New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-30

ceutionally interesting issue of this al
WAYS readable and informing pubii-a-
ton. It's rontispiece is portrait Oh
Senior Dominica de Cana. the Bra
lillian Amba ssador to this country. ana
as the senior in rank the spokesman ~
the A 3 c powers in the offer OF meui-
alton bets cen us and Mexico. MS
portrait and several others, togeth"r
with views of our army and navy IN
Mexican waters and at Vera cruz &C.
company an editorial discussion or
Our Arms and Aims IN Mexico
which, so far as the aims are con-
cerned is restricted TO rather non
committal generalities. The character
studies this month are of President
Hadley Of Yale and Of New FORK IS ne"
Police commissioner The three arti-
cles of exceptional interest are Oncle
Sam, Expressman," an account OF 'he
parcel post service and what IL mas
done for the people in the more remote
districts. by James Middleton; A Less
Known Edison" edward Goodrich
Acheson), by John NJ. Oskison' AMI
The Latest Business Gold Rusn. De-
ing a survey of the enormous proper
lions which the moving picture indus
try has already attained, and OF the
enormous profits it yields. 1t has ere
ated thirty new American millionalres
in the last six years, lays Henry WSs-
ham Lanier: the total business OF the
industry in this country in 1913
amounted to over $3000oo,WO, and dur
inc that year there were o.Vo,oooD
paid admissions to our 2O,vco moving
picture theatres. The royalties paid 10
Thomas Edison are said to reacn sio'-
600 a week Changes are impending
however. which. apart from increasing
competition. may influence the produc-
tiveness of this new industry greatly:
THE Edison patents have been upset;
the Eastman film patent has been up
set: there is a government suit for t'e
dissolution of the Motion Picture Pat
ents Company; the trust contracts
expire this summer and the tarir mas
been removed from foreign films. Inc
article is packed with information
which begins with the first moving
pictures shown by Edison at the Chi
cago Fair. Edward Goodrich Acheson
is the discoverer and inventor OF car
borundum. artificial graphite, siloxcoA
graphite lubricants and Egyptanlzed
clay. which last invention demonstrated
why the Hebrews could not make
bricks without straw. When young
man Mr. Acheson entered the service
Of Edison, and ere long he had an idea
for the perfection Of an electrical
meter upon which the great inventor
was then at work:
IL don't pay you to make suggestions to
me-" reproyed Edison. How 90 you
know but / already had that idea? Now,
II | use it, you'll think took IL f Edil
, son, and the Wizard" showed how Senu-
! ineIy lie was Offended by transferring Mr.
Acheson to the original experimental de-
partment at higher pay.
"Subsidizing the comforts of life Is
what Mr.. Middleton calls the parcel
post service, which already handles
OOOO packages a day. Thus far tins
enormous business is chiefly from the
cities to the country; the expectation
that the parcel post would free the
farmer from the middleman is still far
from realization. Among the rest OF
the contents OF this number mention
may be made of Alden Fearings paper
on the modern system of placing
orphan children in good homes instead
of herding them together n institu-
tons, and the good results already OBJ
tanned; and Gutzon Borglum's Art
EaoI and American