The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-07
THE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT, 1DNEsDAY JANUARY T.

and q snare. Nevertheless. the vacuum en-
dured and the lamp continued to burn, TO the
dIsmay OF Sawyer and to the confusion OF
science az expounded by du Motay. Edison has
been hard at work making new lamps, which
have been set to burning as soon as COM
pleted, Some of them have now been giving
light for more than three hundred hours, and
so on down to the latest additions In the or
der OF their construction. notwithstanding
the protests of the scientists, these stubborn
and lrreverent lamps have kept burning, and,
AZ III to further insult the eminent gentlemen
engaged In suppressing them, actually grow
Ing brighter with time and use. A few days
ago, joy Gould's organ, the New York
Tribune, took occasion to whisper that some
of the oldest lights were beginning to burn
little dim. This. presumably, was to boos
some Of tho multitudinous stocks In which tn
great and good Gould had an interest. Ne Il
day. however, IL transpired that the rept N
was mere Islander; that the difference IN h.
lamps was attributable solely TO the diff sr,
ence In perfection of the carbon flame Ms
which, having been prepared at random EpHs
not uniform In quality, but which In all ases
had improved with age and after trial.
Against all these petty remonstranc g., In
deed, the Menlo Park light has caiml pre-
vailed, through the Irresistible force II TACT
as opposed to theory, and the result b. sig
nfeant enough. But nothing that tss vel
happened speaks go eloquently az tn t,events
of New Years Eve, when the gang Of hired
roughs visited Edisons workshops and com
mltted tho acts of violence which W. and re-
corded In the New York Sun Of taae THIRD
Instant. 1t is not supposable that uah coarse
rutfans as these could have gor g TO Menit
Park through any interest or eve n curiosity
In scientific matters. The only reasonable
prescription is that they were employed te
go there and to perpetrate TIN disgraceful
acts which they subsequently, perpetrated
What they did and how they did II will be
foand chunieled IN the S'as art icie, which we
reproduce this morning. To our mind, the
occurrence affords overwhelI ming proof that
| the interests opposed to MIR Ellison have
| abandoned all hope Of his failure
| and that they Tesorted to this expedIent In q
spirit of naked revenge, as II determined to
reap the poor consolation OF at least lpiuring
the property and retsFdiBg the work OF theII
arch destroyer. Edison. OF course if the
entire establishment had been oblterated, as
seems TIE have been the plan, 1t would not
have saved the GEES tyrants from eventual
downfall, ret 1t IL pleasant to know that the
scheme vas frustrated and that only u frae-
| ton Of the contemplated outrage was really
accomplished. As will be seen, tho rufIians
did good deal OF promiscuous damage and
I endeayored TO do good deal more. They
| only succeeded, however, In proving to the
world that the obstacles to Edison's practical
and permanent success consist solely In the
futile and easiiy-prevented batbarities of q
gang of hired roughs. Having reached that
| stage, the illumlnator of the future seems to
be very near, indeed.