JAMES DOYLE, of Pittsburgh, has obtained several patents for his inventions, one of them being for an automatic serving system. This latter device is a scheme for dispensing with the use of waiters in dining rooms, restaurants, and at railroad lunch counters. It was recently exhibited with the Pennsylvania Exposition Society's exhibit at Pittsburg, where it attracted widespread attention from the press and the public.

In the Civil Service, at Washington, D. C., there are several colored men who have made inventions of more or less importance which were suggested by the mechanical problems arising in their daily occupations.

Source: Who's Who Of The Colored Race, By Frank Lincoln Mather, Detroit, 1915, Transcribed by C. Anthony