Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-15

clothes that he would be married to the
lady inside of a wear. He took the bet, but
stipulated that the suit should be a business
suit and not dress suit, as he really ex-
pected and hoped that he would have to pay
the bet and he wanted to make it as cheap as
possible.
"Well, it was shortly after this that Miss
Miller went to Cbautauqua to spend few
weeks and there she met Thomas Ellison
and it was a case of love at first sight on
both sides, and the two became engaged
and were afterwards married. A few days
after the wedding occurred L received bill
of s45 from the young fellows tailor to pay
for those clothes, and so the marriage cost
me just that amount"
One of the Inventors Mistakes
Mr. Edison once told friend of mine
the story of the sale of one of bis first
patents, and he described how he had called
on Jay Gould and had presented it to him.
He approached Gould with fear and he felt
quite embarrassed as he described his
patent, which was an improvement in tele-
graph instruments and when at last Gould
asked him what he thought it was worth
his his heart jumped to his throat and he
could not tell how but in some way he ut
tered the words: 81 think ought to have
S100, 900 for it,
II could see," said Mr. Edison, "from
the expression of Mr.. Gould's face that L
had made one of the great mistakes of my
life, and that I should have asked him
million. He said he would take it and he
got the invention, but the incident taught
ME lesson and have never made such
mistake since then"
Edison has made more out of the tele-
phone than Morse ever made out of the tel
egraph. had long chat last night with
Prot. NJ. B. Brady, the great photographer,
who now at the age of somewhere near
three score and tennis as bright and spry as
he was when he photographed all the great
men of ante-bellum days He told me DUR
Ing our talk that he once had daguer-
reotyping establishment in New York In
partnership with Morse and that he had no
idea that Morses invention would amount
to anything. Said he:
How Morse Struggled to Success.
''Our gallery was in long room in Beck
man street and New York was then a
city of about the size that Washington is
now 1t did not contain over 300, 900 peO-
pie, but Prof Morse and myself did fair |
business. Morse was experimenting at the
telegraph at the same time that he was da-
guerreotyping, and our room was filed with !
electrical machines and wire was coiled |
around it passing to the walls and stretched |
here and there across the room. Everyone |
thought that Morse was crackbrained. He |
was caricatured in the newspapers and the |
people laughed at him. He had great trou-
BILE in getting Congress to give him an ap- |
preparation to build q line between WASH |
ington and Baltimore. He finally got |
$500, 900 and this line established the sue
cess of the telegraph. 1t was some time,
however, before he made any money out of |
it but he succeeded at last and died worth a
fortune. He was one of the pieasantest |
and most gentlemanly men 1 have known,
was a man of much learning, broad in his |
views and refined in his manner.
"It was while had a gallery on Fulton |
street that Jenny Lind came to this coun-
try, and L believe that 1 was the first to |
put her face into daguerreotype / called |
upon her and got her to sit to me week |
after she landed in New York and before |
she sang. The people were crazy over her, |
and the day she came to sit they blocked |
up the streets for long distance on each |
side of the entrance, and We had to let her |
out through back door to avoid the crowd. |
She was not pretty woman, but her face |
was pleasant one. 1t was rather square |
than round, was forid and of the Swedish |
order.
Taking Picture of Andrew jackson.
81 took Andrew Jackson at the Hermitage |
shortly before he died, and 1 have made
number of photographs of Abraham Lin
coin. have q chair in nv gallery which |
came from the Senate and which was given
me by President Lincoln. 1t was finely /
carved, and he presented it to me on ac-
count of the discomfort which he found in
himself to the chairs in my
gallery. He was very tall, you know, and
MS legs came high up in the ordinary chair.
As he complained about it he said:
" MIR. Brady. 1 wish you had one of the
Senate chairs in your gallery. These are
just right for me, and think you could take
| much better picture in them
" Give me an order, and 1 will get you
one,' said 1. He did so. presented it and
,ot the chair, ana 1 have it now.
"The first time l took President Lincoln
was Just after his election. He was coming
through New York on his way to Washing
on and 1 remember that had considerable
roube in arranging him for the camera. He
vas so tail, gaunt and angular, and his neck
vas so long that 1 found great trouble in
making good Looking picture of him, and
yhen got him before the camera 1 asked
lin if might not arrange his collar. With
hat began to pull it up.
'Ah,' said he, 4 see you want to shorten
nv neck.
!" That's just it, said I, and we both
aughed.
''The result of the sitting was a splendid
icture. 1t had wide sale, and was carried
n different forms to every part of the coun-
ry. President Lincoln used to speak to me
bout it afterward, and he once told me that
was the man who had introduced him to
be United States"
FRANK G. CARPENTER.