The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-01-08

When he got into that gar
ret he forgot the world. His wife or his daughter
might call him and he might answer mechanical
~ but 1t is doubtful if he heard them He would
forget his meals possibly some engagement 50
absorbed would he become. Sometimes he would
climb into the garnet early Sunday morning and
"heh hours later he would appear in the Dulnit
his hands would be stained with the chemicals he
had been using. Once he went into the pulpit
win MS vestments discolored by the acids He
did not know it
In that garnet the preacher.scie. fist davelonad
the Photographic film.
success with his invention brought sorrow to
The clergyman. 1t in 1887 that he completed
MS work on the film Whatever his dreams Of
fortune they were shattered \ Photographic
company attempted to prevent Goodwin from oh
tanning a patent The company was rich The
clergyman was poor. man who is Door has
tremendous handicap in such legal fight as the
one that followed A rich corporation can hire
lawyers of fine ability. The law is very slow
The suit became fearful burden to the preach
er Year after year the dragged on When
the case had been in the courts 10 years the Rev
Mr. Goodwin died. He was poor He would NOT
have been so poor had he never invented the pho,
tographic film. Possibly the struggle to carry on
the suit and to gain what he believed was his
own shortened his life.
After the clergyman died his rights to the film
were sold to a company. His widow got stock in
tins concern in return for the sale of the inyen-
ton Years passed and the lawsuit went from
court to court few months ago-26 years after
the Goodwin invention perfected-a decision
was handed down supporting all of the Goodwin
claims and declaring the company that had fought
the Clergyman from the first to be infringing the
Hannibal Goodwin patslt
What does triumph mean at this late day? Han
nlbal Goodwin's widow is past eighty His
daughter is sixty years old Money cannot com,
pensate them for all the years that are gone the
years of disappointment, hope deferred and of
poverty. And even now they may not get the
money
1t will not sadden the aged widow if she never
gets dollar from the film her husband created
Great expectations she says makes ones
life disconnected We have taken this matter phil.
graphically. We have expected little With this
decision rendered still expect little or moth
ing"
The one great satisfaction she has and that
counts more than money is the yindicaton of all
that was claimed in behalf OF her husband as the
man who gave the film to the world
Alexander Graham Bell will 90 down in history
lively little space will be given to Daniel Draw
baugh, yet Bell and Drawbaugh filed their patent
papers the same day, and after eight years of
litigation, in which of the greatest lawyers
IN American were engaged, three justices of the
Supreme court of the United States supported
DraWbaugh 5 claim to priority and four supported
Bell by the narrow margin of one vote Bell was
made rich and Drawbaugh continued poor
Bell came his invention by chance Draw
baugh by labOrious study Bell had every ad-
vantage in educational way Drawbough work,
ed for years in his fathers blacksmith shop
Most of his life Draw baugh was hard pressed for