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doubted the financial responsibility of many of them? A. That was one of the principal reasons.
Q. Going hark to the list of buying exchanges appearing in the advertisement of the Motion Picture Distributing
& Sales Company in the Motion Picture World of July 23rd, 1910, at page 170. I call your attention to the Albany
Film Exchange which appears therein. Do you know who was the owner or manager of the Albany Film Exchange, 418 Broadway, Albany. New York? A. William Steiner.
Q. Was Mr. Steiner a former member of the F. S. A.? A. Yes.
Q. I call your attention to the R. & W. Film Exchange, 412 East Baltimore Street. Baltimore, Maryland. Do you know who owned that exchange, or was the manager of it? A. Yes.
Q. Who? A. Herbert Miles.
Q. Was Herbert Miles a former member of the F. S. A.? A. Miles Brothers was. Xew Y^ork and Frisco.
Q. And was Herbert Miles a member of the firm of Miles Brothers? A. Y'es.
Q. I call your attention to the Bijou Film & Amusement Company. 1222 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri. A. Yes.
Q. Do you know who owned or managed that exchange? A. A man named Bachman.
Q. Was Bachman a former member of the F. S. A.? A. Yes.
Q. Do you remember the name of his former exchange? A. Twentieth Century Optiscope Company. Chicago.
Q. I call your attention to the Dixie Film Company, 720 Maison Blanche Building, Xew Orleans, Louisiana. Do you know who owned that or operated it? A. Yes.
Q. Who? A. Fichtenberg.
Q. Was that formerly a licensed exchange? A. Separating the interests, Swanson-Dixie Film Company of Xew Orleans was the name when they had given up the service of the F. S. A., or the licensed manufacturers.
Q. And Avas William Swanson one of the members of the firm at that time, when it was a member of the F. S. A.? A. Yes.
Q. I call your attention to Eugene (line, 59 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois. Who owned or operated that exchange? A. Himself.