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New York, Sept. 24. Mai
velously ingenious and perfect, ’
from a mechanical standpoint;
worthless commercially. the
costliest machine ever built will
stand in a Cornell University
labratory as a monument to
Mark Twain’s vanished fortune.
Tho original Paige typesetting
machine, constructed and re
constructed at a cost of $2,000,-
000, has just been presented to
the New York State University
by P. T. Dodge, president of
the Mergenthaler Linotype Co.,
of this city, who recently bought
the Paige patents.
The machine was not purchas
ed by Mr. Dodge because of any
commercial value as a whole,but
because of possible future val
ue of the various parts. There
are 19,000 parts to this wonder
ful piece of mechanism, all con
troled by a keyboard. A study
of these parts and the different
problems in engineering that
they have overcome will be in
valuable to students in the me
chanical courses at Cornell Uni
versity.
This product of years of study
by a great inventor and the en
tire fortune of America’s hu
morist, notwsthstanding its per-,
feet could never be J
successfully manufactured aud
sold on the market. The cost of
building was too great and the
obstacles in the way of replacing
broken parts of the intricate
mechanism too formidable to
make possible a ready sale of
the machine.
James W. Paige was a New
York inventor, who went to
Connecticut 20 years ago to build
a typesetting machine which he
had planned. Mr. Paige’s skill
in inducing capitalists to invest
money in his invention was al
most as great as his mechanical
ingenuity. The Farnham Type
setting Machine Co., was just
beginning to erect its plant at
Hartford when Paige moved to
that city from Bridgeport, in
1888.
The inventor had some trou
ble the first few years after he
arrived in Hartford. Between
1898 and 1891, however, he
gathered in more than $250,000
of local money. The machine
he produced in those years was
greatly altered after he took it
to Chicago. It was in Chicago
that Mr. Paige did his most re
markable financiering.
He interested Mark Twain in
his project, and the writer did
not cease dropping money in
the scheme until all of his $190,-
000 was gone. The humorist
afterward came to refer to his
venture as his “little diversion.”
Judge William Ham merely,
counsel for Mr. Paige, also took
considerable stock. The invent
or was in no hurry to take out
patents. In this he showed great
shrewdness.
When one set of investorshad
grown tired of the venture he
show’ed his inventions to pros
pective stockholders, said they
were not patented yet and, be
ing struck by Paige’s wonderful
ingenuity, they usually came
in.
Paige exhibited his machine
at the World's Fair. A New
York Firm, Ward, Frink &
Knevals, were his backers at
that time. They organized in
Chicago the Paige Compositor
Typesetting Companv, and then
entered iuto a contract with the
Webster Manufacturing Compa
ny of Chicago.
The Webster Company was
the manufacturer of elevator
machinery, but not of fine ma
chines, such as the Paige ma
chine, and did not have the
necessary facilities. But they
agreed to put up a building and
equip it for the purpose.
This absorbed $750,000 of
their capital. Paige usually
took good care of himself. At
one time while the Webster Co.,
was contributing he was receiv
ing SIO,OOO a month. After the
Webster Company was almost
bankrupt they retired from the
enterprise.
It was through Mark Twain,
who still had hopes of recover
ing some of his money from the
machine, that Henry Rodgers
of this city came into the new
company. They started in to
make 50 inabilities and secured
the castings for them.
Then they concluded to build
10, and finally came down to
one, which was at last complet
ed and set up in the Times-
Herald office in Chicago. It ea
sily set up type at the rate of 8,-
500 ems an hour.
While the machine would set,
justify and distribute matter, its
owners saw that others of the
same design could not be built
for sale. Finally the Mergen
thaler Company bought the ma
chine and the patents for about
$20,000. It is said that had
Mark Twain invested his $190,-
000 in the Merganthaler Com
pany at the time he put it in
the Paige project, he would now
have had a controlling interest
in that company, which would
have meant an income of more
than one million dollars a year.
The machine occupies a floor
space of 114 feet by 3| feet, and
its highest point is G 4 feet from
the floor. The weight is a little
less than 5 ,500 pounds, and it
runs without perceptible vibra
tion.
Paipe made a fortune out of
the machine, but did not keep
his money.
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These troops are well armed and
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