New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-07-14
Honor to whom Honor Is Due.

On wednesday. 18Th Inst at Y O'Clock A. NJ on ks plan
Honor to Whom Honor Is Due.
BATON RoUGE, July !, 1859,
Messrs Editors of the New Orleans Crescent:
Gens-Beng well Of your able love
Of devotion bes interests Of our great State
her agricultural and rcia weare-and every sub
having remote bearing influence upon either always
ELECTS from lou that attention and consideration which their
merits demand appeal you admit your very largely
circulated and valuable paper this letter. which is only
deene Of the invaded rights of hard working industrious
honest and deserving citizen.
On the 18th ult communication from three learned Pro-
fessors in behalf Of the claims Of Moses Thompson
20h from Mr. Samuel H. Gilman reply the Profess
appeared in your columns former have only to
say that the rights Of Hager Aynn will DO acted upon by
the tribunals Of ths section Of the country which will decide
which Of the nvensus Is in theory useful
tce for they will be guided by presented to them These
facts against the preensons Of Moses Thompson
discovery OF correct theory and useful practice" burning
fuel. OF the latter, say that from the spicy man
in which he has replied to the learned Professors he would
have ELECTED nothing but the pra.e and
from had he only confined himself to his proper province
but not content with defense Of his own position he must
make violent assault Abraham Hager me ely because
he is competitor In business.
quote Mr. Gilman he says The first furnace mt in
successful operation BY the original powerful mind was
in November 1856 and its not appstent until after
he had introduced the skeleton brick arch CRATE bed
deneah which shown by engraving and specific atoms on
page 4o6 I'd volume Knapps Chemistry published Ia lse
In this furnace essential feature his furnace
in 1855, which has proved failu-e ignored and
patented by Hage Aynn, May 9th 1885, adopted and
claimed Tin reissue Of his PATENT together with the skeleton
arch, published in Knspp's Chemistry in 1892
Mr.. Gilman, if not well these subjects sui
Client to be that the skeleton arch published in
Knapps Chem stry III SA9 entirely foreign this subject
and bears comparison it bat was favorable opportu
nifty to indulge in fling at competitor.
Mr. Gilman cannot have forgotten that in the part Of
1856 beginning Of 1851 while Hager and hi.
absent from the city, he called Picayune Office and
demanded the withdrawal OF advertisement Of Hager Al
lynn which In the shape letters certifying that the
Planters lad used his furnace and finding worthless got
Hsges Skeleton Arch introduced which caused them to work
successfully He succeeded In procuring the Withdrawal of
advertisement during the absence Of Hager Aynn This
proceeding ELECTED from Hsger Alynn publication in
which Gilman challenged any deficiency or
want OF novelty Of Abraham Hager's invention fo that 1t
was his ndedaol Invention can ba established beyond doubt
by large number of the respectable gentlemen In this
State and he dste back earlier than 1852 which Mr. Gill
claims his earliest date, 1856 which the unsssuming
man Moses Thompson, assumes to be his first date quote
from that publication Should Mr. Gilman this
desire call his attention thing which u.s. the event of
his taking legal proceedings against patrons he will
find that his caimsof novelty tha carefully examined to
where they FROM giving him Of the rights due him
the subject in examination Of Letters PATENT Aud
in compensation for this privilege we will take the trouble to
combined features made known by his card upon
such novelty be impossible to disturb Why did Mr.
Gilman remain silent thens Why did he refer to the
skeleton arch of Knapps Chemistry in 1882 then? Mr. Gil
we'll that when, SUCH his are submitted
to scrutnipg investigation, the originality as we'll
Mr. Moses Thompson can be too easily proven boldly
asserted that he not only inrges the late Alfred Sman but
Messrs Hsger Aynn and If they considered the ga worth
the powder they might both and recover After his
bold assertion that he has thryx furnaces ue why don't
which Hsger Alynn had published, and excited his ire
WERE from Mr. Robertson the manager of j. Y DeEgana
his Lafourche plantation and Mesrs Kttredge Ewng
each of whom had his urI which proved failure until the
introduction of Abraham Hages Skel.ton Arch" after
which they worked we'll.
If he knew OF it. why did he then bring the "Skeeon
Arch of Knspps Chemistry to his aid He did not know of
the Skeleton Arch" until Abraham Hager introduced It,
successful Mr. Hager efe to Messrs Abraham
Bird Thompson W. Bird John A. Bird So.thens Alain JAS
n Grown, j. Y. DeEgana on three plantations; Ambrose
Csnfesr DR.. A. G. Wendahl Messs Courtney Randolph
r. G. Camp, Auguste Leseps Esq., who has two plantations
and each plantation, and H. C. Story ESQ., say they
make their with the Bigase and but of cord
Of wood to the hogahead There fifty those fur
different plantations all Of which
given entire satisfaction. Notwithstanding these lave
heard The SANDERS in circulation concerning them put
in circulation concerning hem circulated by those
whose only hope in deracng from the merits of
Abraham Hager the originator and inventor of the Skeleton
Arch that great boon to the Louisiana Sugar Planter
only Mr.. Gilman, bnt, am Informed, Mr.. Sicily and Mr..
Longacre wage unjust upon They cannot succeed
Abraham Hager the first and only inventor, triumph
He is honestly quietly perseverngy pursuing his unobtru
sve way the erection Of his Excelsior Furnaces which must
by their superiority drive all others from field
necessary of The most satisfactory and strongest cerf
Gates could be produced against Mr. Gimans one
unas umng mansn TWO but it is altogether unnecessary.
Hagers Furnaces speak for themselves.
jyl4 2p1t FRIEND OF ABRAHAM HAGER.