, 1881-07-20
TIE TELEPHONES.
The Electric Telephone Company Not
Likely to Replace the Con.
solidation.
Its patl, Apparently 0bstrnotel by I'm.
: eredlmeuts IN tho Shape OF lii. '
functions. ~
Tho 1nutility Of spsoial Exohangea-Ths
Mechanical Difficulties at''''3"
and "a" Offices.

druggists ard phyHtoans who 10 nut want tn
my AT Increased price for. telephone scrvlcc,
and who want Bcnartte cxchanEo for them-
solves. 4 Str. HrtN,ko. representing tho Eicctrlb
To!ophonn Company, tins prrsrnt, and stated
tllnt that corpnt1iton he understood, would sup.
ply what WINS required Mt so year, tho ChcaRo
Company charging sla5 when new contracts aro
nladu. For tho Information Of druggists and
physlelntis III particular. and tho community In
general, w'.o havo tloubttoss torgottcn the pres.
reporter interviewed ~. Fay.s s uenssni i Manager
Of, the Chlcn4u .Tolcp!'hne Compnny, yestcrlay,
ny could do business 1t this city.
:" Hnve yol." sai,l tho reporter ""beRtin legal
Rr1'cresltmgs aga!nss sho E!eetF,a. Of Foster,
erasnE S ics hHr' borc, - o"'o't 'n''o aeon' Up
wi ID not know lite nnme OF the Company sir.
stutcM at tho inecflnR: but /. nnlerstana TINT
Gay W. Foster, George @. Eaglo, and othors Are
the lun1ng splrsta III tho organization.
THEY HAVE 1ssEN ESJo1SEn
BY Judge p,r''nmond, OF the unitcl gtatos Cir
..'ro whom docs tho Injunet,nn npplyY'
"co tho Foster MaEnct folephono Company,
What aro Its spocitlo provistonsi'
selling my electric. or speaking telephones
which emGoly my Of the improvements or IN;
esno oxt.ea s t as fosr Afs nS
I4, es,s " nt!f INF # WAS an Infringement aid tho
%Aro W uiI I tsicphoncs b,rret7"
.Yes nosare Ss' Mr. Hsil is bcgnu to work IN tho
tclephone, tiohouY hatl conceived tho notion or
eon.tnuoas o current s Of e!egtrety ot sarynu
rnphy With the Morse kcy. but the % voieo lee ] coai
rsa.s ia orsnated Fiji sha ''s sSuary tha. 'ns Tho
electrical ctirrGnt sht,utd % thrown Into stnto
or vibration. Or 'ntl.ltation, similar to TINT Of
tho voice. And tlu dcvlsul
THE FIRST APPARATUS
for creating such undalnuHns. md 'leacril,cil tho
a9nparat!s: md tho un.l,liAtions themselves
Circuit court Of slassaehusctts. tho oalui was
TINT tho pntent wus for Il niathcl and apparatus
Tor transmitting v1oAl or niher sounds tnlo-
II lux Hy o SaiT tn ybraons hn IL
Judge Lowell Fnid: Tho Invention Is i,othing
ylbrnuons like those which q sound bus. prn-
fduce.l y. Tho asr. Tho pntent points out Ills.
sn toe. &c H. y nS ,,s
mode tlot wh0l1y nnktluwn ut thnt tinp ldate
-of thn DO. patsSnt}. however naoh iMnsoyoa, II
dcteninntMs M .!sc tsth tho mclhod and tho nppa-
ratua Of Boil. Tho essential clcmcnts OF tho
,ngtfota 9ro tho pr1tl.lution OF what tue patent
correspond with THOSE OF tho mir, and transmit.
ting them to II reoetvng Instrument oapablo Of
Instrument for converting ito vibration Of tho
duphrani Into vibrations OF electricity is m
issproyensnt upon IT. rlS!ntr's s.!lt dogs
Il mode not whs'lly unknown Mt the tlate Of tho
patent, tna'.g1 10, 70 not eons'dOr TINT material.
THE CLAIM OF pErL IS VALID,
and bis patent bus been Infringcu.:
ure " n tcephono r.
:" Aud yo't clnlu1 that every other company II
aeeaTrsa 1 froH rInF
paliy. We claim that slore IL no way OF n,akina
Fent;. and nny telephone tint makes uso Of na
'hn1Hatin1 a current is an infringement Of Mr.
~ ohanslne the subject little. what was the
~ do not KNOW, except FROM hearsay; but
do know TINT tho vnfious tolophono cunipalies
exchanges, aud it has bceti tried In sotnp cnsoa
A. rute. every ono who wants U special OK
eannSa Mants III i the y exchange ana the
= LET oNE sEIsyE lturlt PURPOSES"
"a separate oxchnnge co.lld be established p
"Ot eourap. Hut We havo m organization
thaf 1s atgo end @ + costs just
oosts VIZ ia.t n. ''r mueh eo'at 'aalta WsH
sxeSng os eapascs IT, 1t qny 'sS Te oao be
| italroady. Mnd thero y III, object 70 tho Com,
general senso, L don't ply to have special wIiSi
ssn'n wnss sSSy Gun havo general ones a aoaf!y tns
- .MSW .,;,; long will it be boforo tho mechaulca
~ AND ~ OFFICES
arc Htr1lghtcucd outj"
1.-TWO Or .throo wcoks.' The troubles arise
@ from the ~ difficulty Of sonnoottng the Bull and
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