The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-06-01

er-He Is Now EndeaVoring
to Sell Patent Rights to That
and His Letter Binder
Expects to Realize Millions
From the Sale.
Mr.. D. W. Millsaps has come
to the front with another inven-
ton. This time it is mail catch
er and receiver. 1t will be recall
ed that some time ago Mr.. Mill
saps, while being held in durance
vile in Hickory one hot summer
day last year-his incarceration
being, be it remembered, for
nothing he had done against the
peace and dignity of the State,
but for refusing to pay a tax for
selling cutlery, which tax he
did not have to pay at all,
and for which wrongful incarcer-
alton he has brought suit against
the town of HickOry-well, to re-
sumo, it will be recalled that
there was born unto Mr.. Mill
saps while in Jail an idea which
led to the invention of a letter
binder. That letter binder is
very simple, but it does the work
to the Queens taste, and if it
can be made to appear that it
will do it to the taste of the
POstOffice Department at Wash
ington Mr.. Millsaps expects to
get a million out of it. After
inventing that Mr.. Millsaps'
mind continued to run on ways
of taking care of mail, and this
time, as remarked above, he has
invented a mail bag catcher and
receiver. When the letter bind
er was described in The Robe
sOnian in the clearest and plain
est and most beautifulest Ian
guage at all, it was very painful
to have The Statesville Land
mark observe that the description
was about as clear as mud, which
was the most unkindest cut Of
ALL" but maybe The Landmark S
understanding was particularly
muddy just then. 1t was. Muddy
nothing! That letter binder was
described to a gnat's heel-but
all this is not getting down to a
description of this new inven-
ton, which description will, it is
hoped, be clear enough for even
The Landmark t. see.
But this scribe doesn't know
how to describeit much, anyway.
1t is all right, though; it will
catch a mail bag every time, and
one particular beauty about it is
that it will not hurt the bag at
all. 1t is something of a problem
with the Postoffice Department
how to get mail to the rural sta
tons where the trains do not STOP
without having the mail bags
torn up at times and the mai
scattered and lost or ground uI
under the wheels of the cars.
This mail bag catcher and receiv.
er is sure thing. 1t is built al
the end of the cross ties and con.
sists of two tunnels, one pointing
each way, which tunnels, Of
chutes, lead into a box which i;
kept locked. There are springs
in these chutes which breal
the force with which the bags
would otherwise be shot into thu
box and which make it impossi
, BILE for the bags to be taken GU
. except by unlocking the box. A
crane arm is made to swing out
wardly from the side of the car
just to one side of the door
to hold the bags and shoot then
into the funnel.
A recent dispatch fromLexing
: ton stated that Mr.. H. c.. Hiet
i man, of that place, had sold tn
patent right for mail pouch h
! had invented to the governor
= for $83, 600, said to be the larges
y sum ever paid in a lump sum t
0 a North Carolinian for paten
e right. Mr.. Millsaps claims
d have Mr.. Heitman's inventio
- beaten away yonder. He claim
. that it is superior to anything G
q the kind ever invented. He ha
y it and the letter binder protecte
n with a caveat and he will go
= Washington this week to try
- sell both to the government. H
- expects to realize a million, {
81 least. And others believe in NJ
Is Millsaps' inventions enough
4. risk money on them, for he raise
w. money to go to Washington ar
49, do the things a man has to do
u protect and sell an invention |
an agreement to pay out of tt
m proceeds of the sale of the paten
70 ten times the amount advanc e
- Mr.. Millsaps will build one
l" these mail bag catchers and r
a ceivers somewhere on the V,
i'll GINA & Carolina Southern R
ed right away. He has already Q
ID dered the timber for building
~ If his invention will do what
I i' claims for it, and there appes
III. to be no reason why it should NJ
ed Mr.. Millsaps will doubtless re
tie ize a fortune from it's sale, a
In the people who have advanc
- him S. on it will have tn
dill money returned to them tenfo
RS There are millions in it, Mr.. M
ole saps believes.
Ii. Il. Death of Ralph Covington Biz
I'D ingham.