Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08
FRY cARLE TO THE DISPATCH,


LONDON, September 7-[COpyright. J.
returning from Paris to New York without
visiting London, and will arrive in this
town in day or two, accompanied by Sena-
tor William Maxwell Evarts. Edison has
had q reception in Paris such as no Ameri-
can or any other foreigner has ever received.
During the three weeks that he has been in
the gay capital he has only escaped big din
ners two or three nights, and he is said to
be in the condition of Strasbourg goose as
result of the over-hospitality of his ad-
mirers. Paris enthused over Edison as only
Paris can. Crowds have followed him in
the streets, and his appearance at the
Exposition has been the invariable signal
for blockade which only the police could
move. As his picture has been published
in all the illustrated papers and his photo
graphs are on sale in the shop windows, his
face became we'll known and he has been
unable to appear anywhere in public with
out being recognized. The newspapers have
published his goings and comings with
greater attention even than they devoted to
the Shah, and Mrs. Edison and her sister,
Miss Miller, have been described with much
detail by the Partisan flaneurs.
BELIEVED ALMOST ANYTHING.
The French public considers Edison is the
sole inventor of The telegraph, telephone,
electric light and even electricity itself, if
not the solar system as we'll, and when
Figaro gravely announced this week that he
had just completed an adjustment for the
phonograph whereby conversation in English
r1,3n - IL, lo1T Do L.
lieved it, and Edison worship has in
creased hundred fold since. The atten-
tion he has received has not been
an unmixed pleasure to Edison.
His intention in visiting Paris was
to make an exhaustive study of the mechan-
ical exhibits at the Exposition, instead of
which he has been one of the principal ex-
hibits himself, while the crowd that have
followed him. and the festivities that were
thrust upon him have prevented his giving
the protracted attention to what would have
interested him most. Frank r. Upton,
President of the Edison Electric Lamp
Company at East Newark, and Eugene H.
Lewis, of New York, who were with the
Edison party in Paris, arrived in London
this week, and Upton sailed for America on
the Saale Thursday.
SUPPOSED PATENT PLANS.
Lewis, who is Edison's lawyer, and has
conducted most of his recent patent suits,
remains here to meet Edison and Evarts. a
circumstances showing that Edison has
changed his plans, and will come to Lon
don, and that he is to be accompanied by
Mr.. Evarts, whose ostensible purpose in Wis
lting Paris was to have his ewes treated by
an eminent French occulist, gives rise to a
rumor affecting electric lighting interests in
America. The rumor is that Edison and
the two lawyers visit London for the pur-
pose of having a consultation with her
Majesty's ministers about the prospect of
Canada's being included in the patent con-
vention of 1888, which governs the patent
laws of the United States and Great Britain,
with view to its effect upon Edison's high
resistance hlament patent now in litigation
in Canada. England reserves the right by
the terms of this convention to include any
of her colonies under its provisions, and the
clause that is supposed to interest the Edi-
son people provides that the importation of
a patented article from one of the States
bound by the convention to another, shall
not invalidate the patent.
INTERESTING LEGAL CONTEST.
The flament patent was first taken out in
Canada, and according to Canadian law an
article patented in that country and manu-
factured in another country cannot be i'm
ported into Canada without lnvalidating the
patent. Whether the Edison filament
patent has been thus invalidated is now
being considered in the Canadian courts,
and the representatives OF other American
electric lighting companies, who will be
affected by the decision, believe that an
effort is to be made to bring Canada into the
convention that binds Great Britain, in
order to take advantage of the clause giving
the right of importation between the States
bound by the convention.
This would, at least give an opportunity
to gain time by bringing an intricate legal
question into the courts. Lewis processes
utter ignorance of any such move on the
part of Edison and Evarts, however.