The Syracuse Journal, Volume 19, Number 32, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 9 December 1926 — Page 6

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The most gigantic highway program in the history of the world was put under way m Chicago by the American Road Builders’ association, the leaders of which are shown above. The plan Mills for the construction of 55.000 miles of modern Improved highways during year >S 1027 at an expenditure of $1.2. 1 u*»u»*». and will lie presented at an International good roads congress in Chicago January 10 to 15. Twenty-two nutions of the Americas will be represented!.

“Desert Rat” Is Victor in Fight

Twenty-Year Battle of Poor Inventor Ends With Supreme Court Award. Washington.—George Campbell CarSon. “desert rat” miner, has won his lone fight against a big, powerful corporation and Is to recelvejthe millions his inventive genius has brought him. The United States Supreme court has denied the American Smelting and Refining company a review in Its action to have Carson’s patent Infringement claim set aside. Twenty years ago he invented a process for the reduction of copper ore. Adopted by the big smelters, the process brought about a ten-year tangle of legal warfare. Court after court has heard the case Time and again a favorable decision has put sums ranging from $2.000,000 t, ( -s2o ios'.'s*) within the reach of the sixty-year-old Western miner as royalties, but always a further legal combat postponed realixatlon of his dreams. Now. however, the classic struggle In all probability Is over with Carson assured of the fortune he has pursued with such persistence. The days of living in a sailor's lodging house on the San Francisco waterfront have drifted into the pant and the one-time "desert rat" stand* on the threshold of a new life. Without money or f w aged for a single handed battle against corporation official* and lawyers until In the end he obtained the assistance of Rudolph Spreckels and Robert Hayes Smith, San Francisco capitalists. And n<<w that Caraon ha* won, what will he do with the millions? That Is a question which he has been asked before and he has answered It characteristically. For the “desert rat” millionaire through ten years of cea*eless litigation has proved himself a philosopher. Last year when the United S!:ites<’ir>’U t Court of A;.j«’:i!« ■warded him the royalties a swarm of questioners descended upon him In his waterfront lodging. ■* To Work In a Laboratory. “What am I going to do with the fortune?” he is quote! as saying Tvs been simply swamped by piles of letter* from people who wapt to sell me everything Imaginable. I suppose If happens to everybody when they come Into money. What I have really always wanted, la a workshop and a laboratory, and now T don’t see what Is to prevent me from having them.” Dozena of women have proposed to the new millionaire, who. with a patient smile, dropped their correspondence In the waste basket. “Kven If

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STUDENT NOW HUNTING OLD PAL WHO GAVE HIM HAZING

Thrashing Turned Fortune’* Wheel for Henry O’Reilly, Who Withe* . to Shake Tormentor’* Hand. New York.—Having made $175,000 in three years selling real estate. Henry O’Reilly at New York city has begun an unusual Journey with his wife and baby son, Donald. He has sailed for his old home in St. Johns. Newfoundland. to shake the hand of the man who kicked him into the lap of fortune. Fourteen years ago, when O’Reilly was an honor student at St Bonaventure’s college at St- Johns, bls Irish blood rebelled at haring. and he sliced hi* baser across the face with a carving knife. For that be received such a beating that he could not lea re bls bed for/wo weeks. That beating. administered by one of the student* at the college, proved the ’ ng of the turn of fortuna

I’m rich now I don’t believe any woman Is going to.get me* he Informed an Interviewer “If I ever decided to get married, though. Td look for the domestic, settled type of woman. A man. to my way of thinking, ought to marry a woman about his own age. A young woman makes things ton darned interesting for an old husband. What do I think of the flapper? There never was n jazz-mad flapper who didn't hate her wings burned In the end.” Perhaps his time spent In the lonely desert has made Carson yearn for the sight of greenery. At all events he has said that he would like to attempt something along the lines of tree culture. “I want to see the barren areas of California put Into trees and farms." is the way he phrases It. “So. very possibly. I shall work at that a while."' The Inventor's Dream. Chemistry, however still is. as It always has been, a bobby with him, and for some tinie he has been engaged on experiments for the manufacture of sulphuric acid. His original‘invention, which brought him into fame overnight by a court award of a fortune in royalties, practically revolutionized copper smelting. He had run away from his boyhood home in Kenton. Ohio, nt fourteen. Two years later he was In Arizona working In a copper mine. The furnaces at that period were loaded from the fop. As he watched the sweating, harassed laborers charging them under heavy difficulties. the desire was horn 7 ln Carson to alleviate their lot and eliminate the t*a*te of energy i In the antiquated process. He would construct a smelting furnace which could la* charged from the side. The dream remained with him for years while he wandered here and there In the deserts and the mining settlements, but it was not until 1906 that he was able to perfect his plans While working as a chemist and metallurgist In beaver he Invented fils famous “reverberatory furnace" for smelting copper. The next move was to get it patented. but for nine years this protection was not forthcoming. In the meantime, filled with the certainty that he had Invented something that would revolutionize the process of copper redutllon. he went from smelter to smelter. Interviewing officials and mining engineers and placing before them sketches and plana. Carson was frank about the Inventlon. for which no patent had yet been granted, although his application was in Washington. He told Its Inmoat secrets and explained Its workings. And still he was turned away from the smelters. unable to Interest anyone In purchasing hl* rights. Hi* Patent Granted. In 1015 bls patent was finally granted and a short time afterward Carson found himself In New York attending a meeting of the American Society of Mining Engineers. Here his fortunes took an upward turn. Some one was reading a paper on a new process for the reduction of copper ore. Carson stirred In his seat on the instant, all his interest aroused. The process described as already in operation In the big smelters was the invention whlcTl he had perfected and unsuccessfully tried to sell for years. The moneyless, friendless Inventor went out and found that everywhere his furnace was being used. The companies refused to recognize his claim for patent infringements. A

for O’Reilly. He left the college, went to sea. fought through the war In the English navy, and then came to this country. He married. Yet three year* ago the O’Reilly* still were “broke.” Then came their tremendous prosperity with the boom of Long Island real estate, which O’Reilly was selling. “I might have kept on being Just as poor as my father if that brother at college hadn’t given me the worst beating of my life.” O’Reilly said. “Hold It against him? No. I am going back to shake the hand of the man who kicked me into the lap of fortune.” Ten-Year Spaghetti Pals Die Together New York.—Through the last ten of their declining years, Giro Scrofani. seventy-four years old, and Frank Ferraro, sixty years old, slept in the same room, rested their aging

court In Tacomn ruled against him when he brought suit for royalties, t’nrson only smiled quietly and preoared for the next battle. In the meantime as he tolls It. he had g<me to the offices of one company and had been permitted to see nn official, who shook his head when Carson explained his motive. "Your patent Is absolutely worthless," he says he was told. The official. however, offered him SI.<MM) for It. says Carson, who turned down the offer with promptness, as well as subsequent blds of $2,000 and $3,000. . “No.” said Carson. “It would be blackmail for me to accept your money If my patent Is without value. We shall settle the worth of It In the courts. I Intend to prove to you and to the world that my process is all that I have dreamed it to be." There, in a word, is the inside story of Carson’s long fight. He was struggling for the ideal, the dream of an Inventor. and he meant that nothing should check him. He picked up a bumble living in San Francisco as a mining and metallurgical engineer while still he carried his hat’le through the courts. In San Francisco he met Spreckels" and Smith, When they heard his story, they announced that they would stand back of him with the financial aid that was so necessary to a protracted legal cbmbat. John 11. Miller, his attorney, will receive a third of Carson’s fortune in royalties and Spreckels and Smith will now be repaid for their confidence in the quiet inventor who never lost faith or courage. Failed to Shake Him. The adverse decision in Tacoma was the first blow at (’arson’s hopes, but It failed to shake him. There came the day when tlie United States Circuit Court of Appeals awarded him $5.0(10000 in royalties on his patent, with possibly .<1 .'.ooo.OMt tnore to follow. The “desert rat” and his story appeared on the front pages of the newspapers. Callers flocked to his lodging and such a welter of mail descended on him that he was unable to read It. All the luxuries of the world lay la-fore him. Then abruptly they were thrust over the horizon once more, for the company petitioned for a retrial of the case. Carson stayer! on in the sailors’ lodging house. When the news came to Carson that the petition for a retrial had been denier! by the Circuit court he was flat on his back In a hospital. It was the best medicine for him, and to the Innumerable questions that once more showered on him he returned cheery answ.-rs. Was he thinking of putting the money Into charitable works? “It would only create an army of grafters/’ he answered succinctly. “Then what are you going to do?” “I’ve never been very good at making plans," he returned. “I believe in letting tomorrow take care of itself. I guess It will from now on." Before his process was put In operation In the smelters it was possible to treat only 240 tons of copper ore In a tojvloading furnace. Ry the Carson process In a side-charging furnace, 700 tons of ore can be treated. It Is typical of the man that he has taken his defeats and victories with equanimity. “I’m not surprised.” has been hi* invariable answer each time he has been adjudged In the right. And he has crystallized his entire philosophy In that sentence with which he met congratulations: “Most of all I want to prove to myself and to the world that my dream* were real.” Sells Haunted Castle London. —The duchess of Norfolk has sold haunted Amberley castle Not that ghosts are any more active there than they have been for cen turles past, but taxes and other ex penses are much higher. legs under the same board while they ate spaghetti together, and drew their living from a cointi-an source as they worked together la a cigarette factory. Recently the two <dd pals visited friends apd at night went to bed in their little two-room apartment at 361 East Seventy-sixth street. Mr. Scrofani in his cot on one side of the room, with his beloved banjo on the wall above his head, and Mr. Ferraro on a twin col on the opposite side of the narrow room. In the morning it was learned that death had visited in which the two old men had lived for ten years and had taken them as they bad lived —together. When Joseph Scrofani, son of the elder man, broke in the door, the room reeked with gas that continued to flow from a stove that many times had warmed the two aged companions. Keeping Mum Rich Restanrant Owner Kills Giri and Himself and Withholds Reasons —New York Paper.

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