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S MftRK TWAIN’S FORTUNE 2 | AND PAIGE MACHINE. | !•••«« ••••••••• 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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