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PATENTEES ORGANIZING.
PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF INVENTION.
OBJECT OF THE PATENT CENTENNIAL-FEAT-
UREs OF THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES


SUBSCRIBED.
| The coming week will witness the celebration at
Washington of the Patent Centennial, the programme
for which has already been published IN The Tribune
Beginning with the first public meeting on THURSDAY.
TO be presided over by President Harrison, there VIII
be a succession Of meetings and receptions al winch
Secretary Noble Charles F.. Mitchell Commissioner oil
Patenth and other Government officials VIII take part
Mr. Edison Professor Bell and Others Of the best
known American inventors expected to be present
On saturday the excursion TO Mount Vernon ana 'le
military parade will terminate the centennial ceebra-
top but the permanent organization OF inventors 10
be founded on this anniversary will continue.
After the sleep Of years, American inventors have
walked ito the fact that they have done something worth
celebrating After every class Of free born American
citizens, from the lordly brewer to the humble hod-
carrier have organized into trusts and unions the IN
ventors have length come to realization OF inc iact
that possibly they might accomplish something by lnl
tating the action of the Democracy ana Sc'ung 10
gether" The inventor and all his works form the tar
get for the grandest phippics Of the Farmers ahce
order of statesmen and IL Is fitting that an Inventive
Alliance should rear its head at the very time lie
natural enemy OF the Western paries is sending SOCK
less statesmen to Washington
at is too bad" said young patent lawyer recently,
that the inventor and the manufacturing interests based
upon his inventions, should meet such unfortunate
opposition from the agricultural classes, wien every
thing that the farmer has from driven well TO a
cotheSpin, the product of the inventors weary Gays
and sleeplcss nights. For this reason the movement
BEGINNING in the centennial celebration Is peculiarly
well timed Ii should be, and IS to be- as understand
it, "a campaign of education preaching OF the gospel
of cOmmonsensc TO the Gentles whose lives are seem
incy rendered pleasant by the benefCeI Influences OF
the patent system simply that they may live and rail at
the paentee The fact that some Of our brethren OF
the plough allow themselves TO be gllcd occasionally
by vendors OF bogus patent rights hardly furnishes
good reason inveighing against the patent system
as whole any more than the wiles Of gypsy horse
trader afford sufficient excuse ior eAtcrhlhauhs INC
equine species"
The financial part Of the coming patent centennial
in Washington is in fine shape. over $4,000 mas
been subscribed to the guarantee fund.- 50 that the
success OF the undertaking is secure in any cOntn-
pency IL is hoped however, to render the AFFAIR
seltsipportng, so that the amounts advanced as
guarantee, may be returned intact TO the Subscribers.
This is to be done by charging fee Of - for mem
bersbip in the Congress of Inventors and Manu-
facturers of Inventions" which is the official title OF
the organization which is 10 do the celebrating ms
membership entities to tickets to the pubic eN-
ercscs in Lincoln Hall, admission 10 the various
receptions trip to Mt. Vernon and much planRed
sbad as he can cat on this latter occasion. Every
member will also receive, without extra charge two
or more volumes Of 500 pages each, containing the
addresses delivered by the statesmen and political
| economists whose names are on the programme an
account OF the celebration ana series OF biographies
OF the great American inventors. II IS the opinion
OF the committee that any who wants more than
that for 50 is a hog and not an inventor.
ANY one who has been accidentally omitted from
the lists but would like 10 attend, can become
a member by sending his 81 TO J. +. Watkins, secH-
ary al No S11 est, Washington, D. C.. or 10 Colonel
! A. T. Button, treasurer, No. 1,410 G-st.
The military parade which will take place on the
10th will start at 80 O'Clock in the afternoon so mat
the local military organizations, largely made up OF
Department clerks, may take part, and also permitting
the visitors returned from Mt. Vernon TO witness tile
display a dinner given by the Washington BoarG Oi
Trade and a visit 10 the Navy Yard al TIE Invitation
of secretary Tracy among the additional features
Many letters have been received by the secretary
containing inguires To whether there Will be an
onnortunity afforded for The exhibition OF models.
here Will be no classified exhibition OF Inventions Dul
those having novelties Of interest will have an Oppor-
tnnifv 10 display them. II Is probable That WILLARD
Hall will be taken for this purpose II sufficiently
iaroe collection is promised The model halls OF the
patent Office with the 1JOOOO models stored there wiz
10 nen 10 inspection, and there viii also be loan eX
Ibiion AZ the NatiOual Museum consisting OF cuosl-
ties interesting TO patentees and inventors Ill
Altogether The celebration promises 10 be one wen
worthy of the growth OF the American patent system ~
the hundred wears since George Washington signed INC
first United States patent To-day there are nearly
800 600 such documents In existence, each one ahOIi
i its more az less valuable contribution TO the knoWl'
edes ~ the age These being added 10 at the rae
~ Ok 600 a year The Patent Office revenues nave
nroat THE balance accumulated I'm the Treasury 10
ihe credit of the patent fund II nearing Si,OOOoVO,
and not the least important thing 20 be considered ny
the coming epg hitting disposal Of this money for
the benefit OF the patent interests whlch nave
taxed in the past iof us accGnn',on ana W con-
trh1s 10 lis useless and sensecss enlargement IN lh'
future.