Items of Interest January 3, 1914 Issue

Items of Interest

The United States circuit court of appeals has decided that the Waltham Watch Company of Waltham, Mass., cannot force Charles A. Keene, a New York jeweler, to stop selling their watches at cut prices. The court affirmed the decision of the federal district court without opinion. Keene bought the company's watches abroad at a price lower than that charged by jobbers here, and sold them for less than the price set by the manufacturer for the domestic retail trade. The decision is in line with recent judgments of the United States Supreme Court that the manufacturer of a patented or copyrighted article cannot fix the retail price.

It is announced by Attorney-General McReynolds that an agreement between the United States government, represented by the department of justice, and the American Telephone & Telegraph Company makes unnecessary a federal suit to compel the corporation to dissolve into its integral parts. Competition is possible under the terms of dissolution voluntarily proposed by the telephone company, for it agrees to dispose of its holdings in the Western Union Telegraph Company. Department officials say that the plan gives the government everything, and more than it could have hoped to obtain in court.

After a three and a half years' cruise about the world, during which she traveled ninety-three thousand miles, the non-magnetic yacht Carnegie, of the Carnegie Institution at Washington, dropped anchor a few days ago in Erie basin, South Brooklyn. During every day of her trip scientists aboard the yacht took magnetic observations, and they brought back with them records of important errors, particularly in the charts showing the compass variations over the Indian ocean.

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