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Show uu INVENTORS ARE NOW ORGANIZED New York, Dec. 13. To improve the unsatisfactory conditions under which American Inventors have fcr yeais been laboring, Is the aim of the Inventors' Inven-tors' Guild, an organization which has Just been formed here by prominent promin-ent inventors. eclentl.itB and mechanical mechani-cal engineers. Thomas A. Edison Is one of the members. Its officers are; President, Ralph Merslon, consulting engineer, vice president, Charles W. Hunt, inventor of coal handling machinery; ma-chinery; secretary, Thomas Kobblns, inventor of conveying bolts; treasurer, treasur-er, Henry L. Doherty, Inventor of gas-niaking gas-niaking machinery; Peter Cooper Hewitt, who Invented the mercury vapor va-por lamp and Prof. Michael I. Pupln, of the electrical engineer faculty of Columbia university, are members of the guild's board of governors. Other members are Professor Northrup of Princeton, Professor Thomas of tho Vnlverslty of Wisconsin, and President Presi-dent Pierce of Harvard. According to the constitution of the guild. Its purpose Is to 'further tho Interests and secuie full acknowledgment acknowledg-ment anil protection for the rights of inventors; to advance the application applica-tion of the useful arts and sciences, and to foster social relations among those who have made notable advances ad-vances In the application of the useful use-ful arts and sciences." The guild Is not permitted to Indorse In-dorse an.v commercial enterprise, or to allow Its name to be used for any commercial purpose. It will meet every ev-ery month. The membership of the guild, which is limited to fifty men. Include Dion J. Arnold of Chicago. Alexander E. Drown '.f Cleveland, T, S. C. Lowe, of Ivos Angeles. Charles E. Tope- and F. L O Wadswort-h of Pittsburg; Arthur "West of Rethlehem, Pa, and B. F. Wood of Altoona, Pa. |