The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-25

acceptance. She won her case.
 noted student of fishes and theii
 habits wanted to learn whether fisl
 talk or not He bought himself 6
 talking machine. attached very sen.
 sitive recorder to 1t, and devised
 way to put 1t under the water of hi;
 aquarium. He has found the record: | full of noises. and has been trying tc | solve the mysteries Jf fish language
 Charles D. Kellogg of Iowa, is said tc
 be, the best 'imitator of bird songs ir
 the United States. It is said that he
 can initiate them so we'll that they
 answer his call just as they would
 that of their mates.
 He studies them with his talking
 machine. getting an accurate record of | all their notes and then learning to
 initiate them nt his leisure.
 The Bureau Of Ethnology has been putting the talking machine 10 a sini- | lar use. It has an expect on dialect and
 folklore in githe field with talking
 machine. With 1t they are collecting
 the dialect If the American negro. and
 are Canning" his folklore stories for | the study and delectation Of other gem
 erations. The great singers are also
 making use of the talking machine for | preserving their voices. Madam Eames recently wrote that it was a gratify- ing thought that the voices which thrill the lovers of music today can | be handed down to posterity. She says | our parents tell us nNtones of ecstacy
 of the glory of the voices that are still
 and compare those of the present | generation unfavorably with them. but that hereafter the voices of each i generation will be able to speak for 1, themselves. When oscar Hammerstein | laid the corestone of the Phladel- phia Opera House he had placed in it re- | cords of the voices of Melba. Tetraz- zini. and other noted singers.
 There are all sorts of talking ma chimes: or rather. machines that re-
 produce talk. There is now being
 constructed machine that will actual ly talk, possessing the essentials of speech, but It's inventor has not yet perfected it.. The latest of all the sound reproducing machines is the
 telephone, and what bundle of pos abilities there Is in 1t; Imagine com
 pressing forty minutes of talk into little wire being so indestructible and so light that you can send it through the mail as a little piece of wire being placed upon duplicate machine at it's journeys end and there reproducing with faithful and never before ap- preached, the message you gave 1t. That Is the telegraphone.
 But 1t does more than that. Suppose you have many calls on the telephone and what to preserve the conversation Tor legal or other purposes Just hitch your telegraphone to your telephone and 1t will do the rest Andif yiu need atele- phone bouy you can instruct central to tell your callers to tell the telegra- phone what they want to say, and when you come back just start the machine going as a reproducer instead of recorder, and you have their meS- sage delivered. to you more faithfully than ever human agency was known to deliver A message.
 The friends of this little machine re- gard 1t as the last word Tn the talk ing machine world. It involves mo- thing more than the principle of the telephone carried to its logical con- clusion. It simply puts magnetic waves into a wire which correspond to the waves of speech. and these, when reproduction takes place. cause the diaphragm of receiver to vibrate just as in a teleph one. When. you have oc- casion to destroy a record all you have to do is to send a heavier current through the wire than that with which Is was magnetized. It has been pro- posed by some of the leading teachers of the blind that the telephone should succeed raised letters as a means of instructing the blind.
 There is going to be a merry war next winter in Congress over the copy right bill that Is pending. Composers and music publishers claim that the | talking machine people and the auto 1 matic music box people are stealing | their thunder, and taking from them many of the benefits to which copyright | should entitle them. They claim they get no remuneration for the reproduc- | tion of their property on the talking | machine or the music box, and are | asking Congress to reserve these | rights to them. The talking machine | people and the automatic music people | controvert their claim. They assert | that their patents give them the right | to reproduce anything that their ma chimes will reproduce and that to limit them in this way would be to limit their patent rights.
 Furthermore, they reply, reproducing the work of composer on widely circulated talking machine records or music rolls, Is the best advertisement In the world, and that it brings the composer into fame he could not other wise enjoy. They produce thousands of letters from composers and publishers offering them free use of their music If they will use 1t. The talking ma shine and music box people declare hat if the bill proposed by the pub ishers should become a law, 1t would ;reate the greatest monopoly in the world. They assert that there is a company which has entered into an agreement with nearly all of the music publishers in the country for the privilege of reproducing their music on the contingency of a 'ictory for the publishers in the courts IT in Congress.
 The talking machine, the automatic 'iano player. and moving pictures have made a union of forces in the nicel- dian and penny arcade, which is do- ng great damage to the theatre busi- ess. It is a theatrical axiom that the 'rofts of the theatre are in the gal cry, and there can be no doubt that | he nickelodian has cut down the at- endance in this portion of the house. l number of companies have been call d off the road because of the deser- ion of the gallery gods" It Is said ] hat there is more profit in the busi- ess of handling the machines that urnish "canned music" than in the iano business itself. One maker of hese recently issued a circular to the . lusic trade giving facts and figures 0 prove this statement. Copy right, 109s, by Fredric ]. Has in. Tomorrow-Building the Wash