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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1926-01-09
Con1PIin1ented

When an Edinburgh councillor was
travelling TO London there was an old
man in the same carriage to whom he
spoke several times without getting
a reply. just as they neared the en- !!
of the journey the old man leaned for
ward and asked. Are we near Kings
Crosse"
The councillor told the old man
that he thought him very ill-man-
nered for not replying when spoken
to earlier in the day.
Said the aged traveller: Man, /
was feared to answer We. Ye are
awful like a Photograph l saw in the
paper Of a murderer London Tit
Bits
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1926-01-09
Social Error

Mrs. Miller had her bridge club to
luncheon and the afternoon session at
cards. AS the last guest departed.
Theodore. the little blond daughter.
remarked:
Mother, some one h'vI used one Of
the guest towels"
rs it pOssible?" exclaimed lt.r
mother. "Some people dort seem to
know what guest towels are for, you
know"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1926-01-09
Identified

"A man is easy to read" said Rob-
erts to nobody in particular as he
and few of his friends lounged in
the window Of the club one evening.
Just then street car stopped in front
of the window, and Perkins and his
wife and sister got off.
(which one is his wife2" some one
wanted to know. Nobody could answer
until Roberts remarked: "She Is the
woman he didn't help of the car"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1926-01-09
Mdddeninp

Walker h1d been going about for
two days with worried look on his
usually smiling face. A friend stopped
him and asVed the reason for the sud
den change rom JOY to gloom.
Il fear my wife is going insane. It's
those people next door," Walker said.
"What have they done? WHAT'S tho
trouble?" the friend asked.
"She can't hear a sound of them al
DAY long,
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1926-01-09
Nothing in "Stolling"

RoDbing Peter to pay Paul may work
for time, but eventually Peter has
TO be repaid, for he is just as deserv-
ing as Paul. No one liquidates indebt
edness by paying one creditor and
standing off, anOther-all must be
paid.-Grit.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1926-01-09
Ouser Custonas

The ZIpas. chiefs Of the Chibcha In
CLANS, Colombia, we're governed BY
angular rules. Each ZIpa was the
son Of his predecessors sister. was
reared under special guardianship and
was forbidden to see the sun or eat
salt.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1926-01-09
You Soid Il

"Good heavens. Is there any way Of
making YOU women dress decentIyT"
Certainly there is"
swell. what is lit"
sKili Off you men."-I.ondlOn Mail.
Evening star., 1926-10-10
TpHnoTosSSS:~

tlon. How many such cases have
gone unheralded? Just think Of the
lasting. penetrating losses that may
be suffered in the burning or destruc-
tion OF Patent Office records. Aside
from the inadequacy of proper pro-
lection of valuable and sacred records
is the factor of requisite space and
facilities. Any one who studies these
questions must inevitably reach the
conclusion that new Patent Office
Building Is imperative in the advance
ment and expansion Of our great
country"
X X X
1T Is a curious coincidence that the
proposal to get rid Of the old Pat
ent Office Building and to erect out
Of the proceeds an adequate and spe-
cially designed new home for the
Patent Office comes at the 300th an
niversary Of the historic statute Of
the first successful at
tempt to correct abuses of royal pre-
rogative in the grant Of letters pat
ent. which Is sometimes referred to
as the basis of our patent system.
Our present patent system was es-
tablished through the efforts Of Sena-
tor Rugg1es Of Maine in 1886. In that
Evening star., 1926-10-10

An advertisement which appeared
in the Pennsylvania Packet of June
-, 1890, read as follows:
1.-The steamboat is now ready to take
passengers, and is intended to set off
from Arch Street Ferry. in Philadel-
phia. every Monday, Wednesday and
Friday, for Burlington, Bristol. Bor-
dentown and Trenton. and to return
on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday."
These two newspaper advertise
ments are considered adequate proof
of the success of Fitch's invention and
appeared II years before Fulton
launched the Clermont on the Hud-
son.
Mr.. Bloom argues that from an in
ventive standpoint no historian can
any longer claim that the slightest
credit is due any one other than
Fitch for the steamboat that piled
between Philadelphia and Burlington
during the Summer of 1890. That boat
was propelled solely by the power of
steam and carried passengers on regu-
lar scheduled trips.
According to modern standards, it
might have been of crude and rough
design: nevertheless, this pioneer boat
and the date must stand in history as
a practical exposition and demonstra-
Evening star., 1926-10-10
Patents Future Home Influenced by Need to Protect Rel

year the Patent Office became a sepa-
rate bureau in the Department Of
State, in the charge Of a Commission
on Patents. When the Department
Of the Interior was created by act
Of March 8. 1S49. the Patent Office
was transferred to that department,
where 1t remained until transferred
more than a year ago TO the Depar@-
ment Of Commerce. Secretary Hoover
now seeks to have all OF the wide
flung activities Of the Department Of
Commerce housed under one roof,
with the single exception OF the Bu-
reau of Standards group. The Com
mission OF Fine Arts contends that
the various scientific bureaus OF the
Department Of Commerce-Standard
Patents, Fisheries. Coast and Geo
detic Survey, Mines. etc.--should be
scattered in separate buildings all
over the city, where they would have
room to expand. The Fine Arts Com.
mission Is particularly determined
that the Patent Office should remain
i'm its present home, with the interior
of the building remodeled to meet
requirements
The Patent Office has had three or
four homes during its life. In the
very year Of us birth its quarters
were destroyed by fire. and Congress
then authorized the erection or the
building which now houses 1t. The
total cost OF the building was S3,ooV.'
900. In 1877 disastrous fire broke
out in the Patent Office. destroying
many records and models.
Evening star., 1926-10-10

Fitch spent the last days Of his life
at Bardstown, Ky. OF his inventions
and disappointments during this
period he wrote:
II confess the thought Of steam.
boat, which first struck me by mere
accident about the middle of April,
1855, has hitherto been very unfortu-
nate; the perplexities and embarrass-
ments through which 1t has caused me
to wade far exceed anything that the
common course of life ever presented
to my view" That proves that Fitch
had the usual feeling OF one who
leaves the beaten track-an inventor
c. Seymour Bullock, in the Con-
necticut Magazine. said: Had Fitch
been as thrifty as he was inventive
he might Aave become wealthy, for
Gardoque. the Spanish envoy to this
country in 1896, wished to buy his
invention for the sole and exclusive
use of the King of Spain. Fitch re-
piled: No; if there Is any glory or
profit in my invention my country
shall have the whole Of it.
Representative Bloom calls atten-
ton to the necessity for a suitable
new Patent Office home, saying that
I'VE know Of this one outstanding
casa Of misplaced honor ana .distino-
Evening star., 1926-10-10
RECORD IN PATENT OFFICE Of CRANE Of PATENT
to john Fitch, Aug. 96l7e1.

tion Of the invention that has revolu-
tionized water navigation throughout
the world.
X X x X
THOSE who have written about
Fitch's boat say that it attained
a speed Of eight miles an hour in
ascending the Delaware, which was a
higher rate OF speed than was at
tanned by Fultons Clermont II years
later
Unfortunately, the records of the
Patent Office were destroyed by fire
on September "a, 1871" Representa-
tive Bloom points out. However,
there was saved and is now in print
a bound volume giving a list Of pat
ents granted between 1890 and 1895.
On page Of that publication 1t ap-
pears that on August 26. 1871, John
Fitch was granted a patent for pro
pellfng boats, ETC., by steam, etc."
This book also shows that no earlier
patent was granted to any one for
a similar invention.
On November 20. 1891, the French
government granted letters patent to
Fitch. which protected his invention
in that country for Is years. The
original of this French patent Is now
in the Old National Museum here.
Evening star., 1926-10-10
IN FEDERAL GAZETTE
july 90 1890.

Northwest-the country west of the
Allegheny Mountains. including the
States of Ohio and Kentucky.
While living in Pennsylvania in
April, 1885. Fitch, while returning
with a man named James Ogilbee
from a meeting at Meshaming, con-
ceived the idea of a steamboat. In
1885 he began the construction of a
large boat, which was completed in
1887 and launched at once upon the
Delaware River at Philadelphia. At
that time the Federal Constitutional
Convention was in session in Philadel-
phia, and the members of that con-
vention witnessed the success of
Fitch's boat. This trial trip was made
on August %, 1887, and it was not un-
til August, 1907 - exactly 20 years
later-that the Clermont first piled
the Hudson.
In the Old National Museum and
in the Library of Congress are copies
of the Federal Gazette of July 27,
1890, in which appears the following
advertisement:
The steamboat sets out tomorrow
morning at 10 O'Clock from Arch
Street Ferry. in order to take pas
sengers for Burlington. Bristol. Bor-
dentown and Trenton, and return next
day."
Evening star., 1926-10-10
DR. WILLIAM THORNTON. the
first Commissioner of Patents, who

! first Commissioner of Patents, who
afterward designed the United States
| Capitol, was a passenger on Fitch's
boat in 1887. His certificate to that
effect is on file in the Library of Con-
gress.
| In the very northeast corner of the
! Capitol at the street floor is a fresco
F; picture of Fulton looking out of a
large window or from a balcony at a
steamboat His name is just beneath
the picture.
| On the opposite wall of the same
room or corridor is a fresco picture Of
Fitch dressed like a mechanic. at work
making a boat. Fitch's name is just
| beneath this picture.
AS Thornton Travelled on Fitch's
| boat, and as he designed the Capitol,
! 1t is not at all improbable that he
made provision for these two pictures
! In order TO show to poSterity the claim
of Fitch as the real inventor.
In 1915 bill was introduced in
Congress, with the support of the
! Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton, asking an appropriation with
| which to mark the grave of John
Fitch at Bardstown. Ky.
Representative Bloom emphasizes
that it is not his intention to detract
in any manner from the splendid work
Fulton did in improving upon the
steamboat first conceived by Mr..
Fitch. He points out that Fulton's
steamboat was the first to navigate
the Hudson: that Fulton, with the aid
of Livingston. made many very ma
terial improvements to steamboats,,
and that history correctly records that
Fulton's Clermont made its first trip
from the city of New York TO the city
of Albany in August, 1897.
Mr.. Bloom states that in early life
Fitch exhibited a marked talent for
mechanics. He qualified himself as
practical surveyor. and a large part of
his life was devoted to making sur
veyS in what was then termed the
Evening star., 1926-10-10

Hens scratching in a sandpit on
the golf links at Fleetwood, England
resulted in the discovery Of eco
Roman coins.
Evening star., 1926-10-10
JOHN FITCH
STEAMBOAT MODEL,
Bui1t iwPhi1ade1phia.
M 1886.

zine published drawings and descrip
lion of Fitch'S boat.
March IS, 17S7-Pennsylvania AS
sembly passed law giving Fitch eXclu-
sive rights of navigation by steam
boat.
February 8, 17s7-Delaware Assem-
bly, passed similar law for that
State.
March 10. 17S7-New York Legisla-
ture passed a similar law.
August %, 1787--Fitch's boat,
equipped with 12-inch cylinder. dem
onstrated at Philadelphia before the
trainers of the Constitution of the
United States.
November Z, 17S7-virginia AS
sembly passed law similar to that
passed by New York, Delaware and
Pennsylvania.
February, 17SS-Petitioned Congress
for help.
In 1791--Congress. upon favorable
report made by Jefferson, Calhoun and
Gen. Knox, granted a patent to Fitch.
and that was signed by George Wash
ington as President.
Evening star., 1926-10-10

I Improved 1,eflssead,
. Manuta Curing boots, ..
propclIsng beats by cattle,==
usaefuring ga,ns,ow
. Horizontal hollow Water wheel for mills, .
Improvement OF DR.. Bakers mill, ."#|
Improved mode of working uNiis, ..
. Improvement u sayary's steam engine, .
Bellows, .|.......
Generating steam, ...=.= ...=
propeiling boats or vessels, ..... =......
rropelling boats, &c. BY steam, &c,
Improved hoiier of the steam engine,
/ Improvement in distiIling. =
Boiler for generating steam,
Improvement in captain ssssayary's stsaa,
=.=. cngsM ;.=
Application u steam Is work bellows !, B.
Evening star., 1926-10-10

rPB MdnnQnr Poudd
Commerce steamboat
hPddI Eln Apn dGonnme SnF Many
LGdah~ WtnH hunhed nEaryD DaysoN
Evening star., 1926-10-10
October Gems.

Octobe-'s child is born for woe
And Ufe's yicissitudes must know.
But Law an opal on her breast
And hone will lull those words to re
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-03-18
4 THREE DAYS
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Mrs. Cook Says Gas
Made Her Nervous

For years l had gas on the
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Florida FLOWERS
And Finance
SOME SONS OF CLERGYMEN - HOW FLAGLER
BUILT FOR CLIMATE AND HEALTH HIS
UNPROFITABLE RAILROAD

20 years after he began in Flor
ida, and 10 years after he began
at Palm Beach.
Standard Oil ambitions are in
ternational. Flagler planned not
alone for Key West but for Cuba,
with car ferry between Key
West and Havana.
Now a car can be loaded in any
part of the United States or Can
ada and taken into Cuba with I'M
loading. There are three big car
ferries that take 20 to SO cars at
a time to Havana, across the be-
ginnings of the Gulf Stream, and
that part of the Florida East
Coast Railway is paying PROPOSE
ton.
The entire Flagler development
in Florida railroads, hotels and
land never earned as much as 5
per cent, per annum until within
the past three years.
How Fortune Was Invested
Flagler put $4,000, 900 into
Florida, the larger part of his es-
tate, and the valuation of his es-
tate at the time of his death was
only $S0,000,000. Of course his
Florida investments were not APP
praised at cost.
The line from the mainland to
Key West cost s3O,000,O00, and
the line to Homestead, where the
road over the keys leaves the
mainland, is estimated to have cost
SIS, 900, 900.
Flagler also put $10,000,000 Of
his $75, 100000 investment into
his hotels.
Flagler Money Still Going In
The Florida East Coast Railroad
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holds title through a land CON-
pany.
It is estimated that there are
about 10000 acres left out of the
$50, 900 acres Flagler originally
acquired.
Up to three years ago the land
company was borrowing money
from the estate to pay taxes.
1t took seven years and nine
months to build 128 miles from
the mainland over the Florida
Keys. The finish was Jan. %,
1912, and Flagler, then just over
his SIND birthday, was able to
ride in triumph into Key West. He
died the next year, 1913, but his
estate will not be divided until
1897. Mrs. Flagler left it to her
brother and two sisters. The
brother, w. R. Kenan, Jr., and L.
G. Haines now act as trustees.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-03-18

has never paid a dividend, and
since Flagler died the estate has
been putting in money for de-
veIopment. The railroad has put
out $50, 000, 900 in bonds the past
three years for developments, and
will spend SIS, 100000 this year
double-tracking to Miami, with
modern terminals, yards, motive
power and equipment.
The gross earnings of the road
expanded last year from about
$40, 10000 to $30,000,000. OF
the $4,000 900 increase, per-
haps only $4,000, 900 will be saved
in the net, by reason of the traffic
congestion.
It is another popular niscon-
ception that the Florida East
Coast Railway is rich in Florida
lands. 1t is the Flagler estate
and not the railroad that owns the
land originally acquired, and it
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-03-18
by c. W. Barron, In Barron's
National Weekly
Long Key. March 1. 1926.


National Weekly
Long Key, March 1, 1926.
''The Age of Mental Virility, .
by Dorland, is book of great hui
man as well as scientific interest
lnow out Of print. 1t tabulates
the worlds doors and their age at
the period of their greatest ac-
eonPiishment.
But more interesting book
might be made by the author who
would tabulate the achievements
Of. the sons of clergymen.
Clergymen,s Sons
Hartman, the recreator of
Union Pacific, and the. sustainer
Of American railroad credit in its
most trying period, was the son
Of clergyman whose average
salary did not exceed $500 a year.
The son left family fortune of
$3.50, 100000, which was just an
ordinary dividend on the value of
what he gave in his life's work to
the railroad system of the coun-
try.
The poet and dreamer who built
Coral Gables and is now expand
ing it is the SON of Congrega-
tional minister from Chelsea,
Mass.
Henry M. Flagler, the builder
Of Florida, was the son of a Pres
byterian minister whose salary
was $500 year.
No Dividend for FIagler
FlagIer did not open the east
coast Of Florida for profit, as it is
generally supposed. Neither has
his estate ever realized interest
on his Florida investment as is
popularly supposed.
He said he hoped to live long
enough to get dividends on his
Florida railway investment, but
he never did. Nor would he If he
had been alive today at 96 years
Of age.
Flagler was 40 years old when
IN 1870 ne co-operated with John
u. Rockefeller IN the organization
Of the Standard OH Go. he was
50 when he began in Florida,
whiiie Rockefeller was only DO
when ms health forced nm to quit
his office to seek a new digestion
on the golf field.
u was the ambition OF Flagler
to make the east coast Of Florida
health resort. He built q cQnn-
paratlveiyt few miles OF railroad
from daeksonviiie 20 St. Angus
llne' ana mere IN 1880 erected .ne
Ponce de Leon notei ana later the
AIeazar ana the Coraova.
These tnree magniIlcehs notes
were admired the word around.
he had sent experts 20 SPAIN .
that Spanish arcnitecture msgnt
be properly inaugurated N rios-
IDA.
Seeking Health BY the Air Line
It was ten years after Flagier
began in Florida that ne reached
West PAIN beaen, ana Degan sne
Palm Beach oeseiopment WIN .ns
snormcss Ponce oe Icon noss =
facing not tne ocean Oh. 1n e sa,s
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Boston, Mass. - Massachusetts,
Society Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution.
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Raleigh, N. o.-North Carolina
Home Economics Association.
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Observation-Disclosures Institute
of Electrical Engineers.
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Atlantic City-American Brush
Manufacturers Association.
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Los AngelesNa National Associa-
ton of Harpists.
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Columbia, S. C.-South Caro-
lima State Teachers Association.
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Raildins for Cuba

The Flagler Florida proposition
appears to have been in i0-year
periods. for II was 1904 that he
started from Miami for Key West,
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CONVENTIONS OPENING
TODAY

-. $50
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CUBAN CONSUL MILFORD
TRANSFERRED TO MIAMI
OFFICIAL TO BE Sue
CEEDED BY GEORGE.
PONCE NOW STATION
ED IN MAGIC CITY

Hon. Domingo J. Milford, who
has been Cuban consul at Key
West for n number of years, has
been transferred to the Cuban
consulate at Miami. He will be
relieved here by George Ponce.
who was transferred from Pensa-
celia to Miami come time ago and
will now be assigned to duty as
consul at Key West
Nr. Milford says this change Is
being made under the new ruling
of the Republic Of Cuba that con-
suls shall not remain at one post
more than three years.
Mr. MiIerd has been in the SER
vice Of the Cuban government
consular department for the past
thirteen years. and in three years
more he will be eligible to the re-
tired list. which carries splendid
compensation for those 50 honor
ed. He is popular with hosts of
friends in Washington. Key West
and Cuba. and there are many who
will keenly regret that he is 10
leave th g city for another post Of
duty.
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ORGANIZATION
OF new CLUB
OFFICERS ELECTED AT MEET
ING HELD LAST
EVENING

The X. A. T. club was organized
last night at the home of Miss
Lettie Solomon, 14O0 White street.
The club elected the following of
ficers: president, Miss Lettie Solo
mon; secretary, Miss Eloise Lowe.
The president called the meeting
to order and the rules and regula-
tions of the club were drawn up.
After the business was CON
cluded, a musical program was
rendered and several exhibitions
of the Charleston given. Delicious
Refreshments were served by the
hostess.
The charter members of the K.
A. 7. club are Misses bessie Skel-
ton, Eta Thompson, Hespah
Pritehard, Ida Curry, Ruth Wat
son, Lettie Solomon. Eloise Lowe
and Mrs. Florence Rivas.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-09
Allan Hampton And
Harry Dongo Entertain
1926 Graduating Class

Allan Hampton and Harry
Dongo entertained for the mem-
bers of the 1926 graduating class
of the Monroe county high school
at the home of Ms. J. F. Dongo.
22s Elizabeth street, Monday eve
ming, when dancing and music
were enjoyed and a splendid pro-
gram presented.
Fannie Gale and Munson John
son put on a fine demonstration
of the Charleston dance that pro-
veked much compliment and ap-
piause. Miss Edna Collins made
hit with her comedy song. wild
Flower; and Carl Nelson pleased
the guests with his comic num-
ber. My Yellow Gal"
The class colors. gray and red,
we're carried ont in the decora
tions, and delicious refreshments
were served.