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suit secrecy and absolute protection to
his subsequent patent interests. These
precautions have of late years consider-
ablj increased his financial returns. In
[905, Mr. Des Jardins purchased a hand-
some residence in Washington, I
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there, in close proximity to the Patent
Office, the talented inventor has of late
years pursued his research and experiments
at his leisure and pleasure.
The true estimate i>i a man is hest ob-
tained in his home; likewise, the full significance
of an invention may be more
truly gauged by the impression it produces
on those for whose facility it was
devised. Consequently, it will he permissible
herein to include an excerpt from
the Hartford "Post" article of March 10,
1900. The excerpt reads:
The machine (Des Jardins Type Justifier) will
space type and justify as rapidly as the most ex-
pert operator can manipulate the keys of a typesetting
machine, and the work is smoother and
more accurate than can be done by hand. Mr.
Des Jardins' inventi n is the first which has I
produced to justify movable type. Type setting
machines, of which there are many different
kinds, were all lacking in this very important
feature. The linotype, which casts a line from
molten metal, has a justifying attachment, and
is in general use in large newspaper offices. But
there has always been a demand for a machine
that would justify movable type automatically,
and after struggling with the problem for eight-
een years, Mr. Des Jardins has succeeded in perfecting
it to stand the test of usage. The
process of justifying a line of type is strictly au-
tomatic, and occupies only about ten seconds,
and the justifier may be speeded high if neces-
sary, but in ordinary work the machine as ad-
justed will outstrip the swiftest operator, so that
by the time the second line has been set. the
justifier is waiting to receive it and repeat the
proo
This may be considered valuable testimony,
constituting as it does the independent
opinion of the trade directly bene-
fited by the invention.
Mr. Des Jardins' home life has been
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happy ;
hi^ u ii\- has followed him throi
most of his adversities ;
she gave him her
hand while he was yet a humble inventor
with a doubtful future, and their apprecia-
tion of e.uh other is thereby the strong r.
It was while residing at Evanston, Il-
linois, in [889, that Mr. Des Jardins mar-
ried Cora Voila Snyder, daughter of Herman
and Harriet J. (Smith) Snyder, of
that city. Mrs. Des Jardin^ was horn in
McHenry, Illinois, but her father, who
died in i