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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15

EDISON Manufacturing Company, the
Essaney Film Manufacturing Com
pany, the Gaumont Company, the
Kalem Company, George Kleine, the
Lubin Manufacturing Company
George Melies, Pathe Freres, the
Selig Polyscope Company and the
Vitagraph Company of America, eight
of them being American concerns and
the others European interests.
And here is what the business
amounts to in dollars and cents:
Twenty productions are issued each
week in this country. Each is of 800
feet of film, making $4,000 feet, and
eighty of each are issued, making L.
440, 600 feet. On this production a
royalty of one-half cent per foot is
paid to Mr.. Edison, giving him from
this source weekly revenue of
$1,000.
Since the settlement under which
these royalties are paid there has
arisen swarm of people, of whom
Carl Laemmle is one, who have gone
into the business of supplying moving
picture films in which they had to
violate Mr.. Edison's patent rights.
InNthe course of it they have taken
from the concerns already enum-
Grated some of their employees and
actors, paying them preposterously
high prices, and then in some cases
letting them go after having used
their talents and information for a
short period. Their main contention
before the public and the profession,
or business, has been that the con-
Germs paying the Edison royalties
were violating the Sherman law and
would sooner or later have to quit,
while really these concerns are using
patents on which they are paying
royalties.
"The matter just decided by Judge
Noyes was an action by the Motion
Picture Patents Company against
Carl Laemmle and the Independent
Moving Picture Company and against
the Photograph Company. The Judge
has ruled that the validity of the pat
ent in question has already been adj
Indicated, and he adds, and infringe
ment on the part of the defendant
corporations is conceded He also
says: I am also of the opinion that
the charge, If established, that the
complainant is itself, or is a member
of. combination in violation of the
Federal antitrust statute, is not a
defense available in an action for the
infringement of a patent and fails to
show a defect in the complainant s
title. An injunction against the de-
PENDANT corporations may therefore
| issue. The proof of personal in
| fringement by the defendant Laemmle
| is, however, deemed Insufficient to war
rant the issuance of an injunction
against him and it is denied. But
this action is without prejudice to the
right of the complainant to renew
his application in case future acts
of personal infringement are dis
| closed"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15
ENORMOUS PROFITS in MOVING PICTURES
Thomas Edison Gets About $1,000 Week. Nearly s375
600 YeaRecognzed Producers Get Injunction Against n-
authorized Traders-Now Some $4,000 Shows in This Coun
trv Which Exhibit Motion Pictures

New York City-Since the settle
ment not long ago of the differences
between Thomas A. Edison and the
Biograph people and various indie
pendent moving picture companies
which resulted in Mr.. Edison reaping
profits of his. genius and industry,
a settlement which followed a Federal
Courts affirmation of Mr.. Edisons
patent rights, peace had promised to
reign among the manufacturers of the
pictures for the first time in nearly
fifteen years But a few months ago
sprang up who, it is charged, boldly
infringed upon Mr. Edison's patents
and set about justifying themselves
on the ground that, as they alleged,
the eleven manufacturers in this
country and Europe who since the
settlement have been paying Mr.. Edi-
son royalties were violating the Sher-
man antitrust law.
1t is declared that these men repre-
scented that they would either break
up the settlement or force Mr.. Edison
to open his patents to them. This idea
of contending that the exercise of an
inventors patent rights led to VIOLA
ton of the Sherman law was the only
novel feature in the litigation, which
resulted in decision by Judge Noyes,
of the United States Circuit Court,
that an injunction should lie against
the group of defendants, who adj
mittedly have been infringing upon
Mr.. Edison's patents, the defendants
being Carl Laemmle and the indie
pendent Moving Picture Company OF
America, of which he is president,
and the Pantograph Company.
The president of one of the COM
panies which are paying royalties to
Mr. Edison said: you may see
at glance that with the 100000
or 100000 persons who make UP
the daily attendance of the $4,000
moving picture theatres in this coun-
try the question of the supply of these
films is a matter of wide interest
But there is more intimate interest
for the great bulk of the American
people who admire Thomas A. Edi-
son, and that part of the story has
never been told Mr.. Edison has al
ways given his patents to the public
or told the public of his achievements
almost before he had the patents out
and before he had organized any COM
panies to operate under them with
the result that in no single instance
I believe. has he reaped the undis-
turbed benefit of his brain work.
Now, until the settlement of the
moving picture patent dispute in his
favor, which resulted in the union Of
the Edison and Biograph Companies
in the Motion Picture Patents Com.
pany-the plaintiff in the action just
decided by Judge Noyes-he wasn't
getting anything from his moving pic.
ture invention and was involved in
costly litigation. Since then these
concerns have been paying him royal
ties: The Biograph Company, the
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15
Danger in Stiff Collars.

The high, stiff collars which some
women are so fond of wearing are
not only unbecoming, but dangerous.
From time to time cases of persons
asphyxiated by their collars are re-
ported. One such recently occurred
IN London, the victim being a young
woman employed in the postoffice,
and the physician who attended her is
quoted as saying that in nine cases
out of ten the same result would have
followed fainting fit, as the sharp
edge of the collar cut into the throat
and pressed upon the windpipe The
supporters worn with transparent col
lars are not so bad as collar stiff
all around, it seems, but these, too.
are considered dangerous, as they
press the side of the throat.-New
York Tribune.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15

He was anxious to purchase a
birthday gift for his wife, and as he
liked pictures and as the walls were
rather bare he soon hit upon the
form which his present should take.
Where shall find something
really nice in oils for the dining
room?" he asked of an assistant at
the cooperative stores.
ION the third floor" began the as
sistant; then he paused and looked
doubtfully at the inquirer Did you
mean a painting or something Ia the
sardine liner he asked Tit Bits.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15
Feminine Notes.

Adelina Patti is sixty-seven years
old.
Kate Epson Clark, author, lecturer
and contributor to magazines for the
young, is fifty-nine years old.
To illustrate her theory that fine
clothes Wal make a servant the equal
in looks of society woman, Mrs
Alma Webster Powell posed with her
maid in Brooklyn, N. Y.
The wedding OF Miss Marie Louise
Logan to Henri Vincent de Sincay in
st. Patrick's Cathedral, New York
City. was remarkable for the beauty
OF its bridesmaids.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15
SIX SHOT IN STREET RIOTS
Fatal Disorders Renewed in PhiIa-
delphia Labor Strike.
Strike Breakers Fill a Street Car and
Ride Through the Streets Shoot
ing Into the Crowd.

Philadelphia, Pa.-Six persons, in
Guiding a young girl, we're wounded
by bullets fired by party of strike
breakers, who rode wildly up and
down frankfort avenue in trolley
car and shot into the crowds that
lined the sidewalks.
After one of the most uneyentful
days since the beginning of the strike
| the stoning of cars was renewed at
night along frankfort avenue, the
principal thoroughfare in the mill
district in the northeast.
A stone thrown by one of the crowd
injured a strike breaking motorman
Infatuated at this, crowd of about
fifteen of his comrades took out a
car, all of the windows of which
they broke with their clubs. AS the
car, loaded with armed strike break
ers, sped down Franford avenue, bull
let's were rained at the jeering crowd
Patrolman Bragg, of the frankfort
district, who was standing on the
sidewalk, received a bullet in his
helmet about an inch above his head.
Helen May, fourteen years old, was
struck in the leg by bullet. John
Michael Osborn, twenty-four years
old, were also shot in the legs, and
Frank Bromley, twenty-three years
old, received a bullet in his foot.
These wounded were removed to the
frankfort Hospital. Two other in
jured persons were taken to their
homes.
After reaching Allegheny avenue
q 10 hn
bound track by it's crew and the
dash back to the barn began. So
swiftly was it driven that before the
crowd realized that it was coming
back it had sped past them and into
the barn again.
The shooting of inoffensive by
ISLANDERS worked the crowd to high
pitch of excitement, and as other cars
came down the street the mob pro-
ceeded to wreck them, in several in
stances leaving only the trucks ON the
rails. About a dozen arrests were
made.
The labor leaders, after receiving
reports from the secretaries of many
local unions, reiterated their claim of
125, 200 on strike, and said that many
additional recruits will leave work.
Director of Public Safety Clay, on
the other hand, said that a recanvass
of the city's industrial establishments
shows that while 1900 workers
walked out that day, 1900 strikers re-
turned to work.
The Philadelphia Hosiery Manu-
facturers' Association meeting in the
Manufacturers Club asserted that the
manufacturers, representing seventy
five per cent. Of the hosiery industry
in Philadelphia, had voted unan-
imously to close their mills.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15
LIEUT.. JANNEY SHOT DEAD.
Mysterious Killing at Home of Lieut.
Col. Ames in Manila Barracks.

Manila, P. Second Lieutenant
Clarence M. Janney, Twelfth Infan-
try, was shot and killed at Fort Will
lam Mckinley, probably by his own
hand. Considerable mystery shrouds
the case, and it is not known whether
the killing was Intentional or by acct
dent.
Lieutenant Janney, accompanied by
his wife, attended dinner party at
the house of Lieutenant-C Colonel Rob-
ert F. Ames. Janney left the party
and went to his quarters. He OBJ
tanned revolver and returned to the
house of Lieutenant Colonel Ames,
on the way to which he fired one shot,
presumably in the air.
He entered the house and -four
ished the revolver. There was an ex-
plosion and Janney fell with bullet
in the head. He died instantly.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15
KILLS HIS TWO SONS
AND THEN HIMSELF
Real Estate Man First Sends His
Wife Away.
SETS FIRE TO THE HOUSE
Maniac Chased Both Boys Through
the House Till They Were Caught
and KilIed-Elder Lad Died in
His Uniform.

New York City .-Herman H. Mo-
ritz, a retired real estate dealer,
whose home was in No. 2210 Aque-
duct avenue, the Bronx, sent his wife
and servant away from home, shot his
two soLs to death, set fire to the
house and then killed himself. Be-
fore he sent bullet into his own
brain he left the house, saw to it that
a fire alarm was turned in and then
returned to his home and killed him
self The firemen were forced to
push his body aside to get the front
door open. The man had been suf-
fering from melancholia longer than
year, and his condition had become
much worse.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15
BABY EPIDEMIC IN PITTsFIELD.
Last Year zo1 Children We're Born This Doc
Raise Fees.

Pittsfeld, Mass.--This city is suf-
fering from a baby epidemic. Last
year 791 children were born here,
including four pairs of twins and
three sets of triplets. This year
opened with set of bankruptcies,
and no one seems to know where the
thing is going to stop. The doctors
have been overworked to such an
extent that they have raised their
fees from SIS to $50 and the trained
nurses are talking of forming union
and demanding the eight-hour day
and increased wages.
There are so many young babies
In Pittsfield now that their wailing
can be heard beyond the city line.
The women Indignantly blame it all
on former President Roosevelt, say
ing If he had not issued his protest
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15
SEVEN KILLED IN A MINE
Lighted Lamps of Miners Caused
Fatal Accident.
Martin Williams, One of Wilkes
Barre Gang, Escaped Gas Ex-
plosion by Few Seconds.

Wilkes Barre, Pa.-Seven men lost
their lives by an explosion of gas in
the No. 5 shaft of the Lehigh and
Wilkes-Barre Coal Company, near
here, late at night. Five of the men
were members of repair gang en-
gagged in placing hosting engine in
position, and the two others were
miners.
The dead are: Owen Grifith,
miner, aged thirty; William Jenkins.
miner, aged forty-two; Hugh Price,
laborer, aged forty-fve; G. Gaffney,
laborer, aged forty-five; William
Jones, laborer, aged forty-two; John
o. Jones, laborer, aged thirty-two;
Evan Williams, pump man, aged
forty. All the victims except John o.
Jones were married.
Martin Williams escaped death be-
cause he had left the point where the
explosion occurred only few seconds
before the accident. 1t is thought the
gas became ignited from one of the
miners lamps.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15

In 1901 there were in Europe only
twenty-five cities which had more
than 100000 inhabitants. These
were London, Dublin, Paris, Mar
settles, Lyons, Amsterdam, Berlin,
Hamburg, Vienna, Naples, Rome, Mi
Ian, Venice, Palermo, Madrid, BARGE
Iona, Lisbon, st. Petersburg, Moscow,
Warsaw, Copenhagen and CONSTANT
nople. Two only of these cities had
more than 500,000-London $780,
900 and Paris, 600 900. Naples came
third, with 100000 and Vienna
fourth, with 100000.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15
Tiny Rahx,s pitiful Case.

"Our baby when two months old
was suffering with terrible eczema
from head to foot, all over her body.
The baby looked just like a skinned
rabbit. We were unable to put clothes
on her. At first it seemed to be few
mattered pimples. They would break
the skin and peel off, leaving the un-
derneath skin red as though 1t were
scalds. Then few more pimples
would appear and spread all over the
body, leaving the baby all raw with
out skin from head to foot. On top
of her head there appeared heavy
scab a quarter of an inch thick. 1t
was awful to see so small baby look
as she did Imagine! The doctor
was afraid to put his hands to the
child. We tried several doctors rem
edies but all failed.
Then we decided to try Cuticura.
BY using the Cuticura Ointment we
softened the scab and it came off. I'm
der this, where The real matter was,
by washing with the Cuticura Soap
and applying the Cuticura Ointment,
new skin soon appeared. We also
gave baby four drops Of the Cuticura
Resolvent three times daily. After
three days you could see the baby
gaining little skin which would peel
off and heal underneath. Now the
baby is four months old. She is fine
picture of fat little baby and all is
well. We only used one cake of Cuti-
cura Soap, two boxes of Cuticura
Ointment and one bottle of Cuticura
Resolvent. If people would know
what Cuticura is there would be few
suffering with eczema. Mrs. Joseph
Kossmann, st. Johns Place, Ridge
wood Heights, L. L., N. Y, Apr. 80
and May 4, 1909"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15
About Noted People.

George Kabot Ward, Secretary OF
State of Porto Rico. has resigned that
post.
Major Alfred Dreyfus spends his
leisure hours in the study of the So
cial problems.
DR.. Jean Charcot gave summary
of the scientific results of his Antarc-
tic expedition.
Ex-Vice-President Fairbanks was
received by the French Senate and
the Chamber Of Deputies.
Chancellor MacCracken, Of the New
York University, announced that ne
would ratire on Santemher 26s
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15

MANIAC KILLS POLICEMAN.
Two Other Persons Shot During Pur.
suit at Bridgeport. Conn.

Bridgeport. Conn.--Gustav F. G,
Mueller, whose chief mania is to write
letters to the Rockefellers and Van
derbilts demanding money, killed one
policeman on duty at the intersection
of Main street and Fairfield avenue,
the heart of the crowded business sec.
ton, and shot down two other per-
sons, one of whom will probably die.
He was captured after long chase.
The policeman killed is Ellsworth
G. Deitz, thirty-three years cid, and
married. The injured men are Leo.
pold Rago. of 201 Stafford avenue, a
passerby, and Thomas p. Dougherty.
also of the crowd, who stopped to pick
up Rago when he fell with a bullet
through the stomach.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15
A Food Boycott.

In 1896, time of Edward III, Par
lament enacted food boycott. No
man, noble or peasant, was allowed
to have more than two courses at a
meal or elsewhere, and leach mess of
two sorts of victuals at the utmost,
be it flesh or fish, with the common
sorts of pottage, without sauce or any
other sort of victuaIs." Any one, how
ever, could substitute sauce for a
mess. but it must not have in it more
than two sorts of fish or flesh.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15

Gustave F.. Touchard won the ma.
tional indoor tennis championship.
The navy wrestling team defeated
Lehigh University by seven bouts to
two.
In dual fencing tournament An.
napolis defeated Columbia by seven
bouts to two.
AZ" Wolgast defeated Battling
Nelson for the lightweight pugilistiS
championship in forty rounds
West Point fencers defeated Colum.
bia varsity combination by six bouts
to three In the West Point gymna.
SUM.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15

against race suicide there never
would have been any such abnormal
conditions here as exist to-day. The
men here are going about with
bleared eyes and haggard faces.
They have discovered that 1t is no
joke to work all day and then go
home and walk the floor all night
trying to comfort baby which is
suffering from the collie.
With the approach of spring the
supply of baby coaches is entirely
inadequate to the demand and or
ders have been sent to Boston to
rush not fewer than 300 here by the
first fast freight. The glass factory
here is working night and day turn
ing out milk bottles and dealers in
baby outfits are doing a rushing
business.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15
Newsy Gleanings.

China adopted President Taft's
suggestion to organize a Red Cross
society.
China is convinced that Japan in
tends to retain possession Of the Man
churian railways.
Chicago packers decided to ignore
meat prices and to oppose extradition
to New Jersey.
Prominent Italian residents of New
York City formed a committee to
fight tuberculosis In the various
neighborhoods peopled by their coun-
trymen-
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15
Handicapped.

"Fain would write poem on the
delights of fishing" sighed the poet,
"but woe is mel can't find a word
to rhyme with .angleworm.
"But why use that word at the end
of a liner" queried the friend.
because" Kissed the poet between
his set teeth, AN anglcworm is all
ways at the end Of a line.'
And for an hour the silence was
so still that one could have heard a
pin drop.-Chicago News.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15
Photographic Ticks.

The Filipinos are invited to make
common cause with Japan against the
United States.
King George decided to read the
decree calling for revisionary As
sembly at Athens.
John Jacob Aston readjusted the
titles to $4,000, 900 of the choicest
of his real estate holdings in New
York City.
Another general election is ex-
pected in London in few months !;
the Conservatives are raising strong
campaign issues, while the Liberald
seem ia. be losing around.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15
Rejection of Budget Costs Great
Britain $142, 500, 900 in Revenu

London. The rejection of the bud
get by the House of Lords in the pre-
ceding Parliament cost the country
in loss of revenue $142,5O0,O00 i'll
the current financial year, according
to statement made by David Lloyd
George in the House OF Commons.
The Chancellor OF the Exchequer
added that it was impossible to say
what proportion of this loss could be
ultimately recovered.
His statement has caused sensa-
ton throughout Great Britain.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15
I1LLED IN POLO GAME.
j. Dunstan Freeman's Pony Collided
With Another in Practice Game.

San Diego, Call. Dunstan Free
man, one of the most expert polo
players in America, died in hospital
here from injuries received in prac-
tice game at Coronado
Mr. Freeman's pony and that rid
den by r. Weiss, of the Southwest
Polo Club, Of Los Angeles, collided,
and Mr.. Freeman was struck on the
head, sustaining conclusion of the
brain.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15
HANGS SELF WITH STOCKINGS.
Miss Selma Kaufman Commits Sui
eide in Hotel Near Pittsburg.

Ptttsburg, Pa.-With her silk
stockings tightly knotted together,
one end bound around her neck and
the other fastened to shower bath.
the lifeless body of beautiful Selma
Ruth Kaufman, aged twenty-eight, of
No. COZ West 18th street, New York
City, was found in the new Hotel
White, Fifth avenue, McKeesport In
her room was found the following
note pinned to parasol:
THE fight is too hard. Goodbye
and God bless all whoha been kind
My trunks are at the Twenty-third
street station, New York City. l en-
treat forgiveness"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15
Money For hudson River bridge

The Bergen County Board Of Free
holders at Hackensack, N j.. voted
$4,000 toward the preliminary work
for the proposed Hudson River
bridge A month ago the money was
refused, but when the Freeholders
had time to consider the matter fully
they voted the sum asked.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15
DEsPERADoEs CAUGHT IN CAVE.
Participants of Shooting-Up
Mountain Town Captured.

: Huntington, w. Va.-Lawlessness
at Harveytown, ten miles south of
this city, where church was besieged
and three persons wounded by bullets
fired through the walls, was renewed.
Two men were arrested and brought
to Huntington.
After several stores and dwellings
were attacked, deputy sheriffs were
sent here with bloodhounds. The
dogs ran down Gene Clifford and
Walter Stephens, who barricaded
themselves in a cave. At daylight
they fired on the officers, but later
were captured.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15
physicians Trust" What East
Aurora Saws. as Prices Go

Buffalo, N. Y.-Residents of East
Aurora are indignant at the action of
physicians in making concerted
movement to raise the schedule of
fees for attending patients from fifty
to 100 per cent
The action became known when
notices of the new rates were sent
out. The people are strong in their
accommodation of the action nf what
they call doctors Trust" but the
physicians are united in declaring the
new schedule will stand.