Prof. McKendrick, of Glascow. Scotland, has been making experiments with the phonograph as a medium for transmitting sound vibrations to the deaf, and magnifying same so that ryth- mic vibrations may be audiable to them. Prof. McKendrick has obtained some very wonder- ful results by transmitting sound vibrations to a basin of salt water, which so magnifies them, that a deaf person placing his or her hands in the water, can recognize and partially hear the selection that is being transmitted. [We have made arrangements to have one of our representatives call on Prof. McKen- drick and promise our readers a full account of these experiments in the near future.— Ed. | Vol. I. No. i. THE PHONOSCOPE. it ©ur Correspondents Portland, Ore.— AVe hare received the Novem- ber Phonoscope, have read its articles and its letters from the different parts of the country, and have been both pleased and edified. This number is certainly very interesting and must be of great value to all parties operating instru ments pertaining to sound and sight. Especial- ly will it be of great value to the phonograph operator. He who reads its columns monthly will be posted in all things pertaining to his business, that is, he will be "up to date," as it were. A few words in regard to business here in Oregon may not be out of place. The writer has been located in this city for 639 days, and so should be able to speak from knowledge. In the year 1895, business was all one could ex- pect, and while it has not been nearly as good this year, yet we find no fault, and have no complaints to make. Of course the phonograph is in the nature of a luxury and everything in that class has suffered during the past year. However, we pin our faith to the Phonograph and certainly think it has come to stay. If the business has not been as good in this city dur- ing the past year as formerly it is because the pay roll has not been as large. Whenever and wherever there is a good pay roll, then and there will the Phonograph thrive. It is a fact that many people think it a toy. and I must confess that I have heard some machines oper- ated that were hardly good toys, but the fact still remains that the Phonograph in good or- der, with first-class records, operated by one who understands his business, is the very ruai-- vel in machines. \X stands in this the last de- cade of the nineteenth century, the most won- derful discovery ever made by man. The most wonderful form that man has ever seen is man himself, the most wonderful machine is the Phonograph. In fact, the Phonograph is al- most a human being. I have in my case a cyl- inder. "Hocked in the Cradle of the Deep." I have repeatedly challenged any man in Oregon to sing this song, as well as my instrument sings it. I have another record, "Hot Corn Medley," by the Unique Quartette. I make the same challenge to any quartette in this State. The Phonograph is the marvel of all machines. The rhonograph is almost hu- man. * * * * * Let us have the best instruments. Keep them in perfect order. Buy nothing but the best records and reproduce them as they should be: and we will improve the business and make the people hear us, whether they wish to or not. MONROE. Vitascope Hall, Buffalo. N. Y. Vitascope Hall, the new auditorium, has been iitted up at large expense as a suitable place, for the proper display of the marvelous possi- bilities of Edison's latest wonder-worker, the perfected vitascope. It has been tastily decorated in whte and gold, Avith an inclined floor carpeted in Wilton velvet, nine rows of luxurious orchestra chairs arranged in sets of four on either side of the central aisle, a handsome stage with an elabor- ate proscenium arch, rich maroon plush nang- ings, incandescent lights, perfect ventilation and all the other' accessories of a delightful place of entertainment. On the snowy screen adjusted just back of the proscenium arch, so as to carry out per- fectly the illusion of a stage setting, the streets of New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow and Hong Kong will be shown animate with life, the famous dancers of the world will in- dulge in Tersichorean revels, noted pugilists will fight fiercely, volcanoes will pour forth their smoke, fire and lava, conflagrations with exciting scenes of rescue, huge ocean waves dashing themselves into foam on rocky shores, dead men will return to life and history repeat itself. In the vestibule, a palace of pleasure in itself. 2S Edison phonographs— the latest and best singing instruments made — have been placed for the diversion and instruction of everybody, as well as a number of kinetoscopes. The New York State Vitascope Company, of which the irrepressible M. H. Marks is general manager, is sponsor to this new enterprise, and this in itself is ample guarantee of a constant flow of entertainig as well as instructive novel- ties to convert every occasional visitor into a regular patron. WILLIAMS. Waterloo, Iowa.— -The paper reached me yes- terday and I am well pleased with it, and it should be in the hands of every one interested in the business. It should prove a valuable ad- vertising medium for the different companies. If I had anything to sell I would certainly have a space all of the time. I am getting dis- gusted with all the different people that are advertising phonographs for sale (and phono- graph supplies), and am going to change my letter-heading and have nothing for sale. What I want is good records and plenty of them. I see that Walcutt & Leeds are advertising their records for 50 cents each. Are they "dubbing" with the rest of them? I am short of bands, quartettes and solos and do you know of any place where I can get them; that is, good mas- ters'? I am getting fine records from Myers, but the last Gaskin records that I got were too loud and blasty. I lind that Quinn records va- ry, some of them are good and clear and oth- ers blasty. 1 do not think that it is on account of the singer, but the way the records are taken. Hoping the paper will prove a decided success, I remain, yours sincerely, THAYER. San Antonio. Tex.— Business in the South in the phonograph and kinetoscope line is very quiet at present. "Casey's" new songs and rec- itations are making the most money for me. I am taking some very fine records of Mexican songs and music. Why does not some one in- vent a mailing case for single records? All permanent parlors desire them. WINNIE. Bangor, Me.— Business through Maine has bee very good the past month for exhibtors. The Phonoscope received with pleasure in this section, and it is hoped it will be well suppori ed by those interested in scientific and amuse- exhibiting sound and sight inventions to the ment inventions, as well as those also who are exhibiting sound and sight inventions to the public. The spring machines are almost en- tirely taking the place of electrical phones, and the cheaper grades are making rapid progress in filling the long looked for home entertainer at a moderate cost. GREEN ACRE. ©ur jforeigii = = = = Cocresponbence The Editor of the Phonoscope. New York City. Dear Sir: On my return from Cuba I found your kind letter accompanied by a copy of the first issue of your journal. I am more than pleased with the get-up and substance of your publication, the want of which has long been acutely felt in the circles in Phonographs and Stereopticons. It will give me great pleasure to co-operate with you, and I feel sure that an account of my recent trip to Cuba will have the attention of your readers. For the past six years, you know, 1 have made annual business tours in Cuba and the otherlarger islands of the group generally known as the Antilles of the AVest Indies, and for that reason I can claim some knowledge of Cuba and the Cubans, especially as I speak their language. Spanish, like one of them. Cuba is a long, narrow island, extending some SOU miles from east to west, with its center due south of the lowest point of Florida, at a dis- tance of about 100 miles. Its width varies, be- ing narrowest between Havana and Batabano, and widest in the eastern parts. Nature has divided Cuba into three almost equal parts, the eastern rugged, mountainous, anil wild, inhab- ited by a hardy set of people devoting them- selves to agricultural and mining pursuits, with St. Jago de Cuba as capital; the central, gen- erally known as the Camaguey, with Puerto Principe as capital, consists mainly of an im- mense plain, lined by hills and peopled by a most hospitable and honest race, who make an easy living chiefly by raising cattle; and lastly the western part, of which Havana is the cap- ital, rich in sugar and tobacco. At the outbreak of the present war the cen- sus showed a population of 1,800,000, of which only about 600,000 were pure whites. It can, therefore, be no matter for surprise that the Cuban army of liberation consists of colored people. Antonio Maceo, the famous guerilla chief, belonging to that race. Of the aboriginal Indians of whom Columbus found about 3,000,- 000, only faint traces are left, one of the lead- ers in the present war, Rabi, claiming descent from them. The white Cubans are mainly descendants of Spaniards, whose characteristics they have pre- served in a remarkable degree. They are fight- ing hard to-day to break the bonds in which Spain has kept them for nearly 300 years, and there is every indication that they will event- ually succeed in shaking off the hateful yoke of the Spaniard. In Havana itself, the only thing to indicate the fact of war existing in the island is the greater suspicion displayed towards strangers, a certain constrained air of the people you meet with in society, and an almost complete paraly- sis of business. Otherwise life goes on in the capital of Cuba as before, and the horrors so vividly pictured in certain sensational news- papers as of daily occurrence may be true, but nobody, in Havana at least, seems to Know any- thing about them. It is very different in Purto Principe, where I spent three weeks last October, and where I had many opportunities of observing the tac- tics both of the Spanish soldiers and the Cuban insurgents. The latter are nearly all agile, ac- tive young men, who being born and bred in the country know every inch of it and are per- fectly inured to all its climatic dangers and hardships. Mounted on hardy native ponies they are here to-day and fifty miles away to- morrow, finding a friend and shelter in every hut. They are well-armed, mainly with Colt's and the deadly machete. A more daring set of men it would be hard to find in any part of the globe; their sole object seems to be to tire out the raw recruits Spain has sent out to suppress them, and to leave to nature the task of ex- terminating them. And there can be no doubt that here Dame Nature is again the great ally of the strug- gles for liberty, for so far ten Spaniards have fallen victims to the deadly fevers prevalent in the island to one killed in battle. These fevers scarcely ever attack the natives, but it is only by the greatest precautions that foreign- ers manage to escape them, precautions which it is impossible to expect or exact from ignor- ant recruits. They will persist in eating and drinking inordinately and the combination proves more effective than exposure to the rapid fire of machine guns. Fighting in a strange and hostile land, the unfortunate Spanish soldiers cannot expect ei- ther help or shelter; traps and snares surround them, and the consequence is. that they only venture out in large bodies and that their, move- ments are invariably lame and slow. In the island of Cuba there are to-day about 150,000 Spanish with but 30,000 Cubans'to face them, yet the end is not a doubtful one; it is only a question of time. It is surely an indication of the complete helplessness of the Spanish forces, that Puerto Principe, although but 60 miles distant from its seaport, Nuevitas. and connected with it by a good railroad, is absolutely isolated, wen- ever the Cuban leaders have a mind to order ir so At will the telegraph lines are cut down, the railroad trains blown up. even the milk carriers are stopped from entering the city. Of the nine locomotives which the railroad company originally possessed only two are left. The others have been sent heavenwords by dynamite cartridges deftly placed on the rails by some reckless Cuban patriot. The devotion of the Cubans to the cause of liberty is unlim- ited; all they have they give "por la patria." The headquarters of the provisional govern- ment are in the Cubitas Mountains, not far from Puerto Principe.. From here the island is administrated without any regard being had to the Spaniards, who control only the towns. From here taxes are collected and mail for- warded just as easily as if the last Spaniard had already fled the island. Before the war Cuba was a very remunera- tive field for phonograph and stereopticon ex- hibitors, which will be open again when the sun of liberty shall rise over this fairest portion of the new world. Respectfully yours, J. H. B. 12 THE PHONOSCOPE. December, 1896. "picture projectincT Devices. The Vitascope and Phantascope. The above is an illustration of the Edison Vitascope, which is similar in detail and con- struction to the Phantascope, invented by Mr. ("has. Jenkins, who has originated new ideas coneerning the details of projection and of the mode of taking the original pictures. II is device for taking the views is shown in Tig. 5, exterior, Fig. G. On a shaft is fixed a disk supporting four lenses, and geared to the shaft is a smaller shaft, arranged vertically, en- gaging a bevel gear on the axis of the film- winding reel. As the shaft is revolved by the handle outside, the lenses are brought respect- ively behind the opening in the front of the box and transmit the momentary image, as they pass the opening, t<> the moving sensitive film going in the same direction as the moving lens and at the same speed, the exposed film at the same time being wound up on the top reel. Willi the Mine apparatus the positive pictures ou a roll of film may be reeled off from one spool to the other, being projected by the elec- tric light in the rear, and illuminated by the rotating condensers, one for each lens, to the eye looking through the lens aperture or upon a small screen, reproducing in sequence the mo- tions as originally taken. By this method the use of slitted rotating disk shutters is avoided; there is greater illumination, more detail in the pictures and they may be made somewhat larger, which greatly assists in their better re production on the screen. The pictures are made at the rate of twenty- five to a second, about three-quarters of an inch in diameter and one-quarter of an inch apart, on a continuous sensitized celluloid strip about one and a half inches wide, having perfora- tions In its edges in which the sprocket wheels of the projecting device engage. Fig. 1 shows the complete projecting appar- atus for the Vitascope, having in the rear :i compact Colt electric arc lamp, in front of that a condenser, next in advance of that the ribbon picture film traveling from the upper to the lower reel, and finally the lens for projecting the Illuminated image on the screen. On the rear, between the condenser and film, is ol>- served the electric motor for operating the feed mechanism. Fig. 2 is another view of the Vita- scope complete showing the resistance coil used to modify the strength of the current, running lengthwise between the two ends of the stand, switches, etc., for regulating the application of the current. The film, after passing behind the lens, is wound up on the reel below. When the apparatus is used in a theater it is placed in a cabinet surrounded by curtains in an upper gallery, the images being thrown for- ward upon a screen erected on the stage. In projecting pictures of this kind it has been usual to employ shutters operating in unison with the movement of the picture ribbon, but after a series of experiments it was found the same effect of motion could be produced by causing the ribbon itself to have an intermit- tent movement without the use of shutters at all, which greatly simplified the apparatus. Al- lowing that twenty-five images pass before the lens per second, it has been ascertained that the picture may remain stationary 11-12 of that in- terval and another picture substituted in the remaining 1-12 of the interval without destroy- ing the continuity of effect as observed by the eye. The film-working device, based on this idea, will be seen more in detail in The Phanta- scope, Fig. 4. The electric motor operates a main shaft, to which is geared a worm engaging a gear on the shaft of the main sprocket pulley that draws the picture ribbon downward at a uniform speed. Back of this shaft may be seen the main shaft, intended to rotate rapidly, ou the end of which is a disk having a roller ec- centrically fixed thereto. Just behind this is the standard, supporting spring tension fingers through which the film passes. The operation is as follows: From the sup- ply reel at the top the picture ribbon passes downward through the spring tension fingers behind the lens, and, as it is drawn forward by the main sprocket pulley, is quickly pulled downward by each rotation of the rapidly mov- ing eccentric roller on the disk, which move- ment changes one picture for another. The sprocket pulley meanwhile takes up the slack of the ribbon, so that at the next rotation the eccentric roller quickly pulls the film down and makes the change. From the sprocket pulley the film is carried to the winding reel, operated automatically from the main shaft by means of a pulley, or, when it is desired to repeat the subject over and over, the endless film is al- lowed to drop into folds in a box located under the sprocket pulley, passing out of the rear up- ward over pulleys, arranged above the tension spring fingers, downward between them again to the main pulley. Fig. 7 is a diagram of a film-moving mechan- ism of an English inventor, Mr. Birt Acres, which has been successfully operated in Eon- don. The picture film is taken from an upper reel passed over a sprocket pulley downward through a retaining clamp and over a second pulley at the bottom and winding reel. The film passes over both sprocket pulleys at a uni- form speed, between a stationary and swinging clamp operated automatically from the shaft of the shutter and holds the film stationary when the opening of the shutter is behind the lens, during the interval the picture is project- ed on the screen. The clamp is then released, then the pivoted lever below, with a roller on the upper end and pulled inward at the other end by a spring, immediately takes up the slack (as shown by the dotted lines), and causes, by such sudden movement, the bringing of the next picture into position. There are several plans for making the quick change necessary. That designed by l.untiere Brothers, of France, is said to be one of the most compact. The film is carried forward in- termittently by a pawl and ratchet movement. The effect of these enlarged pictures in mo- tion on the screen is very pleasing and novel, those we have seen illustrating marching sol- diers, railway trains approaching a station, street episodes, ocean surf, Niagara Falls, bath- ing scenes, dancing girls, and the life in aquari- iums being remarkable natural and effective.— Scientific American. This paper has a very large circulation, and. to judge from our correspondence, very many very warm friends. It is a good advertising me limit, and. as such, it commands advertising patronage. Our friends can help up in this di- rection, if. when corresponding with advertis- ers, they will kindly make it a point to mention The Phonoscope. Vol. I. No. 2. THE PHONOSCOPE. 13 Mbere Ubey? Mere Bi'bibtteC) Xast /Ibontb. The flotorgraph The Motorgraph, the latest and one of the most successful moving picture producing de- vices, has been secured by the R. H. White Co., of Boston, and with it exhibitors will be given free of charge to the patrons of this company. Exhibitions will be given daily, at 9, 10, 11, 12, 1, 2:30, 3:30 and 4:30 o'clock, until Christmas, and all are invited to "witness the wonderful workings of this marvelous device. The exhibition hall is lo- cated on the third floor of the immense store, near the toy department, and any one of the seven elevators will leave passengers within easy reach of it. The immense room is made delightful and cosey with hangings of costly oriental tapestries, and at the farther end is the immense screen upon which the pictures are thrown, life size. The subjects were chosen with the greatest care, and at great expense, that they might be interesting to the women and children, and in no sense objectionable. The motorgraph is operated under the direc- tion of Mr. William H. O'Neill of Boston, who is an expert in iflagic lantern, stereopticon and motorgraph details and exhibitions. The pic- tures are wonderfully clear cut, distinct and full of interesting details. Saturday is chil- dren's day, and every entertainment will be carefully arranged, so as to make the day one that the little ones will not soon forget. The Animotoscope Galloping horses, flying birds, running water, gliding cars, moving, living beings were the or- der at the Y. M. C. A. auditorium Dec. 4. The occasion was the introduction to the public of the animotoscope, the new marvel which Ly- man H. Howe, of Wilkesbarre exhibited for the first time. Mr. Howe certainly has a winner in this won- derful machine and need not be afraid to ex- hibit where any of its earlier rivals have been seen. The pictures shown are various and per- fect. The realism is wonderful and one invol- untarily waits for the clamor of the fire bells or the clatter of horse hoofs as the pictures move upon the cui~tain. — Wilkesbarre (Pa.) Kec- ord. The Projectoscope Bijou Theatre, Harrisburg, Pa. The projectoscope, Edison's latest invention, was given an initial exhibition to a select au- dience yesterday, including the mayor, city offi- cials and members of the newspaper fraternity. In the afternoon the first public performance was given. It is the greatest attraction ever seen in this city, and the crowds will be big all week. This wonder of the electrical age will be here for two weeks in charge of G. J. Wel- ler, one of Mr. Edison's representatives, who is under instructions to allow no one to see por- tions of the machine, for which patents are now pending. From first to last all the photograph- ic reproductions thrown upon the large screen on the stage are astonishingly natural and real- istic— Ha rrisbui'g Patriot. The Kinematograph Auditorium Music Hall, Baltimore, Md. It is claimed that the possibilities of this ma- chine are not yet reached. Soon flowers will be seen to grow, summer and winter to advance and recede and human beings to develop on the magic screen. A Frenchman named Cor- day is perfecting the kinematograph, and bases all' his work on Mr. Edison's kinetoscope. The workings of that invention are well known and M. Corday proposes, instead of rapidly mov- ing pictures, to show the gradual opening of a rosebud, the decay of blossoms, falling of pet- als, etc. The Cinemetroscope The show given by the Zickrick Ceinemetro- scope Company in the Park Theatre at Butler, Pa., was attentded by a large audience. The machine, although giving satisfaction, was not as good as if the views had been thrown from rear of the house instead of from back of stage, as the light from the instrument was too bright and could be seen through the canvas. The Vitascope Grand Opera House, Stamford, Conn.; Palace Museum, Minneapolis, Minn.; Heck & Avery's Museum, Cincinnati, O.; Portsmouth O.; Opera House, Jackson, O.; Proctors' Pleasure Palace, New York; Theatre Pomeroy, Ohio; St. Paul; Auditorium, Memphis, Tenn.; Opera House, Xenia, Ohio; College Chapel, Granville, Ohio; Opera House, Wheeling, W. Va.; Opera House, Danville, Ky.; Opera House, Vicksburg, Miss.; Corday's Theatre, Portland, Oregon; Boyd's Theatre, Omaha, Neb.; Academy of Music, Meadville, Pa. The Cinematographe Keith's Theatre, Boston, Mass; Keith's Thea- tre, New York City; 96 Youge street, Toronto, Ont., Canada; Association Hall, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Y. M. C. A. Hall, Newark, N. J.; Poli's Thea- tre, New Haven, Conn.; 615 Fulton street, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Hamilton, Ont., Canada; Bon Ton Theatre, Jersey City, N. J. The Veriscope The Veriscope people claim to have an ap- paratus by which they can take a continuous photograph covering two hours' time, if neces- sary. Mr. Hammenstein is negotiating for the use of this machine in New York, and will prob- ably secure it. The nagniscope Hopkins' South Side Theatre, Chicago, 111; Opera House, Muskegon, Mich. Edison Electric- Exhibit, Milwaukee, Wis. The Biograph Columbia Theatre, Chicago, 111.; Koster and Bials, New York; Wonderland, New Haven, Conn. The Rayoscope (Somewhere in Massachusetts, Newburyport, we think, but are not sure.) The Eidoloscope Traveling with Rosabel Morrison production of "Carmen." The Viveoscope Theatre La Cross, Wisconsin. The Cinagraphoscope Pastor's Theatre, New York. The Animatograph Fort Dodge, la. One of the most novel successful attempts at photographing is the talking of the Empire State express under full headway in a series of pictures, which, when flashed rapidly on the screen, shows the train as it comes into the camera's range and then sweeps by. Palatine Bridge was selected as the site of operations, because the train slows down at that point, takes water while under motion and then starts up under full headway. It required the experiments of ten days before satisfactory results were obtained. The lens of the camera was left open and a roll of films seventy-five feet long was adjusted on clock-work, so that it could be run rapidly through the camera. It was arranged so that between 70 and SO expos- ures were made in a second. The speed of the sensitive film was almost equal to that of the train and consequently there was no apprecia- ble motion in the photographs. The films were then developed and prepared for throwing on a screen nearly ten feet high. A similar clock-work to that with which the through in front of a calcium light and an ab- server can see the train coming in the distance just as in real life. It draws nearer and the fireman lets down the rope for the water trough. The water shoots out in a spi'ay from the tevider. The passengers can be seen moving their heads or adjusting a window shade. All the time the train grows in size until it flashes by. The effect is very fine. The principle, of course, is that the pictures are thrown on the screen so rapidly that they dissolve, unappreci- ably with each other. — Albany Argus. THE PHONOSCOPE. December, 1896 XlClbat tbeie wrote us about tbe phonoscope. London, England, Dec. 1, 1896 To the Editor of the Phonoscope, New York. Dear Sir: I have pleasure in tending you my best thanks for the first number of your journal just received. It by far surpasses my most sanguine expectations, and I offer you my sincere congratulations. The great evil of trade journals is their ten- dency to favoritism, making them in a great measure the trumpets of one particular Arm, set or clique. Your first number is entirely free from this, and it does one's heart good to see how objectively and purely business-like you treat every subject of interest to your readers. Competition is good in its place, but it is not the part of an editor to make himself its instru- ment. His role is rather that of a Judge in a trial by Jury; to lay before his readers the facts on all subjects of interest, plainly and siruply, leaving it to his readers to decide as to the mer- its. This, I repeat, you have succeeded in do- ing to perfection in your first number, and I am sure your well-known tact and absolute inde- pendence of character will enable you to con- tinue so in all subsequent editions. Being an enthusiastic believer in the great future of the Phonograph. I have always re- gretted the intentional sand-throwing by cer- tain parties, and I hail with delight the advent of a respectable journal, which will spread far and wide a true and intimate knowledge of this most interesting science. We want light, not darkness. J. H. Cincinnati, O., Nov. 19, 1S96. To Phonoscope Publishing Co., 822 Broadway, New York. Gentlemen: A copy of your monthly maga- zine has been placed in our hands, and we find it of great interest. We are sending you to-day some copies of the Edison Phonographic News, a magazine devoted to the same general sub- jects as your own, which we have been publish- ing for the last three years. * * * * We will continue to send the News to you regularly and shall hope 'to receive yours in return ****** We believe there is a large field in the line of business which your publica- tion and our own represents, and be therefore welcome you to this field in which we have been engaged for the past five years, and shall hope that you will find the publishing of your journal monthly a pleasant and profitable ven- ture. With kind regards from the members of out- company, yours, very truly, J. L. A. Detroit, Mich., Nov. 23, 189G. Phonoscope Publishing Company. Gentlemen: We are in receipt of the first number of your publication, and perused same with considerable interest. We wish you suc- cess with the same and trust that your sub- scription list will be a large one, as our line of business is certainly in need of just such a journal. We shall be pleased to receive sever- al sample copies which we shall endeavor to put to good use. * * * * Will you kindly inform us where we can ob- tain information regarding the Metaphone. and where same is manufactured, etc., etc. * * * * * *With best wishes. The M. E. CO. New York, Dec. 7, 1896. The Phonoscope, 822 Broadway, New York. Gentlemen: Allow us to say that although but one copy of ThePhonoscopehasbeenissued, we have received orders from California, Texas and Canada, and this morning two or- ilcrs from European companies, which shows the widespread circulation your paper has ac- quired, and proving how valuable it will be to all dealers who handle inventions that your journal is devoted to. You have our best wishes. THE INTERNATIONAL FILM CO. Berlin, Germany, Nov. 29, 1896. Phonoscope. Dear Sirs: I am in receipt of the first num- ber of your journal, which I have carefully read, and I wish to say if you keep succeeding numbers up to this standard of excellence, they would be cheap at one dollar per number. I am leaving Berlin, for London, where I intend establishing myself as a dealer in all kinds of talking machines, retaining an agency in Ber- lin. I will write you more fully with my sub- scription and London address within the next fortnight. With hearty greetings and wishing the Phonoscope a long and prosperous career, yours sincerely, J. N. Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 23. 1896. The Phonoscope Publishing Co., New York. Gentleman: I am just in receipt of a sample copy of the "i'honoscope.'' which is a real gem, and should find its way into every house- hold, regardless of direct beneficiary results. A journal devoted to such important subjects, will undoubtedly prove a boon to all possessors of phonographs, graphophones, scopes. etc. Enclosed you will find one dollar for which please send to my address "The Phonoscope" for one year. Wishing the Phonoscope long life and pros- perity, I am, very respectfullv vours, T. C. H. Philadelphia. Pa., Nov. 30. 1896. Mr. Editor. Sir: Have been in this particular line of busi- ness for the past five years, and do certainly consider your bright paper of great value to talking machines, owners and all interested, and more so to those not acquainted with this one great invention. ****** Wishing the "Phonoscope"' long li?e. vours. J.' S. W. Montreeal, Canada. The Phonoscope. Gentlemen: Your sample copy to hand. It is just the paper I have been looking for. I am a subscriber to two other phonograph journals, but they ***** y^ith your publication. I enclose SI for one year's subscription and send you list of likely subscribers. * .* * * * * Yours truly, P. K. Joplin, Mo.. Nov. 30. 1896. The Phonoscope Publishing Co., New York. Gentleman: I am in receipt of copy of Vol. 1. No. 1, of the Phonoscope, for which please accept my thanks. ***** 1 consider the Phonoscope a long felt want among ex- hibitors, and wish you success. How about your exhibitor's directory? 1 should like to have my name among the boys. ****** Respectfully vours. G. H. W. Jacksonville, Fla.. Nov. 23. 1S96. The Phonoscope Publishing Co., 822 Broadway. New York. Gentlemen: I have received the first issue of the Phonoscope, and am more than pleased with it. I consider it a most valuable journal of in- formation and should be hailed with joy by all traveling exhibitors like myself. Please place my name on your subscription list. Enclosed you will find "price" of same. Yours truly. A. J. Cyrene, Mo., Nov. IS. 1896. The Phonoscope Publishing Co.. 822 Broadway. New York. Gentlemen: I enclose one dollar in stamps for one year's subscription to the Phonoscope. Hope you will have success with your publica- tion as this will till the wants of many patrons along a scientific line. We in Missouri have been much worried by cheap machines and worthless records, so that it makes it very difficult for a good outfit to make expenses. Yet the people of this State appreciate the hest and are willing to paj for it. G. M. G. St. Catharines, Out.. Nov. 23. 1896. Dear Sirs: I received a copy of your journal. All persons using any of the amusement ma- chines should have the journal. 1 enclose .<1 for the coming year, and wish vou every suc- cess. **•••* J. McC. Austin, Tex., Nov. 23, 1896. The Phonoscope Publishing Co., New York. Sirs: He is a wise man who knows a good thing when he sees it, but he is a miser who fails not to benefit by that good thing. Yours, etc., R. L. R. The Phonoscope Publishing Co. Gentlemen: The sample copy at hand. We like its appearance very much, and wish you success, which we back up with a year's sub- scription. The need of just such a medium is manifest, simply to protect phonograph users (If nothing more), from the many impositions they have been subject to by unprincipled dealers in sup- plies. There may be a way to accurately duplicate records, but certainly they are not all "onto" it, and any one selling any such stuff as we have all seen in the past year or so, should be arrested for fraud. We pay for our records in advance, and if they are disposed to roast us, they have all the advantage. I think 1 can show a dozen records bought from a Western city a few months ago, that any grand jury would vote an indictment for swindling in four minutes. ******* Yours truly. C. D. M. Batteries- The "S and S" Battery The Southern Battery Company have lately perfected and placed on the market an im- proved battery, under the ttle of "The S. and S. Battery," that embodies many new and de- sirable features. Realizing the constant an- noyance and trouble that users of phonographs and kinetoscopes have experienced with many of the older types of batteries, especially those who have had the connections eaten away or corroded by having them exposed to the cor- rosive influence of the chemicals, or so com- plicated in construction that in case of derange- ment, the battery must be sent to some distant point for repair, a constant source of trouble. The above company have brought out this new and perfected battery, which not only dispenses with all of the defects mentioned, but embodies other features of utility and reliability not here- tofore attained in any constant current battery combined with the same degree of portability. Among many of the new and desirable points possessed by this battery are the ease with which the solutions may be renewed in cases where the energy of the battery has only been partially exhausted, and where it is not ex- pected to be put to operation again till some future time. Another point of merit is the ab- sense of fumes and odors, and still another and probably the most important point of all. is the ease with which any of its parts may be re- placed, in case of accidental breakage, by any one without any special electrical or mechan- ical ability. With this battery the exhibitor of either a phonograph or kinetoscope can make necessary repairs, and thus save time and money, which is the great desideratum, as it will not be necessary to interrupt his business by sending the battery away for repairs. A pair of pliers and a screw-driver, are all that is needed to make repairs. An Orange Battery During a lecture on the subect "Novel Elec- tric Experiments," delivered before the South African Philosophical Society last month by A. 1'. Trotter, government electrician and inspec- tor, the lecturer rang up the Cape Town tele- phone exchange and asked if any of the longer postotlice telegraph lines were clear. The Port Elizabeth line was then connected up, the lec- turer observing that with the extremely sensi- tive instruments used in the government offices it was not necessary to use ordinary electric batteries for the signalling to such a distance as Port Elizabeth, disconnected the battery commonly employed and. plunging a steel knife and a silver fork into an orange, sent telegraph- ic signals by means of the feeble currents thus generated. He then asked the front row of the audience to join hands, and putting them in the circuit, sent signals through their bodies to Port Elizabeth and back by nua is of the or- ange coll. St. Louis Globe Democrat. Vol. I. No. 2. THE PHONOSCOPE. '5 An X=Ray Machine with no X=Ray. The simple toy illustrated in the above en- graving has printed on the underside the rather high sounding title "X-Ray Machine. Wonder of the age!" But it is neither an X-ray ma- chine nor a wonder. It is simply a reduced copy of an ancient trick. The two cylinders mounted on the base with a space between them are perforated axially and are supposed to represent coils. When the eye is applied to the end of one of these cylinders, objects may be clearly seen through them, and when a coin is slipped between the ends of the cylinders as shown in the cut, it offers no obstruction to the light. Objects can apparently be seen through the coin. Fig. 2 affords an explanation. The hole in each cylinder is intercepted by a mirror arranged at an angle of 45° with the axis of the cylinder, and in the base are two mirrors arranged parallel with the first two, as shown. A hole extends downward from the central hole of each cylinder, so that light entering at one end of the machine is reflected downward at right angles by the first mirror, thence forward by the second mirror to the third, which throws it up to the fourth mirror, by which it is reflect- ed to the eye. It will thus be seen that the light never passes entirely through the cylin- ders, and the observer does not see through but around the coin. The old device which preceded this was on a much larger scale, and was generally used in connection with a brick, which, of course, had the same transparency as the coin.— Scientific American. practical XDiees of the 3HRa\>s. As a result of advanced surgical skill, aided by the latest electrical discoveries of Thomas A. Edison, the modern miracle of restoring sight to the blind is believed to have been per- formed in an unusual way by Drs. W. O. Bailey and A. V. Wendell, of Newark, N. J. The fact cannot be positively determined for a month or more. Eight-year-old Mary Schoellner, of No. 248 Fairmount avenue, fell from the porch of her home two years ago, her head striking heavily against a stump. A physician who dressed the wound at the time did not notice any depres- sion of the skull, and did not think that it was fractured. In due season the wound healed and nothing further was thought about it until two months ago. when little Mary's sight suddenly failed and symptoms of meningitis were developed. Dr. Bailey's diagnosis satisfied him that some- thing must be pressing upon the optic nerves. Taking the little patient to Edison's labora- tory, the physician, with the aid of the X-rays and the fluoroseope, examined the interior of the child's head. They found that a depression caused some fragments of bone to press upon the brain, forming a clot of blood, which, in turn, pressed upon the optic nerve and caused blindness. The fact that she could distinguish the form of a plaque proved that the optic- nerve had not been destroyed. An opening was made in the top of Rosie's cranium, a depressed piece of bone removed, and the blood-clot carefully cut away. Yester- day Rosie was taken from the sanitarium to her home. She suffered no pain during or after the operation. Her eyes are carefully band- aged and will be kept bandaged for four or five weeks. The physicians who witnessed this novel op- eration are hopeful that the little girl's vision will be fully restored; they are confident that it will be unless the optic uerve is atrophied. Had not the bone pressure been removed from the brain, it is considered certain that Rosie would have become ere long a victim of trau- matic epilepsy. The result will be anxiously awaited by oculists and physicians everywhere, as well as by the relatives of the little girl. Mary Schoellner said: "I am eight years old. I was operated upon by Drs. Bailey and Wen- dell. I have had no pain since the operation. I can distinguish the difference between light and darkness. If there is an object in front of me I can immediately see it, although not at all distinctly. "I cannot tell the exact distance that an ob- ject is from me. Before the operation I could not see anything at all. All was black to me. I feel satisfied from what I have already ex- perienced that I will recover my sight once more. I have been totally blind for two months. I have not been well or strong since the fall I had two years ago. Dr. Wendell is certain that I will recover. Iborns For Recording and Reproducing. There are three things absolutely necessary in "building" a successful phonograph or graph- ophone record, namely, good surface on blank cylinder, a good recording diaphragm, and a suitable horn to properly transmit the souud to the diaphragm. A great number of phonograph and grapho- phone users are totally ignorant as to what con- stitutes a practical recording or reproducing horn. In traveling through the . country every exhibitor (and professor) we meet uses a dif- ferent size horn and each and every one. is ab- solutely positive that his is the "proper thing." To interest some of our readers who may be in doubt on this subject we quote the state- ments of Russell Hunting, an Eastern record maker who claims to have made horns out of every conceivable thing from wood to cloth: "When I first started in making records I, of course, thought I knew it all. and thought Edi- son 'wasn't in it.' I immediately started in to make all kinds of diaphragms out of paper, mica, cardboard, tin, zinc, glass, etc., and burnt numerous gallons of 'midnight oil, while making horns of all sizes and descriptions. I started in with a small tin horn about 10 inches long, and wound up with a rubber one large enough to hold all my worldly possessions. After spend- ing days and weeks in this direction I reluct- antly tried the horn that was supplied with my machine, and concluded that the people at the Edison works had done a little experimenting themselves, and knew almost as much as I did and perhaps a little more. "This I say in regard to size; but I have found that the material used in making the standard horn is not as good as it could be. A horn manufactured of bell brass metal is far superior to those made of tin or zinc. (But don't waste your time with paper, lead, wood, glass, celuloid, iron, etc. Life is too short.) "But you cannot record and reproduce suc- cessfully with the same horn. One that would give a full round tone in reproducing-, would be inferior for recording -some things as it would make a 'tubby,' 'mushy' record. "In recording it is necessary to use a smaller horn than in reproducing, as one of the secrets of good record making is to transmit the sound quickly to the diaphragm, and dispense with all extra material that has a tendency to echo and vibrate. "The proper size for recording must be de- termined by the matter to be recorded. You surely would not use the same horn for record- ing a voice that you would for a brass band. The size for recording the ordinary voice (speaking) is the small 14-inch horn, talking about seven or eight inches from the bell. (A person with an ordinary voice cannot fill the large 26-inch horn.) "In recording instrumental music, however, it is necessary to use a much larger horn to make a successful record, as the harmony of the instruments is benefited by having the quantity of space for reflection. In recording vocal records (singing) it is necessary to use a still different horn, a little sinaller than the one used for instrumental, because, although the singing voice makes practically the same wave sounds as a small wind instrument, it has not the amount of overtone. "For illustration make a record of a cornet solo using two horns, small and large, and change the horns two or three times during the process of recording while the machine is run- ning and the artist is playing, the change from the thin tone record through the small horn to the full tone of the large one will become apparent at once. Repeat this experiment with the voice (talking) and the result will be just the reverse. "In reproducing it has been determined, strange as it may seem, that one horn answers for all purposes. A large bell-shaped horn, built on about the same angle as the bell of the brass band instrument called the tuba, reproduces talking, vocal and instrumental records with as great a degree of perfection as is possible to attain. This horn rather aids talking and other vocal efforts as it adds a round fullness to the tone. I do not write the above claiming that all who own a talking machine should have a variety of horns. I merely give my opinion for the benefit of those who have the inclination and time to experiment with a view to better results than they are obtaining at present." Xeoal IRotices. The Phonograph=Graphophone Suits Judge Kirkpatrick, on Dec. 11. filed five de- crees in the Circuit Court, at Trenton, N. J., in cases in which Thomas A. Edison and the United States Phonograph Company are inter- ested. The decrees are all assented to by coun- sel for the parties to the suit, and are as follows : The Edison Phonograph Company vs. Edward O. Rockwood,* for infringement of patented phonogram blank. It is decreed that the de- fendant be asessed one dollar, and a perpetual injunction issue against him from further in- fringement. Another decree is given for an infringement of another patent on the same blanks. In this ease Rockwood is also ordered to pay to the Ed- ison Company one dollar, and a third decree discontinues the entire suit. In the suit of the American Graphophoue Co. vs. the Edison Phonograph Works, a decree is entered requiring the defendant to pay to the complainant one dollar, and a perpetual injunc- tion is issued restraining the further infringe- ment of a patented transmitter. A second de- cree discontinues the action. In the suit brought by the American Grapho- phone Company against the United States Pho- nograph Company, of Newark, N. J., G. E. Tewksbury and V. II. Emerson, a decree was entered discontinuing the suit aud dismissing the complainant's bill without costs. *Mr. Rockwood was the New York manager for the Columbia Co., and the American Graph- ophone Company. Deputy Sheriff Butler has received an attach- ment against the Cathoscope Electrical Corn- any of 50 Broadway for $3,325 in favor of Ed- win Hammersehlag. He was to have $5,000 cash and $75,000 stock of the company for the patents. The Cathoscope is an apparatus for exhibiting Roentgen rays. The company was in- corporated in June last under West Virginia laws, with a capital stock of $500,000. Raff & Gammon also obtained an attachment against the company lately for $816, but subsequently countermanded it at the sheriff's office. THE PHONOSCOPE. December, 1896. IRew jflims . . . ffOH . . . Screen ilfcacbines. Xhe Latest Popular ^ongs. STORM ON THE SEA-COAST— Showing a raging surf dashing high over an old pier. SOUND MONEY PARADE IN NEW YORK. THE CELEBRATED NEW YORK BAND MARCHING UP 5TH AVENUE, N. Y. WASH-DAY AT HOME. — Showing mischiev- ous Children. SPINNING IN OLDEN TIMES. — Very interest- ing. STREET DANCERS. — True to life and full of action. Showing children dancing to music of hand-organ. FEEDING DUCKS.— One of the farm life se- ries. AFTER SCHOOL. — This film will interest any audience. THE POULTRY YARD.— From the farm life series. LOVE NEVER RUNS SMOOTHLY— Or the angry mother. THE CAVALRY CHARGE.— This was taken at West Point and is full of action. U. S. CAVALRY WATERING HORSES. SEA WAVES BREAKING ON THE SHORE. U. S. CAVALRY DRILL AT WEST POINT.— Very sharp, the glistening of the sabers is shown. BABY'S QUARREL.— Two babies in high chairs: very effective and amusing. STREETS OF CAIRO. — Showing Tour Egypt- ian Girls in full native costumes executing the fascinating "Midway" dance. WINE GARDEN SCENE.— This is a scene which may be witnessed by a visitor at a noted German wine garden in Harlem. Shows a number of people seated at tables drinking, etc., two of whom are playing cards. FEEDING THE DOVES.— A typical farm scene showing a beautiful girl and her baby sister dealing out the morning meal to the chickens and doves. The doves and chickens form a beautiful spectacle as they flutter and flock around the givers— a beautiful picture, which would appeal to the sentiment of any audience. EAST SIDE DRIVE— CENTRAL PARK, N. Y. Taken at the fashionable driving hour and shows many stylish equipages drawn by spir- ited and high-bred horses. PARK POLICE DRILL.— LEFT WHEEL AND FORWARD. PARK POLICE DRILL.— MOUNT AND DIS- MOUNT.—These two films show a full bat- talion of New York's famous mounted police, commanded by Sergeant Eagan, drilling in preparation for the Annual Horse Show, held at Madison Square Garden. A MORNING BATH.— In which a dusky Afri- can mother is seen to immerse her struggling infant in a tub of foaming suds. This is a mirth proving subject. CLARK'S THREAD MILLS.— Showing about 500 employees (men. women and children) leaving this great factory at the end of their week's toil, their faces lighted up with happi- ness in anticipation of the day of rest at hand. The facial expression of each of this vast army of toilers is clearly defined. THE BURNING STABLE.— Shows a barn ac- tually burning, from which four horses and a burning wagon are rescued by the firemen and stable hands. MOUNTED POLICE.— CHARGE— Shows a battalion of New York's famous mounted po- lice in full dress uniform. From the distance the mounted officers are seen approaching the audience at a break-neck gallop and as they .halt for the inspection of the reviewing offi- cer, each horse and rider is brought into life size. THE GREAT McKINLEY PARADE. — Thou- sands of men in line and spectators, with banners flvintr and flags waving. THE RUNAWAY IN THE PARK.— Shows a horse ami carriage approaching at a furious rate, closely pursued by two mounted officers. A most exciting subject. Any or all of the above flhns can be pur- chased through the Phonoscope Purchasing Bu- reau, S22 Broad'way, New York, r. s. a. ¥ ? 3 THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF THE VERY LATEST POPULAR SONGS PUBLISHED BY THE LEADING MUSIC PUBLISHERS OF THE UNITED STATES. .jtjtjt^tjtjtjljt ^Descriptive Songs anb JBallabs. Title. Publisher. Author. Au Kevolr. Sweetheart. 6 Trevalyn A Picture of My Best Girl. 3 Moreland A Dream of My Boyhood Days. 3 Dresser Bright Happy Days. 6 Walker Bunch of Violets. 8 Schoonmaker Christmas Bells. 2 Cohan Calve. 8 Leslie Dreams of My Own land. 6 Dean Don't Tell Her That You Love Her. 3 Dresser Don't Forget, My Boy, you're leaving home. C. Wheeler Don't give Up the Old Love for the New. 6.. Thornton Down in Tomale Town. 4 Amands nearest in the World. S Keiser Dream (Two Keys). 8 Bartlett Daisy Flower. 8 Farrell Eyes of Brown. Eyes of Blue. 3 Miller First Love, Dearest Love. 6 Penn. Going for a Pardon. 6 Thornton His Last Thoughts Were of You. 6.. Marks & Stern In the Baggage Coach Ahead. 3 Davis I'll Be Home To-morrow Night. 6 Howard In the Language of the Flowers. 1 Coburn I Love You, Dear. 6 Stromberg r Love You So. 3 Northrop I Wish You Were Here To-night. 3. . Dresser I Will Be Your Sweetheart. 2 Cohan I'm Louely Since My Baby's Gone. 4. . . .Emmerson It's Sunshinv Weather, Because We're Together. 1 Ford & Bratton Just Another Girl Who Left a Happy Home. 4.Petrie Johnnie. 4 G. Evans Kiss Me Good-night, Mother. 1 Moran Kathleen. 6 Mora Love When I Gaze. 8 Keiser Love's Avail. 8 Clark Love Makes the World go Round. 5 Smith & Englander Love, I Adore You. 5 Cooper & Osborne Love's Souvenir. 6 Feist Let me Call Yovf my Sweetheart Again. 6 Thornton My Dad's Old Violin. 1 Golden My Gert. 1 Golden & Outcanlt Mother Was a Lady. 6 Marks & Stern My Pretty Kathleen. 8 Keiser Make Love All 'Round. 8 Howson No one Ever Loved You More Than I. 6 Marks & Stern On Sunday. 3 Flynn Once She Was Mother's Girl. 3 Graham Polly. 1 Blandford & Chase Pebbles on the B<;ach. 1 Mann & Starr Picture a Girl So Fair. 1 Fagan Remember She's a Girl. 2 Cohan Serenade. 5 Smith Summer Girl of Brighton Beach. 1 Rogers She's a Stranger to Him Now. 1 Campbell Streets of a City Grand. 1 Gillespie Sunday Night In Lover's Lane. 1. ...Ford & Bratton She's been a Mother to me. 1 Ford & Bratton She Might Flirt With Others. Still She Loves but me. 4 Marion Sun Dial Song. 6 Stevens & Houson Those Lost Happy Days. 6 Feist Two Heads are Better Than one. 5 Goodwin & Morse They All Love Maggie Grady. 3 Slafer The Teacher and the Boy. 6 Marks & Stern Tell Her That we Love Her Just the Same. 4 Petrle The Belle of Hogan's Alley Bernard & Blake The Sweetheart I Left at Home. 6 Bralsted The Desert Way. 1 Bralsted Thine Eyes. 1 Hutchinson Trusting Onlv You. 3 Davis Telling the Old Tale of Love. 1 Hutchinson The Old Fashioned Girl Is the Girl for Me. 3 Glassmacher Whisper Your Mother's Name. 6.. .Bralsted & Carter When It is Love at First Sight. 1 Mock When the Girl you Love Is Many Miles Away. 6 Cohan & Koepen Wont' Somebody Give me a Kiss? 4 Smith What Would You Say? 3 Miller Windows of Her Soul. 8 Rosa You're so Good, Daddy. 1 Starr You'll be Sorry When I'm Gone. 3 Rosenfeld You. Only You. 4 Keene Yes. Sweetest of Words to Me. 8 Osborne Comic Son$s. As They Did In Days of Yore. 1 House & Seevers And Then he Woke up. 2 Johnson Appearances Were Against Her. 6 Stromberg All Over Town. 1 H. & J. Dillon Bold Pierre. 5 Smith & Englander Cod Fish Ball. 1 J. ft H. Dillon Come Plav With me. 5 Hawtrev & Plumpton Com.-Pren-A.-Voo. 5 1 Golden fome Back O'RIIoy. 5 Stalil Down to t'oney Isle. 1 Ollmore & Leonard Flnlgan's Fancy Ball. 3 Gllmore ft Leonard Games we Used to Play. 6 Marks & Stern Handicap Vocal. 6 D. Reed, jr. Honeymoon Vocal. 6 D. Reed, jr. Hugh McCue. 2 Cohan Hogan's Home Again. 1 Gilmore ft Leonard I am so Different From the Rest. 4. ...H. W. Petrie I'll Tell my Big Brother on You. 1. ...Edgar Selden If I Were Really a King. 5 Smith & Englander In a Quiet Little Way. 1 Ford & Bratton Isabelle (a Girl who is one of the Bovs). 1 Ford & Bratton Johnnie Took the one I Wanted. 1 J. & H. Dillon Lesson In Kissing. 8 Orme Mary Black From Hackensack. 2. ...Lew Dor-ksrader Moonlight on the River. 1 Golden & Dolen Meet Me at the Fountain. 1 Solomon Music Hall Girl Orme Oriental Echoes Vocal. 6 Reed Oh! Aunt Jane. 4 Petrie Oothcey Koochey. 5 Goodwin & Morse Parlor Sofa Politics. 6 McLaughlin Pebbles on the Beach. 6 Starr & Mann Pretty Jennev Slattery. 1 Lawlor & Blake Rootie Tootle. 2 Golden Singing in a Trolley Car. 1 Fuchsius The Maiden Didn't Know a Single Thing. 6 Braisted and Carter The Real Thing. March Song. 4 Petrie The Day the Farmer Came to See the Town. 4 Keen That's What— By Gosh. 4 Parker There are Things That Cannot be Explained. 1 Horwitz & Bowers There'll Be Murder There To-night. 1 Bryant That's Why the Moon Is Smiling. 1 Cohen When it's a Boy. 4 Goodwin & Morse You're all Right, But You Won't Do. 3 Goodwin & Morse You're Not the Only Pebble On the Beach. 6 Braisted and Carter Coon Songs. Ain't I Your Honeyboy no More? 3 Davis A Little Yeller Coon Black Four Hundred Ball. 3 Johnson & Cole Dere's a Bully Gone to Rest. 3. .Dryden & Mitchell De Bullv's Weddin' Night. 7. .Carleton & Cavanagh Dead Swell Colored Lady. 3 Burke Dancing With the Girl You Love. 2 Schackford Dat's My Baby. Dat's My Honey. 1 Hart Eighth Battalion on Parade. 1. .Williams & Hogan Hot Tamalle Alley. 2 Irwin & Cohan I'se Your Nigger If You Wants me, Liza Jane. 3 Dresser I Can't Give T'p My Rousrh and Rowdish Ways. I'm Lonely Since my Baby's Gone. 4. .. .Emmerson 2 Graham I Want Them Presents Back. 1 West Looking for a Bully. 6 Howard Louiser. 1 Francis My Gal Is a High Born Lady. 1 Fagan Mister Johnson. Turn Me Loose. 1 Harney My Coal-Black Lady. 1 Jefferson Raccoon and the Bee. 1 Abeles Slew Foot Sal. 2 Bogart & O'Brien That'll be all Right. Baby. 2 Cook When Miss Maria Johnson Marries me. 2 Williams & Walker Yer Baby's a Comln' to Town. 1 Kelly Malt3 Songs. Elsie. From Chelsea. 6 Dacre Grace O'More. 6 Witt Oivo Dim the Moon to Play With. 2 Dacre T Will be Your Sweetheart. 2 Cohan I Love my Girl. 6 Rosey & Reed My Young Man. 6 Stromberg Mv Young Man. 6 Stromberg Mnllie Morin 2 Reld On the Benches in the Park. 6 Thornton She's the Sweetest Little Girl In Town. 6 Trevelvan She's the Comfort of Their Home. 6 Rogers Sweet Rosle O'Grady. G Nugent What Will Your Answer Be? 2 Perry iHMscellaneous. All Over Town Booze, Glorious Booze. 2 Deane Bovs, She's a Dream Dillon Jfc Levi By a Brook Sat a Lady. 6 D. Reed, Jr. Caprice, a great character sone. 6 Marks I'm Saving up to Buy a Home for Mother. 2 Cohan Like a Good Little Girl Should do. .Ford & Bratton Modern Century Girl. 6 Packford Old Jim's Christmas Hymn. 2 Grav Send me a Picture of the Old Home. 1 Arnold Would You Ask. 5 Smith When the Light Is Turned Away Down Low. 2 Spauldlng r, T i~ Publishers are designated ns follows : 1. Wliitmnrk & Sons : 2. Sprinkling & Grav : 3. Howlev. Hnvilnrn ■ ni' ' 1v,r"' Mllrio Company : r>. T. it. Harms * Company : ll. Jos. W. Stern ,V Cemrnny ; 7 Oielten & i'avanniiBh f, Dltson a Co. VVe have rcieivctl lists of nuiiirretis other new songs, too Inte lor clnssitU iitioii In this isfiie. Vol. I. No. 2. THE PHONOSCOPE. '7 Exhibitors' H)irector\> Wants anb fox Sale Dl UUKaj VV . 1 ., 127 iviain ot., lviempnis, Xenn. Gladden, M. C, Lowell, Mass. Greenaere, George, Bangor, Maine, Kaiser, John, Care of " Phonoscope, it 822 Broadway, New • York. Lalime, A G., Worcester, Mass. Mowry, Edw. S., Middletown, Conn. Toney, A. T., Spokane, Wash. Thayer, Frank, Waterloo, Iowa. tlS^ tj?* Special "Want" and "For Sale" advertisements will be inserted in this column at the uniform rate of three cents a word, each insertion. Answers can be sent in charge of " The Phonoscope " if desired. All letters received will be promptly forwarded to parties for whom intended, without extra charge. FOR SALE— One kinetoscope and five films; one Edison phonograph, 24 records, and one battery, $50; one Edison X-ray outfit, 5-inch induction coil and 3 Crookes tubes, $40; one nickel-in-the-slot graphophone with six rec- ords, $35. Address Phone Co., care of Pho- noscope, 822 Broadway, New York. FOR SALE— 25 selected fine exhibition records, for horn use in hall or theatre, $18.75; as flue as ever were made. Address Cash, Phono- scope, 822 Broadway, New York. FOR SALE.— Collection of 100 records, bands, orchestras, vocal solos, by Gaskin, Myers, Hunting, Quinn, Spencer, Leachman, etc. Crnet solos, Piccolo solos, Quartettes, Xylo- phones, Chimes, Whistling, etc., all in first- class condition. Price, $45. Address, M. L. H., care of Phonoscope, 822 Broadway, N. Y. FOR SALE. — One Automatic Speaker, $3; one Standard Speaker (new), $5, regular price, $9. Address, Cash, care of Phonoscope, 822 Broadway, N. Y. City. FOR SALE— Six new Edison Home Phono- graphs. Price, $33.50 each. Address, James M. Davis, 1874 Third avenue, New York. FOR SALE.— Six Edison Kinetophones, prac- tically as good as new, for $100 each. They cost $300 each. Also 2 Kinetoscopes at $67.50 each. In splendid condition. Will divide the lot if desired. Address, K.. care of "The Phonoscope," 822 Broadway, New York. FOR SALE— Bijou graphophone paring knife, new; will sell for $2. Address Myers, care of Phonoscope, 822 Broadway, New York, N. Y. FOR SALE— One electric motor phonograph, $55; one spring motor phonograph, $35; one Chicago motor, $10; one projecting and kinet- oscope, $100. Address A. T. M. B., care of Phonoscope, 822 Broadway, New York. WANTED— A duplicating machine for making duplicate records; also second-hand talking- machines. Address H. O., care of Phono- scope. FOR SALE— 5 phonographs; good as new; $•>"> each; 3 type M, 2 Type E; all in first-class condition. Address W. M., care of Phono- scope. FOR SALE— 10 very fine recording dia- phragms, $60; bought from the late Phono- graph and Record Supply Co. Address Hunt- ing, care of Phonoscope, 822 Broadway, New York. FOR SALE, CHEAP. -Half interest in a pho- nograph business, consisting of phonographs, kinetoscopes. X-ray apparatus, supplies, etc: located in the West. Address G. S., care of Phonoscope Publishing Co., 822 Broadway, New York. We have purchased a number of toy kineto- scopes, being the first lot of a number of hun- dred thousand that will shortly be put on £h> market. This little device consists of a small box 7 inches wide and 9 inches in height, which con- tains a simple mechanism which is set in mo- tion by turning a crank which protrudes on outside of the box. The "film" consists of a tape to which a number of photographs are attached in such a way as to rapidly bring each one into place and give it a momentary pause as it passes the point of vew— a small aperture in the box. This toy gives almost the same re- sults as the machines costing hundreds of dol- lars. Its simplicity is truly wonderful. We can furnish a limited number of these kinetoscopes to our friends for $1 each. The Phonoscope Publishing Co. prank J)# fhayer, WATERLOO, IOWA. The FINEST EXHIBITION OUTFITS in the UNITED STATES The Edigoi] ({rand Concert phonography One Thousand Records, and Five Machines with operators that understand how to run them. THOMAS H. LEONARD, fresno, cm. TALKING MACHINES, RECORDS AHIO SUPPLIES. The Celebrated "CASEY" Records. iOR THE VERY LATEST METROPOLITAN"*^ SUCCESSES -^^-* SONGS!! Write to = = Spalding & Gray, 16 West 27th Street, NEW YORK. THE GLOBE Phonograph Record Co. 16 WEST 27th STREET, NEW YORK. Manufacturers of j^usical Phonograph Records. J. W. MYERS, Manager. I would like to call attention to the fact that I am making my own records, and can guarantee each one first-class in every respect, loud, and each word distinct, and also without that disagreeable noise found in duplicate records. My records are of the highest grade only, un- equaled for brilliancy, loudness and genera! excellence. My repertoire is larger than that of any other American singer. I have been with the best theatrical companies ever seen in this coun- try, and my reputation as a singer is well known. I have also made phonograph singing a special study, and am now ready to furnish the best records of all the latest and most popular, descriptive, sentimental, sacred and comic songs. THE PRICE OF ALL MY RECORDS are $1 each, or $10 per dozen. * * * * Special inducements offered to purchasers buying in lots of fifty or more. Terms invariably cash. C. O. D." orders from remote points must be accompanied by sufficient daposit to defray express charges both ways. Not responsible for damage caused by transportation. No records sent out on approval. Cat- nli'gi.es gun is. 10,000 Rubber Storage Battery Jars tf£*♦<•>♦<•>♦ ffianb. Title. Played by. Sold by. Bovs' Brigade March. Wash. Military Concert Band. Col. Blending of the Blue and Grey. U. S. Marine. . .Col. Circus Galop. Sousa's Col. Daxkville Dance. Voss's D. S. Enquirer Club March. Wash. Militarv Concert Band. Col. German National March. Gilmore's Band Col. Medley of Southern Airs. Voss's r. S. Off to Camp. Voss's U S. El Capitan. Sousa's Col. Pilgrim's Chorus. Gilmore's Col. Rastus on Parade. U. S. Marine Col. The Broadway Two-Step. Washington M. Cone. Col. The Handicap March. U. S. Marine Col. Yale Two-Step. Washington M. Cone Col. ♦<•>♦€>♦<•*- Unsttnmental, (soio. Title. Played by Sold by CORNET. Arbucklenian Polka Be. Alice. Where Art Thou. Levy Col. Du. Du. (German Song.) Levy Col. Don't Be Cross. D. S. Marine Band Col. Hearts. (Cornet.) Jules Levy Col. Lew Concert Polka Be. Lizzie Polka Be. The Palms. U. S. Marine Band Col. Lizzie Polka Be. FLUTE. Gounod's Serenade Be. ZITHER. Dream Waltz Re. Selection From Faust Be. Stephanie Gavotte Be. XYLOPHONE. Dancing in the Sunlight, ('has. 1'. Lowe Col. Bohemian Glr> Be. Du. Du. Medley. Chas. P. Lowe Col. Carnival of Venice Be. Plantation Medley Be. I'rettv Dark Blue Eyes Be. BANJO. Medley Be. Chinese Picnic Be. CLARIONET. Lullabv From Ermlnle. Andrea Coda Col. Amid the Odor of Roses. (Piccolo.) Sehwonfest . . Col. Col. Note— The following abbreviations designate the Anns and Individuals who sell the records listed above: Ch.. Chicago Talking Machine Co.; Col., Co- lumbia Phonograph Co.: W. & L., Walcutt & Leeds: U. S.. United States Phonograph Co.: M., J. W. Myers: Be .G. Bcttlnl: H., Russell Hunting; A. M.. American Talking Machine Co. Vol. I. No. 2. THE PHONOSCOPE. 3 ]\[ow ]oqk at This i Write us for Prices of different sizes and for any further information desired. IT IS THE S. & S. PRIMARY BATTERY, The Strongest and most Durable Battery made; no connections located in the cells where they can be reached by the chemicals. All parts are interchangeable and can be easily replaced in case of breakage by any one without special knowledge of the business. It cau be easily handled without getting the chemicals all over you. This Battery especially recommends itself to those exhibiting Kineto- scopes and Phonographs, and is equally well suited to any similar exhibit- ing purpose where a strong and constant current is desired, and is also especially adapted for running Fans, Lights, etc. When the above valuable points are taken into consideration you cannot afford to use any other, even as a gift. 50UTMEKN BATTERY COHPflNT, OFFICE, 1 1 1 Patterson Avenue, FACTORY, 125 Camp Street, X>AX*X,AS, TEXAS, The Very Latest ! Just Out ! ! 9t THE EDISON HOME PHONOGRAPH, A Machine for the Millions. Price, $40.°° 1 1 I &M^b BALDWIN GABET BAND REG0RBS, ?KI BEST IN WORLD. ORIGINAL Records Manufactured ONLY by the NEW ENGLAND PHONOGRAPH CO., 95 Summer Street, BOSTON, MASS., U. S. A. Please mention The Phonoscope. Send for Catalogue. FILMS! FILMS!! FILMS!!! Films for Projection. — Films for Kinetoscopes. ST"NMK& SIZE5 * M • Films for AH. THE ACME OF PERFECTION. dNb LENGTHS. No Flicker or Jumping. As Steady as a Stationary Picture. SEND POR SAMPLES. SEND FOR OUR NEW LIST. SPECIAL PRICES ON LARGE ORDERS. SPECIAL SUBJECTS TO ORDER ON SHORT NOTICE. t6^"' THE INTERNATIONAL FILM CO., ISO «& 152 V^ortfci Street, 2 C THE PHONOSCOPE. December, 1896. RUSSELL HUNTING THE ORIGINAL MICHAEL CASEY. I am devoting my entire time, energy and facilities to originating and manufacturing Talk- ing Records for Talking Machines. Benefited by over six years' experience and experiment, I can supply you with a meritable record at a reason- able price. J-J>J>^^J>J>^J- I do not copy, imitate or mimic others. I originate, manufacture and sell my own records. Price of Records ORiSrYALS 80c. ® I am the originator of the Casey series — which hare been the standard talking records for the past six years. Remember That there are "Casey" Records on the market which are not manufactured by me. but are made by others, using my subjects, in order to deceive the public. Re m e mb e r _ A poor article is never imitated, GOOD (•) ONES ALWAYS ARE. Imitation is the highest flattery. Remember That certain unprincipled individuals and _^ corporations are duplicating my work. (•) thereby deceiving the public by furnish- ing a record about one-third as loud as the original. Re:memt>er' "Casey's" are the Standard Humorous Talking Records. There have been over (•) 50.000 manufactured and shipped to all ^-^ parts of the English speaking world, giv- ing universal satisfaction. Remember "Casey" Records are loud, clear and dis- (♦) tinct, and are especially recommended for horn use. Remember That nil genuine "Casey" Records are recorded and tested by me. and are abso- lutely guaranteed. ♦ » ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦ S)®(SX*X$Xs ♦♦♦♦♦♦ ffffff • • ••• NEW RECORDS. ^ NEW SERIES. By RUSSELL HUNTING. JVEW caseys. CASEY'S WOODEN WEDDING. Casey thanks his friends for their wooden presents, made of wood. He called the figures to a dance. Music bv full orchestra. All full. CASEY AS AN AUCTIONEER iNO. 1). Casey tries to sell a pug dog. Pair of gentleman's pants and a photo- graph picture of Napoleon Boneypart. Exciting bidding. XEW SERIES. HIRAM'S VISIT TO NEW YORK. Hiram relates his experiences. Says he spent almost 60 cents in three days. Just threw money away. HIRAM'S VIEWS ON SUPERSTITION. Says he don't believe in the unlucky thirteen, as he would rather have $13 than $12. HIRAM'S GIRL— HANNAH. Tells about his girl Hannah. A lovely girl; weighs 300 in bathing. Hirarr is very enthusiastic about her feet and nose. NEW SONGS. CASEY ON PARADE. HE DIDN'T GET EXACTLY WHAT HE THOUGHT HE WOULD. ONCE OR TWICE. 1 DID IT. BUT I'M SORRY THAT I DID. AND THEN HE WOKE UP. THE BLOW ALMOST KILLED PAPA. OH! HOW SAD. MY MOTHER-IN-LAW IS DEAD! ARRAH, GO ON. VERY SORRY TO HEAR IT. SHE KNEW IT ALL THE TIME. MARY BLACK FROM HACKENSACK. THAT NAUGHTY LITTLE TWINKLE IN HER EYE. IRENE McNULTY. NEW SONCS.-THIS MONTH ! THE YELLOW KID OF HOGAN'S ALLEY. THE HOME TEAM WON THE GAME. MAYBE MARY DID'NT SEE NEW YORK. ' MAilV'S LEARNING SOMETHING EVERY DAY. All THERE! SAY. ARE YOU SINGLE? SOMETHING SHE SAID TO JOHN. THE BICYCLE GIRL. A MAINE GIRL. SHE NEVER COMES HOME TILL MORNING. 1 KNOW IT. I WAS THERE. . ' THE POOR GIRL DIDN'T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. ".SEND FOR DESCRIPTIVE LIST. RUSSELL HUNTING, 45 CLINTON PLACE, NEW YORK, U. S. 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This Battery especially recommends itself to those exhibiting Kineto- scopes aud Phonographs, and is equally well suited to any similar exhibit- ing purpose where a strong and constant current is desired, and is also especially adapted for running Fans, Lights, etc. When the above valuable points are taken iuto consideration you can not afford to use any other, even as a gift. SOUTHERN BATTERY COMPANY OFFICE, 111 "Patterson Avenue FACTOR y, 125 Camp Street DHLLfIS, TKXfIS Vol. I. No. 3 THE PHONOSCOPE The International Film Co. 3 Mission Place ai^d 150, 152 Wortlj Street, New York WE MANUFACTURE the finest, clearest, and most durable films in the world. WE TAKE special subjects to order. WE MAKE a specialty of coloring films. Standard length and size. WE GUARANTEE each and every film as we represent it. WE J1ANUFACTURE THE PROJECTOGRAPH The lightest, simplest, and most practical projecting machine on the market; a machine that combines the good points of many and has many good points of its own. Here are some : The total weight of machine complete, ready for operation, is forty-five pounds. For traveling exhibitors, showmen, theatrical companies, who are accustomed to one- night stands, it will be found to be the most practical of all picture-projecting machines. The device for propelling the film is one entirely new and not to be found on other machines. There is no pitman or beater used, therefore no wear or tear on the film. The shutter is also dispensed with, giving the picture projected one hundred per cent, of light at all times. The device for holding the film is one based on new principles. There is no grip or tension on the film direct, yet when projected on the screen the pictures are as steady as a stationary one. One does not see the constant flicker and jumping pictures, as on the cheaper grade machines. The machine is operated by hand-power. The projectograph is mounted on a beautiful oak base, three feet long. The machine stands fourteen inches high, four inches wide, and is a most beautiful work- ing model of the mechanic's skill The machine is on exhibition at our laboratory, where all interested are cordially invited. Price of machine, complete, $200. oq. SEITD FOR CIRCULARS Send your permanent address, so that we can keep you posted on new subjects. The Gnrpire State EDISON Phonograph REHOVED TO No. 76 UNIVERSITY PLACE THE EDISON : SPRING MOTOR ALL KINDS OF PHONO- GRAPH REPAIRS .... We are the sole dealers of the handsom- est nickel-in-the-slot cabinets and the most reliable return mechanism in the world. This mechanism has made the nickel- in-the-slot business practical. Send for Cat- alogue. Dealers irj . . . . Fl^orjograplj Supplies Records Batteries, (Primary and Storage) Kirjetoscopes Ifitascopes, Etc. 4 THE PHONOSCOPE January-February.. 1S97 "COLUMBIA" THE SYNONYM OF SUPERIORITY HE EXECUTIVE OFFICES OF THE COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH COMPANY are now located in the spacious buildings, //JJ, 1157 and 1159 Broadway, ATew York City, the largest and finest establishment of its kind in the world. Ever)' modern facility for manufacturing and selling every- thing in the Talking-Machine line. Promptness and care in attending to orders are special features of our immense system. We give the same attention to orders for one outfit 07 one cylinder as to orders for one thousand outfits or cylindeis. GRAPHOPHONES : : : AND PHONOGRAPHS For the Home For Public Exhibition For the Store For Office Use For Pleasure For Profit For Instruction The Columbia Graphophone The most marvelous production in the art ! Compact, simple, durable and attractive. Records and reproduces with astonishing perfection. Suitable for home entertainment or public exhibition. Not a ''Cheap Talking Machine," but a superb Talking Machine cheap. Driven by clockwork or electric motor. Price, $25 and upward Complete Outfits from $35 upward. The "Spring=Slot " Graphophone YOU WIND IT/ A prince of money earners. More profit in proportion to expense than an)- form of slot machine on the market. Only expense for maintenance is the purchase of new records occasionally. Mechanism simple and reliable, reproducing qualities unsurpassed. Splendid for stores, depots, hotel corridors — anywhere the crowd passes. Great trade bringer for stores. No electricity needed. Investigate it. Only $50 "Columbia Records are Best! j 9 1 Hi Do you use them ? You should ! We make and sell more records than all other manufac- turers and dealers combined. We couldn't do it if "Columbia Records'' were not THE BEST. We run our record-making department twenty-four hours a day. Have to do it to keep up with our orders. Dealers who sell our records report remarkable increase in trade and are continually ordering more. A sample order will convince you if you do not already know " COLUMBIA RECORDS ARE BEST!" Projecting flachines and Films THE PHANTOSCOPE. — A projecting machine suitable for exhibition in large cities or small towns and villages. Calcium or electric light may be used. Simple and satisfactory. Steady pictures, clear views. A Phantoscope and Graphophone make an exhibition combination that will "coin "money! Catalogue /ree. FILMS.— Kor Kinetoscopes or Projecting Machines. Splendid subjects, clearlv defined pictures, superb examples of photographic art. Send for list and prices. GET OUR ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTIVE CIRCULARS OF GRAPHOPHONES, PHONOGRAPHS, RECORDS, AND SUPPLIES. MAILED FREE ON APPLICATION. COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH COMPANY -department *,» 1155, 1157, and 1159 BROADWAY, New York City 919 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C. 110 East Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Md 720 and 722 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. The Phonoscope (Copyrighted, 1896) A Monthly Journal Devoted to Scientific and Amusement Inventions Appertaining to Sound and Sight Vol. J NEW YORK, JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1897 No. 3 Successful Inventions Some of the Fortuitous Suggestions That Have Made Clever Yankees Rich One of the most successful inventors of small things was Crandall. He patented several puzzles that made money, but "Pigs in Clover" was his great hit in this line. At one time he was engaged in the business of making croquet sets, the lawn game being then at the heighth of its popularity. He devised a method of constructing the boxes so that the parts were held together by groove and tongue fastenings instead of nails. One night he took home some of the waste pieces to his little girl, who was sick. She found such delight in playing with them and putting them together that her father conceived the idea of making similar blocks for the amusement of children. Such was the evolution of the well-known Crandall building- blocks. Another very profitable toy was the invention of a bedridden boy. This was the "Dancing Jim Crow," which for a long time was the rage. It is said to have yielded seventy-five thousand dollars in the first year it came out. By a simple bit of mechanism a darkey was made to dance on a box. The celebrated "Fifteen Puzzle" was never pat- ented ; several inventors claimed to have originated it, and fortunes were gained by the sale of it. Most famous of all patented toys was the " return ball." It was sold for a cent, with rubber string and brass finger-ring ; yet the profit ran up to an enormous sum. The chameleon top and walking alligator brought fortunes to the patentees. The roller skate was another very profitable invention, though it did not begin to make money until the patent had nearly run out, when the craze came. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been made by Dennison out of his shipping tags. The idea consists simply in a little ring of cardboard that reenforces the tying holes and prevents the string from tearing out. A lot of money has been earned by the little brass clip-fastening, patented a few years ago, by which sheets of paper are held together. Yet it is an exact copy of a contrivance in bronze that was used by the Eomans more than twenty centuries ago. In fact, there are not a few modern inventions which are in reality merely reproductions of antique contrivances. One of these is the safety-pin, which was commonly employed by the women of ancient Rome to fasten their dresses. Among the most profitable patents have been various little devices having relation to women's costume, such as the perspiration-proof shield of rubber, the idea of substituting the quills of chickens and turkey feathers for whalebone in corsets, and the suspender garter. The last was sold outright for fifty thousand dollars. The ball-and-socket glove-fastener is a French- man's idea, and it has made him rich. Another successful invention is the double-ball clasp for pocketbooks and handbags. It is said that no sort of clasp can be popular unless it makes a noise when it catches. Only a few years ago a lucky man thought of puttiug a couple of little strips of cork on the nose-piece of eyeglasses to make them more comfortable. Nearly all eyeglasses nowadays have this improvement, aud every pair pays a royalty to the inventor. The latest of the very profitable small inventions is the tin cap for beer bottles, which is taking the place of corks. It is cheaper than cork, more convenient, aud keeps the beer better. Metal lemon-squeezers are undesirable because the juice of the fruit acts upon the metal and makes poison. Not long ago somebody thought of making lemon-squeezers of glass, and the idea was worth just fifty thousand dollars to him. Tin cans are now made so that they can be opened by simply striking the top with a smart blow. As soon as he learned of the invention, Armour, the Chicago packer, ordered five hundred thousand of the cans, and the inventor is already independently wealthy. The automatic inkstand, which keeps an equal supply of ink always ready for the pen, is said to have earned two hundred thousand dollars. The "shading pen" has earned a sum even larger. Shoe-buttons are no longer sewn on, but are applied with a metal fastener. This idea has been worth a big fortune. A new contrivance that promises to be very profitable, is a whistle for bicyclers, made on the principle of the siren fog-whistle. There was five hundred thousand in the shoe-peg, but the inventor went insane just, as wealth was pouring in upon him. Another! gold producing patent was the inverted glass belli, placed over gas-jets to protect ceilings. Great sums have been earned by the rubber pencil-tip. barbed- wire for fences, and a contrivance for shaving ice. A " hump" on a hook to keep it from slipping out of the eye has made the proprietors of the con- trivance millionaires. One of the most valuable patents was the result of a dream. An engineer named Springer had been trying to devise an automatic lock which would brake a carriage going down hill, so that the driver would not have to get out, but might lock the brake by pulling his horse in. He dreamed that he was driving down a steep hill and had just such a lock on his wagon. He noticed exactly how it was constructed, and on waking he got up and sketched the details of the mechanism. Then he went to bed again. Three days later he applied for a patent, which was granted. It yielded seventy-five thousand the first year. Of the heaps of patents issued every week by the United States Patent Office, only a small percentage of them have any practical useful- ness. But it is not always possible to judge before a thing has been tried. A few years ago a man thought of enclosing trees in canvas, and filling the canvas with deadly gases for the purpose of destroy- ing insects. He was considered a lunatic, but this 1 method is now practised on' a great scale' and with much success in California. photographing tbe invisible PHOTO-MICROGRAPHIC APPARATUS Apparatus for Reproducing Objects Unseen to the Eye As photography is employed to assist the astronomer in detecting the existence of the stars in the heavens which could not be seen by the naked eye with the aid of the telescope, so it is also used to secure accurate enlarged reproductions of minute objects which are revealed to man only by the aid of the microscope. This development of the art of photography is of great assistance, not only to the microscopist, but also to the pathologist and histologists. A photomicrographic apparatus, as it is called, has recently been invented by O. G. Mason, secretary of the American Microscopical Society, which can be used for making negatives, showing objects with a magnification of 15,000 times. The apparatus is very compact, being only about two feet in length, but it will receive an objective of any power and photograph the most minute objects. The images are produced on a plate three and one-quarter by four and one-quarter inches. It is mounted on a single base board, so that the apparatus may be shifted at the will of the operator. To the standard of a microscope the camera box is attached in such a way that the box can be placed horizontally or inclined at any desired angle, like a teloscope or microscope itself. Thus adjustments can be made providing for any required distance between the objective and the sensitive plate, so that the desired amplication may be readily secured. The mechanical stage is operated by the small chains which extend along the sides of the frame of the apparatus, and the rotation of the objective polariscope, etc, and the focusing are effected by rods extending toward the rear of the camera box. By its means the operator, seated at the camera, can manipulate the instrument for focusing or searching the field for any particular object. 0 THE PHONOSCOPE Januarv-February, 1897 [Note. — We have had a number of inquiries in reference to the proper technical terms used in speaking of the parts of the phonograph and graphophone. To answer our patrons in the simplest manner we illustrate above the Edison phonograph with parts numbered and described. Graphophone illustrations will be given next month. — Ed.] 1 Brass Mandrel, to hold wax cylinder. (Always assembled with Main Shaft. ) 2 Turning Rest, to pare off cylinders. 3 Twin-nut Spring, or Feed Arm. 4 Back Rod. 5 Sapphire Knife Spring Knob. 6 Main Shaft. ( Always assembled with Brass Mandrel. ) 7 Main Shaft Pulley. S Governor Frame. 9 Governor Shaft. 10 Governor Shalt Center. 1 1 Swing Arm. 12 Swing Arm Center. 13 Straight Edge. 14 Speaker Ann. 15 Speaker. Yvette Ouilbert's Phonograph When Yvette Guilbert sailed for home on Feb- ruary 6 she knew more about the United States than most foreign artists find out in ten times as many trij s as she has made. Yvette has a devour- ing desire to see and know things. In Chicago recently, although she was there only a few days, she visited the stock yards and packing houses, and what she didn't see at those interesting insti- tutions were the things that were not going on that day ; that's all. In order to see more of the United States Mile. Guilbert submitted to be hustled over several thousand miles of territory, making one-nigh' stands ai half a dozen principal cities. When she goes back to Paris she will have made a sweeping circle through this country touching New York, Montreal, St. Louis and New Orleans as the extreme points. There is one person who will regret this ambition of Yvette's to observe a large amount of 16 Cup Lever, or T Lever. 17 Speaker Adjusting Screw. 18 Speaker Arm Lift Lever. 19 Governor Adjustment Screw. 20 Governor Brake, or Switch. 21 Armature Pulley. 22 Armature Shaft Center. 23 Governor Block. 24 Phonograph Body. 25 Body-holding Screws. 26 Shaving Knife Lever. 27 Chip Box. 28 Twin Nuts. 29 Speaking Tube. 30 Hearing Tube. 31 Speaker Adjusting Screw Sleeve. 32 Wax Cylinder, or Blank. 33 Top-plate Cover. 34 Back-rod Sleeve. 35 Governor Contact. 36 Lock Bolt. 37 Top Plate. 38 Speaker Clamp. 39 Belt-tightening Screw. 40 Idler Pulley 41 Governor Top Brush. territory. That person is her mother. Mile. Guilbert's devotion to her mother is one of the most striking traits of a character which is full of extremes. She has for her mother a devoted love which is almost adoration, and might somewhat surprise Mr. Moody, who criticised the song "La Glu." A year ago, when she first came to America, Guilbert bought a phonograph, which she took home to her mother in Paris. The first thing she did on her arrival this time was to secure the use of one during her stay in New York. Every morning, after her petit dejeuner in bed, she would seat herself at the phonograph and pour into it a graphic account of her surroundings, her feelings, everything that interested her and would therefore interest her mother on the other side of the ocean. Every Wednesday and Saturday the steamer carried the cylinders across the water and next week Yvette's own wonderful voice repeated to the mother all these confidences. Calve was said to have sent similar records of her daily life and emotions to Paris a year ago, but it is Guilbert that makes a French mother's heart glad because les Americains — its son/ si pratiques. Zbc (Svapbopbone The Plant of the American Graphophone Company to be Doubled - Since the removal of the Graphophone company from their old factory on the How property in East Bridgeport to their present location in the southern wing of the organ factory, the demands for these machines have been rapidly increasing, and, as a result, the capacity of the factory will soon be greatly enlarged. For some time past the managers of the company have been looking for a suitable place to operate with their present factory. The mos' suitable place for the concern is the silk mill ne> . to the Graphophone company, occupying the front half of the same building. Negotiations are now being made for the whole of this building, to be turned over to the use of the Graphophone company, and before very long the company will probably occupy the whole large building with a plant just double the present size. This means much for Bridgeport. The Graphophone is known all over the country, and while the main offices of the concern are in New York, it is well known that the factories are in Bridgeport. This great enlargement of one of the local industries speaks of a great returning confidence in business, and the boom in ^ie Graphophone line at any rate has already begun. For the past two weeks it has been found necessary by the company to run until 9 o'clock at night, in the vain endeavor to keep up with the orders which have been pouring in on them for some time past. In conversation with a Phonoscope reporter, Manager T. H. Macdonald of the Compaq- said : "For some time past we have beea making arrange- ments to greatly enlarge our plant. We have anticipated a boom, but the orders have been coming in so rapidly lately that we are now away behind, and in order to keep from being hopelessl\T buried in orders it has become necessary to run nights until 9 o'clock. Of course we cannot keep this up, as the men cannot stand the strain. It will be necessary for us to have a good deal more room. "We are now negotiating for the whole of this factory, including the silk mill. This will give us double our present space, and we will put in about 300 men at first and will be prepared to put out just double the number of machines which we do now. At the present time we have orders in for some $30,000 worth of new machiuery, whsch we will place in our present factory, to help us along in lilliug our orders. The present output of the factory is 75 machines a day, but we find it necessary to be ready to put out at least 150 in the same time. The concern is in excellent condition. We have now about 200 men on the payroll, with over $2,500 a week paid to our help. All of the improvements which have been made on the machines in the past five years have been made in this city." When asked to explain the difference between the phono- graph of Edison and the graphophone, Mr. Mac- donald said: "The phonograph was invented by Edison in '77, and made a record by indenting tin- foil. The graphophone was iuvented in '81-2 by Alexander Graham Bell, C. A. Bell and Charles S. Tiuter. This record was made by cutting or engraving in wax or wax-like substances. The graphophone method is the successful one. There has been quite a little dispute as to which concern was entitled to the use of wax cylinders, but the suit which has just been settled iii the New Jersey circuit court shows the Graphophone company to to have been the' originators of the idea. We will enlarge the plant just as soou as possible. Vol. t. No. 3 1 Our battler I heard a funny story a few days ago which will interest old phonograph exhibitors. Last year, during the Danbury Fair (in Conn.) eight exhibit- ors gathered on the grounds. All were surprised and worried, as they had each expected a "good thing " and a monopoly. In the evening after the Fair had closed for the da}-, they all happened to congregate at the same hotel. Strange to say, they all left their phono- graphs and batteries in the coat room for the night. About one or two o'clock in the morning one of the exhibitors, who hailed from Boston, came down stairs and carried his machine and battery up to his room, remarking that he did not feel quite at home without his " old side partner." It may have been but a coincidence, but next day the seven professors who had left their outfits in the coat room over night, found their batteries all dead when they tried to start their machines at the Fair grounds. The man from Boston was the "only pebble on the beach," and wore a bright smile all day as the nimble coins trickled into his coffers. The New York Advertiser says : Uptown resi- dents, both on the east and west sides, are talking of amalgamating and starting a lantern factory somewhere near the Harlem River. The lantern will be of the miners' lamp pattern, but of much greater power, and will be backed by strong reflectors. They will be made so that they ma}' be carried in the pocket and easily attachable to the fronts of their owners' hats, so that their possessor may be able to read their newspapers on their way home in the foggy " L ' ' cars. It has been also suggested that phono- graphs which can speak real United States be placed in each car to announce where the trains are going to stop next, as the present mediums are frequently somewhat husky and untranslatable. Two scrub women were sent to clean up the rooms in which, on the previous night, a phono- graph entertainmen thad been given. Their sleeves were rolled back from their water-wrinkled hands ; they wore blue-checked aprons and carried brooms. They did not set to work at once, as their curiosity prompted them to part with the last nickel they had to the ever greedy slot of the automatic phonograph, and they were soon leaning over the machine with rapt expressions on their face — solemn and horrified. ' ' I heard every word," said the younger woman as she left the machine, "and be the powers that man were a rigular divil to be sure, he ought ter be arrested. ' ' They had been listening to the confession of H. H. Holmes, the most appalling record of murder to which human tongue ever gave utterance. The talking machine is now used in Chicago as an aid in the teaching of foreign languages. An instructor in Spanish has a large number of records, which are intended to assist to a correct pronunciation. The student sits down with the talking machine and listens to its repeated pro- nunciation of a certain word and then he tries it for himself. There are also special lessons in reading and spelling. The instructor recently solicited a young business man to take a course of lessons in Spanish on the talking machine. "Why, I didn't know you could get those machines to talk foreign languages, ' ' said he. Senator Cullom stirred up a laugh in the Senate at Washington last month by reading a letter from the American Talking Machine Company, of Chicago, which declared that the bill fixing a rate of one cent on letters had passed the House and requesting the Illinois Senators to vote for it when it came up in the Senate. As no such bill has ever passed the House and has never even been seriously considered, some of the Senators on the floor felt justified in saying that the American Talking Machine Company, through mere force of habit, was apparently conversing through its headgear. Two young men, well known in the phonograph business, "went out and done it." Mr. Leon Douglas, of the Chicago Talking Machine Com- pany, and C. H. Webster, of the National Film Company, were both married last month. Mr. Douglas went to San Francisco for his better half, and Mr. Webster across the bridge to Brooklyn. As " Casey " says : " May the Lord bless yees all entirely." As Mr. Douglas has handled many records in years past, I hope he will make a good record in his new venture. I know Mr. Webster is very sociable. He has my best wishes. A retired (not tired) graphophone exhibitor once told me that the best money-making record he had was a cylinder which was cracked "way across." He said it was an orchestra waltz selection and was cracked ( I mean the record ) in such a manner that the stylus passed over the crack in time with the music. He assured me that his patrons believed him when he explained to them the wonder of the machine — that would record the second violin played in the orchestra tapping his foot on the floor. An Eastern company received a communication from a Maine man last month, who claimed he had discovered a paint which, when gently applied to a talking machine cylinder, " would remove that scratching sound." I'll wager a ham sand- wich that there's a scratchy sound in our friend's head. I have believed some of these rural inventors who could "mend" cracked cylinders, etc., but I can't stand for the paint. Those nickel-in-the-slot machines are a great institution, said a tobacconist to me the other day. Lots of men come in and play my machine, when they don't smoke, just for the excitement of risk- ing money. And then, if they win, they give away the cigars to all their friends. There is a fascination about playing it that helps out my sales considerably. H Sagacious Hmmal Automatic machines are like cupboards to which the public hold the key in the shape of a coin of a given size. They cau be made to supply almost all the commodities of life, and they are generally so simple that a child can use them. But that there has been in actual use for a number of years an automatic store worked by a brute beast may not be so generally known outside of England. In the Zoological Gardens of Manchester there is a pet elephant who is always on the lookout for pennies. As soon as he receives a penny from a visitor or keeper he struts up to a box which has been fixed in a corner of his pen, drops the penny into a slot contrived on the top of the box, and, with his trunk, pulls out a drawer from which he takes a bun or roll of bread in exchange for his penny. He then pushes the drawer back, enjoys his roll or bun and is again ready for another penny. The animal knows perfectly well the difference between a penny and a half penny. As soon as it has got two half pennies it tries to have them exchanged for a penny, which it knows is the only key to his bun-box. He never neglects to push back tne drawer after having helped himself. He seems to understand clearly all the mechanism of his automatic store and the conditions under which it will supply him with buns or rolls. More honest than most human beings, the animal has never yet attempted to tamper with the machine by force or fraud, although he might do so at any time with absolute impunity. On the contrary, he seems to watch over this box with the care of an affectionate nurse. Should, by chance, the supply of the box have run out and thereby the elephant have lost his penny, he will trumpet loud and long until the caterer has refilled it and returned to him the penny he had dropped into the box without results. Thus a simple mechanism has sufficed to enable a dumb animal to go through all the transactions of buying and selling in a perfectly correct and business-like manner. To watch this ponderous mass of animated flesh act in such an intelligent and prudent way opens up a great field for thought and reflection. There may be, after all, only very little difference between the dumb beast and the prating, boastful one called Man. Mbere Zhe? Mere Brbibtteb last flftontb The Vitascope Melodeon Hall, Lexington, Ky. ; Auditorium, Toledo, O. ; Grand and Bittner Theatre. Sioux City, la. ; Heck and Avery's Museum, Cincinnati, O. ; Elston's Hall, Norristown, Pa. ; Grand Opera House, Stamford, Conn. ; Turner Opera House, Green Bay, Wis.; Grand, Columbus, O.; Association Hall, Dayton, O. The Projectoscope Y. M. C. A. Hall, Williamsport, Pa. ; Bijou Theatre, Harrisburg, Pa. ; Academy of Music, Macon, Ga. ; City Opera House, Frederick, Md. ; Grand Opera House, Harrisburg, Pa. ; York Opera House, York City, Pa. The Cinematographe Avenue Theatre, Pittsburg, Pa. ; Park City Theatre, Bridgeport, Conn. ; Schiller Theatre, Chicago, 111. ; Gillis Opera House, Kansas City, Mo. ; Unity Hall, Hartford, Conn. ; Metropolitan, St. Paul, Minn. ; Willard Hall, Washington, D. C. ; Kieth's. Boston, Mass. ; Eden Musee, New York City ; Grand Opera House, New Haven, Conn. The Cinographoscope Parke Theatre, Dayton, O. ; Masonic Temple, Saginaw, Mich. ; Theatre, Savannah, Ga. The Photoscope Ross Street Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Grand, Portsmouth, O. ; Opera House, Youngs- town, O. The Centographe Opera House, Danbury, Conn. The Animotoscope Nelson Memorial Hall, Wilkesbarre, Pa.; Grand Opera House, Lock Haven, Pa. The Biograph Bijou Theatre, Philadelphia, Pa. ; Wonderland, New Haven, Conn. ; Kieth's, Boston, Mass. ; Kieth's, New York City. The Animatograph Russel's Opera House, Centerville, la. THE PHONOSCOPE January-February, 189? '(Srapbs, pbones anb 'Scopes The Sphygmograph One of the most intricate and wonderful instru- ments used in the science of medicine is what is called the sphyinograph. As every one knows, when you call a doctor in, the firfet thing he does is to feel your pulse. Before he can prescribe he must know exactly what your heart is doing, and the action of the heart manifests itself through the beating of the pulse. A strong heart produces a strong, firm wave or swell in the pulse, and vice versa. What the sphymograph does is to trace clearly on a sheet of paper, by means of a very fine point, in irregular, up-and-down, zig-zag strokes, every one of these waves, so that the doctor can have a chart marking the various beatings of the patient's heart. The instrument is attached to the wrist by means of a broad silk band (not unlike the baud used by persons with weak wrists), and fastened to the band is a small button which presses on the pulse artery. The pulsations acting on this button, move a pointed marker up and down and across the surface of a slip of paper, which is kept moving by means of a delicate piece of mechanism within the instru- ment. In this manner irregular tracings are pro- duced and an accurate short-hand record kept of the movements of the heart. The Eophone There has just been tested on the battleship Indiana and on two ships of the Old Dominion line, a wonderful invention, which will be a great factor in preventing collisions and rendering navigation safe in foggy weather. It is called the eophone, and is the invent iou of a Virginian of French extraction ; an obscure student by the came of La Torrey. The eophone is a big square box, fitted inside with the most delicate mechanism, for detecting at a great distance a sound which would be entirely inaudible to the unaided ear. .N'ot only this, but the instrument shows with absolute precision the direction of the sound. It merely has to be turned about, and when the trans- mitter is directly opposite the sound it can readily be told. The eophone is carried on mastless ships, on top of the pilot house, bnt where there is a forward mast, it has to be swung forward on a long brass rod, which may easily be turned about in a semi- circle to determine the direction of the sound. Such an obstruction as a mast in front of it would destroy the effect of a faint sound upon the delicate machinery of the instrument. The test has been in almost every respect an entire success. The instrument does all that is claimed for it, and the captains who have used it say they would feel safe in a fog with the eophone in front. The swift steamers upon which it was tried created such a breeze while under way that the rushing of the wind in the receiver drowned all the sounds it was designed to catch, but this was remedied by stretching a piece of silk gauze over the mouth of the transmitter. This shuts out the harsher sounds of the ship, but seems to intensify the delicate noises the instrument is used to locate. The eophone may be adopted by the Government as a necessary to safe navigation in fogs In that event its inventor and the manufacturers will reap a fortune, for the little box costs $1,000 for every .ship to which it is fitted. The Phonendoscope You can hear yourself wink ! A wonderful machine has been invented by which the hitherto imperceptible sound of the action of the eyelid is made clear and distinct to the ear. The invention is called the phonendoscope. The new wonder was designed to be used by physicians and surgeons for detecting the presence of disease by sound. With its aid it will be possible for the medical world to prepare a perfect chart, which will enumerate the sound of every disease known, and to instantly detect that sound with an application of the phonendoscope. The delicate instrument; the construction of which has much in common with that of the human car, is so sensitive that the faintest breath upon a disc sends a wave current through the box against the ear-drum of the listening person. Not only can this breath upon the disc be heard, but its force in transit is multiplied a thousandfold, so that when it reaches the ears it sounds like the roaring of a gale of wind at sea. Tapping the disc lightly with the fingers sends a sound into the ears like the tramping of many horses, and the wink of an eyelid gives forth a sound like the fall of heavy waters. It is a sort of microphone about the size of a large watch, having a short staff like the thin part of a stethoscope at the base, and a number of flexible tubes attached to the upper part of the box, where by to convey the sounds to the ears of the operators. The name is the compound of three Greek words and signifies : Seeing sound within a body, and this is what it really does. The Scentograph A machine which is claimed to take its place by the side of the phonograph has been invented by Louis Kramer, a Missourian, who moved to Bing- hampton, N. T. , about a year ago. It is used to receive and magnify odors of all kinds and is called a scentograph. A patent is to be applied for, but it has been already practically tested. It will take a liquid heretofore regarded as odorless and distill the most delicate perfume. A drop of perfumery or essence placed on the receiver will produce an odor that would in a very short time cause symptoms of suffocation. The grocer might utilize it in detecting adulteration in goods, while it has been suggested that bank paper can be tinctured with a special scent, imperceptible to the ordinary sense of smell, but which could be easily detected when placed in the scentograph, lessening liability of counterfeiting. It is also claimed that the machine will be popular in homes, hospitals, sick rooms, where the air can be kept permeated by most delightful fragrance. The machine is about twelve inches square and eight high. Mr. Kramer says it can be manufactured for $50. It is thought he will have no trouble in obtaining financial aid for organizing a company to place it on the market as soon as the patent is granted. The Delineascope The delineascope is a new instrument for military and topographical surveying. It consists of a small portable camera having a lens with a fixed focus. The lens is directed downward, and has beneath it a mirror inclined at an angle of fifteen degrees to the axis of the lens. This throws a picture of the landscape, witli right and left reversed , on the tracing paper on a horizontal object glass. It is then possible, by using a focusing glass, to trace the main features of the landscape on the paper, which is then reversed on a card ruled in squares similar to those in the note book into which the sketch is to be copied and recorded. The details can then be added by the eye, and the more exact numerical data entered on the margiu of the page. If terns of IFnterest From every part of the country enthusiastic reports continue to reach us of the great success, financial and otherwise, of the picture enlarging, projecting and animating devices. Whatever may be the real condition of the country at the present time, it is remarkable the amount of money which people have to spend on theatres whenever there is a special attraction presented to them. During the display of Edison's Vitascope the theatres have been so crowded that man}- people had to be turned away for want of room. The spectacle merits this attention fully ; it is perfectly wonderful. — Milwaukee Sentinel. Nicola Tesla, the electrician, is credited with saying that he believes a man might live 200 years if he would sleep most of the time. That is why negroes often live to advanced old age — because they sleep so mnch. He also alluded to the current report that Mr. Gladstone now sleeps seventeen hours every day. Edison recently told a reporter that he frequently went for forty -eight hours without sleep, and sometimes for seventy. Following such a period of work, he often sleeps for eighteen hours at a stretch. The celebrated inventor smokes enough large, black cigars to break down an ordinary constitution, but he seems to get more robust of physique as he grows older. He is within a few months of his fiftieth year. The living photograph machine craze is upon Gotham in its most virulent shape. Beginning with the vitascope, the disease ran the various stages of cinematographe, kineopticon, biograph and conto- scope, terminating finally in cinographoscope. The auimatograph and theaterscope, both of which are raging in London, have not yet found their way over on the steamships.— Pittsburg Dispatch. [We beg leave to correct our Pittsburg friends. The animatograph and theaterscope are being exhibited in this country, and are both meeting with great success. — Ed.] Experiments are now being made with a machine which, if it is found to meet expectations, is likely to replace that often interesting but always pitiable product of city streets, the newsboy, with an efficient substitute that has no morals to be corrupted or evil associations, no flesh and blood to suffer from cruel exposure, and no future to be ruined by lack of education. Certain self-styled "friends of the poor" have raised a cry of indignation at what they call an attempt to rob many an humble home of much-needed pennies. The indiguation is either imbecile or insincere. Anything that keeps children from the streets, that prevents the utilization of child labor, is to be commended and furthered by every sensible person. The same pretended senti- mentality that is now protesting that to take his wretched occupation from the newsboy is cruel, was equally vociferous a few years ago when little girls were freed from the same horrible slavery. There is almost as much need for the proposed reform as for that one. — A'. Y. IHmes. There are eight storage battery roads iu Europe, four of which were installed during the past year. The largest system of this type comprises three roads in Paris, operating nineteen storage battery cars, some of which have been doing duty since 1802, and the addition of a third road last May seems to indicate that for the conditions there existing the storage battery has proved satisfactory. The other four roads are located one at Birmingham, England ; one at Hague-Scheveningen, Holland, and two iu Austria-Hungary. THE PHONOSCOPE Batteries With the advent of the phonograph, the neces- sity of a storage battery adapted to this kind of work and a systematic means of keeping it charged, became apparent. This demand was at once met by the Storage Battery Supply Company, which began business in 1891, taking care of all the batteries used by the New York, New Jersey and later the North American Phonograph Companies, numbering in all over 400 machines. From the first, it was seen that the leakage of batteries then in use must be done away with. Experiments were made and many improvements introduced until now the limit seems to have been reached in their present type of cell. The many difficulties such as leakage, corrosion of connections and consequent loss of power have been done away with entirely. The batteries are hermetically sealed by a clamping device that prevents the leakage of acid yet allows the cover to be removed and replaced with ease. This is a feature of much merit as the entire interior of the cell is readily exposed. The connections are independent of the lead plates, and thus no creep- ing of acid or corrosion can take place. The plates used in these batteries are of elctro- chemical formation, and the greatest durability, efficiency and ligntness are secured. The standard batteries are made up in handsome oak cases and present a different appearance to the leaking, corroded and stained cell sometimes seen. The Storage Battery Supply Company has its own charging plant, with every appliance for handling batteries and a large stock of cells for rental constantly on hand. It has a complete system of delivery by hand and wagon. This company does storage battery work of every description, including repair work. Their batteries for kinetoscope, carriage lighting, medical and general work of all kinds are highly recommended by all those who have used them. * * * Ifmitates tbe J IRinetoscope Novel Little Invention Which Shows Pictures in notion The vitascope, kinetoscope and cinematographe have justly been given a place among the wonders of the century, and they have afforded as wide a range of entertainment to both old and young as any of the remarkable inventions of the decade. Being essentially a fad of the hour, and widely popular, they have had their cheaper imitations It is not likely that there has been made as cheap an imitation of an expensive and intricate machine as the living photograph or minature kinetoscope, which seems to be a never ending source of amusement. Instead of the expensive long celluloid ribbon, with 2,000 or more pictures to every 50 yards, through which the strong incandescent light shines, throwing the pictures on the white canvas as rapidly as the ribbon is run in the larger vitascope, this toy is a collection of about 100 photographs of the same size, 1x1} inches, taken in the same way as the larger one — with the electric camera, which takes 43 photographs a minute — and printed on one end of a cardboard 2} inches long by 1} inches wide. The blank ends are fastened together securely and the picture ends left loose, so that by holding the pack firmly in one hand and drawing the thumb of the other across the top edge the pictures will flash before your eyes so rapidly as to have the appearance of being alive. popular Science How to Dodge Lightning Those who are actually afraid of lightning should place their chair iu the center of the room and get thier feet up off the floor, or place aluminum glass under their chair posts, which is a sure pro- tection from the dangers of lightning stroke. Electricity is Safer Insurance company statistics prove that electric lighting, when the wiring is done in accordance with the rules prepared by them, is the safest of all illuminants. The figures show the following com- parative-risks in one large city: Fires in one year from paraffin and kerosene, 259 ; from gas, 110 ; matches used for gas, 35 ; candles, 88 ; arc lights, 7, add incandescent lights, only 1. Stone and Steel An experiment, with a view to ascertaining the relative resistance, under pressure, of the hardest steel and the hardest stone, was recently made in Vienna. Small cubes of corundum and of the finest steel were subjected to the test. The corundum broke under the weight of six tons, but the steel resisted up to forty-two tons. The steel split up with a noise like the report of a gun, breaking into a powder and sending sparks in every direction, which bored their way into the machine like shot. Revolution of the Earth "One of the wonders of the Paris exposition," says a Paris paper, "will be a 300- foot tower in which the scientists will experiment with a pendu- lum to ascertain if it is possible to detect or demon- strate the motion of the earth. A similar experiment was once made by Foucault under the cupalo of the pantheon, but the results were far from satisfactory. In the coming experiment the pendulum will be 350 feet in length, with a steel globe weighing 180 pounds at its end." The experiment was success- fully made several years ago iu the old Chicago building. A Chinese Telegram Chinese is the only language that cannot be telegraphed, so a cipher system has been invented, by which message can be sent. The sender of the message need not bother him- self about the meaning. He may telegraph all day without the slightest idea of the information he is sending, for he transmits onty numerals. It is very different with the receiver, however. He has a code dictionary at his elbow, and after each message is received he must translate it, writing each literary character iu the place of the numeral that stands for it. Only about an eighth of the words in the written language appear in the code, but there are enough of them for all practical purposes. Electricity Facts The editor of a periodical devoted to the news of electrical development frequently heard during the recent Electrical Exposition some wiseacre remark to the ladies in his escort: "All very wonderful, but still we must remember that electricity is still in its infancy." The editor, therefore, at the close of the exposition, sent letters to a Dumber of gentlemen who have spent a lifetime in the pursuit of electrical science, with the result that he has gathered some statistics that show that electricity is anything but an infant industry. It appears that there are not less than 65,000,000 telegraph messages sent in the United States every year. The number of telephonic conversations is 750,000,000. There are 2,700 central electric light stations and 7,000 isolated electric light plants in buildings of all kinds. These operate about 1,000,000 arc lights and 15,000,000 incandescents, as well as several hundred- thousand .electric motors. The electric railways ofr this country reach 1,000, with 12,000 miles of track and 25,000 cars. It is estimated that directly afl The Phonograph as an Aid in Teaching Languages A professor of languages in New York City has brought the phonograph into use as an assistant. He uses it to teach his pupils the proper pronun- ciation. His method is to send with his textbook a phonograph and twenty loaded and twenty blank cylinders. Each lesson in the book is arranged in questions and answers, and the pupil puts the proper cylinder in the phonograph before beginning a lesson. With the book before him and the tubes of the phonograph in his ears, he reads the lesson and also hears the phrases repeated with the proper accent. This he can repeat until he has acquired the proper pronunciation and thoroughly understands the lesson. Then he uses one of the blank cylinders and repeats what he has learned for the purpose of sending it back to the professor and having it corrected. The professor places the tube in his phonograph, listens to his pupil, and writes out such criticisms as are necessary and sends them to him. By this means many are enabled to study at their homes, and the professor to have pupils in any part of the country. The professor has over 500 machines out. Mr. Frank Idner, a jeweler, of West Palm Beach, Fla., has just completed a perfect phono- graph or "talking machine," which, in distinct- ness of tone and in the reproduction of the human voice, or other sounds, is the equal of any.— -Jack- son ville Times- Un ion. 12 THE PHONOSCOPE January-February, 1897 picture Iprojectino " Devices The Kinematograph as Exhibited at the Royal Aquarium, London, Eng. In this machine the films are contained in a round metal box which is seen above the lens on the forepart of the lantern in Sketch No. r. The box, when closed, prevents the film from sliding off the shaft and at the same time allows it to revolve freely. The film is then made to unwind by means of a sprocket wheel provided with teeth fitting into perforations in the film, the sprocket wheel being made to revolve intermittently by means of a worn wheel in the circumference of which the regular portion of the teeth of the worm only occupies a very small space, the rest of the circumference being plain. The mechanism is as follows : The worm, upon being revolved, grips the worm wheel and causes it to turn far enough to bring the film into the required position and then entering on the plain part, bring the wheel to a standstill and the picture remains stationary. This movement is repeated until the whole length of the film is unwound. No pressure pads are used, and thus the films are preserved from damage. Since April last performances have been given with this machine at the Royal Aquarium. A twenty ampere arc lamp is used, but limelight will be found to give equally satisfactory results. Exhibitors of some machines have complained | of the tearing of the perforations, and a mouth ago | a manufacturer attempted to put on the market a J machine in which perforated films were dispensed U with, but this proved a failure. The idea was no novelty, for as long as seven years ago a similar machine was constructed for scientific purposes at the Polytechnic in Regent street. This machine has ever since been in the work- shop of a London maker. To take a picture with the Kinematograph you simply remove the mechanical part from the lantern and slide it into the camera (see Sketch No. 2), which can be done in half a minute. A four volt motor is used for running the machine for both purposes. Varioscopes to be Operated at the Corbett=Fitzsimmons Contest The battle between Corbett aud Fitzsimmons, ostensibly for the heavy-weight championship of the world, which will take place in all probability at Carsou City, Nev., on March 17, is in reality for the varioscope championship. The photographing privilege is the main point at issue. It will be worth more to the pugilists and the promoters of the big battle than the $15,000 purse or the $10,000 stake. This was the little dodger that] Stuart tried to cover up among privileges, and but for Fitzsiinmons's attitude might have done so and kept the snap to himself. The New Zealander, like all pugilists, however, wanted everything in sight, and at once refused to sign the arti cles unless he were allowed to share in the phonographic privileges. After some argu- ment this concession was made. It was a shrewd move on the Antipodean's part, as at that very moment a com- pany was at work building the largest varioscope that had ever been constructed. R. K. Wheelock, who is Smart's partner, was the head of the firm. Their movements had been made with the utmost secrecy, but somehow or other their plans reached Fitzsimmons's ears. Now both pugilists, Dan Stuart and the builder of the varioscope will share in what profits there may be in the venture. The plan is to build three varioscopes. They will be placed in a row at the ring side in a small enclosure that will be specially constructed for them. The three instruments will have a frontage of eight feet, and each will cover every inch of space between the four posts of the twenty-four foot ring. REPRODUCING I.KNS 5. FEEDING FILMS SHUTTER 3. MOTOR 11KI.T 4- MOTOR 6. WINDING FILMS /. SET SCREW The varioscope will carry 1,000 feet of celluloid films each. The company has decided to make 24,000 feet of celluloid films with them. Varioscope No. 1 will be started with the first round aud will run four minutes, or until the call of time for the second round. The second instru- ment will then be set in operation. This will run for -a similar period, when the third machine will be put in operation. When the latter has run its allotted course of four minutes No. 1, which will be recharged with films while the other machines are in operation, will again be started. This mode of pro cedure will he followed until either the fighters, the instru- ments or the films give out. The varioscope will take twenty four photographs a second. Each will be If inches high and 2* inches wide. They will be the largest ever made or even attempted with an instrument of the kind. It is expected that with ordinary luck as regards weather the big fight will be perfectly reproduced in all parts of the world. The machines will be op- erated by means of revolv- ing crank hand gear instead of electricity. This will be an innovation. Some experts predict failure for the enter- prise on this account, ami others say that the promoters of the machine are trying to do too much. The instruments are nearly completed. They were built in this city aud Brooklyn. Vol 1. No. 3 THE PHONOSCOPE 13 Slot flftacbmes Gives a Choice of Seven Articles for a Nickel and Refunds If Out of What You Want A gentleman of Atlanta, Ga,, has invented a slot machine which has been so successful that the Mayor has ordered it to cease operations because it blocks the streets with large crowds. After spending a year and a half and over $1,000 the inventor perfected a machine which differs from all others in that it gives the purchaser a choice of seven articles, which aie delivered through a single door, and in that it refunds the money to the customer in case the machine is empty of the article desired. " I have put all the money 1 have got in that thing." said the inventor as he stood before the machine placed on the sidewalk, "and I don't think it is fair of the city to close me up just because my machine is more successful than the others. The others have places on the sidewalk, but they attract no crowds. If they proposed to take the others in from the streets, it might be fair. But mine is a winner, which seems to be the very cause of the closing up." In addition to the mechanical virtues of the slot machine it is also an advertising medium, and an octagon display board revolves around the machine proper, giving the names of various firms through- out the city. "I have always wanted to go into' this sort of business, so I went to work and devoted my whole time to it. It took me a year and a half to perfect it. What I wanted was a machine with a single slot and a single door which would give a choice of articles. Some months ago I completed it. After working on it an hour one day I found out I could cheat it. I could get an article without a nickel. I started all over again. I had the arrangement all made and a nickel dropped in wTould deliver what- ever you wanted, but if the receptacle was empty you couldn't get your money back. One night, about 1 o'clock, I thought of how to do this. I made it that morning and had a model completed out of a cigar box by sunrise. Now, if the machine has not the article you call for, your money will be delivered back to you." Several days ago the inventor put his machine out on the sidewalk, having arranged to pay the city $52.50 taxes. The extreme novelty of the machine, its unfailing accuracy and the kind of goods it sold attracted so much attention that crowds stood closely packed behind and around it. Complaint was made and the Mayor forthwith ordered it to cease until' the next meeting of the council and ordered a curtain put around the machine. The machine is likely to become a huge success, and it may not be long before the inventor will be chinkling his thousands. It delivers cubical boxes of uniform ske, about three and a half inches each way. Pies were sold in them the other day. They will sell peanuts, pop- corn, candies, confections, bread, cakes and any food stuff or other articles. You may approach it and get a choice, say of mince, peach and apple pie, popcorn, peanuts, candy and fancy cakes. There is a knob on the machine which vou turn to the number indicated by the menu card. You drop your nickel in a slot, pull a door and there is your pie, your popcorn or your peanuts. If you wanted pie and there was none, the nickel would have tinkled back into a little tray and you would not have lost. Africa to Be Enlightened The natives and Dutch burghers in the sunny districts of the southern part of the dark continent are soon to be introduced to the seductive Yankee device known as the nickel-in-the-slot machine. In order to avoid ■ possibility of having to turn away customers the energetic projectors of the scheme have secured not only one, two or a dozen machines, but a number that weigh in aggregate 6ooo pounds. The good ship Senator, Captain Lewis, which will sail from Tacoma in the near future, will carry three tons of nickel-in-the-slot machines for Delagoa Bay. They are from the wicked city of San Francisco. It is expected the festive Hotten- tots and Zulus will cast away their hunting spears and abandon their wives and sweethearts in their eagerness to toy with the new American plavthing. Captain Lewis is rumored to be keeping the fact quiet that he is to guide the ship that will carry the strange consignment from this port for fear that some one will ship a copy of the Tacoma nickel-in-the-slot license ordinance among the goods, and disclose to the authorities of that country a scheme that prevails in America for replenishing the public coffers. The Senator will carry, also, 35 tons of wheat, 10 tons of canned goods, 600,000 feet of redwood and 800,000 feet of Washington fir. British ship Manx King, now in port, will load lumber for South Africa. British ship Drumblair, also here, is chartered to load lumber at the Tacoma mill with the option of England or South Africa as the point of destination. Automatic Telephones There are three public telephones in Newark, N. J., that collect the money for the service rendered. They are located in Crawford's shoe store, on Broad street; in Lewis Bros.'s drug store at Market and Mulberry street, and in Mur- ray's cafe on Market street. The collection department of the telephone consists of some very delicate machinery operated by small batteries. The parton drops the neces- sary coin in the slot, whereupon a "buzzer'' makes a noise in the central office. If a nickel is dropped in the slot ' ' central ' ' hears two ' ' brrs ; ' ' if a dime, one ; if a quarter, three ; a half-dollar, four, and a dollar, five. If other coins are dropped in, the 'phone refuses to work and an inspector must remove the money that caused the trouble. When the operator hears the ' ' brr ' ' she responds and is able to tell by the number of the signals whether the patron has deposited enough money for the service required. The one in Lewis Bros.'s store has been in operation about five months and has given such satisfaction that it is probable the automatic collector will be attached to many other public 'phones. ' Thus far none of the 'phones have collected more than half a dollar at a time. The legislature has abolished the nickel-in-the- slot machine and those chaps will mourn who are in the habit of working their lnck for a good smoke. The nickel-in-the-slot device is a gambling affair pure and simple, and the objections to it are not fully met when it is said that the sums wagered are too insignificant to cut a figure. The boy who wins twenty-five cents in a nickel machine is educating himself to lose several times that many dollars when he becomes big enough to play poker or attack faro. The machine is developing the appetite for getting something for nothing and will soon put a young chap where he will get nothing for something. Now, if the legislature will get after the deadly cigarette and pass that bill against swearing, South Dakota wont be such a bad place after all. — Sioux Falls Argus-Leader. Ten citizens of New Haven, Conn., have formed a stock company to manufacture and place on the market an automatic exhibiting machine. The machine consists of a small cabinet in which a nickel can be dropped. The person using the machine then looks through two glasses and a series of views pass for inspection. It is after the general model of nickel-in-the-slot machines placed in saloons throughout the country. The organization just incorporated will have charge of the machines in Ohio. William Reeves is the inventor. The capital stock is $5,000, 100 shares of $50 each. The share- holders are : J. M. Marvin, 10 ; Julius Lederer, 10 ; R. C. Bright, 10 ; S. Z. Poli, 10 ; F. B. Street, 5 ; L. C. Thompson, 5 ; C. B. Bryant, 5 ; William Reeves, 30; H. H. Asher, 10; C. H. Street, 5. Cash paid in, $ 1,000. About 250 owners of slot machines in Kansas City, Mo., have taken out licenses, but since Chief Julian issued an edict against the machines the owners have taken them out of their places of business. They are now besieging the office of the license inspector demanding the return of their license money ; but nothing can be done without a special ordinance of the council. Judge Gifford has not passed upon the question as to what con- stitutes a gambling device in the shape of a slot machine. The city counselor holds that some of the machines are not gambling devices, while Chief Julian says they are all gambling devices. An effort will be made at an early day to ascertain which of these positions is correct. " There is a good deal of misapprehension as to the ordinance," said License Inspector Farhart yesterday. ' ' The ordinance expressly excepts from its operation machines used for gambling purposes, in this way. It says . ' Nickel or penny- in-the-slot machines, others than those used for gambling purposes — $5 per year.' Now this de- partment has no means of knowing whether a machine is used for gambling purposes or not, and when the owner pays the tax we have nothing to do except issue the license. Judge McDougal has not said, as repored, that all these machines are used for gambling devices, but has said that if use 1 for gambling purposes the license did not protect the owner. u - - , ■ - , r-— ---'j^,. _ _ Xetters This column is open to any of our patrons who have a complaint to make, a grievance to ventilate, infor- mation to give, or a subject of general interest to discuss appertaining to Sound Producing Machines, Picture Projecting Devices, Slot Machines, Amuse- ment Inventions or Scientific Novelties in general. Can anybody give me any information as to on what Mr. Thos. Arinat, of Washington, D. C, bases his claim to the invention of the vitascope, generally attributed to Mr. Edison ? I fail to see how a real estate dealer can dispute with a man of Edison's world-wide reputation, an invention which must needs be the outcome of a life time devotion to science. T. L. Your issue of The Phonoscope received with thanks. Pleased to see at last sensible persons publishing a journal for the interest of phonograph, graphophone and kinetoscope users. Whoever gets your paper will be happy to consider himself a subscriber. I know I do. Enclosed please find one year's subscription. While phonographs, kinetoscopes, etc., are secondary in my business, I think well enough of it to have eight phono- graphs, one cabinet graphophone, fifteen kineto- scopes, and in a few days a vitascope, X-rays, electric piano and many fine imported automatic musical and other instruments which probably give me the largest plant of the kind in the New Eng- land States. It is 3'our duty to put on guard all of our great phonograph and supply firms against filling the market with duplicate records called " high grade," while the original remains in their cabinets. It is a race now between the fake and best films who will make and sell the most cylinders. To facilitate their works, they use these white soft blanks, no more of those good and hard dark blanks. This process will do more harm to the legitimate phonograph exhibitors than anything else. Of course amateurs will not perceive this at once, but when they do, good-bye phonograph amusements. Yours respectfully, L. I have a spring motor phonograph which runs perfectly smooth and even, but about the middle of each cylinder the springs give a jump and very often throws the reproducer out of track. Can any reader of The Phonoscope enlighten me on this point? Inquiry, New Orleans. Editor of The Phonoscope : If you will kindly grant me a little space in your journal, I wish to receive a little light. I wish to ascertain the reason why so many records crack after using a short time? I have always handled my records with great care, but they will crack on me and, of course, I must consign them to the ash barrel. Perhaps some of your readers could give me a pointer on this question. Yours, F. C. E., Lowell, Mass. ©ur Corresponbents Norfolk, Va. — The Richmond Stereopticon Advertising Company, which was organized in in this city, intend to establish a branch office for an exhibition to be given in Norfolk. The com- pany is composed of several leading business men, and have been operating very successfully for the past two months upon their canvass located on the corner of Sixth and Broad streets. This novel form of "reaching the eyes" of the people in the interests of Richmond merchants and manufactur- ing businesses is a repetition of the canvass at THE PHONOSCOPE Herald Square, New' York City, which attracted so much attention. Mr. K. Hoyt Stone, Jr., of Brooklyn, N. Y., who has had considerable experi- ence with stereopticon machine in the North, has been secured as advance agent for the company. Williams. Memphis, Tenn. — The phono, business here in Memphis is about like every other business, very quiet. The vitascope had a four weeks' run at the Auditorium for which Mr. Miller told me he received $1,000. It came in at the close of the regular performances, giving seven pictures, with a change each week, and it proved a drawing card. He claimed the right for Tennesee. There was a snide imported concern here at the same time, I can't now recall the kind of 'graph it was. The greatest hit of the season was Morris's illusions from Paris a d London. For a ten cent show it was immense, and took hundreds of dollars from the city. A few months ago two young men stopped at a fashionarle boarding house and pro- nosed to exhibit a little graphophone, and our city license inspector wanted to pull them for $50 only, and if I mistake not, it was $50 a day. I called to see them twice, but they were out each time. Now, tell me if some of our big men who have some in- fluence in Washington can get Congress to prohibit such an outrage. If a sister state wants to show her nakedness or act the pirate or robber, should not the united sisters object and put their veto on such conduct? I succeeded in getting the 1895 Legislature to cut the license on photograph galleries from $150 to $75 per annum. Even a little tintype tent is taxed the same, so I say don't come to Tennessee. We have many noble people, but the\- do not predominate. Solomon knew the truth when he wrote this Proverb : ' ' When the wicked rule, the people mourn." How does this strike these times ? How would it fit our Washing- ton, D. C, as well as Europe? W. T. Brooks. Sandusky, Ohio. — The Sandusky, Ohio, city council have at last disposed of the famous slot machine ordinance which came up for second reading last month. Upon motion of Charles Miller the rules were suspended and it was passed to the final reading. Then the question of its passage came up, and the ordinance was downed in less time than it takes to tell about it, and Sandusky is now one of the few cities of its size in this state allowing the operation of slot machines. Those voting in favor of the ordinance and pro- hibiting the running of the machines are as follows : Chandler, Coles, Fettel, Gilcher, Walsh, Windisch, Zimmerman and President Miller — S. Those opposed to the ordinance were Buehrle, Close, Horn, Chas. Miller, Moltz, Schatz, Stang, Wagner, Zeitzheim and Zistel. Mr. Nusly was excused before the vote was taken up. Emons. Portland, Ore. — " Begorra business is bad in Portland I " as " Casey " says in "The Auctioneer," and that don't half tell the story for the past month. For the thirty days just past, ending December 29th, business fell with me to less than one half the month previous. Of course, the exceeding cold weather in the early part of the month answers for a good part of the trouble, and the holidays for the rest. People will save up for Christmas, and while they are saving the phono- graph suffers. The vitascope is here, showed two weeks at at Cordray's Theatre, then "set up" on Third street. Is doing fair business, I think. The aniniatiscope then came and cast anchor at the Third and Stark, but remained only a few days ; has now g»ne to the Sound. It opened at . the Olympia. These are the only two out of the very January-February, 1897 many projecting instruments on the market that I have seen. They both work very fine and give good satisfaction ; think they are a long jump ahead of the kinetoscope. Mr. W. L. Wright is the discoverer of the animatiscope and made the first two in this city, then removed to San Fran- cisco, where he formed a company who are now manufacturing. Had Mr. Wright opened in this city as he intended last February he would have been the first to expose the projecting instrument on this continent. In the November Phonoscope I notice what ' ' Leonard " says of white cylinders, etc. He says that ' ' late records are not nearly as good as they were three and four years ago." This is exactly the opposite to my experience, which is this : Every kind of record that I know of — r>nd I buy all the makers' — has improved one hundred per cent, during the past two years. Take Hunting, Myers, Gaskin, Quinn and Spencer, and they never made such records as they are now making. The same may be said of all the bands, especially Issler's Orchestra. An Issler is as sure to be good as a gold dollar is good for one hundred cents, and I have had several recently that are man-els. In regard to white cylinders, I am quite sure that they are the best. I can name four that I have taken more than $50 each on — two of them are now in my box and the other two I sold a few days since for $1.50 each. This is simply my experience. There is nothing lost by giving it. I go for the white cylinders all the time — 'til they make something better. I have just ordered a barrel of blanks, and "all white " was in the order. Let us endeavor to get the best for everything, keep our instruments in order and the phouograph will win out. Monroe. Bnswers to Covresponbence All questions pertaining to Talking Machines, Picture- Projecting Inventions, Automatic Coin-in-Slot de- vices, Amusement Inventions, etc., will be cheer- fully and fully answered in this column. Inquiries for this department should be addressed, Information Department, The Phonoscope, 4 East Fourteenth Street, New York, U. S. A. -J* J* J* 8 Human Tissues Injured by Constant Contact Finger Naifs and Skin Drop Off The effect of X-rays upon human tissue is shown in the peculiar case of- William Paley, an electrician, of No. 203 East Thirteenth street. Paley had been a practical electrician for years, having studied at the South Kensington Museum, England, in 1878. Since his experience with the X-rays he has been perfecting the "kaltechnoseope," a portable improvement upon the vitascope, which he has invented. Paley is six feet high, weighs 270 pounds, and, until last Summer, was never ill. He was at Asbury Park, and undertook to operate an X-ray exhibition . He conducted the exhi- bition there and in Willow Grove, Pa., until October. "I held the object through which I was to send the ray in front of the screen with my hand," he said. " The four fingers of my left hand were thus exposed to the ray from the knuckles to the tips. " Early in August my fingers began to itch, and then little water boils appeared under the skin, some of which filled with blood. My fingers grew red as if they were scalded. " In a week the skin peeled from the fingers. I tried to protect my hand as much as possible and used the right hand. I had the same trouble with the forefinger of that hand. ' ' The skin of my fingers grew red and peeled off twice while I was working the X-rays. My nails began to fall off a month after the first redness appeared. I have new nails on the four fingers of my left hand and on the forefinger of the right hand. "A slight swelling of the fingers accompanied tlie redness and disappeared with it. Towards the last of the exhibition I let those who wished to see the rays hold the object they wished to look through, and in this way I avoided further irritation." Mr. Paley said the man who conducted the X-ray exhibition at Willow Grove before his arrival there suffered in the same way. "I am not forty years old, but see how g"ay my hair is," he said. "My wife says it has become gray in the last few months, and I attribute it to the rays. My eyesight seems poorer, and at times I have a slight buzzing in the ears, which, I think, is the result of the rays." Paley does not show any efftct of the rays now except the grayness of his hair and the shortness of his nails, which have not grown out the full length. THE PHONOSCOPE £=1Ra£ litems Quite a budget of discoveries in connection with the Rontgen ray investigations have been reported from the Continent within a few days. That reported by Prof. Friedrich to the Vienna Academy of Sciences is the most important. The Professor discovered certain black rays that issue from the vacuum tube and pass through the human body. The photographs produced by means of these rays, which the Professor calls "critical rays," are not the same when taken of a living body as from a dead one. Photographs of living hands show the skeleton as in the Rontgen photographs. A dead hand appears in full, showing all the fleshy integu- ment, while the bones remain invisible. It is thought that, by means of these rays, it may be ascertained whether a person is really dead. The use of the Rontgen rays as a hair extermin. ator is also revived. Dr. Freund, also of Vienna, tried them upon a boy whose spine was hidden by an abundant crop of hair. The maladv is known to the faculty as hypertrichosis. Dr. Freund turned the rays upon the boy's back and the superfluous hair vanished, roots and all. The boy, no longer an infant phenomenon, has been shown to the medical society in Vienna, and photographs of his condition before and after are circulating in that city. The Prussian Government has appropri- ated $12,000 for Rdutgen ray experiments during the current year. All metals and certain metalloids are endowed with a greater or less degree of resistance to the Rontgen rays. Halogeuic substances, such as iodine, bromine and chlorine are opaque to X-rays, which property belongs to the substance itself, as it appears iu all its chemical combinations with an intensity proportionate to the amount of the element opaque to the Rontgen rays which the combination contains. Consequently, radiographics will form a quali- tative and quantitative method of ehemicel analysis that will enable us to easily discover certain pharmaceutical adulterations. Strange to say, there is quite a number of liquids which are transparent to ordinary7 light and opaque to the X-rays. To this group belong hydrochloric acid, chloroform, chloral, tetrachloride of carhon, sulphide of carbon, and particularly bromoform. nam moth X=Ray Coil The largest Rontgen ray apparatus in the world has just been completed by Professor A. Fessenden, of the Western University, for the Academy of Science and Art. The machine is enclosed in a neat oak cabinet, four feet high and two feet wide, and weighs but 175 pounds. Handles are provided on either side to carry it. The most important feature is the coil which rests near the base, between the legs of the cabinet. This is composed of seventeen coils, and is wound with fifty miles of small wire. It is arranged to give a spark over twenty inches long, while the capacity of the machine reaches thirty inches. The current is received from two portable storage batteries, the ordinary direct or the alter- nating currents. The main circuit is broken by a revolving contact breaker which makes about two hundred breaks a second. This is important when it is known that the sparks are produced when the current on the large wire is broken. The contact breaker is inimessed in ordinary petroleum, and is adjacent to a magnet, both of which put out any light produced in the breaker. This is en- cased in a small box on the top of the cabinet, and is driven by a small one-horse power motor placed beside it. The suddenness of the breaking of the 15 sparks is regulated by an adjustable condensor, also on the cabinet top. It is simply an alterna- tion of tin foil sheets and parrafin paper. It arrests sparks and makes the break more sudden. Fastened to the side of the cabinet is an adjust- able arm for holding the Rontgen ray tube. This is so constructed with several elbows that it can be placed in any position. If necessary it can be placed beneath the bed upon which the patient lies and the photograph taken without moving or disturbing the sick one. A drawer is also inserted in the cabinet for the storing of assorted sizes of tubes . The tube is of Professor Fessenden's own dis- covery and represents the latest and most eco- nomical principles. It was worked out six months ago, and has been in successful operation. It was designed in accordance with a principle that the positive electrode must not be nearer any part of the fluorescent glass than the length of spark the coil will give. The positive terminal is, therefore, enclosed in a long tube connected with the main bulb. The coil is the most powerful ever successfully made. A photograph can be taken through the thickest part of the body "in fifteen minutes, and the surgeon can easily see through every part of the body with the fluoroscope. IRecent Unventions An Electric Eye For DelU cate Surgical Operations The latest adjunct which science gives to the surgical operator is an electric eye. Strictly speaking, it is not an eye at all, but rather a sort of searchlight which is used to aid the human eye in delicate surgical operations. Oftentimes surgeons are handicapped in their work by the fact that they cannot see distinctly the parts upon which they must operate. The formation of the human body is such that in many instances no light can be put directly upon the particular portion of the human anatomy which is to be operated upon. The eye can see to the extent of human capa- bility, but in intricate operations, however strong the light in the operating theatre may be, the rays lack that penetration and power of concentration so necessary to delicate surgical operations. Professor Charles E. Quimby, of Bellevue Hospital, New York, has patented this new aid to surgery. From an ordinary electric light wire a connectiou is made with this device, which fits the face much in the manner of a pair of spectacles. The appliance in itself consists of two small incandescent lamps, which are fitted one above and the other below the eye of the operator. They are so adjusted that the rays focus at a point sufficiently near the ordinary point of vision to throw all the power of the electric rays upon the point desired. It is practically a portable search- light adapted to the operating theatre. The lamps are in the form of an annular glass globe, with an illuminating conductor. An insulated backing, consisting of a metal leather lined band, which passes around the head, prevents the heat from affecting the wearer, and at the same time holds the light in position and prevents any possible effect which otherwise the electricity might have upon the wearer. The lights more nearly resemble long glass tubes than anything else. Within these tubes are placed the lamps, which can be adjusted to any desired angle. When a direct downward ray is desired, a small reflector is fixed above the light and the rays thrown in the desired direction. 16 THE PHONOSCOPE January-February, 1897 IRew jfUms for "Screen " flliacbmes INFANTRY MANOEUVRES. This scene was taken at Harriflburg, and shows the State Militia executing orders on " double quick " lime. BLACK DIAMOND EXPRESS. This scene pre- sents the famous Lehigh Valley "flyer" emerging from a wood in the distance and approaching the camera under full head of steam. A section gang in the foreground, engaged in repairing track, wave their hats to the engineer, who is leaning out of the cab window. The subject is the only one in existence showing an express train making seventy miles an hour. CHICAGO AND BUFFALO EXPRESS. This- scene shows the arrival at a station, and passen- gers alighting from and boarding the train, together with the usual bustling activity of the baggage men, etc. It is an interesting and impres- sive subject of its kind. MORNING FIRE ALARM. This shows the Fire Department leaving headquarters for an early morning lire. The scene is remarkable for its natural effect. The opening of the engine house doors, the prancing of the horses and even the startled expression upon the faces of the spectators are all clearly depicted. GOING TO THE FIRE. This scene shows almost the entire Fire Department led by the Chief, re- sponding to an alarm. The horses, said to be the finest of their kind in the country, present a thrilling spectacle as they dash rapidly by, flecked with foam, and panting from the exertion of their long gallop. AMERICAN FALLS. (From Canada Shore, below). This is probably the best general view of Niagara, and is so clear that the mist can be seen arising and gradually settling over the Falls. CADETS' CHARGE. Showing a squadron of cavalry (at the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N. Y.), charging towards the camera at headlong speed. The flashing of their sabres in the sunlight as they are brandished aloft adds vim to the picture. CORBETT-COURTNEY FIGHT. LEONARD-CUSHLNG FIGHT. SOUND MONEY PARADE IN NEW YORK. This scene shows the famous sound money demon- stration in New York City, in which 125,000 men were iu line. THE BAND PARADE. Showing the celebrated New York Band marching up Fifth Avenue, New York. LOVE NEVER RUNS SMOOTHLY. This scene shows lovers very busily engaged. Entrance of angry mother and hasty exit of lover on a bicycle. FARMYARD SCENE. Showing little girl feeding chickens, ducks and geese, during which the old cow puts her nose in the feeding pail. This is very popular. GRAND BOULEVARD SCENE, PARIS. TRAMWAY STATION, ST. PETERSBURG. CORONATION OF THE CZAR OF RUSSIA. RUE ROYAL, PARIS. MARKET STREET SCENE, PARIS. LIVELY SUPPER PARTY, AUVERGNE PEASANTS. DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, WASH- INGTON, 1). C. Capitol in the distance. CABLE TRANSFER AT SEVENTH STREET, WASHINGTON, D. C. THE OLD GERMAN MILL, in which one of the millers thrusts a woman into the hopper of the mill and she soon emerges from beneath it, having apparently been run through the machine. IRew IRecorbs for TTaUnno nfoacbtnes The following list of new records has been compiled from lists sent us by the leading talking machine companies of the United States J* A Fosse e Lui, from opera Traviata AH Coons Look Alike to Me. Ernest Hogan All For the Love of a Girl. Myers All Over Town. Quinn Amor de Madre. Mexican Trio Aria, from opera Rigoletto A Trip to the Count}- Fair. Hunting Au Revoir, Sweetheart. Myers Hall of Hen-cooped Knights. Voss Better Thau Gold. Gaskin Casey as Auctioneer. Hunting Casey as Book-Agent. Hunting Casey as Chairman of the Mugwump Club. Hunting Casey as Mayor. Hunting Casey at the Circus. Hunting Casey Departing by Steamboat. Hunting Casey on a Bicycle. Hunting Casey on Love. Hunting Casey on Skates. Hunting Climb the Golden Fence. Hattie Starr and N. D. Mann Coon With the Big White Spot. Spencer Coronation March. Gilmore Dancing in the Dark. Sousa Dancing in the Sunlight (Xylophone). Lowe Dancing on the Housetops. Issler Dear Little Jappy, Jap, Jappy. Quinn Dio Possente, from opera Faust Departure from the Mountains. Schweinfest Don't Tell Her that You Love Her. Gaskin Down in Hcgan's Alley. Quinn Dreams of My Own Land. Gaskin El Curru. Mexican Trio Elle ne croyait, by Tomas Enquirer Club March. Washington Military Cadet Evening Star, from opera Tannhauser Faces We Miss From the Stage. Quinn Four Fingers and a Thumb. Quinn Girl With the Naughty Wink. Quinn Grace O'Moore. Gaskin Hiram Wilkins on Superstition. Hunting Hiram Wilkins's Girl Hannah. Hunting Hiram Wilkins's Visit to New Tork. Hunting Hot Time in Old Town To-night. Spencer If I Were Really a King. Myers I Love to See My Dear Old Mother Work. Hunting Imitation Medley. Diamond Comedy Four I Never Knew I Loved Her So. Gaskin In Old Madrid. .Eolian Trio Just a Little Yellow Coon. ^Eolian Trio Kentucky Babe. Spencer King Carnival March, Issler La Paloma. Mexican Trio Laugh and the World Laughs With You. Myers Laughing Song. From the Opera, " The Artist Model " Lesson in Music. Signor Frejoli Little Willie. Lottie Gilson Love, I Adore You. Myers Lucky Jim. Gaskin Lucy Lou. A. B. Sloane Mamie, Me Pet. Quinn Mammy's Little Pickaninny Boy. Bert Williams My Girl's a Corker. Favor My Lady Fair Serenade. Gaskin Ninon, by Tosti Oochy Koochy. Quinn Original Polka. Monsieur O'Gust, the celebrated French clown and imitator, from the Eldorado, Paris Popular Medley. Diamond Comedy Four Rosie O'Grady. Gaskin Rosie O'Grady. Lottie Gilson Serenade by Gounod Sylvia Yorke (Clarionet Solo). Tuson Take Back Your Gold. Gaskin Take Back Your Cold. Diamond Comedy Four The Girl that Loves Me Best. Molina Trio The Handicap. Quinn The Reception Medley. Diamond Comedy Four The Old, Old Home. Myers There Ain't Any Medals On You. Quinn There'll Come a Time. Gaskin Throe Little Maids from School. „Eolian Trio Two Heads Are Hotter Than One. Myers Uncle Rustus. Sousa Way Down in Georgia. Sousa Whisper Your Mother's Name. Diamond Comedy Four Wing Dance. Issler Yer Baby's a Coining to Town. J. T. Kelly You're a Good Daddy. Gaskin You're Not the Only Robbie on the Reach. Lottie- Gilson You're Not the Only Pebble on the Roach. Spencer Zbc Xatest popular Sonos The following is a list of the very latest popular songs published by the leading music publishers of the United States -jtjtjltjtjtjtjtjtjt A Dead Swell Colored Lady. Charles A. Burke and H. Beri A Dream of My Boyhood Days. Dresser Ah, Could It Be ! F. Ryan Ain't I Your Honey Boy No More? G. L. Davis Alma, Dear. E. A. Couturier Amelia's Girl. Safford Waters A Mother Never Can Never Forget Her Boy. Chrs. Miller An American Beauty. Hugh Morton And Then He Woke Cp. Johnson A Night of the Play. Fred J. Hamill A Picture of My Best Girl. Moreland As the Ship Went Down. J. C. Howard As They Did in Days of Yore. House & Seevers Back to His Childhood's Home. William Slafer Belle of Avenue A. Safford and Waters Belle of Hogan's Alley. James J. Blake and 31. Bernard Best Sweetheart of AIL Will C. Carleton Black Four Hundred's Ball. Billy Johnson and N. D. Mann Bob, the Bowery Boy. E. Selden Booze, Glorious Booze. Deane Breaking Home Ties. Joseph Hart Casey's Dog and Tracey's Cat. Joseph Hart Chimes of Trinity. M. J. Fitzpatrick Chimmie Fadden and the Duchess. L. A. George Chippies on Broadway. Cooper and Francis Come, Cuddle Your Head on My Shoulder. Ella Wheeler and A. P. Bedell Coochy Coochy Coo (Negro Comic). M. S. Fitzpatrick Cycling Song. M. R. Knapp Daisy and Nell (The Twins). W. A. White Day Will Come. E. Selden and E. Hoist Dear Old Friends. Lindsay Lenox Dis Coon Lubs Oo. George Evans Don't Leave Your Father, Boy. North Down in Tamale Town. Edw. F. Bender Drummer's Dream of Home. Charles Robinson Games We Used to Play. Marks & Stern Going for a Pardon. Thornton Grace O'More. Witt Handicap, Vocal. D. Reed nugh McCue. Cohan Hush Yo' Business! Oh. Go On! Midgley and Levi Honey, Does You Love Yer Man ? Ford and Bratton I Don't Blame You, Tom. May If They Write I'm Forgiven I'll Go Home. Gussie L. Davis I Love You. By Madame Ducreux. Geraldine In the Baggage-coach Ahead. Gussie L. Davis Isabelle. Ford & Bratton Just Because They Put Him Into Trowsers. Lawrenca Barclay Just Plain Dora Brown. Edward Armstrong Just Say Good-bye Again. Charles Miller Like a Good Little Girl Should Do. Ford & Bratton Let Me Call You My Sweetheart Again. Thornton Looking for a Bully. Howard Love, I Adore You . Cooper & Osborne Love's Sou venir. Feist Mary Black, From Hackensack. Lew Doekstader Modern Century Girl. Packford Moonlight On the Kiver. Golden & Dolan My Coal-black Lady. W. T. Jefferson My Gal is a High Born Lady. Fagan Oh. Aunt Jane. Isaac G. Reynolds Only Me. Ford and Bratton On Sunday. Flynn On the Benches In the Fark. Thornton Pat Malone Forgot that He Was Dead. Carroll Pebbles On the Beach. Mann & Starr Ridin' on the Golden Bike. Petrie Music Co. Send Me a Picture of the Old Home. Fitzgibbons and Arnold She Might Flirt with Others. Dave Marion Sweet Rosie O'Grady. Nugent Tell Her That We Love Her Just the Same. A. J. Lamb That's When You Learn to Love Them More and More Lawlor and Blake The Belle of Hogan's Alley. Bernard ft Blake The Battery. Evans and Dresser Then the Pipe Went Out. J. G. Reynolds The Heal Thing. Arthur Lamb When it is I.ove at First Sight. Mock When it 's a Boy. Goodwin & Morse When She's Just About to Fall. Cy \\ ornian Won't Somebody Give Me a Kiss? Would You Ask? Smith Yos, I Love You. R. M. Stults You'll Ho Sorry When I'm Gone. Monroe H. Rosenfeld You're So Good, Daddy. Hattie Starr Vol. I. No. 3 THE PHONOSCOPE 17 Wants anb fox Sale Special " Want " and " For Sale " advertisements will be inserted in this column at the uniform rate of three cents a word, each insertion. Answers can be sent in charge of " The Phonoscope " if destred. All letters received will be promptly forwarded to parties for whom intended, without extra charge. FOR SALE. — An exhibition X-Ray machine, ccmplete, with batteries (cheap). Address T., Phonoscope, 4 East 14th Street, New York. FOR SALE. — Three kinetophones, used but one season ; in good condition. $120 each ; cost $350 each. Also several Standard Graph- ophone Slot-machines, as good as new ; cost $160 ; will sell for \ Machine Co., care Street, New York. ' 80 each. Address Talking- Phonoscope, 4 East 14th / HA VE a market for' all kinds of Amusement Machines, new and second-hand. John McCarty, Box 628, St. Catherine, Ontario. FOR SALE. — Two new Chloride-Accumulator Batteries, $10 each, cost $16. Owner has spring- motor and has no use for them. Address Cash, care of Phonoscope, 4 East 14th Street, New York. FOR SALE. — Two Columbia Graphohone out- fits, consisting of Columbia Graphophone, twelve records, horn, and hearing tubes, $22.50 each. Address, J. D., care of Phonoscope, 4 East 14th Street, New York. FOR SALE.— Cheap. Complete Slot Phonograph outfit, with two batteries, records, etc. Write to E. B. A., care of Phonoscope Office, 4 East 14th Street, New York. WANTED. — I want to buy about ten recording diaphragms, for the Edison Phonograph. Ad- dress Maker, care of Phonoscope, 4 East 14th Street, New York. WANTED. — -A partner with a few hundred dol- lars to invest in a phonograph parlor at an East- ern summer resort. Exclusive right, sure thing. Address Partner, Phonoscope Publishing Co., 4 East 14th Street, New York. WANTED. — I want to buy old records that are in good condition to use as blanks. A. W., 4 East 14th Street, New York , care of Phonoscope. The Phonoscope PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY The Phonoscope Publishing Company 4 East 14th Street, New York, U. S. A. SUBSCRIPTIONS United States and Canada Foreign Countries . . Single Copies . . ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION $1.00 per year 1.50 " .10 each ^THK PHONOSCOPE is the only journal in the world published in the L interest of Talking-Machines, Picture-Projecting and Amusement Devices, and Scientific and Amusement Inventions appertaining to Sound and Sight. Correspondents in London, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Madrid, Alexandria, Constantinople. Australia, South America, Central America, Canada, and all cities in the United States. // You are Interested Subscribe Now 18 THE PHONOSCOPE January-February, 1897 \ K N. | from Six to Sixty Years • • f T^IHI /\\\\\\\\ mm \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \\ ' Something for the Children / ECHOPHONE THE LATEST TALKING MACHINE "Leslie's Weekly" is considered the best and most popular illus- trated weekly in America. Its subscription price is $4.00 per year, and the Echophone $10.00. Now you wonder how we can sell both for JS.oo. We will tell you. We want 250,000 subscribers to "Leslie's Weekly.'' HEN Edison invented the phonograph, which reproduces the human voice, it was considered the greatest invention of the age — and so it was. Jnst think a moment. Human voices, bands of music, songs of all kinds, speeches and lectures by great statesmen reproduced by these machines. Why are not phonographs in every house- hold ? They cost too much — $40 to $200. We have solved the problem. An Echo- phone will be shipped you (express charges to be paid by the purchaser) and " Leslie's Weekly " every week for one year, for the remarkably low price of $8.00. The Echophone is run by clock-work. An}- child can operate it. One record goes with each machine ; extra records, fifty cents each. The phonograph and graphophone cylinders can be used in this machine. We believe that we can get them this way. Those who advertise with us when we publish that number of papers will pay for our loss now. Therefore, the number of machines will be limited — " first come, first served." LESLIE'S WEEKLY no Fifth Avenue, New York City Vol. J. No. :5 THE PHONOSCOPE 19 IF YOU WANT. HIGH-CLASS ORIGINAL RECORDS OF THE ABOVE CELEBRATED ARTISTS WRITE TO US. WE CAN FURNISH YOU ONE OR A THOUSAND NE OF the serious drawbacks in the Talking-Machine business has been the limited amount of talent em- ployed in record-making. The entire phonograph and graphophone world for the past six years has had to satisfy itself with records which were limited to the product of about ten vocalists, three bands and a few instrumental soloists. We propose to offer to the patrons of the phonograph and graphophone a series of records by celebrated artists that com- mand public attention at the leading theatres, such as Lottie Gil- son, Bonnie Thornton, James Thornton, Sam Devere, Johnnie Carroll, Sam Bernard, Weber and Fields, Leona Lewis, Myer Cohen, Lottie Mortimer, Annie Hart, Maud Nugent, Allan May, William Jerome, Margaret Gonzalez, May Howard, Walter Tal- bot, La Porte Sisters, Ed. Latell, May Lowry, Gotham Comedy Four, Anna Willmuth Curran, John P. Curran, and many other vaudeville stars. We shall also manufacture and keep in stock records by the popular artists who have been associated with the talking-machine for years, such as Spencer, Gaskin, Quinn, Golden, At Lee, Hunting, Favor, etc. The above artists have popularized such hits as " Sweet Rosie O'Grady," "You're Not the Only Pebble on the Beach," "Mother Was a Lady," "The Lost Child," "My Best Girl's a New Yorker." "Down in Poverty Row," "Kathleen," " On the Benches in the Park," "Elsie from Chelsea," "Handicap March," "Honeymoon March," "Oriental Echoes" (March), etc. Jos. W. Stern & Co., who are interested in this new enter- prise, have published all of the above and many other hits, and we are consequently enabled to supply the public with the latest New York successes immediately upon their gaining popularity, and before most of the phonograph companies are aware of their existence. SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE 20 THE PHONOSCOPE Jjiiiuarv-Fcbi narv, 189< For Evening Entertainments £S^^,«£™ CAN BE HFARD DISTINCTLY IN ANY SIZE ROOM Berliner Gram=o=phone The Most Perfect Talking Machine Automatic Operation — Cannot Get Out of Order WONDERFULLY ADAPTED FOR JA NOVEL MONEY-MAKING ENTERTAINMENT HESE people are certainly enjoying themselves ; they are listening to one of the most varied home entertain" meuts ever given. They were first entertained by a piano solo, then by a popular song. The next selection ■was a banjo solo, after that a song, "Starlight, Starbright," then a recitation, followed by a male quartette. Then the popular Billy Golden sang his plantation song, "Bye, Bye, Ma Honey " ; following that a cornet duet, and then the French national song, "La Marseillaise." by Signor F. A Giannini. T PROGRAM MIC 1 PIAXO SOLO ■'. . Prifutss Bonnie Waltz 2 SOXG — Tenor Solo Tramp, Tramp, Tramp' BY CEOKGE f. GASKIS 3 BANJO SOLO - . . . . Titus March 4 SONG— Baritone Solo Starlight, Starbright BY J. W. MYERS 5 RECITATION Imitation of a Street Fakir BY GEORGE GRAHAM 6 MALE QUARTETTE— Medley Marv Ann 7 SONG— Plantation Shout Bye, Bye, Ma Honey BY BILLY GOLDEN S CORNET DCET Short and Sweet 9 SONG . .La Marseillaise ■ BY SIGNOR GIAXXIXI 10 BANJO SOLO •. . Medley of Jigs and Reels 11 SONG — Tenor Solo . . . . . . Doivn in Poverty Row BY GEORGE J. GASKIX 12 QUARTETTE — Negro Song /fear dem Bells 13 RECITATION— Poem by Eugene Field .... Departure 14 DRUM AND FIFE— Descriptive .... Spirit of y& 15 SONG— Baritone Solo . . . . . / IVant Yer, Ma Honey BY DAN TV. t»r-IN>- 16 RECITATION Side-Show Orator BY GEORGE GRAHAM 17 SONG — M. Farkoa's Great Success . Fiench Laughing Song- rS SONG— Baritone Solo Say An Revoir . BY J. W. MYEHS 2&JSm You will find our mimber for each \He selection in the list of our records WE here reproduce the whole programme as rendered at this evening's "Home Entertainment." You listen to the quality and strains of the cornet ; absolutely hear the picking of the banjo, while the quartette and solo singing are natural reproductions of real artists. This special talking machine, the Berliner Gramophone, is the newest and best. Its results are better than those of the regular $io» machines. The sound is recorded upon a flat disc and finally placed upon hard rubber, making it iudestructible, easy to handle, and thor- oughly adapted for family use. These discs cost sixty cents singly, or $6 per dozen. The variety is unlimited, giving you a never-failing source of pleasure and entertainment. Great men and great artists will be recorded and you may thus hear in your own home people of national and international reputation. ^^There is uo musical instrument that the Gramophone does uot reproduce. This spring-motor machine runs by clockwork, which turns three records without rewinding. It sells lor $25. express prepaid east of the Rocky Mountains. To points beyond we allow Denver express rates. Two records with each machine. We guarantee perfect satisfaction, and will return your money, less express charges, if not satisfactory. We have two other styles, for jio and 515 ; the $10 machine is run by hand, and is furnished with ear-tubes for two people to hear. The $13. machine is also run by hand, but is supplied with a governor, so that the speed is regulated. These two styles, the Jio and $^5 machines, sent prepaid, as above indicated, upon receipt of price. All equipment nec- essary accompanies each machiue. SEND FOR CATALOGUE Send Money by Registered Letter, Post-Office Order, or JVew York Draft to National Gramophone Company 874-880 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY A TKLK -MlKIiOK uF jjOI'XD LIEUTENANT BETTINI'S ffliero- Phonograph RECORDER AND REPRODUCER FOR EDISON'S PHONOGRAPH THE IHPROVED flODEL Gives the^most faithful reproduction in a loud, clear and natural tone. Is distinctly audible in the Largest Hall or Theatre. The Only Machine that can successfully record and reproduce the Female Voice. Also on hand : Phonograph, Graphophone and every kind of Husical and Other Records, mluding those of the most world-famed artists ; Edison's Vitascope and Photo- graphic Films for Projection. PHONOGRAPH LABORATORY UO FIFTH AVENUE New York City Please mention THE PHONOSCOPE NOVELTIES GIES & CO.'S "LIVING PHOTOGRAPHS" A MINIATURE KINETOSCOPE FUNNIEST THING ON EARTH. OBJECTS MOVE AND PEO- PLE ACT AS IP ALIVE. GREAT SELLERS. SOLE AGENTS, NEW YORK PHONOGRAPH AND GRAPHOPHONE HECOHDS. Lowest Price, Best Quality. Send for Ciitalogne of Good Things, etc. NOVELTY EXPORT CO. 1270 Broadway, New York City I MANDT BROTHERS PRINTERS 4 East 14th Street HffiBlR thousands of printers in New York City,, some good, many bad. Perhaps your printer is one of the latter, or perhaps he don't quite catch your idea of what^you, Avant. We solicit a trial when in need of a first-class job. f^^^^A Monthly Journal Devoted to '^^CIEHTinC^MUSEMENT iNVEIT^Ojfe APPERTAIN IiVG TO Sovtnd & Sight. ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AT THE NEW YORK. N. V., TOST OFFICE »::♦::♦::♦: »»::♦: :♦::♦>::♦: »::♦::♦::« :♦::♦::♦>: »::♦::♦:»: »::♦:»:»: :♦:»::♦:»: »::♦;•*■:♦: »::♦:»::♦: >:»::♦:»: Vo/. / 'No. 4 NEW YORK, MARCH, 1897 v& x$ principal features of this IHumber ELECTRICITY WONDERS. Telegraphing Without Wires. VITASCOPE BORN IN KANSAS. .1. R Bonheur Blade plans of one in 1886. TALKING MACHINES. The Phonograph, The Graphophone. OUR TATTLER. SEEING SOUND. WHERE THEY WERE EXHIBITED LAST MONTH. FIGHT PICTURES A FAILURE? LEGAL NOTES. FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE. PICTURE PROJECTING DEVICES. AUTOMATIC SLOT MACHINES. Strength Tester and Vending Machine. Automatic Banjo. Penny-in-the-Slot Electric Light, • Meters. Victory for Anti-Slot Machines. A HOME-MADE KINETOSCOPE. POPULAR SCIENCE. 'GRAHPS, 'PHONES AND 'SCOPES. The Spectroscope. The Micro-Phonograph. The Phonoplex. LETTERS. Our Correspondents. Answers to Correspondents. X-RAY ITEMS, The X-Ray in Law. Hope for Bald Heads. He Could Sec Light. NEW RECORDS FOR TALKING MACHINE New Records Manufactured by the Leading Companies. THE LATEST POPULAR SONGS. List of the Latest Metro- politan successes. NEW FILMS FOR PROJECTING DEVICES. :♦»::« :♦»::♦; •*•;:♦;:♦:;♦: :<#•:♦>::♦; :♦>::♦::♦; »::♦::♦: »»;:« :♦::♦::<*•:♦: . :♦::♦::♦::•» k> :♦:.♦::♦>: :♦::*::♦::♦: >::♦::♦:.♦: :♦::♦:.♦:>: .»:;♦:;♦::♦ 2 THE PHONOSCOPE March, 1897 The Edison Phonograph Company's Living Photographs The Big Corbett Fight Ready for Delivery April i We positively guarantee to our customers that this is the only Miniature Kinetoscope published showing James J. Corbett in the ring as participant in an actual fight. New scenes now ready: The New Kiss (May Irwin and John Rice). The Parisian Dance (This is a warm one). Bertoldi, the Contortionist &nd Perfect Woman. Send ten cents for sample and special prices in quantities. Our uew catalogue of Phonographs, Graphophoues, Projecting- Machines, Films, Records, and Supplies mailed on application. THE EDISON PHONOGRAPH COMPANY 23 SOUTH EIGHTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA., U. S. A. NEW EDISON SPRING-MOTOR PHONOGRAPH Complete, $40, Results Equal to $100 Outfit EDISON PHONOGRAPHS, EDISON SPRING MOTORS AND GRAPHOPHONES WHATTAH PHONOGRAPH GO. 202 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY Records of a Superior Quality 50 Cents Each $5.00 Per Dozen Discount to Dealers BLANKS and SUPPLIES «#■ ^ * Send for Catalogue Everything in Puplex Electric Lamp. EES Magic Lanterns OIL— LIME Electric, Acetylene, & Slides. « Lanterns Wanted and for Sale or Exchange. HarDacVs Marvel. IiARBACH d. CO., 809 Filbert St., Phila., Pa. STORAGE BATTERIES Rented Recharged % Repaired STORAGE-BATTERY WORK OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Our cased batteries will not leak. No corroded con- nections. Highest capacity, greatest durability. The Storage Battery Supply Co. 239 East 27th Street, New York HIGHCLASS ORIGINAL RECORDS OF THE FOLLOWING CELEBRATED ARTISTS WRITE TO US. WE CAN FURNISH YOU ONE OR A THOUSAND GEORGE .1. G ASKIN , DAN W. (JUINN, LEN SI'ENCER, RUSSELL HINTING. .1. .1. FISHER, JOHN BOLZB, ANN IK HART, ALLAN MAY, THE DIAMOND QUARTETTE, PENTZ BROTHERS (GERMAN DUETISTS) DIAMOND AND CURRY (BANJO DL'ETISTS), O'BRIEN AND WRIGHT, JOHNNY CARROLL. BILLY GOLDEN, ETC SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE Vol I. No. 4 THE PHONOSCOPE 3 The International Film Co. 3 Mission Place arjd 150, 152 Wortl^ Street, New York WE MANUFACTURE the finest, clearest, and most durable films in the world. WE TAKE special subjects to order. WE MAKE a specialty of coloring films. Standard length and size. WE GUARANTEE each and every film as we represent it. WE HANUFACTURE THE PROJECTQGRAPH The lightest, simplest, and most practical projecting machine on the market; a machine that combines the good points of many and has many good points of its own. Here are some : The total weight of machine complete, ready for opevatibf)„ 5a figrttf-five pounds. For traveling exhibitors, showmen, theatrical compartfe*, whosare accustomed to one- night stands, it will be found to be the most practical of aH jaefcure-projecting machines. The device for propelling the film is one entirely ttvw amd not to be found on other machines. There is no pitman or beater used, therefore no wear titas on the film. The shutter is also dispensed with, giving the pictismt psejected one hundred per cent, of light at all times. The device for holding the film is one based on agjF grfi^ciffee. There is no grip or tension on the film direct, yet w^bw^grojected on the screen the pictures are as stead}' as a stationary one. One does not see the constant flicker and jumping pictu»<*s, ats-'on the cheaper grade machines. The machine is operated by hand-power. The projectograph is mounted on a beautiful oak base, feet The machine stands fourteen inches high, four inches wide, and is a ¥$ost beautiful work- ing model of the mechanic's skill. The' machine is on exhibition at our laboratory, where all interested ase- eordially invited. Price of machine, complete, $125.00. SEND FOB CIRCULARS Send your permanent address, so that we can keep you posted on new subjects. The pi re St ate EDISON Phonograph REflOVED TO No. 76 UNIVERSITY PLACE THE EDISON : : SPRING MOTOR ALL KINDS OF PHONO- GRAPH REPAIRS .... We are the sole dealers of the handsom- est nickel-in-the-slot cabinets and the most reliable return mechanism in the world. This mechanism has made the nickel- in-the-slot business practical. Send for Cat- alogue. Dealers irj . • . . Pijorjograpfy Supplies Records Batteries, (Primary and Storage) Kirjetoscopes 1/itascopes, Etc, 4 THE PHONOSCOPE March.. 1S97 EDISON $100 Projecting Kinetoscope '97 MODEL Is the latest product of the Edison Laboratory, and embodies many great improvements over an}- other Lift Picture Projecting Machine yet placed on the market THIRTEEN ESSENTIAL FEATURES Steadiness. Vibration overcome by improved steadving device. No Flickering. A brilliant light without an}- unpleasant flickering. Hand Motive Power, which can always be relied upon. Economy. A mechanism which has no striker to injure films. Light. Independence of electricity ; a calcium burner can easily be attached. Large Picture. It projects a picture even greater than life size if desired. Portability. Weighs, complete, about sixty-five pounds. Easily packed in ordinary trunk. Simplicity. Only one operator is necessary, other machines require two. Clearness. Objectionable perpendicular ravs entirelv eliminated. Adaptability. Is equipped for all electric currents, with spool-hanks and reels, and can be placed on ordinary table or stand. Framing Device is without an equal, its adjustment instantaneous. Dimensions. When setup, length, ^yi feet; width, n inches; height, 2 feet. Cheapness. It is the best and by far the cheapest projecting machine on the market. Standard Edison, International, and Foreign Films In 50 and 150-foot lengths Over 250 Startling and Interesting Film Subjects to Select from Edison's '97 flodel Home Phonograph PRICE, $40.00 A Spring-motor Machine, giving as satisfactory results as are obtained from the high-priced instrument The entire machine is Mr. Edison's own design, and is built at his works. Equipped with Edison Standard' Speaker ^Recorder and Reproducer) and Shaving-knife. Runs five records with single winding, governs accurately, and is noiseless. LIGHT, SUBSTANTIAL, AND HANDSOME MAXIMUM DISCOUNTS TO DEALERS Catalogues, Lists of Films, and Descriptive Circulars furnished on application by MAGUIRE & BAUCUS, Ltd. No. 9 New Broad Street, London SELLING AOENT5 No. 44 Pine Street, New York The Phonoscope (Copyrighted, 1896) A Monthly Journal Devoted to Scientific and Amusement Inventions Appertaining to Sound and Sight Vol. I NEW YORK, MARCH, 1897 Electricity Members Telegraphing Without Wires The young Italian, Marconi, who is not yet twenty-two years of ;ige, has been studying for some years the Question of telegraphing without wires, and the results he has already reached are so extraordinary that but for the sponsorship of some of the leading telegraphic experts in London their acceptance might have been appreciably delayed. .Marconi says we can telegraph without wi-es, not only through the air, but through solids. This was lately demonstrated to a limited extent in London by Dr. (.'bunder Bose, a learned Hindoo, who has also been working on electric waves. Popularly speaking, an electric wave in the ether, though it moves in all directions, progresses outward like a wave produced by dropping a stor.e in a pond. The water wave can be seen. An electric wave is, of course, invisible. Supposing a cork is floating on the surface of the pond at any distance from the place where the stone was dropped. This cork, when the wave reaches it, will bob up and down. Though electric waves cannot be seen, an arrange- ment has been devised which will indicate their presence as the cork does. This device, which detects and records the passage of the wave, consists of an electric radiator and a receiver for the waves, Dr, Bose placed bis receiver in a room seventy-five feet distant from the radiator, with three walls of brick and mortar, eighteen inches thick between them. The electric wave projected penetrated the walls and traversed the distance with sufficient energy, when it was concentrated by a lens placed close to the radiator, to fire a pistol and l ing a bell. It would, of course, have transmitted a telegraph message. Last September Marconi made a notable discovery. He was sending electric waves through the air and getting signals at the distance of a mile or thereabouts when he found that the wave which went to his receiver through the air was also affecting another receiver which he had set up on the other side of the hill. In other words, the waves were going either through or over the bill. Later experiments convinced Marconi that the waves actually went through the hill, which was three- quarters of a mile iu thickness. This led to the con- ception and completion of a special apparatus, which is beiug tested iu England under government super- vision. The details of the invention are not yet giveu to the public, as the transmitter and receiver are not yet patented. The essential feature is the character of the wave produced. Temporary Telephones In many towns quite a feature of the telephone service is the number of instruments put iu temporarily by the advice of the doctor, for service during the time when it is specially imperative that the patient should be free from excitement. This gives the friends of the family the chance of making- inquiries without putting either party to the trouble of a formal call, and is usually very much to the advantage of the patient. But the latest idea in telephone applications comes from Mobile, where the local telephone company is said to have arranged with patrons who are ordered to take medicine at frequent intervals during the night, to call them up on the telephone when it is time to take the dose. The receiver is carried to the bed and placed (lose to the ear of the sleeper, with a call bell of low tones. Another curious point has just been brought out. So many burglaries have been frustrated by the police appearing on the scene at a most incon- venient time for the burglars — in response to a telephone cull from the inmates of the house — that the first thing a cracksman now does on getting into a house is to cut the telephone wires. This was done in a recent case of housebreaking, but the lady of the house quickly evened up matters by pressing a button at the head of the stairs and instantly lighting every electric lamp in the house. The disgusting publicity which this involved was too much for the feelings of the thieves, who forth- with decamped. Dttascopc SSovn in IRansas J. R. Bonheur riade Plans of One in 1886 The credit of first advancing the idea that resulted in kinetoscope, the vilascope and other scopes of the kind, is said to belong to a Kansas man. In 188G J. R. Bonheur lived in Kansas ; he is said to be dying of consumption in Algona, la., to-day. When he lived in Kansas he was an ardent student of optical synthesis for scenic illusions. MACHINERY OF THE ANIMATED PICTURE MACHINE In 1885 he sent to Edward L. Wilson, a photo- grapher in Philadelphia, the plan of a projecting machine with which he proposed to reproduce "snap shots" of living objects so connected that there would be no extinction or eclipse between the postures; the images appearing life, size timid scenery and accessories upon the stage. Photogenic films wrere not considered in his plans. He proposed to join glass views of con- tinuous action iu the form of a chain or belt and move it through the optical system of a projecting instrument. The views were to be brought into place in rotation by means of a winch or crank, the effect, of each displacement effaced by a quickly revolving shutter. He claimed this mechanism would pro- duce harmonious continuity by combining each posture with its predecessor without apparent break, thus realizing the construction of tin entire scene or play, showing images of human beings instinct with vitality. The plan seemed either too visionary or incom- prehensible. At ;my rate it was ignored by the eminent photographer. Without loss of lime the manuscript found its way into the waste basket. A few mouths later Mr. Bonheur and his two brothers were giving scenic exhibitions in McPherson County, Kas. They traveled in a wagon fitted up like a cottage on wheels. One day they got shelter for their horses at the ranch of George Nelson, about one mile from the Garfield school- house, where, that night, they gave an exhibition. It was January 6, 1886, memorable for the awful blizzard that surprised the audience on its way home. For thirty-six hours the storm raged. All next day and far into the following night the three brothers were housed in their wagon. The last bit of corn had been burned in the school house stove during their exhibition, and the want of afire for warming the wagon added to the terrors of the long hours. To venture out in such a Storm would have been certain death. When the storm subsided the snow had transformed the prairies iuto hills of drift, so high over hedges and deep on the level that further travel was impossible. It was while the rest of the company beguiled the winter evenings before Mr. Nelson's blazing fire, playing chess and dominoes, that J. R. Bonheur again set to work on his plaus for an animated picture machine, intending to send them to Edison, which he did, believing that he was the only man who could perfect such a machine. His references to the multi-camera of Muybridge, with which to obtain the pictures, and to the optical effects of the zoelrope and Prof. Dancer's experiments for illus- tration, received due notice the following year when Thomas A. Edison commenced his experi- ments and the embodiment of the plans iu a nickel- iu-the-slot machine. Not until April, 1896, did Mr. Edison make a public exhibition of the vitascope, which excited the wonder and amazement of till who saw it transform dead pictures into living, moving reali- ties, and for which he claimed the control of the entire^world, and announced Ids readiuess to uegotiate rights in any country which might be named. Since that date ten or more different animated picture machines have been invented, equally suc- cessful, and offered for sale without any restriction as to ownership or right to exhibit.— Kansas City Star. 6 THE PHONOSCOPE March, 1897 ttbe Ipbonograpb In December, 1877, a young man came into the office of the Scientific American, and placed be- fore the editors a small, simple machine about which very few preliminary remarks were offered. The visitor without any ceremony whatever turned the crank, and to the astonishment of all present the machine said: "Good morning. How do you do? How do you like the phonograph?" The machine thus spoke for itself, and made known the fact that it was the phonograph, an instrument about which much was said and written, although little was known. The young man was Edison, and the phonograph was his latest invention. Even then he was a well- known and successful inventor. The invention was novel, original and apparently destined to find immediate application to hundreds of uses. Every- one wanted to hear the wonderful talking ma- chine, and at once a modified form of the original phonograph was brought out and shown every- where, amusing thousands upon thousands; but it did not fulfill the requirements of the inventor. It was scarcely more than a scientific curiosity. Edi- son, however, recognized the fact that it contained the elements of a successful talking machine, and thoroughly believtd it was destined to become far more useful than curious or amusing. He con- tended that it would be a faithful stenographer, reproducing not only the words of the speaker, but the quality and inflections of his voice; and that letters, instead of being written, would be talked. He believed that the words of great statesmen and divines would be handed down to future genera- tions; that the voices of the world's prima donnas would be stored and preserved, so that, long after they had passed away, their songs could be heard. These and many other things were expected of the phonograph. It was, however, doomed to a period of silence. It remained a toy and nothing more for years. The original instrument consisted of three princi- pal parts — the mouthpiece, into which speech was uttered; the spirally grooved cylinder, carrying a sheet of tinfoil which received the record of the movements of the diaphragm in the mouthpiece; and a second mouthpiece, by which the speech re- corded on the cylinder was reproduced. In this in- strument the shaft of the cylinder was provided with a thread of the same pitch as the spiral on the surface of the cylinder, so that the needle of the receiving mouthpiece was enabled to traverse the surface of the tinfoil opposite the groove of the cylinder. Bv careful adjustment this instrument was made to reproduce familiar words and sen- tences, so that they would be recognized and understood by the listener; but it was necessary that the listener should hear the sounds uttered into the receiving mouthpiece of the phonograph to positively- understand the words uttered by the instrument. In later instruments exhibited throughout the country and the world, the same difficulty ob- tained, and perfection of articulation was sacrificed to volume of sound. This was necessary, as the instruments were exhibited before large audiences, where, it goes without saying, the instrument, to be entertaining, had to be heard. These instru- ments had each one mouthpiece and one dia- phragm, which answered the double purpose of re- ceiving the sound and of giving it out again. Finally it was made known to the public that the ideal phonograph had been constructed; that it was unmistakably a good talker; and that the machine, which most people believed to have reached its growth, had after all been refined and improved until it was capable of faithfully repro- ducing every word, syllable, vowel, consonant, aspirate and sounds oi every kind. During the dormancy of the phonograph, its in- ventor secured both world-wide fame and a colos- sal fortune by means of his electric light and other well known inventions. He devoted much time to the phonograph, and not only perfected the in- strument itself, but established a large factory pro- vided with special tools for its manufacture. The phonograph is now used for taking dicta- tion of any kind, for the reproduction of instru- mental and vocal music, for teaching languages, for correspondence and for various other purposes. A very interesting and popular use of the phono- graph is the distribution of the songs of great singers, sermons and speeches, recitations, the words of great men and women, music of many parts, etc., so that the owner of a phonograph may enjoy these things at little expense. The perfect performance of the phonograph de- pends upon its mechanical perfection — upon the regularity of its speed, the susceptibility of the wax cylinder to the impressions of the stylus, the deli- cacy of the diaphragm, and the skill used by the operator in recording and reproducing the record. The Phonograph's Jag It was nearly midnight ! The last train for New York had left the Erie Railroad station in Rutherford standing where it had stood for many a day. But the lights in the Erie Hotel still sparkled merrily and invitingly. Inside the hostelry there was silence. The pro- prietor was behind the bar interviewing the thing that rings a bell and shows you what the round cost. In front of the abdomen rest stood a tall and wide German. He was tired, and his Italic posture plainly showed that he had taken several during the evening. The bartender was quietly wiping off the receptacles of torture and putting them to sleep for the night. Beyond the clink produced by this operation there was no sound. In fact, it was so quiet that one could almost hear the pepper- mint drops upon the shelf back of the bar. The weary German had meanwhile been in- dguing in abbreviated siestas, until he was suddenly brought back to real life by an idea, which struck him somewhere above the neck and beneath the hat. He had become seized with a strong desire to listen to music. Evidently his dreams had partaken of a torchlight procession nature. By a circuitous route and easy stages, he finally managed to reach the phonograph which was sleeping peace- fully in one corner of the room. Leaning one elbow upon Edison's wonder to steady himself the Teuton extracted a nickel from one of his pockets, allowed it to trickle down the alleyway leading from the slot, and then stuck his head into the brass funnel projecting from the top of the instru- ment. The man in the cellar didn't appear to be working, however, and after listening intently for several minutes, the disappointed German removed his head from the funnel, took himself to the bar, bought a beer and returned to the phonograph, carrying the beverage in his south paw. For a moment he gazed wonderingly at the big box, then he muttered something about it " being dry," and dashed the beer into the brass funnel. After thus cooling the coppers of the phonograph, he placed the empty glass upon the bar, buttoned up his cardigan jacket and went home. And now it is said that the phonograph is doing a rushing business at furnishing jags by- electricity at five cents per jag. TLhc (Srapbopbone /no rube Mandre/ The Columbia Graphophone INDEX OF PARTS [As promised our readers in our last issue, we L Speed Adjusting Screw illustrate above the Columbia graphophone with M Driving Chuck Holding Screw parts marked and described. — F-i).] N Shaving Knife O Knife Bar A Driven Chuck P Sapphire Shaving Blade B Driving Chuck Q Knife Bar Locking Lever C Driven Chuck Thumb Pieces R Reproducer D Trunnion S Speaking Tube E Trunnion Seat Tube T T Hearing Tube Ear Pieces G Motor Switch T Feed Screw I Feed Nut U U U Thumb Screws for Attaching 1 1 -Way K Carriage z Z Binding Posts Vol. I. No. 4 THE PHONOSCOPE ©ur {Tattler The plethysmograph is the pleasant name of a newly discovered instrument by which thought is measured. Emotions can be registered, dreams arranged to suit, every idea graded so that the investigator can read precisely what is going on in a sleeping man's brain. If this most wonderful achievement in the realm of science is only perfected and simplified to (lie extent of bringing it within the reach of all, what a treasure a pletnysmograph must be in a family where the head of the house is apt to be secretive and forgetful ! But no ! there must lie a limit to experiments. Let us admire the Italian scientist who has invented this delicate "pulse measurer," but don't let us buy one even if they are found on a Monday bargain counter. I understand that a Toronto man has invented a machine which he called the " inugaphone." This is a great find for circus and minstrel show advance agents and patent medicine shouters, that is, if it is what the name implies — sounds from the " mug." The " lobsterscope is the tille of the new feature which was put on at Weber >fc Fields's, New York last month. It is the invention of Joseph Herbert and up to date. It is a burlesque on other screen machines. Mr. George J. Gaskiu informs me that he intends to take a trip to the "old country" this summer. George says that the wax cylinders have revolved very kindly for him this season and he must ' ' spend some of it." "I've a new cure for insomnia," said a busy young surgeon — there are a few — the other day. "I haven't tried it myself, but a friend of mine has and he says it works like a charm. ' ' Like most great inventions, it was discovered quite accidentally. In the first place, I generally keep pretty late hours. One has to, you know, in my profession. At any rate — well, never mind ! the hours are late. As I have just intimated, I take a great inteeest in my profession and I have written a few things along that line. Well, sir, when I get fairly into bed, with the lights out and everything favorable for sleeping, what do you suppose my old brain begins to do ? "It begins to scintillate. Oh, yes, it does. It gets right down to work, and it turns out some of the best ideas along the line of surgery that the medical profession has ever heard. But, you bet I can't be hopping up at 4 A. M. and lighting the gas in order to put these things down on paper. Why, I'd never get any sleep if I did. So I try to fix the idea in my mind and hammer it there with about fifty ways of thinking of it in the morning, and then I turn over and go to sleep, or used to. "Well, of course you anticipate that I didn't remember the idea in the morning. Not a bit of it. Gone, clean gone ! It was dreadful. I tried all sorts of ways but of the difficulty, and finally I landed on the brink of insomnia. I'm not dead sure that I wasn't over the brink. If I lay there in bed and tried to impress the idea so firmly on my mind that I couldn't possibly forget it in the morning, I got myself so wide awake that I could fairly feel my eyes popping. Then I tried another plan. I would get up, light the gas, write out my inspiration, and then put the gas out and woo sleep again. But it wasn't any use. I lay awake for hours. " Finally, a brilliant idea struck me. Said I to myself : " ' If I could just lie there in the dark and think my thought and be done with it I'd be all right ! By George, I'll do it ! I'll get a phonograph and think out loud when I've any thoughts that are worth preserving. ' "I didn't get around to the phonograph, how- ever. It was last spring when I thought of it, and during the summer I ran down in Jerse)' to spend Sunday with a literary chap I know down there. Well, sir, what do you think was the first thing I saw in that fellow's room, jammed up close to his bed as if it were an animal ready to swallow him ? Oh, of course you guess ! It was a phonograph. ' ' ' Hello ! ' I said, ' that's a good idea ! I know what you've got that there for. I'm going to do the same thing myself. I've let fame and fortune get away from me because I haven't had one of those things handy.' " Well, the fellow smiled and blew the dust off the cylinder. " ' Yes,' he said, ' I know. That was my idea, too, when I bought this thing. I'd been doing that old trick a long time myself. I've lost a library full of masterpieces by not remembering the things I thought of during the night. But, I'll just tell you that the rhonograph won't make you famous that way. Not by the whole ladder ! But it's a good thing, just the same. Because a cow isn't a canary bird is no sign that it isn't an excellent cow. This phonograph hasn't favored me with any echoes of my night thoughts but — hold on ! do you want to hear a snore that is a snore ? A regular titanic, sixty-fathoms-deep breath from the ocean of oblivion ? "If you'll believe me, the fellow got out a cylinder, put it in, and turned on the machine. Talk about ciicumstantial evidence! If that man had produced watchers who had sworn that he never closed his eyes in sleep, that phonograph would have convicted them all of perjury. Oh," and the young surgeon closed his eyes with a sigh of envious rapture, ' 1 to sleep the way that man did when that phonograph was taking its observa- tions ! And he says he does it every night. He hasn't had a single dead-of-the-night idea to confide to that phonograph, and he vows it is a sure cure for that form of insomnia." 5eem$ Sounb SEEING HIS OWN FINISH IttNETGSCGPE VIEWS OF THE GREAT FIGHT. BETWEEN SCALD V JIM MIXER mawtin 5 everybody in Ihe room, and thereby attracts increased attention lo the machine. There is also an unlimited variety of purposes which the phonograph and graphophone cau thus be made to serve automatically, as they will convey sound of any kind. On the insertion of our nickel they may provide us with a classical concert, a wai whoop, a lecture on philosophy, a speech or a dia- logue. "We may travel in our mind around the whole world, experiencing all the sensations of mo- lion [through the medium of our ears, or we may picture 10 ourselves the rumble and turmoil of a great city by hearing through the automatic phono- graph the echo of its pulsations. To satisfy the wants of ihe religiously inclined the programme may be varied on Sundays, aud the phonograph be made to deliver a sermon or discourse on religious subjects, or readings from Holy Scripture. In fact, there is practically no limit to the pos>i- liilities of an automatic phonograph or graphophone. fight pictures a failure If the statements made by E. J. Rector be true there is a dark future— or rather no future — ahead for the kinetoscope views of ihe recent fistic en- counter in Carson, Nev. That means a great deal to those who "paid ihe freight" for that photo- graphic enterprise. Rector avers that he is not worried about Ihe prospect of legislation that will cripple the business of giving peephole exhibitions of the prize fight. No; that — so he says — is a minor consideration. It is the knowledge that the views taken at ihe ring- side are dismal failures that is giving him nightmares. It was this Rector who secured the exclusive kinetoscope privileges of that memorable battle be- tween Corbett and Fit/.simmons. lie had visions of millions from the photographic reproduction of the' encounter. He spared no expense to get a picture of every move made by the fistic kings. When Cor- bett gave up the ghost in that fourteenth round , there was no end of hustling among the men who wi re aiming the big lenses at Ihe gory eombalauts. All Ihe agony depicted in the features of the fallen prizefighter was studiously wrought out in the plates so Rector believed. Hut now, alas and alack! Rector says the whole lot of snap shots look like the first efforts of a novice. When the plates were developed evtry defect known to photography made its unwelcrme appcarauce. Rector is staying at the Gramarcy Park Hotel in New York. He is there to recover I rom the shock these underdone and overdone plates gave him, so he says. The negatives were sent to the Edison Laboratory, in Orange, N. J., to be developed. Frank Gammon, of Raff & Gammon, managers of the vitascopc, under whose direction the negatives were being developed, confirms Rector's statement. He says they are not panning out. Rector is not losing any sleep over what the various legislative bodies may do to '"knock out" his pictorial prize fight enterprise — so he says. He won't even admit that Ihey have him "sparring for wind," but while these uegatives are beirg put through a course in chemistry out in Orange, Ihe Legislatures in this State, Maine, Massachusetts. Illinois, Indiana. Wisconsin and the United Slates Senate for the District of Columbia have been in- dustriously trying to fix a penalty for kinetoscope exhibitions of the tight by rounds. But this legislative handicap docs not worry Rector. In fact, he says he is laughing in his sleeve at the misguided legislators; thinks it a great joke that so much good space in statute books should be used to prohibit something that is impos- sible of accomplishment. Rector says bids for right to make kinetoscopic views of the fight were received from England, France, Australia, South Africa and the Saudwith Islands, but that Ihe defective plot has set aside all thought of making such contracts. Xeoal IHottces 'y'joseph Miusiuger, who has been selling pocket kinetoscope views in the streets of New Brunswick for the last few days, was taken before Chief of Police Harding and Recorder James C. Sullivan last month, by the Rev. Dr. P. T. Hock- man, pastor of Ihe First Reformed Church, who ac- cused Minsinger of peddling obscene pictures. The views contained scenes of boxing matches, skirt dances, a comedy team and the Seeley dinner dance of "Little Egypt." Dr. Hockman was passing as the vender, stir, rounded by a crowd of boys, was describing his wares iu glowing terms to his audience. Mlnsinger's words attracted Dr. Hockman. and he remonstrated with the man and asked him to show his license. The man showed that he had paid $2.50 to the City Clerk. Dr. Hockman then asked the vender to accom- pany him to the police station to determine the question of his right to sell such pictures. Min- singer complied with the request. Recorder Sulli- van and Chief Harding found nothing objectionable in the pictures, but the man agreed to refrain from selling 'Little Egypt" to boys, at the request of Dr. Hockman. Deputy-Sheriff Loub yesterday received an at- tachment against the Kincto Mulliscope Company for $:S,722 in favor of William T. Gregg, for services from June 15. 1896, to February 1, 1897, in manu- facturing machines, etc., and for money spent. The Sheriff levied on some photo machines and im" plements in ihe hands of a third party, at No. 18 Spruce street. The attachment was obtained on the ground that the company is a foreign corporation organized under the laws of New Jersey in April, L896, with a capita] stock of $50,000. Daniel Stuart was president; William 1\ Wlicclock, vice-president, and Enoch J. Hector, treasurer. Frank .1. Ncalis has been appointed receiver for the Calhoscope Electrical Company, of No. 50 Broadway, on the application of the Allen Advertis- ing Company, It was formed to exhibit X-rays. Vol. I. No. 4 THE PHONOSCOPE 9 General flews The railroad managers are taking qnile an inter- est in the pictures of their .different express trains. The B. & O. have made an agreement with one of film companies to pay for the coloring of all the films the}' send out of the Royal Blue Express, of which photographs have been taken while it was running at the rate of seventy miles an hour. The Edison Phonograph Company, of Phila- delphia, on account of increase in their business have moved to more commodious quarters at No. 23 S. Eighth Street. E. Kulm and C. H. Webster, of the International Film Company, of New York City, are certainly up to dale. They inform me that they started for Washington, D. C, to take films of the Inauguration March 2d, had them phot* graphed March -)th, arrived home March 6th and had their, ready for delivery March 8th, and as they were the first on the market the "early bird" fable was practically illustrated in Iheir orders. They have just com' pleted their new gallery on the roof over their factory and office and have sonic film novelties in preparation which will be put on the market in the near future. We understand that at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the American Graphophone Com- pany, held April 2d, a dividend of 1 per cent, on the common capital stock (the fourth during the current fiscal year beginning October, 1 886), was declared, payable on April 20 to stockholders of record April 12 and the regular quarterly dividend on the preferred stock at the rate of 7 per cent, per annum was declared, payable May 15, 1897, to stockholders of record May 1, 1897. The new talking machine men t inned in our last, issue is called the lyrophone and retails for $10. It will be placed on the market the latter part of April. It is claimed that this machine is the best yet produced for the money. I have been informed that Mr. Moore has severed his connection with the Multiplex Company and is now experimenting on a new talkiug machine and diaphragm. Charles Urban, the able manager, who opened the phonograph parlor for the Michigan Electric Company, has resigned that position and is now associated with Messrs. Maguire & Baucus, of New York City. Wm, K. Vauderbilt purchased four grapho- phones last month from the Columbia Phonograph Company. They were the Columbia model, five wind, antique oak cases. Lieut. Bellini claims he has perfected the auto- matic self-adjusting micro reproducer for the home graphophone, which will give a loud, clear and natural reproduction. We were favored last month with a visit from H. Brouse, of Ottawa, Canada, who was in this city patronizing several of our advertisers. He informs us that business is booming in his section of the country. The Columbia Phonograph Company have secured the exclusive services of Leu Spencer, who has been associated with the United Slates Phono- graph Company for the past few years. Mr. Spencer's abilities as a phonograph artist are well known throughout the talkiug machine world. One of Muskegon's inventive geniuses has evolved a talking machine. The reproduction is mellow and clear, being free from the snapping sound heard on higher priced machines and can be manufactured and sold for $2 or $3. A lot of 10,000 will be turned out at once. I have seen the model of a new $"> talking machine that promises to revolutionize the business when it is offered to the market. Mr. Thomas W. Henry, the well-known comet player, died suddenly of heart trouble in Boston on Saturday evening, March 13, while on his way to fill a professional engagement. Mr. Henry was widely known, and as a coinetist held high rank. He had long been a well-known player to the phonograph, commencing as early as 1878, when he played into one of the original tin-foil instruments then being exhibited at the Old South Church in Boston. The celebrated Baldwin Cadet Band records were all taken while the band was under his direction. Mr. Henry was greatly interested in the phonograph and took as much pride in having the Ca 'et Baud records of a superior quality as the company that recorded them. In the most brilliant and dashing selections Mr. Henry's cornet, was a pioniinent feature and could be heard clear and sharp above the rest of the band. Mr. Henry was born in Manchester, Eng., and his early childhood was passed in the family of a musician, who gave him the first lessons on the cornet. He came to this country when twelve years old, and was soon afterward known as the boy coinetist. Mr. Henry was never married. He was a prominent member of the B. P. O Elks, by whom he was buried. — : ♦ • ■»■ ©ur fforeign Corresponbence Sydney, N. S. W., February 15, 1897. Dear Sir: Some one was kind enough to mail the writer a copy of your journal, which was read with avidity and thoroughly enjoyed. If you see fit to send me over a couple of dozen copies of the journal I will take pleasure in placing them where they will do you good and your advertisers as well. '! he writer was the first person to exhibit Edison's Phonograph to the Australian public in 187S on his first visit to this country, and then again he gave the first public exhibition in New South Wales in 1SS9 and 1890 of his perfected machine, antedating Prof Douglas Archibald by several weeks. Have delivered about nine hundred lectures in Australia and elsewdiere 011 "Edison, His Life and His Inventions," illustrated with oxy -hydro- gen light and views, and the best of American pro- ductions in records. I have made Casey, Pat Brady, Gaskin, Ouinn, Len Spencer and At Lee, as well as hosts of others known in all of Australasia. Have even sent them to New Caladonia, Fiji, New- Hebrides and places where they little dreamed of going. Now they can be heard daily at the par- lors in this part of the world. Now everything is the new order of things, known here as "animated photograph}'." We have had the vitascope, the kinetograph and five or six kinds of cinemato- graphes. The X-Ray machines are here, as well as the new home phonograph, gramophones, and graphophones. I would be very pleased to hear from any one contemplating a visit to this part of the world. If they will drop a line and let me know what they would like to bring, I will write and tell them honestly if it will pay them or not to come to this part of the globe. I am an American, born and brought up in the United States of America, and proud to say that I am a New England Yankee, from good old Pil- grim fathers' stock, and will do all I can to pro- mote the welfare of anything genuine in the amusement line. Now, if you want a letter monthly from this part of the earth let it be made known to Yours faithfully, Dr. W. H. L. IHew Corporations A New Industry Likely to Be Started in Canton, Ohio Among the recent arrivals in Canton, are Mr. Norman C. Raff, formerly of Canton, and Frank R. Gammon. Mr. Gammon is president and Mr. Raff secretary and treasurer of the Vitascope Com- pany, of New York. They are considering the advantages offered by that city for the establish- ment of a film manufacturing plant. These films are the strips' of pictures photo- graphed from life on celluloid and reproduced,' life- size, on a screen or canvass, with every motion true to life, by means of the vitascope and other similar machines. Their manufacture has become an important industry, and the market the whole world, as the superiority of American films is generally conceded in all countries. If located this will add another industry to the large number already located there, and every encouragement should be offered by their citizens to secure it. These gentlemen recognize the advant- ages presented by Canton in the way of transporta- tion, central location, moderate cost of ground, labor, rents, etc., as compared with larger cities, and are disposed to locate there, but have not yet positively determined the question. One important benefit which Canton would de- rive from the location of this plant there would be the expensive advertising this section would re- ceive through the exhibition of local views and scenes, not only throughout this country but the whole world, and in which every detail, act and motion is faithfully reproduced by means of that wonderful machine — the vitascope — which has already become one of the most popular features of the amusement world, although yet in its infancy. We understand that substantial inducements have already been offered to secure the location of this industry. We have no doubt that the Board of Trade will extend every possible encouragement to the Vitascope Company, and we can assure them of a most - cordial and hearty welcome from our citizens generally. A company w-as forme incorporating itself as the North American Phonograph Company, to which Mr. Edison conceded the rights to handle the phonograph in the United States and Canada. This company, with headquarters in New York, established a number of sub-companies in different parts of ■ the country, but the machine proved a failure for practical use. It was found to be too complicated to be used for business purposes, as had been originally intended by the company. Mr. Edison, therefore, by continued efforts and experiments made improvements on this machine by dispensing with all complicated and trouble- some attachments, and built a simple but practical machine that was a success. These machines were then put on the market in great quantities and have remained practically of the same design up to the present time. The Verescope Company, of New York City, was incorporated with a capital stock of f5,ooo. Directors : Frank C. Meehan, Robert I. Maisteu and Sheldon B. Cable, of New York. 10 March, 1897 "picture projecting Devices The Biopticon This new apparatus is oue of the latest picture projecting machines, and is especially adapted for public entertainments. The biopticon as a camera makes negatives, fub of minute detail, and ca| able of the highest magnifi- cation. It is small, handy and portable, and is convenient lor tourists. It measures 15 inches in height, and weighs 27 pounds. The bobbins are made to carry 500 feet of film, which is sufficient to take an animated picture of four minutes' duration at the rate of 30 per second. These bobbins may be adapted to carry a much larger quantity if desired. The biopticon used for projection is operated either with the hand or by a motor with smoothness and comparatively without noise. The pictures succeed each other at a speed of from 15 to 50 per second as desired, but the best results are obtained when the pictures are projected at about the same as the rate at which the exposures were made upon the the negative. The projections are quite sharp and brilliant. The price of the biopticon, including Dallmeyer lens, hand-regulating arc lamp and tripod, which is used for both photographing and projection is $325. They can also be purchased without attach- ment for photographing, Slot flfcacbines article of purchase will be automatically delivered to the purchaser. A horizontal bar extending longitudinally through the body terminates in a handle which is shaped to represent the tail of the animal. This is kept in its normal position by a coil spring. At its front end it is bent down and back to form a flat, horizontal plate, in which is cut a hole large enough to receive a package of the articles to be s«ld. This plate slides horizontally beneath the Automatic Strength Tester and Vending Machine The curious and novel nickel-in-the-slot ma- chine shown in the accompanying illustration has recently been patented by Mr. John Milo, of Williamsbridge, New York City. As will be seen from the sectional view, the mechanism is inclosed in a case formed to represent some kind of animal, and it is so arranged that, by placing the purchase coin in a slot and applying strength in the form of a pull or a blow to the proper handle, the force applied will be measured upon a dial and the end of an inclined tube, which is filled with a supply of these packages, and when the bar is drawn forward, the hole is brought beneath the end of the tube and receives one of the articles therefrom. Upon being released, the bar is drawn back by the coil spring and carries the article over an outlet tube, through which it falls and is delivered to the purchaser. The purchase coin falls into an elbow tube, which is so pivoted that the weight of the coin causes it to rock forward and release a catch which prevents the horizontal bar from being moved, except when the coin is inserted. After releasing the catch, the coin rolls out of the tube into the body of the figure, from which it can be recovered by unlocking a door placed conveniently in the side of the machine. At the rear end of the bar is formed a suitable horizontal rack, whose teeth mesh with a pinion which, in its turn, serves to operate a vertical rack. The latter rack terminates in a rod, which, extending through the back of the animal, carries a pointer which indicates on a graduated scale the force of the pull. At the forward end of the horizontal bar are attached two cams, one above and the other below. The first serves to compress a small bellows, which produces an imitation of the animal's cry. The lower cam depresses a rod which starts a music box concealed in the base of the machine. The second indicator scale and the vertical rod shown projecting from between the shoulders of the animal are for registering the force of a blow. The internal mechanism is- similar to that already described, the article being automatically presented to the purchaser as before. — Scientific American . The Automatic Banjo In reply to numerous inquiries we give a full description of the automatic banjo which is about to be placed upon the market by the American Automatic Banjo Co., of New York City. The banjo is enclosed in a glass case, under- neath which is the cabinet which contains the motive power. The instrument is a handsome one, of excellent tone. It has four wire strings, each of which is covered at every fret by a brass button. A nickel dropped into a slot at the foot of the case sets the mechanism going. Instantly "our little arms, two from each side, reach across the banjo head and begin to engage, now separately, now altogether, with the strings. These arms, or "pickers,'' are hook-shaped, the hook being formed by the insertion in rings at the end of each by wedge-shaped steel points, which are adjustable so as to gain exactly the amount of friction desired. The pickers not only bring sound from the strings by sawing across them, but they pluck the string as well, in the same manner as a banjo player uses his fingers, striking the string and then raising the finger so as to bring out the tone, and, at the same time, prepare for the next blow. This operation is per- formed, when rendered necessary by the character of the music, with really wonder- ful rapidity, and always with the greatest distinctness, the execution with which the difficult passages are played far surpassing that of most human performers on the banjo. While the pickers are at work the buttons which cover the strings along each fret are not idle. Their dnty is to press down the strings either singly or in groups of four, at the proper time and place, forming pleasing and correct harmonies, and aiding in producing a banjo concert of most attractive character. To see this banjo, which apparently plays of itself, is truly interesting, es- pecially as the music included in the repertoire of the machine is almost inexhaustible, and includes everything popu- lar, from "The Irish Washerwoman," up to the "El Capitan '' march. Some of the most difficult and taking numbers performed by the automatic banjo are: The "Arkansaw Traveler," "Patrol Comique," "Limited Express Galop," "Darkey's Dream " and " Rosie O'Grady." The automatic banjo will not be sold, but rented as a nickel-in-the-slot machine exclusivelv. Penny =in=the=S!ot Electric Light Meters Electric light meters, with penny-in-the-slot attachment promise to become popular in some places. A London company stipplies enrrent for an eigbt-candle power incandescent light six hours for a penny dropped into the box, and allows the customer to take his six hours' light at once or in small daily installments, as he chooses to turn his switch. Victory for Anti=Slot Machine Victory rests with the anti-slot 'phone dispu- tants in Chicago, but as a matter of fact, the fruits of victorj- amount to little. The sub-committee of the Common Council appointed to investigate the question reported in favor of compelling the com- pany to put in the old style instruments where the subscriber so desired. The Judiciary Committee accepted the report and will recommend its passage by the Council. The controversy had pretty well died out, and not much change is anticipated. As a prominent "anti" said in reference to the matter, "It doesn't matter much, anyway. Nine-tenths of the drug- gists want their 'phones free and are satisfied with the existing condition. Again, the telephone com- pany has acted fairly of late. All notices of drug- gists' meeting and even the work of the Cook County Business Men's Association have been with- out toll by securing an order from the manager." The members of the Sandusky, O., City Council recently voted to allow the nickel-in-the-slot ma- chine to continue in full sway in that city, Vol. t. No. 4 11 '(Btapbs, phones anb 'Scopes The Spectroscope The largest spectroscope in the world has just been completed by Prof. John A. Brashear, the famous instrument maker of Allegheny, Pa. It has been made especially for Dr. Hans Hauswaldt, a wealthy scientist of Magdeburg, Germany, where it will be used in physical research, and it is ex- pected that many important discoveries will be made with its aid. The two most powerful spec- troscopes now in use are at the Royal University, of Diiblin, and the McGill University, of Toronto, Canada. These instruments were also made by Professor Brashear. The powerful concave grating instrument is 21 feet long, and will require a room about 28 feet square in which to operate it. It is to be used for physical investigations of a very high character, and the design and construction were settled upon by Professor Brashear and Dr. H. Kavser, of the University of Bonn. It is also very probable that Dr. Hauswaldt will have other powerful instruments of research made by Professor Brashear, as correspondence is now going on in regard to great physical and astronomi- cal instruments that are to be placed in the new laboratory now being equipped by him in Magde- burg. Dr. Hauswaldt has gained considerable fame in Germany by his experiments, and he is sparing nothing in the equipment of his laboratory, which, when complete, will be one of the finest in Europe, and will far excel any in this country. The grating to be used on the powerful spectro- scope has a six-inch aperture, and is ruled with 1 10,000 lines. So accurately are these lines ruled that there is no difference an)- greater than three- millionths of an inch between any of them. This instrument is so powerful that where an ordinary spectroscope would show from 100 to 200 lines be- longing to the spectrum of iron, it will reveal more than 2,000. It used to be considered that a spec- troscope that could show the sodium lines double was one of great power. The great instrument to be sent to Germany not only shows each of these lines double, but with the sun low in the meridian as many as fifteen lines may be seen between the sodium lines. The new spectroscope has its greatest power, however, in the way of photography. The spec- trum of the sun has been photographed to a length of over sixty feet, literally crowded with lines from one end to the other. It is so arranged that no matter what part of the spectrum it is desired to photograph the photographic plate is always in focus for every part of the spectrum. "This large instrument is also valuable in mak- ing comparisons of anything that may be burning in the sun," said Professor Brashear, in speaking of his great work. "Suppose, for instance, w'e wish to determine if the metal calcium is in a state of gas in the light that is coming from the sun. We have only to turn the sunlight into the slit of this great spectroscope and photograph in the center of our plate the centre of the sun. "A bar is now placed over this part of the plate which has received the impression of the solar spectrum, and now we turn on an electric light, in which we have placed a small piece of pure cal- cium. In a very brief time the spectrum of the calcium is photographed above aud below the spectrum that came from the sun. The plate is now developed, and here we have a picture of the solar spectrum, running as a narrow strip between the photograph of the metal we have taken. We can see at once the coincidence of the lines of the metal with any lines that may be in the sun. If the lines are in absolute coincidence we may infer from the law of probabilities, which increases as the lines increase, that the metal we have burned in our electric arc is burning in the great fire of the sun. "Many hundreds of these photographs have been taken, and we are now almost as certain of the elements that are burning in our great luminary as those that we burn in the furnace of the metal- lurgists. So it is with the gases and, indeed, all the chemical elements. Yet, strange to say, while we here on earth recognize oxygen as the great supporter of combustion, the most careful re- searches with the spectroscope have failed to show the existence of oxygen in the sun. I have in my library an elaborate little manual giving Professor Draper's scientific reasons and proofs that oxygen is burning in the sun, but it has been strongly proved the opposite. "Extraordinary care has been taken to make the instrument as absolutely perfect as is possible for human hands. The German physicists are the most exacting scientists in the world, and their tests of the great spectroscope will be most rigor- ous. Dr. Hauswaldt has established one of the finest laboratories of its kind in the world, and he has associated with him in his work the best Ger- man physicists of the day. He intends, I under- stand', to devote his fortune and the rest of his days in making advanced researches. His laboratory now far excels those in this country, and the in- struments he is talking of adding to the equipment will make it even more admirable. I look for im- portant discoveries in physical science from the famous little town. The circumstances and sur- roundings certainly favor it. "It has been my great regret that I have been unal le to photograph the instrument just made. I have tried, but it is so large that some parts of it is always placed out of focus in an exaggerated fashion. A camera would have to be placed fifty feet away to get any results at all, aud then they would be very unsatisfactory. I have always had to be satisfied with a mere recollection of the in- struments made." The Microphonograph A brief description of an apparatus to magnify the voice just as a lens magnifies objects to the eye ; (the analogy does not seem to be a good one, as the magnification seems be more like that pro- duced by a telegraph relay ) ; it is intended to be used for the deaf and for the study of feeble sounds given out by healthy and diseased organs of the body. The register appears to be a modified phonograph, the diaphragm of which is vibrated by small electro-magnets, the currents for which are obtained from a microphone ; the repeater is a somewhat similar instrument with a microphone attached to the membrane ; the current for this is obtained from one to sixty cells and thence passes to a telephone ; thus the intensity depends on the amount of current passing. The education of deaf mutes by means of this instrument is now being carried on ; it is admirably adapted for studying the action of the heart ; a ten months' treatment of a young deaf mute has shown that the auditory nerves and auditory apparatus have been greatly stimulated to activity by the use of this apparatus, the number of cells required having been reduced from twenty-two to two during that time. A large apparatus of this kind is being constructed, and is intended to make the voice heard by 10,000 per- sons ; it is intended for the Paris exhibition of 1900. The Phonoplex The operation of the phonoplex is very simple. It serves the purpose of giving any company that uses the instruments an additional telegraph line without being put to the expense of constructing one. The duplex and the quadruplex now in use by the telegraph companies separates the currents that travel along the wire, but they cannot be used except on trunk lines. If a way wire- — that is a wire that is used at the various stations along a telegraph line — is wanted for duplexing or quadruplexing all the offices along the line except the terminal points at which the duplex and quadruplex instruments are located, must cut out, that is, must disconnect their instrument from the wire in order that it may be serviceable for duplex or quadruplex use, but with the phonoplex all this is done away with. The way stations can keep their instruments cut in, can telegraph to all or any of the stations, and yet at the same time the wire they are using can be used for entirely distinct service by the phonoplex instrument. What is more, the phonoplex can be used at not only the terminal stations, but at each and every one of the wav stations. A Kitchen Telephone Service A novelty in the extention of the telephone, introduced in San Francisco, may be called a kitchen telephone service. For fifty cents per month the local company will supply an instru- ment by which orders may be given to the butcher, grocer or other tradesman, but through which no return answer can be received. A further con- cession is to allow communication with one other subscriber, but any other communication must be paid at the rate of five cents per call. The limit upon the service makes it improbable that more than two calls a day will be made, and these can be provided at the low rate. It is inferred that the service is introduced for the purpose of educating the householder as to the advantage and con- venience of the telephone, with the expectation that the trial will lead to a demand for the un- limited service at the higher rate. A Horseless Carriage That which attracted more attention than any- thing else in Galveston, Texas, last month was a horseless carriage. It traveled over the paved streets, wound in and out among vehicles and street cars and otherwise did the same as any other carriage with horseflesh in the shafts guided by a skillful driver. The lever of the vehicle was handled by Mr. J. Frank Pickering, traveling advertising manager for a Chicago firm. Mr. Pickering arrived in Galveston with two cars, the sides of which were covered with words telling the merits of Mr. Pickering's house. One of these cars is filled with catalogues, posters, paint, signs, etc., and the other is used for an office and living apartments of the six men who travel with Mr. Pickering. In this car are an organ, a phonograph and various other appliances for amusing people in small towns in which the cars are side-tracked while the men decorate walls and buildings. In the bill car are also the electric apparatus which charges the motors in the carriage and which furnishes the light for the cars. The vehicle is not bulky or cumbersome aud its pneu- matic tires make riding over the uneven .pavement as pleasant and easy as though the vehicle was gliding along the beach. In appearance it looks very much like a drag or brake. During an exhibition of the vitascope in Eliza- beth, N. J., last week considerable excitement prevailed owing to a threatened fire, caused, it is alleged, through the thoughtlessness of the exhibitor. It is said that he used benzine instead of machine oil on the quickly revolving parts, and the great friction caused it to ignite. THE PHONOSCOPE March, 189* H 1bome=m>abe Ikinetoscope Although the kinetoscope as invente 1 by Mr. Edison is a wonderful instrument, yet a fairly good imitation of it may be made by any boy possessing a little ingenuity. It is not to be supposed that the perfected machine can be constructed by an amateur. That would be impossible without special photographic apparatus, besides being an infringe- ment on tne kinetscope patents. But as the com- mercial machine of to-day is nothing more than a development of some old-time optical toys, there is nothing to prevent any person constructing some very amusing instruments which will be like the kinetoscope in effect if not in name. The simplest of all is the thaumatrope. It consists simply of a circle of cardboard attached to which are two p'eces of cord, and on each side of which is painted or drawn half a picture. The object is to twirl the cardboard by means of the strings and thus cause the two drawings to blend so as to form one picture. For instance, if a bird is drawn on one side of the card and the cage on the o'.her, the bird will appear to be in the cage when the card is twirled. In order to have the bird appear upright in the cage, the two pictures must be drawu upside down to each other, as it were. That is, the top of the cage must point toward one edge of the card and the top of the bird toward the opposite edge. Any number of pictures may be drawn. A juggler may be drawn on one side and a number of balls on the other. He will appear to juggle the balls when the card is twirled. If an equilibrist is drawn on one side and a plate on the other, he will appear to be balancing the plate if the latter is properly placed. A man and a horse may be used, or a cat and a dog having a fight, or a man and a woman dancing, and so on with infinite variety. Kinetoscope cards are now being sold by fakirs on the streets of large cities. Each card has a figure drawn upon it. Every card shows the same figure, but each in a different position. The various positions bear a definite relation to one another, so that when the cards are flipped rapidly past the eye the figures on them appear to be moving. The cards are held in one hand and bent double with the other, then one after another allowed to spring back to their original position. If, for instance, a dancer is shown, the arms and legs must have a progressive action ; that is, if the arm is to be shown in the act of being raised, each successive picture must show it elevated a trifle higher than the last. So with every part of the body ; each succeeding card showing the action a little more advanced. A zoetrope can be made by combining the posthuinus uses of a hatbox with a little artistic talent. An old hatbox is arranged on a pivot so that it will spin easily. A series of slits or open- ings one-quarter inch wide by th ee inches long and about two inches apart, must be cut around the upper sides of the box. It is through these windows one must gaze to get a proper effect from what is going on within. The figures are drawn precisely as they were on the cards mentioned above, only they must be drawn side by side on a long strip of paper. This paper is placed around the lower inside wall of the hatbox. If properly drawn, some very life-like actions may be witnessed when the box is rapidly revolved on its pivot. A mo lification of the zoetrope may be made by cutting out a circular piece of cardboard, fixing it on a pivot and drawing the figures to be shown in a progressive ring around the edge of the circle. The pictures should be about an inch deep and occupy the outside quarter of the space between the center and the edge of the disc. Slits like those in the hatbox should be cut from- the base of each picture to within a half inch of the center. The affair must be revolved on a pivot (a common pin stuck in a clothespin will do) in front of a mirror, and the spectator must look through the windows that have been cut in the disc. Horses may be made to run, trot or gallop, men made to walk, dogs made to chase cats, ladies to dance and many other diversive sights to be witnessed in a well-constructed instrument of the kind. Reynaud's zoetrope is a trifle more ambitious than any of the preceding. First obtain or make a pyramid of wood the height of which is equal to one side of its base-. Each side of this pyramid must be covered with a mirror cut to fit it. A handle should be fitted tightly into a hole in the bottom of the pyramid. A metal rod or spike must be driven into the apex or point of the pyramid. This completes the stationary part of the apparatus. Now for the moving figures. They are to be four in number, and are to be painted or drawn on a circular piece of cardboard or tin. This disc must have a hole cut Ln its center, so that it may be spun on the rod which projects from the point of the pyramid. Let the disc be divided into four parts. This can be quickly done by- drawing the diameters of the disc upon it. In each of the quarters so formed draw the picture to be shown. As there are only four versions of it, each one will have to be more radically different than where a number are used, as in the zoetropes. The pictures must be progressive, but the whole action must be completed in the four drawings. It is advisible, therefore, to choose some simple action as, for instance, a juggler tossing balls. His body will in every case occupy the same position. Only his arms need be changed. The operation of one of them will suffice for a description as to how to proceed. The right arm in the first picture should be extended downward, that is, as low as he would naturally put it. The next picture should show it raised half way up in the air. The next should show it raised all the way up. The fourth shows it half way down again. As the disc is turning we have now got back to the first, which shows it lowered all the way down again, and so on progressively as the disc goes around. This general principle should be adhered to throughout the series. The pictures should be drawu with the tops toward the center of the disc. When the latter is placed face downward on the pivot and revolved, the moving picture will appear to stand upright in the glass on all sides of the pyramid. A simple form of a mechanical thaumatrope can be made in the following manner : The edges of four wood boards or cardboards should be glued together so that when looked down upon from above their edges will form a cross. To be plainer they should be arranged in the same manner as the diameter of a square. They should be pivoted so as to revolve easily. In the four right angles formed by the sides of the boards should be pain'ted or drawn pictures of the same nature as those in the pyramid described above. As the number of pictures are the same, the same general directions should be observed in drawing them. The effect is very lifelike when the affair is revolved, and much pleasure and an evening's entertainment may be derived from its construction and operation. The reference to the Edison kinetoscope, made above, will be understood when it is pointed out that this wonderful machine is merely the com- bination of the principle involved in the above optical toys, with photography. Mr. Edison con- structed a machine which would take photographs of moving objects at the rate of forty a second. These photographs are attached in a long string to a tape. The string of photographs is placed on spindles or reels and made to run past the end of a tube at the rate of forty a second or the rate at which they were taken The result, when a person gazes through the tube, is that the figures in the pictured perform the same actions they were going through when the pictures were taken. popular Science Perpetual Motion Probably on no problem has more money, more labor and more brain power been expended than on the problem of perpetual motion. In every age and in every country the cleverest of men have exercised their genius on its solution, and although they did not find what they looked for, the search after perpetual motion has led to many valuable discoveries and inventions. Latterly, Mr. F. Charquette, of Bridgeport, Coun.. claims to have practically solved the problem, and we have had an opportunity of seeing for ourselves how he has done so. Different from most former inventors, he has not contented himself with a model or experimental machine, but has built an enormous machine and already uses the same to good practical purpose. His idea is eminently simple and his execution is equal to it. There seems to be no reason why this machine, once started, should not keep on moving until it is absolutely worn out. The following is a brief description of the machine and its workings : A huge horizontal wheel with a diameter, of eighty-two feet, has been built of latticed steel girders, and is provided with ten spokes, on the ends of which are journalled three vertical wheels nine inches in diameter and weighing one and one- half ton each. Along the periphery of the horizontal wheel are arranged one hundred air compressors, joined in couples by rocker levers, which work the pistons in the air cy linders, and which are depressed by the inner and outer vertical wheel as the horizontal wheel revolves, the center wheel running over a horizontal track. The air cylinders are 12x16 inches in diameter, and all have a stroke of .12 inches. An air tank carrying a working pressure of 100 pounds to the square inch is provided, and the air is led by pipes to this tank from the com- pressors. The large wheel is revolved at the rate often revolutions per minute by the two 70-horse power engines, and the solid 4}4 ton wheels in the periphery of the large horizontal wheel, continually acting on the rocker arms, do the rest. It goes without saying that such air pressure constantly reacting upon itself must create a tre- mendous power. The result is 2.500 horse power with only 140 horse power to start with. No such development of power from such small initial force has ever been known before. And Mr. Charquette is probably correct when he holds that the machine once started by a crank and pinion or otherwise will practically keep going by its own created power until it breaks down or wears out, and yet have a large surplus power to move machinery of any kind. Although this is not perpetual motion, it comes as close to it as anything mortal can, and the machine in itself is a perfect mechanical wonder. New Pocket Telephone A pocket telephone for policemen is one of the recent inventions. Over in England it is in general use and has been found very satisfactory. The telephone consists of a combined mouthpiece and eaqjiece with about a foot or more of wire attached, an affixing pin and a small key. This apparatus is to be used by the officers in connecting with the fire alarms placed at various parts of a city. |p Instead of breaking the pane of glass in case of a fire occurring in the neighborhood, as an ordinary individual would have to do, the police- man opens the door with his key, places the affixing pin in a socket provided for it and is in direct communication with the fire department. Vol. I. I\ro. 4 THE PHONOSCOPE 13 letters This column is open to any of our patrons who have a complaint to make, a grievance to ventilate, infor- mation to give, or a subject of general interest to discuss appertaining to Sound Producing Machines, Picture Projecting Devices, Slot Machines, Amuse- ment Inventions or Scientific Novelties in general. Phonoscope Publishing Co. Gentlemen — I am in receipt of your sample copy as per my request and send you enclosed $1 bill in payment of one year's subscription beginning with t he first number. I am pleased to see one phonograph journal that is not issued in the interest of one concern, but which has for its object the news for the entire trade. While my main business is the selling of type- writers, I sell a good many graphophones for commercial use in connection with the machines and also a good mapy of the cheaper talking machines for musical purposes, and a large number of records. I have a great deal of trouble getting uniform g od, loud originals, as I find a tendency even on the part of the best and most reputable concerus,to work off all the poor and duplicate records they can wilh each order as originals. Very truly yours, M. E. B. The PnoNoscorE Publishing Co. : Gents — I wish to ask you a question : Do you know anything about the dealings of of your city advertised in The Phonoscope ? The reason I ask this question is because someone gave me a co; y of your paper in which the firm mentioned was advertised, and about the latter part of Feb- ruary I sent them an order enclosing N. Y. Draft, and I received a card from them acknowledging the receipt of my order and stating that the records woidd go forward that clay (which was March 1). I doubt the honesty of , and if they keep my money and don't send the records I shall always consider it a most dastardly robbery, and the reason I report it to you is to keep them from robbing others. I have always been interested in the phono- graph business and have often had duplicates sent, but. never been robbed to a finish before. Yours respectfully, T. O'S. Gentlemen — I read your issue of The Phono- scope and am very much pleased with it. I like to keep posted in regard to new music and the phono- graph business, in which I And you are up to date. Enclosed you will find my subscription Respect- fully yours, E. R., Dayton, O. ®ur Correspondents IIaktfohd, Conn. — Another of the inventions for throwing moving pictures upon the screen has reached us. It, is called the centographe and it makes the same claim upon popularity that do the cincmatographe and the biograph, all of which have been seen here recently. All of these machines are wonderful in the effects produced, showing objects in life like and natural motion. The new machine has arrived here so suddenly that the public was not prepared for its coming, and consequently the audiences lo see it were small. But they will surely lie larger when people learn what may be seen at these exhibitions. They are worth going far to see. The audience was so small last night that only three pictures were shown, simply to give an idea of what the centographe is capable of doing, and those present were then given the option of receiving their money back or taking tickets for a future performance. All took tickets, saying they wanted to see all the pictures. This decision on their part shows how much the pictures were appreciated. Courant. J=1RaE litems The X=Ray in Law The X-ray is becoming of more account than its discoverer knew. It recently, appeared as a witness in a suit in New York for $20,000 damages for malpractice, and the facts as they were Heveloped on the trial fully justified the sufferer in-making his appeal in court. A young man was shct in the hand and a physician pretended to remove the bullet. Indeed, he procured a bullet and carried it around to prove that he had performed a suc- cessful operation. As the old wound continued troublesome the sufferer went to another physician who said that he would put the hand under the Crookes tube and see what was the matter. To this the older surgeon objected, declaring that the X-ray was a humbug, that no reputable physician used it, and that sort of thing; and he nearly persuaded the patient to refuse to lend his hand to the experiment. But the younger physician turned on the light and the shadowgraph was made, showing the bullet just where- it had lodged, in a joint of the thumb. The older physician was a quack. A second operation was performed and this time the bullet was removed. The same young physician has secured other pictures showing out- rageous malpractice on the part of " natural bone setters" and other such people. If tests like this could be made in every community it is very probable that certain men who are practicing with- out proper warrant of any competent medical college would leave the delicate branch of surgery alone, however much they might continue to dose their victims with patent medicines and mysterious decoctions of which the best that can be said is that while they never cure they do not always kill. Hope for Bald Heads Discoveries in connection with the X-ray are hustling right along. First came the X-ray itself. Then the experimenters with it found that it was injurious to the hair after persistent exposure. Now it is discovered that a moderate exposure stimulates the growth of the hair, while the heads that were made bald are being covered with a thicker growth of new hair. So it "appears there is hope, after all, for the incorrigible bald head. H. D. Hawks, of Tarrvtown, says that hair began to grow in his case in about nine weeksTrom the time it fell out, and that it came in thicker than it was before. He thinks that working around the X-ray tubes encourages the growth of hair if the action is not prolonged too much, and this beneficial result he says may be due to the presence of electricity under high tension, referring to the similar effect of static electricity. The action of the ray upon the skin takes longer to dissipate, but gradually the effect disappears. Mr. Hawks ventures the hope that the use of the X-ra3^ may be valuable in some skin diseases. He Could See Light The X-ray has given a glimmer of light to eyes that had been sightless for ten years. Mr. F. Martin, who, by submitting to experiments as a substitute for Charles Broadway Rouss, has become known as "Mr. Rouss's man." Martin first pre- sented himself to Mr. Rouss eight months ago. He was formerly a druggist, but in 1887 was stricken with atrophy of the optic nerves and became totally blind. Famous occulists treated him from time to time but all agreed that his case was hopeless, that he would never see the light again. Hearing that Mr. Rouss was to submit to a hundred volts of electricity in the hope he might restore his sight, Martin called on the merchant last April with this proposition: "If the shock kills me it would kill you ; if it cures me it will cure you. Let me submit to the experiment in your stead." . Mr. Rouss assured the volunteer that he had no intention of undertaking any such perilous risk, nor would he consent to anyboly undergoing it for him, but he was of a mind to try another expedieut which had been suggested to him and here let Martin take his place. Martin has since submitted to a succession of tests, perhaps a hun- dred. Two attendants led him to the office of Dr. David R. Edsou. The fluroscope was placed at his eyes and the X-ray turned on. There was an instant's vicious sniping of the current, then absolute stillness, as all in the room strained to watch the face of the man in front of the electric glare. At length Dr. Edson asked : " Do you see anything? " "No," answered Martin. His lips scarcely framed the reply when there rang from him : "I can see — I can see light," and the joy in the tone moved all who heard it. Dr. Edson at once turned off the ray. Martin was deeply moved at the gleam which had penetrated his long darkness and he was led to a seat to compose himself before the experiment was continued. Dr. Edson questioned him about the effect of the ray, but the blind man only repeated that he had seen light. Again the fluroscope was placed at his eyes. This time he received the impression of light more quickly and when - he had revelled in it for a minute, the sphere of metal was passed in front of the fluroscope. Martin detected the movement instantly. "It is a shadow," he said, " it is like the sun going behind a cloud." Hnswers to Corresponbence All questions pertaining to Talking Machines, Picture- Projecting Inventions, Automatic Coin-in-SIot de- vices, Amusement Inventions, etc., will be cheer- fully and fully answjred in this column. Inquiries for this department should be addressed, Information Department, The Phonoscope, 4 East Fourteenth Street, New York, U. S. A. J* & J. B. Berlin — The word Phonograph is de- rived from two Greek words : Grapho, I write, and Phone, a sound. It signifies a machine which writes down sound for future reproduction. The word Graphophone is derived from the same Greek words as the word Phonograph and signifii s a machine in which sound ''s recorded and reproduced. The word Gramophone is derived from the Greek words Gramma, writing, and Phone, a sound, and signifies literally a machine which pro- duces sound from writing. Its composition seems to indicate that the machine which it defines is not intended to record sound, but simply to repro- duce sound from writing. Vitascope is a hybrid word, being composed of the Latin word Vita, life, and the Greek word scopein, to see. It signifies seeing life .and de- notes a machine used to reproduce pictures full of action and life. The word Phonoscope is derived from two Greek words : Phone, a sound, and Scopeo, I see, I observe, I watch. It thus combines the ideas of watchfulness, observation and hearing, and as we intend to be watchful and obsesvant in all that pertains to scientific and amusement novelties in general, and to the mechanical reproduction of sound and sight in particular, we have adopted the word PHONOSCOPE as an admirable title to this monthly journal. March, 1897 flew jftfms for "Screen" fIDacbtnes UMBRELLA BRIGADE. Incideuts of the great parade on Pennsylvania Avenue, showiug a marching Club carrying red, white and blue um- brellas, which they revolve while marching, giving fine pin-wheel effects. This feature of the parade discloses a large American flag which, unfurling in the breeze, adds to the spirit of the occasion. BATTERY A, LIGHT ARTILLERY, U. 8. ARMY. Shows a battalion of light artillery in rapid movement. Figures well in the background, and the pictures tilled wilh men, horses, cannon and ammunition carriages. Effective perspective and stirring subject, full of action and martial spirit. GRAND BOULEVARD SCENE, PARIS. TRAMWAY STATION, ST. PETERSBURG. CORONATION OF THE CZAR OF RUSSIA. RUE ROYAL, PARIS. MARKET S I REET SCENE, PARIS. HAVING A DRINK. This is one of the blest ideas in photography and is called reversible photography. When shown on ihe screen all actions are reversed ; beer comes back in bottles ; crackers return to the plate ; chairs stand up etc., etc. Very comical. CORBETT-COURTNEY FIGHT. LEONARD-CUSHING FIGHT. LOVE SCENE. Showing lovers kissing and bug- ging. Mother appears on the scene and drives lover away. She sits down on bench and repri- mands her daughter, when mischievous boy tips over the settee. Both fall over. BOWERY STREET SCENE. Mckinley and Cleveland. Going to the Capitol. This film is one of much interest as it shows the accident of the day. The picture opens wilh Troop A, of the Black Horse Cavalry of Cleveland, Ohio, the personal guard of the presi- dent-elect. The troopers are mounted on prancing horses and make an extraordinary tine appearance. Following this body guard comes the four-horse barouche occupied by President Cleveland and Major McKinley. At this point in the scene, one of the rear horses, attached to the President's carriage, slipped aud fell on the pavement, the accident happeniug immediately in front of the camera. The carriage stops, mounted police galop to the rescue aud thus enabled the operator to get the only effective photograph of the retiring and incoming Presidents that the great parade afforded. Extremely clear, with strong light effects and is life-size throughout. GATTLING ARTILLERY. 71ST REGIMENT, N. G. S. N. Y. WASH-DAY SCENE. This scene shows washing and hanging out clothes. Mischievous boy tips over the tub. Very funny and laughable. \ ICE-PRESIDENT HOBART'S ESCORT. The Essex troop of Newark, N. J., mounted on coal black chargers, a fine body of men and horses, as they appeared while acting as escort to the new Vice-President. Film of good quality with clear figures aud good action. THE OLD GERMAN MILL, in which one of the millers thrusts a woman into the hopper of the mill and she soon emerges from beneath it, having apparently been run through the machine. MOUNTED BAND IRew IRecorbs for talking flfcacbmes The following list of new records has been compiled from lists sent us by the leading talking machine companies of the United States & A Hot Time In the Old Town To-night . Myers Armor do Madre. Mexican Trio ArrahGoOn. Hunting At the Fair, Galop. Columbia Orchestra Banjo Duetts. Diamond and Curry Bonny Doone. .Eolian Trio Casey as Auctioneer. Hunting Come Play With Me. Quinn Come, Send Around the Wine. Myers Crappy Dan. Spencer Dancing in the Dark. Sousa Dancing in the Sunlight (Xylophone). Lowe Dancing on the Housetops. Issler Dear Little Jappy, Jap, Jappy. Quinn Dio Possente, from opera Faust Departure from the Mountains. Schweinfest Don't Tell Her that You Love Her. Gaskin Down in Hogan's Alley. Quinn El Capitan March Song. Quinn ElCurru. Mexican Trio Eli Green's Cake Walk. Quinn Emmet t's Lullaby. Quartette Erin, O Erin. Myers Eve and Her Pal Adam (Banjo accompaniment). Paine Fly Song (Chauncey Olcott's). Myers From the Hour the Pledge is Given. Myers Girl With the Naughty Wink. Quinn Grace O'Moore. Gaskin Handicap Rider 16". Quinn Handicap March. Diamond and Curry Hiram Wilkins on Superstition. Hunting Hiram Wilkins's Girl Hannah. Hunting Hot Stuff Patrol (Banjo). Ossman I Love One Love. ^Eolian Trio Isn't It Nice to be in Love. Quinn I Want Yer, Ma Honey (English). Mile. Yvette Guilbert I Want Yer, Ma Honey (French). Mile. Yvette Guilbert JusQuLa. Quinn Kate O'Dunoghue (Chauncey Olcott's). Myers Katherine lYodle). Pete LeMaire King Carnival March, Diamond and Curry Laugh and the World Laughs With You. Myers Laughing Song. Geo. W. Johnson Lesson in Music. Signor Frejoli Lulu Song. Spencer Mamie Riley. Quinn Maybe Mary Didn't See New York. Myers Medley March. Diamond and Curry Medley Reels (Banjo Solo). Vess L. Ossman Monastery Bells i Orchestra Bells). Lowe My Little Chorus Girl. Quinn Nineteen Jolly Good Boys All In a Row. Myers One Heart, One Mind (Xylophone Solo). Lowe Pasage dans Izeyl. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt Pasage dans Divorcons. Madame Regane Pretty Blue Eyes. .Eolian Trio Pretty Molly Dwyer. Quinn Say, Are You Single? Hunting Sounds From Home (Orchestra Bells'. Lowe Spanish Dance (Banjo Solo). Vess L. Ossman Sweet Inniscarra. Gaskin Stephanie Gavotte (Zither). Wormeser The Old Fashioned Mother (Chauncey Olcott's). Myers Yictor Hugo (fn pen de Musiquei. Mme. S. Bernhardt Yankee Doodle (Banjo Solo). Yess L. Ossman Yer Baby's a Coming to Town. J. T. Kelly You're a Good Daddy. Gaskin You're "Not the Only Pebble on the Beach. Lottie Gilson You're Not the Only Pebble on the Beach. Spencer GRAMOPHONE RECORDS Chin, Chin, Chinaman. Quinn Handicap March Seng. Quinn Honey O. Gaskin Love's Old Sweet Song. Ga kin Medley of Jigs (Banjo Solo. Clements Mixed Ale Party. Billie Golden Mocking Bird Whistle. Billie Golden Morning On the Farm. Maurice Forkoa Oh. Uncle John. Miss Maud Foster Past and Future. Herbert Holcombe Hast us On Parade (Banjo Solo. Clements Rock of Ages. Herbert Holcombe Southern Heels (Banjo Solo). Clements The Bowery Girl. Miss Maud Foster Then Give Us a Drink. Bartender. Quinn The Midshlpmite. Myers Tommy Atkins (with Trumpet). Gaskin What do You Think of Hoolihan? Quinn What Is the Gramophohe? Geo. Graham XLbc Xatest popular Songs The following is a list of the very latest popular songs published by the leading music publishers of the United States jt^^^tjljljljt^ A Diamond in the Rough. Safford Waters A Dream of My Boyhood Days. Dresser Ah, Could It Be ! F. Ryan Ain't I Your Honey Boy No More? G. L. Davis Alma, Dear. E. A. Couturier A Mother Never Can Never Forget Her Boy. Chrs. Miller Back to His Childhood's Home. William Slafer Belle of Avenue A. Safford and Waters Belle of Hogan's Alley. James J. Blake and M. Bernard Best Sweetheart of All. Will C. Carleton Black Four Hundred's Ball. Billy Johnson and N. D. Mann Breaking Home Ties. Joseph Hart Casey's Dog and Tracey's Cat. Joseph Hart Chimmie Fadden and the Duchess. L. A. George Chippies on Broadway. Cooper and Francis Coochy Coochy Coo (Negro Comic). M. S. Fitzpatriek Cycling Song. M. R. Knapp Daisy and Nell (The Twins). W. A. White Darling Paree Girls. Ilda Orme Day Will Come. E. Selden and E. Hoist Dear Old Friends. Lindsay Lenox Dilly Dally. Mays and Hunter Dreams of My Own Land. Douglas Dean Drummer's Dream of Home. Charles Robinson Eli's Cake Walk. Reed and Kominsky Ever Since Then. Scott and Orme Handicap, Vocal. D. Reed He Brought Home Another. Paul Dresser He Fought For the Cause He Thought Was Right. Paul Hugh McCue. Cohan Hurrah For a Life at Sea. J. C. McCabe Hush Y*o' Business ! Oh, Go On ! Midgley and Levi Honey, Does Y'ou Love Yer Man ? Ford and Bratton I Don't Blame You, Tom. May I Love You, Malinda. Al. B. Schultz I'm Lonely Since My Baby's Gone. Barry Emerson In the Baggage-coach Ahead. Gussie L. Davis I Only Know I Love Her. Geo. Hassell King Carnival, Vocal. D. Reed. Jr. Love's Battle. Al. B. Schultz Maggie Maguire ; or, As Soon As I Buy a nome. W. Gray Maloney's Leg. Joe M. Sparks Mamie Reilly. Maude Nugent My Gal is a High Born Lady. Fagan .My Handsome Jim. Abeles and Witt My Heart, Kathleen, Is Still Your Owu. Chas. Graham My Image In Thy Soul. Chas. Graham My Little Chorus Girl. William F. Gould Oh. Aunt Jane. Isaac G. Reynolds Old Jim's Christmas Hymn. Wm. B. Gray One New Y'ork. Safford Waters On Sunday. Flynn On the Benches In the Fark. Thornton Pat Malone Forgot that He Was Dead. Carroll Pebbles On the Beach. Mann & Starr Petticoat Lane. John and Harry Dillon Ridin' on the Golden Bike. Petrie Music Co. Rootie Tootie. Geo. F. Golden Send Me a Picture of the Old Home. Fitzgibbons and Arnold She Might Flirt with Others. Dave Marion She's Only One of Many. Charles Miller Since Mary Harris Went to Paris. Wm. B. Gray Sweet Rosie O'Grady. Nugent Take Back Your Gold. Monroe H. Roseufeld Ta Rum Pa Turn Turn. Ilda Orme Tell Her That We Love Her Just the Same. A. J. Lamb That's When Y'ou Learn to Love Them More and Moic Lawlor and Hlake The Angel of Sunset Rock. Chas. Graham The Belle of Hogan's Alley. Bernard & Blake The Battery. Evans and Dresser The Black Four Hundred Ball. Billy Johnson The Jolly Girl From Gay Paree. Charles Coleman The Love for His Dear Ones. Al. B. Shulz The Man In the Moon Is a Coon. Geo. M. Cohan Then the Pipe Went Out. J. (;. Reynolds The Real Thing. Arthur Lamb Time Will Tell. Harry S. Miller When it is Love at First Sight. Mock When it's a Boy. Goodwin A- Morse When She's Just About to Fall. Cy Worman Will You Love Me. Sweetheart. When I'm Old! Lamb Won't Somebody Give Me a Kiss? Won't You Let Me Stay a Little Longer? Quimby Would You Ask? Smith Yankee Girl In Gay Puree. Ilda Orme Yes, I Love You. H. M. Stults You'll He Sony When I'm Gone. Monroe H. Rosenfeld Your Ticket I- Not Good To-day. Chas. Graham Vol. I. No. 4 THE PHONOSCOPE 15 Mants anb tfov Sale Special "Want " and "For Sale " advertisements will be inserted in this column at the uniform rate of three cents a word, each insertion. Answers can be sent in charge of " The Phonoscope " if destred. All letters received will be promptly forwarded to parties for whom intended, without extra charge. FOR SALE. — 4 Edison Kinetoscopes, also n Nickel-in-the-Slot Graphophones (cheap). Ad- dress The Empire State Phonograph Co., 76 University Place, New York. FOR SALE. — Five fine Recording Speakers with perfect Stylus. Price, #5.50 each. Address F. V., care of Phonoscope, 4 Hast 14th Street, N. Y. FOR SALE. — Phonograph business in the best town in the West, 3,500 inhabitants. Complete stock for Phonograph Parlor. Address B., care of Phonoscope, 4 East 14th Street, N. Y. FOR SALE. — Phonographs, Graphophones, Records and Supplies. Our Records are A No. 1. Write for catalogue and price lists. Phono- graph repairing done ; all new goods. 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We are the sole dealers of the handsom- est nickel-in-the-slot cabinets and the most reliable return mechanism in the world. This mechanism has made the nickel- in-the-slot business practical. Send for Cat- alogue. Dealers irj . . . . Pljorjograplj Supplies Records Batteries, (Primary and Storage) Kirjetoscopes Vitascopes, Etc. THE phonoscope; PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY The Phonoscope Publishing Company 4 East 14th Street, New York, U. S. A. SUBSCRIPTIONS United States and Canada . . $1.00 per year Foreign Countries . . . . 1.50 " Single Copies .10 each The r PHONOSCOPE is the only journal in the world published in the interest of Talking-Machines Picture-Projecting and Amusement Devices, and Scientific and Amusement Inventions appertaining to sound and Sight. Correspondents in London, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Madrid, Alexandria, Constantinople, Australia, South America, Central America, Canada, and all cities in the United States. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION If You are Interested Subscribe Now THE PHONOSCOPE April, 1897 EDISON $100 '97 MODEL Projecting Kinetoscope Is the latest product of the Edison Laboratory, and embodies man)- great improvements over any other Life Picture Projecting Machine yet placed on the market THIRTEEN ESSENTIAL FEATURES Steadiness. Vibration overcome by improved steadving device. No Flickering. A brilliant light without any unpleasant nickering. Hand Motive Power, which can always be relied upon. Economy. A mechanism which has no striker to injure films. Light. Independence of electricity ; a calcium burner can easily be attached. Large Picture. It projects a picture even greater than life size if desired. Portability. Weighs, complete, about sixty-five pounds. Easily packed in ordinary trunk. Simplicity. Only one operator is necessary, other machines require two. Clearness. Objectionable perpendicular rays entirely eliminated. Adaptability. Is equipped for all electric currents, with spool-banks and reels, and can be placed on ordinary table or stand. Framing Device is without an equal, its adjustment instantaneous. Dimensions. When set up, length, 2>l/z feet; width, n inches; height, 2 feet. Cheapness. It is the best and by far the cheapest projecting machine on the market. Standard Edison, International, and Foreign Films In 50 and 150-foot lengths Over 250 Startling and Interesting Film Subjects to Select from Edison's '97 flodel Home Phonograph PRICE, $40.00 A Spring-motor Machine, giving as satisfactory results as are obtained from the high-priced instrument The entire machine is Mr. Edison's own design, and is built at his works. Equipped with Edison Standard Speaker (Recorder and Reproducer) and Shaving-knife. Runs five records with single winding, governs accurately, and is noiseless. LIGHT, SUBSTANTIAL, AND HANDSOME MAXIMUM DISCOUNTS TO DEALERS Catalogues, Lists of Films, and Descriptive Circulars furnished on application by MAGUIRE & BAUCU5, Ltd. No. 9 New Broad Street, London No. 44 Pine Street, New York SELLING AGENTS The Phonoscope (Copyrighted, 1896) A Monthly Journal Devoted to Scientific and Amusement Inventions Appertaining to Sound and Sight Vol. I XEbomas H. Eblson is a flIMnev now He is "Thomas A. Edison, miner," now. His general address is neither Llewellyn Park nor the laboratory at Orange, but the iron ore mines at the place which used to be called "Ogden," but which has been rechristened "Edison," N. J. "Oh, yes," he said the other day, "I get home once in a while. As a rule, I come down to the laboratory once a week — on Mondays." It must be said that Orange and the laboratory are feeling the effects of Mr. Edison's change of base of activity. The old laboratory, the scene of so many triumphs, is a lonesome spot nowadays. The work- ing force is small and the people of Orange bewail that the glory is departed from them. But the sun will shine on them again, sooner or later. It is impossible to divorce Edison from his first love, pure electrical science, and this flirtation with mining is being carried on because he believes that there is money in it. As he himself would say, in his graphic and direct lauguage, he is ' 'out for the dust" this time. Edison is most sanguine as to the success of his mining mills. "In June they will be started up full blast," "We'll have the largest mill of the kind in the world." Mr. Edison explained how masses of gneiss rock containing crystals of magnetic iron ore were blasted out and crushed, and how the crystals were separated by a magnetic separator. "Then," he added, "the crystals are put in the form of bricks by the machinery, and sent to the furnace for the purpose of being made into pig-iron. The process is simple enough in its results, but it is difficult in practice. Thirty-one mills have been started heretofore in the United States. Every one of them has been a failure. Oh, I knew when I started what I had to buck against. "I am in splendid health and am cheerful, I am a good McKinley Republican, and I believe that prosperity is going to come back to the country, but it is going to come slowly and not in a night. These are not the days of miracles. The cheapen- ing process has wiped out so much capital that it is going to take capital some time to get its second wind. People used to have money — the surplus of their business earnings — to invest in new enter- prises, but that was all done away with in the Free Trade regime. There was no surplus to invest, and therefore there was no new investment, and new enterprises were likely to die a-borning. "Now, I tell you that there is one sure standard of prosperity. When the laboring man — I mean the wage earner, because we are all laboring men — is prosperous, then we are all prosperous. If any man is going to make money when the wage earner ain't making good wages, I'd like to see him, and I'd like to know how to do it. ' ' Mr. Edison was brought back from sound politics and experimental mining and milling to electricity. "What, in your experience up to date, is the greatest electrical discovery, leaving aside the telegraph and telephone?" "The greatest thing out is the Routgen ray, so far," said Mr. Edison enthusiastically. "It is an undoubted benefit to mankind. Its real, humane and scientific value has now been demonstrated NEW YORK, APRIL, 1897 repeatedly. The surgeons are all getting and using the apparatus, and so are all the hospitals, and are using them for practical applications almost every day." ' 'Have you any brand-new electrical inventions, or plans for any?" "Yes," was the reply. "I have got a number of things that are new, but that I am not quite ready to say anything about. I'd like to get them all right first and talk afterward." "What do you think of the talk about a method of transmitting telegraphic messages without wires ? Is such a means of communication likely to go beyond experiment? Is it practical and practicable ?' ' "Transmitting without wires ?" .said Mr. Edison, his blue eyes sparkling. "Why, I pioneered that business. I was the first one in this country who ever tried it. We had it practically for a number of years on the Lehigh Valley Railroad— on the passenger trains for experiment and regularly on the construction trains. We were able to ' jump ' messages as far as two hundred feet. Then thev messages would be run along the wire for fifty miles. Tn this way messages were exchanged while the train was in motion. One was sent from New York to London and return. The static electric wave was what was used. "As far back as 1880 we tried a number of ex- periments in this line at Menlo Park with kites. The scheme I had was to telegraph at sea, the idea being to have a sail or flag, with tinsel woven in it. and to connect that down to the deck. The object was to see how far one could signal at sea from the top of the mast of a ship to another ship ; but the land experiments were tried with the kites. We had a fine wire through the kite string and thin tinfoil on the kite. Then, away across on some hills, we had a man stationed with a hoop covered with paper in metallic foil. We exchanged signals there about one and three-quarter miles — that is the limit we got without proper apparatus. With apparatus we could possibly have gone three or four or five miles. At sea, with powerful apparatus, I could not see wiry they should not go fiifteen or twenty miles. The electric static charge would run up and jmnp in all directions. M. A. Preece of the British Post Office telegraph has been trying some experiments. He has obtained better results than I did. I also see that an Italian has been trying it. His results were not any better than Mr. Preece's, if as good." Mr. Edison does not believe in the possibility of telegraphing without wires to illimitate distances. "Because," he said, according to natural law, there must be a limit. When you go twice as far away you have got four times the area. When you double the diameter of the thing you have made four times the area. A pound of butter covers so much surface spread a certain thickness. It the surface is doubled in width the butter gets very thin when you spread it out. "Theoretically, if you throw a stone into the air you disturb the whole world — you have thrown it out of the centre of gravity. But practically the effect does not amount to much — is not noticeable. And so you may send out one of those electric waves, and perhaps it may go all over the world, but practically it grows so weak that after a certain distance it becomes ineffective. ' ' No. 51| There is a good deal of food for thought and speculation in the fact that this Protean genius of an Edison is only fifty years old, and that his strength, physical and mental, "is as the strength of ten." What new enterprises will he give to the world before the end of this old nineteenth century ? — N. Y. Press. *H>a£ Spar Six IRounbs for the Iktnetoscope Jem Mace and the representatives of John L. Sullivan met at the Hotel Reynolds in Boston, Mass., last night to arrange a limited round con- test, to take place either in that city or in New York. The outlook for their meeting there did not seem bright, so a suggestion was made that Mace and Sullivan agree to box six rounds in private before the kinetoscope or some other picture motion machine for the best financial inducements offered. Mace readily agreed to this proposition, and, unless something unforseen happens, the probabilities are that these two most famous pugilists of modern times will be matched to box under conditions that will bring them bigger financial results than if the original idea of a joint benefit had been carried out. During the course of the conversation relating to this matter a telegram received from E. C. Rivers, president of the California A. C. asking for terms for a ten-round contest between Sullivan and Slavin, the contest to take place in San Francisco in July or August, Frank Dunn, Sullivan's manager, refused to consider the proposition, because the plans he has arranged for the "big fellow" would be interfered with. ' T do not consider Slavin a good drawing card, ' ' said Sullivan's manager, "and therefore will pay no attention to the offer. We expect to be in England at the time mentioned, and the only thing that will cause us to change our plans .is the fact that Fitzsimmons has accepted the challenge we have ^issued on behalf of Sullivan. There seems to be a popular misconception that this challenge has been issued and the money posted to 'boost' Sullivan. Anybody who thinks that way can win our money. Sullivan can whip Fitzsimmons, and I am willing to bet from $5,000 to $10,000 that he can do so." At this point a well-known real estate dealer said that he would bet $10,000 that Fitz would defeat Sullivan. Like a flash .Sullivan's manager laid down a crisp $1,000 bill and invited the gentleman to cover it. The Fitzsimmons adherent said that he did not carry so much money around with him, and the matter was dropped. That the Sullivan people are in earnest cannot be doubted for a moment. Their money is up in responsible hands, and they feel nettled over Julian's statement that Fitz can defeat their favorite in ten rounds. "If Fitz can defeat Sullivan he can win a million dollars," was the way a well-known hotel keeper put it. Mace left for New York at midnight to see Dan Creedon about the latter's proposed English trip. 6 THE PHONOSCOPE April, 1897 Zbc pbonoorapb Whisperings of Disease Revealed by the Phonograph Medical science has found a great field of use- fulness for the phonograph. It is no longer a toy with which to amuse the wide-mouthed rustics at country fairs, but a valued agent of the healer's art. There is in New York a laboratory, with walls of red and tables and shelves laden down with deli- cate instruments, where daily for five years the coughs, the hoarse whisperings and all the labored sounds of diseased throats have been recorded upon cylinders of wax. Every malady of the palate, throat, chest and nasal cavities has been registered in this way. Marked, dated and described, these cylinders can be brought out at any time, slipped into the phono- graph, and the entire study of the case reviewed. And not only this, Dr. J. Mount Bleyer, owner of the collection, who has, he insists, been the only man in the world to adapt the phonograph to the uses of medicine, has gone even further. In addi- tion to the 600 cylinders with records of coughs he has at least 1,400 others, carrying the finest voices in the world. Stars of the Metropolitan Opera House contingent, foreign voices which have never been heard on these shores, famous orchestras, vio- linists, great musicians all over the world. It is without a doubt the most curious library in the world, and one of the most valuable from a scientific standpoint, too, because of its absolute uniqueness. Many curious stories of disease are told by these cylinders of throats and vocal organs only slightly affected, of throats in somewhat advanced stages of various maladies, and, finally, examples in which disease has reached its worst form and no cure is possible. With the tubes from the instruments in his ears, the student or physician can hear as plainly as if the patient were before him, the exact sounds accompanying all sorts of throat diseases. Comparing, by the use of different C3-linders, disease with disease, and cough with cough, it becomes possible, as never before in the history of surgery, to gauge the exact intensity of the ailment that is being studied and to mark out more effective cures. And if a patient returns for treatment, even after years of absence, all the physician has to do is turn to the box of cylinders, listen to the noises they give out and have the case as fresh in his mind, in its technical points, as if it had been en- trusted to him only yesterday and he had been thinking about it all night. Dr. Bleyer believes that this phonographic sys- tem of keeping records of cases will, within a few years, become as useful as the old methods of sur- geons of preserv ing parts of the human body in alcohol. It matters not how weak and " lost" the voice is. Even the hoarsest breathing out of a sound records itself upon the cylinder and can be reproduced in its precise intensity. This is the great scientific value of phonographic registering of vocal sounds, for if the most trifling tones and shades of tones were lost the record would be im- perfect, incomplete and valueless. To take down the record of any talking voice, all that is needed is to have the phonograph care- fully adjusted and to see that a distinct and clear record is made. The phonograph in every -day use does not give this, conveying only the general im- pression rather than the exact tone quality which is necessary for scientific investigation. To obtain the precise results lie wants, and to make sure that the record shall be set down undeviatingly, Dr. Bleyer uses a special diaphragm, a device of his own, which differs from the diaphragm in ordinary use in that the needle or stylus which cuts into the wax and makes the impression, deeply or lightly, according to the intensity of the tones, is much more rigid and has no give or spring to it. This has given to his records their scientific value. The cone that is used in this scientific work is about six inches in diameter at its mouth, and is made of papier mache. Two or three minutes of talking or whispering is all that is necessary to complete a record. Where the patient is an ignorant person, the. mere fact of having to talk through a machine like this confuses him and he seems to have no idea of what to say. Therefore, a large number of the records which Dr. Bleyer keeps are merely descriptions given in the voice and language of the patient of the features of his case. It is a much more difficult matter to register with exactness a singing voice, but an improved apparatus is used, which is so finely adjusted that if the singer be tired or out of voice, that fact is made perfectly apparent in the reproduction. For taking a singing voice a second funnel is used, a long one, also of papier mache, four feet in diameter at its outer edge, or where the singer stands, and not joining on to the big end of the smaller funnel. In fact, the small end of the large funnel is much greater in size, and when it is sup- ported so that it meets the small funnel there is a considerable outlet for a great deal of the volume of sound. This insures only the most perfect tones passing into a second funnel and striking the dia- phragm. It is in this way that Dr. Bleyer has ob- tained his records of many of the world's greatest singers, and also of orchestras in full operation. It might seem that a collection of so much that is delicate, brilliant and perfect in the way of sound would be unnecessary and superfluous in scientific records that concern the diseases of the voice, but these examples have an especial value for the pur- poses of comparison, representing, as they do, the possibilities of the vocal cords in exceptional in- stances. Dr. Bleyer proposes now to devise a microphone which will take the chest and heart tones or sounds and set them down upon the cylinder in such a manner that they can be accurately perceived by the ear and carefully studied. It is not far from probable that this instrument will be in complete operation by the early Fall. If it is as successful as is expected, it will bring about a revolution in the studv of diseases of the lungs and heart, and be a remarkable contribution to modern medicine. It is a theory of Dr. Bleyer' s that through the phonograph it is possible to correct man)' errors and deficiencies of the voice and to train people to overcome impediments in speech. In this way the phonograph is not only valuable for purposes of cure, but it can train and preserve. The Motor Mr. Depew Wants To See In an interview with a reporter the other day, Mr. Chauncey M. Depew, president of the Xew York Central Railroad, gave his views on the possibilities of making fortunes. Here is one of the questions asked him, with his reply : " What are your opinions on the great inven- tions of the future ?" " The man who will make money is the one who perfects an electric motor which will enable the railway companies to move passenger and freight trains at less cost than now by the steam locomo- tive; which will solve the problem of street trans- portation, so as to supersede the overhead trolley, at less cost. "If the flying machine can be made a success, as it will have no right of way to buy, no roadbed to keep up, no expenses for the maintenance of way, it will revolutionize everything, and make a fortune beyond the dreams of avarice for the man who makes it a success. Great fortunes are made mainly in two lines — one, inventions ; the other improvements." H TEo\> pbonoorapb Although, in order to instruct children, it is well enough to make them read a description of great scientific inventions, such as the telegraph, tele- phone, phonograph, etc., it is certainly preferable to put these different instruments in their hands in order to permit them to learn how they operate. Yery simple apparatus capable of giving chil- dren general ideas as to the telegraph and telephone have been devised and sold at very low prices, but such an advantage has not hitherto existed for the phonograph. '! his want has, fortunately, just been supplied. Thanks to an ingenious instrument, which is very easily manipulated and of relatively low price, children will be able in the future to assure themselves that it is as easy to obtain a re- production of the human voice with the phono- graph as it is that of a piece of music by means of a mechanical piano. So this is one of the playthings that has met with the most success this year. A TOY PHONOGRAPH The principle upon which the construction of this phonograph is based is the same as that of the Edison apparatus. It is the transmission to a disk of the vibrations that correspond to certain sounds. For registering a sound in the Edison phonograph, a point connected with a plate in front of which the speaking is done traces upon a revolving cylinder moving longitudinally a series of lines, the depth and length of which depends upon the vibrations to which the place is submitted. It results inversely that when the cylinder is displaced the point with which it is in contact transmits to the plate, and then to the ears of the auditors, the sounds due to the vibrations to which the plate has previously been submitted. In order that such apparatus may be placed in the hands of children, it is necessary to take care not to have them of too fragile construction. The principal difficulty resides in the selection for the cylinders of some other material than wax, the wear of which is too rapid. Celluloid has been found good for this purpose. These cylinders have an orifice in the center into which passes the rod that holds them in place, and a rotary motion is given them by a clockwork movement that is wound up with a key. — 1* Illus- tration. Vol. I. No. 5 THE PHONOSCOPE 1 ©uv battler Tlie good people of Naples were treated the other day to an amusing experience of the vagaries of the kinematograph. Two or three series of moving pictures were successfully reeled off, and then the machinery stuck. The operator frantically worked to get matters right, but though be perspired in every pore, the screen showed simply impenetrable dark- ness, at first the music kept the spectators a little quiet, but as time passed and the darkness continued, signs of impatience commenced to make themselves evident. At this juncture a brilliant idea struck the demonstrator. "Ladies and gentlemen," said he ' 'you have before you a scene representing a deadly conflict between two savage tribes of negrbs in a dark railway tunnel." Some one has discovered that Skakespeare knew all about the X-rays, for Hamlet casually remarks to his queen mother: "Come, come and sit you down, you shall not budge. You go not till I set you up a glass, Where you may see the inmost part of you. There is one man, so the story goes, who curses long and loudly the cinematograph. In his amiable, husbandly way he took his wife to see the "cin" (new abbreviation), and in the Sun lay afternoon disembarkation scene, his better half saw what she believed to be her husband coming ashore with another lady. To be the more convinced, she saw the tableau fully half-a-dozen times with the aid of opera glasses. The accused male indignantly denies everything, but as he cannot prove a complete alibi for that particular Sunday afternoon, and his wife won't entertain the idea of an "extraordinary like- ness," there is a big storm in the once happy home. If Miss Pauline Fletcher becomes Mis. Auguste Van Biene and moves from New York to Berlin, the phonograph will be responsible. MissFletcher is an actress — a tall, blonde, pretty woman, who does not know peroxide. Van Biene is a short, round little man, who plays the 'cello. Miss Fletcher's home is in the far West and she often longs for her native prairie. So when Van Biene played "Home, Sweet Home, ' on his 'celloshe thought it the finest music she had ever heard. The 'cello made them acquaintances. Several suppers and strolls through the park made them friends, and then — but let the phonograph speak for itself. Pauline was continually asking Auguste to play "Home, Sweet Home," for her. "I'll play it in a phonograph," said he, "While I am thinking only of you. Then you can hear it whenever you like." The next day Miss Fletcher was invited to hear the familiar tune. Van Biene touched the spring of the instrument while the actress poised herself prettily near it, all attention. "Through pleasures and palaces" — began the phonograph in music. "Oh Pauline, how beautiful you are" — the ma- chine continued. Miss Fletcher looked astonished and a faint color rose in her cheeks. "Wherever I roam," continued the instrument. "Ah, darling, with what grace you leaned over the balcony as Juliet to-night." "Be it ever so humble." "Oh, that I were a glove upon thy hand that I might touch they cheek" — ■ "There's no place like home." "Never have I loved as I love now, never" "Home, home" "Oh, darling, I" The words of a proposal of marriage, even though they were spoken into a phonograph, will not be given. Van Biene's bashfulness was overcome, but Miss Fletcher would not say last hight whether she was engaged to him or not. n7 The spell of "scopes" and "graphs," under which we have labored ever since the first modernized magic lantern began to squirt continuous pictures on a screen in an out-of-the-way little shop far down town, continues unabated. With infinite pains I have undertaken to compile a list of the frantic diversity of freakish names that have been foisted upon us to designate these otherwise admirable con- trivances. The list is, I fondly believe a heart- breaker. Behold not alone the eidoloscope, which was the name of the original downtown outfit, but also [the biograph, bioscope, verascope, vitagraph, cinematographe, cinematoscope, cinetoscope, cineo graph, kinematograph, kinematoscope, kinetograph, kinetoscope, kineoptiscope, triograph, tiioscope, centograph, zimograph, multiscope, hypnoscope, vitamotograph, magniscope, magiscope, animato- graph, animatoniscope, kineoptican, motograph, mutagraph, alethoscope, projectoscope, and last and most dreadful, phantographoscope. There may be others, but are not these a feast ? Over in London they have concocted a nefarious scheme by which the machines have been christened for the houses whereat they have been exploited, this plan serving to bring forth such awful names as alhambrainato- graph and empiretograph. Let us be thankful that our managers have not seen fit to afflct us with an Olympiagraph, a Kosterandbialoscope.a Keithoscope, a Proctoropticon, a Tonypastorgraph, or even a Weberandfieldoscope. An insurance company, inculcating in its annual report the wisdom of insurance, and seeking to con- firm the truth of the adage, "Nothing is so certain to happen as the unexpected," mentions a number of queer accidents, and the utmost of consolation in dollars which the policyholder or his heirs in each case received. The list was as follows: Solicitor, fell over bag, $400; hotel proprietor, soda water, bottle burst, $350; drummer, trod on rusty nail, blood poisoning, death, $5,000; secretary, fell over mat, $700; gentleman swallowed false teeth while asleep, death, $5,000; printer, carrying open umbrella, fell over obstruction, $60; gentleman missed dog when trying to kick him, struck sofa instead, injured great toe, $75; solicitor, struck by falling centre-piece, in drawing-room, $30; merchant, kicking mud off foot, sprained ankle, $55, lawyer, walked against open door of wardrobe in the dark, $1,000. The devil himself appears to be in the Cinema- tographe people. I have been patting them vigor- ously on the back for a couple of weeks because they put up a good show, and now they are as bad as ever, and turn up with a brand new trick. They change the labels on the films and try and make you think it's a new one. They do have a majority of films not seen here, but the pictures on the screens are indistinct, and there is a return of the old vibration noticed several weeks ago. The motion photograph machines are good for a year yet if properly handled, but we must have plenty of new views well presented. The penny-wise-pound-foolish idea of letting any old thing go is bound to bring disaster sooner or later, and it is more apt to come sooner than later. This means everybody, not alone the Cinematographe. IRovelttes 1Hp to Bate This is an age of new things and desires that are ever moving. There seems to be a feverish eager- ness on the part of the people for constant amuse- ment, and manufacturers who cater to this feeling have a wide field before them. The Novelty Export Co. are promoters and intro- ducers of all sorts of fancy inventions and novelties. They have been established about two years, and have met with a veiy popular success. Among the most widely sold of their specialties are the paper novelty, the Kinetoscope, the sale of which they are now pushing, and of which they handle about 60,000 daily, and the Phonograph and Gramophone Musical Records, of which they carry an immense stock of the finest and highest grades on the market. The Automatic Photograph Machine, which produces a perfect picture in one minute, is another one of their novelties which has met with a grand success. As makers of this, the members of the Novelty Export Co. are also members of the Automatic Photograph Machine Co., organized with a capital of $500,000. The President of this company is a man of strong organizing ability and liberal ideas. These companies do business in all the great European centres — Loudon, Paris, Hamburg, and throughout India, Japan, and China. They have shipped within the past three months 75,000 novel- ties to Berlin, 200,000 to London, and a 100,000 lot to Sweden. The main office is in New York, but their busi- ness extends to every part of the world. Mbeve Zbey Mere Etbtbiteb last fIDontb Vitascope Vitascope Hall, Washington, D. C; Birmingham, Ala. ; Central High School, Kansas City, Mo. ; , Auditorium, Parkersburg, W. Va.; East Lake, Birmingham, Ala. Kinematographe Collin's and Peucoast Hall, Camden, N. J. Biograph Wil lard's Hall, Washington, D. C; Association Hall, Trenton, N. J.; Keith's Theatre, Boston , Mass. Zinematograph Huber's Museum. Gneograph Duluth, Minn. Kinetoscope Odeon, Marshalltown, la.; Grand Opera House Sioux City, la. Projectoscope Opera House, Augusta, Ga. ; Metropolitan Opera House, Raleigh, N. C; First M. E. Church, New Brunswick, N. J.; Opera House, Columbia, S. C. ; Academy, Greenboro, N. C. ; Hibernian Hall, Charleston, S. C. ; Opera House, Piedmont, W. Va. Cinematograph Carnegie Hall, Alleghany, Pa.; Grand Opera House, Boston, Mass. ; Eden Musee, N. Y. Cinematoscope City Hall, Springfield, O.; Eden Musee, N. Y. Bioscope Austin and Stone's Museum, Boston, Mass. Phantograph Grand, Grand Rapids, Mich. .8 THE PHONOSCOPE April, 1897 THE PHONOSCOPE Copyrighted 1896 published monthly by THE PHONOSCOPE PUBLISHING CO. 4 EAST 14th STREET, NEW YORK, U. S. A. SUBSCRIPTION : United States and Canada .... $i.oo per 3-ear Foreign Countries 1.50 " Single Copies 10c. each ADVERTISING RATES FURNISHED ON APPLICATION THE PHONOSCOPE is the only journal in the world pub lished in the interest of Talking Machines, Picture Projecting and Animating Devices, and Scientific and Amusement Inventions appertaining to Sound and Sight. Correspondents in London, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Madrid, Alexandria aud Constantinople, Australia, South America. Central America, Canada and 10S cities in the United States. Photography in colors, which so long eluded the research and endeavors of the scientist, was success- fully accomplished some time ago. The new method is called the radio tint color process, and some of its results, a score of prints and transparencies, were put on private exhibition in New York City lately. The collection was brought from Paris by R. A. Anth ony of E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., who went abroad especially to investigate the discovery, and was shown at the office of the firm, which deals in photographic supplies in this city. The pictures embrace landscapes, marines, portraits aud several lots of coins and metal articles, the latter taken merely to illustrate the wonderful discrimination made by the new process in copying accurately delicate variations in coloring. The inventor is M. Yilliedieu Chassagne, of Paris, who has developed a process originally suggested by Dr. Adrian Dansac. He will make the photographs before your eyes, and will allow you to go through the whole performance yourself, but as yet will not tell the secret of the chemicals used. The application of color to the photographic print is by purely chemical means, aud the method is non-technically described thus: A negative is taken on a gelatine plate, prepared by treatment with a certain solution. This is- developed and fixed in the ordinary manner. It shows no trace of color. From it a print is taken on glass, or paper, the plate or paper being specially prepared by treatment with the same solution. The transparency, or the paper print, in no way differs in appearance from an ordinary positive, and* shows no trace of color by transmitted or reflected light. It is washed successively with three colored solutions, blue, green and red, and it takes up the appropriate colors in the appropriate parts, these three colors giving, by their various combinations, all varieties of hue. How it is that this power of selective absorption is given to the components of the photographic image is the interesting question connected with the process. In the landscapes every minute difference in the shades of the green verdure is brought out, and the sunlight effects through the trees and the falling of the rays on the turf in openings in the woodland is charmingly reproduced. In a portrait of Mr. Anthony himself, an inch of his watch chain is shown iu the yellow of the gold of which it is made, and the deep red of his scarf is perfectly reproduced. 3Irs. Anthony had herself photographed , wearing two bunches of violets, one lighter than the other; a yellow gown, a red hat and many colored ribbons. She was a symphony in colors, as she stood before the camera, and so was the picture that was made. A consignment of the chemicals with which the pictures are made will arrive in this country by July 1st. They are not expensive. By means of the radio tint scenes can be repro- duced with absolute exactness. Xot only will the moving objects be pictured in their every motion, even to the flickc of an eyelash or the throb of a beating pulse, but probably the sounds will be heard, as iu nature. The discoverer or inventor never, or almost never, reaches the point of perfection unassisted, if per- fection is ever obtained, which is doubtful. The telephone, telegraph, sewing machine, cotton gin, steam engine, X-rays, the use of antiseptics, anes- thetics, and other classes of drugs and so on in countless numbers, may be cited as instances where the original thought was quickly and thoroughly developed by other minds. Every day in this era of specialization brings nearer the_ fulfilment of an original aud useful idea. The number of men. and women also, who are going in for the "highest education," which is a synonym for specialization, is increasing with rapidity. And with this increase, combined with the benefits of instruction by teachers who are themselves specialists, arise possibilities difficult to estimate, beyond the fact that no former development of an invention or discovery, whichever it may be, can equal what will be. So it will be with the kinetoscope, the machine which takes photographs with such sequent rapidity that when passed before the eye every motion of the scene portrayed is exact. It makes no difference whether oue looks at the quickly-passing photographs in their original size or when thrown by means of magnifying lenses upon a great screen. The process, however, is as yet incomplete, but the Frenchmen have already bettered the American invention and a few years will see it perfected. 4- Photography in colors will progress with rapid strides, now that the first essential steps have been taken. Phonography is alread_v on the high road to success. Combine motion, color and sound, and a scene is faithfully pictured. More than this combin- ation might be unpleasant, for the two of the five known senses are enough in most instances. Per- haps an ultimate result will be the reproduction, by- means of all-essential vibrations, to produce a delu sion for the others of the five senses. Taste may be omitted and also touch. But smell would be dis agreeable to many persons should the 'spectators of- the prize fights of the future indulge in smoking. But no one can tell where the discoveries of science will end. The headquarters of the Yeriscope Company, at 244 West Twenty-third Street, this city, is a busy place nowadays. The managers have the following to say of the fims of the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight ; "They are the most perfect production of the kind in the world, showing every movement of Corbet^ and Fitzsimmons from the time they entered the ring until they left it, giving a view of the timekeep- ers, the seconds of both men between the rounds, the action of all spectators in the immediate vicinity of the ring, including Mrs. Fitzsimmons, Senator Ingalls, Riley Grannan, "Pittsburgh Phil," and many others. The picture contains over ten thou- sand feet of film, will consume nearly one hour aud a half in exhibiting and the auditors will be able to decide upon all of the disputed points in connection with the contest. No one except those directlv in- terested can imagine the care, labor and expeuse that has been necessary to place this great enterprise ou the market. Xo picture has ever been shown before that covered over five hundred feet of film. The veriscope is the only machine existing capable of taking a longer one. The actual cost of the film used in taking the pictures is close on to $2,500, and it is only possible to print one copy of the tight every twenty-four hours, and in order to protect the picture from piracy the company is spending nearly $25,000, depositing copies of the film in the copyright office of every country of importance in the world. This must be done before one representation is given in public. In America, two copies must be deposited in Washington; in England, five copies at Stationer's Hall; in Canada, two at Ottawa; in France and Germany, two copies with the Minister of Agricul ture, and so on in all other Continental powers. A wicked war is to be waged against all fakirs, pirates and persons manufacturing, selling or exhibiting imitations of this picture. One scheme is to take the old Corbett-Courtney film, label it Corbett-Fitz- simmons, and mislead the public. Decided action is to taken against all unauthorized uses of it. The genuine Corbett-Fitzsimmons film will be ready for delivery on or about May 15, and it is the inten- tion of the Yeriscope Company to place them in every State in the Union immediately." Xegal IHotices Leopold Wallach, and Moritz Wallach, com- posing the firm of Martin Wallach Nachfolger, of Cassell, Germany, lately filed a bill in equity in the United States Circuit Court against George S. Pilling and Charles J. Pilling, composing the firm of George S. Pilling & Son, of Philadelphia, asking to have the defendants enjoined from the making of an alleged infringement on an assigned patented invention for improvements in the phonendoscope, an apparatus for rendering small sounds distinctly audible on a magnified scale. An attachment secured by Edwin Hamerschlag in his suit against the Cathoscope Electrical Com- pany was vacated upon the motion of the Allen Advertising Agency, a subsequent lienor. The First Appellate Division has now reversed the order vacating the attachment, holding that the Allen Advertising Agency had not made sufficient proof that it was a subsequent lienor, having failed to show that the judgment recovered by it in the City Court, in November, 1896, was valid. The City Court, having limited jurisdiction, it should have been shown that the court had acquired juris- diction of the subject matter, and over the person of the defendant. The affidavit showed that the judgment was obtained upon personal service on the Secretary^ of the Cathoscope Company but it did not appear that such service was m-de within the City of New York, or under such circumstances as gave the City Court jurisdiction. It was held further, that the court below should have permitted plaintiff to read new affidavits upon the motion the application to vacate not having been made upon the papers upon which it was granted, but upon papers which were not in existence at the time the application was made to the Judge for the warrant of attachment. These were papers show- ing facts additional to those which had been pre- sented to the courts by the plaintiff upon applyiag for the attachment. The Projectoscope people at Greensboro, N. C, were served with a notice last mouth by W. F. Bogart for a breach of contract, Mr. Bogart alleging that they had made a contract with him and then backed out. The papers were issued from Squire Keith's office. Col. Staples, for the plaintiff, asked for time to reply, and half an hour was given. After recess, affidavits being filed, Squire Eckel decided in favor of the defence, viz. : that the ser- vice of process was not properly made, and the case was dismissed. Plaintiff Bogart appealed and the case is just where it was at first. The Superior Court will settle it. Vol. I. No. 5 THE PHONOSCOPE 9 General IHews Mr. Geo. Schweinfest.the popular picollo soloist, lately a member of Issler's Orchestra, in the employ of the United States Phonograph Co., has severed his connection with that concern, and will hereafter be associated with the Columbia Phonograph Co,, who have secured his valuable services as a member of the Columbia Orchestra. The Universal Phonograph Co. , have succeeded in getting some very creditable records of Miss Annie Hart, the popular vaudeville favorite. Dr. Nicola Tesla, in a lecture before the New York Academy of Sciences? on April 6th, an- nounced that he had discovered a new source of rays in the electric arc, by which more powerful rays and finer definition may be obtained than by any method previously known, and stated that its application was possible, not only to the Rontgen and Lenard rays, but to lightning and other practi- cal purposes. Dr. Tesla claimed also to have demonstrated that the Rontgen rays can be deflec- ted by a magnet, and that the}' are identical with the Lenard rays, described first in 1S91. Dr. J. Mount Bleyer is said to have invented an instrument for the photographing sound vibrations in the atmosphere. This instrument consists of a cone, over the large end of which is stretched a diaphragm of thin rubber. On this, and in its exact center, is placed a thin layer of powder, which is disturbed by the vibrations of the dia- phragm, answering to the human voice at the small end of the cone. The lines formed in the powder are photographed on a rapidly moving film, and the records obtained show very interesting results. Hardy Holmau has invented an ingenious con- trivance on the principle of the X-ray. It is a small box having two glass tubes on top and a vacuum between . An electric battery is attached. A ray of light passes through iron and other solid articles, giving a clear view of objects opposite. So it is with a watch or several silver dollars in layers. The little box has excited a good deal of interest, and the young inventor is to be congratu- lated on his inventive genius. Mr. Mervin E. Lyle, New York, manager for the Columbia Phonograph Co., paid a flying visit to Europe last month. Mr. Lyle visited London, Paris and Berlin, and reports that the talking machine is getting to be a staple article on the continent. Russell Hunting went to Washington, D.C., last month to talk to the Gramophone. He re- ceived one dollar per minute while talking to the machine. He was accompanied by the Diamond Comedy Four, who made a number of records on the same day. A new baritone has appeared in the Phonograph field. Mr. J. J. Fisher a popular Eastern artist is meeting with great success in this peculiar line. Mr. Gilmore, of the Edison Works, deserves great credit for his persistent experiments to im- prove the quality of the Edison phonograph blanks. The cylinders that are now being tinned out by the works are. the best ever produced, and show a marked advance over those manufactured a year ago. The United States Phonograph Co. has occupied one of the floors over the meat market on Orange St., Newark, N. J., intend to extend their facilities, and have hired another room down stairs, which will be used for shipping purposes. Mr. Frank Thayer, the prominent Western ex- hibitor, has moved his headquarters from Waterloo, Iowa, to Chicago, 111. The Chicago Talking Machine Co., has sold out to the Columbia Phonograph Co., and will here- after be known as the Chicago branch of the latter concern. Mr. Leon Douglass, former manager of the Chicago Talking Machine Co., will be retained by the Columbia Co. as their Chicago manager. George V. Gress has been interested in a num- ber of financial schemes in Atlanta. He has always aspired to become one of the prominent citizens in the place. He ran for the Common Council three years ago, and was defeated by an overwhelming majority. He first came into notice in Atlanta when he bought all of the animals of a stranded circus and presented them to the city to form the nucleus of a zoological garden. The lot was established in a house built for the purpose in Grant Park, near Atlanta, and was known as the Gress Zoo. Gress was afterward elected a member of the Park Board. This is the only office he ever held. In addition to being interested in the Georgia Sav- ings, Loan and Banking Company, he was Presi- dent of the United States Bond Company, and of the Georgia Pine Lumber Company. He owns extensive pineries in the southern part of Georgia. He employs convict labor on all of them. His main camp is at Kramer, Ga. It was at Kramer, in Gress's camp, that the notorious Lord Berseford, alias Sidney Lascelles, the forger, served a term of years for forgery, and cheating and swindling. He has two sons — Morgan and Hart Gress. It was his eldest sou, Morgan, who applied for a receiver before Judge Lumpkin for the Georgia Savings, Loan and Banking Company. Gress has for the past eighteen months spent a great deal of his time in New York. About eighteen months ago he became interested in an invention of a man named Moore, who was a mechanic attached to the Kimball House in Atlanta. . The invention was an improvement on the phonograph, whereby five cylinders could be placed in a machine instead of one. He formerly had an office at 1,395 Broadway, but left there several weeks ago. He and Moore disagreed and dissolved partnership. It is thought that he has left New York to attend the Centennial Exposition at Nashville, Tenn. ©ur jforeion Corresponbenee London, Eng., Feb. 10, 1897. Mr. Editor: Agreeably to your request I here- with take pleasure in giving to your readers a short account of some of my experiences with Automatic machines in the land — which flows with milk and honey — England. Avoiding superfluous details, allow me to tell you that, after inventing an Automatic Weighing Machine during the winter of 1887-188S, I had built fifty of them, which, by the middle of March, 1888, were ready to be placed. As you are aware, in England the season for outdoor exercise opens with the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, held annually, about the 25th of March, on that part of the River Thames which extends from Battersea Park to Putney Bridge. All London, rich and poor, low and high, makes it a duty to attend this race, which, for the day, divides the people into two chaffiugly hostile parties, the dark and the light blues. The main stand for these crowds is on the right bank of the river, along the towing path from Hammersmith Bridge to Putney Bridge. Here I had intended to place my first machines in order to give them the severest possible test by exposing them to the roughest usage. Unfortunately of otherwise I was unable to secure proper locations there, and thus I was com- pelled to look for suitable places elsewhere. At length, late on the night preceding Easter Sunday, April 1st, 1888, I had succeeded in securely placing fifteen Automatic Weighing Machines in various parts of London. My machine consisted of a cast iron weighing platform attached to a similar column on which there was an oval box also of cast iron, tastily ornamented, and having in the centre of its front under a small glass window, a lion's head, the mouth of which was an open slot. Inscriptions surrounding these told patrons, that on standing on the platform and inserting a penny into the lion's mouth, the shutters behind the window would be automatically drawn aside, thus displaying on the dial behind the glass the exact weight of the cus- tomer. The whole machine was neatly painted in red, blue, and gold, being very attractive in every respect. New to this business, I had arranged to have my machines started altogether at eight o'clock, a.m., on Easter Sunday, and to have the money, they might take, collected on the following Tuesday. As I was sitting down to enjoy my Easter dinner, a telegram was handed to me, informing me that the machine placed in front of the post-office in Brompton Road was out of order, and requesting me to have is set right at once. I hitched my pony to my gig, and drove helter skelter to Brompton , where I found a great crowd surrounding my machine; with great difficulty I made my way to the machine, opened it, and found it literally choked with pennies. The money box constructed to hold about two hundred and fifty pennies, was full, so was all the rest of the machines; pennies had been forced in everywhere, jammed in between the wheels, behind the dial, in the column, and under the platform. After gathering the pennies into a Gladstone bag, and setting the machine agoing, I went into the postmaster's house to count the money; a total of eight hundred and twenty three pennies had been forced down the lion's mouth, within six hours, a sum equal to ^3.8.7. I was thunderstruck; my most sanguine expecta- tions had been far surpassed. Dreading the same delightful fate for the other machines, I drove off to clear them, too, and it was well I did so. On Easter Sunday, 1888, I took out of fifteen machines, in coppers, the sum of ^"57.16.4 or nearly $300. On my way home that evening, I stopped to collect the money taken by the machine placed outside a Barber's Shop at Turnham Green. My bag was full of money, and when, after closing the machine, I wanted to return to my gig standing close to the curb, I found myself hemmed in by a surging crowd of East End holyday makers. Dreading their intentions, I put my hand into my bag and flung a handful of coins into the middle of the road, as far as I could. Scampering after these the crowd dispersed in a moment, and, jump- ing into the gig, I was soon far away, safe witii my money. It had been a hard day's work, but, withal, a very pleasant work. It is with lively pleasure that I recall to-day this, my first day's experience with Automatic Machines. F. L. 10 THE PHONOSCOPE April, 1897 " {picture Iprojectfng " Devices It is interesting to notice what pictures are the popular favorites iu the exhibitions of the biograph, vitascope, cinematograph, ar.d similar instruments. The serpentine dances and high kicking get a moder- ate amount of applause ; the military scenes get a good deal more; the march of a procession down, apparently, into the very teeth of the audience, is almost startling; but these are not the things which receive an encore. At two recent exhibitions of this sort there were only two encores. One of these was a burst of enthusiasm over a view of the surf break- ing on one of the piers at Manhattan Beach. The other was from an audience that wanted to see again the onward rush of the Empire Slate Express. The surf picture seemed fairly to bring the smell of the sea into the smoke-clouded theatre. As the wave began to gather, form, and get an edge, the audience drew in an expectant breath. And as the water hurried on and on, until it finally broke at the crest, and flung itself forward with a force that sent up a cloud of spray, the spectators gave a great "Ah-h-h!" The view of the Empire State Express was even more thrilling. At first there was only the long line of the railroad coming straight down the picture, and curving off to one side at the front. Some section hands were at work on the track. There was a spot in the distance wiih a fine line of smoke streaming away from it. It grew with every second until it was a throbbing engine pouuding its way right toward the audience. People held their breath as the train swept toward them, and it seemed an actual escape when it swung off on the curve and out of sight. Next to these scenes, which portray the working of some tremendous natural force, the most popular ones are the homely, everyday ones. One of the most delightful of these is a pillow fight among four little girls. They are in two cribs with railiugs around them. One of the children lifts herself up and, taking her pillow, mischievously bangs it down on the head of her bedfellow. At this, the two in the other crib are highly delighted and promptly sit up in bed, holding on to the railing at the side. The unfortunate one, who has just been whacked , emerges from under the pillow and is so angry when she sees the other two laughing at her that she snatches up a pillow and knocks them both out of sight with one fell swoop. Then she turns her at- tention to the original offender and hostilities are general until one of the pillows bursts, and the whole picture is full of feathers. In this age of marvelous scientific achievements, and the general distribution of scientific knowledge the public mind rapidly accustoms itself to wonder- ful inventions, and generally loses the sense of won- der that they first inspire. This has been demonstra- ted in the case of the telephone, phonograph, etc., which now enter into every-day use without exciting any sensation of the marvelous. But the vitascope, the most recent of those scientific marvels, promises to hold the public mind in wonder and amazement longer than any invention of the century, combining as it does entertaining and instructive powers of the highest order, with all that is fascinating in the mysterious and inexplicable. Ever}' one should see the exhibitions of the vitascope. The biograph seems to have some trouble in get- ting out of Washington. In the case of some com- panies in the show business this is caused by the holding of baggage for board bills and the like, When it is usually kept as quiet as possible and not exploited in the next season's advance notices. But the biograph people don't care particularly who knows about this, Their reasons are different. There are so man}' people in Washington who want to see this remarkable combination of electric and photographic skill that it has been too profitable a field to leave alone. It was decided this week that the engagement would really have to terminate, but the churches put in petitions to have it stay for one week longer, and they will fill up a large part of this last week with benefits. There will be some new views on exhibition Sunday night. £>eep Sea talking A Telephone Devised for the Use of Divers on the Ocean's Bottom Since the invention of the present system of submarine diving by means of the armor and helmet, into which air is pumped from above, the diver has labored under the disadvantage of being unable to communicate with those on the surface, save by a few simple signals, such as could be communicated by means of tugs or jerks on the life line. For instance, one jerk might mean "send me a line," or it might mean "haul me up at once." Two jerks might mean "I want more air; pump faster," etc. The life line is a half inch manilla rope of the finest quality, which is noosed around the diver's body, under the arms, and is the means by which he is lowered down to or hauled up from the bottom of the ocean. The surface end of it is held by the diver's tender, in order that he may instantly receive and reply to all signals. The most laborious part of the diver's business, and possibly the most dangerous part of the hazards he is compelled to take, is in ascending and descending, as the sudden relieving or increasing of the pressure of the air inside the armor is likely to drive the blood to the head, causing the rupture of a blood vessel in the brain, apoplexy and in- stant death. He must take care in descending, and more time in coming up, according to the increase in depth. In ascending from very deep water, the diver, having been in a condensed atmosphere, time should be given for the muscles and tissues of the body to be relieved of the pres- sure by very slowly ascending, or frequently stop- ping for a time at certain stages, to allow the body to be relieved of the greater pressure acquired while working in the denser atmosphere, or to establish, as nearly as possible, an equilibrium between the pressure of the water he may be resting in. All this shows that the diver's risk is reduced by his remaining down until his work is finished. Heretofore, he has been unable to do this, owing to the fact that he was compelled to make frequent descents and ascents, in order to receive and trans- mit instructions and to get tools, materials, etc., which he might require from time to time. To obviate all this a submarine telephone was invented some years ago, but it was not a success. It consisted of an ear piece, or transmitter, and mouth piece, or receiver, inside the helmet. Recently Captain Lewis Sorcho, a submarine diver of long experience, began a series of experi- ments with submarine telephones in a huge tank, which he erected in Baltimore. This tank was an immense glass front affair, containing eighty thousand gallons of water, and gave ample opportunity for the testing of the 'phone. He had two assistants, one of whom was his wife. One or the other of these would spend hours under water, while the Captain remained on the surface, making alterations and improvements in the telephone. Occasionally, the Captain would make a descent, in order to test the diver's end of it, and after months of tireless exertion he had perfected a deep sea telephone which was practical, strong and highly effective. The new submarine telephone is simple, but wonderfully effective. The tender or attend-.nt can hear almost a whisper from the diver, and vice versa. The latest improved 'phone consists of a headgear for both diver and tender made of elastic rubber. This fits over the top of the head and under the chin. Over the left ear is the transmitter, and over the right a wooden pad, which shuts all sounds out of the ear and prevents pain in the ear from the air pressure. The submarine waterproof cable passes through the front of the helmet by means of a stuffing box. The arrangement is such that the tender has the free use of his hands, which is very important in the handling of the lines connected with the diver. The cable, which is waterproof, runs from the lower end of the brass strip, where there are also con- nections for the wires that lead to the batteries. Of these there are from eight to twenty-four used, according toHhe depth at which the diver is work- ing. They are dry batteries, encased in a neat wooden chest, handy for carrying in a boat or moving about wherever needed. The receivers and transmitters look about like those of the ordinary long distance telephone, save that the latter are flat and about the circumference of the little wooden boxes the druggists put salve in. To be able to talk to a man away down in the ocean's depths is truly novel, and to hear him talking and telling of the strange sensations he is enduring, the wondrous sights he is seeing, and to be able to get an accurate account of just what he is doing are still more interesting. The dangers which beset the diver will be greatly reduced, for the reason that if anything happens to him, such as a beam or other heavy object in a wreck falling on him or his lines, thus making him a prisoner at the bottom of the sea, he can give an accurate account over the telephone of just what has occurred, and another diver can easily'go down and release him. He can also order anything he may need sent down to him, and can, by a simple wire connection made on the surface by two tenders, even talk to another diver who ma}- be working some distance away from him. A case is on record where a diver became en- tangled while working on a wreck and could not release ^himself. Another diver was sent for, but five hours elapsed before he arrived. It was then too late. Fright had killed him, Had he been equipped with a telephone he could have talked with his tender, who could have assured him that assistance was near at hand, by which means his courage would have been kept up until he was released. Another advantage of the telephone is that it is always ready for instant use. There is no calling up to be done, and in case of an accident the diver can instantly call on his tender to haul him up. In the Xew York papers a few weeks ago there appeared an account of a diver whose armor commenced to leak badly. He signalled by the old system of tugs at the life line to be hauled up, but different divers have different signals, and a new tender thought he wanted to be let out further, so slacked away on the air hose and life line. Every frantic signal resulted in a further slacking instead of tightening of the lines, and when the diver finally reached the surface he was nearly dead. Such a state of affairs could not have existed had the diver been equipped with a telephone. 11 '(Srapbs, Ipbones ant> 'Scopes The Sy nchronograph An exceedingly interesting paper was read at the meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, by Dr. A. C. Crehore and Lieut. George O. Squier, U. S. A., on the "Synchronograph," described as a new method of rapidly transmitting intelligence by the alternating current. The ex- periments on which the papers were based were made in the electrical laboratory of the United States Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Va., where land telegraph and telephone lines were used. By means of the new transmitter which was ex- hibited, Lieut. Squier said that 3,000 words a minutes could be sent. Among some of the possibilities which Lieut. Squier presented was the publication of the same newspaper in different parts of the country the same day. "For example," he said, "in an edition of a daily newspaper of twelve pages, eight columns to a page, there are less than 185,000 words. At the rate of 3,000 words per minute, it would require only about an hour to transmit the entire contents of the paper. The great flexibility of the alternating current, as employed, permits, if nee- essary, considerable amounts of power to be trans- mitted over the line, which may be used for making simultaneous manifold copies of the same dispatches in remote cities. It is also practicable to use the system in the ordinary quadruplex telegraphing at the same time." Concerning the telegraphy of the future, based on this system, Lieut. Squier said : "The telegraph line of the future will comprise substantial pole=) carrying a few copper wires, worked to their full capacity for transmitting electric signals. The cost of maintaining such a line, when once con. structed, will be little more than for the ordinary iron wire now used, while the carrying capacity for intelligence at 3,000 words per minute, simplex, will be about equal to 160 wires used for hand transmission, simplex. By duplexing the line, the carrying capacity is doubled, and becomes 6,000 words per minute." The Lenoscope John M. Mclntire an inventor of this city, [has just completed the mechanism of what he terms a lenoscope, and experiments show it to be a success. The inventor claims that the lenoscope is equal to fourteen kinetoscopes combined, and the pictures shown by him bear out his statements. The Ampliphone The ampliphone, the latest of instruments for magnifying sound, has produced little short of a sensation in medical circles. In fact, in point of value for diagnostic purposes, it is regarded by many as next to the Rontgen ray as an important addition to the resources of the profession. The stethoscope is manifestly out of date, and medical practitioners have long felt the need of an instru- ment less crude and clumsy and more sensitive and adequate to the requirements of modern medical science. A few months ago a remarkable sound- detector was brought out. It possessed a sensitive- ness never before deemed possible, and for a while the medical profession congratulated itself that in the new appliance a valuable acquisition had been made. However, it was soon found that the in- strument was practically too sensitive, inasmuch as, while it transmitted the most minute sound with the body, it carried at the same time an over- powering, ringing din, caused by the vibration of the particles of metal of which the instrument was composed. The effect was often that, of a distant voice trying to make itself heard in a gale of wind. The instrument, however, did the doctors a most important service, in that in taught them that a much higher standard of aural diagnosis . was possible if a practical means of accomplishing it could be devised. The realization of this impera- tive want has led to the singular resurrection of an instrument long forgotten and intended for use in an entirely different field. Ten years ago, when a great deal of important news was stolen in transit over the telegraph lines by hangers-on at railway station and telegraph offices, who would listen to the click of the sounders, A. A. Knudson, an electrical inventor, patented a device which he called an ampliphone, for magnifying, or amplify- ing, the tell-tale click under certain conditions. The invention enabled the armature of the telegraph instrument to be adjusted so close to the magnet that its movement when in operation could not be seen by the naked eye. The noise of such a slight motion could not, of course, be heard by the unas- sisted ear, but the ampliphone carried it distinctly to the receiving operator, and thus the secrecy of the message was secured. It was claimed that the instrument would save over 50 per cent, in current and consequently the expense of more than half the battery power employed. In 1888, however, the dynamo began to be used for supplying current for telegraph work, instead of batteries, and the ampliphone was laid on the shelf. By mere acci- dent it has been taken up again and tested for medical purposes, with the result that many leading doctors have stated their conviction that it will fill the need of a microphonic appliance, of which the profession has become so sensible. Wonderful accounts are given of the sensitiveness and power of the instrument. Among other things, it enables the beating of the pulse to be heard. Its specialty is described as the ability to differentiate the many- confusing sounds which may sometimes be heard within the body, without taking up any extraneous noises, and it is said to render possible a diagnosis of remarkable accuracy and amplitude. The in- strument weighs about two ounces and can easily be carried in the coat pocket. The Waterscope If you go to the lakes or to the seashore this summer you should take a waterscope along with you. A waterscope is a device which will enable you to peer down to the bottom of a lake or stream and see the sea-weeds, with the fish resting among them. Any boy can make one of them very easily, and he'ean have no end of fun using it. The waterscope consists of a long, narrow box, covered at one end with glass — ordinary window glass. To make it, get four pieces of smooth straight-grained pine wood, one-quarter of an inch in thickness, 20 or 24 inches long and 2^2 inche wide. Have these pieces made true and exact in measurement. Carefully tack them together with brads in the form of a long box. It may be well before joining them to daub on a little white-lead paint, so as to make the joints watertight. Now cut a piece of glass the size of one end of the long box. You can readily cut glass with an old pair of shears by holding it under water. Fasten this piece of glass to the end of the tube by means of a few small tacks driven close to its edge. Then putty it carefully round, and, when the putty is thoroughly dry, paint the box and putty, taking pains to fill all the cracks. This is necessary to make the box water-tight. In a day or two your waterscope will be dry enough for use. On some bright, sunny afternoon push your boat out on the lake or stream where you wish to experiment. Thrust the glass end of the waterscope well under the surface of the water and place your eye at the other end. You will find that you can see through the water with great dis- tinctness, often to the hiding places of fish among those forests of the lake bottoms, the seaweeds. The object of the waterscope is to cut through the disturbed surface of the lake where your boat stands, and also to protect your eyes from the reflection of the sun on the water. Of course it does not act tike a telescope, and you can- not see to the bottom where the water is very muddy or where it is very deep. But you will be astonished at what a fairyland of beauty the waterscope will reveal along the edges of some of our clear lakes on a sunny day. Often you can see a big clam, with its mouth wide open, waiting for his dinner to drop into it, or a lazy pickerel or a sunfish resting near the bottom, and sometimes you will see lost objects of various kinds, including trolling hooks and lines and other things of a similar nature. The writer once knew a man who found a watch which he had dropped into the lake by means of a waterscope. (Srapbopbone as a Witness The graphophone has been held to be not a com- petent witness — at least not in Justice Truax's court. An attempt to introduce it was summarily- squelched by the Justice in Special Term, of the Supreme Court, last month. The case on trial when the ruling was made was that of Sauer against the New York Central Rail road. Mr. Sauer is a member of the Park Avenue Property Owners' Association, which comprises ninety per cent, of the owners of property on that avenue between 11 6th street and the Harlem River. His suit is a test case involving about sixty more suits. He claims damages from the railroad com- pany on the allegation that his property has depreciated in value by reason of the construction of elevated tracks from 116th Street to Harlem River, which shut out light and air and produce an unbearable noise. Unknown to the officials of the company the property-owners [of Park Avenue had a number of graphophone receivers erected at various points along upper Park Avenue. The receivers were planted at the 125th Street Station upon the Avenue, and in the houses owned by the association. Before the case was called last month the graphophones were tested in the offices of James C. Busbey, counsel for Mr. Sauer, and were found to give a very faithful reproduction of the noises made by the trains. The graphophone apparatus was fitted with a megaphone or wide mouthed trumpet, and the noise it made was deafening. The graphophones were in court last month when the case was called for trial. So were Elec- trician Goudge and several other experts, who were to testify that the graphophones were those which had been "planted" along Park Avenue. When Attorney Busbey offered the graphophones in evidence, counsel for the railroad immediately- entered a vigorous objection. "Take those things right out of here," shouted Justice Truax, who evidently wasn't at all pleased with the tender of evidence. Mr. Busbey noted an exception and the dumb witnesses were carried away. It is probable that the graphophone company will endeavor to get a test case on the admissability of their machine as evidence before higher courts 12 THE PHONOSCOPE April, 189? popular Science How It Feels to Be Telephoned Through There is only one man in the world who has been telephoned through. He is Torger O. Ende son, a swede of Rock Dell, Olmsted County, Minn. He held the ends of a telephone wire while people several miles amy talked through him. The electric current knocked him down, but he held bravely to the wires, and the remarkable ex- periment was a complete success. His performance has attracted wide attention among scientific men. Here is the first account that Mr. Enderson has ever written concerning it : "To the Editor. — I believe that I am the only man in the world who was ever talked through. It is a strange experience, and one that I do not care to duplicate. Although it occurred very re- cently, it seems to have attracted the attention of scientists, and I have received a number of inquiries from them. " I was getting read}- to go and fix up the tele phone wire which seemed to be broken somewhere between Rock Dell and Hayfield. These two towns are seven miles apart, and we could not get a message through at all. The electricity would not work, or the wire was broken, or something was wrong, and as nobody knew what it was, we had to investigate. AYe suspected it was a broken wire, and so J. \V. Lundale, the operator at Rock Dell, asked me to go out and find the trouble. If it v. as a broken wire, he said, he wanted me, when I got to the place, to take hold of the two ends so that he could send a message through me. "You see, he wanted me to be the connection between the two broken ends of the wire. You know, when 3-outalk through the telephone it ain't the sound wave from your voice that goes over the wire, but it is an electrical vibration. So it was this electrical vibration that was to go through me. I was afraid to try it, but Lundale told me that there would not be any danger at all, and so I said I would, provided it was a broken wire that caused the trouble. Lundale and I set our watches at the same time and started out to hunt up the break. It was a sure enough break, and it happened about three miles from Rock Dell. " I looked at my watch after I got to the broken wire, and found that I had forty minutes to get ready to be the connection. I made a loop on each end of the broken ends of the wire, so I could get a good hold, and there would be no mistake about the connection being all right. I had not gone alone to this place, as there were four men with me — Yorkel Jorgenseon, Martin Hanson, Cyrus Rierson, and Andrew Olson. After a while it got to be the time when I had agreed with Lundale to try the experiment. I took hold of the loops and Martin Hanson held the watch. Then Lundale called up Hayfield, the call for which is two rings. I could feel in my body what station was called. If somebody had hit me on the head twice when Lundale called Hayfield it would not have been any plainer to me. " Hayfield did not answer at first, and Lundale called it up three times. The last time was too much for me, and I fell to the ground, losing hold of one wire. I was not hurt any, only just knocked down, and I grabbed hold of the wire that I had dropped. After a couple of minutes Lundale called up Oslo. I could feel the five short rings for that place, just like five thrills going through me. " After |a little while Lundale called up Dodge Center by three rings. It was pretty hard for me, but I stood it, for I had made up my mind that I would not give in just as long as I could hold myself together, but when Lundale gave Austin a call he rang me down as flat as a pancake. I never did know what the Austin call was, but I think it takes a pretty good long ring to get the town. Even this did not hurt me, so I got up after a minute or two and took hold of the ends of the wire and made the connection for the answer from Austin. I managed to hold out until the time Lundale and I had agreed that I was to hold the wire was up. Then I fixed the wire, and we all went back to Rock Dell. When I got back to Dell Lundale told me that while I was holding the wires he got an answer from Oslo, which was seven miles away. He had also a* talk with Dodge Center, which is twenty miles from the Dell. He had quite a talk with Austin, forty- miles away, but he did not hear from Hayfield, which, I believe, was because the operator at that place was not there when the call came. There is no reason why he should not have answered if he had heard the ring. ' ' I cannot say that my experience as a means of connection of telephone wires hurt me any to amount to anything. Of course, the electricity jerked my muscles terribly. I seemed to suffer the most in my arms, particularly in the arm that was holding the broken wire that ran toward the Dell. All the while the talking was going on I felt hard shocks in my chest, but I can hardly explain how it really felt. Just the same, if anybody is think- ing of trying the same thing who has not very- strong nerves, thev had better take my advice and give the idea up. "You see, it does not make any difference how strong a man is ; if he has not got good nerves electricity does not agree with him. I've had lots of little shocks in fixing telephone wires, but they never have made me lame or anything of that kind before. It seems to me that there must have been a mighty powerful current of electricity pass- ing along that wire when I acted as the connection. I remember at a fair once taking hold of the handles of one of those machines that they give you electric shocks with, and that made me feel just a very little bit like I felt when I was holding those broken wires. Besides the pains in my chest and in my arms, I felt just as if somebody was pricking me a little all over, and then as if in some way or other they had been able to grab hold of my nerves and give them little pulls. ' ' I am not at all nervous, and it takes a good deal to startle me, so I was not scared at all while these things I have written about were going on. It never seemed to me that as long as you were careful there was any danger in letting a little electricity into you. It all depends on how you do it. I thought of all those things when I was hold- ing these wires. When it came so fast that it knocked me to the ground I thought it was getting sort of strong, but I did not feel there was any rea- son for me to be frightened. "T. O. EXDERSOX." Mr. Enderson's experience was certainly most remarkable. That he was able to endure the con- tinued shocks and be none the worse for acting as a conductor for a tremendous current of electricity- falls little short of marvelous. It is no exaggera- tion to say that ninety-nine persons out of a hun- dred would have nearly died had they grasped the ends of the broken wires. These wires were not exactly what are known as live when broken, but immediately the connection was formed, and the telephone put into use, they practically became so. The facts stated — and there is no question about their accuracy — dispel some greatly cherished theories. In other words, no one knows exactly how much electricity a man can stand without producing death. — Chicago, III., Inter-Ocean. of many a fire at similar surface buildings in collieries and elsewhere, in which timber covered with coal dust may be in intimate connection with heated metal plates, has been offered in a German colliery. The surface works of the colliery are made chiefly- of iron, the galvanized corrugated sheets which form the walls of the building being supported by strong iron girders. It became nec- essary- to repair a pipe passing through one of the sheets forming a wall facing the south. A mechanic, on going to remove the layer of coal dust from a girder .close to the sheet, burned his hand. The official inquiry showed that the layer of coal dust, which contained a large proportion of pulverized rock, had become ignited along the whole length of the metal wall. The heat ©f the sun had struck right through, and the coal dust, as was proved by the layer of white ash on the top, had been burning for a considerable time. Successful flnventions The most notable exhibit at the Food and Indus- trial Exhibition iu the Grand Central Palace and American Institute Fair, Madison Square Garden, this city, was the display made by Hamei>chlag & Co., the well known manufacturers of patented elec- trical specialties. This firm are electrical contractors and dealers iu electrical supplies of every character. The principal feature of their display at the food show was the marvelous device invented by A. Hamerschlag and known as the Cathoscope, which has proved itself the most perfectly developed of the Roentgen or X-ray Machine. This apparatus shows the title inwardness of man in a remarkably plain A proof of the remarkable case with which dry coal dust may be brought to ignition, even by- exposure to the sun's rays, and also an explanation and distinct manner. It is being used iu innumer- able cities by Exhibitors, Physicians and the Scien- tific Fraternity, and being protected by pateuts, offers a lucrative field for investment as its money earning capacity is far larger than that of any machine in the world of equal cost. It attracted much attention at the show and excited the wonder of others. Vol. I. No. 5 THE PHONOSCOPE 13 Hnswers to Corresponbence We have had many inquiries relating to the cause and result of the late legal trouble between the Phonograph and Graphophone Companies. We print the claims of both concerns as put forth in circulars issued by their parent companies of the rival parties during the recent controversy. We are pleased to say, however, that the trouble has been amaciably settled, and both concerns are now work- ing for the general interest of the talking machine. American Graphophone Company, Washington, D.C., October 15, 1896. The American Graphophone Company owns the fundamental patents which created and cover the talking-machine art as it is known and practiced to-day; and every so-called "Edison Phonograph," unless it indents on tin-foil, infringes these patents. All of the so-called improved Edison Phonographs manufactured in 1889 were made under a license from the Graphophone Company and paid the Graphophone Company a royalty until Jesse H. Lippincott, President of the North American Phono- graph Company, became brankrupt. Since then suits for infringement, injunction, accounting, etc., have been vigorously pressed against the Edison Phonograph Works, the United States Phonograph Company, the Ohio Phonograph Company, the Kansas Phonograph Company, the New England Phonograph Company, and others. Already several judgments have been entered in our favor, the latest being against the Receiver of the North American Phonograph Company, who voluntarily submitted to an injunction and paid damages. The suit against Edison, the United States Phono- graph Company, and others was argued in Septem- ber, 1896, before Judge Green in the United States Circuit Court in Trenton N. J. , although the defend- ants did everything in their power to retard trial, and or a time succeeded in postponing a hearing by urg- ing upon the court that no phonographs had been made since 1889, and that they were doing substan- tially no business. Shortly after final hearing Judge Green died suddenly, leaving the case undecided. This delay has emboldened the infringers, and they are now re- embarking in the business with a hastily-constructed type of phonograph, some of which tkey hope to market before another judge can rehear and act upon our suit, leaving the purchasers of these machines to settle with us. We are pressing the matter with all possible haste in the courts, and meantime give public notice that every individual, firm, or corporation who sells or uses the so-called Edison Phonograph, or appliances therefor, does so unlawfully and will be legally accountable to this Company in damages. AMERICAN GRAPHOPHONE COMPANY, E. D. Easton, President. National Phonograph Company. Orange, N. J. Our attention has been called to a circular letter dated October 15, 1896, and signed and distributed by the American Graphophone Company, warning the public against the use or sale of Edison phono- graphs and appliances. It is generally known and beyond dispute that Mr. Edison, and not. the Graphophone Company, invented the phonograph. Most persons and con- cerns interested in the talking machine enterprise understand the controversy between the two interests too well to be misled by the Graphophone Company's reckless statements. As to the Graphophone Company's claim, that its "fundamental patents" created and cover tiie talking art, it seems sufficient to call to mind the dismal failure which met the graphophone, made some years ago under those patents — a failure which continued up to the time the Graphophone Company appropriated the Edison improvements which made the phonograph a success. The entry of the "several judgments" in the Graphophone Company's favor, as referred to in the circular letter, was upon consent and in no wise affected the merits of the Graphophone Company's patents. Particularly is this true as to the decree against the Receiver of the North American Phono- graph Company, which was consented to in order to expediate the distribution of the assets in the re- ceiver's hands. The Graphophone Company has never yet obtained a judgment at final hearing and upon a full showing of the facts. It did obtain, in Chicago, a final decree upon two of its claims, but this case was tried on affidavits, and not on the customary oral evidence, and the whole case was manifestly so incomplete that on November 10, 1896, the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York refused to follow the Chicago decision, and denied a motion made by the Graphophone Company for preliminary injunction under the same claims. The Graphophone Company has never sued Mr. Edison nor the Edison Phonograph Company, as stated in its letter to the public. One of the suits argued before Judge Green in September has been pending nearly four years. If the Graphophone Company had had any confidence in its pateuts this case would have been tried and decided long ago. Suits are now pending against the Graphophone Company's factory and selling agents for infringe- ments of the Edison patents on the phonograph im- provements which the graphophone was forced to adopt to keep before the public. We believe that a decision on these suits will set the present controversy at rest for all time. Then the only persons or con- cerns "legally accountable" will be handlers of graphophones who have invaded our patent rights in the Edison Phonograph. NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH COMPANY, W. S. Mallory, President. -» > ♦ £=1Ra£ Uterus X=ray of a Woman What is in many ways the most remarkable achievement yet in X-ray experimentation, and certainly in X-ray photography, has just been ac- complished. Ever since this new science came into notice experts in every country have been hoping to be able to get a skiagraph, or X-ray photograph of the entire body of an adult, made with one ex- posure. This has at last been done, and by a New Yorker, Dr. William James Morton. The negative, of course life size, of a woman five feet four inches in height has just been developed, and is very nearly perfect. The film or plate is six feet long by three feet wide; and on it stands out clearly and distinctly the framework of bone of the woman's body, with all its joints; the casing of flesh, indications of rings, bracelets, hairpins, shoes and garters, and even more interesting yet, lines and markings that show the folds and texture Of her dress just as it rested when she lay on the film with the Crookes tube suspended on a bracket over her. It took half an hour's exposure to make this negative, and the result gives the body in perfect detail, except that the hips are very faint, and the film needs to be held in certain lights to make them plainly visible. Dr. Morton has been planning this scientific coup for some time, and realizing its difficulty, devised new apparatus for it. But without any technicalities about it, the scientific point Dr. Mor- ton got over was this: — Ordinarily, in X-ray photo- graphy the source of the X-ray (or the "Crookes tube) is about a foot away from the film or plate, with the object in between. To "skiagraph''' an object of the size of a grown man or woman, how ever, the light must be much further off. Other- wise the shadow the object makes would be indis- tinct, exaggerated and wholly inaccurate. Dr. Morton found that to get a perfect shadow corres- ponding to the actual outline of the body it would be necessary to have the Crookes tube four and a half feet away. The law of radiography and skiagraphy is that the intensity of the X-ray diminishes inversely to the square of the distance. That is, it is twenty and one-quarter times as difficult to take a picture at a distance of four and a half feet as it would be at a distance of one foot. To arrange this Dr. Morton had a Crookes tube especially constructed for the occasion. An East- man film was used for the complete experiment. This was stretched on a board lying on the floor and had been covered with three layers of black paper to prevent ordinary daylight striking it. Flat upon it the subject was laid, upon her back, fully and completely clothed, care being taken even that her dress covered her shoes. Four and a half feet above the floor, suspended over the sub- ject on a long armed bracket and midway between her head and feet, was the Crookes tubes. It was an induction current of high potentiality that fed this, and an interesting fact is that it was precisely the same current as Dr. Morton makes use of in all his experiments in this field, the additional intensity of the X-ray being gained by the improved mech- anism of the tube. When developed after half an hour's exposure it was found, as has been said, that the negative was perfected in all parts except the hips. Fifteen minutes, more exposure would have made these come out very clearly and the balance of the film would not have been injured at all. As it is, it is quite possible to distinguish the complete outline of the spine (it must be remembered the woman was lying on her back), the heart, stomach cavity and collar bone. In the photograph the most interesting points to any one not a scientist are the clean cut and beautiful outlines of the .bones of all four limbs, the feet and the hands, with the flesh surrounding them. The figure stands out a sort of ghostly white as the huge film is held up to the light, the background being black. In this white figure the bones are clearly defined in a sort of tint, which varies, as the bones do themselves, in penetrability to the X-rays. The science of this is that the bones, being less penetrable than the flesh, cast a sort of shadow — intercept, in part at least, these strange rays. The coil of hair shows distinctly, and a dagger pin and a bunch of hairpins stuck into it. Two diamonds in the rings are indicated plainly by white spots, while the gold bands are dark, showing that the rays passed through the gems and were obstructed by the gold. As regards the shoes, not only the nails stand aut clearly, but also the lacings of metal. Before Dr. Morton proved that the taking of a radiograph of an adult in one exposure was possible the nearest that any one had come to it was to take the human body in sections (five or six exposures) and, having made prints, to piece them together into some sort of skeleton. One use to which X-ray photography may be applied to the advantage of the archaeologist will be in determining the composition of mummified remains, which it is claimed are now in many cases manufactured by skilled workmen and palmed off on the eager enthusiast as relics of antiquity. The application of the X-rays speedily determines whether these remains are manufactured or are bona fide. 14 THE PHONOSCOPE April, WW flew jfttme for "Screen" flftacbmes HI HENRY'S MINSTRELS, marching up Broadway. CONGREGATION LEAVING ST. THOMAS'S CHURCH, Easter Sunday. LEAVING THE CATHEDRAL, on Fifth Avenue, Easter Sunday. THE PROMENADE ON FIFTH AVENUE, Easter Sunday. A BOAT RACE ON THE HARLEM RIVER. RIVERSIDE DRIVE. TRAIN SCENE AT ORANGE. Showing Mr. Bryan addressing a crowd of people from the rear platform of a moving train. OPIUM DEN. Depicting the interior of an opium Den. DRINKING SCENE (Reversible). This subject is one of our first films made to show action reversed while running film through machine in the regular way Instead of showing two parties advancing aud shaking hands, they shake and back out of room, beverage spilled from bottle, gathers itself up from (he floor and jumps into the bottle, which rights itself on the table, etc. Other ludicrous effects are produced. KISSING. By a loving couple at Coney Island. This subject promises to rival "May Irwin's Kiss" in popularity. Everybody wants it. WINE GARDEN. A scene at a noted German wine garden in Harlem, showing a number of peo- ple seated at tables drinking, smoking and playing cards. Incidentally there is a lively flirtation going on between a pretty waitress and one of the guests. HAPPY FAMILY. A companion subject to "Family troubles," "Papa" comes home and instead of smashiug furniture, etc., he makes him- self very agreeable. His good humor is hugely enjoyed by the rest of the family. Excellent sub- ject, which appeals to all. TALLY-HO, the Departure. TALLY-HO. the Arrival. The above two scenes were also photographed at the Buffalo "Country Club." The first shows the four-horse drag leav- ing the club house, the occupants waving adieus to friends at the house. The second shows the same jolly party of coachers driving up to and alighting at the club house entrance. Of the two, the latter is somewhat the more attractive subject. THE ENGLISH DERBY. This interesting and most popular event is photographed on film strips, about 80 ft in length, anrl will fit any projecting machine using standard gauge film. BOAT RESCUE. Three small boys, chased from a dock, jump into the river and are rescued by a passing rowboat. The Following Subjects Are Taken From The Grant Memorial Ceremonies. U. S. NAVAL RESERVE. THE OLD GUARD. This Picture shows Gov. Hastings of Pennsylvania. BATTERY OF U. S. ARTILLERY. RECEPTION OF PRESIDENT McKINLEY, at the 23d Street Kerry. N. Y. The above films are all clear, sharp, full of detail and produce unusu ally fine pictures when projected. IRew IRecorbs for XLalhlno flftacbmes The following list of new records has been compiled from lists sent us by the leading talking machine companies of tie United States & -J* A Hot Time In the Old Town To-night. Myers Armor de Madre. Mexican Trio ArrahGoOn. Hunting At the Fair, Galop. Columbia Orchestra Banjo Duetts. Diamond and Curry Bonny Doone. .Eolian Trio Casey as Auctioneer. Hunting Come Play With Me. Quinn Come, Send Around the Wine. Myers Crappy Dau. Spencer Dancing in the Dark. Sousa Dancing in the Sunlight (Xylophone). Lowe Dancing on the Housetops. Issler Dear Little Jappy, Jap, Jappy. Quinn Dio Possente, from opera Faust Departure from the Mountains. Schweinfest Don't Tell Her that Tou Love Her. Gaskin Down in Hogan's Alley. Quinn El Capitan March Song. Quinn ElCurru. Mexican Trio Eli Green's Cake Walk. Quinn Emmett's Lullaby. Quartette Erin, O Erin. Myers Eve and Her Pal Adam (Banjo accompaniment). Paine Fly Song (Chauncey Olcott's). Myers From the Hour the Pledge is Given. Myers Girl With the Naughty Wink. Quinn Grace O'Moore. Gaskin Handicap Eider 167. Quinn Handicap March. Diamond and Curry Hiram Wilkins on Superstition. Hunting Hiram Wilkins's Girl Hannah. Hunting Hot Stuff Patrol (Banjo). Ossman I Love One Love. iEolian Trio Isn't It Nice to be in Love. Quinn I Want Ter, Ma Honey (English), Mile. Yvette Guilbert I Want Ter, Ma Honey (French). Mile. Yvette Guilbert Jus Qu La. Quinn Kate O'Donoghue (Chauncey Olcott's). Myers Katherine (Yodle). Pete LeMaire King Carnival March, Diamond and Curry Laugh and the World Laughs With You. Myers Laughing Song. Geo. W. Johnson Lesson in Music. Signor Frejoli Lulu Song. Spencer Mamie Riley. Quinn Maybe Mary Didn't See New York. Myers Medley March. Diamond and Curry Medley Keels (Banjo Solo). Yess L. Ossman Monastery Bells (Orchestra Bells). Lowe My Little Chorus Girl. Quinn Nineteen Jolly Good Boys All In a Row. Myers One Heart, One Mind (Xylophone Solo). Lowe Pasage dans Izeyl. Mine. Sarah Bernhardt Pasage dans Divorcons. Madame Kegane Pretty Blue Eyes. iEolian Trio Pretty Molly Dwyer. Quinn Say, Are You Single? Hunting Sounds From Home (Orchestra Bells). Lowe Spanish Dance (Banjo Solo). YessL. Ossman Sweet Inniscarra. Gaskin Stephanie Gavotte (Zither). Wormeser The Old Fashioned Mother (Chauncey Olcott's). Myers Yictor Hugo (Un pen de Musique). Mme. S. Bernhardt Yankee Doodle (Banjo Solo). YessL. Ossman Yer Baby's a Coming to Town. J. T. Kelly You're a Good Daddy. Gaskin You're Not the Only Pebble on the Beach. Lottie Gilson You're Not the Only Pebble on the Beach. Spencer GRAMOPHONE RECORDS Chin, Chin, Chinaman. Quinn Handicap March s< ug. Quinn Honey 0. Gaskin Love's Old Sweet Song. Gaskin Medley of Jigs (Banjo Solo) . Clements Mixed Ale Party. Billie Golden Mocking Bird Whistle. Uillie Golden Morning On the Farm. Maurice Forkoa oh. t'nele John. Miss Maud Foster Past and Future. Herbert Holcombe Kastus On Parade (Banjo Solo). Clements Rook of Ages. Herbert Holcombe Southern Reels (Banjo Solo), Clements The Bowery Girl. Miss Maud Foster Then Give Us a Drink, Bartender. Quinn The Midshipmito, Myers Toi j Atkins (with Trumpet). Gaskin w hat do You Think of Hoolihanf Quinn What fs the Gramophone? Geo. Graham Zhc Xatest popular Songs The following is a list of the very latest popular songs published by the leading music publishers of the United States ^^Jtjtjtjtjijltjt A Diamond in the Rough. Safford Waters A Dream of My Boyhood Days. Dresser Ah, Could It Be ! F. Ryan Ain't I Your Honey Boy No More? G. L. Davis Alma, Dear. E. A. Couturier A Mother Never Can Never Forget Her Boy. Chrs. Miller Back to His Childhood's Home. William Slafer Belle of Avenue A. Safford and Waters Belle of Hogan's Alley. James J. Blake and M. Bernard Best Sweetheart of All. Will C. Carleton Black Four Hundred's Ball. Billy Johnson and N. D. Mann Breaking Home Ties. Joseph Hart Casey's Dog and Tracey's Cat. Joseph Hart Chimmie Fadden and the Duchess. L. A. George Chippies on Broadway. Cooper and Francis Coochy Coochy Coo (Negro Comic). M. S. Fitzpatrick Cycling Song. M. R. Knapp Daisy and Nell (The Twins). W. A. White Darling Paree Girls. Ilda Orme Day Will Come. E. Selden and E. Hoist Dear Old Friends. Lindsay Lenox Dilly Dally. Mays and Hunter Dreams of My Own Land. Douglas Dean Drummer's Dream of Home. Charles Robinson Eli's Cake Walk. Reed and Kominsky Ever Since Then. Scott and Orme Handicap, Vocal. D. Reed He Brought Home Another. Paul Dresser He Fought For the Cause He Thought Was Right. Paul Hugh McCue. Cohan Hurrah For a Life at Sea. J. C. McCabe Hush Yo' Business! Oh, Go On! Midgley and Levi Honey, Does You Love Yer Man? Ford and Bratton I Don't Blame Y'ou, Tom. May I Love You, Malinda. Al. B. Schultz I'm Lonely Since My Baby's Gone. Barry Emerson In the Baggage-coach Ahead. Gussie L. Davis I Only Know I Love Her. Geo. HasseU King Carnival, Vocal. D. Reed, Jr. Love's Battle. Al. B. Schultz Maggie Maguire ; or, As Soon As I Buy a Home. W. Gray Maloney's Leg. Joe M. Sparks Mamie Reilly. Maude Nugent My Gal is a High Born Lady. Fagan My Handsome Jim. Abeles and Witt My Heart, Kathleen, Is Still Your Own. Chas. Graham My Image In Thy Soul. Chas. Graham My Little Chorus Girl . William F. Gould Oh. Aunt Jane. Isaac G. Reynolds Old Jim's Christmas Hymn. Wm. B. Gray One New York. Safford Waters On Sunday. Flynn On the Benches In the Park. Thornton Pat Malone Forgot that He Was Dead. Carroll Pebbles On the Beach. Mann & Starr Petticoat Lane. John and Harry Dillon Ridin' on the Golden Bike. Petrie Music Co. Rootie Tootie. Geo. F. Golden Send Me a Picture of the Old Home. Fitzgibbons and Arnold She Might Flirt with Others. Dave Marion She's OnlylOne of Many. Charles Miller Since Mary Harris Went to Paris. Wm. B. Gray Sweet Rosie O'Grady. Nugent Take Back Your Gold. Monroe H. Rosenfcld Ta Rum Pa Turn Turn. Ilda Orme Tell Her That We Love Her Just the Same. A. J. Lamb That's When You Learn to Love Them More and Moie Lawlor and Blake The Angel of Sunset Rock. Chas. Graham The Belle of Hogan's Alley. Bernard & Blake The Battery. Evans aud Dresser The Black Four Hundred Ball. Hilly Johnson The Jolly Girl From Gay Paree. Charles Coleman The Love tor His Dear Ones. Al . B. Schultz The Man In the Moon Is a Coon. Geo. M. Cohan Then the Pipe Went Out. J. G. Reynolds The Heal Thing. Arthur Lamb Time Will Tell. Hurry S. Miller When it is Love at First Sight. Mock When it's a Hoy. Goodwin & Morse When She's Just About to Fall. Cy Wurman Will You Love Me, Sweetheart, W hen I'm Old? Lamb Won't Somebody Give Me a Kiss? Won't Yon l et Me stay a Little Longer? Quimby Would you Ask? Smith Yankee Girl In Gay Paree. Ilda Orme Yes, I Love You. R. M. Stults you'll Hi' Sorry When I'm Gone. Monroe 11. Rosenfeld yourTiekel Is Not Good To-day. Chas. Graham Vol. I. No. 5 15 Wants anb for Sale Special " Want " and " For Sale " advertisements will be inserted in this column at the uniform rate of three cents a word, each insertion. Answers can be sent in charge of ** The Phonoscope " if desired. All letters received will be promptly forwarded to parties for whom intended, without extra charge. FOR SALE. — 4 Edison Kinetoscopes, also n Nickel-in-the-Slot Graphophones (cheap). Ad- dress The Empire State Phonograph Co., 76 University Place, New York. FOR SALE— 14 way Edison Class M, Exhibition Phonograph, including tubes, horn, battery, 25 good records and 25 blanks, almost new, must sell at once. Address J. T., care of Phonoscope, 4 East 14th Street, N. Y. 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THE EDISON PHONOGRAPH COMPANY 23 SOUTH EIGHTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA., U. S. A Photograph flachine Latest and only machine for taking Tintypes, which is simple, light weight, docs work equal to $700 machine. Easily operated, guaran- teed, and sold for the very low price of $165.00. Address, THE VITA5C0PE CO. 101 BEEKMAN ST., NEW YORK CITY APPERTAINING :<*•:♦;:♦::♦: :♦»::♦: :♦»::♦: WMom :<•>:♦;;♦::♦: :♦:.♦::♦>: :♦»;:♦: »::♦:»::♦: :♦::♦:»::♦: :♦::♦:»::♦: »::♦:$»: »:»:»::♦: :♦:»::♦:»: :♦::♦:»::♦: »:»:»:»: »::♦:»::♦: »:»::♦:»: Sov/nd & Sight ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AT THE NEW YORK, N. V.. POST OFFICE Vol I No. 6 NEW YORK, MAY, 1897 principal ^Features of tbte IRumber ROYAL PARADE HERE BIG FIGHT ON CANVAS RECENT INVENTIONS OUR TATTLER WHERE THEY WERE EXHIBITED LAST MONTH THE PHONOGRAPH IN CHURCH A NEW TALKING MACHINE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE GENERAL NEWS PICTURE PROJECTING DEVICES PHOTOGRAPHING SOUND THAT VITASCOPE PATENT POPULAR SCIENCE 'GRAPHS, 'PHONES AND 'SCOPES. 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We are the sole dealers of the handsom- est niokel-in-the-slot cabinets and the most reliable return mechanism in the world. This mechanism has made the nickel- in-the-slot business practical. Send for Cat- alogue. Dealers irj . . . . Prjorjograplj Supplies Records Batteries, (Primary and Storage) Kirjetoscopes Ifitascopes, Etc. 4 THE PHONOSCOPE May, 1897 MAGUIRE & BAUCUS, ltd LUMIERE PHOTOGRAPHIC FILMS FOR EDISON STANDARD OR GAUGE MACHINES S the demand for foreign -film subjects is so great, we have entered into an agreement with A. Lumiere & Sons, Lyons, France, by which we control the sale of these celebrated films in the United States and Great Britian. A _^ Tljey are accurately perforated for arjy Standard Guage Macrjirje The American Public is ever willing to patronize any meritorious entertainment and it is now possible for the exhibitor to sustain the interest by presenting to multiplied audiences, new and eventful subjects, never before seen in America, thereby increasing his earnings tenfold. Such subjects as skirt dances, and many of the early commonplace scenes are passe. Attractive scenes and sensational inci= dents taken in all sections of the globe, have been photographed at large expense by a staff of experts, who are constantly on the alert for novel and interesting events and travel thousands of miles in order to secure them; for instance, thrilling Hull Fights at SevillB, Spain, Turkish Trcmps leaving for the Turko-G-rEciau War, Steaming around a FrEucti BattlEship on the Mediterranean Sea. Viewing Jerusalem from the back platform of a moving train; arrival by steamer at SidnEy, Australia] Caravan crossing the FjESErt Sahara, Pistol duel in the Fantambleau Forest, France, Coronation of Czar and Czarina at St, Peters- burg, Russia) and scenes in which appear Emperor William of G-ermany, King Humbert and Queen of Italy, Prince Df Wales, Queen ITictcria, President FaurE of France, etc. Spirited Cavalry Charges and Military MaUDEUvers by troops and regiments of England, France, Germany, Austria, Russia, Italy. Spain, Turkey, etc., Turko-Grecian TVar incidents, scenes from Egypt, Algiers, Turkey, Mexico, Australia, and the interior of Africa showing the customs, habits and wierd dances of the uncivilised natives, besides hundreds of others too numerous to mention. Special arrangements have been made to take views of THE QUEEN'S JUBILEE CELEBRATION AND PARADE IN LONDON which we will be enabled to furnish at an early date. "While the Lumiere films are all made in uniform lengths of about sixty feet (because of their being taken slower than those of American manufacture, (the duration of each scene when projected on the screen exceeds that of any 120-foot film subject of the latter, yet the action in the picture is perfect. PRICE $15 EACH. Complete catalogue containing about 500 subjects mailed FREE. CINEMATOGRAPHS LUMIERE We beg to announce that the remaining stock of A. Lumiere & Sons, 30th Street, New York, has been taken over by us and will be sold outright at reasonable prices. The machines are guaranteed to be in perfect condition- ABOUT 1000 CINEMATOGRAPHE FILMS (SLIGHTLY USED BUT IN EXCEL- LENT CONDITION) AND 300 DITTO (NEW) INCLUDING MANY OF THE MOST INTERESTING FOREIGN AND AMERICAN SUBJECTS ARE OFFERED FOR SALE AT A LIBERAL REDUCTION. Until further notice we will sell the celebrated — — -^^^ International Films, ™ at $10 Each Original Edison Films, r\^z^rj%Er) $8 Each As we are overstocked on Special Edison Subjects, we offer them at the above price as long as the}" last. — Send for list. J^JJ? LAST The latest and best American Projecting Machine THE BIOSCOPE MODEL Combining the best features of all other similar machines with improve- ments for preventing the burning of films, producing colored effects to pictures, etc., etc. Send for detailed information. WEIGHT ABOUT 30 POUNDS. PRICE COMPLETE, $125. flAGUIRE & BAUCUS, Ltd. Largest Dealers in Films and Projecting Machines in the World No. 9 New Broad Street, London No. 44 Pine Street, New York The Phonoscope (Copyrighted, 1896) A Monthly Journal Devoted to Scientific and Amusement Inventions Appertaining to Sound and Sight Vol. I IRo^al parabe Ibere The Greatest Feat Yet Undertaken for the Living Photographs. Other English Events to Be Brought to America Ten days after the Queen's jubilee in London the people of the Eastern cities of the United States will be shown a living, moving, life-size picture of the principal scenes in that colossal pageant. Twelve days thereafter the people of the middle West will be treated to the same spectacle, and within fifteen days from the closing of the greatest demonstration in the Victorian era of the Pacific coast, 6,000 miles away from the Strand, will wit- ness as perfectly as did the crowds on that thorough- fare the great event, and will need but the shouting, the music, the cheers and the great hum that comes from mighty crowds to believe themselves specta- tors of the actuality. That wonderful American invention, the bio- graph, has made this feat possible, and to such perfection has the taking and reproduction of motion been reduced that the time taken in trans- portation is the only bar in the way of what would practically be immediate presentation of any ani- mate scene. One day after the last picture is taken of the jubilee the films will be ready for transportation. It will take full seven days from London to New York, including the time for un- packing and developing the negatives. In two days more they will be distributed through the points nearest NewjYork, and then on through the West as fast as steam can carry, them. This will be the most ambitious project yet undertaken by the biograph. That it will be a success there appears not the shadow of a doubt. Besides the Queen's Jubilee they intend to reproduce Derby day, a royal dinner party and several other subjects, the nature of which will not, for obvious reasons, be disclosed until after the pictures are secured. It is no exaggeration to say that nothing in the way of a spectacle has ever captured the British heart so completely as this ingenious idea of a New York inventor. The living scenes were placed be- fore the English public two months ago in the Palace Theatre, and such was the astonishment and admiration that it was impossible to get stand- ing room after the story became noised about. Only twice in the history of the theatre has the manager been called before the curtain. Manager Martin came forward in response to a vociferous encore after the Empire State Express had dashed down to the footlights with such realistic force that the people in the front rows shrank back and held their breath. The London newspapers came out in unanimous praise, The Daily Mail said : "The biograph at the Palace is the most magnificent development of the living photographs we have yet seen." The Court Circular, always conservative, was warm in its praise. "The two views of Niagara," the critic wrote, "and the Empire State Express, coming toward the audience at the rate of sixty miles an hour, are marvels of realism and a wonder of the age." Even the Morning Leader, usually chary of praising things American, said: "It presents living photographs with a vividness, a realism and an art such as have never before been witnessed in Eng- land. ' ' Reynolds's Newspaper gave a distinct idea NEW YORK, MAY, J 897 of the chief merit of the invention when it said : "The pictures rest as steadily on the screen as if they were stationary." So rapidly did the popularity of the biograph grow that the managers soon had applications from all over the kingdom, and booked appearances in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Sheffield, Birm- ingham, Manchester and other principal cities. One of the latest pictures shown in this city is one of the latest inventions — the horseless carriage, moving with such realistic naturalness that it is hard to look upon it as shadow and not substance. Of course the Empire State Express, now run to the accompainment of steam whistle and bell, holds its own as the first biograph favorite. ' 'Shoot- ing the Chutes at Coney Island" is so real that one is rather surprised when the orchestra is not drenched in the flying spray. The St. Paul out- ward bound is one of the best of the new pictures, and a most natural effect is produced by the sound- ing of the deep throated steam whistle. 3BiO dfiobt on Canvas Corbett=Fitzsimmons Mill is Reproduced by the Verascope. The Venture is a Success The verascope dream is out. Three thousand persons saw the Corbett-Fitzsimmons' fight repro- duced on canvas the opening night at the Academy of Music. Fifteen hundred of them were pugilis- tic sports. The sports eagerly followed every motion of the flickering figures. They swayed as the shadows on on the canvas swayed, and punched and countered each other merrily. To all intents and purposes, they were at Carson City, framed by the high Sierras and sitting in the splendid sunlight of a perfect day. The machine whirrs. The canvas is filled with little constellations of sparks. The men are in the ring. Both strain and tug at the gloves as they put them on. Then Fitzsimmons throws off his bathrobe. The spectators watching the canvas cheered vociferously at this, and the excitement grew. Corbett also throws his robe aside, the specta- tors lapse into silence, and the fight begins. The pictures tell the story of the great battle faithfully, and the spectators were entirely satisfied with the result. Both fighters were liberally applauded, and at the conclusion Fitzsimmons was the recipi- ent of a great ovation. The chief interest centered in the question as to whether Fitzsimmons fouled Corbett in the last round while Corbett was down. The presentation on the screen was so vibrant and unsteady, how- ever, that no accurate judgment of this nice point could be determined, particularly as Fitzsimmons' back was toward the camera when he struck the final blow. The general opinion was that no foul occurred. The spectators, after Corbett was pict- ured as down, cried out: "Where was the foul? Where was the foul ?" This was accompanied by shouts of "There was none." "There was no foul." The presentation, as a whole, was wonderfully vivid. The general public have very little or no com- prehension of the stupendousness of the task No. 6 which Mr. Dan A. Stuart, the celebrated originator of the Fitzsimmons-Corbett contest, had under- taken in order to secure a correct reproduction for exhibition purposes through the medium of his far-famed verascope, and the universal world will be startled to know that up to the present writing Mr. Stuart has invested the enormous sum of $860- 000 in the verascope plant, with the prospect of a further expenditure of $200,000 in materials before all the machines, films, and advertising matter are completed to reproduce the pictures throughout the civilized world, and every penny of this amount, over one million dollars, will have been invested before there is any return. To many, the expen- diture of such an amount will appear impossible , and yet, when the details are laid before the public , it will readily be realized how such an expenditure could be made. In the first place, the original apparatus, in- vented by Mr. Rector and owned by Dan Stuart, which was made specially to photograph the con- test, the principals, seconds, referee, timers, all the officials and all connected with the affair, cost $46,000, exclusive of transportation, film for repro- duction, salaries of assistants, railroad fares, etc. It requires 10,846 feet, or over two miles, of film for each and every machine to reproduce the con- test at the various exhibitions given by the vera- scope. Eastman, the celebrated kodak man of Rochester, N. Y., has one single contract with Mr. Stuart for 600,000 feet of the film, for which Mr. Stuart pays in cash $140,000. As an illustration of the stupendousness of this one contract, it can be cited that Mr. Eastman was compelled to contract for the use of sixty acres of ground on which to dry the film while in course of preparation. Exclusive of the contract to Eastman and vari- ous other photographers for the manufacture of the films alone, Mr. Stuart employs two gangs, consisting of sixty-eight men each, all expert film makers, who work night and day in his vast ware- houses in New York city. These men turn out 80,000 feet of film each shift, or 160,000 feet of film per each twenty-four hours. The value of this film is approximated at 23 cents a foot, and be it understood that the slightest defect of any nature in the 10,846 feet stretch required for each reel, for the development of each set of pictures, would necessitate the destruction of the entire stretch, and render it absolutely valueless for the verascope. In addition to the experts employed for the manufacture of the film, Mr. Stuart has two gangs, consisting of seventy-six men each, for the manu- facture of the machinery and cabinets for the vera- scope. These men also work night and da}-, and are selected expert machinists and cabinet makers. The machinery used in Mr. Stuart's workshops in Twenty-third Street, New York city, for the development of the fims, mechanical parts, and woodwork of the verascope represents an expen- diture of $230,000. Each verascope, that is, each machine, with film, attachments and machinery perfected for exhibition purposes, will cost, when completed, the sum of about $3,600, and when it is taken into consideration that these pictures will be produced in all sections of the world, and that Mr^ Stuart must have completed thousands of machines and millions of feet of film for the reproduction, it can readily be understood why such an enormous outlay of over $1,000,000 would be necessary. 6 THE PHONOSCOPE May, 1897 IRecent Inventions The cuts herewith illustrate a new patented coin- controlling device and return mechanism for automatic phonographs and other similar automatic coin slot machines, invented by C. A. Gundaker, Jr. A. Point where chute is opened and coins or blanks ejected when machine is running. B. Balanced Lever. The upper arm closes a trap door across interior of chute when coin is in station C, thereby ejecting all subsequent coins deposited through an opening, A, directly oppo- site, and until coin in station C is released. D. Point where all slugs or ordinary spurious coin, as well as toothpicks, matches, strips of metal and small coins wrapped with tinfoil, etc., pass through and drop to bottom of cabinet. Advantages of this device : I. Circuit is closed through the coin. This does away with small contact points. II. Chute cannot be chocked. All coins are ejected while machine is running. III. All slugs or ordinary spurious coins ejected before reaching lower mechanism through space D. IV. It can be readily adjusted and adapted to operate on coins of any denomination. V. It has a Positive return mechanism. VI. It does not require an expert attendant, and can be attached to any form of machine by a novice. TEbe phonograph tn Church Philadelphia, Pa. — Occupying a prominent position on the pulpit platform at the East Baptist Church, Hanover Street, near Girard Avenue, one evening last month, was a phonograph. The big bell-shaped funnel of the instrument was between Rev. C. H. Woolston, the pastor of the church, and Rev. J. P. Snyder, the assistant pastor, par- ticipated with them in the service of the occasion. Announcement had been duly made that "a phonograph sermon" was to be presented. The result was a congregation that could scarcely be accommodated, even with standing room while manj- turned away in despair of seats. Innovation though it was, the manner in which the phono- graph was used proved to be decidedly impressive. At times there was a perceptible tendency to applaud, but the forceful manner in which the preacher deduced lessons from his subject invested with an influence that perfectly preserved its dignity. The phonograph first participated in the service in connection with the scripture lesson. Mr. Wool- ston simply said : "The lesson will be read by the phonograph." Then came out of the big brass funnel distinctly, and loud enough for everyone to hear the words of the twenty -third Psalm; "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want, etc." The congregation were so quiet that not a word of the Psalm was lost, and when the tones of the phono- graph were silent there was an unmistakable buzz of surprise and approval throughout the church. The instrument was also used for a reproduction of "Nearer, My God, to Thee" and the Psalms, but it was in the sermon that it attained its greatest prominence. Some of the congregation had under- stood that the sermon was to have been preached by the phonograph, but the fact was that the phonograph was practically the text of Mr. Wool- ston's sermon and was frequently called upon by way of illustration. The scriptural text chosen, however, was Luke, xix, 40; "If these should hold their peace the stones would immediately cry out." This declaration on the part of Jesus Christ was cited by Mr. Woolston as a devine declaration of the possibility of stones, under certain conditions, being possessed of voices, and he thereupon built an apparently plausible theory that if this utterance of Christ's was to be accepted as a prophecy then surely its fulfillment was to be found in the voices of the artificial stone cylinders on which phono- graphic records are made. He then asserted that the phonograph as well as every other good thing was perfectly adapted ' 'for harnessing to the chariot of God and for being made to do His Service." The preacher told the story of the invention of the phonograph and gave several illustrations of its workings, always using records of sacred music by choirs, vocal soloists or solo coretists, and pointed out a number of lessons that were plainly deducible. He said it was a monument to the marvelous re- sources of the human miud, an illustration of un- changeableness, an invariable friend and a never- failing truth-teller. "No record made on a phonograph cylinder can ever be changed. The record is there just as it is made and can be reproduced at any time, just as the record of men's lives are made on the book of God and will be unrolled to us on the Day of Judgment. Therefore, the phonograph comes to us to-night and says: ' Be careful what you say and do. If you make a slip it cannot be rectified. You have your chance to do things rightly. If you make mistakes the record stands against you."' Other lessons drawn from the phonograph were that it enables us to hear ourselves as others hear us, and that it always repeats what is told it exactly as it is told. Mr. Woolston said that if some people he knew could hear themselves sing or talk as others hear them the}- would talk less, and "they certainly would never sing again until they got their resurrection voice. " He also said there was great need for the people of Kensington to learn the lesson about repeating things just as they hear them, not that they meant to be untruthful, but because they are careless in conversation. "The phonograph." he said, "never tells lies." At the conclusion of the sermon Mr. Woolston announced that he intended to make use of the phonograph in disseminating the gospel by means of records of spiritual songs being placed in phono- graphic cabinets, at clubs and in the homes of the rich who never go to church. He declared that an experiment of this kind had already been tried at a big club on Broad Street, with the result that a remarkable interest had been aroused by old time hymns which men had not heard for years. New Brunswick, N. J.— The Rev. C. A.Jen- kins, pastor of the Livingston Avenue Baptist Church, in his sermon last month denounced sensational methods in the pulpit and criticised the use of such devices as the phonograph. He men- tioned no names, but it was understood that he referred to the Rev. S. D. Sammis, pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist Church, in the village of South River. Mr. Sammis contends that the Rev. Mr. Jenkins has taken too much upon himself in speak- ing for the Baptist denomination. The remarks to which the Rev. Mr. Sammis especially objects are these: "The man who depends upon such methods to hold his congrega- tion is not worthy of his high calling, and if the phonograph is to be used to sing hymns and pro- nounce the benediction, why not fill the cylinder with sermons and dispense with the preacher entirely?" Mr. Sammis said: "I fail to see the difference between a phonograph and an organ or other mechanical device used in church sen-ices. I have used the phonograph to deliver productions of famous choirs. My little church could not afford to have great choirs at its services. Instead we get the records of those choirs at no cost whatever. Choirs are apt to include quarrelsome persons. In the phonograph we have a choir which can't quar- rel, a decided benefit, I think. I expect to be criti- cized, but I Jo not see why I should be. I see no reason why the phonograph should not have a place in church work as well as the magic lantern. " I am not courting notoriety, but I want to im- press spiritual truths upon my people, and if old- fashioned methods will not attract them I consider it my sacred duty to use up-to-date methods. As soon as people get accustomed to the phonograph in the pulpit it will cause no more sensation than does the organ our fathers condemned, or electric lights or cushions." Dayton, O. — A remarkable feature of the cele- bration of the semi-centennial of the founding of the First United Brethren Church, of this city, was a reproduction, by the phonograph, at the exercises of a congratulatory address and sermon bv Rev. E. S. Chapman, a former pastor of the church. He had charge of the congregation for ten years prior to his removal in 1S87 to California. In the desire to hear the voice and utterances of their former pastor on the jubilee occasion, it was arranged that he should deliver the address before the phonograph in his California home. This was done and the phonographic record expressed to this city. The church was thronged and the audience delighted at the familiar tones and impassioned speech of their former minister, which were re- peated with exactness and distinctiveness by the phonograph. « r Vol I. No. 6 THE PHONOSCOPE 7 ©ur battler T They are going to overload that Carson prize fight kinetoscope with responsibilities, and if the machine could only realize all that it is expected to do, it would collapse. It is announced to show, among a good many other things, that Corbett had the best of the fight all the way through, was 'making a chopping block" of Fitzsimmons' face and had him knocked out more than ten seconds in the sixth round; that the fatal punch in the four- teenth round was a "chance blow," and as much of a surprise to Fitzsimmons, who couldn't understand how he did it himself, as it was to Corbett who un- derstood the trick still less, and that Corbett was counted out before the ten seconds were really up. It is also depended upon to prove that Fitzsimmons never was touched ; that all through the entire fourteen rounds, he was watching for an opportu- nity to land that "chance" blow, and that Corbett came very near dying in the ring from the effects of that terrible punch. The machine is not ex- pected, however, to show the stakeholder in the act of paying the prize money over to Corbett. As in many public places, there are several phonographic machines in the big railroad station at Long Island City. They play when a nickel is dropped into the hungry slot and the trumpets are held to the ears. Lately one of these ma- chines played the popular negro melody "All Coons Look Alike to Me," to a genuine Alabama coon, and those who were in the station at the time will not soon forget this little concert, although none but the coon heard a note of the music. It was at a popular train hour and the station was thronged with people, when a typical Southern dar- key sauntered into the building. A long blue frock coat, a pair of light trousers which went almost twice around him and were well fringed at the bot- toms, a broad-brimmed, grease-coated felt hat which had once been of a light color, and an odd pair of number twelve shoes, made up a costume which inspired a smile all 'round before he had a chance to say a word or do a thing. As the boys say charcoal would have made a white mark on his face and his ears were all that stopped his mouth from going clean around his head. Mr. Darkey jerked a huge brass watch out of one of his trouser's pockets, pried the case open and compared it with the big regulator in the station. Satisfied that he had some time to wile away, he began to look around to see the sights. Florist George Matthews, who has a beautiful array of cut flowers on a stand in the station, had the first whack at the darkey and juggled a diirfe out of him for a big yellow rose which he insisted upon having pinned into the yawning buttonhole on the lapel of the big sweeping blue coat. Then he buried his great flat nose into the rose and walked away to resume his explorations. After a couple of turns around the station, he brought up in front of one of the phonographs. He evidently mistook the thing for a corn sheller judging from the way in which he twisted the crank, but the more he twisted the more mystified he became. At last his curiosity got the best of whatever timidity he may have possessed and he hailed one of the doormen, who was passing, and inquired as to the nature of the machine. The darkey's big white eyes began to roll and his mouth flew open in amazement as the doorman unfolded the working plan of the machine and he decided to invest a nickel. The coin was dropped into the slot and with the trumpets jammed against his ears the Alabamian braced himself for whatever might follow. "Whir-r-r'' went the machine after its usual preparatory fashion, and the darkey got a better brace. Then there was another whir-r-r and an idea struck him. He removed one of the trumpets from his ears and shouted into it ' 'sing louder, I can't hear." Then the machine began to sing and none of the crowd which was watching the darkey could be deceived as to the exact time it began. His eyes glistened and danced in their sockets. His mouth gradually spread itself all over his face. Big drops of perspiration trickled down from under his hat and way down on the floor the big shoes began to show signs of life. Finally his whole body was in a wiggle and even the big yellow rose seemed to have become animated also. But it was too good to last. The end came and the dar- key nearly collapsed. "Say, boss, is dat all dar is to it fo' a nickel?" he asked of the doorman. ' 'Yes, but you can put in another and have it all over again,", answered the man in brass buttons. "Golly! dat's what I'se goin' to do," chirped the delighted darkey, and he fished another coin out of the mysterious depths of those trouser's pockets and fed it to the machine. There was a repetition of the whir-r-r-r, a repe- tition of the song and a repetition of the circus for the spectators. Trains came in and trains went out but the darkey stuck to that machine. Nickel after nickel was freely fed into the greedy slot and it is not improbable that when the old brass watch ran down he was still doing a shuffle to the tune ' 'All Coons Look Alike to Me." A dark red phonograph belonging to Jacob Sil- ver, of No. 8 Ludlow Street, broke loose the other day in Essex Market Court and shattered the dig- nity thereof into a thousand pieces. "Mister Johnsing,'' sang the phonograph, "Mis- ter Johnsing." "Stop it !" cried Magistrate Wentworth. "O, Mr. Johnsing, turn me loose," went on the tuneful instrument. Detective Young, who had arrested the owner of the phonograph for collecting a crowd at Riving- ton and Essex Street, tried to stop the burst of melody. He was forced to hurry it out while it still called on "Mr. Johnsing" to "turn it loose." ; Jacob Silver was fined $2. The kinetoscope has broken out abroad. Not long ago I saw a picture of the King and Queen of Italy descending the steps of the Ouirinal and en- tering their carriage. It was a lifelike picture. Other notabilities have also been taken for exhibi- tion purposes, but until recently the Prince of Wales escaped. Hereby hangs a tale which is sufficiently amusing to repeat. Not long ago an ingenious person at Cannes suggested to H. R. H. that it would be a good scheme if he allowed himself to be photographed by the new process on board his yacht Britannia. Albert Edward is nothing if not good natured and readily consented, stipulating that the photographs be exhibited only at the Imperial Institute, and that proceeds go to the Jubilee Hospital Fund. Accordingly the authorities of the Institute were ordered to send a photographer to take the series. Meantime an unscrupulous person heard of the proposal, and telegraphed to a photographer in England to go post-haste to Cannes and take his machinery with him. In a few days a letter was received on board the boat asking at what time H. R. H. would receive the photographer to take the scene on deck. An appointment was made for 10.30 a.m., at which time a little performance was gone through, wherein certain celebrities who hap- pened to be handy were brought up and presented to the Prince, orders were given to the sailing mas- ter, and the usual routine of the Prince's morning gone through, showing a typical five minutes of his life on board the boat. The photographer went his way rejoicing. No sooner had the man got well out of town than Captain Carter of the yacht was surprised to receive a visit from another photographer bearing credentials from the Imperial Institute, represent- ing that he came in re'sponse to the official invita- tion to take the pictures of the Prince. It turned out that the last arrival was the real article, and that the first had been a spurious and entirely un- authorized representative of the photographic art. Up to the last advices no one had plucked up courage to tell the Prince of the way in which he had been fooled. ' A nice little storm will burst over the heads of the unfortunates who were re- sponsible for the mistake when the trick is dis- covered. Mr. Leonard Spencer gave a practical illustra- tration of Hunting's "Bureau" Story last month at the Columbia Co. 's rooms, using a piano instead of a bureau. Len was trying to move a piano, which was elevated about four feet from the floor. The piano objected and tmceremoniously flopped over on Leonard, using him as the filling of a sandwich with floor and piano sides. I am glad to say that with the exception of a few external bumps Leonard is "up and around" feeling as well as ever. Ever since the talking machine became a staple article of trade, and of practical use, the people interested have been crying for a trade journal. Now that they have got one in The Phonoscope, they amuse themselves by writing postals for sample copies. Why not subscribe and keep the manage ment better natured? Where Zhcy Mere Exhlbtteb Xast flfcontb Vitascope Appolo Hall, Paterson, N. J. Bioscope Austin & Stone's Museum, Boston, Mass. Verascope Academy of Music, New York; Grand Opera House, Chicago. Cinematographe Eden Musee, New York. Projectoscope Opera House, Lorain, O. ; Bartow, Fla. ; Academy of Music, Akron, 0.; Barton, Fresno, Cal. ; Assem bly Hall, Freeport, L. I.; Opera House, Youngs- town, 0.; Park, Brooklyn. N. Y. Kinematographe Huber's Museum, New York. Biograph Willard Hall, Washington, D. C; Keith's Theatre, New York: Bijou, Philadelphia, Pa. Vitagraph Temple, Atlantic Highlands, N. J. Kinetoscope Auditorium, Reading, Pa. Cineograph Academy of Music, Richmond, Va. ; Schiller's Hall, Alexandria. Magniscope Belle Center, 0. ; Alpene, Mich. 8 THE PHONOSCOPE May, 1897 H IRew TEalMng flfcacbtne The latest and simplest talking machine is the Lyrophone, as illustrated below. Although similar in construction to another low-priced machine, it is far superior to it and shows the possibility of build- ing a practical machine for little money. The principal feature of the Lyrophone is the very clever combination of the diaphragm and horn which makes a practical but simple reproducing medium, dispensing with the usual horn, stand, rubber con- nection, etc. The tone from this machine, although pbotoorapbtno Sounb Dr. J. Mount Bleyer, a New York scientist, has succeeded in doing what no other man before him has ever accomplished. He has discovered a method of photographing the human voice, music, or indeed, any sound whatever. Herewith are shown the first pictures he has made. Although they are crude, they will be found to be of great interest, for they indicate what a wide field lies be- fore those who are attempting to gain "photo- graphic records of noise." Dr. Bleyer's first photographs were snap shots and represented only an infinitely small vibration. The biograph, however, has enabled him to picture the sound in all its varieties from the time it was uttered until it died away. He set the biograph up in his laboratory and succeeded in making the pictures on a continuous film, just as photographs are taken for the kinetoscope. Since the original instantaneous pictures were concluded the doctor has made a further improve- ment in the manner of producing the figures from which tlie photographs are made. In the first in- stance he used a light powder, which danced and spread about on the surface of a piece of rubber tightly drawn over the big end of a cone or funnel. The improvement consists in substituting a colored liquid for the powder. The entire method is simple. A tin cone is supported in an upright position by being thrust through an aperture in the leaf of a table near its edge. The large end of the cone or horn is now uppermost. A piece of rubber or skin is drawn over the mouth of the cone like a drum- head. Alongside the cone and somewhat above it is mounted a mirror, inclined at an angle so that it will reflect to the eye of one standing opposite, it whatever may appear upon the surface of the tightened rubber. not equal to the high-priced machines in point of quality and volume, is remarkably clear and far superior to any low-priced machine ever put on the market. We are pleased to say that this machine is manufactured under authority of the American Graphophone Company, and the customary lawT suits for infringments, etc., will consequently be dispensed with. The machine will retail for about ten dollars. The biograph, which takes from 75 to 100 pict- ures a second, is placed opposite the mirror, the lens pointing at the spot on the glass where will be reflected anything on the surface of the rubber. A tiny drop of the liquid from the point of a needle is placed in the center of the rubber drum-head. A tone or tones, or a song, is sung into the small end of the cone or a bar of music is played on any instrument, always, of course, near the small end of the cone. The effect is to cause the tightened drum-head to vibrate, and in response to the vibrations the colored liquid dances up and down and spreads out and away from the center, forming the most intricate and beautiful geometri- cal figures. These figures are shown in the mirror and are reflected to the lens of the biograph and photo- graphed upon the film that is passing along at lightning speed. Every movement of the liquid is copied, and when the pictures have been developed the hundreds of varied movements made by the liquid in response to the vibrations appear in odd and complex pictures. The same effect is pro- duced when powder is used instead of liquid. \ — ICbat llMtascope patent The _\V