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 very drastic experiments were made. The Edison and Waters kinetoscopes passed with little alteration; the cameragraph of N. Powers and the Chas. Dressler Company's machine were ordered to be improved in one or two minor points, chiefly in the mechanism of the safety shutter devices. Both these firms are now hard at work, complying with the suggestions made, after which the machines of these three firms will have arrived at the acme of perfection, so that customers may be assured that every safeguard the ingenuity of man can devise will be there for protection of the public. One remark is very pertinent here, that is, with all this work and toil, while the machines are everything that can be desired, they are not fool proof; by this is meant, that if operators will not use common sense and care they can always find a means to have an accident (?).

In penning the above remarks, we have no desire to imply that these three machines are the only ones that come up to the proper standard. Other makers have good machines, and no doubt they will pass the necessary examination, but at the time of writing we have no knowledge of them, and if the various manufacturers will send us particulars of tests made with their machines we will give them full publicity. 

 Owing to the importance of the decision handed down from the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, in re Thomas A. Edison vs. American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, we deem it necessary in the interests of the profession at large to publish the opinion of the judges in full; consequently, several matters of interest are held over till next issue. 