[LB052205], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to New York Journal, Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke, September 10th, 1891
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Title
[LB052205], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to New York Journal, Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke, September 10th, 1891
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Date
1891-09-10
Type
Subject
Folder/Volume ID
LB052-F
Microfilm ID
142:773
Document ID
LB052205
Publisher
Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
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Sept. 10th, 1891.
J. I. C. Clarke, Esq.,
THE MORNING JOURNAL,
New York City.
My dear Sir,-
Mr. Edison has read your letter of 4th instant in regard to a man named Chas. G. Loeber, who you say has some ideas on the subject of aerial transportation, and in reply he has asked me to acquaint you with the fact that we have at the Laboratory A shot gun for the especial benefit of aerial navigation cranks. The young man to whom the manipulation of this gun is entrusted has a great objection to inventive cranks in general, but if there is one to whom he has an antipathy greater than another, it is the crank of cranks, who in order to explain some hitherto unknown phase in his specialty, coins a new word and springs it upon an unsuspecting public. A crank of this latter description wouldn’t be safe within gun shot of the Laboratory. I think, therefore, that under these circumstances our friend Loeber had better keep away from here.
Yours very truly,
AO Tate
Private Secretary.
J. I. C. Clarke, Esq.,
THE MORNING JOURNAL,
New York City.
My dear Sir,-
Mr. Edison has read your letter of 4th instant in regard to a man named Chas. G. Loeber, who you say has some ideas on the subject of aerial transportation, and in reply he has asked me to acquaint you with the fact that we have at the Laboratory A shot gun for the especial benefit of aerial navigation cranks. The young man to whom the manipulation of this gun is entrusted has a great objection to inventive cranks in general, but if there is one to whom he has an antipathy greater than another, it is the crank of cranks, who in order to explain some hitherto unknown phase in his specialty, coins a new word and springs it upon an unsuspecting public. A crank of this latter description wouldn’t be safe within gun shot of the Laboratory. I think, therefore, that under these circumstances our friend Loeber had better keep away from here.
Yours very truly,
AO Tate
Private Secretary.