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“Trusts may come and Trusts may go, but the Basic Patent is a Cinch. Amen.’* And he was Dead Right. Yes Indeed. He called his Patent “ The Phonograph Fire Alarm.” George picked out this particular article to patent, because he had Quite Some Experience with Fire Alarms and Knew they were pretty much on the Bum, in General. George also divined that to Become Famous with a big F he must pose as a Benefactor of the Human Race. A Good Fire Alarm would save Life and Property, and the Kind and Loving World would appreciate Such, especially the Property Saving Claims of the Invention. George was not Bom Yesterday. He Talks thus about his Invention : “It is unnecessary to discuss the great necessity and demand for some effective means to arrest the fearful and ever increasing onslaughts of fire upon the property of the country and the lives of its inhabitants. “Fire statistics are indeed startling, and are becoming more and more so every year. The institution of insurance, by which property losses are distributed among a large number of policy holders, is unquestionably a good one, but it can- not bring the dead to life; neither can it restore to the wealth of the world what fire has taken from it. “ Inventive genius has been toiling for years to solve the problem—but means for preventing fires have not yet been discovered, and probably never will be. Means for battling against fire after discovery, however, have been well nigh perfected. This being the case, it follows that quick detection of the presence of fire is of the utmost import- ance. My Phonographic alarm, without human inter- vention and with the aid of nothing but the fire itself,