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492 William H. Swanson, Cross Examination.
it to another party entirely, and the injunction had no application to anybody, if it did exist.
Q. Are you entirely out of the business of making machines now? A. Yes, sir; never was in the business of making machines.
Q. You testified in examination-in-chief that your business had grown to $20,000 per week. I would like to know to what period of time you refer. A. 1907 and 1908.
Q. Take your fiscal year of 1907. What were your receipts during that year, say, from January 1st, to the 31st of December of that year, if your fiscal year ran through the calendar months? A. I did not have any definite fiscal year at any of the different places I had. You have been accustomed to hearing my places referred to as branches. I had not any branches. They were all single solitary businesses by themselves. There were no branches. I made no exchanges of goods between one office or another. Every business stood on its own foundation.
Q. When you refer to income of $20,000 a week, you must have reference to some time when the week began and when it ended. A. Well, we considered the week beginning Monday and it ends Sunday.
Q. Now, what time during the year 1907 did you start? A. Started business?
Q. Start to jump from some amount to $20,000 a week? A. About September.
Q. September, 1907? A. Yes, sir; from that time on, yes.
Q. What had you been making before that, per week, if you please to call it; your gross income? A. I would say it would do better to call it gross receipts, for the reason that my business was not confined entirely to renting films. I did an extensive merchandise business as well.
Q. Are you able to separate what you made out of commerce and what you made out of 30111* exchange business? A. No, and I can explain that on the ground that it was an absolutely new business, this film exchange business, and we had — when I say "we" — I refer to all of the exchange men — had a great deal of difficulty in finding bookkeepers who could devise any method or way or system of keeping books properly or systematically for us; and we were all up in the air in that respect, and T doubt whether any man could tell you, even the volume of business he did in