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Edison Paid in
Invention That Edison Was
For in Experience.
He Sold His Microphone Carbon
Transmitter to Big Corporation at
Its Own Price and Concern
Made 800 Per Cent Profit.
While chatting one evening in the
winter of 1892 with Thomas A. Edison
In the library of his beautiful home
at Llewellyn Park, New Jersey, I
asked him what, in the way of money
returns, his Invention of the
descent lamp and his apparatus
so dividing the electric current that
would be available for lighting had
meant for him. He looked up at the
light, which was glowing over his li¬
brary table, and for a few moments
appeared to be making a mental cal¬
culation, and then he said: “That in¬
vention brought me my first real cap¬
ital. I should say, at a rough calcula¬
tion, that it has brought me about
three million dollars already."
After a pause Mr. Edison went on,
with his characteristic smile: “That
is, after all, a very small part of the
real capital this thing has created.
I should say that the electric light
has created about three hundred mil¬
lions of new capital, and I don’t think
I am far out of the way in saying
that it furnishes support to a million
persons, estimating the average family
of an artisan at five persons."
"But didn’t you get a large capita!
out of your microphone carbon trans¬
mitter?" I asked. “That was the in¬
vention which made the modern per¬
fected telephone possible."
Mr. Edison smiled broadly.
“I suppose I got paid In large part
for that in experience," he said. “I
had a good many things to learn about
business in those days.”
“You may remember that the West¬
ern Union Telegraph company, after
the telephone was demonstrated to be
a practical invention—that was about
1876—planned adding a telephone sys¬
tem to its telegraph lines. To every
one it seemed certain that there was
to be severe competition between the
Western Union and the original tele¬
phone company for the telephonic busl-
Child Rebuked Famous Man
Little Child Who Administered
Rebuke to Famous Man.
How Young Mary Van Buskirk Scold¬
ed Aaron Burr When He Dared
to Revile George Washing¬
ton in Her Presence.
In 1797, after having served six
years in the United States senate,
Aaron Burr again became a member
of the New York legislature, and
thereafter for two years he made fre¬
quent trips between Albany, the state
capital, and his home in New York
city. These journeys, for the most
part, he made on horseback, and for
months whenever he arrived in the
town of Athens, situated on the west
bank of the Hudson some twenty-eight
or thirty miles below the capital, he
made it an almost invariable rule to
visit at the house of the Van Buskirks,
which is still standing. This private
house was a famous gathering place
for prominent men who were on their
way to and from Albany and New
York, and the entertainment that the
owner of the house afforded his dis¬
tinguished friends and acquaintances
of the latter days of the eighteenth
century and the first years of the nine¬
teenth century is still traditional in
Athens, some of whose early citizens
became of great influence in the pub¬
lic life of their times.
Of the greater politicians who were
guests of the Van Buskirks from time
to time none received more cordiality
than Aaron Burr, and none seemed to
be more delighted with the hospitality
shown him. In fact, he was a guest
so welcome at all times that he need
not herald his coming; there were al¬
ways a room and good cheer waiting
for him, and Mary, the little daughter
of the house, eagerly looked forward
to his visits. Aaron Burr being a favor
ite of hers and she of his.
One afternoon in 1798, when Mary
was about seven years old, Aaron
Burr arrived at the Van Buskirk man
sion with the expectation of spending
the night there. In the parlor of the
house stood a spinnet, which was
spoken of the countryside around as
one of the best musical instruments
of the sort to he found anywhere in
America. In the early evening, the
final meal of the day over, Aaron
Burr sat down at the spinnet and be
gau to play upon it, and as he fingered
the instrument with the deftness of
an expert, filling the room with a
popular melody of the day, little Mary
Yan Buskirk stood beside her idol,
listening intently and watching him
admiringly.
There had been hung upon the wall
light over the spinnet, since Aaron
Burr's previous visit, a picture of
ness of the country. I don’t remem¬
ber much of the detail of this threat¬
ened competition, but I do know that
at the time the transmitting apparatus
of the telephone was by no means per¬
fect, so I set to work to make a per¬
fected telephone' In this respect, a
vital matter for the future of the In¬
vention. Well, after a good deal of
hard work, I got what I was after.
There It Is,”—and Mr. Edison pointed
at the receiving end of the telephone
which stood on his desk.
“With my carbon transmitter ready
for a demonstration I went to the of¬
fices of the Western Union; I had pre¬
viously sold that company my stock
ticker invention and my quadruple
system of telegraphy and quite natur¬
ally, I suppose, I gravitated to It with
the transmitter. I saw the manager
and one or two other gentlemen,
showed them the transmitter, and told
them that I was pretty sure that with
my apparatus in their possession they
would have the bulge on the Bell in¬
strument. I tell you, they were an in¬
terested lot of men, and as soon as I
gave them a chance they asked for
some kind of an option on the in¬
vention and I gave it to them without
further ado.
Tale of Two Commanders
Little Story Told of Two Great
Commanders.
How Gen. Hancock and Gen. Sheridan
Watched Over Usher's Coat and
Umbrella at Funeral of Edwin
Dennison Morgan.
Recently I told how Chester A.
Arthur, shortly after becoming presi¬
dent of the United States in 1881, act¬
ed as night watchman in the treasury
building for ten minutes. Today’s
anecdote is supplemental to that, in
a measure, in that the former incident
has some part in this one.
In February of 1883 there died Ed¬
win Dennison Morgan, at the age of
seventy-two years. He had been a
George Washington. At first, bo in¬
tent was Burr upon his music, that he
did not notice the likeness of Wash¬
ington above him, but at last he
glanced up and saw the engraving.
Instantly the music ceased, a scowl
flashed over Burr's features, and in an
angry tone of voice be exclaimed:
“That is the picture of a damned
scoundrel!”
He turned to the spinnet to resume
his playing, but in that instant little
Mary Van Buskirk, her face livid with
childish passion, stood upon tiptoes,
and drawing her little right arm and
hand, slapped Aaron Burr as violently
as she could in the face; and as she
did so she cried: “You shan’t talk that
way about General Washington. We
all love him here, and he is a good
man, and you are a bad man to call
him names."
Aaron Burr wheeled angrily upon
the child; for an instant he held her
in his gaze. Then he arose and went
out of the house, and that house knew
him no more.
My authority for this hitherto un¬
published story? Mr. George J. Thomp
son a great-grandson of the little girl
who dared to defend the good name of
the father of her country against the
slurs of Aaron Burr.
(Copyright, 1910. by E. J. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved.)
TALK ON THE TYPEWRITER
Alwin West Says That a Pleasant and
Speedy Road to Learning Lies
by Its Use.
It is gravely urged by Alwin West
that a pleasant and speedy road to
learning lies by use of the typevvrit
ing machine. He contends that the
practice of acquiring what a book has
to give by a verbatim copying of it on
the typewriter works especially well
in the case of a book which should
be read, and which yet has no light
some attractiveness to carry the read
er along. The view advanced is that
the exercise on the machine keeps the
attention running as from point to
point, whereas, in quiet reading, one
might vaguely survey the page. The
suggestion seems novel, but is ready
no t new. The principle of it is basic in
primary education. A child is stabbed
with the sentence it writes and writes
often. That is universally known, and
schools everywhere, in some form or
other, utilize the facL But the broad
er proposition of Mr. West is quite
interesting. It is this: "A half-hour
or an hour spent every day in copy
j n g books on the typewriter will give
one an acquaintance of wide range
with the best English writings."
Here, at last, we have the short
road to learning—How to be mede
by machine.
“It was only a little while later
they sent for me and made me
proposition to buy my apparatus out¬
right. They said they were willing to
pay me about a hundred thousand dol¬
lars in annual installments covering
a rather lengthy period. I thought
that was a lot of money, and how nice
it would be to count with perfect cer¬
tainty upon an income of several thou¬
sand dollars a year for quite a number
of years, and, do you know, I let them
have that invention on their own
terms ?"
Mr. Edison permitted himself to in¬
dulge in a near-chuckle. “A few
weeks later," he continued, “I heard
that the Western Union had sold my
improved transmitter to the Bell peo¬
ple for eight hundred thousand dol¬
lars, simply by proving to the latter
that It had the bulge on them.
“But I have never regretted the deal
I mado with the Western Union peo¬
ple, or, rather, the deal they made
with me. I gained a lot of experience
In that transaction, and it was worth
the experience. I have never let any¬
body get the better of me since, and
I am certain that the experience I
got then has made me far more money
then I lost through inexperience when
I didn't* dicker back and forth between
the Western Union and the Beil peo¬
ple with my transmitter.”
(Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved.)
delegate from New York to the first
national convention of the Republican
party. He had been the chairman of
the Republican national committee in
the first three national campaigns
participated in by that party, and
again, in 1872, he was made chairman
of its national committee. He it was
who, following his re-election as gov¬
ernor of New York in 1860, sent moro
than 223,000 volunteers from New
York to the front before he left office
in 1863, and for six years after va¬
cating the governor’s chair he prep¬
resented his state in the United States
senate. So, when his funeral was
held in the old brick Presbyterian
church on Fifth avenue, in New York,
many distinguished men, both in pub¬
lic and business life, were present,
though the day was one of the worst
of the winter, with the rain falling
furiously and the wind blowing vio
lenltly. President Arthur, who in the
early part of the Civil war had served
on Governor Morgan's staff, was one
of his pallbearers, and Capt. Frederick
C. Wagner, who, as provost marshal
of New York, helped greatly to quell
the draft riots in 1863, was one of the
ushers.
“Along the aisle in which I served,"
said Captain Wagner, "there came a
period when every pew was filled ex¬
cept one. Into it I showed two late
arrivals, and as it was the pew I in¬
tended to sit in myself 1 asked them
if they would be kind enough to look
after my overcoat and umbrella until
my official duties were over. As the
larger of the two politely responded
that they would be pleased to do so, It
flashed across my mind that I had
seen him somewhere before, and next
there came a faint recollection of hav¬
ing met the smaller men, also, on
some previous occasion. But not un¬
til it was almost time for me to take
my seat did it occur to me who they
were. The larger one was Gen. Win¬
field Scott Hancock, whom I had
really never seen before, but with
whose much-published likeness I had
become thoroughly familiar when
Hancock had run for president; and
his companion was none other than
Gen. Phil Sheridan. Neither was in
uniform.
“To say that I was humiliated at the
thought that I had asked those two
distinguished generals to keep watch
over my overcoat and umbrella is
putting it lightly. I determined to
apoligize at the first opportunity, and
after the funeral services were over I
turned to them and said: ’Gentlemen,
you must excuse me for having asked
you to perform this service for me.
I did not at first recognize you.’
“Instantly there sprang into Gen
oral Sheridan’s eye his characteristic
twinkle, and a little smile played
about his mouth. ‘Well,’ he said hearti
ly, ’if the president of the United
States can serve as night watchman
in treasury department building, it
CRn - t be beneath our dignity to serve
as watchmen over the overcoat and
umb rella of any one who has anv part
in this funeral.’
"Axjd the man who was destined
sci(m j 0 become the head of our army
|_h us ee t me at ease. General Hancock
6mlled ln cordial approval.”
(Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved.)
Borrowed Realism.
“It seems to me I hear the sousd
of muffied cheers. Is a public meet
- E @ E°' n § OD In this hotel?”
“No. Senator Pounder is practising
an extempore address. The cheers
^ JU bear 8X6 furnished by phono¬
graphs ranged round the senator's
private apartment.”
Pardonable Ignorance.
"Good land!” exclaimed the aston
UUed passenger on the west-bound ex¬
press train, looking out of the car
window
"No, sir,” said the conductor; “rhese
are the Bod Lands.”
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