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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-05

now when the life of the original patent
is near expiration, caused him to speak
with much seriousness and something
like pathoS in his tone. He said:
/ saw a little paragraph the other day
in one of the newspapers suggesting that
Edison must have some mighty influence
to secure favorable judicial decisions up
on so many of his contested patents. The
implication Of the paragraph was, of
course, plain. Now, the fact IS that in all
the litigations brought by and against
me, requiring defense OF my patents, l
have never won a single one but this one
which affrms my right to the incandes-
cent light patent. l have taken out q
great many patents and filed many appli-
cations. It has cost me $500, 600 to de-
fend my rights, and most OF that money
represents dead loss. | am there
fore somewhat out of favor with
this patent business. I do not find
that it gives man protection, do not
think l shall have anything more to do
with the patent Office. l shall protect
my ideas in another way and ] am not
the only one who has been subjected to
great losses. great delays and most vex-
atipus embarrassments through our
patent system. l do not find that 1t
gives any man any certainty of protec-
tion.''
''After your incandescent light cam
paign, as you speak of it, was ended, you
began another one?''
HOn, yes, l always have campaigns
planned ahead. l then took up the
monograph, perfected it, made it OF
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Returning to the subject OF his cam
paigns, Mr.. Edison said:
''After the quadruplex telegraph idea
began my telephone campaign, and
worked very, very hard upon that. He
did not refer to the fact that unknown
to him Mr.. Bell had already acquired the
right of precedence. nor to the further
fact that BY reason of the Importance of
some of his own inventions for the use Of
the telephone, the Edison and Bell in
terests were practically harmonized It
was not necessary, since that is a matter
Of history.
az invented the earlier photograph
about this time, and saw the possibilities
of its commercial development, but I did
not take up that campaign until after
wards, putting it aside TO begin my in
candesccnt light campaign. That was
begun ]; think in 1873, and it lasted for
more than two years. The work | put
do dayin and day out. Some of the diff
ficulties were enormous. knew the
thing could be done and that electricity
could be made available for lighting pnr-
poses, but the details required for the
working out as much labor, suppose, as
] shall ever bestow upon any other cam
paign-"
lyon have waited long time for the
determination of the Supreme court con-
frming to you the patent. 1t must have
been something of an aggravation, not
only to have to put up with prOtracted
| litigation, but to see what the Supreme
court new calls infringements of your
patents SO generally used ~ / suggested.
The recollections Of the litigations ex-
tending for ten years, and terminated
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when I saw HIM few years ago seemed
not PROSPEROUS. When l saw him re-
Gently l perceived that he had become
rich. He had invented book binding
machine. He, too, is a professional in
Ventor.'
fsBut what you call a mechanical in
ventor. - ] suggested.
Eyes, yes; while l have applied science
and in some new forms to much of my
inventive work. Now, that is what am !;
that is my business. -
asked Mr.. Edison if he would be will
ing to say what he regarded as his chief
achievements. and he said:
THAT. of course. is one OF them, - and
he pointed TO an lncandescent lamp.
1.-THE incandescent lamp or light had, Of
course, been suggested years ago. My
part has been to make the incandescent
light commercially available. MY other
chief work. | presume, is the phono-
graph. That was an invention pure and
simple; no suggestion, so far as ] know
OF. the possibility OF reproducing the
human voice had ever been made. -
/ asked Mr.. Edison what he regarded as
the most important invention or discov-
ery of this generation, outside of those
which had been made in the field OF cleo
tricity.
He put his hand to his head, pulled his
hair. which is now very gray, down over
his forehead, half closed his eyes, and
said. az though speaking to himself:
ssThe most important invention, let me
see Oh, there is no doubt that the Bes-
semer steel process is the most important,
no doubt whatever; and Bessemer did
not know any more about iron or steel
when he was undertaking his work than
I did about electricity.
..Than yon did about electricity?' in
ouired. with surprise.
eyes, Didn't know anything about il
then and I don't know now; nobody
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-05
Interesting Interview With the
Wizard of Electricity.
HIS CHIEF ACHIEVEMENTS.
He Styles Himself a Professional
Scientific Inventor.
His Principal Success Was Making the
Incandesccnt Light Commercially
Observation-Disclosures Yet to be
Evolved From His Brain.
Copyright.

NEW York, Feb. Thomas A. Edi-
sons birthday is the 18th OF February,
for he was born upon that day in 1S47.
But instead Of calling himself 46 years of
age, he declares that he is nearly twice as
old as that by one estimate, and not any
where near as old by another.
II am, let me see, 81 years of age,'; he
said few days ago. lever since I was
20 years of age, perhaps before that,
have been working on the average, and
pretty hard, for eighteen hours day.
Not eighteen hours every day, because
there have been good many days when l
have worked from dawn to dawn; but
eighteen hours on the average. Now, that
is about twice as much work as the ma
jority of men put into day, suppose.
Nine or ten hours is regarded as good
days work. So that estimating by the
amount OF work / have done, ! have
lived twice as long as most men, and
throwing of a few years for my child
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does. All that we know is that il is vi
bration. Bessemer had to work hard for
his victory, tell you, for when he went
to the steel makers and offered them IL
censes for process for making steel by
blowing air through molten iron, to
speak in general way, they laughed at
him, and he actually had to produce his
steel at first by suealthy or secret meth
DDS. Even the workmen themselves did
not know what they were doing. But by
and by it began to be found that there
was better steel on the market at very
much cheaper price, and then Bessemer
was on top. Why, heark the other day
that the royalties from his process has
amounted to EGG, O00, 000.n
"You have heard of Tesla's expert
ments, and that there is talk OF the posi-
bility of the production OF light without
heat; is there anything in that?'' asked.
''Tesla was able by producing a pecu-
liar and rapid vibration to develop some
extraordinarily brilliant effects They
were OF the kind that would be pleasing
to the people who witnessed them. The
principle involved, however, was known
before Tesla made these brilliant demon
strations- | don't see now that out oil
them will come any commercial develop
ment. As for light without heat. 1t would
be graveyard light, the dull, dead light
OF the glow worm, and people would not
have it. They like brilliancy.''
Now, as to your inventive career, Mr..
Edison
''Oh, that has been a series of cam
paigns. My first campaign was in de-
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great cities west OF Chicago. Some
people say that Denver or Salt Lake city
or Omaha are going to threaten Chicago S
prestige. They are going to be big cities,
no doubt, but they can't threaten Chi
Icago. There is going to be ship canal,
think, cut across Michigan and New
York which will make Chicago great
seaport; but that is not exactly IN my
line -
ssMr. Edison, did you ever make an es-
innate of the number of persons who di-
rectly or indirectly gained their support
for themselves and their families by rea-
son of the commercial development of
your inventions?" l asked.
eyes, / made an estimate not long ago.
Let me see; think that we figured up
about $50, 600 persons who make their liv-
ing either directly or indirectly out of the
development of these inventions. Yes,
am very sure that is the figure.
| suggested to Edison that this was
larger number than earn support through
their connection with Mr.. Gould7s in
dustres, that number having been fixed
at 100, 000, and was, / believed, even
greater than the number of employees
connected with the Vanderbilt or any
other great railway system. He said he
presumed that was so, but it should be
remembered that the incandescent lamp
was now used all over the civilized
world, whereas their railway systems
were confined to a single country.
When I left Mr.. Edison the after-gloW
of winter evening was sending its faint
light through the bay window and dimly
revealing the luxury OF his home. He
stood as he took my hand in parting di-
rectly under the chandelier in the middle
of the room. AS we shook hands there
came glorious refulgence OF light from
the electric lamps above overcoming the
feeble rays of sunset. and / could not help
thinking as the great inventor stood there
revealed in all his strength by these rays
of which he has himself been the creator,
that this little incident suggested the
story OF the career of the man who has
been conquering the forces OF nature for
the benefit of mankind.
e. JAY EDWARDS.
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A GENTLE WOMAN
Wishes a toilet cream to pro.

Wishes toilet cream to pro-
mote that
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of the skin, which is the true
beauty of the complexion.
She wishes it to have the true
fragrance of the flowers and the
gentle tonic action of the healing
balsams, which render the skin
soft, white and beautiful with
out injury to it.
She wishes the refreshing.
soothing effect of the best and
simplest ingredients blended in
to a perfect cream. She finds
it in Cocona Cream and Will have
no other.
She never uses the paints and
face beaches which are SO in
furious to the skin.
GETTLEMEN after shaving
find Cocona Cream most
excellent.
COCOE4 WATER is the nat
ural fragrance of flowers for
the toilet and bath.
COCON.A B.4L.M Prevents and
Heals chapping, breaking
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THE e0c0NA TOILET SPECiALHEs
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SCOTS Emulsion of cod
liver oil is an easy food : it is
more than food, if you please;
but it is a food-to bring
back plumpness to those who
have lost it.
Do you know what 1t is to
be plump?
Thinness is poverty, living
from hand to mouth. To be
plump is to have a little more
than enough, a reserve.
Do you want a reserve of
health? Let US send you a
book on CAREFUL LIVING ;
free.
SCOTT & BOVINE. Chemists. 1872 South 9Th Avenue,
Your druggist keeps SCOTS Emulsion of cod-lver
Oil-all druggists everywhere do. ST..
, 1893-07-01
t E l. f G r A M s.
Sr. CRoIx Sra

st. CR0IX STATION.
Plymouth, 23th June.-R. NJ. S. Midway
from the West Indies arrived here at three
am. to-day.
New York. June 28th-Telegrams from
England state that Vice Admiral Butler will
succeed Sir John Hopkins now in command Of
the North American squadron and. that the
latter will be promoted to the vacancy caused
by the death of Vice Admiral Tryon.
A despatch from the correspondent Of the
New York Times says that the new Indian
silver policy ia expected to stimulate the
Lancashire cotton trade and diminish
the purchase of Indian grain, thus increasing
the imports Of American cotton and bread
stufs. The Calcutta press generally approves
of the action of the Council.
At Simla Lord Landsdowne explained that
the intention of the Council was to steady ex-
change rates rather than to increase the value
of the Rupee.
The Prime Minister stated in the House Of
Commons in reply to q question by Mr..
Everett that there would be no compensation
granted on account of private losses.
Paris advices announce that the general
elections will take place on the goth of Au-
gust.
Berlin dispatches report that the Bundles
rath has approved Of the new Army Bill.
In the New York Silver Market Bullion is
offered at. seventy six cents per ounce, but no
received at over seventy cents. Mining
shares have collapsed. The decline in the
, 1893-07-01

The Commist ee, excepting Wassard, agrees
in regard to the existing difficulty Of on the
basis of the calculations at hand, as explicit
as these may even be, to form a definite pro-
posal IN regard to the Draft of Law in ques-
ton respecting the arrangements of the af-
fairs of the Colonies, and would therefore
propose to the Government; That a Com
mittse be appointed principally consisting Of
Chairman nominated by the Home Govern.
ment for taking into consideration allquestions
relating thereto and with the power in case
Of necessity to make an examination Of the
local matters and on that to frame a report
, 1893-07-01

and proposals for a suitable reorganization Of
the affairs of the Danish West IndIa Islands.
The Chairman, Tutein, has owing to illness
only been able to attend at the two first
meetings Of the Committee.
BLUHME. CLAUSEN.
Acting Chairman & Speaker.
REiSZ, WASSARD.
(To be eontjnusd)
, 1893-07-01
st. Johns Reotory,
Christiansted,
June nth 1898.
To the Editor Of the Bulletin d 81. Croiz Apis.
Dear Mr.. Editor,

In your avis" Of 9th inst. l read a
statement concerning the glorious rainfall
last week; AZ d was rejoiced to see the note of
gratitude to the Author of all good gifts
which you struck i'll the conclusion Of your
statement.
AS | understand this rainfall was so phe-
nominal for this season of the year, was so
much needed, and has so altered for the
better the prospects for next year, l feel sure
your note of gratitude will be echoed in
every heart.
After having passed through such a severe
drought and consequent financial Difficult
ty as we have suffered during the past
two years it does seem to nae thai such IAN
outpouring of blessed rain, merits special
thanksgiving to God throughout the island.
/ notice that from January Until now this
year we have been blessed with over 200
lines, while during the whole of last year we
only had under 800 lines.
Would it not be very appropriate if next
Sunday public Thanksgiving were pail to
Almighty God in all the Churches in tie
island
I may say that in St. Johu's Church special
Thanksgiving services will be held next
Sunday to which all who care to come are
cordially invited.
Faithfully yours,
, 1893-07-01
! am
faithfully yours,
a j. GUNNER.

~ We learn that the s.. Cari56ee left
New York on Wednesday and may be looked
for at Frederiksted on Tuesday or Wednesday
next.
, 1893-07-01

His Exoellency Governor Arendrup left
St. Thomas by the 8. =. "Solent' on Tuesday
afternoon, for Denmark via Barbados and
Southampton,
, 1893-07-01

The many friends of our former Chief
Justice and Mrs. Andersen in these islands
will be sorry to learn that the last mail
brought news Of Mrs. Andersen's death IN
Denmark on the 3rd of last month.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-06-27

ellis after several members had ex-
pressed their regret that MIR. Nc
Chesney was obliged to withdraw.
They spoke in the highest terms of
his efficient and conscientious work
as member.
The question Of the disturbance
created between the Hawaiian and
the National Hawaiian bands at the
Oceanic wharf was spoken OF, and
the matter was referred to the attor-
ney-general and the marshal.
Several other matters of import
ance were discussed and the councils
adjourned at 11:30 AN.
The election to fiji the vacancy
caused by the resignation of MIR. Nc.
Chesney will likely take place at the
regular meeting on next Thursday
afternoon.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-06-27
PORTRAIT SKETCHES.
Feeling Words From the Widows
of the Dead Officers.

The Diocesan Magazine for June
contains the following among its
diocesan news:
In accordance with the wishes OF
subscribers, portrait sketches of the
windows recently erected in the
cathedral to the memory of Com
mander Nicolls, R. n, Captain
Schoonmaker and Paymaster Ar
mes, u n, have been sent to the
widows of those officers, and also
to Admiral Kimberly. They have
been acknowledged in highly ap-
preciative terms. Mrs. Nicolls
writes: 81 cannot tell you how
gratifed l feel when | think my
dear husbands memory is held in
such esteem by friends in Homo
lulu. VIII you please thank them
all for me-" Mrs. Schoonmaker
writes: at is very gratifying to
know that my husband was so be-
loved even in a foreign land. He
had written to me SO often of the
cathedral and the services in Homo
lulu that l feel as if | know the
place very well. L appreciate very
highly your kindness in sending
me the picture of the window,
which must be very beautiful"
The following is from Mrs. Armes
at has been supposed that the
Ranger was to be ordered to Homo
lulu, and my son was anticipating
the pleasure of meeting many of his
fathers friends, of seeing the win
dow, and expressing in person our
gratitude and appreciation of the
honor shown to the memory of his
father. l shall be obliged to ask
you to present my sincere thanks
to the subscribers for this touching
and generous testimony of their re-
gard for his memory"
The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-06-27
VICTORIANs INTERVIEWED
BY Mr.. F. W. Ward Who DeIiV-
cred an Interesting Address.

Mr.. f. w. Ward, representing
Mr.. Huddart, of the Miowera, was
before the Victoria Board of Trade
on Monday. A large turnout of the
members was present. Mr.. Ward
delivered a lengthy, interesting adj
dress on the possibilities of trade
relations between Australia and the
Dominion. The feasibility of a reci-
procity treaty was discussed. He
dealt largely with statistics showing
the volume of trade between the
Australasian colonies and the
United States. The lack of proper
statistics or other data relating to
Canada's trade with his country
was a drawback in the present in
stance. He pointed outsthe posi-
bilities of a connection with Ha-
waii, the Fiji and other Pacific
ocean islands. Concerning the trade
in meat Mr.. Ward said that he had
a letter from a Sydney shipper who
offered to place the mutton free on
board at cost of 5 farthings or q
cents per tb. and he thought that at
a charge of 3 or 4 cents per fb. the
mutton could be delivered in Van
couver or Victoria so hard that it
could be thrown about like stones.
The cold storage was kept up by
machinery, and could be easily
managed. 1t was no more difficult
to manage a cold chamber in ship
than on land. They could bring
grapes and fruit generally, in what
was not the season here, in perfect
condition. Had they known the
condition of the potato market here
they might have brought on the
last trip a full supply, as frst-class
potatoes were selling there at 93
los. per long ton of 2240 TBS. He
then invited as many as possible to
come to Vancouver on Wednesday
and partake of a luncheon, when
they would be able to judge of some
of the products of the southern
hemisphere. They would be con-
veyed back in the afternoon on the
Miowera. Before adjourning, ref
erence was made to the fact that
letters mailed in Sydney and the
other cities several days prior to
the sailing of the Miowera, by way
of San Francisco, had only reached
Vancouver and Victoria on Monday
and yesterday. The Victoria board
has already taken action as regards
revision of the tariff. It is Mr..
Wards intention to remain in, the
country some time yet.-Nictoria
News-Advertiser, June il.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-06-27
SPECIAL SESSION

The resignation of Councillor Nc
Chesney was accepted by the coun-
The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-06-27
IMPROVEMENTS AT THE POST
OFFICE
Restoration OF Councillor Nc

Councils to he Held on Thursday
Afternoons.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-06-27

@-All Meats delivered from this Marketarc
thoroughly chilled Immediately after killing by
means of Bell-Coleman Patent Dry Air Re.
frigerator. Meat so treated retains all its Juicy
properties, and is guaranteed to keep longer
after delivery than freshly-killed meat.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-06-27

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