Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1897, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR. eer fUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. 11th St, by The Evening Star Ni x Compuny, 8. HL KAUFFMANN Pres't. Kew York Office, 49 Potter Building. The Evening Star is served to subscribers in the city by carriers, on their own account, at 10 cents per week, or 44 certs per month. Coples at the counter 2 cents each. By mail—anywnere in the United States or Cunada—postage prepaid—50 cents month. =a Sheet Star, $1 per rear, with foreten postage sic. $3 7 . ‘Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C. as second-cle. 3 mail matter.) 47 All mail subecriptions must be paid in advance. Rates of advertising made known on application. Part. Che € pening : Siar. — VOeOs -SeOoeoeosoog oooan Oe be 3 ed business The con Dixon’s line. OSSOSSO $10 worth OGBOOOGO O88G006 eee ee $5 worth; $1.50 down, 75c. weekly. $25 worth; Castelberg’s Nat'l Jewelry Co., 1103 Pa. Ave—Next Star Office. Estab. 1846. Modern-ism WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1897-FOURTEEN PAGES. The regular permanent family circulation of The Evening Star is more than double that of any other paper in Washington, whether published in the morn- ing or in the afternoon. : As a medium for unobjec- tionable advertisements it there- fore stands unequaled and un- approachable. VS. $1.00 down, 50c. weekly. $2.50 down, 75c. weekly. | $100 worth; Goods delivered on first payment. All transactions STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL. A guarantee accompanies every article sold that if not satisfactory money will be cheerfully refunded. Diamonds, $50 worth; $75 worth; a re} fo} : lk’ ossil-ism!] °. Although we have been established in Washington but two years, we have already become a thorn in the side of the ‘before the war” and big profit-- COMBINE OF CASH JEWELERS. . Their prophecy was that we would last about six months. They are no better prophets than merchants. We have heid first piace in Baltimore for the past 52 years—an ordinary lifetime. We propose to be doing here in Washington 50 or more years from now and leave our heirs to work out the century. nt cry of the “cash jewelers’ combine” is that “we charge for credit.” Let us see about that! Our trademark is the word “RELIABLE and upon that principle we have built this immense business, which is today the largest by a quarter million dollars per year than that of any jeweler south of Mason and Our Guarantee is to sell on credit fully 20 per cent lower than the cash-jewelers’= combine prices. Any honest person can obtain of us on credit’ without publicity fine the most Watches, Jewelry, etc., on the following exceptionally liberal terms: $5.00 down, $1.00 weekly. $7.50 down, $1.50 weekly. $10 down, $2.00 weekly. Castelberg’s National Jewelry 1103 Pa. Ave.--Next to Star Office. Baltimore Store, 108 N. Eutaw Street. BESSSE SS! Established 1846. © 2 SSSESE$ SSS SOSGSS OSS9OG9ESS SOOSOOSSHOOO reliable Go., SOlHSSHO0OSSSSSOOHSHSHS OOO SOSH HOSSCOSSSCOOCOOSSOCOCe WRONG METHODS Wedderburn Disbarred From Practice Before the Patent Office. PLAIN WORDS OF THE COMMISSIONER Denunciation of the Methods of the Accused. A SCATHING REVIEW ge es John Wedderburn and John Wedderburn & Co. have been disbarred from practice before the United States patent office. The recommendations that they be disbarred were signed today by the commissioner and assistant commissioner of patents and ap- proved by the Secretary of the Interior. The commissioner and assistant commis- sioner did not mince words in condemning the manner in which the disbarred attor- neys conducted their business. In announcing his decision to the secre- tary, Commissioner Butterworth said: “Under section 467 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for grossly unprofessional conduct, I have decided, with your approval, to refuse further to recognize as patent attorneys or agents John Wedderburn and John Wedderburn and Company, both of Washington, D. C. The reasons for such refusal are duly set forth in the accompanying opinions and in the records referred to therein. These per- sons were duly notified to show cause why they or either of them should not be re- fused recogaltion; they were given ample opportunity to explain or deny the charges Commissioner Butterworth. made against the a full and fair investi- dency to corrupt and degrade the pers-ns and agencies empleyed, positively siartling. To understand and appreciate all the agen- cies and means employed, and the purpose and manner of their use,’ each considéréd harmful only in a degree, but, taken to- wether, outrageous and corrupting, it is necessary to become familiar with the en- tire scheme and the appliances utilized to obtain the desired results. No case of a procedure for the dishar- ment of a patent attorney in the history of the United States patent office has attract- ed more widespread attention or been ac- tompanted by a more careful inquiry into the facts connected with it than that ot John Wedderburn & Co. Commissioner Butterworth’s report summing up the case covers about seventy-five pages of type- written matter, and Assistant Commis- sioner Greeley’s report of the findings, to- gether with a synopsis of the evidence sub- mitted in support thereof, is quite as iong. The preparation of documentary evidence and the hearing of oral testi- umed many months, the pro- s in the cuse having been fully re- ported from time to time in The Star. The commissioner refers to the thorough work performed in this case by Chas. C. Siaufier, law clerk, and F. W. Winter, chief examiner, who had charge of the prosecution, which was carried on before the commissioner and Assistant Commis- sionary Greeley. He replies to the conten- tion of counsel for the respondents regard- ing the nature and extent of his juris tion in dealing with the alleged delinquents in the proceedings to disbar, holding that it is not true, in law or in fact, that Mr, Wedderburn or his company sustains the relation to the commissioner of. patents. that a member of the bar sustains to the court. Of the failure of Mr. Wedderburn heads of the departments of his to appear as witnesses during the igation, the commissioner says: Wedderburn Should Have Explained. “I hold that whenever it was within the power of the respondents to make clear the reason for not performing a plain duty toward a client, or for hdving misstated a fact to a client to his injury, or for treat- ing him uncandidly or dishonestly, he should have availed himself of his oppor- tunity; and when the integrity of the methods employed of giving expert ‘esti- mates of the value of inventions and the conduct of the sales department were called in question, and it was not wholly charged, but in the nature of things— judged by results—and in the absence of explanation, the conclusion was irresisti- ble that they were a farce and worse; and when it appeared that the knowledge of the alleged ‘expert in values’ was a pretense and a sham, and that he was constantly fixing fictitious values on inventions, it was not only competent for Mr. Wedder- burn, but it was his duty to~himself, if he could, to the patent office and to the public, to explain, if he could, how ifs conduct in the matters called in question was defensible, and to show, if he could, in the light of what had been proved, that | his methods and practices were not in- struments of fraud, but legitimate and proper. This the respondents wholly ne- glected and refused to do, hence with- cut explanation I am forced to conclude, and the proof is overwhelming, that their ‘roll of honor,’ and their 25-cent ‘medal,’ and their ‘expert in values ef patents' were largely shams and mere pretentious demonstrations utilized by them to induce would-be inventors to employ them. , Commissioner's Jurisdict) The commissiorer holds that counsel for the cutpurse could with advantage leave his calling, and the footpad abandon the road, and both seek an easier and safer method of obtaining money by presecuting business with the several departments of the government. I submit that it is the duty of the commissioner of this bureau (and every other bureau of the govern- ment, and the head of the department to which the bureau belongs), to see to it that every citizen transacting business with the bureau or department is pro- tected in his rights, and that no individual, whether he is a member of the bar or not, shall utilize his relation to the depart- ment to defraud citizens who have, or who are induced to believe that they have, busi- Lees with the government and intrust that business to a solicitor.” Speaking further of the failure of the respondents to appear in person to testify in their behalf when the commissioner had not the power to force them to do so, Mr. Butterworth says: “So far from this open, manly course they tried to exhibit a veneering of honesty by calling two witnesses who were em- ployed after the criticism and condemna- tion of the methods and practices of the respondents had become open, notorious and severe, and those witnesses seem to have been selected with more reference to what they did not know about the whole range of the respondent’s business meth- ods and practices than what they did know. Demoralizing Influence. “It is proper here to say that it is one of the worst features of the methods and practices of Wedderburn & Co. that young men anxious for employment are employed and utilized by respondents to write in praise of, and assist in promoting, business schemes and enterprises which are repre- hensible in method and influence, if, in fact, they escape being criminal, the tendency being to proclaim to the community, and especially to young men desiring to en- gage in business and to earn money, that neither strict integrity, candor nor the ob- servance of the recognized canons of com- mon honesty are necessary, or, in fact, de- sirable, in money getting. And there is lit- tle doubt that the demoralizing influence of the methods and practices of the respond- eats as solicitors of patents, during their brief career, has been far-reaching by rea- sen of the agencies employed, and has done more to injure the patent office and to place the practice before that bureau upon a low moral plane than the combined ef- forts of all the delinquent practitioners who have appeared before the office in a quarter of a century, and it results that to deal with those methods and practices slighting- ly, or to treat them as if they were over- sights, mistakes, the result of bad judg- ment or pardonable indiscretions, is to make the department not only an apologist for, but an active participant in, the repre- hensible condjict, and thus bring the gov- ernment and its administration into de- served contempt. “The very erserce of the offense is the methods and agencies employed and the manrer of their en:ployment to mislead and ertrap the unsuspecting, doubtless in the belief that the victims of the deception are helpless and without remedy, and that®| the vast sums of money realized will en- able the delinquents to secure immunity and pay for hunting down any official or citizen who calls the delinquents to answer for their offenses.” : Advertised Prize Offers. fe The commiseiouer says the advertised prize offer of $1,800 by Wedderburn had been shown to be false, and that there were really twelve prize offers of $150 each; respondents, was intendéd to mislead and deceive; or, if it was not so intended, but was intended to express the exact truth, the author of those productions had a sin- gularly fatal faculty of utterly fatling in that behalf to make himself understood. An examination of the literature and cor- respondence as a whole shows that it was prepared with intent ta decetve and mis- lead the unwary and the unsuspecting, and that it did do just that thing 4s established beyond question, and the: evidence on that score is accumulating.’ The commissioner says 'therevidence sus- tains the charges against Wedderburn & Co., except that of forging the name of Representative Wm. Sulzer. Mr. Sulzer, he Says, called on him and said he knew noth- ing of the respondents, their character, ete., but he found he had signed the letter recommending them, because he was re- quested to do so by Wm. L. Crounse, a cor- respondent of the New York World. ‘“‘And,” the commissioner says, “it appears that that correspondent has been a business associate, identified with the respondents in~at least one branch of their enterprise, and it was a part of his mission to obtain commendations of Wedderburn from men of known character and standing; and these recommendations, thus obtained, were and are used to induce the public, especially the unsuspecting throughout the country, to trust the respondents as so- licitors before the department. These recommendations were some of the decoys used. Thus public men, many proprietors of newspapers, and others of known pro- bity, having no knowledge of the scheme and practices of the respondents, were made the innocent instruments of promot- ing that which they would unhesitatingly condemn, had they known the real facts.” Of Mr. Wedderburn the commissioner says: “Whether Mr. Wedderburn himself. has knowledge of the patent law, or . could properly prepare an application for a pat- ert, would not ordinarily be of consequence, ‘for I deem that whether he was learned in the law, or -was wholly unfamiliar with patent practice; he might employ thorough- ly skilled and competent men to transact the business; nor would he be censurable for any oversight or neglect of a competent person selected with care and charged with the proper conduct of the business, but for the fact that Mr. Wedderburn seeks clients by announcing to them that he ts a lawyer of ability, large experience and of most captivating integrity. If the respondents have these qualifications in substantial measure, there is a lack of evidence to establish the fact. The promise ard the performance appear in adverse Proportions,” Mr. Butterworth continues to say there were competent persons in the employ of Wedderburn & Co., more especially after his..methods became thé subject of such general. comment and, criticism, and, he continues, ‘in most instances these per- sons discharged the duty assigned them fairly well; but it is not cpmplimentary to seme of these young men: that they were identificd with an enterprisé which emp‘oyed | methods that were, or should have been known to them, to be of doubtful‘honesty.”” The Accusing Patent Lawyers. Of the members of the Patent Bar Asso- ciation who preferred charges against ‘Wedderburn & Co., the commissioner says: ‘And here it is proper to way, in defense of | members of the bar, tht the statement ‘has been circulated with-serupulous or un- | scrupulous care, that the:criticism of the methods of the respondepts by honorable Members of the bar was due to the fact get the critics were envious of the success of the ts opportunities to make a fortune by little inventions and be induced to believé that they would be advised free of cost as to the patentability of their conceptions or endeavors in the inventive lines * * * * The respondents were in 33,000 cases en- abled to get a fee of $5 in consideration of having a search made that probably cost twenty-five cents or less, so that a thriv- ing business was done in that behalf.” Deceptive Methods. The commissioner says the letters giving unfavorable reports were worded so that they appeared to the uninformed to be favorable reports, and the company de- manded “the first government fee of 720” before the application was filed, because the client would be more apt to pay a gov- ernment than an attorney’s fee, and so they would be in a position to compel pay- ment for their work, by returning the $20, whether the application was filed or not. ‘Then, he says, the company sent a letter of extravagant praise of the invention without regard to the merit of the inven- tion, extolling the genius of the inventor and siegeenne that the invention would be very valuable if patented immediately and judiciously handled. Further, that they continued to urge the inventor on by tell- ing him his name was placed on the “roll of honor,” and that when he paid his fee he would be entered for the “Wedderburn prize.” Then, if there is’ any tardiness, the inventor is presented “with much literary lemonstration,"’ with a silver medal as a ‘reward of genius.” ‘It will be noted,” says the commis- sioner, ‘that the name of the genius does not appear on the medal, but that of John Wedderburn & Co. does; nor is the inven- tion menticned,'so that the medal could be worn by a man or a dog: with equal pro- priety, and would serve the same purpose as a cheap advertisement for the respond- ents. ‘But the client, the ‘sucker,’ as Wedder- burn facetiously calls him, is played still further, along the line, thus: About the time that the sterling silver medal reaches the supposed inventor, he or she receives a communication without date from the National Recorder, which announces that the Recorder has learned that the party addressed has been placed upon Wedder- burn’s ‘roll of honor’ and has received a ‘sterling silver medal’ as a ‘reward of genius,’ and the National Recorder appears to the reader of the letter to he wonder- fully wrought up over the discovery of a budding genius of such rare merit; and the Recorder proposes at once to write up, to have written up, the individual who has won such distinction.” This he shows is done for “And so,” the commissioner continues, “the Recorder comes out with a whole page of the picture of these credulous and duped mortals who have paid $ for a boost up the ladder of fame, and the Post Office De- ‘tment of the United States and the pat- ent office were for nearly two years the agents and instrumentalities used for car- rying on these schemes, to the disgrace of the government. * * * And the brilliancy and pecuniary profit of the achievement have hitherto purchased absolute immunity and even favor. If in the future with ref- erence to the respondents or any other company, combine or persons adopting and using such methods (and there are many of them) it will be due to gross neglect of duty on the part of governmental officials who are charged with the administration of the law. * * * It is well known that the methods and schemes here condemned are becoming common as a result of the supposed immunity the delinquents find in the money they make, and the influence and power the money so obtained will pur- chase and control. * * * It is Proper to say here that as to the practices, methods and conduct under consideration, no mat- ter by whom practiced, we are at the part- ing of the ways. Above the Reach of Law. “In many of these cases,” the commis- sicner continued, “the parties to whom I refer, In order to succeed, seem to have done things and employed methods and agencies that barely fal! short of subject- ing them to criminal prosecution, and in many cases they dv violate the criminal statutes of the Unit:d States and of the several states, but unfortunately those who do the wrong seem to be above the power of the law, and the pcor victims of the rong appear to be beneath its'care. * * The action in this case will establish a precedent of far-reaching influence for gocd or ill, and the action taken will help to compel the observance of honest meth- ods or will grant immunity to those who are, to say the best that can be said of them, rogues within the law.” The commissioner reviews the advertising circulars used by Wedderburn & Co., and points out various statements which, he says, there can be no doubt were only in- tended to deceive, and he characterizes the award of prizes held monthly as “a pre- tentious humbug. - 11,000 Medals, 2,000 Patents. Wedderburn & Co., he says, have filed less than 4,000 applications fer patents and received patents in about half of those yet they sent out 11,000 silver medals ‘wards of genius.” . Of the newspapers which hold stock in the Wedderburn company, Mr. Butterworth say! t will readily be understood that if there is silence on the part-of the newspa- pers that have helped, though unwittingly, to establish the scheme to defraud, in the matter of condemming the iniquity, we may infer that such conduct is due to the in- terest which attaches to owvership of stock in the fraudulent agency.’ Copies of correspondence used by the company in inducing newspapers to take its stock is given, and the commissioner concludes with his recommendation that the attorneys be disbarred. Assistant Commissioner's Report. The report of the assistant commissioner is a careful and exhaustive review of the evidence in the cage. “The office cannot,” says Mr. Greeley, in concluding his report, “without bringing lasting reproach upon ‘itself, permit the continuance of such deliberate and system- atic deception of inventors as is clearly shown upon fcll and fair investigation to have been practiced by the respondents. The duty of this office toward inventors and the public imperatively demands that the attorneys practicing before it who are shown beyond rearonable doubt to have been so utterly false to their obligations toward this office and toward their clients, so utterly false to professional honesty and fairness, so utterly false to even common decency, should no longer be permitted to be recognized. * * © The fact that the United States many months ago, but the matter was, T understand, placed in the hands of an of- clal of that department, who for some rea- son failed te do his duty. He has since, I am infcrmed, been dismissed, and criminal proceedings against him for misconduct in office are pending. “In this connection, I deem it my duty to call your attention to the fact that the re- spondents in the conduct of the ae fraudulent and deceptive schemes of the respondents. A Planned Scheme of Deception. “The facts brought out in the record,” the assistant commissioner says, “show further that these respondents carried out in their practice a skillfully planned scheme of deception, misleading their clients with- out regard to the dictates of truth, justice or decency. By false and high-sounding promises they played upon the credulity and desire of their clients to make money quickly, and led them on by misrepresen- tation and concealment of material facts to send on money, and more money, the patent office and the business of patent soliciting being used as an agency where- with to practice their schemes to make og easily, and, as they hoped, without The assistant commissioner says of” the practice of the business of selling patents: “The propriety of an attorney or solicitor of patents combining the business of so- Neiting with that of selling patents is, in my opinion, questionable. Doubth it may be done honestly, but the respondents’ methods are shown to be such as to sell the clients rather than their patents. These respondents, in their pamphlet low to Get a Patent,” on page 31, publish a “warning” against these concerns which offer to sell patents in language which <e- scribes with scrupulous exactness the reprehensible methods which they them- selves practiced to deceive their clients and conveys a correct estimate of the moral quality of their practices.” The assistant commissioner discusses each phase of the manner in which Wed- derburn &° Co. conducted their business and condemns thefr methods roundly. The decisions of the commissioner and assistant commissioner will form a gen- eral declaration of what constitutes proper Practice before the United States patent office, and in that respect are regarded as the most important documents that have ever been issued from the office. +--+ FIRST MET AS ENEMIES. A special to the New York World trom Columbus Ohio, iast night says: There was a dinner party of two at the Chittenden Hotel here last night, celebrating a pecu- Mar occurrence. The diners were Mayor Silas Drake of Lincoln N. J., and Mayor J. G. Bassett of the Chittenden. Dreke was a cavalryman in the Union army in the civil war and Colonel Bassett was a member of the confederate cavalry. Mayor Drake was relating to Colonel Bas- sett today how when serving with Sheri- dan, near Winchester, Va., he once came suddenly upon a confederate cavalryman while reconnoitering near the confederate lines, and both being completely surprised raised their carbines and fired simulta- neously. “The confederate fell from his horse,” said ‘and I galloped back to our lines y right forearm shattered. Colonel Bassett questioned him closely in regard to the matter and then said: “I am the man you shot and who shot you.” Comparison of notes identified the men to each other beyond doubt. It happened on the morning of September 19, 1864, a little more than thirty-three years ago. The dinner was at once arranged as a fit celebration of the event and today’s sequel to it. ————— WILL RETURN THIS MONTH. Sir Julian Pauncefote Waiting In- atractions 2s to Seal Conferen The Daily News of London says this mornirg that Sir Julian Pauncefote’s fam- ily will return to the United States toward the end of October, but that Sir Julian still holds himself in readiness to go when- ever there is a fair possibility of discussing Bering sea matters at Washington. According to the same authority Joseph Chamberlain's opinion will be taken on the latest proposal of John W. Foster. The colonial secretary is in Switzerland at pres- sent. Sir Julian spent some time at the onan office Wednesday discussing the matter. = WILL NOT AFFECT CUBA. Sagasta’s Plan t Be Accepted. A special dispatch to the Baltimore Sun frem New York says Gen. Julio Sanguilly, who was released from a Spanish prison through the intercession of Consul General Lee, is visiting his son, Julio Sanguilly, jr., at the Hotel Vendome. calling of Senor Sagasta by the Spanish queen to form a liberal cabinet, General Sanguilly said: In discussing the “I do not believe the formation by Sa- gasta of a liberal cabinet will have any effect on the Cuban insurgents. really believes that with liberal provisions Sagasta autonomy would be a bans. He is very m ‘ubans have sone to accept autonomy. My son and I will soon leave for Cuba. When we-return to this country, if we do, it will be when the flag of free- dom floats over the island.” soe ITED A “RUSH.” ptable to the Cus YALE PRO Faculty Notified Students the Custom Must Be Stopped, “Rush Night,” which has heretofore been a feature of the eve of Yale's reopen- ing, was noticeable chiefly from the fact that there was no “rush.” The faculty had quietly sent around word that a rush would not be permitted. Its mandate was obeyed. The sophomores and freshmen, 500 strong, paraded the town with torches and brass bands, and each of the paraders had his voice with him. The para:te ended at Hop- kins’ school field, where the annual wres- tling match between the sophs and fresh- men took place. The majority of the events were won by the freshmen. +0+ ——_ JAMES T. DRUMMOND D Head of Tobacco Firm of That Name. James T. Drummond, a prominent and Wealthy citizen and president of the Drum- mond Tobacco Company ef St. Louis, died there yesterday as a result of a complica- tion of kidney and other troubles resulting from grip. Mr. Drummond has been in poor health for several years. He has been at death’s door two or three times within the last year, but rallied and almost got posted enough to resume his business du- es. Mr. Drummond was born near Alton, Il. and was in the tobacco business alj hii His plant is one of the largest in the country. Mr. Drummond's wealth, aside frem his tobacco plant, is estimated at $5,000,000. This will be inherited by his sens, Harrison, James and Charles, his daughter Rachel and his wife, — Logging in the Northwest. Logging operations under government auspices will be begun at once in the north- west. The first operations will be insti- tuted on the Chippewa reservation lands in Minnesota. Four reservations in this large tract—the Leech Lake, Red Lake, Winniebagoshjsh and White Earth re- serves—have been selected for logging the dead and down timber. A superintendent and four assistants will guard the live timber. Contracts will be let to Indians held to be satisfactory, and the superin- tendent will be authorized to solicit bids from them accordingly. The logs are to be cut and hauled and delivered on the banks, there to be sold at prices agreed on vefore very. *Indian labor will be uniformly preferred. —+-2+—______ Reeruits From the Lake Cities, Lieutenant Commander Hawley, who re- cently visited the lake region to recruit men for the navy, has made a report to the Secretary of the Navy, saying that in thirty-four days he enlisted 234 men and boys, all American citizens, and a large percentage American-born. Temporary re- cruiting rendezvous were established in Chicago, Duluth, Detroit and Milwaukee. Commander Hawley recommends that a permanent rendezyous be established in Chicago, and temporary rendezvous at the principal cities in the west and south. It is claimed that the men obtained from the lake ports are superior in physique and i telligence to those recruited on the sea- board. o Wolcott Waiting on England. A dispatch from London says Senator Edward O. Wolcott of Colorado has arrived there from Paris. In answer to a question on the subject, the monetary commissioner said he sas merely waiting for the answer of the British government, which he hoped would be favorable to the propositions of the commission. Ex-Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson, who is-also a member of the commission, is expected in London on Monday next. — see Minister drade’s Return. Minister Andrade, the Venezuelan minis- ter, has returned to the city for the win- ter. He was among Secretary Sherman's callers yesterday, and presumably dis« cussed the latest developments in the Brit~ ish-Venezuela boundary dispute. He ad- mits that th® fifth arbitrator has been se- lected, but refuses to give his name, ———_+e. Building at St. Elizabeth's. Bids have been opened at the Interior Department for the construction of four pavilion buildings for the Government Hospital for the Insane. Baldwin & Peake of Washington were the lowest bidders, at $46,968. cXEXEREREXEXEEERS At Cut CXERREEERI ye Glasses Our price is just half the price the opticians and jewelers charge—and we save you the oculist’s fee of $5 to $10 by hav- ing our own oculist in the store: Dr. F. Proctor Donahay has already become justly celebrated by fitting cases that had been given up by other opticians. All examinations free, Cut prices mean cut prices with us. Best way to prove Priees. ES TESS TCS S CCST SSS SSe REXEKKKREEE business carried on by them, and in the execution gation of the charges was had. The re- E . sult of the investigation was to show be- yond a reasonable doubt that they were Separately and together guilty of gross fraud and misconduet. Secretary Bliss in approving the decision said: I have examined with great care vour repert on the John Wedderburn and John Wedderburn & Co. cases, together with the report of Assistant Commissioner Gree- ley, and herewith return both reports ex- pressing my futf approval! of the reports of your office. I request that when the re- perts are printed you will transmit a copy te the Postmaster General, and that his attention be especially directed to the use that has been made of the United States matis by the John Wedderburn “The character and the respondents were wrong In their con- tention concerning the jurisdiction of the commissioner, and also as to the rule of evidence by which he should be guided. He | Of values on ecg geee assreccts a helds that “John Wedderburn & Co.” were | tarce or worse than a farce, He further equally as culpable as “John Wedderburn,” and subject to disbarment, even if the former was the name which busi- while the latter only the oflice. But as # ques- tion of fact, he says they both practiced before tke office. Of the claim of counsel for the respondents that the office had no jurisdiction over the advertising business of the company the commissioner says: - “If the position taken by counsel is cor- rect, and it was so this fact is—if you have an oculist’s prescription—to take it to any optician in town and get his price for filling it. Then bring it to us and we'll cut his charge for identically the same. glasses exactly in half. * 3 4 also that the comvany falsely stated that it would. give free of cost advice ag to: the || patentability of an invention. The placing the legal ‘protession “DFO! by, scribbling, banal - ul Scerity “of the ‘p ‘placed in the category says: ,adopt dishonorable and “It was urged with serious countenance, |/in order to strange and revolting as it may appear, |'methods in d eng ys et Wn liters peel Cabiignea j rT 3 ature, that the information x ner *, the literati r consideration 20 in e under false pretenses, and in ing money their ten-