The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-16
POEM IN BUSINESS
ENGINEERS SUIT
ou,tcd NanoscOpe Promoter
Saws lie Sent Verses to Van
Ripper With Coat.
ArTHOR OF MOVIE ILIAD

v,--is otter the test exhibition OF tho
~,oscopo. \ motion picture machine
-,Aout a shutter, William J. Robinson.
va p-onoter. was sending out letters
r-vne persons with money to buy
,,rosrope stock. II developed yesterday
d, the trial Of Robinson's suit against
tsv,s c. Van Ripper for $4,000, 900.
pob,nson war put out If Van Riper's
,.,oscope company after Re had raised
,iOo 600 30 help II along.
The promoter. who prefers TO be called
business engineer. says the test ex-
s,bt on was 80 unsuccessful that all
,%s "enar,icrs" he had Interested folded
90 .hsi- wallets and restored them 10
,pslr inside breast pockets. Van Ripper
avs the exhibition was 80 successful
~, Robinson kept rig'ht on selling
sock and pressing the vanoscope as a
.eiokerless" picture machine that would
,cvolu,ionize the movie industry.
tohn Ambrose Goodwin, Van Riper's
.o,rseI. wanted TO know the names Of
s,re others that Robinson had in
crested in the v~anoscope besides Mr..
prke OF the Tobacco Trust and tlre
sAo,honv y. BRADY crowd Mr.. and
yrs. Carnegie. William II Childs. "tbe
Rockefeller Institute crowd and Grim
Minis" The business eng .neer said he
Ash also fascinated Lewis Clark OF
c1ars. Dodge & Co. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
pN,pps and n Boston house"
Hector NJ Hitchinss. counsel for the
,vs.ness eng neer. objected TO the letters
"a, Robinson sent out in May, 1918. "a
C. Leonard. president OF the Unior
sock Yards George Wingneld. VINO
d.,bned the United states Serstorshir
rom Nevada, and others. These wers
dated four months after the vanoscop.
exhibition that Robinson gays wa un.
elc,essful Rut Judge William Hum
SAID
~ a man goes TO work ana indus
.rousiy tries 10 get money from other
-eople for = machine which ne repre-.
,sa's as perfect. II has some bearing
When he sues on the ground that the
Machine wasn't perfect"
Robinson saws that the name vano,
scope was formed from scope" and the
-r par. ~ Van Riper's name, back
" the old days when they thought 50
much - each other. A. that time Rob
son sent a Eur coat 10 Van Ripper Will
-. following lines
have sent yoI tonight a Fur cover
% keep out The cold rhilly blast
4-i under Us warmth and its comfort
r,-gst a. The chill Of the past.
II. real chill. however. was In the fu'
.ure The poem continued
,si remember tina; the heart of tn,
"a. ,,.r e.. I,. soft. FURY touch
thi D.y teqI'st thar YOU wear i Will
- ..k-a ~ ~'-i-udship. jas, such.
S,.-ij- after shat the business en-
.r.er rlpb,I the u. the wrong way.
Vuus,ouy. SAVE Robinson. il an art
principle a scirnc--like ,elephon!
nd Mtt.out lie declares that he az
/ umu ated tae finest library in the worlt
= tt. subject Of motion pictures 10 en-
49,, -. Young men around him TO stud,
.Ac t-'. he formed hrs: an underlying
"'rd'a;a and hen an underlying dc
81 pmcrt syndicate. But Il was hi
o,ir talents that found their fulles
-yTressioH 10 the promotion OF, or busi
~ % engineering. the vanoscope. II
~orts,ses authorship Of the moving pie
-u-c ii.ad witch appears on the com
rsrys early folders and reaches It's de-
olement ~ these lines:
81. invention vanoscopic. iitts ,he NOV
Ing n 'urc mart
Hsh mp i1 ne rrslm Of optics where
Nae se~,me an az
ni he hu-ry,ur. torkv pictures With the!
H!-ke- nash snd strain
Now give a.. he charm % nature from
Elm that ,rse FROM rain.
Tbs. saws Tho business engineer. is :
rood that the company continued % Us
e and Oth.- Of his illusions, after the
Sad ,1rpwn MIN ou'.
re Trial goes on this morning