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A SELECTIVE MICROFILM EDITION

PART III (1887-1898)

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1891. Edison, T. A. - Unsolicited Correspondence - Advice (D-91-16)

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A Canadian bey, yen will knew cf Terente-, and sc the name cf Clarksen will net be unfamiliar tc you—

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business like way to see what could be don. with it. I may hers state that two years ago he got Mr.Pullman to go into the matter Of the Patent, and that gentleman was pleased with it, and wanted it put on one cf the American roads and offered to superintend the making of the trial chairs, hut here the fund, gave out and nothing was done. Later however, Mr.Rcbertscn in Mr.Pull.ans' office has frequently written me asking that the matter be brought “P "gain. Ibis may mean something or nothing, I do not knc.

a. Canadian Railroad men. on a first step, were then mte. viewed a.y examined and criticised the Patent and approved cf

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adian Government Railroad, directed that a trial lot cf th on should be put down on the Bedford grad, of the T e '

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to Rnglmid to see how cheap he could get thelf ^ S1”tS9nl°h

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JORONTO,

His success, sc far as discussion is concerned, has been marked and most successful. He was met with cynicism of course, but no one has yet openly disclaimed the value of his patent, and as he is new backed by good influence in England, I lock for very favorable results from his visit. Meantime his chair is being put cn the Bedford grade and the C.P.R. and the G.T.R. Cc's are watching the trial and if it proves to be as good as we hope it

will be. I think I may safely say-it will be used by the Canadian Reads.

me Patent consists of a finn holding steel chair for rails, preventing the spreading cr creeping of rails, at a oeat net ever the eeet ef the present fish plat, end spikes, and enabling a great rat. ef speed ever the rail, with perfeet safety.

I wish Ku to de is to permit me to send yen a sample chair, and later, when Sintsenich retnrns, tc give him en interview, that he may intelligently discuss with yen the points merit that it has. If «i.„ yen it good to r.

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Most of the accidents are caused bythe spreading of the rails— -this, and creeping, J believe we effectually overcome.

One may have a good patent, but if .one cannot properly * utilise it, it becomes a fcr mcney#

You know how to utilise a patent of this kind, and sooner or later, the perfect stability of the rail will effect the ««.cf such etectricai appiiaaeee as m8y lntroduos m securing great speed.

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At ycur leisure write tc me, and seme day when I am in ycur State, ycu will perhaps allcw me tc call and see ms you and ycur wonderful invention.

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Mr. A.O. Tate-

Edison Laboratory, Brange, N.J.'

Dear Sir-

World Building, Room 87, New York, Aug,- 6th, 1891.

Would it be possible to send me a sample of the Edison Lalande battery to show to customers? While the battery is well known, still I find that many persons wish to see the battery before deciding*

I have not a phonograph at present in the office, but am in active competition with the James H. Mason storage battery in same office, and therefore wish to place the two side by side .

While I appreciate the fact that a primary and storage battery are dissimilar, still both are used for running phonographs, and I be¬ lieve that with one of your batteries to show, I can effect some sales » I have placed the former advertisement of the Lalande battery in the June and July editions of The Phonogram, which will appear as one the coming week, (it being too late to issue both separately) in order to satisfy the Remington type-writer people, who were displeased with the appearance of the' cut used previously^ and who had a new cut made* 1 wrote you concerning this some timeago, and you ordered same inserted in the June issue.

Will you kindly remit the last bill sent to you some fewweeks ago, as I am very much in need of funds*

Very truly yours.

Manager .

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Mfc. Tate:

Hew York City, Aug. II, 1891.

Very truly yours,

S.B. Eaton p A.G.M ^

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(^ana^^tr,

Major S. B. Eaton,

S dig on Building, Broad St.,

s not yet received from you a reply to my let tar

23rd ultimo, with ’.vhieh I sent to yc

> agrea.ients between

-dioon, Felix ae Lalande and Georges Chaperon, and asked c-ec*- i questions with relation thereto. An answer at your e'ar-Uf

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Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,

A. 0. Tate, Esq., Private Secretary,

Edison's laboratory, Ormge New Jersey,

Dear Sir:-

Re Contracts between T. A. Edison, lalande and Chaper¬ on. Referring to the questions contained in your letter of July 23rd., and to the nontraots of August 24, 1889 and April 8, 1890,

I beg to say that the matter presented very considerable difficul¬ ties of solution. As a consequence, it has b een necessary to make a considerable investigation of authorities, and this has result¬ ed in delay.

U) The Scope of the 'contracts.

The contractnof Aug. 24, 1889, gives an exclusive li¬ cense to manufacture, UBe and sell galvanio batteries covered by the lalande-Chaperon patents, within the United States, for all purposes except as secondary batteries in connect! on with electric lighting. The further provision as to phonograph batteries seans not to be important here. The royalty is 25 centimes per lit<re capacity, with a minimum limit of royalty of $2,000, per

annum. The contract provides that Mr.; Edison may terminate the license on six months' notice in writing— thate is no provision as to termination by the licensors.

The contract of April 8, 1890, recites that the purpose of the second contract is to extend the license mentioned in the first to the use of said cells for electric lighting purposes in electric lighting plants of a capacity not exceeding 25 lamps, and gives a further right to sell but not manufacture in the Domin¬ ion of Qanada, the Republic of Mexico and all oountriesupon the European continent except Franoe and Great Britain. This license is not like the former one, exclusive. The royalty is the same as in the previous contract, to wit, 25 centimes per litre capacity; but has no minimum limit of royalty. This contraot also, unlike the previous one, may be terminated by either party.

It seems quite clear that these contracts are to be interpreted separately— that is, each stands upon its own basis so far as obligations are concerned. I agreed with you, therefore, that the minimum royalty provided for in the first contract must be paid without any reference whatever to matters covered by the second contract.

(2) The Questions submitted and the law touching the

(2)

Subject,

Your question is stated as follows:- "Now, I want to "know if we sell to the E, S. Greeley Company, for instance, in "New Yoric City, and Greeley exports the cells to Mexico, must we ■account under the oontract of August 24,1889, or under the oon- "tract of April 8, 1890? In other words, would that constitute "a sale by Edison in the United Stat.eB or a sale by him in Mex- "ico? We make sales to Greeley now, and he can dispose of the "batteries in. the United States or in certain South American ■couhtries as he pleases to. What I want to know is, whether •Greeley would in the eyes of the law be considered a medium, or "whether our responsibility ceases when we make sales to him in ■New York? Lalande has no patents in any of the countries which "I have in mind,"

As a general provision of la w, a restricted territorial licensee is not cleared of his responsibility upon a sale within the lioensed territory As a general proposition, a vendee from such licensee may UBe , but not sell articles so purchased in tepri tories outside the licensed territory. As a corollary from this, the licensee, for say the State of New Yodc , may not sell to a person within the State of New York far sale without the State of

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New York. In other words, a licensee for a restricted terri¬ tory is not allowed to aid and abet any other person, in violat¬ ing the license. Where the licensee who sells, knows or has reason to believe the person to. whan he sells intends to Bell the articles witho ut the licensed territory, the responsibility of the licensee does not cease with the sale.

This would be true as to sales to a vendee, who in¬ tended to sell and did sell the articles in a territory covered by the licensor's patents, other than the territory for which the licensee had a license. How does the matter stand apart from the express terms of our contracts, with reference to territory where the licensors have no patents? We think, in such case, either the licensee, -Mr. Edison, or his vendee, the Greeley Com¬ pany, might sell in the territory for which there were no patents. It would not be a violation of the United States patents, because they eoveronly thiis country. It would not be a violatiai of Mex¬ ican patents— let us say, assuning that there are no lalande pat¬ ents in Mexico— because there are no lalande patents of that country to violate.

But the act of the licensee in selling to a vendee for purposes of sale uutside the licensed territory and- in a

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territory where the licensors patentB exist and for which the li¬ censee has no license, is not considered by the law to be a sale within the unlicensed territory. His offense is considered to be aiding and abetting another to sell within the unlicensed ter¬ ritory. Consequently, in the view of the law, the licensee is considered as actually selling in the plaoe where he actually does sell. In this case, in theory of law, the E. S. Greeley Com¬ pany would not be a medium, as you suggest, and Mr. Edison's sale would actually take plaoe within the United States. We think, therefore, that the matter would be governed by the first contract and the royalty woold be oanputed under it.

We do not think that the license to Mr. EdiBOn in the second contract to sell but not to manufacture the batteries in the Dominion of Canada and the Republic of Mexico, applies to such a case, because, it would seen as if the second contract, as to this point, applied only to sales by Mr. Edison in Mexico.

(3) Cone lust one.

To sun up, I think that the royalty would be payable under the f&rst contract and not the second, I may say; how¬ ever, that the question is an extremely close and doubtful one, i and I cannot guarantee that a Court would take a sim^^a^ieWY -

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[ENCLOSURE]

The Phonogram,

The Official Organ of the Phonograph Companies of the United States.

A MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE,

Devoted to the Interests of the Phonograph, and Kindred Subjects.

Room 87, Pulitzer Building,

-September— 28-,—

Sfyl

Mr. AO. Tate,

C/O Edison Mfg. Co.,

near sir:-

$T!

Enclosed, please find receipt ^sent by messenger yesterday, for which please accept thanks. I received the two new plate/: of the Edison Lalande Battery from Messrs. Burgoyne & Co, and will insert same in place of the old one.

Thanking you for past courtesies, I remain,

^CEIVEc

SEP 8 0 1801

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To 1/2 page advertisement in Aug. issue (NO . 8) Phono gri

[ENCLOSURE]

'The; Phonogram,

The Official Organ of the Phonograph Companies of the United States.

A MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE,

Devoted to the Interests of the Phonograph, and Kindred Subjects.

Room 87, Pulitzer Building,

Edison r.Iftf. Co.,

Orancre- N-J-

Gentlemen:-

•£ECEIY££

to 0CT 3 7 1891

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Enclosed please find receipt for check of $^^,^£oy the Edison Lalande Battery Advertisement in the issue of the Phonogram. Please accept thanks for seme.

We forward by this mail Lalande cut which was sent to us from l.Iess. Burgoyne & Co . ,

Yours veiy truly-

Thoms At Edison, Esq. ,

N. J'. & Penn' a. Concent rat ing Works, Ogdens burgh, II. J.

Doar Sir:-

X enclose herewith copy of Duplicate Musical Record Report for the week ending October 31st, 1891;. also copies of Manufacture Company’s weokly Financial Reports for week ending October 29th, 1891.

I also oncloso herevrlth a lotter received to-day from Mr.

P. B. Delany, together with newspaper clippings.

Yours very truly.

fUSCEIV^fc

. NOV 4 , 18gi

[ENCLOSURE]

COPY,

B.

KDISON MANUFACTURING COMPANY,

0 R A N G K , N. J.

FINANCIAL RBPORT FOR WKKK RHMHG OOTOBKR 29th, 1801^

W A K D K P A R 1 H K H.

1.

WAX SALKS FOR WKKK - ; - HONK

2.

ACCOUNTS RKCKIVABLK - 549.90

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PAY ROLL FOR WKKK - .3. gg

[ENCLOSURE]

COPY.

B.

EDISON MANUFACTURING COMPANY,

0 R A N G K , N. J.

FINANCIAL REPORT FOR WEEK ENBIJTS OCTOBER S9TH, 1891,

BATTERY DEPARTMENT.

1.

SALES "FOR WEEK - 892.05

2.

ORDERS ON HAND - 129.17

3.

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE - 4901.90

Leas paid Airing; week 587.58

Net sum due _ 4294.40

ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE - 10937.08

Less received during week 892.57

Net sum due - - 10044.51

5.

PAY ROLL FOR WERE - - - 219.94

1891. Electric Light - General (D-91-22)

This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to electric lighting and power. Included are letters pertaining to cable insulation, electrocution, insurance for central stations, and lamp filaments. There is also correspondence from Charles T. Porter in regard to a Porter engine at the West Orange laboratory; a letter by Hermann Claudius about the early electric light work done at Menlo Park and Pearl Street; and a copy of an article by Dr. Henry G. Piffard describing the use of Edison current for medical purposes.

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STEPHEN E. BARTON, Pros. EVERETT W, BURDETT, Vice-Pros. CHARLES F. POLLARD Sec'y and Treai DIRECTORS i

GctW Hrnjamin P. Pkacii, Jr., I^Rnf'Man., Ass't T.‘ C. Bates, Worcester, Mass., Director Worcester El. KLiiMtA Morgan. Springfield. M^ss., Pres. United Kl.l.t.

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Thomas A Edison, Esq

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Electric Mutualjlnsurance Company,

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85 'WATER STREET. Room 50.

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My Dear Edison,-

At the suggestion of our friends Messrs.' Ste^ringer and Zonks, Captain Brophy and I desire to call you- attention to our new Electric Insurance enterprise, documents concerning which I herewith enclose:.

Although our success thus far has been very flattering and almost beyond our expectations, still it will not have come up to our own satisfaction until we can include Hr. Edison in the member¬ ship of our Company, and fool that we have insurance tip on those large industries which bear his name .

Aside from the considerable saving in premium which we feel confident we can save you in this Company and the Factory Mutuals, with which we are associated, insurance with us would leave the matter of inspection exclusively with the Captain, since the Fac¬ tory Mutuals leave such matters on electrical risks in the manage¬ ment of this Cornpany.

In tne way of advantage to us, such a consummation would not only add excellent risks to our rapidly increasing numbers but we

ELECTRIC MUTUAL INS. CO.

BOSTON; (MASS. . g* . -

Hioirns A. Edison, Esq,',

fool that it would be invaluable to our development and success in tho way of endorsement which it would add. I trust I am not too presumptuous in fooling that you will look, with favor upon our solicitation and place tho tatter in tho hands of tho proper par¬ ties with whom we nay negotiate.

Y/ith kindest regards from tho Captain and myself, I remain Yours very truly,

Electric Mutual Insurance Co.

[ENCLOSURE]

FIRST ANNUAL REPORT

Presented at the Corporation Meeting by the Board of Directors

OF THE

Electric Mutual Insurance Company,

OF BOSTON, MASS.

To the Policyholders B°STON’ MaSS" j!lnuar>’ =°’ i89'’

The causes which induced the formation of this Company were the following :

The exorbitant rates and exacting conditions imposed by “Stock Companies," —the difficulty, even, of procuring necessary reliable insurance in those Companies on electrical risks, together with their vacillating action in the matter of rates, which are subject to the whims and prejudices of Local Boards and Compacts ; and ai.o the realization that the enormous capital invested in Electrical industries requiring insurance called for a Company of its own.

The unfairness of the Stock Companies’ rates (notwithstanding their protestations to the contrary) can have no more potent demonstration than the alacrity with which they arc .now mincing them almost one-half wherever and whenever they feel the competition of our Company Such reductions are not made, however, until our competition is felt.

About the first of January, 1890, a Prospectus was sent out setting forth the purposes and prospects of the Electric Mutual Insurance Company and calling for pledges of insurance to secure an incorporation and authority to begin business under Massachusetts law. Not less than $500,000 insurance, covering at least 200 separate risks, was required. More than double the required amount was pledged, and an organization and incorporation was at once effected. The Company issued its first policies on the 15111 of May. This" report covers the opera- tions to the close of business Dec. 31, 1890, — 7 1-2 months.

By the Treasurer’s Report you have seen that the outstanding risks amount to the large sum of $2,897,587, tile premium on which is $30,320.7 1 — an average rate of about 1 1-5 per cent. The average amount of policies is $9,055. The actual cash assets, after paying every dollar of taxes, expenses (including costs of organization, equipment of office, etc.) and losses, amount to $18,907.04, a result, we believe, that is unprecedented in the form¬ ation of Mutual Fire Insurance Companies.

Not a risk has been assumed that has not either been personally examined by a representative of the Com¬ pany, or the fullest detail and description submitted by the member insuring, in writing, upon blanks of the Com¬ pany provided for the purpose. Not a risk is outstanding that lias not been improved electrically (where im¬ provement was needed), nor that is seriously exposed or without good facilities for extinguishing fire. Nothing can better attest those facts than the statement that not a dollar of loss has occurred on any Station insured.

If the experience of the Company during the first eight months continues to the end of the first year, we shall be able to pay back to members 50 per cent, of the premium paid for their policies, and add to our reserve besides ; thereby reducing tile cost of subsequent insurance by one-half, as well as adding to tiie strength of the Company.

Your Directors have confidence to feel that so soon as our volume of premiums shall have grown large enough to reduce the ratio of expense to that of the “ Factory. Mutuals ” (about 10 per cent, of premiums) dividends on profits can be made on expiring policies equal to that paid by those Companies, which averages nearly 75 per cent. But if no dividends were anticipated from the Company, your Directors feel that a large part of its n.ission lias been accomplished in the material lessening of rales which it has already caused, — the average prevailing rate of “ Board Companies ” previous to its advent having been about two per cent., while, as shown by your Treasurer’s Report our average is but a trifle over one per cent., and we have compelled the Board Companies to make similar reductions. We predict that they will bid still lower.

The fact should be borne in mind that their seeming magnanimity in reducing their rates will only last while the competition does. To the importance of sustaining the Company as a competitor and controllor of rates,-

[FILMED IN SECTIONS]

INSURANCE OF ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER PLANTS.

(Extract from the Proceeding of the Edison Contention at Minneapolis, September /0-/7-/8, /800.)

SESSION' OF WEDNESDAY, special assignment, the question of insurance was maun the first order of business. The special committee on insurance of centra! stations, consisting of Messrs. C. L. Edgar, Thomas P. Merritt, W. I. tents and John I. Deggs (ex officio), reported substantially as follows : — „.Tll!f committee, which was appointed about a year pre- plnint0 T8"?"10 ,ho feasibility of some plan of mutual “n,V,a- station insurance, made a somewhat careful report in , f minS™ is meellnS last year, and subsequently in the minutes of that meeting made an additional report irom material gathered after the meeting:, bv which it an.

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there was printed in full a prospectus of the Electric Mutual Insurance Company, of which Mr. S. E. Barton is the president. I hat brought the matter up to so late a date, and outlined so clearly to the commitlec the probability of a fruition in the direction of their work without any fur- ther effort on their part, that the committee had not con- fin’’, i” "cecssary to render this morning any formal report, but merely to call attention to the fact that tins prospectus of the Electric Mutual Insurance Com¬ pany was followed up by the projectors of that enter¬ prise in the development of an organization and the beginning of business, with which filets most of you gentlemen are more or less familiar : and the committee desire, in view of the mutually useful and profitable re- suits which appear to be coming forward, in the interests of the central stations, to report at this meeting that their work has practically been accomplished, so far as they un¬ derstand their instructions. The committee also decided

most efficient fire appliances, automatic spiinklers — in covers the eariy^ dayswli eaMp,iantces’t. Th's experience also

are able to form an intelligent idea of the working of1 the system. At present the risks of these companies include cotton and woollen mills, all textile mills, rubber manufac¬ tories, metal factories, foundries, paper mills, and everything included in the large manufacturing industries of New England and the Middle States. They have not gone very argely into the Western and Southern States until withih the few past years. Their experience is that they are giving “ ? ,0 amount ol something over Sjoo,o5o,oo5

to-day, at a cost of one fifth of one per cent, per annum. The r average rate is about one per cent. Their lowest rate is about eight tenths of one percent., and it varies from •"at^i upwards, according to the risks, so that it brings their

average raie on tiie $500,000,000 to about one per cent, they have returned in dividends, after paying all losses, all expenses and everything pertaining to the conduct of the VoiffjmY" a •crag? ?° e "”in, 67 l'cr “»«•

a„;°?i • !" mlnd ,hit tl,is average includes their

X,^ ™S„rS;nC.e 4 y 'verc »rfl organized, when the con- s ruction of factories was.very inferior and before the intro¬ duction of modern fire appliances. At the present time the enid- PxMds by any °nc of those companies is 60 85 per cent h,g ,est 95 per cent** l,ie average being about uJJnrt ,val“able experience as a basis to guide

nn iSrh?lJh!"k that. 'v.e are wrong >n assuming that

an electric light station as it is constructed to-dav. with all

somewhat in explanation of Insurance Company in whii likely to become interested, !

Iiat in a historical way, an le business methods of th 1 we are all interested 0

The President then Introduced Mr. S. E. Barton, who made, in substance, the following remarks : —

1 am indeed grateful for the privilege extended to me of meeting you all here in this session. I do not feel that I have come as a stranger, nor brought to you a “ scheme ” in which any one person is alone interested. I feel, and I want you to feel, that in this system of insurance all of you who may become insurers will become owners, as it were, and I, occupying simply the position of being at the head of the company, your servant.

By this system of insurance there is no profit to be secured by officers, stockholders, and agents. There is nothing to be gained by any person, with the exception, of

an electric light station as it is constructed to-day, with all the safeguards and the same adequate amount olfire appli- 'rayr°£ ProleFli™. just as good a risk (and IS e?ase® a,fa£ supcrior one) as those that the manu- facturers mutuals have made their showing upon. That is tiintv" Li?v^r|tamt?’ ,f« m.de?t[ il may be called an uncer¬ tainty, that we have to deal with. Such bcimr the case I can see no reason, why we cannot show just as good results as they have done, and in time, when our business shall have assumed proportions so that our expense ratio will be tha^tliV^ bet! ter results

?hc°m,l'fm Pfer,ce?t;°£ ",ei^ Pr'mium5. as comped™ £ the system of stock insurance, where 30 per cent, of every dollar they- take goes in the way of commissions to general agents and subordinate agents. That 30 per cent alone would cover, with the mutual system, not onlv the eine£« but all the losses in their business. 7 1

thntnl^n 10 ra\thc,re "ougunts employed with the manufacturers' mutuals or the Electric Mutual, conse¬ quently it has never been deemed desirable, by the manu¬ facturers' mutuals, to comply with the laws of tlm rarious States, that is, by getting regular legal admission to the different States. The Jaws in the several States vary con¬ siderably. Some of them were enacted absolutely and solely in the interests of stock companies for the nuroose of keeping out mutual competition, and there are minv unfair -onLLlSh unconstitutional laivs which have been

a fire-proof station. It must not have any exposures, or if there are any, the same must be cut off by fire shutters on all openings. 1 he station must have what we term a “ stan¬ dard of fire protection,” with pumps, and hose attached. The hose shall be small or large, according to the size of the station, but preferably small, the idea being that any part In c*C statt-on caajb® reached instantly with a small stream.

Ee on hand without having1?© starta pump^In’^is^U^ pressure cannot be secured, fire extinguishers must be pro¬ vided. In cases where a station is exposed, the exposure charge must be specially made according to the conditions.

Our desire is to issue policies in every instance in blanket form, that is, covering the building and its contents, with¬ out specific divisions. I have here one of the forms. It covers in this way, “ the main building and projections, if any, which constitute a single station or risk, and all the contents thereof, which may be necessary in the manufacture of electric light and power.”

There is another insurance that we are granting, and that is the insurance of the plant outside the station. Up to the present time we have issued about one dozen of such poli- cies. We have given “blanket" policies covering every article of property connected with alt the outside circuits, against loss or damage by fire, including everything con¬ nected with the circuit from the time it leaves the station until it returns, — wires, poles, lamps, converters, meters, fixtures, etc. On this class of insurance we have fixed the rate at three-fourths of one per cent., and at the end of the year we will be in a position to judge whether this is an equitable rate. It is a class of insurance in which we are liable to a number of small losses, but I believe should be taken care of by our company.

A word as to our directors ; I am sure you will recognize ?.*«»• _Mr* A- Gilbert, president of the Boston Electric Light Company, who started this idea of mutual insurance in !884 atthc Baltimore convention of the National Elec¬ tric Light Association. He sent out previous to that time to such electric companies as he could obtain the addresses of, a circular asking their opinion as to the formation of a

pzny: E. VV . Bu r'd et q” co u n sci tr

Light Company, and also (or the Electric Mutual Company

?Wh'Cl'Pre'Slt!e.nl °£ tl,e same ! G<:nPral Benjamin F.

J r” 5.ss,4 „ lre»surer, Thonison-Houston Electric Company; 1. C. Bates, director, Worcester Electric Liulit mnvP™\: 1J,Taber> '}’homson.Houston Electric Com- pany, IJisha Morgan, president of the Springfield United

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[ENCLOSURE]

S^HST^l.ITOI^l.Xj ST^.TE3wtBlTT

ELECTRIC

Mutual - Insurance - Company,

BOSTON, MASS.,

JOSEPH LYONS, \

jVlcchanical and Electrical Expert,

Solicitor of Talents,

Equitable Building, 1003 E Street 1ST. jw. gable flddpegg, “ Jollv.” $). February .16,.. 159 1

Thomas a. Edison, Esq. ,

X-Llbwellyn Park, N.J.

Dear Sir:-

I have a letter from a most intimate friend, who is a metallurgist and mining engineer out West, saying that he has dis¬ covered and entered a claim for mineral lands containing ores with a rich percentage of wolfram or wolframite. My friend tells me that he has learned that you are looking for wolframite for use in the produc¬ tion of the incandescent filament for your lamps, and he desires me to ascertain for him whether this is so, and if so, whether you would enter into negotiations either for the acquisition of the land, or of the metal.

Please let me know by a few words whether you are willing to give the matter consideration, in which case, I shall be glad to facilitate any transactions it may lead to.

Very respectfully.

j Baltimore, February 20th, 1891.

Thomas A. Edison, Esq., I )

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My dear Edison,

I have formed

the Columbia Canal from the( Its^e o'f^i South miles long and has twenty

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aJsTndicatfi^n'-NGW Yohk and bought J 0 U\ L^ivd U\.

Carolina... It is four J Lfi

, power. We propose get-

Lu AtcA.

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‘■mg the cotton manufacturers tg. put theirTmills there o

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m the centre of the cotton bjel|. Now t,her^ are tlirce mills now operated by steam about half a mijj^’&om M Caffalf CakS/o ' q/““‘ the canal, transmitHhis power^to that distance, one /

in dynamos of them using as much

er^to tha five hundred horse fcojror. If v,

so what will be t he /p_er.,c/nt ag e. ■ of~los s-'in transmission ?

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his to^thfeWev/York Office. ^

Please answer this

I shall organize a company here of a million dollars

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capital. The time is propitious, n

come in. / I have written J

i°n ^ eW uud I am now waiting theii’

md'kdjiat four^mTTe’s"” square w i 1 r^WVtrr-4h.!i i~s^“ >ee the lighting is very compsctf.

my plan or organ i: approval. 1 undej entire city, so you

There is three miles from the centre of lighting^ but within the City limit s^, a splendid water power, which we can get. It has ten thousand horse power in high water and the minimum horse power in low water is eight thousand horse power. Would be well to use this, or to use steam? I have written the partic ulars to New York and I have asked them to refer the question to

the engineering department. I will be glad to have your vii also.

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GEO. A. LEACH, Manager.

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V.lmt do yor think of the Electro not- ion Electrician? You smile, and T don’t wonder. How do you suppose the current ever got through that darkey’s skull? Don’t you think it took the path of least resistance, t.krourfi the skin and flesh covering the skull and siz’/led tne fellow to death, instead of reaching the brain and paral¬ yzing him with the first shock? T think the blistering on the face indicates, this. >■

It seems to me that a large surface contact on the palm of the hands and wrists would give the current free access to the main arteries lending to the heart and that paralysis of that orphan would accompany tlie first shock. I am not thoroughly up in anatomy but venture to say that with the same area of surface contact it would be found that the resistance from hand to hand would not be much more than half of that from head to foot. I tihould like very much to hear from you. Put a few words together right to the point, as you did in that famous letter about the "swelled head and small pox",- something I can use,- or if you don’t wish to be quoted, mark your letter“con‘-, fi dent ini", and I will put- it in the archives, under seal. i’x>/

Yours very truly.

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The Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of New York.

SPENCER TRASK, PRESI

General Office , 4. 32 Fifth Avemie ,

A-'4'* jfcMrtoH, 21st Sept., 1091.

Thos. A. .Edison, Esqfvv* Orange, Nov; Jersey. Pear Mr. Edison:

^ECEIV^

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I send, herewith a pamphlet on the application of the Edison current to physicians 1 office use, by Dr. Piffard, and I trust you will

be able ? to take the fort

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>nts necessary to acquaint yourself with

X understand that the paper is likely to be a subject of cbntro- ersy and as it suggests an important application of the Edison current

i it suggests

"‘ih 'the^housep' of physicians whose recommendations to patients

th^'use of the "electric light necessarily haye great weight, he' Vis fully preparJd as possible to uphold the positions of

want to of this paper.

Very truly yours

? v*

(TVVVUA

First Vice President.

( Enclosure jl'

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[ENCLOSURE]

improvements in the

0%' adaptation OP THE EDISON curreni Y-jTO general OFFIOE use* ®

£ *N ^,0 ^ew York Medical Journal of June 7 1800 I

. published tho description of a method that 1 1, ad devised Sta«8&“?,7 '"“““‘"W "Wr* from «twrt could ho

: JShyomontly utilized and .nado to take the place of the ™l- . vantc .batteries in ordinary use. An experience of nioro a jonr in the use of tho ^rcot curront; link clearly Snicnee "* "* ‘° "* °f WKcation and great con- ' • • ( During t^sjjeriod, however, I have extended the scope U Wh,ct ? “k “ttontiou >■> Uio proB-

1 rora Uie donee as now constructed we can obtain tlio continuous galvanic current, the slowly or rapidly lluctuat- ‘"e snivanm currc^, and. the primary and secondary fara- ,4 Society of the County of New York.

[ENCLOSURE]

16 THE EDISON CURRENT FOR OFFICE USE/ I

Siemens, , which may bo obtained from tlio Ozone Company The adapter, motor-dynamo, and.^hor devices which

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82, Equitable Building, Boston,

December 5, 189 1.

Mr. Thomas A. Edison, Dear Sir:-

I wrote to you last spring i'or an interview which you suggested would be given after returning from Schenectady.- My wish was to speak with you conceding the direct production of elec¬ tricity.

Recently I note your patent issued Sept. 39/91, touching this subject, which leads me to again write.

If you can suggest to me some assurance that my views and method can be advanced, X will be pleased to someway proceed. It is evident that two heads may be better than one and an observation of years ago may put you upon the right track. -

Very truly yours,

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DEC 7 - 1891 .

cThilsi r, Fletcher,

. CHEMICAL ENGINEER.

KECElV^

82, Equitable Building, Boston, December 10, Ml.''

Mr. Thomas A. Edison, Dear Sir:-

0n my way to Philadelphia next week X should be pleased to confer with you, if you may make it convenient.

There are some matters well worth considering.- I have been more or less associated with Prof. Moses G. farmer for several years' «onVnnn ^ hi!" si«°e °^ildhood ) and have already expended some §30,000, having bought three Edison dynamos.- we have accomplished much, but Farmer is going to pieces fast, this year.- He is 71 and since last winter has not been able to do much of anything.- This sum- edr+Janin» t ^ght,.h^ strfngth up as expected.- I have always attend 8 Jt0u i?e"tenths o1 the metal operations, bearing the entire expense, and sharing equally with him in the patents taken out.-

. . , I.,am Prepared to make further expenditures and as "two heads are better than one" it seems best to confer with you, if agreeable and convenient. An excellent thought for the direct production of electri- city I may perhaps suggest to you: and some other matters, nearer to igy heart, can surely be successful, X feel.-

I can easily adapt my Philadelphia trip to your appointment with me, to see how two heads can pull together perhaps.

Very truly yours,

1891. Electric Light - Edison Electric Light Company - General (D-91-23)

This folder contains correspondence relating to the business of the Edison Electric Light Co. Although this company became part of the Edison General Electric Co. on August 1, 1890, certain business operations continued under the former name. Many of the letters are by Sherburne B. Eaton, general counsel, and pertain to the assignment of patents. A few of the documents may be partially illegible due to water damage.

Approximately 40 percent of the documents have been filmed. The following categories of documents have not been filmed: letters of transmittal and acknowledgement; meeting announcements; other routine business correspondence; duplicate copies of selected documents.

In a'e6ordaiice with our conversation of last week, X •• Gnoloso a list of Canadian patents granted to Mr. Edison for in¬ dentions. relating to electric lighting, according to the records

of the |a>ent Office at Ottawa. Will you kindly compare this with

# ‘ -

any patents or records in your possession tending to show whether

■ , . .

,,;this list embraces all of Mr. Edison's Canadian patents to which the ^dison Eleotric Light' Co., 'or any of the branches of tin Edison Gon^l Electric Company's organization are entitled.'

this information by' instructions of S. B. Eaton, E||g, General Counsel, who desires a complete list of all Pa^|f '-Sy^ °Vmed- °r aont *°*\ed by the General Company, and of any in Canada to ‘which this Company, as at present made en+-itled, either in electric light or power work.

,lft ’ ’^'Kindly r°tUrn the en°i°sed list with such a definite

■R+.at.onient of the result of your comparison as may.serve as a

, . , on!of my report, which I have been particularly requested to i^Rake as^thorough as possible.

Yours very truly

.v;l'£eneiosure.

(f^fEOISON BUILDING)

<yl'(cw‘^0r/>' _ Aug_l7_ia91.,

Orange New Jersey,-- (/(

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Dear Sir* \

RS &1I*0n Applloatl™ "° 681 • This i. an application f°- pntant for Improvement in I»,„a,.cmt sieetric Lamp,, dated Ootobar 27, 1886, and filed by you and John p. ott, *, .

™»t Of the application to the Bdi.on L™* n. ... heretofore ...cut “ * you and Mr ott, but never recorded, and ! am ashed .bather «»t assignment i. a proper ene .. matter. no. ,ta»a,

I have advlaed that, under the tern, ’of the firth olana. of the agreement of ...ember 25, 1887, b,«.,ro ye„r,.lf, ,h.

Edison hemp Company and the Edison Electric Light Company, ,he Company i. entitled to the assignment of this invention.

By the tern, e, the above named elan., yc„ ma the lamp e„i .er.,d to assign to the Light Co, fr,e of charge, invention, pertaining to the lamp and it, manufacture, then held or controlled by yon or either of you.

Ondornthee. eiroum.tanoes, therefore', I have had pre¬ pared a assignment of .hi. -invention to the Light Co', and enclose the herewth. .ill you hindly „ by

signing at the pi... i„di.a„d and have y.nr signature .itn.ae.d _bV *" PWW- **“ « »- «t to ...to. the -

same ina similar manner and then return the document to me so 1 may get it recorded.

Upon receiving from you this agreement duly executed,

X will destroy the old assignment of this invention which was mole to the Lanp Co,

General Counsel E,E.X.,Co,

EATON & LEWIS

44 EDIS0N BUU0ING)

S_ep.tt_.3_fl,. 189-1/

A. 0, Tate, Esq , , Private Secretary,

Laboratory 0f Thomas A. Edison/ Orange, N.J,

I beg to acknowledge receipt of your favor of the 31st ult., enclosing assignment of Edis/n Application No. 681 to the • Edison Electric Light Company, drfy executed by Mr. Edison and Mr . Ott .

Very t'ruly yo

V

General Counsel, E.E.L.Co.

EATON S LEWIS EUGENE H. LEWIS

EDISON BUILDING)

October 7, 1891 .

Thomas A. Edison, Esq,,

Orange , New Jersey.

• Dear Sir:

.fcpCEIVf^

In bringing the suits upon the Socket Patents belonging t0 thS Llsht ComPany» I have found it necessary to correct several flaws in the title of the patents upon which such suits were to be founded. one of these patents is No. 293,552, which was granted to Sigmund Beigmann on February 12th, 1884 for Sockets for Electric Lamps. Mr. Be^gmann assigned all his interest in this invention to Bergmann & Company on January 21st, 1884. Bergmann & Company assigned to the Light Company on August 6th, 1888 the right, title and interest to this patent, so far as the same related to Sockets, but not including Shade Holders.

It is now desired to vest in the Light Company all rights under this patent, so that in the suits we are about to corunence the Bill of Complaint may allege the entire ownership of the Light Company in the patent in question.

The Corporation of Bergmann & Company has never been dis¬ solved, and as you are still the President of that Company, X beg to ask that you will kindly sign the enclosed assignment as such

officer and return the sane to me. The signature need not be wit¬ nessed, as it will have to be attested by the Secretary, Mr. Hutch¬ inson.

May I aslc that you will kindly give this your early at¬ tention, as it is very desirable that the title to this patent be perfected at as early a date as possible.

While strictly speaking this assignment ought perhaps to be to the General Co., for convenience of bringing the suits, we are getting all the titles in the name of the Light Co.

General Counsel E.E.L.Co.

Enc. L.Co.P.L.

EDISON ELECTRIC UQHT COMPANY, . A. AA'^'t'**' * ^

(DIION ■uiloiho. . Vi- 'XjL^'Y ’

' . ' « « •«°««T»W. v JV-CUI A, Oct. 3, 1891.

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lWas A. Edison, Esq., f^ECEj r-, A f ^ "

v Edison Laboratory, (v,T n / V*

•"«•*«• "-A- I«91 ,V‘" ^"/.A

*fcA»si r*- • ••‘■"UhaiiA „* K* <^£

; f. Some .time ago. I reported to Dyer & Seely your j

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. that in some of your early caveats you had doscribed an f

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;.r- ^ • ’/ cut-otre. The' enclosed .letter has been sent mo in reply

'& y:a.V ^ >•

Wiligyou, when you are in town, kindly ask

;>Mr hSeelvi; About tth-is taatti

are in town, kindly ask Mr. Dyer or shall I bring to the Laboratory a

''some time con^&Hidnt . to you, their volume ; showing the drawings of ’ .old ®aveats.. v; ■ ^ ^ j_s>

As the Thoms o n-Ho us t o n Company have entered suit arainst •W'1 us on the air space patent of Van Depoele, this matter may be of i '?'f importance. ’• Whatever cutout may be placed in the Edison Municipal v' .j lamp, ‘ experience has' shown that it is best to supply an air space

out-out also in the socket, not only. because any *M*i«iii«2^niechan- "W'- w ■ . may •• 4

■■■■$:■■ y***ffi£n t|ie lawP/jSometimes corrode or otherwise fail to act, but

k the 'air space frequently saves the lamps from destruction

■ the-tair space frequently i

Xjjgfctnlng. . • As the space is n<

.y saves the lamps from destruc' : not over .003 of an inch and :

’■§£gr'' and moisture, y< ’-tsS.. d^jice* as a lightning arrestei

we may. ’have a trial of yoi

EDISON ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY

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December 19, 1391.

TO-rTHE STOCKHOLDERS

of the EDISON ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY: -

A special meeting of the Stockholders of the Edison Electric Light Company is hereby called to be hold at the office of the Company, Edison Building, Ho. 44 Broad street, in the City of Hew York, on Monday the 4th day of January, 1892, then and there to consider and to approve or disapprove the recent action taken by the, Board of Trustees in declar- £ ‘Uyifiond of $0?; Oh. the capital stock df said Company, payable in

. •Cdilat'eral .fi'xipt, Debentures of said Compand bearing 6% interest per annum*

|?lpr i nc;i pal . pay able iS9'9; also in autlioriz/ng the creation and issue of

said Debentures

■ of a Trust Indenture be,-

fcwoert, said Company and the Central Trusl / Company of Mow York, as Trustee, and til'd, deposit vfith said Trustee of certain securities, in trust, for the pi^po.se of s k curing the payment off the principal and interest of said Debent.uris^ E^isq for such further action relative to the proposed or othdi; '.dividends on 'the capital stock/of oaid Company as the Stockholders may determine.

The transfer books of the /Company will be closed at 3 p.m. on December 22nd, 1891, and will reopeii at 10 a.m. on January 5tli, 1892.

r,n case said action by the Board be approved by the Stockholders ...said dividend will be paid to the Stockholders of record at the closing of the transfer^ books asj^ahave (tf'ijz:, De^m^er 22nd, 1891), as soon as 4jj\Deb5nV'ros* are Prepared*' and'-eiiecuted, of' which notice will bd given,

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1891. Electric Light - Edison Electric Light Company - Illuminating Companies (D-91-24)

This folder contains correspondence, reports, and other documents relating to the organization and operation of Edison illuminating companies. Included are many letters and some reports from William D. Marks, supervising engineer and general manager of the Edison Electric Light Co. of Philadelphia. Some of these documents pertain to an investigation of a boiler explosion in the Philadelphia central station. There is also correspondence from F. S. Gorton, secretary-treasurer of the Chicago Edison Co., relating to environmental hazards resulting from their central station. Some of the documents may be partially illegible due to water damage.

Approximately 70 percent of the documents have been filmed. The following categories of documents have not been filmed: invitations to Edison to attend central station functions; letters of transmittal and acknowledgement; meeting announcements; other routine business correspondence; duplicate copies of selected documents.

The Edison Electric Eight Company of Philad’?

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York, April 7, 1891.

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Very truly yours,

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Philadelphia, April 15th, 18S1.

TO THE, PRESIDEHT AIR) THE BOARD OP DIRECTORS OP THE BDIS^I'I ELECTRIC LIGHT CO. OP PHILADELPHIA.

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■■'1st, 1891 asV^oY%^-' •_ '-|p: jjjTjjtf- . -

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43830- sixtcens .11642

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BOILERS

Battery 4 has been throughly overhauled, chipped to ease bolts and new bolts substituted for the old ones. The attempt to econo¬ mize by a careful reinspection of old bolts and their utilization after being subjected to a test in tension resulted in the breaking of the bolts on one bend as the old bolts had had the life worked out of them. All new bolts are now in and the battery has so far given us no trouble at all. We have no reason to fear more than the average risk attendant upon all boilers in using this battery.'

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Battery 2 is now being overhauled and in another week will be ready for use under proper working conditions. Battery 3 will next be taken up.

SERVICES AMD STREET WORK.

We have introduced 3 services and made repairs only to street work, doi'jjg no 'new work.

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-■Salaries; — - 7 - - -" — - ~ - _ _ , 907 m '

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Coal /and Labor ; . (1448 tons) , — '1 & i IZjOIi isi kr

Oil Waste and Labor,- - 1^-. _ _ _ J. _

Workshon Expenses,'-' - 934 '^7

Lamps, Estimated (6090), - - ___Ii oAp'rn

General Expense, - - - ; _ *5 23* 21

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House Wiring, Inspection and Complaints,- - — — 20s’9G

heter Expenses, - - - - - - 381 *44

Repairs to Steam Machinery, - - - _„r 7o9.?5o

" " 1 ■ PipinS» - - - . - - 209 !oo

" Station, - - - ±92 02

" " Street Work, - 605.07

" Elect Apparatus, - 229.60

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SALES AND COST OE CURRENT

Lamp hours sold 3,654,123

Horse Power Hours, sold 32S08 492.120

4, 146 ’243

Cost of current per lamp hour 323

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CONSTRUCTION ACCOUNTS .

Central Station Bldg.

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Electrical Apparatus " Conductors

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RESUME FOR MONTH OF MARCH.

Net Receipts for Light & Power Profit on Mdse 2179.90 @ 35;?

" " Isolated Plants 1059.30 a £

Less Running Expenses Total Profit of Station

$25263.11

762.96

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26115.81

13538.31

12777.50

THE SELLING PRICE OF LIGHT.

In connection v/ith this matter I have the honor to submit the following letter from Mr. Edison.

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Ogden Mine, H. J .

April 7/91.

Sr i end Marks:

To my mind the raising of the price from 3/4 to 1 cent per lamp hour is a bid for competition. I am a believer in Insuring the permanency of an investment by keep¬ ing prices so low that there is no inducement to others to oome in and ruin it. There seems to be a law in commercial things as in nature. If one attempts to obtain more profit • than general average, , lie is immediately punished by' co*peti-! tion. .. " V;:

V ' Yours,. .

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Edison. . - . — ~

I beg leave to*furthexv add the following facts.

We cannot in Philadelphia' obtain ageless of custom similar / to that of Wall Street and its neighborhood in New York.

T/e arc obtaining an equal average return in lamp hours to that of Boston, although they nominally charge one cent .

We have some very profitable customers and we can, by making a careful study of each case select our cus¬ tomers when we have substitutes ready for those wo now have that do not yield a large return.

Our coal costs- us §1,80 per ton delivered; it costs the electrical Trust §3.70 per ton. Our contract with Jas. Boyd & Co., is made for the year at the above rate.

Very respectfully and truly yours.

The Edison Elective Eight Company

OF PHILADELPHIA,

Office,. No. 927 Chestnut Street.

„ TELEPHONE 2120.

CAPITAL, *1,000.000. CAPACITY. 10,00.

The Edison Ooirent is absolutely free from danger to lifo.

The Edison Eleetme Eight Company

OF PHILADELPHIA,

Office, No. 927 Chestnut Street. '

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CAPITAL, $1,000,000. CAPACITY, 10,000 H. P.

Tho Edison Currant is absolntoly fro o from danger to life,

, Central Station, 908 Sansom Street.

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Executive Office, 16-18 Broad St.

i- Thoms, A. Edison, Eg']. ,

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< 40$ tenmo’-ary plant in tho now Station at Pearl and Elm

] wl|i|j$^ay(ifay 1st), at 6 P. M. ; arid also that, on May lot

| til 0 Od&patiy .sha.li have on its system over 70,000 incandescent

lamps,# wbleii tritli the 1,000 H. P. of motors and the arc lamps, Jafifeft ^ &» aquiivaient of 83,000 16 candle power lamps.

gratify you to know that such disconnectioi &GV'Al|j^$5£^'‘£he system are almost all attributable to removals tfir that sort, as the number of customers lost for

: Reasons proves to be very small indeed.

x Very truly yours ,

Pirst Vice President.

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Philadelphia , May 7th, 1391.

Prof. H. V/. Spangler, U.S.lTavy,

University of P^iina.

Philadel;

My Dear Sir: —

, 1 deB11’e t0 obtain your opinion on the following

points. /

(1) Have the/boilers of this Company at any time been subjected to excessi/ firing, or force blast, or has more coal

been burned per square foot of grate per hour than is customary or has the blast prepfeure ever been heavier than is constantly '^in use elsewhere/;?

(2) h hat in your opinion is the cause of breaking bolts • ,vin the Abend/oth & Root boilers in this station.?

V (3) / Does the Proposed use of a 7/8" bolt with ball and ^socket ho&d and nut offer in your opinion a remedy for this breakage ~Of bolts.?

>/'4) Are th0 boilers in Battery 4 in reasonably safe run-

mg order, and in condition to refeeive inspectors certificates?

I shall be pleased to place at your disposal Log ' b°°kS and a11 ot the re cords of this Company, to furnish you with any information that you may desire and to give you every facility for examining the boilers and the work in progress. I desire of you a fair and impartial report addressed to Mr. Sami, p, . Huey* Counsel, Drexel building, Philadelphia. i beg that you will

Spangler.

associate with you any colleagues whom you may da sir a and shall be pleased to pay you and them what you may deem a proper compensatio: It is very important that this investigation be completed. promptly I am,

Yours very truly,

(Signed)

Yin. D. Harks,

Sup .Eng. « Gonl.Hangi’.

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Philadelphia, Pa. May 19th, 1091,

Mr. Samel B. Huey,

Droxel Building,

Phila.

Dear Sir : —

In answer to the questions submitted to us by Prof. ;\7m. D. Marks , Supervising Eng. & Gen'l. Mangr. of the Edison Electric Light Company of Philadelphia, in his letter of May 7th, v/e would make the following report on each of the questions submitted.

Question 1. Have the boilers of this Company at any time been subjected to excessive firing, or force blast, or Has more coal been burned per square foot of grate per hour than is customary or has the blast pressure over been heavier than is constantly in ) use elsewhere ?"

In order to answer the above question correctly we have carefully examined the log books kept at the station,- V/e find thorn practically complete in all the data pertaining to the daily work of the plant. They give in our opinion a reliable and

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correct account of the coal burned , tho water evaporated, tho force of the blast, and the output of tho station for each hour of the day ‘They contain all the necessary data to enable us or others to give a clear and positive answer to the above question. Our examina¬ tion covered a period of nearly, two years. Xlc find that the boi- lors during that time' were not forced beyond their capacity.

At that portion of tho day when the greatest demand was made on the boilers for steam, the boiler power available at the manufacturers rating was in excoss of tho requirements of tho sta¬ tion.. iho amount of coal burned per square foot of grate surface at no time exceeded that commonly burned under boilers of this char- ' acter . Y/e found that the amount of pressure of the blast was at

no time excessive,

Question 2. "Yfliat in your opinion is tho cause of breaking bolts in the Abendrot.h & Root boilers in this station."

In order to answer this question wo have carefully

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examined the old and the new form of connection, the borken parts and the boilers now in process of reconstruction and are of the opin¬ ion that the breakage has been caused primarily by bad workmanship in the const miction and erection of these boilers.

As Prof. Marks desires us to express our opinion as to whether there 'was ox- could be any water hammer which might cause the giving way of the parts, v/e have no hesitancy in stating . that it is simply impossible for any such phenomenon to occur in these boilers. J

Que st ion 3. "Does the proposed uso of a 7/S" bolt with ball I

and socket head and nut offer in your opinion a remedy for this I

breakage of bolts."

■ V/e have carefully examined the method of making and

fitting the new bolts, together with the elastic ring adopted by

Prof. Marks and have tested several of the joints made in this man- !

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ner and we believe that the methods now being adopted to remedy the j

trouble are those 'which the best engineering knowledge would provide ]

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for overcoming the difficulty, and while nothing would guarantee absolute safety, in these or other boilers, against accidents in the future, no means that we know of would bo better adapted to pra- /• vent the breaking of these bolts.

Question 4-. "Are the boilers in battery 4 (?2) in reasonably i (-safe running order, and in condition to receive inspectors certifi¬ cates?" .

Vdien the repairs now under way on battery #2 are con-

pleted, using all the precautions now adopted for making an entirely

elastic joint which will give before any excessive strain can be

put on the bolts, these boilers will be in reasonably safe run-

order and in condition to receive inspectors certificates,

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.• ' H.T/. Spangler ,

Jolm E. Codraan.

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New York, July 15tli, 1891.

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1 ^.-I&eased to report that, in the first week of July, Cer^artsi.lmd'on its books 2,179 ous toners, 75,530 incandescent ltpps> -.ifc&arei lamps and 1,411 H. P. motors - tho equivalent of ab^.^|/0pO;‘ll5^%.p. lncandosoonts. (this excludes lamps installed ' j£r«*fcnooS and elsewhere, where current is turned off for tho Saapejf'fed turned on again in !.7intor, which would bring the total to jQbovo 95,000.* equivalent*

V* ‘ ^’b.-totdl net oarnings of the first half year of 1891

($152,301. J, as comparod -with the first half of 1890 ($99, 822. ) , show an increase of S $S, Whioh will probably be increased to 55# on the settlement of certain royalties duo from the General Co.

°f Judge Wallace, handed down yesterday, ply in favor of Mr. Edison in regard to incandescent lamps, wil ^‘t:vin|a ^considerable addition to the returns from lamp 1 to thi accompany, both past and future. jjUl Orders have been plaoed for additional boilers, engines

and dynamos both for the new station downtovm and for the 20th Street station, and there is every reason to believe that the < . p any' s^. business at the end of the year will greatly exceed the estimates made at the bs^innins of this year, of a total instal ■^tlen °f 100,0.00 16 o.p. equivalent and of SO/? increase in the C pony's nel earninqs.

to tho Directors and friond

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this first half-year.

Very truly yours,

First Vice Preside

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Philadelphia, July 15, 1891,

To the President and Board of Directors

of the Edison Electric Light Co. of Phila.

Gentlemen:

Your Engineer and Manager reports Lamps and Motors to July 1st, as follows:

Lanps connected

lonnected 8321/24 H*p,»

Lanps applied for

Motors applied for 64 H.P,

total of applied for and connected

44850 sixteens 12487 "

— - - 57337

3462 "

964

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61763

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lamps, 4084 @ 33/

General expenses Dynamo Room expense Engine Room expense Boiler Room expense

House wiring inspection and complaints

Meter expenses

Repairs to steam machinery

Repairs to steam piping

Repairs to station building

Repairs to street work

Repairs to electrical apparatus

SALES & C0ST_0F CURREHT

lamp hours sold

Horse Power hours sold 45398

%

^Oost of current per lamp hour 404/1000 of a cent fttioigit of current gas equivalent 80.8/10 cts-. per M.

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Elec . Conductors Elect ridal apparatus

Stav Building

eters

Steam Piping Workshop Eqpt. Installation lamps

CONSTRUCTION ACCOUNT

1347'. 72

303.44 •

474.44 726. 40

7.74’

245.56

543.94

997.55 451.89

51.13

756.71

206.55 .§12961.72.

2548600

680970

3229570

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12.00

125v96

363.48

2.67

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657. G3

6 Services credited Services charged

267.67

Less Central Sta. Mach. Or § 40.00

And new work ^ 154.97

RESUt^_PORJTHEJ.TOlITH_OP JUNE. Receipts from light and power Profit on Mdse. §2033.56 @ 35/

Profit on 0. Plants §1864.42 @ sX

Less running expenses Total profit of station

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§ 595.51

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This is probably one of the smallest profits we will mako in' any month of the year although we will not vary much from it j;uly and August-. Our receipts from light and power for the last 6 months aggregate §14236422. as against §7997222 for the same period of 1890, As the average nuiriber of lights has increased from 35000 in 1890 to 62000 and over in the coming months of 1891 ■We can safely count on earning §300,000 this year of which §120,000 to §140,000 will be net profit. We are getting close to our limit of 67,500 sixteens attached and will obtain the rest without diffi¬ culty before Autumn closes our street work. We will, however-, lose stfme of our largest consumers who will put in isolated plants-.

■"We pay for our coal as deliverod into Bryants yard and owing to stopping shipments and running on stock in May the coal bill of

that month appeared very much less than for April, which was greater than it should have been. Since placing drips in front vault May 1st-, the average of coal for all purposes per horse povrer hour sold has dropped from 89/l0 to 7 lbs. With the heav¬ ier loads of winter a still greater economy will be effected-.

• TH2 MAYOR'S COMIITaVES

The Mayor has been making an earnest effort to obtain c Committee of 3 — Mr* longs t ret h, who is an^ex^eptionable gentle- , man has asreed to serve; others that have been applied to have for various reasons been unable to serve.

1 have take* exception to Mr. Vanclain of the Baldwin

Eoco. Works, who has expressed an unfavorable opinion to Ovem ao he states after visiting the works for' a brief period with him.

The Mayor as:

£* two the Committee will be

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convened. ^

■ Very respectfully &. truly yours,

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Tl ?e Edison Electric Eight Company

^ O^f^HILAOELPHiA. •

Offloa, No. 927 Chestnut Street.

Tlia Ellison Onrront is absolutely free from danger to life.

. Central Station, 908 Sansom Street.

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To the President and Board of Directors

Aug. 19, 1891.

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of the Edison Electric Light Co. of Phila.

Gentlemen:

Your Engineer and Manager reports Lamps and Motors to August 1st. as follows:

linaps connected

Motors connected 873 11/24 H.P.

Lamps applied for

Motors applied for 40 7/8 H.P.

Total of applied for and connected

45040 sixteens 13102 "

53142

5067 11

613 ■

- 5630

63822

We have, as you see-, exceeded the 60000 lamps which it i deemed advisable to accept with our present boiler power. It is perhaps more than we can carry and it will be wise not to attempt to attack new consumers until our present number of lamps is re¬ duced to 60000. I can give you a positive opinion in October af¬ ter a careful study of the Station output under heavier loads.

Salaries

Rent

Taxes

Royalty Penn Co. (22848 Lamps O 3 83/1000/

Office expense

Commissions

Coal and Labor 889 ton3 1205 lbs.

Oil waste and labor Workshop expense

:? 1227.01

112.50

122.51 704.40 219.63

4023.70

255.51

211.99

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lamps j 3752 © 33/ General expenses

Dynamo Room expense Engine Room expense Boiler Room expense

House wiring inspection & complaints §333.07 less' $92 Meter expenses Repairs to steam machinery Repairs to steam piping

Repairs to Station building (painting stacks)

Repairs to street work Repairs to electrical apparatus

1238.16 398.76 435.54 656.81 8.20 241.07 403.65 337.59 324.70 175 . 00 847.89 216.50

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SALES & COST OF CURRBHT

Lamp hours sold 2210426

Horse Power hours sold 49753 746295

2956721

Cost of current per lamp hour 408/1000 of a cent Cost of current gas equivalent 81. 6/l0 cts. per M.

£ONSTRUCTION_AjCCOUWT_

Elec. Conductors Electrical apparatus Furniture

Central Sta. Building Central Sta. Mach.

Meters

Steam Piping Workshop Eqpt.

Installation lamps

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■$ 15.48

115. 90 545.65 80.00 7.36

Brought forward -

764.39

6 Services credited Services charged

Less new work

§320.78

249.78

- 71.00

§. 693. 59 544-. 72 § 148.67.

RESIWR_F 0 RJTHEJ K)1TTH_0F £ULy Receipts from light and power Profit on Mdse. §1378.57 6> 35#

Profit on Isolated Plants §71.75 %?,

Less running oxponsos Total profit of station

17937. SO 482.50 5.74

18426.04

This is the smallest profit of tho year as the meter re¬ turns are now increasing and bills for isolated plants sold have not been rendered by tho Edison gen'l Electric Co. this month.

the chestnut_st._cables

. 0n Peb- 18th» 1891 your Engineer & Manager reported as follows:

"Chestnut Street from 3rd. to 9th. should have mains and feeders laid upon it and would cost approximately:

For main §9,000.

* feeder to 5th. St. 4,000.

“ " " 7th. St. 2,000.

" " " 8th. St. 1,000

- §16,000

you are aware that the city authorities would not permit , to put in the Edison System but forced this Co. to put Cables in tho Penn Conduit so called at this point. It would have been vastly

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better to have put the cables in the ground rather than drag them into this wretched structure of the Ponn Co. which has never been anything else than a sewer for street filth.

The repairs to this cabled district have cost §7461. in 30 months. While it is undoubtedly wiser in the long run to replace this by the Edison tubes, the question of financial ability to do it will have to be determined by the Board. It is a constant source of worry and expense. The labor in laying these Edison tubes vTill amount to about $3,000.

To attempt this work will probably result in a demand from the Penn Co. for repairs to their conduit by ua; At tho request of your President I again call your attention to this dis¬ trict.

C.0MPLOTI01T_0P THE STATION BUIhDING

V/e have at present 64000 lights for this station.

Your Engineer would prefer not to add to this until he has had an Autumn month's experience, but may find himself able to carry a few moro. Under any circumstances we are near the present limit of our boiler and machinery capacity. We could wire 100000 lights and carry them on our street conductors provided the Station wore completed and room for more boilers thereby obtained. V/e have all tho room we need for engines and dynamos.

In completing: the Station, we would be obliged to work en¬ tirely from tho Sansom Street sido as we need the Alley exclusively for coal and ashes.

With this report you receive a vortical sectional eleva¬ tion of the Station with the present height marked upon it.

It would be cheapest to complete the whole building at onco. A careful estimate of tho cost of this checked by ar. experienced builder's computation mhk os it $117,000. The office room required

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vrould thus bo obtained, and tho machinery required from time to time could bo paid for out of the earnings without preventing a modorato dividend.

Tho Builder states that the arrangements preliminary to completing the Station would be quite elaborate and preclude tho idea of building it slowly, piece by piece. The shortest possible time is 8 to 10 months.

Very respectfully & truly yours.

Supervising BngF & Son. Manager.

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Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,

N« J, & Penn' a. Concentrating Works, Ogdens burgh, N. J,

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Dear Sir:-

Th0 enclosed letter fl-oi P. s. Gorton, of the Chicago Edison Company, was reoeivad at the Laboratory this morning.

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SSEr b itzsr . sep.t. 22nd , iai. . st?

Mr. Thoa. A. Edison, V

My Dear Edison:-

We are now increasing the present station on Adems Street, and when all machinery is put in (which is under way)

A the Station will be full.

We are adding eight (8) #6o's, but I am very sorry to spend this money here, because with continued increased bus¬ iness, we are constantly pushing the business to get new cus¬ tomers, and we will want more roan. I hope you can hasten the plans of the new station, because it will take over a year to get it so as we can operate it* and I would like to do as much work as possible during this winter.

Can give Machino Works an order so as they can work on the engines and dynamos during the winter. The traable has been with the Now York office, that they were a little slow about such things, but you promised to give this matter personal attention, and I hope -yofl will attend to this oase, even if you have to neglect something else.

perhaps I am too selfish in this, but it i3 no pleasure a business unless you can push it and do a big business, and a Station with at least 20,000 H. P. in operation before

[ENCLOSURE]

The Chicago Edison Company.

139-141 ADAMS STREET.

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Thoa. A. Edison, Eaq.

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The World's Fair. I think it will be a great thing for •> • yotir business in general to have the foreigners eata« here and

see this in aotual operation, and asido from being a great thing mechanically and el ejjetrioall y, I want to have a balance ■' ifr*: 3heet with sufficient earnings to make it just as handscme that

way.

I wil 1 do my part of it, if you wil 1 give me your assistance, please let me here how they are getting along with the determination^ It is eight months since the can vassers left here.

The Edison Elective Eight Company of Philad'

CAPITAL, $^,000,0^00^ CAPACITY, 10,000 H r 8T.. Phil*. PAY BILLS AT 927 CHESTNUT STREET, 20 noon. Tclcph

IF YOU WANT CHEAP POWER, USE A MOTOR."'

E EDISON CURRENT IS ABSOLUTELY FREE FROM DANGER TO LIFE.

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CONCI:"H,HO ClMinMI^niANROCII^^OO^JUIs* AU "**"**• T° WM* D* MARKS, 8UPCR

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Thos. A. fciiaon, Eaq. ’ ’

• . Orange,. New Jersey.

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; ' .*t Your dispatch at hand. Mie p] aoe you have named, wilt

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b.^ce:iv^ >,

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■ I _expeot to be in Hew York in a week or two, and then

ijfi? 3 devote my time to thi a matter and e^ldin to you my ideas ;j»nd the ideas of my assistants what we think the best way to 'start torraake immediate returns. T know it is not your idea to liuild in a country tliat may be built Up in five years.

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The Edison Eleetme Eight Company of Philad’e

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THE EDISON CURRENT IS ABSOLUTELY FREE FROM DANGER TO

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IF YOU WANT CHEAP POWER, USE A MOTOR."'

THE EDISON CURRENT IS ABSOLUTELY FREE FROM DANGER TO LIFE.

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New York, 23rd December, 1391.

Thos. A. Edison, Esq.,

Orange, N. J.

My dear Mr, Edison :

In sending to the Chief our best wishes for the season, as I do • oji-.-behaif:^:. each and all of hi? staff in the bailiwick of this Y particular company, I can perhaps 'give him no more acceptable Christmas greeting tlian the evidence of the triumphant success of his work in this particular field as shown in the fact that this company: has this week on its stations over 120,000 16 C, P. equi¬ valent, constituting it, we have reason to believe, the largest local illuminating company ih the world.

With cordial expressions of our loyalty to the general Chief, I am /

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The Chicago Edison Company,

■1 ADAMS STREET.

Thoa. k. Edison, Es.j. Orange, it. j.

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DEC 2 9 1891.

just came to hand. It pAai

mo, do cause we can get the Charles and Harrison Street ‘property .without trouble, nnd^such a large outlay, Hope you have • made no mistake, because Harrison St. is sane distance- from the first location named by you(further south. Please look this over again to be sure you didn't mistake Harrison and Charles Sts. from some other location.

' WRBCTOHSi

The Chicago Edison Company,

139-141 ADAMS STREET.

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t - JAN 4 - ^

Thomas'' A. Edison, Esq,

• V •r' Orange , H. .T. jk-f, JjN 4 -1892

My Dear Edison:

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- ^ * t0 us ,iero * whi°h goes to show you we have

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[ENCLOSURE]

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The Chicago Edison Company,

139-141 ADAMS STREET.

Mr. Edwin v/aller,

Howe Insurance Building, City, Dear Sir:

copy ■RECEIVE

V*. JAN 4' 189 2

'"e fo(5] compelled to make complaint regard S ?C^PCt^d With our occupancy of the offices in the In^ii/fei^e Building.

*) ;4 ■ ^ . Recent! y, the trembling or shaking of the building

*aS Great that it frightens many people and at

times w^f| make any person solicitous as to his safety, v/e can, .(especially in the writer's room) frequently see the furniture move. If, as we are . informed, th< a is caused by the anchoring of the exhaust pipes of the lOdison plant to the iron frame of ■ the build, ipg, we eannot. be persuaded that it is a safe con¬ dition of";'af.i>,ir3.

rr.^Airain, the .smoke belching forth from the chimneys Of th. ,.0*0 pi nut constitutes O»oh « nuisance as to b. at times «»oot «*«„ tl„ attention of the «*,

^nopootof to „„ „» nre now lnfo»oa bp us.is-

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“T ,o “■ m* - - '■-»* «.««» to ooofoo,

«•« nor* chimney i„ tl., city.

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are unable to determine.

[ENCLOSURE]

The Chicago Edison Company,

139-141 ADAMS STREET.

(2)

Fortunately, however, as you have doubtless been advised, this is not. the on] y avenue which you can pursue to stop this nuisance... j^he Courts are open to you for that purpose and it is a- duty which you owe ro your tenants, as we respectful :iy submit,

->to pursufe;;your remedies therein.

The ‘■’Joe trie Company has no right, for economical or other reasons, to maintain a nuisance of this character and you have no right to compel your tenants, who have taken long leases, to be subjected thereto. We therefore demand that you seek your remedies, and cause this to be a bated.

Respectfully,

Aldrich, Payne and '’.'ash burn.

Dictated,

Mr.' Aldricty,

Or* ,

The Chicago Edison Company,

139-141 ADAMS STREET.

,Jrth .thKexc option of the 200 volt lamps. We have got to a< something and have got to act right away, so PJ ease Jet us r.-Jcnow when this J amp wij 3 bo ready for the teat you spoke

of wlien\I. saw you -Jastv •

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JLJLJLO* V E D; That the resolution with refer- j enee to purchases which was adopted at thy last meet ins of I the Board is hereby reconsidered and that in place thereof the following stand as the action of the Company:

_R E S 0 1 V E D! That hereafter all purchases of materials and applies amounting in any one bill to Five Hundred Dollars and upwards shall be by requisition on tho Treasurer, and after consultation between the General Man-: ager and the Executive Officers 6f the Company, so that th$ due dates of payment may be satisfactorily arranged for.

Small purchases for current work may /.he made.^dU'glipt by* thef General Manager, bills for the/ same being s ub%ef j&ntly madi, ' out on vouchers for filing in /regular order with the larg-i er bills. All bills, large pr small, contracted for by the General Manager or by an to the Treasurer at the end will show at all times every

-RE SOLVED; \jlhat the Board of Directors of I the Edison Electric Light Company desire to express their continued confidence in and appreciation of the services of their General Manager and Superintendent, Professor Wil¬ liam D. Marks, and while regretting the unfortunate diffi¬ culties which have arisen in connection with the use of th> Abendroth & Root boilers, they desire to express the be¬ lief that these difficulties have been caused by negligent construction on the part, of the builders and not fron any

>ne else are to be reported [f each day, so that his books [outstanding purchase.

fault in the theory upon which the boilers were built and which was approved of by the General Manager when he gave

1891. Electric Light - Edison General Electric Company - General (D-91-2S)

This folder contains correspondence relating to the business of the Edison General Electric Co. Most of the letters are by Sherburne B. Eaton, general counsel, and pertain to assignment of patents, interferences, and bills for legal services. A few documents in Edison’s hand relate to the choice of new dynamos for the Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of New York.

Approximately 30 percent of the documents have been filmed. The following categories of documents have not been filmed: routine correspondence regarding orders and shipments; letters of acknowledgement and transmittal.

-'Dear Mr. Edison:

/20 equitable building)

J ./Vctr r^v^Jan. 16. 1891.

Here is a list of the more important services ren¬ dered to thgGeneral Co. by mv ofrioe. It occupied our entire force of six lawyers and assistants, most of the time. Yet. our total charGe was only about $1,800. Everything is charged upon a per diem, basis and at a low rate. There are three items in this List which if charged foiu otherwise than upon a per diem basis- would ordinarily be worth 'the whole #1,800.

This bill excludes all patent litigation matters and relates only to services rendered to tie General Co.

I have felt for sometime that I would like to have you know how much work we do and how reasonable our charges are.

Please return the a nnsxed List as it forms part of my files , and oblige.

Thomas a. Edison, Esq,

[CA. JANUARY 30, 1891]

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Thomas A. Edison, Eso..,

Orange, Mew Jersey.

Dear sir:

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No .438, 310, which was inents in lamp bases, was forwarded to us enclosed assignment.

Enclosed I beg to hand you assignment of patent ls®"?d t0 on October 14, 1890 for improve- This is the combination base patent and by tKe lamp Works so that we might prepare the

have it so that

wi-j. you please execute this assignment ar witnessed by two persons, and then return the same to we may have it. recorded.

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( EQUITABLE BUILDING I

Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,

Bear Sir:

_ . Pe Assignment by you of patent N o. ^38,320 issued

inU “l0, IbiS 8ay that in my let1- to you of the loth % enclosed an assignment of this patent to the Gen- eral Co. for you to execute. I* occurs to me that I ought to hav» poapI some explanation in sending the assignment. This patent was th!v Btotid ? thS Ed*son lamp Company in a letter in which

it was a^iimLd + +rS,. nT°Ut lWder their instructions and that

was cfvereJ Tf ^ General Co. I assumed from this that it --nt +h« «d old arrangements between you and the Lamp Co., so T sent the assignment to Orange for you to execute. ’

If* you have any doubt as to whether you ou^ht to

as^^taL SrtherTa^s! PleaS6 ““ 6XeC"tion «ntil I

Hoping the above will be satisfactory, I remain,

Very truly yours,

I.lr. Randolph, -

I have arranged with Mr. Edison that I

shall charge the Edison General Electric Co. twenty-five dollars ($25) per week salary from October 1st, the date of the laborator contract. You can add this amount to their proportion of General. Expense, or charge it direct against one of their exper hperits, whichever may be the most convenient.

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against the Company for Eebruary^^i^woul^like b,illS

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EATON & LEWIS S.B. EATON

( EQUITABLE BUILDING)

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Edison General Bleotrio Company,

J.H. Herrick, Esq., Vice-President.

Dear Sir:

Ro February Bills of Dyer & Seel/ Pursuant :-o an arrangement. recently made by Controller Ord, the monthly bills of Dyer & Seely are now all sent to me in the first, instance all at the same time, and I now enclose their February bills with my approval, as follows:

Light Company, monthly services of hr. Seely, in connection with pending interferences in the Patent

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Light'- Company, monthly services of Driscoll in connection with 'interferences Ac .

Light Company, monthly services of Mr. Dyer, principally in the Filament Case. .

382.50

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Light Company, Sundry services Do disbursements .

General Company, Mot/ York Works, ’vices relating to Applications of Kail and of

disbursements

I , 397v50 100.00 322.14 month- . 150.00

45.Q0

General Company, sundry monthly ser- vicos in the Motor- Department, including interferences, ■Hunter Case &o. . ’

" ' ' , General Company, monthly son-ices in¬

cluding now application of Dnbbie Ac. .

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Do disbii 'seinsnts in same § 205.62

General Company, Raher.aor.ady works, month.1 y se-vicoB relating to application of Edison v Eer- li ner . . . ,

20.00

Do disbursements . . 36.35

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$3,550,60

Servioes . . . .$2,312.00

Disbursements . . . 733.60

3,550.60

As regards some of the services rendered I .have no personal knowledge, but I approve the bills nevertheless, as a matter of form. This is the first time that all of these i.ills have been submitted to ne. Perhaps in a few months after this plan has been in effect long enough to try it, I may submit to you some suggestions for a more intelligent supervision in these matters.

If agreeable, will you have choques sent to ’iessra Dyeift Seely in payment of all of the above bills.

Very truly yours.

General Counsel,

Re Assignment of Edison Lamp Base Patent. I bee to submit the following:

(2) On the I Oth ult. I sent you at the request of Mr. Upton, a blank assignment to the General Company of yo\xr Lamp Base Patent No. 438,310, dated October I4th, 1890, and asked you to sign it. You did so and sent it back on the «4th ult., with a request that I should sec if any reasons existed why you should not execute the assignment. You told me to hold the assignment if I Md any doubt about it. I have done so, for reasons given below,

(2) Section five of the contract of Nov. 25. 1887, be¬ tween you, the Lamp Co. and the Light Co., provides that all in¬ ventions pertaining to the lamp, made or acquired by you or the Lamp Company before Nov. 25, 1890, shall be assigned to the Light Company freeof charge. T^is ontract seems to be still in force'. I believe that Mr. Villard promised that this contract should be can¬ celled, but so far as I know that has never been done. In view of the hostile attitude of certain warlike stockholders of the Light Company, it cannot safely be cancelled by that Company, even with the consent of the General Co., except for adequate consideration.

(3) Under the above existing contract, I think this Lamp Base Patent should be assigned to the Light Co. instead of the General Co.

(4) I take this occasion to speak of your patent for leading in wires No. 444,530, .fan. 13, 1891, application filed September 15, 1890. Is not this patent covered also by the above agreement?

(5) The proposed laboratory Contract between you and

tho General Co., executed provisionally as of October I, 1890, pro¬ vides in its third section that all inventions which you were then

engaged in making or perfecting or which you might make for five years should be assigned to the General Co. The aforesaid tri¬ partite agreement of Nov. 25, 1887, is in <t> nflict with the said Laboratory Agreement, as appears above.

Steps should be taken at once to cancel the aforesaid tripartite agreement of Nov. 25, 1887.

I send a copy of this letter to Mr, Insull so that he may take such action as he thinks best.

Hoping the above will be satisfactory, I remain,

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0. E. Tate, Esq.,

Private Secretary to Thomas A. Edison,

Orange, New Jersey.

Deai- Sir:-

U. S. Senator Chas. J. Faulkner with his partner Mr. Stewart W. Walker, of Martinsburg, W. Va., called at my office reoently^and seeing Mr. Edison's photograph hung on the wall in¬ sisted that I should make a request to you f for one of these pic¬ tures .

I do it with a great deal of reluctance, because you have already been subjected to two other requests, for the same purpose,

I will state, however, that we have one of the finest Edison plants in the United States in Martinsburg, W. Va., and the above named gentlemen^were instrumental in closing the contract /or the Edison System. They are to-day thorough believers in everything Edison, and hse been of great service to me in this territoiy through reference.

If you would be so kind as to forward me another photograph

with Mr. Edison's autographed a letter which can be forwarded to

n?!^Lar+u2Uit'8 3Url it be £reatly appreciated by them and li8® means Partially recompensing them for their empaht-

lo words of approval for the Edison System. -9

Yours truly.

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A. 0. Tate, Esq., Private Secretary, *■'" ^ 1891— 1 -O

EATON a LEWIS EUCE^Lte’^--

Referring to your favor of the 2nd inst., in which you enclosed a letter of Mr. Alexander Elliott relating to United States Patent No. 236,399, issued to Alfred 0. Holcomb, for a de¬ vice known as the to and fro winding, I beg to state that I have had an examination made of this patent with a view of ascertaining whether it would be profitable for the Edison Company to acquire the s ame .

The patent is a thin detailed specific patent . It is sc •far as I can judge of no interest to the Edison Company except as a means of offensive operation against their rivals above named.

But it is not available for this purpose because the said rival companies already own one half interest in it and for the purpose of making, using and selling the device that is as good as an en¬ tire interest. I do not understand that the Edison Company wants to make this specific form of machine, that is, a machine,

"in which the whole induced conductor, wound to and fr.o "longitudinally on a cylindrical armature and having no

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"pole pieces projecting between its sections, is in one "circuit, with only two free ends, in combination with a "series of field magnets . "

If it is of no use to proteot the Edison Company's manu¬ facture, and no use for offensive litigation of what use is it?

So far as I can see, it is not of sufficient practical value for the Edison Company to have anything to do with it .

Herewith I beg to return the letter of Mr. Elliott dated September 1st,

General Counsel E.O.E.Co.

Gen. Co .

[ENCLOSURE]

Paterson, N. J., Sept. 1,1691.

Thomas A. Mis on, Esq.,

Laboratory, Orange, N. J.

Dear sir:--

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My attention has been called by a gentleman in New York to the U. S. patent dated January 4,1881 No. 236.399 and issued to Alfred G. Holcomb and is known as the to and fro winding and is the Westing-4^ouse and Thompson - Houston alternator of to-day.

My informant also says that the Thomson - Houston Company owns one-half interest in the same and that negotiations have been commenced by them for the other half so as to have' sole ownership and control, and are waiting the return of their lawyer, Mr. Pish, and action will be taken in the course of a week or ten days.

This of course as you are aware I know nothing of, but it does seem to me that if the invention is of any value or advantage for you, to. secure.it.

I am satisfied that this one-half can be purchased at very reasonable figures and I would be willing to turn the whole matter over to you to be handled directly by you or hahdle the matter for you

[ENCLOSURE]

and under your instruction.

The party who has spoken to me about it is a Mr. Lewis Cf Lilley of New York.

Kespectfully yours,

No Enc.

EBIS0N LaB0RAT©RY.

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OCT 29 1891

You will shdrtly receive some samples of the Carpenter heating apparatus, viz. a flat iron and a stew pan,, both built for a circuit of 110 volts. The pan should not be connected without, having water in it.

I should very m&ch appreciate your opinion as to1 the value of this apparatus when you can find time to examine it, as the inventor of the method is an old friend. when Mr Carpenter first brought his apparatus to my notioe, it ooofirred to me that an electrical resistance built on this plan would have°great advantages, — it would be1 fire and water proof, and pratically indestructible when properly used. It would also occupy but very little space, and be exceedingly cheap to manu¬ facture. iT ■ •

In an actual test I found that No 28 B.& s. German silver wire

would melt^rith a current of rfg amperes in the open air i

or trolvo minuton, but it would carry that current indefinitely when covered by the Carpenter process, hence you can see how greatly space can be economised, especially in the construction of resistances for heavy currents, such as ohoking coils for street car motors, regulators

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for theatre lighting etc. ■?

The Carpenter Cq. have quite a large sale for their heating apparatus, and Mr Vi 1 lard has lately interested himself in their new Car heater, but I am especially interested in the method as applied

to Electrical resistance, and should be very glad to get an opinion

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from you as to the probable 0f the Carpenter method in this con¬

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The models which you will receive are not new, but have been in practical use for some months.

, Yours very truly

WSA/HEJ.

1891. Electric Light - Edison General Electric Company - Lamp Works - General (D-91-26)

This folder contains correspondence relating to the business of the Lamp Manufacturing Department of the Edison General Electric Co., formerly the Edison Lamp Co. Many of the letters are by Francis R. Upton, general manager, and pertain to the testing and improvement of lamps. Also included are letters by Edison’s inspector, C. A. Brown, about production problems at the lamp factory.

Approximately 60 percent of the documents have been filmed. The following categories of documents have not been filmed: routine correspondence regarding accounts, equipment, and orders; letters of transmittal and acknowledgement; duplicate copies of selected material.

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Thomas A. Edison, Esq., Orarge, N. J.

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Mr. Deshler requests that ventilation he provided so that the heat in the test room next summer be more endurable than it was last summer.

|f we will pay for the expenses of putting a large school house ventilator on the roof over the test room in the Laboratory, will you allow the same to be done?

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I am in receipt* of Mr. Brown ' s reports of pump room working,, ana have investigated several of the mat fa- s mentioned.

As regards large phosphorous cups, these will be put upon the pumps as soon as we g :-t the tubing, to make them of. V/o telegraphed some wee fes hack ana have eritton ropo tedl.y tc t}.e Gorniu- Glass Works -for #a tubn . W bare h J cro small ship¬ ment, which has been used up , and are hoping:- for another in a few das„. ■ : ;/ ,

As regards solt^rivg of lamps without' an extra tube,

1 do not' believe from precautions that .are now- being taken,;' that this can occur, only in a very few instances.

Mr. Hippie chall nged Mr. Browr to break n, the tubes when lamps were ready for aSkfcwff' and that Mr. Brown; tried it an. gave it up, after having arced three la ips in his trial. T bo- lieve that 'the lamps have ‘burned us high as it is prudent t'o burn them on the pumps and that the tube i solid for the Sana height of burning.

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I enclose copy of 1 otter fro Mr. Coster of Denver, end copy of letter fran the Denver Co., to Mr, Coster.

The Denver Co., need about between twenty and thirty thousand lamps a year, and would buy of the Edison Co., if their customers would use short • filament lamps.

Yours truly.

General manager .

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[ENCLOSURE]

Denver, Colorado April 14-lRI'l,

Prom Coo. V/. Cos tor, Dist. Mgr.

To Lamp Works.

On the 2nd inst,, I wrotetho Denver Consolidated Elect rio Co., asking why they were buying no more lamps from us and stating that if they did not intend to p’urchnse onr lamps any more we would feel ourselves at liberty to sell directly to their customers Vie have received no orders from this Company during the past two months and have simply been fillingo”ders placed with us before that time. I am in receipt fronj them of the reply to my letter of the 2nd, which I beg to enclose for your porsual. It will be evident to you that out threat to sell lamps to their customers amount to nothing air all, as the Colorado Company must furnish its cixstomers with lamps, and if the customers would buy from us it would be so much clear gain for the Consolidated Company.

I sent yon a letter a few days ago from the Payson Elec. Co., and from time to time I called your attention to the loss in the Lamp trade owing to the short Carbon Lamps." Vie had several promises that the longer carbon low volt lamp was being made for us. Vie have promised this change to our customers but nothing has yet been done.

Unless something is done in this matter very soon we shall lose all of our lamp trade.

Yours very truly, Reo. VI, Costs

[ENCLOSURE]

(COPY)

Mr, George \Y. Coster, District. Manager,

Edison General Electric Company, Denver, Colo.

Apr, lHth,1891.

Dear Sir:-

Yours of the 2nd inst., at hand. V/e are buying all our municipal lamps of your Company.

Referring to the fifty volt lam-s for our incandescent work, we will state that the short filament lam; s you make have not given satisfaction to our customers, and have heen returned to ns in such quantities that we have had to cease using them.

If you can furnish us with a long filament lamp of the voltage.it will give us great pleasure to make you our favored customer for these lamps, provided of course terms are satisfactory, and the result of the lamp was equal to others, which we believe is gener¬ ally the case in your lamp, as far as consumption of current goes.

Yours truly,

(signed) W.’Y.Brost,

Supt ,

EDISON GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY HARRISON N.J.

May 1st ,1891.

Thomas A. Edison, Esq..,

Orruge.N.'JY pear Sir:-

I am in rocoipt oi' Brown’s report, upon the inspection of the pump room. Tho burning blue of the lamps when on the pump -, does not, occur, only in a few instances. If we run slow enough to entirely fetop it, it goes so much' into the rest, that it does not semi best to do it. Some lanps will show this while other do not show it.

So far as I can learn of. the use of too much ammonia in cleaning the pumps, v/.e use the same amount as we always have, but Mr. Brown has found by examining the traps which we are now using to collect any thing which may get into the mercury, that there is considerable .ammonia water on the surface of the mercury. So far as we can find out, the use of a little ammonia is ne edful oo make tho pumps work quick and in thoroughly good shape. A very little ammonia lin each pump will amount to a teaspoonful in Lb trap at the ond of tho day. .

As regards- Mr. Brown's examination as to not working tin. pump in accordance with your directions, I beg to diff-r with him.

It was understood by me In the last . conversat ion I. had with you, that wo should continue working the lamps on 160 volt lino, until

Thomas A. Edison, Esq. , #2.

they had determined at the Laboratory what benefit there was from using 110 volt line.”

As regards testing lamps for spots, every lamp should be looked after at, on the pumps by the man working it for spots and mark with a -label as a resistance lamp. The spotted lamps are so very low, that it is not worth while to make an inspection any closer than this .. We have hau a groat many hasps examined for spots in the Photaueter Room and do not find enough: to pay fd’ the examination. In the course of our- business , we have never had a- lanp returned to us as being' spotted and it is. not a matter, which is in any way vital -to the business, if one lanp in a thousand has q slight spot in it.

Yours truly

- General Manager.

ELECTRIC COMPANY

19 time past , 200 carbons have bee:

taken.

every box, out of each run received from if. & H. These have

of the 100 lamps. This selection is only made to .ins#i trtial selection. .

room and there only in cutting out the lamp box. In one lot -narked with two letters, the larqi box was cut out gradually. In. the other case marked with two letters and on X added the lamp box was all cut out at once. • ■

I have care fully looked into the running anu believe ths the orders represent1, a fair experiment and that,- every point has been guarded. This method of. comparison between lamps by running daily, two orders of 100 carbons each and varying only one point. 4n -the manu fa'cture , • seems 1 0‘ all o f us the bo st po ssibl method . . - By i t , small.. o hanges .are el iminated- and' the, e xperimoit n is carried on in the regular product of all departments, all work, i don b gul i m one c whom know ; e tiling i > i

experiments, beyond carrying out simple directions.

I consider this experiments conclusive, as the results are the average of tv.' enty eight orders of ten lanps each.

The slow run laitps taking the average of 14 orders, v/hich are all to date. s-how a life :of 1386 hours.

The' 14 sets of quick run lanps, run sane days and out- of same carbons as the 14 sets of slow run lamps, show an average, life of 1496 hours.

I believe that there is no difference between slow and quick running, except in the number of lanps that can be taken, from a pump in a day.

This was the result obtained a year, ago when about 1300 lamps were run.

I am now running one aisle cutting out the lamp, box at one time and will report to you the results .

I have examined in the question of using the low cur r on i.e. .the HO volt line and as nearly -as I can learn, it is several

Yours tml;

-NERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

Mr' Jackson informs me that yo.. stated the other day to

that when we ran a small number o flails, we niado good lamos

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any laige numbers of lanps wore poor.

I b'B h° enclose two lists showing the number of carbon f which the orders which had been put on test, were selected You will note tliat t lie "selected" orders were taken Largo numbers of carbons and that A F S' 'was taken, from 3600

Yours

[ENCLOSURE]

ORDER A A S A B 3 ACS A D 3 A E S

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I'.A. Edison, Esq. ,

Orange, N.J.

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May, I5th, 1891

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ting you regarding the orders in the pump low and run quick. . It occurred to we

3i o>:i some different rosuits bet¬ ween the two orders when the orders wore sj mmed rp. I therefore asked Mr. Jackson to investigate the breakage in both of those o* tiers, aid report to me.

I enclose (copy of his report. This is iinp^pbetod^by ine as I anticipated that the “X" order would show the larger

[ENCLOSURE]

l,f. Upton:

According to the delivery slips ofrom glass room and pump room, there wore 177 lamps broken in the "regular" lettered orders j o to j u, inclusive, while there were 169 lamps broken in t)ie corresponding "x" orders. Breakage nearly 6 % greater in the regular" orders than in the "x" orders.

May

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Ed son Laboratory, Orange, N.J

Aug. 5th, 1891

Gent lemon

I received this morning by messenger , a new glass' blowing machine which we will put to practical trial. I have ordered another machine to be s ent to the' Laboratory to replace the one s ent here. The mess enger s ta ted that there las been a thouj and inside parts and a number of^ bulbs ordered. We ha vs no such order on our files, and have sent the inside parts ' and bulbs upon a memorandum amd will want an order to cover the same.

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Hmrison, JV. J., _ LLu^a1!~.18 1

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THE FOLLOWING LAMPS:

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• EDISON GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

Thomas A, Edison, Esq., Orange,

Dear Sir:-

N.J.

Aug. nth, 1891.

We are sending you by this morning's express a sample of air regular bulbs which have turned blue for- some reason, which neither the #Lass Works nor ourselves can explain.

Please advise, us, if discoloration is.

EDISON GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY,

Aug. 29th, 1891

From General f/amgar,

Tfl Edison, Esq., Orange, N.J.

Dear Sir:

Enclosed I leg to hand you a oopy of letter received ft* the Central District Mamgsr. and also oopy of a letter he received fro. the fort »ayne Elec. Co. i„ relation to lo^ fitoent low volt lamps.

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[ENCLOSURE]

August 80*11,3.893.

Prom Central Dint riot Manager,

To General Manager, Damp Works.

With further referonoe to correspondence between the Port Wayno Bleotrio Company and the Canadian District, I bog to attaoh herewith oopy of a letter received thiosvjp^ning; from the main office of the Port Wayne Company, by which we understand that the lamp which has been giving satisfaction is the 8.0 Watt lamp. They do not desire, however, that the recent large orders which wo forwarded to your Works, raarkod: "to be filled with a long fila- mnnt lemp" should bo filled with the 3.G Watt. They are to he held until such time as wo have developed and perfected the stand¬ ard long carbon lamp for SO volts.

Yours very truly,

(Signed) John I. Boggs, 73.H.

District Manager,

[ENCLOSURE]

Edison General Elect rio Co., 173 Adams St;, Ohioag6, Ill.

Gentlemen: -

"COPY"

Port Wayne, Ind. ,

Aug. 24th, 18G1.

Referring to your letter of August 10th stating that you had received our letter to your Canadian District Manager, dated August 7th, we bog to cay that Mr. Pitch reforred to the latest stylo lamp that, you are mailing, and simply referred to them as long filament lamps because" they were an improvement over the short filament lamps that we have received heretofore. We have no record of having received any lamps designated as "long filament" Tho lamps you have lately been sending us give better satisfaction and are the ones Mr. Pitch referred to in hia letter of the 7th.

You’-e truly,

(Signed) Port Wayne Electric Co.,

C. C. Miller.

1891. Electric Light - Foreign (D-91-28)

This folder contains correspondence relating to the electric light business in foreign countries. Most of the letters are by Sherburne B. Eaton, Edison’s personal attorney and general counsel to the Edison Electric Light Co. Much of the correspondence pertains to the assignment of patents to the Brush Electrical Engineering Co., the Compagnie Continental Edison, and the Edison & Swan United Electric Light Co., Ltd. Also included are letters regarding the discontinuance of various electric light patents.

Approximately 80 percent of the documents have been filmed. The following categories of documents have not been filmed: routine business correspondence relating to dynamos and other matters; letters of acknowledgement; duplicate copies of selected items.

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Thomas Alya Edison Esq.

Orange |New Jersey |

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Dear' Sir, ' ' : ‘

We beg herewith to bring the following facts to your notice t .

In the month of ’January 1890, we resolved to stop the introduction into France of Edison lamps of foreign making. Consequently we ordered lamps to be seized at a certain number of people & we prosecuted ’ either as infringer or ‘as holder of infringed objects :

The Compagnie Popp

Mes's. Siemens * Halske

The Allgemeine Elektrioitaets Gesellsohaft . of Berlin, in the person of Mr.' Rathenau, the manager of said Company ;

The Compagnie Internationale d’Eleotricite.in the person of Mr. Lepine.the Manager of -said Company.

Mr. Ullmann and several others, such as 'the "Hotel Moderns", the Cafd Amerieain" ,the Cafe Durand", the "Theatre des Variates". The Compagnie Popp declared itself ready , to

come to terms, accepting the validity of the Edison patents A made an agreement with the following conditions :The said Cie. Popp to buy exclusively their lamps from us A we on the other hand abstain¬ ing ourselves from continuing the litigation against the Cie. Popp itself and against its clients :The "Theatre deB Varieties" the "Cafe Durand A. the. "Cafe Amdrtpain" .

As for the other defendants , the same advo¬ cate was intrusted with the defence of Mess. Siemens et Halske, the Allgemeine Electricitaets Gesellsahaft A Mr. Ullmann.

In the name of Mess. Siemens A Halske A the Allgemeine Elektricitaets Gesellschaft.he argued A , the Court, delivered a' Judgment in accord with him on this point., that . the : . proof of the facts as brought up by us before the said Court, were not preoise enough to show that the said two houses .had taken part in the aet of introducing into Prance Edison lamps manufactured in •.Germany A that therefore there was no cause . Tor us to. continue the litigation against them.

On the other hand, the, complaints against Mr. Jacques Ullmann A the Cie. Internationale d'Electrioit^ .were maintained before Court, but the Jufgment delivered,by the 9 th.

. Chamber of the Court of the Seine department | 9 eme Chambre du Tribunal de la Seine) dated 7 th. February last, aeoepted the proposition of Mr. Jacques ullmann, offering to prove by means of witnesses that the Compagnie Contihentale Edison, at that period proprietor of the Edison patents, had introduced into France from 1882 to 1887, for the wants * requirements of its trade, lamps manufactured in America.

The Court decided that on the 9 th. of May next the witnesses summoned as proposed by Mr. J. Ullmann, to prove the reality of his assertions, would be heard', and among the said witnessed Ullmann has named MM. Th. A. Edison, Insull, Upton, Dyer, eto.

In pleading the advocate of Mr. Ullmann making this statement 4fe the offer to prove it, * offering to bring the . necessary Witnesses to the bar, made the following commentary :

Mr. gdison,he said, had communicated himself to Mr. ttathenau , the manager of the Allgemeine Elektrioitaets Gesells- chaft,a certain number of documents, amongst which was a list of the -lamps- the Cie; Oontinentale Edison was said to have imported from America into France since 1882.

The next day, he said, Mr. Edison remembered that he and his friends were holders of foundershares of' the' Cie. Coptinentale Edison, 4: that the list thus imprudently comnunicated could, if found,oorrect, be a cause of nullity for the french patents & thus prejudice tpe interests of the Company possessing the said patents , & those interested in the concern in question.

Mr. Edison, he added, asked that the compromising document shoulji*' without delay.be returned to him * Mr. Rathenau.is said to have returned it to him accordingly.

However, according to the advocate of Mr. Ullmann, this list exists, has been communicated to Mr. Rathenau & been seen by several people in his hands, and if Mr. Edison and hi s^ friends, he said, were called upon by Court to give evidence on this point, they would he unable not to admit the fact of these importations into France, of Edison lamps manufactured in the United ■States. u

We wanted to keep you posted on these statements of our adversaries, though we are certain on our side that if ever Mr*. Edison had been in business connection with Mr. Rathenau, he never could have comnunicated a list of supposed importations, wh44h never were made. Perhaps Mr.' Rathenau made a confusion, considering as importations into France, the goods you sent off at our request to Danemark, to Russia, Italy and Spain, perhaps even expeditions made into French ports, but in »bond» only,* with reexpedition to foreign countries,

. • . ... . Tt seemed to us that there is a great interest

to caution you against the traps that could be laid in this matter and also to make you well aware of the consequences of that lawsuit which we are certain will turn to the full confusion of the infringers.

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Yours very

^TONji LEWIS S. B. EATON

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Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,

Dear Sir:

Re Assignment of Edison English Electric light patents to The Edison & Swan United Electric ligtt Company, Limited.

I beg to submit the following:

(X) S. Flood page, Secretary and Manager of the said Edi¬ son & swan Company wrote to Mr. Insull frcrn London under date of February IS, IS9I, enclosing an assignment to be executed by you, of fourteen certain Edison' English patents to the said Company, and enclosing also a checque for /2IO.I3.6, date October 7,1890, and drawn to your order, to pay you as per Prior agreement (plus the agreed value of certain dynamos 1890) for your expenses for experiments and for taking out these particular patents, as per Sec. 9 of the agreement of Febru¬ ary IS, IS82(known as the Bouverie agreement), between you and certain other parties interested in the English patents.

(2) The said assignment which Major Page sends you recite# the history of thetitle of the pc- esent Edison and Swan Com-

I

pany to the said fourteen parents, but recites it imperfectly. The recital begins with the Bouverie agreement, and ends by stating that the present Edison * swan Company has succeeded to the rights of the original Edison English Company as set forth in that agreement, it omits one connecting ilnk, vl2. to refer to and to recite the agreement whereby the old Edison English Company conveyed its rights to your- patents to the said Edison & swan Company. This omission is of course not vital. The pith of the whole thing is whether in fact the new company has acquired title to these patents from the old Company. shall I assume that this is so? jf you say that I shall, an right. But if you do not say so, please have Mr. Tate send me the contract, if you have it, whereby the Edison & swan Company acquired your patents and invention from the original Edison Electric Light Company, Limited, of London.

(3) This said new assignment sent. by Major page, further more contains a provisionf see top of third page, that you shall assign your future inventions, as to lighting, heating and motive agent, to the said Edison & Swan Company. T*is means that you shall assign all future inventions which you ,„S may at an, time make. I find that in the said Bouveri e agree

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ment you agreed to do this, so far as the original Edison English Company was concerned. section nine of that agree¬ ment recites that without further payment, they shall have yo:ir future inventions. if the Edison & Swan Company has in deed acquired the rights of the old Edison Company , this pro¬ vision in this new assignment is all right.

(4) This new page assignment further provides that you

shall be paid all expenses leading up to new improvements.

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Section nine of the Bouverie Agreement^ hat you should be paid sucli expenses, "with 100 per cent, added" without reference to the amount of any compensation which you may be entitled to receive from other persons. Your expenses and fees in taking out and getting up patents were also to be paid back to you.

I think that this 100 per cent, provision ought to be inserted in this Page assignment, rear the middle of the third page thereof, unless indeed you have somewhere waived that, which I do not think is the case.

(5) Section fifteen of the said Bouverie agreement pro¬ vided that when you assigned any patents, free and exclusive licenses should be immediately given you to use all or any of the same for railways or tramways or on common roads and for all other purposes except lighting, heating and as a mo¬ tive agent. It seems to me that Major Page ought to have

sent the licenses of this kind for you to execute and approve of, when he sent this proposed assignment. I advise you to insist on having the two things proceed abreast of each other You were obligpdto assign the patents. They are obliged to grant the licenses. Let the foims fo r all these things be prepared and submitted at the sametime. True the said sec¬ tion 15 says that "immediately after the assignment" licenses shall be given you. Notwithstanding that, I advise you to insist that the forms with proper phraseology be all prepared at the sametime for both documents.

(6) To sum up, please instruct me as follows:

(a) Shall I assume that the Edison Swan Com¬ pany has complete title to your patents which you agreed to turn over under the Bouverie Agreement?

(b) If not, have you a copy of the agreement between the old Edison English Company and the Edison Swan Company, so that I can see just what title the new Company got?

(c) Shall you insist that the 100 per cent, extra compensation for experiments must be recited in this assignment inasmuch as they bring in that subject somewhat unnecessarily and seem to take particular pains to omit this item?

(d) Shall you request that licenses for rail¬ ways &c. be prepared by the Edisnon & Swan Company and be approved by you , in advance of your executing this assignment in order that you may be satisfied with the phraseology be- foro you pass title to the pat aits?

Sha11 1 assume without examining the English patents that the recital of them which appears in the schedule of Major Pagei assignment is correct?

(f) Referring to Major Page's letter of Peb.

13, 1891, to l,,. „ . „„ th,t ,he Jimbo

was settled as therein stated?

(3) In ,io. of „r. XnBulI'a m„.„ t „„„ ^ p>_

P.- t. yon for y.ur In.r.otfon,, 8lthoneh , sussMt that

““I a°tion be Postponed until We see whether »

see whether he can give the

■natter attontion „lthout too „„„ May.

Please return all of the

osed documents sent here-

vath, without delay.

Awaiting the tavor of your early reply, j ranaijty Very tiuly yoUrs,

Enclosures. Copy letter of Ma1o„ „ ^

May I0> IS87 „ J '*** t0 ™««n, fct.d

to, IS87. Copy „

1 toMaJor Page> dated

August 28, I89o» Chocque of Edison & Swan United Electric Light Company, Limited, for<^2I0.I3.6 in favor of T.A.Edison, dated Oct. 7, 189^ ; Letter of Major Page to Mr. Insull, dated Feb. 13, 1891.; Proposed Assignment of patents by Thomas A. Edison to Edison and Swan United Electric Light Com pany, Limited enclosed in Major Page's letter of Feb. 13, • 1881.

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New York City, March 14, 1891,

f,_ ^^Jear Mr. Edison:

:'i§§r' Re Italian Company Railway Business. On general princi- it 'may be well for you to file this letter away among your papers. \ - While it does not directly concern you personally, still it,. affects your interests.

Very truly yours,

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letter fro* Milan to the a aid Continental Comply, dated February 13, ifioi .

(3) Mr. Tata stated in his anid letter of December Slot, that no intelligent action Battld bo taxon horn on the Complaint of the Italian Company unless no had copies of the contracts between that Company and the said Continen¬ tal Company. ?,e, therefore, ashed in his letter for those copies, to*8tner with a statement to be prepared by ti,e' Ital¬ ian Company of what the. consider their lef-a rights to bo in this matter. That request has not boon complied with.

',0 hSV° r°°clv2d> 80 fnr aB T know and as the correspondence snows, no copies of the contracts and no statement of sup¬ posed local nijhte. The Milan letter of February to

tne continental Company stated that they enclosed therein an extract from their contract, which, the* stty> was ln ?roncil and not in Italian, and tuo said letter then itoos on to use these words "You ean procure the other documents yourselves to send to America*. APi srontly the Continental Company did not send you the extract which the Milan Company sent to it. Nor has it sent to you copies of the da si ra cl contracts.

... f4> Til® Milan letter of Feb. I3tu, states

utfpat "indemnity* the Italian Company wants for the invasion

[ENCLOSURE]

of ‘itsu-ighto which formed the basin of original complaint.

' ilhoy aoJ: to .,a paid ten per centum on the Edison materials which have beer, delivered, «lsd tncy demand that in f.ture. a: til0 ClSiivCl*iSs and elsewhere, be made tnro«,h

their mediation; and as to the Florence dynamos complained oJ that a piste be affixed to thorn bearing tno nemo of the Ital- ian Company. it seems to me there is nothin, unr oasonable in this demand, provided the exist to, contracts entitle the Italian Company to make it. hut how can we tell that until wo sec those contracts? Yue Continental Company has acted strangely in that U has paid no attention to Mr. Tato’s ro.juest for copies of contracts and statement of i<.~si posi¬ tion. Wo ourht to have those contracts not only to refer to in this particular matter, but also to refer to in fixture, an, I hope you will make this event the occasion to secure copies from either Paris or Milan.

(3) My advise is that you have tho Edison Bloat rio Mont Company of Europe, Limited, write another let¬ ter to the P ronch Company, somewhat as follows:

M, Louia Rau,

Administrateur Lslogue,

Cio Continontalo Edison,

. J3oa„ rJ 8 Ht,° Cauraartin, Paris, P-«nce.

Wo bog to acknowledge tho receipt of your

[ENCLOSURE]

esteemed favor of the Tilth alt. , enclosing s copy of a letter to you dated mo 1 3th til*, r.-oxi the Soelota Gen oral o Italians do Klottrita, hisnonoo Edison at ?-<ilen. Those lo tiers are in reply to o-r letter to you on Hcccm- bor 31, 1800.

Eoforc vro can sot intelligently on th-i olaim of the Mila n Company, it is iivportant tuat wo should have exact copies of all existing agreements ami statu tes of every Kind v/noreby the Italian Company has aeqei- rod any rights ns to Hr. Edison's inventions and patents. V.’o would also li.ee a statement from tiio Italian Coraoanv of whs t they eorjsidar t.ioir lefjsi rights this matter to be. Wo took pains to ask far these things !•> our letter of nooombar 31st, T!J90, but to our surprise you paid no attention '.mat over to our request. Tt appears from letter of Feb. I3th, from tiio Milan corns any to you tuat they tout you an extract from tneir contract, but you have not oven sont tuat to us.

Pardon