Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 30, 1893, Page 20

= 1 ‘ ‘London. EVOLUTION OF MOTIVE POWER Marvelous Display in the Transportation Building at the World's Fair, THE PRIMITIVE AND MODERN LOCOMOTIVE Progross Mude in Marine and Kailway 1 motion Within . Period of Sixty Years—Ship Models From England, * Tt is not too hard to say that the transpor- tation building is a blotch on the architec tural splendor that surrounds it. This im- portant department of the exposition is housed ina huge structure 900 feet long. The ex r decorations are gaudy and vul gar. Most of the artists who have scen the extraorainary hodge-podee of tinsel and luria paint regard the whole thing as a huge joke The building and itsornamentation are prod uets of Chicago. No other ity in America ughable combination But the dis could originate such a I of cheap pomp and ugliness play inside of the hall range and variety. The transportation, from birch whole history bark of eanoes to amships, and from pack horses to palace cars, is unfolded ina manner never to.be for gotten, Looking down from the gallerics upon the acres and acres of exhibits, one sces monster black steam hammer for forging armor plates which towers above the stor row of famous locomotives facing out from the annex like o herd of elephants a full section of a colossal ocean steamship, and, scattered about here and there, thou sands of objects that tell the story of how man has gradually annihilated space. The invention and development of the lo comotive and ruilway system is the teenth century wonder. Less than sixty-cight years since the f senger railway ran its tirst ¢ le ow the great civilizer s penetra country, About ten acres of ground floor space are second devoted exclusively o exhibits pertaining to railway construction, equipment, operation managenent and devel t. Sixty-fou modern locomotives of all types and sizes from the two 100-ton Decapod on. «8 which stand on the pedestals betw tration building and the the five-ton logging I the forests of Michigan n the adminis ulway station, to omotives for use in Modern Eng xhibitors. The exhibitors of 1 ' engines are dis tributed s follows Buldwin Locomotive works, Philadelphia, fifteen engines, raised from the rails and showi s the machiner operation by compressed_air; Brooks Loco motive works, Dunkirk, N. Y., nine engines Baltimore & Ohio railroad, three engines one being attached to a complete “Royal Blue line train;” Cooke Locomotive and Machine works atterson, N, J., two engines; Canadian Pacific’ railway. one engine with comj vestibule train of polished mahogany conches; London & Northwestern vailway, one engine (Webh compound) and a train of two coaches Lima 1 motive works, Lima, O., on Shay engine; New York Central & Hudson river railroad, two en gines, each with complete pussenger t of Wagner vestibuled coaches, one the press,” and the other the ' Old Colony railroad, one en gine and coach; H. K. Porter & Co., Pitts. burg, five engines: Pullman Palace Car com vany, one Baldwin engine and train of ve: tibuled coaclies, showing the “Pennsylvan, ted;” Pittsburg Locomotive works. 1, five engines: Richmond Ly comotive works, Richmond, Va., one enyine Rhode Island Locomotive works, Provilend \ins im ‘Chi R. L, three engines: Rogers Locomoti works, Paterson, J., three engines Sl hx enectady Locomot works, Schenec Y., four engines; Westwood & London, | France, four eneines two engines, four passenger coaches and sev eral freight cars. one being cquipped as an ambulance cur of Uhe Red Cross society, with fance known to modern ruilw: A handsome model of the rail on at Frankfort is also shown in German scction. gnificont Conches. Besides thesc cars there will magnificently equipped coaches five freight cars, cmb by the leading builde ngland, and i Germany the be twelve nd thirty- [un- 11y cquipbed station: arge number of photog Penusylvania railroad exhibits a superb conch cars of its own build. Among the other attractionsare two Leslie rotary snow plows, a centrifugal snow ex cavator and a Russcll suow plow, four steam shovels and a_locomotive traveling crane. light and heat tender of the Chicago, Mil- waukee & t. Paul railroad and the dyna- mometerof the Chicago, Burlington & Quin, roud. Al this a5 1t is 1 the r: mighty eng from Canada—is the models, old engines and cars and specimens of the quaint roadways of earlier days. 1t is the first time that such a work has been un- dertaken, and Mr. T. Hackworth of the rail- way department has gathered a complote historical collection * For instance, the Baltimore & Ohio rail- road has for more thau o year pust been making extensive preparations for its his- torical exbibit, which includes about thirty fuil sizo wooden models of the eariiest loc motives built in this country and i Ing land, with samples of original tracks. Three of the Grashopper type of engine, the old loconiotives “: nd *Albion. ™ built in England and !]npw-l! to Nova Scotia i and other speciuiens of the ve motives are among the attractions. models are all to be shown with machinery In operation. \tis one of the delightful things about the section The cowpany secured many v original documents. drawings, photographs pictures of the early inventors, way bills. time tables, tickets and passes indicating the it will contain a phis of scenes on the this company als and turee freight represents steam transportation w. but the most fuscinating part of how—more s0 even than the ies and the solid maborany train lisplay of relics, luable method of transucting railrond business when railroads were still in their infuncy Some Old Enginos. Now comes the Chicago & Northwestern railway with the *Pioneer,” built in 155 by the Buldwin Locomotive works, the fourth engine built by that tirm. Pioneer came to Chicugo in 1843 und wi tive to penetrate so far w ran on the old Galena road the Chicago & Northwe: actually steamed into th a few weeks ugo s the first locomo- st. This engine now a portion of rn system, and it exposition grouuds is bewildering in its | Among the raiiway hridge models are | those of the Forth bridge, near Edinburgh, | and the Mississipni river bridge at Memphis. | In fact, the railway exhibit is replete with | | every appliance known to modern railroad | ing, besides being an_illustrated history of | the prozress and developient of the railway troni its first inception to the present day In no previous marine exhivit has the | auestion of transportation on water ever been ed as a subject, but in this depart ment shown, not_only the triumphs of naval architecture, asillustrated by the mod THE OMAHA DAILY show a complete water station. A sixty-foot iron turntable,a seventy-foot electric transfer table, track scales And preumatic cros ing gates are among the exhibits in opere tic On_ the main floor the Rand-MeNally compuny has a ticket ofice and Thomas Cook & Sons a tourist oftice, both elaborately gotten up , RApld Transit Exhibits, No topic 18 80 widely discussed in Ameri can cities toduy as the question of rapid transit through™ the streets of cities and towns, and this subject is completely illus. trated. Ther tweaty cars by leading builders with many varieties of motive | power—horse, cable, steam, electric, gas | and compressed air. izinal cable car, | | s among truc- by A. 8. Hallidie the exhibits, Street rail tion, iron and steel wire clectric | motor trucks and everything pertaining to street railways are practically demonstrated, | « nm-m A diminutive auge, with ch car havi steam railway of cight ing cngines and cars complet capacity of three pass long outside of the building. Several models of cle d railway structures with electric trains are seen in different parts of the hall ernocean greyhouna and battle ship, butalso strange and curtous craft from semi-civilized and barbarous tribes, 1 how they solved problems of transportation by takiug advant the materials hand, whett water transportation From southwest Aliska or Queen lotte's island are a tinzit canoe dugout aud haida canoe. known in that country Char- and a large An Ausiratinn Canoe, | From Austr, comes an interesting canoe ade from a single sheet of what is coe only known as the gum topped iron bark or mountain ash (Kucalyptus Sicberiana) the ends being tied up. ‘The natives in the interior the burk frrom the convex side of a craoked troe and stop the ends with a ball | of mud mwstead of tying them up. ‘This | canoe is called “gree, " Signify ing “property, and comes from the Lake Tyers Aboriginal | Station. Gippsland, Australia. It is used for | both hunting and fisting and for transporta tion | China is represented by lels of every at used on Chinese waters, both sea coust and inland. These boats, although the seems o be grotesque, have pecutiar p wh as the movable and the fashion of attaching the whole of the eraft aft of amidships may be ce for the stowage and manipulation of the net. The rig consists of a sinzle setee sail bent to a long yard that is hoisted upon 2 | short mast stepped amidships aud raking sharply forward | | nailed on sheet to the sail the surface v “The Straits Settlements and also bo represented by fantastic peculiar boat in Ceylon is the is celebrated for its speed of all East ludian waking it possible to- draw flat lon w models, machva, which 1t is the swiftest boats. 1t cannot tack, however, like an ordinary vessel, but must | wear around to get the wind upon the op- | postte side, Its sy feature is the keel, | the shape of which is at variance with all | recognized rules of naval architecture. In steud of being steaight or convex, the k has an archlike form, rising in the middle and curving downward at the ends in deep, | I finliko projections, th epest cnter b il forward one Ihis curious kecl e a double be to earry s SCIVes as shject appears to rd so that the el for A Ceylon Catamaran, A catamaran is shown that has carvied the mail between Ceylon and the m: land for a uumber of vear well as one of the cclerated outr' canoes. These boats carey an enort and the imen ¢ out on tho ot prevent the Boat from capsizing, aud breezes ave known as a one man, two man or | three man breeze, according to the quantity | 3 h\ put on the outrigger, sented by Malta, gon- dolus of Vemee and ‘peculiar litecn boats, us well s the chiozoto and the brazozzio of the | Adriatic. And there ave peculiae canoes | from the w coast of Africa as well as the bimba, a_curious development of the cata- maran, which is uscd i the interior waters From South America comes the its Medite the Turl ol a large balsa-shaped boat used in the v | of Pernambuco; a war eanoe from the t zon; the cascarrs de from a 0 | of burk and entirely unlike all bir canoes, from the Orinoco. ‘There slender and swift dugouts fr locality; balsas from Lake ‘Titi straw and bound together by only method of water conveyan the people of that region. Here you find bungos, eurious shaped canocs from the Isthmus of Panama, and many others quite as interesting Of course, the North American [ndian and his birchbark canoc are features not only in this building but alsoin the south pond, with the Indian himself paddling Primitive Water Cralt Primitive efforts in the direction of build- ing boats d i the following order: 1. Rafts, floating logs or bundles of reeds, rushes or brushwood ticd together. . Dugouts, hollowed trecs Canoes 0f bark or skin stretehed on frame work or intlated skins, 4. Canoes or boats of picces of wood stitehed or fastened with sinews or fibers of wood or grass. wisps—the | known to | 4. Vessels of planks stitehed or bolted together with treenails, with iuserted ribs and decks 6. Vessels of which the framework is fivst setup and the planking subscquentty All of these forms have survived in some partof the world. Climatic infiuences or | ial peculiarities have imparted to them | reial characterist wd with the choice aterial necessitated by tne product of the locality b type in use, [n the early days of the Britain was the stermined the particular | exposition (.n it viend of Chiicago to th retic co-operation of the J can representatives abroad and the inte taken by the British commission, the prinei pal ship building firms have sent o magnifi it collection of models of all kinds., 1 riod of fron ship building is well repre ted, both i the models of passcuger und A tittle further on the Ol Colony railroad | exhibit their first engine, the Nason," und the first coach that Boston and Provide and these, by way of contrist, stand al de of Iatest Old Colony engine and One of the iwost famous objects in the neighborhood is the seven-foot gauge locomo tivo “Lord of the Isles,” belonging to the Great Western Railway of England originally Lown at the first great exposition in 151 in She van until 1852 when the change to the standard gauge lad her up. She was ono of a class of engines designed by Brunell for high speed botween London and Bristol, and has made seveuty-five miles an hour Engineers will look at ‘this giant with affec tiou. The London & Northwestern show thick’s engine of 1502 and the 18 1 fulk sized wood: portunity is here offered for the Baltin SO CUgine. Here the duniel an between Tre “Rocket” models. Au op comparison, is & Ohio exhibit models of the New York Central “company shows the original 'De Witt Clinton™ on the ails of I8, and there the Illinois Central gompuny shows the “Mississippi,” built i England in 1560 for the Natehez & Mississippi, now @ portion of the Iilinois Central railroad. 'The Nashville, Chatta nooga & St. Louis exhibit the historic en giue, “General,” captured vy the dre raid ou the Western & Atlautic railroad in 1862 It would take a page of Tue Bee to enumerate in detail the systems of signal- ing, methods of tijck coustruction, engine and car equipment. The W nufhousu and New York Air Brake: companies have elabo- rate exhibits. Pumps and signaling appar- ‘Vu- are shown in action. The l*kh‘s:e o Gompany of Ka Wis,, the | the | { stenmers as well as in the collection | | of the British men-of-war. Urfortunately | | the period after the vestorition of Charl 1L und through the Nupoleonic wars is not adeds of the great thre | | | ided, for with 1 « sailing battle ships, which were for years Bugland's bulwark of strength, the history of the uavy would be reasonably complete. At Spain sends the asures of the royal museum and the models of the Invincible L, 50 that the ships of the time of the battle will be shown. Thames Iron Works and Ship Building company trace the development of the iron clad in the British uavy by means of models The Warrior was thi of iron. She wi the same time SLW vessel buily | 0 feet long and was pro tons displacement,7,500-horse powe of water, twenty-eight; spe knots; eighteen in of armor; armed with ten-ton guns; 10.6-inch, five-ton, fifteen quick firing guns. | me W Vessols. Then come the Grafton, o fir ss steel g 50 tous, twelve-horse 30 feet long, armament nine two-inch tweuty- sdraught d fourteen tected with four aud one half inches of | | armor which was sulcieat in 1860 to resist | | a sixty-cight-pound solid shot. the maximum | | of that day Her euds were unprotected ! | and conséquently her stecring was | much exposed. ‘The Minotaur represented | the next ship of the Wurrior size, fully ‘ rigged and armo The Benbow wm.‘ i two-tonbreech-loading rifles, ten six-inch | | quick firing guns, ty six-pounder quick firing guns, four three-pounder quick firing | guns, speed nincieen kuno's; Sans Pureil, | armored ship, 10,470 tox sment. in- | | dicated horse power 1,000, draught of water twent; -seven feet, speed seventcen knots, | armament largest guns, two 111-ton breech loadiug rifies. And so on through the list The Blenheim, first-class steel cruiser, 9,000 tons, sveed twemnty-two knots; Theseus, s, i8 shown In operation on tracks S00 feet | | on |t | desk m\-nH and, twenty like th ame a8 forme knots: Superb, armored ship very Sans il. though smaller. Following those are Swift, Linnet, Wilhelm, tor eruls Zi Turkish armor Mesondye, Aomi [ah, Portuguese war vessels Vasco di Gama, Al fonza de la Alberquerque, Spanish frigate Victoria, cruisers Graving asvo, Russian addle sioop Viadimir, armorclad Perven W tors. Spee the Water Witch, German do fronc Greek ironclad King G Danish gun boats Absolom, Esberne. o, Mosquito, sailing yacht, serew 3 iry, the Sul- tan, Brazilian troop ship Purius, tug, mail and other specinl service bo: United States competitive designs armored cruiser and armored battle ship will also be shown. I'he James & George Thomson company shows models of the firstclass battle ship Ramillies, 14,150 tons, eighteen-inch armor, speed 17.5. armed with four sixty-seven-ton breech-loading rittes.ten six-inch quick-firing wuns and_cighteen other quick firing gun; second class cruisers Terpsichore, ‘Thetis, june, and the torpedo cruiser Reina R nta, torpedo catcher Dastractor and scre w steamer America T'he Arn 1 Mitchell company shows a model one-twelfth tull size of the armored ship Victoria, 360 fect long. The model is probably the | st and most complete that has ever been constracted and shows in the most minute detail every fitting on board of the magniticent ironctad Yarrow & Co. show models of torpedo boat loaded its, speed twenty-th d-class torpedo” boat catchers, speed twenty-seven knots; 188 first-cl knots torpedo b aded speed eighteen knots, There 18 a model of the Opale, bailt for service in Dahomey on Yurrow's system of floating sections, b which means th tions and unit eight vessel was shipped in's Laflont ina few days, draught 1 inches, speed ten miles, Canurd Company's In the merchant marine sect xhibit. n the Cunard Of Pare ot Jogs of wood ov skinsof animuls, | stcamship company shows nodels of the T AR R ey | ',"‘““["' Etr atia (000 tons) i ‘)Iul-.u(r‘\\v- hatch bydarka, with compiete hunting out- | Shibs built and engiued in N et fits, and from the sea coast of Norton sound | Al mail service between 'YM I““lv & Hatoh bydarien, with the full outftiised {n || BaUs Alricais sHOwK by Dongld Currisi by ‘[‘,I"'"‘:;:;‘ AN flshing: biveh btk canoes | "o Laird Brothers of Birkenhead exhibit uess and ail that goes with th % DO et Ll L by R Son Ay com o ocs with them. The tHud? | ing the progress of iron shipbuilding from ! 184 to the present time- paddle: steamers, d a full line of models. ting exhibit will be made by the Peninsu and Oriental St tion col iny. T'he Atlantic Transport Line shows models of the sceew steamer o ind Mobile, Serew steamers A most inte v achusetts, Manitoba, Mohawk furnished with all appliances for the car. riage of passenge live stock, d i meat and ¢ of all ¢ riptions. here is al an i ting model sent by Furness, Withy & Co. of a steamer 400 feet long, forty-eight beam, et draught, built of steel onu web frame em, with cellular double bot | tom, capable of careying 6,500 tons of dead weight Thisis only an indication of what the mazine exhibit from ( Nosuch display has eve the United S At Britain is to b been attempted in ates, and especially inan in land city like Chicago, Many of the models ve figured in various naval exhibitions in Great Britain and are fawil 0 those ially interested in naval architecture. But the gencral public will be surprised upon ¢ the golden door of the transporta tion building to sec near the entrance on the main court & collection of models the like of which has never been brought together in this country A striking feature has been furnished by the International Navigation company,which built on the main court a section of one of their new steamers. Imagine the longitudi naland transyerse section of a ship abaft the smokestack sixty-nine feet lon 8.6 in beam. The interior fittings. furnish anddecoration will be the si on_the magnificent sicamers of that line. This is the most inter i showing fully the facilitic for the comfort of ocean t “The Bethlehem lron comy duced their enor atits base will be &L hafting ot vesscls, e ( us immer, o plate, eel ingots and so 1s Engine and Power company of of beautiful ol New York will stow a numbe unches. The Harlan & mpany of Wilmir will make an exhibit of models of di types of ships, steamboats, steam aud sail- ing yachts. built from the commencement of its foundation—1836—down to the present time. They will also exhibit a working model of a typleal engime. As a frieze above the model will be shown a mavine painting on which forty-two boats' are to be scen, wwing the progress made in ship, yacht and steamboat building by this firm. Every Kind, B ut if railways and ships are intercsting, idof the wheeled cupied by this division em- feet. and it is all fitted t inwhite oak strips, laid tterns and finished in oil Each space is Junded with handsomo ornamental brass railing and posts. The ex- hibit occupies the entire north end of the main building and the annex and about one- half of the north gallery in the mwmain building. On the first floor are exhibited carriages, wagons and vehicles of eve he floor space « braces 130,000 squ up with wood caryp out W handsome | description. In rallery are disp ed bleyeles, 1 hur addiery g vohic : goods and nicycles. An effort been made to show the evolution of these in from their primitive origius down to the present time Fov this purpose a large collection has been made by Chief Smith in foreign lands, from the ancient chariot that antedates Christ to the latest thing out. In modern carringes there is everything from a baby carriage up to the fines £ as been built, Some of these t 810,000 each and are really X rn countries contribute g sent fifty best builders, Aust sent eighteen ¢ zes from six of her bes manutacturers. iund and Germany wnake large exhibits, so that the industry of both continents is well represented. In the foreimn colle hibits from London is a lord mayor h, a drag that belonged to the prine es and an old chariot. A sedan chair from Colombia stands besile one from Turkey and neav by are a jinrikisha from Japan. a carriage once owneid by | Polk and the coach of Daniel ughit in 1508 works of to this di carriages from her esident Webster, iepartment a bits, stirru A teappin and seventeenth centu throughout Europe, includi spurs taken from the fo Thomas Picion when he was killed in the battle of Waterloo. In the bicycle division there is presented an extraordinary disy The fittings alone cost more than £100,000, suddles sixteenth lected of silve and some of the pavilions cost exhibitors from £10,000 to #2000 each, There is dis played in this exhibit not only the bicycle that has ever been prody present time, but bicycles ‘nting wheels that date back to the first machine built, showing the complete evolation of the industry DRINK IN KANSAS. & Akin (o Perjury rr One Down There. While walking down Kansas avenue, Topeka, says a writer in the Topeka Call, T passed a large and very brilli- autly lighted dreug store. Remembering that the little Kansas drug store was the home of the jim jams, | entered and watched to see the bacteria of this affair Someth Necessury to get in its work. 1 had not lon Soon a seedy looking individual, who looked as though he feaved the very sight of water, entered and, walking up to a little desk in one corner, bogan to write out his *application.” When it was finished the drugygist swore him to the truthfulness of the statements made therein, gave him the red hquor, took his money, und the seedy individual de- parted. | then walked over to the little pretending to be mak: ing an “application” for myself, I copied his. Heve it is: State of Kaus: 13. No. Il I, swear that my re; that 1 reside at Shuwnee county Kansas, that whisky of one-half pint is necessary and actually necded by me to be used as a medicine for the disease of bath- ing, that it is not wtended for o beverage, nor'to sell nor to give away, and that I am over 21 years of 1 mike this applica- tion to G. W. Flad, druggist, for sald liquor. Puie Mevens, Applicant. Subscribed in my presence and sworn ta before me this 12th day of April, 1803, oreE W. Frap, Pharmacist, . Shawnee count the undersigned, do s name is Phil Me, BEE: SUNDAY, APRIL SNITH PREMIER TYPEWRITER A Syracuse, N, Y., Journal Representative's Description of a Leading Industry, | | | "IMPROVEMENT THE ORDER OF THE AGE" HeSays it 18 Reliabie, Durable, n Rapid and Eusy Running Machine—Excoltent Ma. terial and © Workmanship — The Most Compaet aud fest Made, The phenomenal success of the Smith- vriter is one of the aston- ishing things of the present day. It is not that are deeply interested in this concern, Syracuse (N. Y.) Journal reporter, inas- much Premier type surprising Syracusans sa as this celebrated writing ma- chine is made in ourcity, and that they are justly proud of the industry is not to be wondered at. The Smith-Premier typowriter has won a deserved success, and is destined the infancy. to far more wonderful things, for business is now simply in its The Journal takes opportunity to present to its readers a fow relating o the and also Mr. L. advantage of this intere facts ting Smith-Fremier factory (e man. Smith, a most successful business For some years prior to becoming in- terested in typewriters Mr. Smith was engaged in the manufacture of the Bar- ket breech-loading gun, and later the i. C. Smith gun, in this city, which ness was sold to the Hunter now of Fulton. Alexander this city was the inventor of busi- Arms Co,, . Brown of the L. C. Smith gun and the Smith-Premier type- writery also, of the American Dunlap pucumatic bicycle tire, for which patent he, W. L. Smith, and a received $106,000, Boston party, al work May, Fxperimen on the typewriter was begun in 1886, and in 18%) the manufacture commenced. The production in 1890 was 2,900 machines; in 1801, 7.300 ma chines; in 1892, 12,0004 will be about 18,00¢ employs 4 works here and 200 people outside of the city. The main building of the factorv is 60x180 feet and eight stories high; the next is 40x100 feet and five stories high, there are a number of annexes, the larg- est of which is 80x45 and The concern this year now 30 men at the and A Journal reportorwas privileged the other day to inspect these works, and he manufac- In the al used in the typewriter is learned some facts about the ture, which are here presented. beginning, the raw materi of a of vi manufacture chased many instances shape of steel- iron castings, ete. pur manufacturers—in in the gray This material is put into shape at The Smith-Premier Type- writor works, and in due time comes out riter, rious in cuar-load lots- wire, steel bars, a perfect typoy beginning to end the manufacture of a single typewriter, for the work Is done in sections and pieces, and a large num- ber of machines are under headway at The visitor, as he passes thro fuctory observes once. the mammoth all floors machines 1n various stages of com- may be from 4,000 to 6,000 machines going throuzh the works all the time. time the raw material goes into the works uutil it passes out o machine ready for shipment, from four to six months are consumed. Every part of the type- writer is mado at the works., It is the po! that which it can manufucture to profit. There are 200 machines in the depart ment for the smaller pieces of the typewriter, and in the de- h on pletion, There From the complete -y of the company not to buy manufacturing partment for he .vy work thera are 125 more. [n the whole 350 machines of various kinds, and all of the very latest pattern. The upper three floors of the building are now being prepa cupancy. The clevator of that building are entirely cut off from the structure. In the elecuro- plating department there may be found the plantsof that kind in the country, works there are main d for oc- and stair shaft whut is considered oae of fine: In it 100 machines a day ean be nickeled. The work is known as the eloctro-nic kel plating. a capaci The polishin of seventy-five machines a there thirty wheels. When the works are ¢ dopartment has d being polishing occupied to their fullest extent 150 finished ty pe- writers can be turned out per day. be Among the other machinery may mentioned three cushioned hammers. | Power is supplied by 150-horse- new power engine of the Corliss pattern, and the boiler is of 100-horse-power. An other boiler will sho:tly be placed in po- sition. The alligning departm teresting, employed to sec that wat ds in- Hore forty-five persons are each muchine does The | best of workmen ara put in this depart- its work nothing shori of porfect | ment because the wo 'k must be oxceed- ingly well done. I'ne Smith-Premi never close | filled. The offices under the pe | C. Smith, as follov Corner Seventeenth and Farnam-sts,, Omuha. Ne# Lincoin, Neb,, 131 N. 0th & Sioux City, lowa, Mass, block. | Des Moines, lowa, Youngerman block. | No. 154 Monvoesst., Chicago, Il 0s. 203 aud 295 Broadway, New York city. No. 25 School-st., Boston, Mass, No. 728 Chestaut-st., Philadelphia, Pa. No. 166 Wa'nut-st., Cincinnati, O, No. 208 North Seventh-st., St. Louis, Mo. with u season its orders venty-four branch onal direction of L. et. 30 It is impossible to here explain from 1893 TWENTY PAGES, Now 806 Wood-st., No. 114 West City, Mo. Chamber of Commerce building, Paul, Minn. No. 1627 Champa-st., Pittsburg, Pa, Ninth-st.,, Kansns St Denver, Colo. No. 101 Griswold-st., Detroit, Mich, No. 61 Niagara-st., Buffalo, N. Y. No. 407 Powers block, Rochester, No. No. 116 St. Pau'-st 82 Wisconsin-st . Baltimore, Md. s Milwaukee, Wis. No. 0 Fourth-st., South, Minneapolis, Minn. No. 47 South Illinois-st., Indianapolis, Ind. No. 512 Main-st., Peoria, 111, St. Joseph, Mo, In this connection mention may bhe made of the exhibit to bhe made at the World's fuir writer $2,500 ¥ the Smith-Premier Ty pe- compuny. for the ercction of a booth 15x15 feet. tionably be one of the finest displu the fair, Tho company pays and fitting up This will unques- at The following extract from the New York World is of ihterest: WASHINGTON, March of desired The War States at 150 rd of department Washington typewrite the United to purchase s, and established a bo experts to pass upon all the typewriters in competion, and after a thorough ex- amination it decided that the Smith-Premior Typewr manufac- tured at Syracuse, N. Y ma- chine that stood the highest in point of was er, was the improvements and meci anical constru tion, consequently the order for 150 type- writers was awarded to the Smith- Premicr Typewriter company.” | The Associated Press of the state of New York has adopted the Smith- Premier tyvewriter, to the exclusion of all others,tobe used in their telegraphic service in taking dispatchos divect | fiom the wire. Seven Smith-Premier typewriters are used daily in The Journal office. The first desideratum in a typewriter is thatit shall do good work at the high- est practicable speed. Second. It such materials bo in must such a constructed of angle, and the lower-cuse lotters are white, while the upper-case letters, nu- mornls keys are tlack. The capital letter or upper-case keys are arranged identically the samo as tho of koeys has to be learned, removing the only ob- and character lower 80, 80 that only one set jection that hus been persistently urged to a machine having a full complement of ke of levers, Other machines have a series made of wood, arranged side by side, with each key attached to a par- ticular lever, sible for other makers to produce a key- which has made it impos- board with the admirable arrangement the Smith Premier T company has adopted, which pewriter The keys have celluloid tops serewed upon a steel dise, which is rivited to a steel stem and will never become loose. The characters are inlaid in the keys, are thoroughly dura- ble und present a very fine app wrance, Two space keys are used, so that eithor hand muy be emple od in spacing. The ribbon feod of this typewriter is from old methods. feed is used which a radical departure A compound feeds a ribbon owe and one-hali inches wide squarely across its width at each line of When the back to commenco another line, printing. carriage is drawn the rib- bon is drawn lengthwise about the width of one type, consequently the entive sur- face is used. The time required to trans- for or feed th another is frow two to four days of tinuous writing. ribbon from one spool to con By thus using the en tho center is the > of the ribbon eurling tire surfaco of the ribbon, not hummered more than cdges which is the cau on other writing machines, and the col- or of the written snects is kept uniforn “The type-cleaning dovice isa radical departure in the typewriting art, and it 1 will be found to be the greatest labor saving invention which has been applied to typewriters since since introduction. Th machine is the most laborious clenning of the type of a type-buy and dis le work pertaining io its use. consequently they o run times to the With many without cloaning detriment of clean-cut work, this device it is that it will continue to do good and work for a sufficient length of time to make it a profitable investment. Third. It mustoperate so easily that it miy be vun a full day sive fatigue. Fourth. It must be simple in con- struction and not liable to temporary de- rangement. without exces- Fifth. Its operation must be easily loarned and require as faw motions as possible. Sixth. Itstype musthe easily cleaned, as good work is impossible when the type are filled or gummed with ink. Seventh, Its ribbon, if it has one, must have a reliable fecding machanism which will bring the whole suriuce of the ribbon in contact with the type with us little tension us possible. e the essentials, and the chine which in the highest degree excels Such are ma- in theso particulars is, 1n our the [ profitabla to buy. and the opinion, most desirable use, the nost most readily sold. In the production of the Smith- have tried to make it conform essentially to all the Premier the manufacturers features enumerated above, VALUABLE POIN & Puarchasing ¢ 1 Caretuily | ollowing crsons Tntend writer S th pod Typo- " mith Premier The mechanism of the nsmitting the typewriter for tr power from the key to the type-bav is entirely differont from anything ever used on and any other typewriter, is pre-emi- nently superior to any other device ever invented the It mukes it possible to arrange the keys in straight all dire for purpose. tions; it malkes it pos rows in sible to arrange the upper-cise or cap- 1tal letter keys, in exuct duplicati of the lower-case or small letter keys: also I malkes it possible to use stesl in the place of wood, us is practiced by other munu- facture ner for tra most dur Each key leverage as every not the case with any other used for the purpose. It is the only ar- rangement yet known whereby it would be possible to m ke u doubl2 case typo- bar hachine with a full complemant of keys in as compact form as in this type- Tt is the most scientitic man- smitting power, and it is the ble arrangement possible, of this machine has the same other key, which is mechanism writer, and it does not necessitate super- fluous room either in front ov in the reg of the machine. Phe Smith Premier typew.iter sevonty-six character keys arranged in straight rows in all dicections; the ahape of Lthe keyboard is & regular recis has the work of but a few seconds to clean the ent.ra perfectly- The work may be left in the machine, and by drawing the platen forward and all the be brushed simultancously by turning the in both directions, with no soiling of the hands, or any of the annoyance which follows the old pro. cess of benzine and tooth-brush aoplica setof type intro- ducing the crank, type m crank a few turns tion. ‘The type-bars of this muchine, in their normal vosition, form a circle, with the type facing inwerd. Just be- low is located the brush, which is fitted with a threaded shaft, and upon being turned with a detachable crank, rises up in contaet with the type, a=d brushes When tho brush is in its normal position it is helow the entire se and entirely out of the way of the type-bars in writ- ing. - At fivo tetters from the end of the line the alarm-bell rings as in other typewrite the machine will then print five more letters or char ters, when and nade on the the lock. This prevents blotting the last word by tho entire system of keys 15 locked, 1no more impressions can he same line without relensing striking seve al letters, one upon the other, and ruluing an otherwise per- feet pago. The from others and move rism is difforent The s back pro- line space mech convenicnt. drawing the ¢ lever for rri 1and downward, and is at- jects forw tached to o rock shaft which runs back- At ud of the rock shaft is a pawl s with the on the end of the ward through the carriage frame. the other annular rachet. When drawing which e whet tan, teking hola of the lever and the carriage back to comm a new line, the sbaft is rocked and the pawl at its end turn the platen aut matically single or double line space, us muy be desirved, thus redueing the number of motions requived in manipulating the carriag The pri writer is ating muchanism of the type- the foundation on which its suceess or ite failure depends. Any ma- the remaindero chine, however perfect its purts may be, or how fluely ivis fin- ished mech inism is concerned,will be a source if defective so far as its printing of & and to oyunce to its owner or user those who are compelled to decipher its ssful print- work, By far the mo e suc ing mechunism for typewriters consists of a series of type-bars arrangod in u civele, with type attuched to thewr free ends, and so pivoted that they will all strilke at a common printing point. Such arrangement has the merit of simplicity, [ monthy azo 1 heard of D= oase of operation and rapidity, but IY" ing to tho inefMciency of the suppor® its type-bars the allignmont has be far from perfoct after having been |~’ Jected to steady work for any conside) ble time, However, its ndvantages ovp balanced this defect to such an ent that it has boen successfully tured and used, but to those manufs v he ) \ this one defect has recorved! amount of thought, who made the improvement of the ty pewr a study, larg and many & ventions have beon made and patenth to overcoms it. s This would be a vef £ it was not for the fo that friction must eliminated, made which worl, simple matter be almost enti and many dovices have begs st perfectly ul most perfoctly ul der favorable condition wl fuil entire when slightly gummed by oil or clogg by dust, cor:osion or any of the nume® uses known or unknown whid provent its succossful operation. A serles of type mounted up pivots, meet the requiremonts of an oa running and rapid mechuanism, and 1ty shorter the type-barand the greater tH distance betwoen the bearings, the mo § accurately they will strike after becor ing worn; the shorter bar more rapidly and with greaw age. With the construciion th length of the bar is determined by thy pumber of bars to be used in the cir as tho clrcle (of which the bar is th vadius) must bo large enough to receiy all the bars, consequently tho distane between the bearings or pivots of th type-bars could be no than the circumtcrence of the eivele videa by the number of hars av: around that circle. The printing mechanism of the Smit! Premicr typewriter, while consisting o aseries of type-bars disteibuted in ey cle and pivoted to st i Commo printing point, very diffex ent from anything heretofore used, and acareful examination must convinc of its superiority. The type are mounted on hurdened st conieal hearings 1 5-8 inches apart, as compare vith 144 to 8-S of un inch in other ma chines, muking 4 1-8 times wider bear ings than its st competitor, while! its type-bur is the shortest ever used o) a double c With the ol arrangement a series of type bars, 76 1 number, with bearings as wide apart a' this machine, would require u type-ba ving over 89 inches in diameter wit type-bars 19 1-2 inches in length, whil | with the Smith Premier arrangemen the bars are but 2 7-16 inches in length With this short bar, with its beaving:\ s0 far apart, the wear of s of stead use should not materially aftect fts al lignment; but if it should the usor, witl no other tool than a vedriver, car climinate all looscness occusioned by wear, “Improvement the Order of the Age,” HAVER YOU ’ SERM THE NEW { SMITH PREMIIE TIPEWRITER CHAIE 1f you have not, mier Ty pewri ulurs, ous ¢ bars besides, Wi work old d ange. ike at 1s otherwise one se machine, Lat the Smith P s office, or sond fy As usual, we have THE BEST. : The Smith Premier Typewrter C: Cor. 17th and Farnam Sts, )': OMAHA, NEB, E E. H. MAYHEW, Manager. ¢ =3 B 5 X i _4, & B3 of Suporh effects in Modes e Finishing of various styles will be noted in our elothe % o " Frank J. Ramge, Tailo IF'OR RENT:—Stores and Of- fices in this building, with all conveniences, Inquire of Franlik '.l. Ramge. We are In position 10 place a 1ary wmount of money on city and .nn-fl properties Speclal uttontl 0 104ns on business property. GEO J. PAUL, (605 Farnar DR 0 Wi um. tho Inmonri [ stalements fr teful U5 whoha ot 1 nuve beo affor ot w s hroi 5 inrrhoea,wer “v headact rippled wi 1o 1o itisin, i tried ars and ape o deal but uo Wo, conal; w8t i can chesrfulm o irod me 1 wns G H0DALLE.O taking treatm rend him for bo b man of FRAN Hours 9 to - No. 5193 No:th16tL 8