The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-15

lyle, and he was full-of the great philosc-
pher of England. Irememher one remark
that he made about him, and this was that
1t seemed to him that the mouth of God
Almighty was closer to the ear of Thomas
Carlyle than to that OF any other man in
the world.
During my talk with Mr. Grosscup re-
ceived etter from Mr.. Edison's labor
atorv, enclosing a picture of the great
inventor. and the conversation turned to
him. Edison" said he. "lost me just $i5
by his second marriage"
How so?" l asked.
at happened this way" replied the
young lawyer. "Mr. Edison married 3
daughter of Mr.. Miller. very rich man of
Akron, o. The young lady was charming
and accomplished, and she had q numDer
of lovers. and among them was q young
friend of mine who was prosecuting his
suit with vigor; but who was rather de-
spondent about his success. In talking
with him concerning 1T one day l offered
to bet him suit of clothes that he would
be married to the lady inside
of year. He took the bet,
but stipulated that the suit
should be a business suit and not q dress
suit, as he really expected and hoped that
he would have TO pay the bet. Well, it
went to Chautauqua to spend few weeks,
and there she met Thomas Edison and it
was case of love at first sight on both
sides, and the two became engaged and
were afterward married. A few days after
the wedding occurred | received a bill of
$45 from this young fellows tailor to pay
for those clothes, and so the marriage cost
me just that amount"
Speaking of Edison, l met an ex-con-
gresham last night who is practicing law
in New York. and who has had consider
able to do with some lawsuits in which
Mr.. Edison has been the defendant. /
asked him to give me some idea of the
man. and he described him as simple in
his manners and entirely free from ossen-
tation or airs. Said he:
''Mr. Edison once told me the story of
the sale of one Of his first patents, and he
described how he had called on Jay Gould
and presented it to him. He approached
Gould with fear, and he felt quite embar-
raised as he described his patent, which
was an improvement in telegraph instru-
ments, and when at last Gould asked him
what he thought it was worth, his heart
jumped to his throat and he could not tell
how, but in some way he uttered the
words:- 4 think l oug ht to have $loO, 900
for it. l could see,' said Mr.. Edison, from
the expression OF MIR. Gould's face that l
had made one of the greatest mistakes of
my life, and that should have asked him
81, 100000 He said he would take it, and
he got the invention, but the incident
taught me lesson and / have never made
such mistake since them Edison has
made more out of the telephone than
Morse ever made out of the telegraph"
| had long chat last night with Pro-
fessor NJ. B. Brady, the great photog-
rapher, who now, at the age of somewhere
near three-score and ten, is as bright and
spry as he was when he photographed all
the great men of ante-bellum days. He
told me during our talk that he once had
a daguerreotyping establishment IN New
York in partnership with Morse, and that
he had no idea that Morse's invention
would amount to anything. Said he:
Our gallery was in long room in Beck
man street, and New York was then a city
of about the size that Washington City is
now. 1t did not contain over 300 600 peo-
pie, but Professor Morse and myself did
fair business. Morse was experimenting
at the telegraph at the same time that he
was daguerreotyplng. and our room was
filed with electrical machines and wire
was coiied around it passing to the walls
and stretched here and there across the
room. Every one thought that Morse was
crack-brained. He was caricatured in the
newspapers and the people laughed at
him. He had great trouble in getting con-
gress to give him an appropriation to build
a line between Washington City and Bal
timore. He finally got $500, 900, and this
line established the success of the tele-
graph. 1t was some time, however, be-
fore he made any money out of it. but he
succeeded at last and died worth a for
tune. He was one of the pleasantest and
most gentlemanly men have known; was
man of much learning, broad in his
views and refined in his manners.
1T was while | had a gallery on Fulton