Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-03-08
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you" said the boyish-looking voung man
Win VIII! the large head who was near the ma
well Wen, then, please do it, said the man
asgr IN an appealing manner
+io IL I'VE minutes young Edison had the
ticker going again. He was offered S3oo y
month on the spot to take charge of tba
ticker service In relating tha sterv "a aft ane
wards he said the amount almost stunned
him. ~ ''uhhiAeu
MAKES HIS FIRST INVENTIONS.
Immediately he began to carry out DIans
for the betterment OF the service and in
vented several contrivancies which the com
pany - adopted almost at once. When the
day OF settlement arrived and young Edison
was called into the Office of the president
or the company he began to wonder what
ne would be given for his inventions. He
OO0, anyway. -
My heart was futtering," said Mr.. Ed
son son IN q telling the story, and l was afraid
wanted l said: Suppose you make me atas an
When I was told that the companv
would pay me $4,000 | nearly fell off the
chair, but replied as calmly as | could
that ! guessed that would be all right
ana received the check for SO 900 n still ibb BE-
nnWSy ag shat That he CIV. was being swndled by
TO lndorse the check when he presented it
at the bank and the cashier showed If hack
at him, shouting out something which he
IN the check second time, only to be
repulsed in the same way.
BELIEVED He WAS "JoBBED."
Thls time he went away with a sinking
heart, believing firmly that he had been
swindled. He went to the brother of the
manager OF the company and told his ex-
perience. OF course, his story met with
roars of laughter, and the company sent
trick was played on him there when
he was paid in small bills. He stuffed
and even then didn't have quite enough
room. Mr.. Edison wonders now that he
was not robbed.
1t wasn't long after that when he in
vented the quadruplex telegraph and other
coneomitants which were taken up and
used by the Western Union Company. Mr..
the same amount he got from the Gold &
Stock Company, or $4,000; but he replied
as he, did before when asked what he
wanted for his . inventions Suppose you
make Offer
He was told that the telegraph company
was willing to pay him 100000.
For the second time / nearly fell off my
chair said Mr.. Edison. MY 100000 had
taken wings in the experiments had
made, and so / told them that / would
accept the 100000 if they would pay me
in seventeen yearly installments. This the
company agreed to do, and was thus fur
nished with working capital and could
drance."
STARTS TO WORK IN EARNEST
1t was then that Mr.. Edison fitted up
complete laboratory and started to work
in earnest. While he had not quite yet
startled the world with his quadruplex
he had become extremely we'll known.
In very short time Mr.. Edison became
tremendous power in the world Of science.
His wonders followed one another in rapid
succession after he once started his never
firing, and his almost neyer-sleeping cam
paign. The tiny electric light enclosed in
the glass bulb which fills us with wonder
world to throw it's light even into the half
civilized parts of the globe. Each time we
look upon this tiny light we are filled
with awe and wonder 1t is but natural
for us to say to ourselves Would the
world still be without the electric light
if Edison had not yet been bornT Who
can answer such question? We only know
that the world was old-very old-when
edison came into it and brilliant brains
which had preceded him here had been sat
isfed with the oil lamp and the pine knot
because they were unable to invent any
thing to take their places
One after the other the amazing sclen-
tifc feats of this amazing individual were
brought to the attention of the world he
upset scientific principles, he cast to the
Winds the theories of ages and he ousted
from his reckoning the ancient ideas which
for thousands of years had held the Worio
in a state of thralldom.
ELECTRICITY TO DIsPLACE STEAM.
Through the power of his marvellous
brain the electric railroad has been devel-
oped until today it is a strong competitor
III the steam roads and, it is believed, cleo