| Show A BIT OF YANKEE HUSTLING How Valuable Patent Was Saved to an American in Canada IIJI tell you a case of Yankee pluck said George IT Cummings a powerHouse power-House constructor who recently camo to New York from Providence Mul ter a Boston friend ofmlne Is only 24 years old After he graduated from the Massachusetts Instltuto of Technology Tech-nology a Dorchester Mass tack manufacturing manu-facturing company sent him to Montreal Mon-treal to show the Canadians how we make tacks in this country Muller took along a machine hired an ofllce and opened up his little worlds fair He knew that his firm had patented the machine in the principal European countries and America About a year later curiosity led him into lawyers ofllce to find out how the Canadian patent pat-ent laws would affect his particular machine ma-chine That was 011 Saturday The lawyer told him that Jic had Just two days before the year expired in which to make in Canada a new tack machine ma-chine to advertise its sale and to manufacture man-ufacture tacks with it Otherwise said the lawyer the companys patent would be rescinded Multer telegraphed a number of times to his home office but received no reply because of its being Saturday afternoon Falling to hear from Dor chester ho hired upon his own responsibility respon-sibility the entire force of a small foundry Thirty men worked all that Saturday night and all of Sunday casting cast-Ing a new machine with the old one asa as-a model I aw the product of their labor la-bor and I must say it was crude However How-ever they finished the machine on time and they made about six tacks with it The machine was offered for sale through newspaper advertisement For the sake of form Muller asked two firms if I they wanted if i Of course they did not Thus the requirements of the law were met and the Canadian patent was saved to the company There was a great hubbub In Dorchester when they received a bill from the foundry people for 3000 When Multer explained ex-plained the circumstances the firm was so pleased at what he had dpne that It raised his salary CO per cent It keeps tho machine at its factory as a curio The story shows that the young business busi-ness men of this country can climb out of a pretty deep hole and climb very quickly tooNew York Tribune |
