New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-07-13
To the Sugar Planters Of Louisiana W no are
using or who are now erecting GiIman's
Patent Bagasse Furnace.


Patent Bagasse Furnace.
entlemen-Havng BY several of yen that one
Moses Thompson acing in his hame has
Gently made demands upon You for of money
for alleged Infringement Of pretended patent the
furnaces which using building my aent and
threatening Of refusal with tearing down your
law suits and other annoyances hereby request and
caution you concessions such threats
The furnaces erected by secured by valid patent
be made and which nothing but decree of the United
States Court disturb ard until It is disturbed by such
has right annoy in the above
manner Than they have you the high way demand
your purse threatening your life with refus.l.
hold myself at all times ready protect you against any
and all demands of that nature far money will do
the paymen. of of law sis nes etc. legally
mandej and that you all know how treat the AN
who demands money threatens destroy property
under such pretences.
this occasion notice communication in behalf of
Moses Thompson in tho Crescent of the 4h ns return
my sincere thanks to the writer for having therein corrobo
rated all of the material statements made previously by
the subec-ss ali who have carefully read both
municatou fail to he has done; thank
him for again informing the public that the bagasse
used the Rienza and Raceland plantations 1857
" Gilman's."
Now, never erected employed any erect fur
nished the plans which, knowledge any bagasse
erected either of those wish
1t understood
certainly credable any one to have built bagasse
furnaces which that time in taking two such
crops and my plan I'D pted without my knowledge
consent exceedingly obliged to all parties
the compliment in selecting mine the plan then known
and they subsequently, found improvement
uae them the discovery and hope they may profed
by It,
The remarks applied these two furnaces apply also to
others mentioned inthe communication referred
As material statement made by has been conrsdic ed
the prelude about false deca aons etc. mu suppose refer
to portions the article which headed that the
reader will be his ewn judge
The tender merces to which with Knapps chemis.
try consigned possibly imp osby their pos.
am told th,t three years ample time for have
shown whether Mr. Thoup,on's pretensions nteered with
mine not. To this have say that little about
Mr. Thompsons claims opans Of furnaces which proved fail
eight plantations year. do about the opinions
of patent office and other Who however eminent they
be in their professions that they know exactly
nothing about the practical merits funacss will
BIZ difficult to convince the planters Louisiana
parade of their opinions that Thompsous furnace which
universal and total failure eight plantations in 1885,
identical with many Of mine which pefec
the same year and every SINCE it will be 10 convince
them by the opinions of all professional csenduors that
desa foa which they had dropped and buried in 1866
coud by sibity be identical with the superior
horse Of that time and the present.
The potency of lays in its TRUTH which happy
to be informed Mr. Thompson's legal advisers perfectly
Of.
Your obedient servant
S. H GILMAN.