New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-31

The trustee is tryingto prove the charge ground
less by an albi He claims he was not in Paterson
were committed. Another charSc al more general
ana comprehensive nature ia to be made should he
he acquitted on the one pending against him.
PROTECTING THEIR PATENTS.
WHY SOME OF THE ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANIES
UNITRD-FoEs TO EACH OTHER, BUT FRIENDS
IL AGAINST ALL THE WORLD.
Charles r. Flint. president of the United States
IN asht ng COMPANY was found yesterday
company i'll the Equitable Building.
IA Have You ANYTHING to add to the statements
made by Vice President Eaton of the Edison Elec-
electric light Companies S R he Was s ashed
combination" was the reply THE combination,
OF association of companies outside of the Edison
the sF sGe of 1 pasn
n a rs more especially to protect the com
each other for any infringement of acb others 20 r se
ents. out we present united front against
anyone an who may infringe upon patent belonging
Gramme Company. There is nopooliug of earnings
or parceiiing out of territory, ad each company re-
before. the combustion was organized for the ln,l-
tuai protection of those using the Gramme patents"
- hat IL the present position of the United States
Electric Lighting Company -
The factory Of the United States Electric Light
ing ing Company, situated at Avenue-B and Seven
teenthst has been in successful operation for about
one month The factory is a building 100 feet
square, Six stores high, and liz fitted up with the
most Improved machinery, tools and apparatus
necessary for the turning out of electrical machines
and lamps both Of the voltaic arc and neandescent
systems, While the company is turning out lamps
and machines for supplying the present demand.
eae wfgk OF is going on with renewed
consulting electrician is making Important expert
'ilents at Newport with view of perfecting the
System s o 1 f fur electric lights and motors
experiments are also being tried at the Avcnue-B
factory orr e. -. no.on.
ers Ihat trofessor Moses o. Farmer who had the in
candeseent light burning in his house at Salem
working in the line of electric ichtinp for tbe mast
thirty years, and who has recorded the Developments
81 the electrical science in connection with his own
ulscoveTeS IN iiity volumes tho only complete re-
cord Of the development OF the art in ex in this
country. has broad claims for the ex ising systems
OF generating electricity by dynamo machines and
TOR the general aud important features of the pes-
emit systems of lamps. The present forms of LAMPS
PRINCIPLES have been worked out by Messrs Maxim
weston and Edison and other electricians that have
in this art IN this o sr iw is but the pioneer
when the position of patents comes tefore the courts
for nveSigaton il will be found that as the plo-
troll of the leading principles of LIGHT
ing aud furnishing power by electricity.
nght business to extent that would bring persons
into the market who would ruin the business NV
would give such poor results to ruin the repufa-
tlo OF the electric light in general a central organ
E's',uu mas oecn formed rs have SAID, to enforce
tie patents of those in the organization against the
manufacturers, sellers and users of nfrnging anna
Tatus which is in this respect similar to an organza-
ton successfully operated by the sewing machine
companies. The companies in The 0rganizafion
comprise all of the existing companies cxccpt The
Edison Company; say the Brush, United States,
Fuller American, Weston and Ja1lochkotf and i,
compliment TO the name of the great electrician the
ganization Tr has taken the name Of the Gra,nme
company. ms organization controls numerous and
important patents that being enforced under n cen
en a Ggeeton VIII have the effect of having the pat
spected. IN the article appearing in TIE TaInuNl;
to-day Mr. Eaton, the p,esidcn of the Edison
pretended the object and extent of the organ-
pasn redsed 10 nv AS to the value of the Grame
hxed by adjudication of the courten
DYING OF DRINK AT TEN YEARS OF AGE.
girl was driving in a wagon last Thursday, past
1fird-aves., when che knot of seven bows
quarreIling and scodng over something. Going
Gated, and that the cause of their quarrel was q
demijohn, containing small amount of liquor. The
ingy took it away from them and broke It upon the
pavement. Several of the boys we're by
t t6is time ho1 unable to stir and had to
to have been 50 maddened by the liquor that he
rushed to I'll the East River and plunged headlong into
timely aid OF wharfaaan. The two boys most
seriously Frustrated were Thomas Price, ten years
old. OF No. 2OS East SiEty-fourth- ST., and q bow
named Kegan, of Sixty -fourth-st and Second-aye.
Both were unconscious. Hogan was restored in n
few hours by the liberal use of emetics but Thomas
Price died yesterday without reganing conscious
The affair created great excitement in the neigh
borhood and efforts made to ascertain where
the liquor came from and what it was but in vain.
Some OF the boys declared they found ii hidden i'm
ihe grass. Began, vino appeared to have discrim-
i tn;1g taste, declares that, the jug con
heye that the liquor was alcohol; others that
IL was brandy, while some say that the
boys merely found bottle of lnment in livery
A 1 he 10 ln,,
cred. The physicians who were called were no more
able TO tell what the liquor than the boys them
selves, but at the Bureau of Vital Statistics it was
brain due to alcoholism that was produced bv
drinking too much brandy OF whiskey.'
GIFTS FOR THE SEASIDE sANITARIIJM.
Henry King acknowledges the following money
contributors for the Seaside Santarium
Ellen y and Louis A. Whitney. Observation-Disclosures. Sc 90
HIIs: ley -, 90
Mrs. Il. r. AuchinelOss Newport .. Oh 90 90
congregational Sunday school Canaan Conn Is 90
Friend t1ronah Mr. nergh a co. oo
YOUNG Lads Boardingschooi. through William II.
Charles Plat, Poquot House, Island 81 90
In memory Of Madeline and iiand % 40
dn memory Of little Mile New arighon 10 90
dssoei Auen 90
Me- oie'f , 25 90
kerbs q spiess % 90
Over 500 poor women and sick children enioved
the benefits of tho Seaside Santarium last week
WOMAN IN TIE PLURAL NUMBER.
Miss Mile Christine, who as q freak of nature il
!or sre) IN no way less singular than the Siamese
BunnelPs Museum, where she viii begin her re-
ceptlon tomorrow. Though she speaks of herself