The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-02-16
MALICIOUS and UNDERHAND
Attack on the Delmaryia Telephone
Company.

To the public or whom it may concern:
Certain articles have appeared in the
Evening Journal OF February 4, 1895
daily paper published in Jersey City
containing statements D the effect that
certain suits had been instituted in
that city which would ultimately in
volve the De!marvia Telephone COM
pany, OF Wilmington, Delaware. In
connection with other companies,
charged in the articles referred to with
using certain telephone patents owned
originally by George 5. Maxwell and
by him transferred to William ]. At
kinson. Someone in Wilmington, Della
ware, has. in the past few days, taken
| the pains to mail to the subscribers
and patrons of the DeImaryia Com
pany, copies OF the newspaper referred
| to.
Who is responsible for this under
hand action, it is not difficult to cor
rectly conjecture, nor, in view Of the
fact that the Delmarvia Company has
heretofore been subjected to the annoy
ance of having its wires cut clandes-
timely Its instruments tampered with
and false reports circulated as to equip
ment, management and extent of its
service, is it difficult to supply a mo-
tive for this kind of bushwacker war
fare.
All the world admires an open. man
ly contest. and entertains the opposite
opinion for the methods Of the black
mailer and sneak.
1t may interest the Wilmington pub
lie to know that in the first place, 50
far as the said newspaper articles make
mention of Wilmington. the statements
therein are absolutely false. The Del
maryia Company does not own, use or
have in its possession, either for pres
ent or fullre use, any patent, patented
right, instrument or device owned or
claimed by either Maxwell or Atkinson,
and any suit Instituted in New Jersey, |
or elsewhere, involvlngany alleged con-
tractural rights between either of these
parties, aud anyone else cannot in any
way affect the system in Use by the
Delmarvia Company. which has been
supplied by the Western Telephone
Construction Company. and It's use
guaranteed against any and everybody
who may claim or imagine that it is an
infringement on some other system.
Anyone desirous Of testing the va
lidity Of the present position Of the
Delmarvia Telephone Company, is in
vited to adopt the only comse which
honorable people pursue, and il 50 in
clined to resort to the United States
Circuit Court for this district for a
judicial determination of any question
growing out of alleged infringement or
the use of patent rights not justly and
legally the property of the Deimarvia
Company.
1t will remain with the public to set
tie the question of the Survival of the
fttest" in this pending competition for
telephone patronage, by either adopt
ing or declining to adopt that system
which proposes to give value received
and furnish persons needing and using c
a telephone, with prompt, efficient SER Q
vice at a reasonable price. The Del !
marvia Company is not asking favors,
but has come here for legitimate bus- a
ness purposes. and intends to stay. 1t /
does not. in order to establish its hold
in this community, propose to resort
10 underhand methods. nor to attempt n
10 extend its system by blackmailing II
processes. 81
DELMARVIA TELEPHONE co.