New-York tribune., 1888-08-26

lawyer with taste for sports, which gave him con-
siderable practice from sporting men, before he came
to New York, where he now has a largo Income from
The Daily News lie had two or three years OF
paper am told that he has tssto for brio -brac.
stauary, fancy pottery, and similar ornanepiaton,
which accounts for the frequency with which ne y
seen In stores where such articles are sold
Talking the other day with a cutrate Druggist
OF tho tricks OF the trade came out lie toid me
that he was selling certain line OF patent medicine
at retail or at two or threc cents below Its wholesale
cost to him, when ] remarked to him that, did not
SEQ how he could make that profitable. Il Will tell
you how said he, have preparation OF my own Tor
the OF the diseases as that medicine cures.
The bottle full of stuff costs me less than twentynVo
cents, counting bottle label and ALL This Is ABOUT
the original cost OF patent medicine that Sells ior
dollar a bottle Tho medicine OF which speak mas
been selling for sixty-fve cents, which Is. pc,ow so
wholesale cost. II any one comes In ana ASKS ior Dr., .
bottle OF 1t let him understand that am luyt ous'
but have preparation OF my own M Sy Sa csnts DO
you catch ont mako thrty-hvo cents on my o9ae ~,
Of medicine If he persists in wanting the csso Sscsr Gs
viii advertise he store, but the chances are nine out
Of ten that he will take my remedy because " s
five cents cheaper than the othor.
met an interesting character the other day In L.
Conn., who Is both lawyer and successful business
man. having made a quarter OF million collars WIN
In a few years out of patent device Tor pro'ccuoh
against sewcrgas Mr. Cohn's legal practice was for
several years in the line of patents the drawing OF
business contracts and giving advice to clients who
were business men. He got hold OF the anti-scwcr-
gas company some time in 1885, and by adopting the
system Of renting the dsinfecng machines "h'cn
probably cost only few dollars apiece, lot S2o q
year. he lcaped at into an enormous business IN
como plan of this sort originally put into exc
b, Roll Telephone
dore ~ Vail was It's manager. lt was Mr. Yals
idea under which the telephones IN ns.y rns sasd 10
subsidiary companies and their Subscribers, Inc
annual rental OF telephone instrument pald 10 me
parent companies is, believe, Slo, winch - inu'n
moro than the cost Of the instrument
ER. Drady. who has been connected with varons
public enterprises in electricity pungcny romarheo'
"Tho average American citizen VIII lot you rod MIN
daily and hourly OF a small amount OF money ana
nermit Won 70 rob all his fellow citizens in great COM
munitv Mt the same tlmc that in the aggregate you
have an enormous plumber, when, II you were 10 'aAo
even a 1.-THE Of the amount out OIL MS poohe' al
nually or out OF the public treasury he Wonia WIN ~
hanged to the first lamppost Tho street car lines 'aAc
a penny moro from every passenger thah 'hcS dio
Justly entitled to- Ferry boats are In the same ciass
The price per thousand for gas might be reduced
Every telephone subscriber could pay lcss TOT MS
telephone and leave still largo profit TO inc COM
panIes Telegraph messages could be reduced put
in this bustlIny and active country no one wants 10
stop and consider those things ron pay ! !ou1 ~. w. y
Of fare on the strcecar without 0G Eyer nav 80 good div
dcnd on the original Investment OF most OF me fpsos
You pay 81 s sH" sa Sr 81 bs
in franchises OF this character that none! Is raR &
made and since the people are a., Inv t's ha NV original
language tcrmng it robbery IS lIttie 100 IS su9ni %
perhaps the fact is that tho American cssn Is Will ~
ing to pay pretty well for good ACCOMMODATIONS VI
any knd.S
In tho master mechanics department OF the New
York Central Railroad, the employees are discussing
the various movements In train service which arc gu
ing into effect and likely to be completed wi'h'h 'ho
present year. Under the new State law all passenger
cars must be equipped within this year with means
OF heating other than by fire in stoves Ho' air anu
steam are the two mediums relied upon 10 maho 'nis
change Gas IS to be used for lighting as VOL as
cectrIcIty and the old coalol lamps entirely super
sedcd while patent conplcrs arc being put IN % mIoa
work ally r,n ssrvce a In the Northwest
vesibules are being put the ordinary DAY coacno'
a well as on parlor cars
The graphophone, which has begun the WORK OF 10
coring and repeating human speech, Is already used
by public men to a considerable extent meniocr
Of Congress in the habit OF preparing for the aecS
OF speech by addressing himself TO graphophono
the day before he wishes to unbulcn himself In the
House After having thus prepared his language 10
suIt himself he sits down and has the instrument re-
peat It to him. TO fix 1t In HIS mind. Further than
this he relieves the official stcnographers OF much OF
their labor by turning the graphophone over 10 .hcm
after he has finished his speech, and letting thcm
transcrlbe It from the Instruments record. The ma
chine Is somewhat largo to be carried around con-
vcnently or one might expect intevowers to begin 10
use Il at once The record Of his voice on graphic
pbonc would have saved Chairman Brice any unpleas
ant controversy with the enerprsing correspondent
of L" The Cincinnati Enquirer" Among the stockhold-
ers who arc interested in the company which owns tho
rrapbophone patents Is Colonel W. W. Dudley treas
,Ircr OF the Republican National Committee who sent
for one OF tho machines, and intends TO uso II Tor MS
correspondence. IL IS In use at his rooms at the
Everett House. Instead of talking TO stenosraphcr,
he will talk into the graphOphOnc and then turn 1t
over TO a typewriter who viii transcrbe the letters
am told that there Is establishment In Phadclpha
where some OF the wonders of modern invention arc
illustrated by combination OF patents. A person
NAV talk into the graphophonc, and while he Is sitting
In front of the instrument soc the oneraor transcrbe
his words from the graphOphone to keyboard of a
type- setting machine, from tho cas;ingbOx OF which
an automatic arrangement carries the type TO small
printing press, where the impression at once struck
Off.