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New-York tribune., 1912-02-18

"The boys are doing well and making lots
Of money" said Mr.. Edison. They GER
tainly learned how to hustle at Menlo Park
and at No. G5 Fifth avenue. Some Of them
have got so much money now they don't
know what to do with it. But l never paid
'em much" he added, with a laugh. Ten
or fifteen dollars week was about all
paid EN-"
"Why didn't you pay them more?" Mr..
Edison was asked.
"They didn't know anything" he replied,
"and l had to teach EN-"
Those who sat at the head of the table
with Mr. Edison were Edward H. Johnson,
at one time president OF the parent Edison
Company and who formerly represented
the inventors interests abroad in connec-
ton with the phonograph. telephone and
electric light; Samuel insult, formerly Mr..
Edison's private secretary, now president
Of the Commonwealth Edison Company, Of
Chicago; William j. Hammer, one Of the
inventors earliest laboratory assistants at
Menlo Park. former chief engineer Of the
English and German Edison companies and
Mr.. Edison's representative at the Paris
Exposition: John W. Howell, chief eiectr!-
clan of the Edison lamp factory, at Har:i-
son. n. J.; John w Lieb, jr vice-president
Of the New York Edison Company and one
of the old No. 80 Fifth avenue crowd: G. c.
Martin. secretary Of the National Electric
Light Association, in the early days con-
nocted with the Edison Auto-TeleE~aph
COMPANY. and Robert r. Lozier who pre-
sided. formerly with the inventor at No. 20
Fifth avenue and now with Kountze
RrOthors the bankers
Before the dinner toast was drunk to
those who had gone before. Tho names Of
their former associates were mentioned by
various men who stood about the table.
The first was that Of Charles Bachelor,
for many years Mr.. Edison's partner and
chief assistant II his laboratory. NJ.
Batchclor established the Edison electric
light in France. The next was that "f
John Kruesi. formerly manager Of the
shops at MEMO Park and later ~ tn"
New-York tribune., 1912-02-18

cuss who was going to show how it couldn't
be done"
One Of the guests told the inventor that
he was looking well.
| 81 eat well and sleep like log, ne re-
Piled. II guess anybody that can say that
can lay claim to good health. Last night
turned i'm about midnight and l was up
at 4.30 this morning. six flights OF stairs
don't mean anything to nc.
! you have no idea of retiring"
| Nothing Of the kind IS in my mind. II
| wouldn't do for me to lay aside all the
work that | am on now. Take the DISK
/ phonograph. I'm going TO make some real
music with that You've only had approAi-
mate music up TO now
! Il didn't know that you were a musician
MIR. Edison" said another Of the guests
/ Lots OF things the musicians don't
/ know" he replied Wagner couldn't sing
/ couldn't play a common waltz. But ne
J could write music-wrote' out Of his heau.
/ I'm studying the laws of music, laws OF
sound. You'll sec. They laugh at me- but
/ I'm getting there"
some one asked Mr. Edison If he re-
membered Remenyi. the late violinlst' VINO
used to call at No 65 Fifth avenue about
midnight and bring his violin
II remember him we'll" replied Mr.. Edl-
son. 81 was working on the photograph.
/ He used to come 20 No. 65 after his con-
certs and talk. lie was long Winded
/ talker ] think he was socialist or some
/ thing lie would sit there a-talklnS ana
| by and by start playing most beautiful
things-wailing, soft Music He'd play two
or three thousand dollars worth every
night"
Didn't you get him TO play once Tor the
monograph" Mr. Edison was asked.
yes. but the phonograph wasn't work
ing well In those days, so it didn't do him
Justice Hc stood on a soap box ana played
for me one night, and when he finished
tears were rolling down his cheeks. asked
him what the matter was, and he said it
always made him cry to hear good music
New-York tribune., 1912-02-18
gplsoNS FIRST ELECTRIC RAIL
WAY AT MENLO PARK, NJ j."
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others were present at the informal recep-
tion that followed.
So Mr. Edison took off his old gray coat
and his aged low-cut tan shoes, ana put
on a low-cut vest instead. His enjoyment
Of the occasion was boyishly evident
throughout the evening.
Mr.. Edison has, Of course eihpioSeu
many thousand men. Some OF those "no
should have been present the otheI n'en'
are in Toxic, Budapest. Berlin CailioIi'i@
and other dark spots remote from oioau
way But the gathering in honor Oh HIS
birthday was notable In that, with these
few exceptions, the guests fairly repre-
sented Mr.. Edisons early days ana sloou
for the most important achievements OF the
wizard OF Menlo Park. They were the HIGH
Who got results.
The tall, 6id not run TO the celebration OF
the background flament, or loop contracts
Men who knew all kinds of voltases ny
their first names. who, at moments no
tice, could lecture by the hour on 'iie
photometry of mercury vapor lamps OF
upon such fancifui themes as the eneIsy
standards OF luminous intensity o"
each other VIII and James and Henry a.s
sang about one poor Nelie "iaS .,,o-
been taken far away and how they i'e'''
see their darling any more .ro
There was not a word about the electro-
photograph. the tasimeter. etheric ioroe
deserted dear old electromter escapenieh'
might never have been.
why. Bill. old boy" a gray haireu
enlist would say, with giistening eyes, ~ .
gray haired scientist whose eyes were niissS' 80 ;
Il haven't seen you since 1888. do you ~
member that timer
And II was plain TO see each did as '"''
locked arms and hunted quiet corner
Men who once received wages amouh'ms ',
to $40 a week each from Mr' Edisvn a.
their legs under his table comioftaD.e -
the knowledge that their incomes ~" S,,.
100000 or moro year II wouiu pe
hcult for them to state the'F p's'
."wages' on weekly basis 80.
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Edison Pauses at 65Year Mark to Reflect Aloud Many Things
Paid $40 Week
Marvou
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10 be present. Among these were Francis
r. Upton one of Mr.. Edison's ablest asso-
ciates at Menlo Park and elsewhere. for
many years general manager Of the Edison
Lamp Works. at Harrison, y. j.: Frank 5.
Hastings, formerly secretary and treasurer
of the parent Edison Electric Light Com
pany; w. J. jerks, prominently connected
with the work at No. Go Fifth avenue and
with the central station development, and
julius L. Horning, civil and mechanical
engineer, who did much important work
in connection with the first electric railroad
at Menlo Park and in preparation Of the
plans of the Pearl street building in New
York. the first central station erected in
America.
Mrs. Edison sat at the opposite end of
the table from the inventor Miss Made
line. his daughter, and Charles, his son,
being placed between other early associ-
ates Of Mr.. Edison in the centre of the
table on either side. Back of Mr.. Edi-
sons chair an alcove filed with tropical
plants contained the new disk phono-
graphs that have not yet been shown to
The public.
Mr. Edison sat in a handsome armchair
that one would take to he OF mahogany
until one tried To lift il and discovered IT
was concrete Ducks padded about one
artificial pond on the table and goldfish
swan in another Many tiny electric
lights cleaned in a real hedge around
In" water. \ small cement hOuse-the
house Of the future" Mr. Edison calls
it--had a place in the centre Of the fairy
lih, scene. At each plate was a bronze
souvenir on which was engraved one Of
Mr.. Edison's most famous aphorisms:
All things come 20 him who hustlcs
while he waits"
The talk of the table ran TO the old days.
II was only twenty-one years old When
] first worked for you. Mr.. Edison said
heavy set corid, thin haired man to
tnc inventors left
Il Didn't weigh "a much then as I do
now" the man continued.
You weighed about tire Same then"
New-York tribune., 1912-02-18

sA RULE, Thomas A Edison does
n not know what time 1t is by the
~ clock, and he is careless, too, in the
.o,ter of the seasons There is no clock
- his fayorite corner of the laboratory. at
ororpe n. j., and his desk calendar an
uounces in February that October is the
name of the month.
with no clock to harry him he works
.nentv-four or twenty-five hours day any
.tr,e he feels like 1t. In fact, Mr.. Edison
,s the inventor of the 6O-hour working day.
7, ts one Of the very few unpopular things
hearing his trade mark. And yet Mr. Edi-
con saws it is a perfectly good day, and
ali that sort of thing, and that he keeps
a supply Of such on hand even yet because
no never knows when he is going to need
one He says the average young man OF
today is too expert. He knows IT is time
% ouit work without having TO look at the
dial.
These things being true, how did it hap
non then, that Mr.. Edison stopped work
tUo hours ahead of time on Saturday al
ternoon a week ago? His s;Xty-ffth birth
dav would not arrive until the next day
Sunday, February Il.
Mr. Edison is not a stiCkler for the OBJ
servation Of birthdays, anyway. The fact
that Charles Dickens's 1COth anniversary
occurred on February did not restrain the
inventor from laboring for sixteen hours.
Also, he bent over his latest phonograpn
in the laboratory on last Monday, uncon-
sc,ous Of the fact that the country was
resting in honor of the birth Of Lincoln.
On Saturday, q week ago, MI. Edison
went early to his home, Glonmont in
Llewellyn Park, because about one hundred
NJ his earliest and closest associates. who
had been identified with him during the
last thirty or forty years. were coming to
spend the evening. Mr.. Edison had invited
them
About thirty of these men who have been
most closely connected with the great in
vertor arrived from London, Chicago
Schenectady. Philadelphia. Montreal and
New York for dinner. at $50 o'clock. The
New-York tribune., 1912-02-18
THOMAS A. EDISON sIxTYFIFTH BIRTHDAY FEBRUARY II
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After the laughter had subsided Mr.. Edi-
son said:
What he meant was that it affected him
to tears whenever he tried to appreciate the
brains of man who could compose such
music"
Two of the guests were talking OF the
achievements OF Mr.. Edison and trying 10
count the blades of grass that had been
made to grow by him where only one or
maybe none had grown before.
Were the age called upon to pay Thomas
A. Edison all 1t owes to him. the age would
have to make an assignment" said one OF
the men. What do you think of II? This
: is not original with me, but have seen
this statement somewhere. and II seems to
me TO be crammed with truth"
Greatest man of the age" responded the
other.
1t was remarked that Mr.. Edison had
taken out many hundreds Of patents. and
he was asked during the evening whether
he had experienced great difficulty in hav-
ing them sustained by the courts.
My experience with the legal fraternity
is that scientific subjects are distasteful TO
Them" he replied, and 1t is rare In this
country, on account Of the system OF trying
patent suits for judge really to reach the
meat of the controversy, and inventors
scarcely ever get a decision squarely and
entirely in their favor
The fault rests. in my judgment, almost
wholly with the system under which testi-
mony to the extent Of thousands OF pages
bearing on all conceivable subjects, many
of them having no possible connection with
the in, ention in dispute, is presented to an
overworked judge in an hour or two OF
argument supported by several hundred
pages of briefs; and the judge is supposed
10 extract some essence Of justice from
this mass of conflicting, blind, misleading
statements 1t is human impossibility no
matter how able and far-minded the jucge
may be-
I'm England the case is different. There
the Judges are face TO face with the ex-
perts and other witnesses. They get the
testimony first hand and only so much as
they need and there are no long-"lnueu
briefs and arguments, and the case is de-
ciGed then and there, few months perhaps
after suit is brought instead or many years
afterward. as in this country. And In Eng
land, when case is once finally DECIDED IL
Is settled Tor the whole country, while mere
II is not so. Here patent having once
been sustained, say, in Boston. may have
TO be litigated all over again in New YORK,
and again in Philadelphia, and so on for all
the federal circuits Furthermore, 1t seems
to me that scientific disputes should be de-
cided by some court containing at least one
or two scientific men-men capable Of COM
pretending the significance Of an invention
and the difficulties OF its accomplishment
II justice is ever to be given an inventor.
THE men / sent abroad were used 10
establish telephone exchanges all over the
Continent, and some OF them became
wealthy. Il was among this crowd In Lon
don that Bernard Shaw was employed be-
fore he became famous, The chalk tele-
phone was finally discarded in favor OF the
New-York tribune., 1912-02-18

ing perfect time. 1t was a most artistic
performance. Mr. Edison put a trumpet
to his right ear, ard you could tell by his
beatifc expression that he was not miss
ing a note. He might have been a boy at
his first minstrel show. The man who
played the bones was formerly Office boy
at No. Go Fifth avenue. His name is r. NJ.
Sere. and now he Is ce-president Of the
Rochester Railway and Light Company.
Everywhere I'd go in Europe last sum-
mer," said Mr.. Edison some one | hadn't
seen for a good while would ccme up to
me, and / would recognize one OF my old
boys.
what are you doing over here? l
would ask. On! I'm the high muck-a muck
In this town., he would say | saw Sig
mUnd Bergman in Berlin. He said he had
twelve thousand men working for him in
his electric plant. He started with me at
$l2 a week. / didn't think he had that
many men working for him. Thought he
was stretching it little to make me feel
good. So / stood at the entrance to his
works one day when the men were going
home and counted EN-. He had EN-, all
right"
"Eiow did you find Rathenau?" Mr. Ed-
sen was asked.
Emil Rathenau? Found him at Berlin
at the head Of CO 900 men employed in the
A. r. G. Works, doing business Of 1885,
600, 900 marks n year And Etenne de
Fodor. at Budapest doing big things. These
men didn't COS; mo more than SIS a week
apiece H. ChuCkled.
Francis Jehl Is chief electrician Of tho
Budapest company. lie was one Of my old
boys at Mcno Park"
The story was told of how ITr. Edison
in the days at Merlo Park when the diff
cultics connected with perfecting the inCan-
descent lamp seemed almost insurmount-
able had said Just wait a little while
and we will make electric light so cheap
that only the wealthy can AFFORD to burn
candles" ."
And of how a Dutch-rgn named B1ehm
had gone 10 Mr Edison one day ard scil
New-York tribune., 1912-02-18

that he had a good scheme for exhausting
air out Of lamps.
"Meester Edeeson. wouldn't 1t pc goot
idea to take de lamps up in balloon undt
fl dem with vacuum" asked Boehm.
That's a good idea," the inventor re-
n,,ed "We'u patent that" and Mr.. Edison
energetically slapped his knee
YES" interjected an assistant who was
New-York tribune., 1912-02-18

ropI,ed Mr.. Edison. because your hair
weighed more in those days"
Mr.. Edison was the life OF the party.
When the phonograph struck up Nellie
Gray, the company began TO sing. light
haired man asked the waiter for four silver
knives. He operated them as bones. keep
New-York tribune., 1912-02-18
BIRTHPLACE EDISON, MILAN. ERIE COUNTY, OHIO.

standing by but Mr.. Edison, where would
you get the oxygen up there necessary 10
seal the lamps after they were exhausted!
Mr.. Edison ran his hands through his
hair and gave every evidence OF oeins
greatly disappointed and annoyed
That's just It," he snapped. Il never
knew a fellow to come along with some
brilliant conception that there wasn't soma
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-22
AND CHARLIE
 SMILES AGAIN

The big tramp LaTouche, with one hundred tons of coal on board for Ketchikan, ar rived up yesterday for the Ketchikan Wharf company, and Charley Taylor smiles once more, He had 200 tons or dered and got one hundred, so he has put in an order for 800 tons, and thinks that pos sble he will be able to get 200 or 2o0 tons the next time The coal is Nanaimo lump, and will be served out in not larger than half ton doses so as 10 give everybody chance
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-22
BUYS THE RED WING

A deal was closed yesterday between Fremont King and Rod Davis whereby the for mer is now the owner of the launch Red Wing. He will Use the boat as a .cannery ten der and fish packer.
 During a heavy storm which prevailed at Nome, Oct 23, the schooner Silver. Wave, with a carge of tin ore valued at S20,000, was driven ashore and wrecked near the village of York. The cargo may be saved. The schooner Mary Sachs was driven ashore and wrecked near Teller the same cay No lives were lost in either wreck.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-22
BABY BURNS TO DEATH

The siX-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bates was fatally burned in a fire which destroyed the Bates home on Otter creek, in the IditarOd, on October 2G. The little one was rescued from the burning house before life was extinct, Eut the burns were of such a serious nature that death came g hours afterwards. The funeral was held this week.
 Bates who is operating on Otter creek, was engaged in fixing up a cabin adjoining the one in which the family was then living. He called his wife into the new house to ask her about certain details of the arrangements, and she re- mained with him several min utes. When she returned to the old house, Bates was start led by hearing her scream, and hurrying home, he found the house in flames. Knowing that the child was inside, he made his way through the fire and dragged out the crib in which he supposed the little one had been left, but found tc his dismay that it was em- pty. The wife then rushed in to the fire and rescued the in- fant from the bed where she had left it, and together they carried it to a neighbors where a doctor was summoned. Nothing, however, could be done for the child, and it died the following day.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-22
PARCELS POST STAMPS

The parcels post stamps will be larger than the ordinary stamps and will be so dis tlnctive in color and design as to avert any possible confus- ion with stamps now in use.
 The new issue will be in three designs. The first will illustrate modern methods of transporting mail, one stamp showing a mail car on a rail way train, another an ocean steamship, a third all auto mobile, now used in the pos !al service and fourth the G,sp:.';'h of mail by aerafiltr.
 be second series will >i1,N. at wolk the four great classes cf postal employes-p1slolf,ce clerks, railway clerks, city let ter tar"itrS and rural lctt-r Carriers. The third serie-; Mrll represent four industrial scenes showing the principal source of the products that probably will be transported extensively by parcels post. The stamps will be ready for distribution Dec. 1.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-22
.srER,sCN TO
 TAKE A LONG REST

5on her arrival in Seattle .omorrow, the steamer Jeffer- son will be placed in dry dock and thoroughly oyerhauled. New boilers will be installed, the engines rebored and re- built, the hull re-caulked and painted besides being general ly strengthened on the inside, 90 that to all intents and pur- poses she will be a new vessel when she returns to the run in March or April. She will be missed off the run this win ter as she has been a very pop ular boat ever since she was put into commission.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-22
BOOSTING

Help your town along by boosting. Wear il bright and hopeful face. Do not be for ever roOsting somewhere near the wailing place. You can't help your town by knocking if your town by knocking, if it's it's in a backward groove, but some optimistic talking does a lot to help things move. In the mud one town was stick ing, evidently anchored there, for her people all were kick ing, all are dishing up despair. All were groaning OCT their taxes, shedding teardrops in a stream, all had hammers. clubs and axes, ready for each helpful scheme. So the viI- lage sat and routed till a booster landed there; soon the troubles seat he spotted, saw the fungus in the air, and he jared the village cpoakers, stirred them up to hump along till the place was full of jokers and the breeze was full Of song. Citizens forsook the Ilabit of bewailing this and that, and the timid business rabbit rustled like a tiger cat, and they all turned ill ker- whoOping, singing forth the hamlccs praise, and that hamlet, lately dropping, filled it's neighbors with amaze. Now this story, true as preach ing, shows what one lone man can do, if instead of doleful screcchng, he yells "cockadoo- dedoo" For you stimulate your neighbor every time yon give three cheersT and the har- vest of your labors will be reaped in coming years.- WALT MASON.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-22
NAVY WILL TEST
 MATANUSKA COAL

A member of the govern ment coal party has gone to knik on behalf of the party to obtain such information as may be required about getting horses, supplies, etc., from Knik to the Matanuska coal fields this winter. The govern ment party plan on going to the Matanuska fields in Janu- ary. A couple of hundred tons of coal will be mined and transported to Knik, to be used for tests by the navy depart ment.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-22
NoRrHLAND GOES SOUTH

The Northland left for the Sound at an early hour this morning, loaded to her limit with fish, fresh, canned and salt. She had frozen halibut on board from the New Eng land Fish company's plant, can ned salmon from the Sunny Point cannery, and about 800 boxes of salt herring from the Bonanza barge near Yes Bay. Owing to the wind and pre- vailing bad weather there ,s every probability that the ves- sel will go to an anchor at Mary island waiting for the weather to moderate.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-22

Constantinople, Nov. 1S- To prevent the loss of any American life or property in the disorders bound to ensue III the Sultanate of Turkey. in the absence of American bat tieships and marines, the Brit ish admiral in charge of Eng lands Mediterranean fleet has loaned 1000 sailors and H. M. armOred cruiser Weymouth to the American ambassador, who will have complete charge and command of vessel and men until the arrival of ships and troops from the United States. The Weymouth will be used to gather Americans from the exposed outlying towns and carry them into this city.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-22
A LOSS TO ALASKA

The election of William Sul. ger to be governor of the great state of New York is dis tinct triumph for the Demo- crats of that state and of the nation, but it is also a dis tinct loss to Alaska.
 Tammany recognized Sul- zers persistency some years ago and sought to eliminate him by running him for Con gress in a Republican strong hold. Snlzer won, and about the first thing he did when he go over to Washington was to appoint himself sponsor, cham plon and chaperone for Alaska. lie knows his Alaska as the average city politicau know s h :. ward, and for ya >rs he lias been introducing hills writing lctte, $, making :ptGchcs and fighting at every jInip in the read for better Federal recog- n.'ta of Alaska people and n"cGs He has ace mplishcd much. Tn fact, most of the leclslaIion that has iven enact ei by Congress Ior the hrtter- meut of Alaskan conditions bears the Sulzer imprint, even If he has been compelled, "n account of political conditions 10 permit some other Congress man to get the credit.
 Sulzer, as Governor of New York, will have his hands full and oyerflpwing with other re- sponsibilitiee and duties, and Alaska will temporarily suffer from his absence from his al sence from the halls of Con- gre,s. His election however, makes him a big figure and big factor in national affairs, and it is hoped that his infln- ence may be felt in shaping tic policies of the Democ att administration to the end i',a, there may be some in!cihgent too long deferred, for the ben. eft of Alaska, thereby bene- fitting the whole American pcople.-'racoma Tribune.