The San Francisco call., 1904-06-22

transacted as we'll as could be expected
in view of the force employed and the
volume of the work, and has been with
out particular incident.
Increase Will Continue.
There is no reason to expect that
the increase shown in the foregoing
tables may not be found in the ensu-
ing year. and it is evident that the
force of employees viii not be able to
meet the requirements of an indefinite
further increase of the work unless
their number shall be correspondingly
increased. Already there are delays in
the transaction Of our work and haste
in the execution of other portions of
the work, which point TO the impera-
tive necessity for more employees.
THE increase in work has made 1t
necessary to organize a new division,
known as the manuscript and photo
lithograph division, and there should
be added to the present force new
chief of division and assistant chief
for the purposes of this new division.
1 have also asked for ten additional
clerks of class one at $1,000 per annum,
to meet our most urgent necessities.
1.-The increase of the appropriation
for the scientific library of this office
from $4,000 to $500, made by the ap-
preparation bill of last year, was a
step in the right direction, and if this
sum can be further increased so as to
furnish $4,000 per annum for the pur-
poses of this library and for the trans
portation of publications OF patents to
foreign governments I think the lib
of efficiency.
"One cannot look at the progress of
the Patent Office since it's present sys-
TEN of work was inaugurated by the
act of July 4, 1886, without seing that
it has followed closely the develop
ment of the industrial arts in this
country during all of this period, and
it should require no extended argu-
ment beyond these figures to show that
the system which has accomplished
these results without expense to the
Government, but which has, on the
contrary, furnished a net balance of
81, ,6S2, $40 81, should be furnished with
all necessary facilities in the way of
room and employees SO as to permit its
future progress in the same measure
as the expected growth of the arts in
this country.
Germany Follows Our Example.
''It was to me a matter of great In
terest last summer to be shown at Ber-
lin the plans of the German govern
ment for an extension OF their patent
Office, which has been the first in Eu-
rope to follow the procedure of this
country m the matter OF granting
patents by the establishment of a sys-
tenn of preliminary examinations.
Lands have been purchased by the
German government and plans for
buildings are now in hand which are to
provide accommodations for two thou
sand employees, and it was stated to
me that such accommodation 1t was
thought would suffice for their neces-
sites until the year 1920. 1t is interest
ing to notice that the annual issue of
patents by the German government is
about six thousand, and that our is
sue for the year 1903 was 81 $50. It is to
be hoped that Americans will not be
obliged to look to Germany at any time
in the next decade to see the best en-
bodiment in practice OF the system of
issuance of patents upon preliminary
examinations. If they have concluded
that this system, originated by US, lies
so close to the national welfare that
they have decided to make great ex-
penditures to possess themselves of it's
benefits. funds should not be wanting
IL this country to keep our system up
to its present position of pre-eminence
The stimulus given to the industrial
arts by the hope of reward which the
patent system presents to the inventor
is conceded by the thinking men of
most civilized countries to-day, and the
rapid progress Of Japan has been ac-
companied by the adoption of patent
system in which they were largely in
huenced by impressions derived from
an examination of the patent system of
the United States.
''At the present time the space pro-