The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1900-09-26
'VlRHERS .,.,,,n
: ARE SWINDLED
.,,,1 SALT AND WATER
:, THEIR BAddINd.
,..,a Lawyer in Macon
Line Up Evidence Against
Manufacturers

N' oveIand, an attorney OF
b, lama. has been in Macon for a
lnp natting up evidence in suit
y = the United States circuit
n 1t i IN jan in which the Amer i
OF . l4 Company which IL Is
all,'l1g riro trust, is the plaintiff.
u leland Dr is one OF the attorneys :
aAsfense and has Travelled all all
lonth getting up evidence by
ne ~ xpects 10 prove that the
~ Manufacturing Company Is
'' Ma fraud by which the
l"' ao+to planter is defrauded OF
Vfl ;, # dollars each year. In
anu ,bont the matter to a News
~ Mr. Bveland said |;
- -, ~. live our defense for publlca-
81 an t5is = tn q e" he said, "but there
81 .. 'r Merely incidental to the
s a,.' w. free to give to the press
D' the imposition that is being
,iood upon the south in weights in
Daraino, For many years the
Sst,,rors Of lutte cotton bagging
claimed to employ a patented
49, in its manufacture whereby the
/, il rendered fire proof, and a suit
81 boon brought by Jno. V. poniphan
Mt the Peru Bagging Company OF
Indiana, for alleged infringe
Of that patent. 1t seems that IN
BENJAMIN and Andrew Graft OF
q o,is both of whom are now dl-
y. and executive officers OF the
orican Manufacturing Company,
~ controls 10 per cent. of the out
Of the bagging mills of America,
ont the letters of patent, claiming
nv q treatment of cotton bagglng
a compound as they say, but
icb in fact is nothing but salt and
ter the lutte was bleached and rem
ed fire proof.
In August, 1899, after several inef-
tual attempts to absorb the Peru
Il mt by the trust this patent of the
|ssaptz brothers was assigned by them
.&tb the right to recover for all dam
!. les resulting from past infringements
John Y. Doniphan, a business asso-
tie at this time of theirs, who brings
is action"
MIR. LOyeland admitted to the report
that the Peru Company did employ
process for the treatment of the pro-
ct not altogether unlike that above
btliled, and the Peru company had
eFer operated with the consent of the
&tentees.
'How do their clients expect to es.
spe the penalties for an infringe
Rnt ?" he was asked.
In the first place." said he, "they
Anot admit that their process was an
Fringement, and in the next there is
#hing either new original or use.
\ in the process patented-that OF
plying salt water to jute. The pri'
Pry and l may say with perfect safe
the only practical value of this
eatment as practiced and the only
lIect OF the patent is to enable the
anutacturers to substitute a quantity
salt and water for its equivalent in
eight of iute, and sell the whole as sc
any pounds of jute. For example, q
andard weight of bagging runs Ion
'undS to the roll of fifty yards. The
age buys this with the understanding
ateach roll of fifty yards contains
Vfullpounds of jute, and buys it Of
d. weight, two pounds to the yard
Ihe textile strength and body i'm
r'eQ to it by that guam tity of jute fl
{. Now, as a matter Uf fact, as. the
'In comes from the loom the fifty
rus weigh no more than 80 to 81
u n6 put to meet this shortage of Il
:: ~ pounds the goods are treated
l l oelng wound in the roll with g
,arated solution of salt and water
| Icn u oeln1g wound into a tight, hard
~ inc salt and tight rolling retains
moisture and gives the roll full.
ishU OF 100 pounds. In this way say
inSyEe pounds of jute and fifteer
: l,l' OF salt and water are passed tC
4 ?isercnaser as 100 pounds of jute
,an n.y. as at present, the fabric sells al
% A. o per pound the consumer loses
he Of a. ~ every fifty yards. What is
all W. WE l~o-pound bagging is true
Iexne%ri,n1 y at Vicksburg, as matter
NV rn .lnent, a dealer the other day
ba ' Piiesence dried 100 yard roll Of
rtv.o7na Tor three hours, and it lost
,i9b 4ng pounds, 1t had been over
vino ~ 5 % z'O pounds ana dropped il
5v.rar ~ 5V9 pounds. At Shreveport &
the won = pound roll, after standing
sea- "arehouse for eighteen months
ma ' Gu IN that time and thirteen
led l.; more IN two hours drying un
err a. 10 Vne sun. At St. Louis the
Jay Two seventy-yard 2-poun6