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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
away, he alleges, Stevens copied his list of
customers.
Later Gilmore notified him that he could
not use the name " Edison Phonograph
Agency," and Mr. Edison wrote a letter to
Postmaster Van Cott in which he said:
" I have recently received some letters
from foreign countries calling my attention
to the fact that people who sent him mon-
eys had received nothing in return for
them, and one of the parties who has writ-
ten me advised that he had written the
Chief of Police of New York City to look
into the matter. I consider that the young
man is using the mails to further his own
ends and to hurt my very good reputation.
I would like to know from you if it is not
possible for you to arrange to divert all
mail addressed to the ' Edison Phonograph
Agency,' New York, to the company who
has the right from me to handle the phono-
graph business; this company is the Na-
tional Phonograph Company, Twenty-
sixth street and Broadway, New York."
Prescott says that Mr. Van Cott investi-
gated the matter and refused to turn over
his letters to Mr. Edison's company. The
complaint closes with a prayer for an in-
junction directed to Thomas A. Edison,
William E. Gilmore, the National Phono-
graph Company, and Charles E. Stevens,
restraining them "from using or availing
themselves of any information obtained by
the said Charles E. Stevens while in part-
nership with your orator, and from using
in any way, the lists of customers of your
orator, secretly made by the said Charles E.
Stevens in violation of good faith or from
Mehlin
Pianos
Factory, 461 to 467 West 40th St.,
New York.
"A Leader
among
Leaders."
using and availing themselves in any way
of information surreptitiously obtained by
them, or from circulating among your ora-
tor's customers, or among the trade, reports
derogatory to the credit and financial or
business standing of your orator, and from
setting up an exclusive right to the sale of
genuine Edison phonographs and from sell-
ing phonographs for export in violation of
any contracts heretofore made by the said
defendants, or any of them, and from con-
ducting business under the name of 'Edi-
son's Phonograph Agency,' or any other
name similar to the name 'Edison's Phono-
graph Agency,' and calculated to mislead;
and from diverting mail matter intended
for your orator, and from interfering in
any way with your orator's business and
with his purchases of Edison's phonographs
in the market and the supplying of the
same to his customers."
Thomas A. Edison, when asked about
this suit yesterday, said: ' 'We have asked
for an injunction to restrain Mr. Prescott
from using my name. Because we brought
this suit, he has instituted the proceedings
in the Chancery Court. It is only a bluff
suit."
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