"Q. 1. Please state your name, age, residence, and occupation.--A. Julius W. Peters; age, 45; residence, 4465 Oakenwald avenue, Chicago, Ill.; bookkeeper for Chicago Musical College. "Q. 2. In your capacity of such bookkeeper, have you been intrusted with the keeping of the attendance of that institution?--A. I have. "Q. 3. Will you please state what those records show as to the rate of growth of the attendance of pupils at that institution during recent years, giving, if you can do so, the rate from year to year, down to the current year?--A. I have taken this report from the year 1896-97, and our years run from September to September, The increase from 1896-97 to 1897-98 over the preceding year was 9.6 per cent, in the following year 10 per cent, in the next year 10 per cent, in the next 23-3/4 per cent, and in the next year 12.9 per cent. "Q. 4. Can you give, from the indications so far in this year, the approximate rate of increase?--A. I should say it would be at least as much as last year, which was approximately 13 per cent. "Q. 5. What is the total increase in attendance from the first year of which you have stated the figures, to the present time?--A. 75.3 per cent; that is, up to September, 1902. "No cross-examination." "Mr. WILLIAM MCKINLEY, a witness called on behalf of defendant, being duly sworn, deposes and testifies as follows: "Direct examination by Mr. BURTON: "Q. 1. Please state your name, age, residence, and occupation.--A. William McKinley; 41; 3306 Indiana avenue, Chicago, Ill.; music publisher. "Q. 6. During the period, say, for the past three years, during which the manufacture and sale of these automatic players has been most rapidly increasing, what has been the fact with regard to the sales of sheet music, as to growth or diminution?--A. My business has greatly increased. "Q. 7. If you have made any examination with regard to the compositions which have been cut in perforated rolls and used in automatic players by the different companies making such players, as to the sales which have been made of these pieces in sheet-music form during the period, say of the last three or four years, or since the time when they were cut in perforated rolls, will you state how the sales of such pieces have run? Have they increased or decreased during those years?--A. My business has very greatly increased in certain pieces that I know are issued in the form of a perforated roll.