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William H. Swanson, Direct Examination. 313
year the business jumped from $90 a week total receipts to over $19,000 a week.
Q. Your business, then, had been continually growing prior to this cancellation? A. I say, it had grown from $90 gross to nearly $20,000 a week gross in one year.
Q. In one year? A. Yes, sir.
Q. How about the other years? A. Each year just kept naturally, of course, increasing, but not at the same ratio.
Q. Not in the same proportions? A. No.
Q. Mr. Swanson, you were one of the rental exchange men who were instrumental in forming the Film Service Association, is that correct? A. Yes, sir.
Q. Was the Film Service Association friendly to the Edison camp or to the Biograph camp? I mean by that, in the year 1908, were the members of the Film Service Association, those rental exchanges, were they in large part obtaining their supplies from the Edison licensees, or from the Biograph Company and Kleine? A. Well, if any member of the Film Service Association had bought film from Kleine or the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company at that period, they would have been dismissed from membership in the Film Service Association. Then the Film Service Association was an ally of the Edison licensees; could not handle any of the goods but theirs.
Q. That was so provided in the agreement? A. Yes, not in the agreement but in the minutes of the Association.
Mr. Caldwell: Objected to as incompetent, the minutes of the Association not having been produced.
The Witness: And I might say, to correct that impression in the answer, that the purpose of the Film Service Association was primarily simply to comprise the parties working under the Edison license.
Mr. Caldwell: I move to strike that statement out as a mere voluntary statement on the part of the witness, and not in response to any question.
Q. Who got up the Film Service Association? A. There was a call made for a meeting to be held, at the