Electricians in This City Regard the Hunter Patents as Amusing

Electricians in this city do not take Rudolph M. Hunter seriously. They say he will patent anything regardless of its practicability, and probably ranks seventh among men and corporations in the number of his patented electrical devices. He is credited with having taken out more than four hundred patents.

I explained to Nikola Tesla, in his laboratory at No. 46 East Houston street, yesterday. Mr. Hunter's latest patents. He was greatly amused.

"I could tell a whole lot about Mr. Hunter and his numerous patents," he said, "but it might appear that I am antagonistic to him, which is not so.

"His contention that his patents cover the alternating principle of transmitting electrical energy is silly. This method dates too far back to be patented as a system. I do not think his claims will prove an important factor in the electrical world or a disturbing element in the methods now in use."

At the offices of the Westinghouse Company, No. 120 Broadway. Mr. Hunter's patents were treated as amusing.

"We know Mr. Hunter very well," said Mr. Terry, the patent attorney of the company. "These transformer patents amount to little. We own six thousand of the ten thousand patents covering electrical devices. We are working under them and shall continue to work under them."