Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-11-12

In the telephone cases before the Secretary Of
the Interior this morning Mr.. Starrow contin-
ued the presentation OF the case for the Bell
company. He read q letter written by Prof
Bell to his parents from Salem, Mass, March
18th, 1875, containing q report OF the tele-
phone tests made by himself and Prof Henry.
He then wrote that Prof Henry advised him 10
proceed and try to work out the idea himself
Prot Bell explained that he did not have the
necessary knowledge of electricity. Prof
Henry's answer was, .'Get it." He was encour-
aged and upheld in his tedious investigations
by those words. and in one year secured his
Dowd case. TO show that IL was q fair test OF the
merits OF the claims of the different inventors.
Mr. Humphrey inquired II Dowd was not
now in the employ Of the Bell company.
"No. sir" emphatically replied Mr.. Starrow
abe never was, and it is about time for that sort
That is the kind Of insult we have had all
along from the other side," remarked Mr. Dick
erson, of counsel for the Bell company
Proceeding, Mr. Starrow quoted from the eyi.
dence in the Dowd case the remark of the ex.
aminer TO Prof. Bell. when he notified him of
caveat.
1T Is something along on that page that the
cayeat interferes with" said the examiner
Conid there be straighter statement that
the matter in dispute was already i'm Prof RelI's
papers," inquired Mr.. Starrow.
He proceeded 10 read a letter that was written
by W. ID. Baldwin, Gray's counsel, to DIR. White.
Gray's partner, notifying him that Grays ca
veat confiicted with Bells application and that
as the application had been filed earlier in the
ents had decided that Bells patent should issue
That was confidential, but If Gray would come
down to w ashington the next day an interfer-
ence could still be had. A second letter to DIR
White informed him that Bell was willing TO
compromise on the harmonic telegraph sys-
tenn: Gray replied that he would come to
Referring to Meuccia's claim, MIR. starrow said
that 1t was old; 1t had been set out in full in q
q mn has
IL was asserted that he had a perfect telephone
In 1864, but was SO poor that he could not take
emit record a list OF patents taken out by Menc-
cia and assigned to other persons. The Globe
company had set up here that Meuccas claim
was on record that they had been assigned sew
eral OF Meuccia's patents as far back as 1888.
In answer to Mr.. Eatons affidavit to the
erect that he had been betrayed by his own
counsel in the Spencer case, Mr.. Starrow pro-
duced the record 10 show that his counsel Mr.
cision in favor of his client, and had been sec
onded by Prof. Morton, who had failed to get
audible speech transmitted through the Reiss
instruments. be also read from Judge Lowell's
decision where the court declared that Prof
Dolbears effort to transmit speech through
the ReisS Instruments had resulted in signal
failure. referring TO the Pittsburg case Mr.
Starrow said il was brought by a branch of the
National Improved Telephone company of
The Bell Co. there got a preliminary Injunction:
the evidence had now been closed and the case
would come up for final hearing as soon
as the judge returned-probably in three weeks
time: Most OF the evidence produced here i'm
behalf OF the Pan electric and Meuccia peti-
TONERS consisted OF simple sheets from the
printed record used by the defense In the mo-
ton for preliminary injunction, and found by
the court to be insufficient to defeat that
motion. Therefore this case was in fact but
an appeal from the decision of the court.
Touching the affidavits made by experts 10
the effect that the Ress instruments had been
operative in their hands, MIR. Starrow said they
have introduced in those inStrume MT 4 he mo.
chanical contrivances OF Bells instrument for
the express purpose of producing the effect pro
successful results not by carrying out the effects
aimed at and described by Reiss, but by avoid
ing those very effects.
With statement in reference to the contracts
called tor by the other SIDE Mr. Starrow closed
the presentation OF his case, and the further
hearing was adjourned until tomorrow.