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RECREA TION. 



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Oct, 14, 1897. 



TELEPHONE 8330- 18tb«T 



National Gramophone Co., 



674 Broadsay, City, 

 Oear Sirs:- 



I have had one of your Gramophones all summer at "Recreation 

 Camp" on the Shrewsbury river, and have, with Prof, Hornaday, Director of 

 the New York Zoological Park, tested Its capabilities thoroughly, and while 

 it is a wonderful instrument, it does not fulfill what your representative 

 claimed for it when he sold it to me. He stated that it could be heard 

 distinctly for half a mile. He was either misrepresenting matters, or 

 the particular instrument which he sold me is not up to the mark, for we 

 found that it did not reproduce a cornet solo satisfactorily at a greater 

 distance than a quarter of a mile, although this was done, I must admit, 

 perfectly. 



If your new instruments have any Improvements over the one I now 

 have, I should like to exchange mine for a new one, paying any reasonable 

 difference in price* 



Your, truly, * A-^-fl?. 



Edr. and Mngr. 

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