The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-03-15

49, scl1EsS iRiSAL iS N1sNNiicAN5---
vELopMENT IN THE BICYCLE
INDUSTRY And ELECTRIC
III LIGHTING-cAP1TAL INVESTED.
WASHINGTON o. c., March IA
The annual report OF the commissioner
of patents for the calendar year 1887,
!. was laid before Congress to-day. It Is
dated January 81, and was prepared by
Assistant Commissioner A. ?. Grealy,
who was acting, commissioner for sew
erai months preceding the death OF
the late Commissioner Butterworth. In
addition to the usual statistical sum
mary, of patent work tho report con-
tnlns considerable inventions partlcu-
8larly since 1880. In 1897. there were re-
.ceived 1861 applications for patents
and in addition large number OF APP
plications for designs. trade marks, etc.
Patents granted amounted In number
10 2s.729, including designs, slxty-flve
patents were re-lssued, 1,67l trade
: marks registered and fourteen labels
and sixteen prints. The number OF pat
rents that expired was 1925. The total
Il expenditures were sl,122.Si3, the re-
tceipts over expenditures, s252,f9S. The,
total balance OF the credit OF the patent
office in the treasury OF the United
States on January !, 1893, was A,97l, 4SS.
In proportion to population more pat
tents were issued to citizens Of Connec-
ticut than to those Of any other state
one TO every 1856 inhabitants. Next are
the following: Massachusetts. District
of Columbia, New Jersey, Rhode Is
land, New York.
To residents of England FOG patents
were issued; TO residents of Germany
Sol; Canada, eS6, and France, 222. The
number Of applications received for eS-
animation during the year was greater
than for any other In the history OF the
office, yet the report says there was TO
increase IN the facilities or force for
doing the work. Applications awaiting
action December 2S. last numbered H.
$50 due to tho inadequacy OF the office
force. For the ten gears beginning in
1910. the average number OF applica-
tons was 1.1S6. and for the eight years
beginning with 1890. 1t has grown to
41.47s per year.
An earnest attempt was made during
the year to correct abuses which have
arisen in consequence Of the liberaiitS'
OF practice and several attorneys whose
operations. the report says, savored OF
confidence games by which the unwary
and unlearned lost their money were
disbarred. But" the report continues,
the influence of patented inventions is
most strikingly shown in the creation
OF new industries of enormous ulagnt-
tude since 1SS0-that Is, within the term
: OF patents now in force or but very re-
5 Gently expired"
..of these new industries the most no.
I ted are those directly connected with
the development OF Inventions.
1.-THE manufacture OF electrical ap-
:. paratus and supplies began to be OF
Importance shortly before 1880, and in
& that year seventy-siS establishments.
employing 1.27i persons and producing
5 an output valued at S2,655,036, were In
existence. In 1890 the number of es-
Establishments had increased to 1Ss, en-
ploying 9.4So persons, and producing an
output valued at sl9,l14.7l4.
I'm the electric light and power in
: dustry as reported in $780, there were
but three establishments in the United
States employing 229 persons, and pro-
ducing an output valued at s45S.40o. At
Z the. close OF 1891. there were In the Uni
ted States, ee,124 central station supply
ing electricity for light and power, and
al Isolated plants, . total Of 9,599 es-
Establishments. The capital invested in
these central stations Is stated to have
been s25s, 956,256 and the capital invest
z ed in the isolated pla1ts, though not
stated, was probably not below $780,
000, 900. 4 conservative estimate OF the
number OF persons employed at that
time in this industry would not be un-
\ der 45 900. e
Il -
Il! ne USE VI eiec' i'cs iot power puf-
poses has found Its most notable devel-
opment in the electric railway, The
1rst eiac.ric. stree. railway, IN tha 1r,;-
S5 ,,,ora .,or ta, vears ono T, 1sSo -.
{ the $500 road miles of street railway In
the United States nearly all used ami
MAJ power. me total mileage Oh eiec-
z t u always ST IN the onited states up 70
octooer OF le9', was iS,,Vo tniles. our 0.
a. a tota, Mllease OF lo,Is. OF ~niGh put
The telephone h in 1850 was Just begin.
1 close OF 1896 there were in The United
Z states, ooi leiephone, exchanges ana ~