The Arizona sentinel., 1897-05-01
From Baltimore News, Thursday, April
 E, 1897 l 4 GREAT SUCCESS.
THE REMARKABLE PR0GRESS OF
 JOHN WEDDERBURy < co.
In Spite of the General StagnatiOn Tn Business This Firms Clients Continue to Increase -H0nOr- able Methods and Intelligent Enterprise Result in Public
 COntldence--An Interesting
 Testimonial i

WAsHINGToN, D. C., April 15.-In these days when depressed conditions mark almost all enterprises it is not remarkable that the success of one man should attract such general att tention. The wonderful strides made within the past year or two by the well-known patent firm of John We'd derburn & Go. have been noted by the most experienced business men with astonishment, but qp investigation of the methods which MT. Wedder- burn has employed furnishes the key to the mystery. Heretofore the patent business has been conducted on comparatively small scale and by the use of methods which in these days must be said to be antiquated. Thus the entire expense of maintain ing patent agency has been borne by small number of clients whose fees have been levied upon by the at torneys for very considerable profit. Under such conditions 1t Is not re- markable that but little progress should be Hade.
 MT. Wedderburn has brought to his aid the most approved modern meth ods. His office in Washington is within few feet of the Patent Office and his force of more than 250 clerks is distributed through three large buildings. This little army of en- ployees is made up of the most skill ful experts that generous salaries can hire and only work of the highest possible character Is permitted to leave the office.
 In addition to his unusual facilities Mr. Wedderburn has placed his bu5i- ness before almost every inventor in the United States through the medium of the newspapers. He has Tn addi- tian provided an endowment from which 8 handsome award of $50 in cash is made monthly to the inventor of the simplest and best device lor- warded to the company. This award Is similar in character to those made by the famous scientific societies of America and Europe, and Is intended to enable the inventor fortunate enough to secure it either to develop his patent and place it on the market, to protect it Tn foreign countries, or to purchase a scholarship in one of the great industrial trade schools where the use of tools is taught in a thoroughly scientific mahner and from which an inventor may graduate fully equipped to pursue his investigations in any direction of modern applied science and entirely competent to make with his own hands all the ap- pliances, models, etc, he may require. The awarding of this handsome sum Tn cash is made monthly by a most distinguished board of prominent public and business men composed of United States Senator William M j Stewart, Chairman; Representative Claude M. Swanson of Virginia, MT. John c. Eckloff, Cashier of the Sec ond National Bank of Washington MT. Frederick E. Woodward of the well-known firm of Woodward & Lothrop, and MT. A.,C. Moses of the great business house of Vim. B. Moses & Sons. With their interests Tn the hands of such Board, of Awards it goes without saying that the inventors of the country feel entirely satisfied with the decisions rendered each month. ..s
 MT. Wedderburn's method of con- ducting the patent business has drawn forth many expressions. of approval from prominent public men hundreds of whom are his personal friends. Quite recently so distinguished a public man as Vice. President Steven son addressed the following letter to MT. Wedderburn :; ...~.
 "United States Senate Chamber,
 "Ofice of Vice-President, .n Feb. 3, 1897. John Wedderburn & Co.,,
 : Washington, D. c. "Gentlemen: You have been SO highly spoken of to me: by my friends as men of strict integrity and prompt in all business matters that I do not ! hesitate to commend you to such of r1y friends who may need the advice and assistance ofa reliable attorney. "Very truly yonrs,
 "A. E. STEVENSON,
 "Vice- President United States"
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