The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-10

sl now a peer of the British empire. re- siding in London. Eng, once well known in Bridgeport where he lived from 1879 to 1888, or his brother, Hud- son, that really invented smokeless powder. will probably be settled in city.
 The controversy which had been carried on for some time between the two brothers, one living ip England and the other in Brooklyn, N. Y, has reached an acute stage and charges and couter-charges are being cabled across the Atlantic ocean
 Both brothers are well remembered in Rrid geport and worked with no less prominent inventors than Hotchkiss whose fapid-fire gun became the French military gun, Henry House. who invented the automobile in 1865. who perfected the dynamite gun used in the United States navy during the Spanish war, Thomas H. Carroll whose secrets of the illuminate sub marine torpedo Is today used by many governments and such other inventors and eKper1menters as Edison, West inghouse, Thompson and in this city William N Beardsley, Jerome Orcutt William Thomas John Standish and William A Barnes.
 It is interesting to note as a side light that it was Hiram Maxim who aided ifi the perfection Of the incan- descent light, lighting Thomas A Edison in the courts Gpr priority of invention of the carbon filament used in electric oplbs. It was he who set up the first searchlight in Bridge port which on one occasion blinded the pilot of the Rosedale to the ex-. fent Of nearly Wrecking the vessel as she came up the harbor. 1t was he who first lit the streets Of Bridgeport and the D M Read company with electric arc lights with the aid of ex-. Fire Alarm Superintenden William A Barnes
 It was in Bridgeport that Sir Hiram first displayed the model of his fa- nous rapid-fre gun that became the British army gum offering it for sale fo the late Nathaniel Wheeler at 9 comparatiVely small monetary con- SideraEion, which was refused because that capitalist was then venturinS in the n1anufacture of horseshoe nails. And it was in Bridgeport that the tests Of the famous sJnokeless powder are claimed to have been made at the IL M Q. company's plant with both Hiram and Hudson present, after a supply of the material had been brought in bags from England in the hands Of Sir Hiram, then plain Hiram Maxim For these reasons Brid ger port has deep interest in the outcome of the controversy which will likely be settled definitely in this city within snort period
 In the public discussion of the sEnokeless powder claims, Hudson Maxim issued a statement to the press Sunday in which he said that he had been attacked by his brother for the past 1S years during which time he has maintained a. dignified silence. Now believing that he should defend his title ED thee honors he quoted Hi rams recent letter stating that after | 18S7-S my brother Isaac (referring to Hudson} for obvious reasons changed his name to Hudson, learning of my success came to England employed him at large salary and sent him to Springfield, Mass, where he en- tered my powder in the name of H. Maxim and at the trials my powder beat out all others Later Hiram Maxim became Hudson and that is fhe way that Hudson Maxim became the inventor of smokeIess powder in the United States. '
 se Tn reply Hudson says that he has letters in his possession directed and addressed to him as Hudson" as far back as 40 years ago while Hiram did not invent the gun until 1887, further more that another brother, Samuel, named a. son Hudson, for him. nearly 30 years ago, and that on September 24 sg4 the earliest BngIish patent was
 
 while the American application vas filed by Hudson December A, 1893, so- nearly, a year in advance of that Of Hiram.
 Hudson further quotes a letter from Hiram Maxim to President Taft In 1910 calling attention to the fact that big gun explosions to a great degree y ere caused by the use of powder containing IlitrogIycerine. He con tends that a. report of the army board raised to investigate the statements showed that no nitroglycerine was used in the powder manufactured here under the Hudson patents. He fur tner offers testimony from the Du nPont, De Hemours powder works showing that Hudson was the real in ventor of srnokeless powder.
 It is related today by those closely connected with Hiram Maxim, Hudson Maxim Edison and the late Marcel1us Hartley founder Of the great U. M C. plant. that Sir Hiram came to this city in the latter 70's for the first time. then working for the United azIectric company of New York, which was allied with other Hartley ven- fures The Bridgeport Gun Imp1e- ment company, then on Elm street. near Harrison. where the Jennings plant now stands, was manufacturing daynannoz on rush orders for the EIes- t1ic company and Hiram, though street near the Coulter & Mckenzie company who also. did work for both