The sun., 1898-11-13
pHONOGRAPH MAN SCARED
,1 FATHERS FAREWELL MESSAGE
TO HIS CHILDREN


%..srtoInment Opened with Prayer-Ths
,,Inl,ter Had Talked in n PhonoEraph.
-. nhoropraph man wiped the cold perspira-
l"o NJ, ~" hIs brow and drew sigh OF relief.
'vu '"woIln m he remarked feebly, that's the
-..rsst cnse yet We have lots Of funny ex-
Ss,.rcss IN here, but that man who Just went
nrot,v nearly scared me TO death. People
'hnr,nninQ to flnd that they can como In here
J,sir ~ into A phonograph. instead OF debating
~. ,rnevrIter, so you may be sure we have in
,o'..,,no sessions S sometimes. but that man who
~, want out had n new kink to work.
"vhen he camo in / thought he acted
...h.r oueerly kind OF preoccupled and
..l.mn 60 when he drew his chair up to the
,.hIn looked at tho horn with sickly. senti-
.n,,i ssO,, eIpression. and said. 'Good-by. good
~ INV children! almost had At.
..usres A man. said to myself who's
..,,o N scnd farewell to his family and then
commit suicide.
.,,ious TO hear what else he had to say. 90
tsr, still and listened. He went on with some
mora fond farewell words. and calmed down
Little bit because happened to think that he
night be going to Europe. or Manila, or jail.
mi I didn't stay calm very long. AS soon as
hahad finished his good-byes. he started to tell
his children that they would never see him
.oan but that he would be watching them
from above. and he wanted them to grow up to
bs GOOD men and good women. an honor to
tbomselves and to their dead father Well. I
rsver interrupt a record maker. so held my
nsaee til he had finished. and then I said:
"'What In thunder is this. anyway?'
why that's my parting advice to my
'Ha{EsSd {ca dSS ss& me mean that you're going to de
"WsiIS "WWiRIS says /. go off and die some place
else don't want you dying around here.
Then he laughed, and said he hadn't any
intention Of DYING immediaStely, TEL and wa was ]ust
) Els time came 1t WAS square, too. guess. so
Iet him have the record and he paid me for It,
But tell you he gave me bad bad i've minutes. a,
ttGE SGqa9 suede 1pGi = Make M your areWe speech
with a photograph and then. before the thing
va; through regi5hternG whip ,d out n reyoiyer yer
ffsIsp aside sfr" from NJ ths man with his farewell ad
ye think our most bn Ec eHstSmers tSn IN
lister. who is a missionary in Africa, and they
time ago the three sisters here bought a phono-
graph and sent it to the missionary. and SINCE
thIt time they come IN here at regular intervals
aWayof there listens to that letter two or three
times day fora long time. Maybe she con
Nert6 the neatnen WIN IL. 100 uOn KNOW.
Her sisters here sent her some blanks, as we
call unused cylinders. and once in while they
get record from her. They have no phono-
me- have me open it and put the record in one
ofour machines hero. I'm almost as eager TO
hear what the missionary has to say as her
"One Of the aueerest records / ever got was
daprayer, | was TO give phonoTraph en-
and taiks by the instrument. j had everything.
& exSspt and EnGw
assaSim a T'R II he wonldnt @ @ make the prayer be-
ioysbapd. and let the I,hon?graph repeat II to
ScSlS, Sut. Bless you. he was perfectly Wiling.
ord heoGly trouble was that his prayer was
was, and Icopld SEQ by watching the instru-
nent that the minister wouldn't be much
S &. f1 as sSRpS Sas 80 t. e s
% hurry him up a bit. and he sort of apollo;
sized for the abruptness with which he wound
p6ouOErsph " opened the the meeting with prayer Yer
The phonograph business has changed
good deal since went into 1t 0 few years ago.
Then only rich people could aifoId to have .
EssSpd get They Didn't mind psyng SS
today miqds paying So dozen. They wanted
Meiha and Calve and the other great singers,
too much for the average trade The demand
soEadays 4 for coon songs, and those we can
furnish at 80 cents apiece or 50 dozen;
Ihe people who sing THESE songs for rec;
erds nave to go to the factory. OF course, and
they get dollar for each song sung. They
waeT 10 pas S9s Gr 'hffy theyy 0f r0E5
TSgdlllon to the advertising they get out OF IL,
sidSt Nasn man sings to make records we put
toward him. Thus he makes eight records at
one tme, These are called master records,
ana anSd from from each one Of these we make twenty
mr. "a a
sh9rt lor doubles. The master records sell for
eolsra a piece. twice Us much. as we get Tor
in fact, after we have taken of about twenty:
N,mP sSe duplicates they get too weak TO be good
a., Wac buys most OF the monographs ?" asked
,oWell; young men buy good many Lots OF
song sonege fellows have them in their rooms, They
VM Eet plehty of fun out OF them. you know.
were wn, ihree girls Who bought several last sum
AT 10 thke out to camp and entertain the SOL
tLsm' tsrS' There are some regular cranks about
W'Sem WSam We have one customer. for instance,
r.sOr rsO nas Two monographs and over O Thousand
deSel work gold plated and the other Is an or
WIN S,SS SSO instrument, which he always takes
ia n'im na When ne goes away from home"
nslts?" ''0''' ou' Hou-p'A'ou 'A''
Oh yes, a good many rich people do. They
RSna aos Il S% 9st s9B o9f to sb SSs
man sIiG snppt patng is pretty thin on these. The
ios npokc OF, however seemH to care more
ws,, sue records. He will buy one he likes. no
ords deL e now much 1t costs. He has more REQ
IS thah We have ourselves.
oIie OF the most interesting experiences We
siSa.nn ie nad with a cylinder was really q war In
sonsisH svIiH one OF the men in the place here had q
mSn,,n w me Seventy-tirst Regiment. Our
WE mad collection OF records made by
XVI bS,hmIine hmIie9nas. and among others there was one
honsas s neyehty-flrst boy. IL was Just q lot OF
NhsSe ior they were all SIX ylarking together
"urhlng quotation:
VI al the hsh in sea or lake
ine oloomin goldfish takes the cake.
N,oMNsslt I happened that the chap got bullet
6ls reenrd 's = lungs at Santiago, and that ended
ci HScora Hs ior good and all. His father heard
Whsn h. record eGrd this lady had and. OF course,
The anaes,a asked Tor 1t he got IL. Then he bought
Isy ths, thUst instrument he could find. and they
lnytbNyn ne 20 priIes that record more than almost
"a uItSS,SS4Ime ,S4Ime across good many queer things.
, sxpeThnaSl SAID before. and that story OF my
phonnesee with the preacher who prayed a
mlnIatsspn prayer reminds me OF another
aNsW Ia ne llyed oyer at Hasbrouck Hetghta
Ieryica jersey, and he got up a phonograph
dly nI.Leh Leh bE his lonesome. for certain Sun
and bn1,nss, Ihere were prayers and hymns
g ytumSni ana short sermon. all by the In
bken bv' The congregation was completely
ptedsisd sHt prise, but don't think they ap-
ether ~ nun, because for some reason OF
gqees ha hui liinlister soon after went West.
ETane pprled hs phonoRraph frHt