The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-21

past week the haring advertisement
of tho makers Of the so.called U. >
separators, which call for some atten
J ton upon our part. - F..
A couple Of years ago this I. ;
concern scattered broadcast clrcuia
asking "Who was the son OF Anania
and Sapphira?'' This question it hia
been said was answered when conspIc
nous official of that Company testified
few months ago in the now famou!
tria! at Newfane, VT. Of an action t'
compcl the prominent creamery iirH
of Francis Batchelder &c CO., of Mont
pelier, Vt, to pay for certain =. >.
separators which naturally could moi
be made to do what had been CANNED
for them, and in which suit Batcheldei
& Co. were of course successful, large
~ by reason of the curious testimony
of this conspicuous witness who is sad
to claim such ancient if not cnViablc
ancestry.
| One might be uncharitable enough
10 assert that the author of the adver-
tisements to which reference is made
having recently appeared was TINS
ssme scion of Ananias and Sapphira.
The Vermont Farm Machine 20. tries
to belittIc the importance of the De
zee of Infri ngement of the De Laval
patents given by the United States
! Courts against Samuel Hotchkiss, and
publishes what purport to be letters
| from Hotchkiss, SAID TO be their
agent, from Hulbert-also their agent
and the financial hacker of Hotchkiss
! in illega! inrringement-and from a
user Of one of such infringing ma
chimes who the De Laval Company in
/ the enforcement of its lawful rights
cnioincd from the further use Of such
machine.
The statement purporting@ to have
been made by Iotchkiss that his law
vers assured him that the De Laval in
fringement claims could not be sus-
tanned if contested. is untrue, and we
challenge Hotrhkiss or anyone else
except the person who testified at New
fame to make this statement under
oath. Hotchkiss' attorneys were the
well known firm OF Risicy, Robinson i
Love, of Utica, \, y. Hotchkiss
abandoned the further and final CON
test Of the case against him because he
was assured By his attorneys. after
thorough investigation by them Of the
ate of the art, that it was waste of
money TO proceed further and that he
was sure to be beaten. These attor
neys also assured other infringers of
the same patent who were equally in !
tcrested in the result with Hotchkiss
that they could do nothing. and final .
~ actually refused the prolfered tinan- (
cial support of an outside infringer. so .
hopeless did they consider any attempt
to answer the De Laval testimony
which had been put upon record.
After Hotchkiss and Hubert. the
L. S. agent and financial hacker Of
Hotchkiss had begged and pleaded
with the De Laval Company for its iu-
direct aid in permitting them to en-
force the collection Of the illegal notes
they held from the buyers of the in
fringing machines the further use of
which had been enioined, and for bet
ter prices and greater consideration
than the De Laval Company gives to
the honest and straight forward buy {
ers OF its machines, they went to the {
Vermont Farm Machine Co. and it is !
said obtained from il lot of machines
at less than hair the price it charges to +;
other buyers Of its machines, and in /;
this way some few of the previous users {
Of the infringing Hotchkiss machines s
have been induced to try the U. S. at |
iboW hqt price, with the further CON {
alteration presumably of such untrue |
md misleading statements as those 7
low published /
We leave the public. including the s
ew who have been deluded into buy i
ng L. 5. machines at full, price, to a
udge of these matters for themselves, t
md we challenge the denial under a
'ath lby anyone except the person j
Who testified at Newfancl of any of t
hese assertions. 10
And since the Vermont Farm Ma Il
hino Go. introduces the subject, we
Nail OF the the opportunity to an Il
ounce Tor the information and eau il
ION OF whoever ii may concern that Il
;e are assured by counsel, including g
ne most eminent patent ATTORNEYS in a
bis country. Messrs. Harding * Hard II
az, OF Philadelphia. and Messrs. Ban OF
ing * Banning Il SherIden, of Chica fl
o, TINT the S0-ca}led z. IS. RqchtRcs las pt
eH as ne mGrhiRes oftheir agents II tch- II
'SS and hubert. the further use Of trhich il
'e c"HrtS hare already cRjiucd) do IN al
'Hotsdty 1HfrIHge the De Ldzdl patents. m
nd that We have only delayed prose ii
ltlng the makers and users If such or
achlnes from the fact that other al
hts are COW pending which equally Sc
fect The so called U. S. machines.
40 from the fact that the number of al
zen machines in use is hardly suffi- of
ent TO Justify the legal expense, and SIX
SO from the fact that the present U. su
machines have been apparently but ia
mporary and unsatisfactory make ST.
ltts 10 style of construction, since no
g makers have devised and applied co
patents upon various new and pre- tr,
mably improved forms of construc- tn
on' which still more broadly and DO
eniv infringe certain of the De La re,
patents. Their machines most re- in