THE C1YIZEN, TUESDAY, JULY i, 1913.
PAGE THREE
I TELLS
LIFE STORY
Inventor, In Court, States How
Wireless Idea Grew.
SUES FOR INFRINGEMENT.
Dreamed of the Possibilities erf His In
vention When a Boy and Worked to
Develop It Alleges National Signal
ing Company Is Using Theories
Which He Patented.
Gugllelmo Mnroonl, testifying In New
York In the Injunction and dnmngc
suit brought by the Mnroonl Wireless
Telegraph Conipony of America against
the National Electric Signaling com
pany, briclly sketched the remarkable
career that made wireless telegraphy
and the name Marconi practically syn
onymous. It was the life story of a well to do
Italian lad who had expanded the germ
of an Idea to worldwide proportions.
From a more toy that spluttered feebly
across the length of a dining room ta
ble he had laboriously evolved the mira
cle worker of the present day, which
sends Its message Jnmplug across C000
miles.
The Idea was not entirely new, he
said, but he Insisted that the develop
ments covered by his patents had made
wireless practicable and lifted It out
of the- class of scientific freaks to a
place among the commercial utilities
that arc now almost Indispensable. lie
denied that he had taken his best Ideas
from either I'opoff or Hertz.
Inventor a Good Witness.
Marconi made a good witness. He
was as shrewd In appraising the ques
tions or mo patent lawyers as no was
In weighing nnd framing his replies.
Ho Is a man of medium height and
build, dark or coloring, and the slight
nervousness ho manifested seemed
characteristic rather than the result of
the swiftly shifting and sharp attacks
he was subjected to in cross examina
tion. At one point he was accused of tak
ing his Idea for grounding wires from
the German scientist ropoff, this alle
gation being based on the fact that
newspaper reports at the time patents
wore pending contained no reference
to this vital improvement 111 apparatus,
Tho lawyers for the defense took this
to mean that tho idea of grounding
came to him nffer lie had applied for
patents. Popoff suggested such an im
provement Just about Uiat time.
"Certainly not," Marconi replied,
"Do you think I would bo fool enough
to give away ono of my very best Ideas
before I had patented It?"
Marconi Is thirty-eight years old, al
though his nppoaranco would indicate
that more than eleven years have
elapsed since be came over, n more
boy in appearance and enthusiasm, to
demonstrate tho practicability of his
apparatus to the government and peo
pie of this country, nis mustache is
gone, but seriousness has taken its
place. Ho seems to have aged even
more than tho passing of time would
warrant. Cares have multiplied pro
digiously for tho young man (then loss
than twenty) who in 18&1 road of the
experiments of Hertz, the German
wireless Inventor, and was fired to new
experiments with tho apparatus he
had toyed with as a schoolboy.
Experimenter From Boyhood.
Most of tho earlier experiments were
made on his father's country estate In
Italy, which Marconi described as two
and one-half miles long arid half a
mllo wide. Ho had boon interest! In
physics and electricity from boyhood,
ho testified, and naturally paid most
attention to studies bearing upon the
subject, nis education alqng these
lines had not been exhaustive, how
ever, except in so far as ho taught
himself, and it is to this self teaching
that bo owes his title of electrical en-
mnnnF h mm run r 1 riui nn wnu TivnnTi'
hn Rtnolr norslstontlv tn tho stnilv nnd
It was not until ho bad elevated his
Irtna flinf- )l n writs nli1.n f con I nrnn n
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ilmost uninterrupted march to fame
md fortune, extonding from tho Eng
Ish postofllco experiments in 1897
lown to tho present day. Tho Brlt-
sh navy was the first to tako It up,
hen tho Italian navy. Tho American
mvy has a system of Its own which
enuants say, 11 mo aiarconi people
vin their suit
lYIUintn OENI CNbCI) 5UN.
Oman I oia ay ouuri 10 r-ass nuunn
on Thief.
A mother was called upon to pass
entenco upon her thirteen-year-old
on In tho Juvenile court in Chicago
ftcr tho boy had been found guilty of
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juugo l'lncKney, wno was sitting,
UMl Itll EI 1111111 AS A II II KJ iiCUl 1A
10 testimony against her son, Joseph,
determine his punishment
"You must earn tho money to pay
r wiiih you BToiB," sua too mower.
mi TnilKr nivimlan tn In tAl nrnw
Bbt by 0 o'clock or I'll ask tho Judge
Bena you away until your hair
vh irrav." Trafl nap wiiinu Tha
How To Become a Member ot The
National Society of The Daughters ot The
American Revolution
New York. Tho Revolutionary Ar
chives, compiled by Dorthold Pernow,
are very good. Roberts' New York
in tho Revolution is also an admir
able authority. If tho servlco can
not bo found in these volumes or in
town histories, it will be necessary
to write to the Archivist of tho State
Historical Society or to tho Comp
troller, Albany, N. Y.
New Jersey. General Stryker's
Jerseymen In tho Revolution is an
excellent roster. The "Minutes of
the Provincial Congress and Council
of Safety" can be consulted for civil
service. If an ancestor's namo can
not be found in either of these two
volumes, write to the Adjutant Gen
eral, Trenton, N. J.
Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania
Archives have been compiled by Dr.
William H. Egle, lato State Librar
ian. There are many good Town and
County Histories. If the record can
not bo found, write to the State Li
brarian, Harrlsburg, Pa.
'Delaware. If the service can not
be found in Scharfs History of Dela
ware, write to the Secretary of State,
Dover.
Maryland. The Maryland Archives
are compiled by William Hand
Browne. Scharfs History of Mary
land, .Hanson's Old Kent and an
Imperfect roster in Saffell's Revolu
tionary Records can bo consulted. If
proof can not be found in these vol
umes, write to tho Commissioner of
the Land Ofilce, Annapolis, Md.
Virginia. It is very difficult to
find Virginia service owing to the de
struction of papers during the Civil
War. Howe's and Campbell's His
tories of Virginia, Bishop Meade's
"Old Churches and Families," several
Genealogical works with the Virginia
Historical Magazine, and the William
and Mary Quarterly all contain much
valuable information. A fairly good
roster can bo found In Saffell; lists
of Committees are in Force's Ameri
can Archives, with other records of
importance. Any further proof
needed may bo found by addressing
the Virginia State Library, or the
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Quaint Announcements of Old Time
Shops in Boston and Salem.
The six and eight line advertise
ments of the ancient general shops
(forerunners of our modern depart
ment shops) make curious reading
in tho light of our present day news
paper displays, yet they were not
without their own quaint entice
ments. One of these early shops,
says the House Beautiful, had tho
following list of merchandise:
Best Indian bandannas, broad
cloth in patterns, twilled and plain
cordoroys, purple and white shawls,
hair ribbons, colored thread, No. 4
pins, Irish linens, yellow serge,
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North Carolina. The State Records
of North Carolina have been publish
ed and in Vol. 16 will bo found a ros
ter of the officers and men of tho
10th Regiment N. C. Continental
line. Wheeler's History of North
Carolina and Wheeler's "Reminis
cences" are excellent authorities.
The records of the Mecklenburg Dec
laration and other early service can
be found in Force's American Ar
chives. Tho military rolls are nearly
all lost except tho officers of tho
Tenth Continental Regiment and a
few fragments of the rank nnd file.
The Secretary of State or the Coun
ty Clerks may find additional proof.
South Carolina. Ramsay's History
of South Carolina is a recognized
authority. A list of the officers of
the South Carolina Continental Es
tablishment can be found In tho
Charleston Year Book for 1893,
pages 20S to 237. Much can be
found in Glbbes' "Documentary His
tory of South Carolina" and in
Force's American Archives. There
are also many valuable local his
tories. Georgia. The D. A. R. Reports
to Congress, 1901 and 1903, give a
long list of Georgia Revolutionary
soldiers. Tho Histories of Georgia
by Charles C. Jones, Jr., and by Rev.
Wm. Bacon Stevens, Historical Col
lections of the Joseph Habersham
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Georgia and tho Georgia People, by
George G. Smith, D. D., are very fine.
If an ancestor's service can not be
found, write to the Georgia His
torical Society, Savannah.
Kentucky. Collin's History of
Kentucky has a list of tho Revolu
tionary soldiers who settled in Ken
tucky. The Histories of Lexington,
of Green County and the "Bryan Sta
tion" Memorial give an account of
the early history as well as "The
Rear Guard of the Revolution."
Tennessee. Ramsay's Annals of
Tennessee have also a great deal of
heroes who crossed the moun
tains from 'North Carolina.
In 17C9 at Boston there was a
lemon shop, known as "The Basket
of Lemons," kept by John Crosby,
who modestly advertised his stock
"as largo in general as lemons com
monly are, at 4 per hundred or 10
shillings per dozen."
Harbottle Dorr notified the public
of Boston, through the columns of
the Gazette, of a fine assortment of
brazlery, ironmongery and cutlery at
nis snop opposite tho corn fields in
Union street.
Old files of the Gazette, Postboy
and Chronicle of Boston also contain
advertisements of an aimal shop, a
wigmaker and hairdresser (who, as
his advctrlsement reads, "could
raise tho Tieads of ladles to any pitch
they desired"), a mathematical in
strument shop, waxwork shop and
tho shop of a surgeon dentist who
gave cash for live teeth and attend
ed tho poor gratis.
A stationer's shop advertised quill
pens, tho now steel pens and black
sand for the use of writers.
At a wheelwright's tho now dral-
sena a forerunner of tho bicycle
had been constructed and. was being
shown.
In Salem a shoe dealer called at
tention to a lot of shoes on which
"20 per cent, has been struck off at
one clip because most of them have
been worn."
Changed With Time.
The word "affectionate" Is an in
stance of how meanings change, for
an affectionate person was originally
the reverso of agreeable, tho word
meaning passionate or -willful. John
Knox in 155-1 writes of "tho govern
ment of nn affectionate woman" being
"a rago without reason," nnd a century
later another writer deplores tho evils
of affectionate soldiers. And now, as
any nursemaid knows, nffectionnto
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