Show EXPRESS COaiPAST SUED r VTFO Plaintiffs Who Would Like One Hundred Thousand Dollars New York Nov HThe amended com amente plaint was filed in the United States court today in the suit of Malcolm Anderson An-derson and Roger AV AVoodbury auiinst Thomas C Platt and the United States Express company The plaintiff had a sixty days option on a piece of mining property in Colorado called the Rialto The necessary maps and other things for the proper transfer of the company were put In an envelope addressed to Malcolm Anderson in this city for execu tion The package was lost in the transmission trans-mission and was not recovered until the i option expired In consequence of this i it is claimed the complainant lost 5100000 to be made on the option and judgment J for that amount is asked I COSTLY DISCOURTESY I I Vanilerbilts Curt Reply to an Inventor In-ventor ami What Come of I i When Westinghouse first obtained his patent on the air brake like most inventOrs in-ventors he was poor and friendless and j he found considerable difficulty in inducing in-ducing the rairoads to apply i to their I ears says the Buffalo Courier He managed to secure an introduction to I i Commodore Vanderbilt who was not I noted for h s gentle manners Waiting I house found him engrosssd in his correspondence cor-respondence and he did not deign to stop reading his letters while the inventor inven-tor extolled the merits of his device I When he had spoken his little piece Vanderbilt for the first time seemed toj itaka notice of him and looking up suddenly sud-denly said in his gruffest tne3 I AVhats that you say Sb AVestinghouso commenced all over i and explained how by the air pressure of thirty pounds tr the square foot the i brake was applied by the engineer and I when he finished he waited patiently for the verdict j Once more the old commodore raised his head long enough to jerk out Whats that you say about air I AVesyjnghouse told him Looking him sternly in the face the oHd man replied in freezing tones That will do I have no time to waste with a fool I Discouraged but not disheartened lAVesiinghause left only later to bring his great invention to the knowledge of the Pennsylvania railroad authorities At that time Tom Scott 3 the president presi-dent of the corporation and he at once saw the practicability of the invention and allowed some of his cars to be equipped with i With that opening it was easy enough to get the other roads to use the brake and AVestfinghousas fame and fortune were made When that time had arrived he one day received re-ceived a letter from Commodore Van derbilt asking him to call at the Centrals Cen-trals office Mr Westlnghouses reply was terse and t the point He simply I wrote I have no time to waste with fool a foal I |