Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-05-26
Adv AhIAsAAENA'
TO MR. A. W. GOODELL,

TADvEBTIsEMEET.
TO Mr. A. W. GOODELL
SEwAxEE HOUSE,, NASHVILLE.
SE:-As your machine, as well as all it's parts snC
operations, is quite familiar to me- do net think it
really necessary that should be further 'enlighten
ed in ile arts sud mysteries ofthe Sewing Machine.
l hatter myself that possess the capacity and an
July competent 10 properly understand and sppre
ciate the tone and dimnutve merit possessed by
your NettietOn Raymond Machine 70 lDif: the price
SO at wholesale or S25 at RETAIL in other respects
on par and near relative and member Of the same
family; running parallel with the famous Watson
ten dollar piratieal wreck Of az i'll spent life But
10 the Stitch. We deplore thy condition. Thou art
a good and faithful servant, having been reared and
properly trained in thy youth, and why didst thou
listen 10 the winning voice Of deception and suffer
thy like poor dog Tray, TO be caught in bad com
pauy.
But tc the point. We will endeavor to make our
'sQub' as short as the nature and complication OF
the case viii admit. By reference 10 my letter in
the Union and American of the 22d you will observe
my first interrogatory.
Have you any legal right to vend or use your ma
chine in any portion Of the United States?
Your BnsWer TO this Gu sstiOn, although very
simple, ain, and extremely easy to be understood,
is as follows:
ave have legal right to dispose Of the Patent
issued in the United States to Nettleton Raymond,
april l4th, 1858"
Mr. Gooden may think that he has answered my
less come 10 a different conclusion. The answer
speaks for ITSELF direct evasion and total disregOrd
Of the points in question. A hard question-iid not
expect direct answer even from the most learned
In the whole cless Of piraticsl students.
My I'd intOTrOgRtOry. Is not the rough surface
feed motion, as well as the formation Of the stitch
lnsde by your machine, direct infringmentof other
well known patents?
You answer by saying you edo not use the rough
end surface feed" Well, now, do not like to say
~ Il l..
10 this question, and will therefore insist thai
you examine more minutely the construction of your
Nettleton Raymond machine some time when you
are not so much pressed with business" at TIE
present, and axe, If possible fair and more dTent
report; We thIuk you will have no difficulty ID max
ing the discovery of both the rough and the surface
feed. And when you make the discovery, which
doubtless you will, for We know its there and We
know further, that it is direcinfringment Of other
well known patents, please be candid enough to
acknowledge the fact.
In answer TO my Sd interrogatOry you say you
have given " for YEAR PAST most satisfactory
guarantees" Now, if you have valid patent, why
the necessity Of giving any guarantee at ALI And
you further state that you before had il ques
toned that your patent infringed 80 on one"
Now think if you will refer to my letter ad-
dressed 10 johnson & GOOdell September Sth, 1857,
you will there find the validity Of the Nettleton
Raymond patent questioned. You no doubt have
my letter with you, but when the nature Of that
II
exclusive rights TO vend the NettletOn Raymond
machine will be much augmented. You may cease
further atter yourself with the idea that my let
ter addressed TO johnson GOodell was for the pur
pose Of soliciting the sale OF your machines in The
city Of Nashville or anyBhere else, You know very
well that this was not my object. have written
aeverEl letters Of inquiry many others purpOrug
TO be inventors Of Sewing Machines Of the Nettleton
* Raymond class; desiring, however, as in the
case referred to, my letter to Johnson GOodeu,
nothing more Il an answer which is Of more i'm.
portsnce TO me than the questionable commodity
they propose 10 vend.
And further I should be unwilling to step so far
aside from all just and honorable ruis Of fair deal
ing, IS to vend and recommend to the public an ar
ticle that l believe TO be so entirely worthless and
so wholly void Of merit as the Nettleton Raymond
Sewing Machine.
We have Messrs johnson GoodelTs answer
you doubtless are sware, and also have what pur-
ports to be a copy Of the NettletOn Raymond in
yention; an evidence not only beyond all cavil, Of
8rect infringement in many respects, but utterly
ruthless in The one essential point, utility.
1 do not deny your right to sell the patent, If
any, issued TO Nettleton s Raymond. But odeny
that you any else, has any legal right to use
or vaud the machine you call the Nettleton X Ray
mond Patent, with its present feed mouon-aud
whenever you, or any else, claiming to be res
ponsible SELL or attempt to your machine in this
community, shall be soon made aware that The
amount paid for the machine is not clear receipt
As regards your assertion, which Is nothing more
or less than assertion relative TO Patent issued to
Fisher Gibbons Of England, yOuhave very widely
missed the mark. We happen TO be familiar with
the form Of said claim patent, TO which you al
luie, and your statement assertion, In this re-
spect is too absurd 10 deserve notice. However, 1t
may serve your ends in carrying out the principles
Of business in which you engaged.
II you will iust step across the street from your
"Parlor No #" 10 the Mechanics Library and there
examine the Patent Office reports, under the follow
ing dates, Feb llth, 1851 June 22d, 1857; Feb.
ID, 1858: and May 9th, 1856; then ask yourself
if the assertion or, other words your attempt to
answer my 9th intcrrogatOry has the slightest fouR
dRtion in truth. Please take particular notice Of
the pstent report Of June 22d, 1852, No 9O53 and
you NAV as well as any one else who will take the
trouble o examine ,nese reports, convince yourself
II the whole Grover Baker claim, and also a. the
zane time, will perceive, the called Nettleton
Raymond Machine uses the Grover Baker
@sed motion, both the forward aud back mo-
IN and also the rough surface feed uOtcbed bar,
I'd without this feed motion the said Neiueton q
mond Machine could not take stitch.
would think Ice well for the purchaser Of
you propose to vend, to look into these reports
5oye referred TO- THIS Is only one point OF NJ
ingemeuL I might mention many others, but the
Nne aboye more paIt.cul1rly referred 10, IS so
,palpa5e that IL is at once made apparent 10 any
one upon slight examination.
You say you iufer from my advertisement that
1 an retailing high priced Sewing Machine. True
am retailing Sewing Machines 81 the price Of $50
TO Sl45 and still, il is very cheRp-eXtremely so,
when compared with that class Of Machine, for
which you propose TO sell the right to vend. The
high priced Machine as you call L. being at all times
fairly aud correctly represented the public while
che Nettleton Raymond Machine, belongs to the
Watson Wooster stripe; which is we'll known to
he public a. being entirely worthless which said
Watson & Wooster piratical Machine we learn the
gentleman Mr.. A W. GOodell, 80 highly endorsed
by prominent fellow citizens was lately engaged in
vending
Twill here state in conclusion, that / desire TO
cast no imputa,ion upon the private character of
Mr. G5ode, futher than one might infer, under
saoding the nature Of his business Now We deny
that any patent ever issued 20 Nettlelon Raymond,
for the invention you set forth and cali the Neileon
+ & Raymond Double Lock Such Family SeSlng Ma
chine, and we further deny that sad NettleloR q
Raymond, are IT ever we're the inventors oil any
Sewing Machine. Show up your claim MIR. Goodeu'
u Is but justice to the public.
Il Is Rot the merits Of the Nettleton Raymond
Machine that called forth my interrogatores IN the
Nashville Union American OF the 22d, for fair and
honorable competition is but just. But q sense Of
justice 10 the parties we represent and mere espe-
oialy the public, who you seem SO extremely anxious
10 serve, requires our hands course, which may
place before disnterested parties the true condition
Of The right In question And as this is but one Of q
great number similar in character and almost every
day ADDS another TO the list shall ever hold Ourselt
50 readiness, as they make their appearance, to
show them up in their true light We know them
all and are familiar with their daformities, and
they shall al al times have our especial attention
R. H. BROCKWAY.
May oath, 1858.