Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-24
md Treasury of Facts" the complainant

AID other valuable mavter naa Deen OeX-
terously transferred by Mr.. Cooper to |
adorn his own ambitious venture in the |
walks Of literature, said transfer being ir
violation of the copyright law with
which the congressional librarian had
sought to protect his own volume.
Cooper smiiingly comes 70 the front, how
ever, by showing that some one else had
the same matter before
Spoford, which puts the librarian and
himself in the same boat, and SO the court
has declined to grant an injunction az gainst
the defendant.
INTEREST is given to a decision by
Boston judge granting the injunction of
Theodore Thomas to restrain another man
from producing Gounods new oratorio OF
"The Redemption" by reason of the re-
cent quarrel between rival operatic mana
gers in this city as to the right of one Of
them to perform Gilbert & Sullivan S
"Iolanthe." Manager Rice claimed that
having paid royalty to the authors for
the purpose of producing the opera, ire
sponsib!e persons were thereby restrained
from so doing. Managers Snyder & Grau,
On the other hand, said that as the score
had been published and could be purchased
at any music store the opera was public
property, aud there was no authority to
restrain them from singing it. Judge
Lowell, OF Boston. passing upon the
disputed right Cf q manager to pro-
duce Gounod's composition, held that the
publication of the book with the sc,ce for
pianos and marginal notes does not givs
the right to any one to produce, if he can,
the orchestral accomplishments with the
aid of the book. Tie orchestral effects
are colored by the original composer only,
and are essentially his property, and there.
fore any attempt to reproduce or initiate
| the orchestra.ion. whether from memory OIL
by any other means is n cessarily an i'll
fringemeut of the composers rights. The
point Gc c:Ged in this judicial utterarce
seems plainly analogous t. the one disputed
by perspiring managers iu this city lately
and might readily be taken as 4 text iol
persons who having paid Gilbert & Suli
van for the right to sing their operas fe.
themselves aggrieved at the unwarrantet
performances of Others.
THE rcct ut baggage agreement erteret
| into by the western roads, which provides
that no piece of sample baggage weighing
more than $50 pound shall be carried i,
baggage cars after March 81, 1888, vi,
necessitate revolution in the baggage
equipment of mapy wholesale houses ant
theatrical companies and advance agents
So far no official annou nccment has beel
made by eastern lines of like regulation
though gentlorGn connected with tn
baggage department of the Pennsylvani;
system, who v:"s seen upon the subject
said it is only ~ '>tion Of time when i
will be done. !>He ground upon wiliCl
the railroad au.!.O Lies base their action
limiting the weight of baggage i
that the employees O: the roads who ar.
obliged to handle the pAnderous trunks O
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panies, are frequently injured for lie il
attempting to lift them, and that wherea
no humane merchant wou!d ask an en-
ployee to do such prCdi.ious work, S
neither should railroad companies expec
it from the men whom they hire. Th
carriage of sample and theatrical baggag ge
much of which frequently weighs as hisl
as $50 pounds, is said by railroad fIi,ia'.
t. be the most unremunerative branch G
their traffic. Ladies' Saraiogas are no
nearly SO heavy as many of the smalle
trunkSof travelling statesmen AMI theatr
cal companies, as their contents usual
consist of lighter articles OF female us
and apparel, such as bonuets, parasols
silks and the like, and it would be d;ficul
to put 900 pounds of such material int
the largest Saratoga ever made. The in
convenience in handling such trunks is il
their size rather than their weight