Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 16, 1895, Page 17

P NS bt PART IIL L PAGES 17 TO 20. ‘ Srn e ha b OMAHA, SUNDAY MOR — NING, JUNE. 16, 1895—TW NTY PAGES SING LE cory CENT | N N N Nk walled vestibule ccntains another diamond | electric light, but it was more as a toy and ' e ) | riders is that they each and all advise Agnm.],w.«gwy for the “scorc when engaged \ RAV " WITH A lllSlURY lL l globe, whose rays bring out the con to amuse myself than with any idea of ac- long runs for every woman rider. When [in ‘“scorching,® to assume the one or the | \ between the polished wood of San Doming | complishing anything of a commercial value. | asked what especial women they would ad- | other of these attitudes—to sprawl with the and I”lfl ‘m""fll; "M; of a “'mIH l'!m;'f"- THE SERIES ARC LIGHT, vise not to ride a wheel, each one replied that | body straight, but almost horizontal, and the —_— Which might have been transplanted from | wwhen qid you first a ] - the exercise, judiclously taken, was good for | head close to the handle-bar, or to bend the oAbl eett | Haia ] d yo pprecate that your _ y . | £y g A Prophecy Fulfilled Muoh Roouer Than the | (1o fimed baihs of Cara ‘“.""y“:)y,“\j(‘m ot | electric “lght ‘mght have a commercial | An Irresistible Mania PresEmota the Land A ey ”1;::::“.-‘ O GEDBR b R L L LU i LS Reminiscences of a Noted Pioneer Hotal in y ook In ooma heyond te | value? > ¢ d o o! ves a a| it in its middle, ow the shoulders for- £ Prophet Dreamsd, that, though 1t fs night, everything ‘e at | "Si®{iny 1t was about 1976, replied Mr. and Captures the Natives, panacea for sleepless nights and torturing | ward as if desiring to make them meet across Saunders County, Gl bright as day. Mr. Bruth has not invented | prysn. “T¢ was at this time thar T coms headaches, his breast. Even so, one who is not “scorch- e, ;l,,",,.;‘”,, Hignt to live In darkness. and 1IE | pleted’ my firat dynamo-electric machine. 1 very bractical wheelvoman_can, It she | jug” does not necd to make Wimselt a hide- TR W N E o | house 1s perhaps the best ed paloce In | ghowed this at Philadelphia, the next year - §§ | Wish, take excellent care of her wheel with | ous object to look at, and also to reduce the | TRAGEDI A 1T NAl IR D L THIC LGN e N Is fighted in mch & shFiode wiz i | 4t the Franidin Tnatitute and it js's curious | EVERYBIOY WITH WHEELS, MORZ OR LESS | it (B0, & There Is a great differenco in | benefits of wheeling (0 a minimum, so far as GEDIES LINKED L) € o—— ;\h;"h»-'fi ll‘u_‘\‘:‘_‘»z "III:'K")'AH" ROABEETERE AN | thing that Mr. Thompson and Mr. Houston, the use of a bicycle on city pavements or | jts effect on the chest capacity is concerned. B LA, o Pt afterward of the Thompson-Houston electric over country roads. The pavements are so B CYCLING G 9 Raventor Hrash's Poraeverance and tho | @ number of arc lights, and tho electricity for | o fCRATS 2 (18, THompeon-Houaton, electrie | 4 gy i ouiam of tateresting Gosip for Ex- | Svgrconniry, roude: 1 bleyele §s “‘mudaied ‘ Sohin Noblo. HaRchester. SoRny: Hie pats | T Uay to Grave a8 Bilasard=THY 1 Magnoificont Rosults—Instractive 11 r‘l’l‘r;‘\'\[‘['\”"l‘)'\‘;‘l" I'W »"_I'“["T‘ m" "\“0 re-lighting machines had to have one| pert and Amatear Riders, as Well a in a run of a few blocks, This mud, how- | 03" SOt Menchescn, HOBI 1o And nocent Lynched with the ity— tory Detalled by the Noted e NDMILL AND IT8 MO. | dynamo to each light. My invention was the Heginneri—The MBike Thief ever, s light, dries quickly and is easily re- | Sl 06 & O3 e million who e take Bloody Battle for Possesslon o i Kl There are, he told me, ten tons of [first that proposed a series of arc lights b e moved, After & trip on boulevard and park | Kreat favor with the milllon who have taken rrisiengt . evelnad Electrician, ge batterles in the house, and the | working from one dynamo and it was upon ettt Al roads the machine should stand until the | 0 4T RE 8 & (ORI SERAECRG for the " power which charges these with electriclty | this that all the street lLighting and all the mud Is thoroughly dry, and then can be | 5 SORVERUDIS costume, evitanle aike fOF tle — is an_ cnormous windmill which he has | present arc-lighting systems of the present wiped down with & dry soft cloth. 1f the | PIOBSNECS OF foF, CYELRE: and Cver Townd " R (Copyrighted, 1895, by Frank G. Carpenter) | erected ih the rear. Every brecze that|are based. We first made two-light ma-[ Small talk is certainly below par emong | Wheel is only dusty the same dry treatment full-length sKirt, adapted for home wear. | ASHLAND, Neb, June 14.—Some thirty ©That, man, 18 the Nght of tho fature! | blows produces Wght for (hia houte, and e | chincs. Then ‘we ran four 1mpt ‘fr0m & | women nowaduys. Thelr convercation. tukes ity TogBiyen ft. In olling the machine the | gpickerbockors are worn beneath it, and | Years ago there was situated on the present AT e sl i culm Tt hle ek they Weuld | NoRertii achievement. © e soon had Lo | O the SPOFting tone of thelr athlotto brothers | ST 6f"tho oll is of greatest fimportance. | giiors- it SHible weadr STl tolora; O I et op MUy o1 am going to light the world with It!” | ¢ijji contain snough electricity to run ail the | lEhts in a series. Then we found we could | since bicycle riding has become so universal. | particles. For an ordinary rider oiling after | :‘E:‘v"\lu:”“:;;:h‘n.r‘-\;valxfi.‘ A Jonicl, | east of Ashland, what was known as “Mul- These were the words of a big, broad | jights. The windmill itself is in large part | Fon sixteen and it was not long before forty | The visitor at the cycling academies in the | each 100 miles 15 suffclent. 1f for any erbockers being sold together at merely | 100'S ranch.” This was a sort of a ranch- shouldered young fellow of 28. They were | the invention of Mr, Brush. It 1s the biggest | lghts \wr;- supplied by one dynamo . At the | jarge cities never hears a breath of possip, | reason the bicycle demands more ofl than it | nominal price. The skirt is made to button | hotel at the junction of the two overland uttered about cighteen years ago to an old \\lwl’u er| m“n.y.» ]‘-”rm_ ‘n.‘: it is u,uy;m: by {:rr;‘h;vlm:‘l-\'\rylg;'r*"m'_' “'_l{-,lll":"';";"“"'"Y:,““"';;: and not much about beaux and clothes, but | fi‘""1”"{'l.’]‘l'i“'"|""“;""llfffll’\wlfs‘,'lkll(-kl_v fr-wll; on either side. Wh o the |mrumu(u.-‘|m trails from Nebraska City and Plattsmouth i atont oA Aol & wheel which has & sail surface of about ply 12 , and 1 . , trd ; L cousting, | the difficulty propulsion. Either very cold | bjcycle she simply unfastens a few of these | 1o (ha mountains man who stood In front of a shop on one of | § (L0, NIGL N8 & KL PUTECS Te Winde | electric current requisite foF such a result is | he will hear a great deal about coustiug, | the, diicult weather affects the metals, mak | biiots, " eh i P, UNfastens 8 few of these | to the mountain \ the ml-h- streets of the city of Cleveland and | ;' (a5 high as a six-story house, It is | immense, the s ey L LS [ R e HEACLIE 15 VSR OSHNE, UIVIRY |/ the [WRN oL SIITAL ithines (MONTAEANLLEN oL [ shlion tha BKIFL; DANNGE: Her (rmy the Mullen, the owner, was a jovial Irishman looked with wonder on a glass globe In which | set in heavy masonry and so made that it | machinery are such that they are no more | interesting to cyclers, judgment the apertures formed by unt g Who had the reputation of furnishing the best ¢ ca and £0 ma r i i 4 e 4 Y pertures formed unbuttoning 1 & blazed a ball of fire, upheld, as it were, be- | can turn with every wind at blows, | dangerous than a much less number of lights [ wp jut can't take care of my wheel,” sald | At least once a year a wheel which is In | the gown falls loosely about the figure in & | beds and the best whisky and of being the most tween two black carbons the size of your | Within it there is an enormous dynamo, con- | Wa# In {"'l‘l‘.“.‘. T hveri (f]‘(‘x.::"‘(i'.(("',',r.";,,‘,"', & discouraged girl to a New York Sun re- f constant use should be eent to a shop, taken | really graceful fashion, not unlike a Roman | sonninionable follow upon the California t This . o ected w p 1o by a syste ol elts by N 1878 oy hvented h e mode: g, = apart and carefully looked after by ex- | peplum s not toc a beeause it is % & " lttle finger. This old man was A. C. Bald- | nect "}M\I‘{‘\'i e B Fystem of helt® | uerles arc lamp with the shunt coll. This | porter. “I've had the nstructor explain and | jPAFE 204 caretully 'looked ai LR NN TR | e EE T e e aure, | Fohd, Tvory otfier Batiitddy nighe: HedEAVE win of Tifin, generally known throughout|gyeomaic’in jts make-up that it necds only | a8 the invention that really made arc light- | illustrate three different times how I must | ff {hera 18 an expert In the family while it descends to the knees as a sort of | a dance at the place, which was attended by northern Ohio as old Uncle Baldwin, and | "i{tle ol now ‘and then to Keep it perpetu. | 1§ practicable and commerclally. possible do it, and I've read two excelleat articles in THE THIEVES' HAUL apron; nor does 1t cover the back of the [ all the settlers for twenty miles around common sense and v b W e iere was it first used?” I asked. s ‘pape or care of machine e SV B s odice ike a bournous. Those who 3 noted for his great common sense and |ally at motion with the wind It has been | o0 U0 ore first used for the lighting of | the papers on the proper care of machines, £ bodice, f: like a lym us.. Th .\nN On one of these occasions two couple of shrewd business ability. He had made a|in operation now for more than seven stores and shops, and ameng thoss firty to|but I can’t grasp it somehow. When the| More than 10,000 bicycles were stolen last | hold {hat wearing of Mirtdoublen { O e A ' St it 18§ de th orks g ores and shops, and among those first to , 4 year dozen of the large cities o e labor of driving a cycle will appreciate | YOUng people drove down from Sa ord, he was now passing through Cleveland on | WUOh, 16 Wes BUOE [ BEOGUCES SnOUKD | maker of Philadelphis. One of the, first in- | ple matter, and when I take my eycling scrab | stolen in Chicago. This ‘season has started |all the freedofn of knickerbockers decently | clear, still winter afterncon swhen they his way to visit one of his relatives there. | of tnese ton tons of storage batterics, and it | Sances of e BN N e (i | book from its shelt and read the clippings |out to make a good record, nearly 600 al- | vells the figure on the machine, and in A started; bul, dUSTHE (e A enlRE NN He had left the depot A was walking | furnishes the light for the house and give AN L PO I be | on that subject I feel as if I could take a |ready having been reported as lost in Chi- | second, when dismounting, its wearer s eyt P & % | park and the people came out in force to see GRED AIGhE,THERG NEures Mre. shitatned 8 1y 'to walk in the town, play golf, or | SWung round to the north and by the time through the streets. It was in the early | power to run the machinery of Mr. Brush's { thom “the first night. They had no idea of | Wheel to pieces, put it together again, oil it, Hiis soiesld Fapoe B lxm "”fl"'“ s "'m) o l: 1 "h"w_ Hers ]Th)v :‘(“;( 12 { the young people were ready to depart had evening and the gas lamps cast their flick- | laboratory, which Is located in.the basement. | hat the electric light was and many of | inflate the tire—in fact, do anything with it; | the Wheels reported as stolen to the police bbb AL P LG BLS sl ¥ 2 J i It costs him, Mr. Brush told me, much more | i o B e A ey Ot .} | Doubtless many more have been lost to their | cross cut at the back in the most fasiion- [ blown up a regular blizzard, Nevertheles: ering rays upon the pavement. In one spot, | [t costs him, Mr. Brush told me, much inore | them wore Inded by its tays. The strecy |Put if a screw really gets a lttle loose I'm [ owners which are not included in this record, | able style. 1f gaiters are needed they can Thoy - 4LAFLBA 0UL bi ERBIF LwaIvE SHILaRIVE however, there was a glare of light whieh | "o ity ‘but he prefers to be independent | IEnt be Dblinded by its T e e, treet | as helpless as a baby and can't even find | With the growth of the bicycle fever, says | be made of brown box cloth, or can be : bt e R A came from this ball of fire in the glass|anq the machinery is a pet invention of his | | 5 .n& soon spread and our lights are now | o) o =0 o% 05 s, the Times-Herald, the nporations of the | specially ordered of the same material as the [ In an open sleigh he road was through e 3 g stsatela o i : to be found, as you know, in nearly every : 2t bieycle thieves have enlarged till there is | dress, and when the cold weather comes a | hills along the Platte river and is yet one of R L barore the s dvatiot eleciric | iown, great city of the world.” A western girl sat on & bench Lear bY|noq”iaik among some of the clubs of or- | cardlzan can be introduced under the be: | the worst Lo the stat Ughting and old Uncle Baldwin stopped and NEW FEATURES IN LIGHTING. BLECTRICITY DIRECTLY FROM COAL.| humming and patting her {fot on the floor, | ganizing anti-bicycle thief associations along | coming bodice. The dress has been patented | ' 'The party lost its way, wandered round S 86 s ;:{:"l::’(j‘l:l ’“‘)'wI‘{‘;Q:::,f]""'ym“',’mI'“ The arrangement of the electric 1ights in | Iy there not a great loss In the produc- | Dt she heard what was giing on and re- | the lines of the anti-horsethief associations | not only in England but elsewhere, and has | 4ng round, up and down the hills and finally came to the door. His brawny arms were | the house is after the plan of Mr. Brush and | tion of electricity ‘from -coal for electric | marked pleasantly: “It 1 were you, 1|of earlier days, and the broposition Is o | found favor in France as well as in England uptetiing, In_ A..stream . were complately bare to the elbow. A leathern apron covered | IS wife. - Some of the rooms are lighted | jights?" wouldn't attempt to take care of my wheel, | @pply the same corrective—the halter. But |and America. 2 drenched. The young fellows turted over the his chest and feil to his knees. His hands | from the cellings. = Others have lights 80| “Yes." replled Mr. Brush. “We only get |why don't you keep It at a stabls>" i L L D B INCREDIBLE STRENGTH. sleigh and bundling up the girls beneath it 3o Wi . | #haded by opalescent globes and reflectors | about 10 per cent of the force from the coal ot, operations of the thieves who make were blackened and his face was smudged | ® ¥ o e from th with: dirt, but h's eve athletic form was the p and force. As sald: That is etand it. Wi bright and his onification of vigor Uncle Baldwin saw him he wonderful light. 1 don’t under- What is it? There is no pipe for gas! Where is the wick and_where is the 01? Say, what is it, anyhow?’ Then came the reply: “That is the light of the future. That is electricity! I am going to light the world with it! The old man, for a very sharp old man he was, became interested at once. quired how the light was produced. asked many questions as to its and before he left he had told the young man that he would take $500 worth of stock in his company, which had been organized to push the invention. He rather hugged him- self over his investment, as he left the young man and his ball of fire, and when a halt hour later h found himself in the home of his friends, surrounded by some of the most prominent people of Cleveland, he could not rest until he had told of the wonder he had seen and of the stock which he had secured. As he spoke the crowd burst into laughter and Uncle Baldwin's relative then and now one of the most influential men of Cleveland, said: “Well! well! well! He in- He And so you have been taken in by that young fellow Brush and his_crazy ideas about electricity. 1 have had dozens of chances to buy his stock, but 1 wouldn't give a cent for a thousand sharcs Why, uncle, the man is crazy. His ideas are impracticable and impossible of execu- tion and you might as well put your $500 into Lake Erie as to give it to him." And 80 the Cleveland man went on. He cited the noted capitalists of Cleveland who would have nothing to do with Brush's invention and he finally persuaded Uncle Baldwin that he had made a mistake. The result was he withdrew his offer. As he came to the door the young man looked up from his bench and said: “I suppose you have come to back out of your proposition as to that stock. That is the way they all do. But I tell you you are making a great mistake and you are losing a fortune, THE MILLIONS IN ELECTRICITY. It was not many years before Uncle Bald- win realized how great a fortune he had lost. Within twelve months after his refusal the name of Charles F. Brush, the great Cleve- land electrician, was on every one's tongue. His light had been shown at the Franklin in stitute in Philadelphia. It %ad surprised the scientists of the world in the great electrical exposition at Paris and the French govern ment had decorated him a chevailer of the Leglon of Honor for his achievement. great company had been organized to operate his inventions. The Brush stock had doubled and_quadrupled over and over again until Uncle Baldwin's $500 worth was of more value than all the savings and speculations of his lifetime. The prophecy of the young man had been fulfilled. His light of the tuture had become the light of the present and today he has lighted the world with it. The streets of the biggest citles of every con- tinent blaze at midnight through the genius of Charles F. Brush. 1 have stood under his are lights in Tokio and Osaka, Japan. I have seen them cast their snadows over the pig- tailed Chinamen of Shanghal and Hong Kong, and I have threaded my way through some of the streets of Calcutta, Cairo and Constanti- nople by the Brush light of electricity. The same light illuminates the big cities of South America_and Australla, and Europe and the United States have turned night into day through the genius of this man. His inven- tions in electric lighting alone are held by many companies the world over, are now rep- resented by an aggregate capital of $500,000,- 000 and his inventions in other elcctricai lines have created a capital of many millions more. There are today more than $1,000,000,- 000 Invested in electrical industries outside of the telegraph and telephone and the electric railways of the world have assets amounting to more than $600,000,000. Mr. Brush is the {nventor of the storage battery, and all ele tric roads which are run in this way pay him a royalty. He received $500,000 in a single sale of some patents in London, and the rub. bing of his electric lamp has caused the genil of electricity to bring him a greater fortune than that represented by the wildest dreams of Aladdin. The poor young man is poor no more. The capitalists of Cleveland 00 longer talk about his crazy ideas of elec- tricity. He lives among them, one of the greatest capitalists of them all. has made his city noted and the great ele tric light company, which he founded, gives employment to hundreds of families and its influence reaches to the ends of the earth. MR. BRUSH'S EUCLID AVENUE PALACE Still, with all this the world knows but little about Charles F. Brush. With all h genius he is modest In the extreme. He early adopted the policy of keeping out of print, I do not know of a single interview which he has hitherto given to the public. He has contributed little to the sclentific journals, and the world knows him only through his work. 1t has no idea of the man, and there are few who appreciate his ‘wonderful character and the wide ex tent of his achlevements. I spent an even ing with him not long since at his big man- slon on Buclid avenue. He has one of the finest houses in the United States, and one of the most comfortable homes. It is lo- cated in the best part of Euclid avenue, which is, you know, one of the finest stree in the world, and it Is surrounded by seven acres of magnificent 18xn, where the land is 80 valuable you have to carpet it with greenbacks to buy it. Looking into the grounds from the street makes you think of one of the old English estates. Immense forest trees shade the velvety green and u winding walk leads through these up to the house. This is a massive siructure of Ber sandstone, the whole front of which is cov- ered with carvings, save where, here aud there, magnificent windows of stained gluss show out. It Is an immense bulldiog of three storles, with many turrets and towers. Heavy stone columns uphold the wide portico In the front, and easy stone steps lead you to the wide front door. The portico Is lighted by an opalescent globe, which hangs Wer you as you pass in, and (he mahogany- His genlu: | that only the softest rays surround you, and of the magnificent paintings which cover the walls, each has an elcctric flame in front of it, 50 covered by a green reflector that you do mot see it and you know of its existence only through the rays which are thrown back by the work of art behind. In the top of the building there is a great hall, In which Mr. Brush has one of the finest maglc lanterns in exlstence and this he operates through an electric light of 3,000-candle power. The average calcium light, or that produced by oxygen-hydrogen gas for magic lantern use is, he tells me, 500-candle power. His electric light for this purpose is six times as strong and he has a dissolving ap- paratus of his own invention in which all his slides are registered. During my talk with him he referred to the wonderful work which the Japanese have been doing in coloring lantern slides, having seen some which T used in a lecture recently delivered in Cleveland on Japan, and I told him I could give him an address where he couid get his slides colored. He replied: “I do not want any one else to color my slides, [ would prefer to color them myself and I hope to have time to experiment in this w later on. I think there might be as much art shown in coloring slides as in painting plctures, and the artistic effects of the best lantern work are yet to come, CHARLES F. BRUSH IN 1895, But before I give you our conversation let me tell you how Mr. Brush locks. I met him in one of the large parlors on the ground floor of his house. He is a physical glant, but 80 well proportioned that Lis form commands your admiration. When Gambetta him at the Paris exposition in 1881, he sait: I don’'t know which to admire most in Mr Brush, his mental attainments or his mag- nificent physique.” Mr. Brush is about six feet two in his stockings. He is broad- shouldered and big boned. His head is large, and it is fastened to his frame by a strong well-shaped neck. He stands straight, with his shoulders well thrown back, and his chest is deep and full. He has a dark complexion and dark eyes, which show out from under heavy brows. His forehead is high and full lis mouth strong and characteristic, and his under jaw firm and indicative of strength He is now 46 years of age, and ig in his in- tellectual and physical prime. He retired from active business several years ago, and at that time expected to devote five days out of every week to his laboratory work and one to his business. The demands of his large property, however, are so great that he has almost reversed the order and is now devoting about five days to business and one to his laboratory. He is working to get 1way from business, and he hopes in the future to devote more of his time to scientific inyestigation and experiment. The day of his laboring hard for the dollar has long since gone by, and while in the future his gocd business brains will lead him to got all the money possible out of his future inventions, still his work will be more that of scientific xperiment than money grubbing for new patents. A BOY INVENTOR. During my talk with him I asked him a num- ber of questions about himself and his first experiments in the field of invention. He has been an experimenter all his life, H father was a farmer, who lived near Cleve- land, and he gave his boy a good education. He showed a wonderful aptitude for chem- istry, physics and engineering. Sald he to me ‘the other night, “I can’t remember when I was not interested in physics. I began to study them when I was about 12 years old, long before U had reached them in my course of studies at school, “I was always experimenting with some- thing, and while I was in the High school in Cleveland I made microscopes and telescopes, grinding the lenses and turning out some very fair instruments, HIS FIRST ELECTRIC MACHINE. “When did you first become interested in electricity ?"* “I can’t tell when-I was not,” replied Mr Brush. “When 1 was 13 years old I had made a frictional machine {0 generate elec- tricity, It was made out of a bottle, and I had it so fixed that I could charge a Leyden jar with it. I wish I had it today. I don't know what became of it. About this time 1 made some electro-magnets and had an elec- tric battery or s0. This was before I was in the High school, and I suppose my interest in electricity could be sald to date as far back as the age of 12." “Had you any idea when you were a boy that you would be an inventor, and did you ever think at that time of being able to make money out of your invention: “Yes," replied Mr. Brush aid. While I was in the High school 1 got up a plan for turning the gas off and on at the street lamps and of lighting it by electricity. The whole was to be done with an electrical machine and it was to dispense with the lamplighters I thought for a time that I might make some money cut of it, but, though it might operate today, at that time it was hardly commercially practical, and I gave It up." PROPHESIES ELECTRIC LIGHT. “What was your next electrical experi- ment 2" “I can't say as to that,” replied Mr. Brush. “I was always working at electricity I read all that I could find and I watched the reports of experiments as they were given in the newspapers. While I was still in the High school I produced an electric arc light with & lamp and a battery of my own construction and when I graduated from there it was a curious thing that my oration was on electric lighting and I prophesied that_electric lighting would be the light of the world and that it would be generated by means of dynamos." i “Have you a copy asked “L don't kuow," replied Mr. nave looked for it, but of that oration?’ 1 Brush, “1 I can’t find it. You del.vered it twenty-eight years ngo and that is a long time.” “Where did you g0 to school after that?" “I went to Ann Arbor to the University of Michigan and gradusted there with the de- gree of mining engineer in 1869, I then came back to Cleveland and established a labora- tory here, doing the work of an analytical chemist, but still experimenting on electr.c- ity. 1 kept working on my dynamo and the in the production of electricity, but this is n the production of the mechanical energy. In the conversion of the mechanical energy into electrical energy by means of the dynamo only from 5 to 10 per cent is lost and the modern dynamo is probably the most perfect machine that the world has ever produced. “Will we ever get electricity directly from coal?” “I think so, I have alr replied Mr. Brush, “In fact, dy gotten it, but not in such a way as to make the invention commerciaily profitable. It is now twenty vears since I succeeded In getting electricity directly from coal. It was in 1874. I used carbon as the combustible element in a voltaic battery, the electrotype being a fused salt or oxide capa- ble of fusing the oxy n for the combustion of the carbon. I tried fused caustic soda bicarbonate of potash and oxide of lead and got a good electrlc current in each case. I have not pursued my experiments in this line of work because I thought I saw other lines which prom’sed better and more imme- diate results. The fields of invention are st. We stand just on the threshold and there will be new inventions as long as man has mind to create and tne will to investi- gate the great forces of nature and the pos- sibilities of their combination.” THE POSSIBILITY OF NEW INVENTIONS, “Do you anticipate many new inventions in electricity in the future?" “Who can teli?’ was the reply. “The electric force is still to a large extent a secret from us all. Of late years there have been few new fundamenta inventions in electric lighting. There have been many im- provements and modifications of the old ones The light is steadily belng made better, but it Is the same light, just as, for instance, we have had lucomotives drawing trains ever since we were born, but the locomotive of today is a far different macnine from that of forty veais ago. Still it embodies the same tundamental principles.” “Where is the chief work being done electriclty today?” “It is in the field of thermo-electricity heat electricty. It is now thought, s know, that all light and heat are produc by electrical force and it is in these branches that the best work is now being done." HOW BRUSH PROTECTS PATENTS “How about patents, Mr. Brush? 1 once had an interview with Mr. Thomas Edison, in which he said that he had spent $600,000 in defending his inventions, but that he had not had one minute's protection. You have had' considerable experience with the patent in office. Does Uncle Sam run his business on the square “Uncle Sam may be all right”” was the reply. “I have no doubt that the heads of the patent offices are hon , but T have had a number of experiences which lead me to believe that the subordinates sometimes al- low important Information to leak out. I have applied for patents again and again, only to find interferences filed before they were granted, and it is only through fay =reat care in Keeping records of my work that I have been able to secure a number of my inventions. Take the arc light. While I ‘was working upon it and attempting to make it commercially profitable T kept a very full journal of all my experiments, 1 recorded everything from day to day. and dated it, and had witnesses called in to sign the records. This I found of immense value to me in my patent suits. I had 200 of them and gained all except one. This I did not care to win, as there was little in it, and T practically let it go by default. I am very sorry now that I did so, as it broke the record.” THE STORAGE BATTERY. “How about the storage battery?” “I had a great fight in the patent office over it,” said Mr. Brush. “The Invention was fought over for four years in the United States courts, and it was finally decided in my favor. 1 was working in the storage battery and had completed my experiments at the time that Faure invented his storage battery in Europe. As soon as I heard of it I filed patent applications for everything 1 had In order to get my rights in America, be- fore he could apply for American patents, In some way or other my patents were held back and Faure's interferences kept me out of them for four years, but I finaliy conquere 1 and showed that I was the first Inventor. Now I get a royalty on all forms of storage batteries and the storage battery of today is founded on my invention.” “Will storage batteries be the street equipment of the future?'" car “I don't know as to that,” replied Mr. Brush. “T doubt it. You cannot run cars 0 cheaply by them as the trolley. I should rather trol I next asked Mr. Brush as to his present experiments, but further than than he was working along sclentific lines he preferred not t say. He is a man of great intellectual activity and his chief pleasure is in his work. During our talk he told me he thought the greatest enjoyment think it would be the underground a man could have came with the moment of making some new dis- ccvery in science or mechanics, and there is no doubt but that his experiments will be continued to the end of his life. He has done wonders in the past. What will he not do n the future! - f Ck«(m i s & o — A Frenchwoman of fashion has invented a beautiful shade for electric lights. She got her tnspiration from the falling of a sun- beam on a beaded Japanese screen, and, full of the idea, she summoned an electrician for experiments. The shades were drawn, the beaded Japanese cloth was thrown around the bulb of an Incandescent lamp, and when the current was turned on the effect was ex quisite he light was split ino a thousand shafts of colored radiance. An attachment was produced after (he design of the Jap- anese cloth, and the new shade at once be- came the rage. An American electriclan who hgs brought the design over here has im- proved on the original idea by using bulb covers in imitation of grapes, purple and yel- low, and of flowers glistening with dewdrops. “A stable? What kind of a stable?” “Why, a bike stable, of course,” said the girl from the woolly west. “Don’t you have them in New York? Now, in St. Louis, where I come from, the bike stable is iriving out the livery stable. It's a very paying busi- ness there, and I'm sure there must be some here, because I've always heard that New Yorkers had evervtuing that paid. You see It is is way: There are a great many people, like yourself, who ride wheels and either cannot or do nit have the time to take the proper care of :hem. Machines are not so unruly s horses, perhaps, but really they require a grat desl of @room- ing to keep the nickle-plate brght and the tires and chains in first-class ranning crder. The man who works down town and wishes to ride his wheel to and fro from businees has no place to keep it uniess there is a bi- cycle stable. And :hink we the masses of people who live in boarding houses. What are they to do with thelr wheels? There are very few landladi>s who will allow thea to be stowed in their Lails aml basements I think the stable is a neests.ty. for nulest a cycler has a place like this the care of the wheel outweighs the pleasnre.” NOMINAL CGST. “But_doesn’t it cost 1 gveat deal to keep a wheel in one of those srables?” inquired the discouraged girl eagerly. “No, indeed. +Only §1 & month, and no matter when tho owner calld far her wheel, she is sure to find it well cleaned and in thoroagh running order. The bike stables in my home also keep wheels for rent, and the man who runs the place where I board mine told me the day before I came east that, be- sides his regular customers who keep their wheels there all the time, he stowed from forty to fifty every day, and that the de- mand for rented wheels was always much greater than the supply. In fact, he says he expects to get rich.” “I wonder if there is such a place in New York,” said the discouraged wheelwoman, and she went out immediately to look for one. Just as she left, an elderly woman, the sister of a prominent judge, joined the party of enthusiasts and immediately began: “Isn’t the woman instructor here an institution? 1 don't see how we could get on without her.” “Why, you don't need a chaperon, do you?" said a pert girl in a very short skirt. “No, I do not; but my three daughters who rite here, and often have to come with- out me, prefer one,” sail the woman rather severely. “However, I do not view the woman’ instructor merely in the light of a chapercn. When a young girl comes here for the first time she sees that the novice has the proper Kind of a wheel and saddle, and if a timtd woman comes in she arranges all the details about the ticket and the in- structor for her, and encourages her with amiable and courteous words. Really, I'd be afraid to say how many lessons I've taken, and I -would have given up long ago if it hadn’t been for that woman.” Another mother joined in the conversa tion, saying: “You are right about the woman instructor; she is a mecessity. I hay been allowing my daughters to ride here, al- though I had scruples about their doing so with only strange men for Instructors. One day I happened in just as a young woman fainted and fell off her wheel. Every in- structor in the place rushed up to her, and, while I recognized the fact that all had only the kindest intentions, it flashed over me as they lifted her out that there ought to be a woman in an official position around. The thing made such an impression on me that T wouldn't allow my girls to come here any more until I heard that the managers had engaged a woman instructor.” The pert girl said under her breath as she rode off: “Let the old women talk all they want, but I don't need any chaperon.” DISCOUNTS THE HORSE. Sometimes persons who have never ridden a cycle, and know nothing of its remarkable physiological effects, will assert that it is inferior to horseback riding, both as an ex- ercise and a pleasure. But those who have tested both thoroughly, says Porter's “Cy- cling for Health and Pleasure,’ know that this is not so. It cannot’for & moment be pretended that horseback riding does or can offer the advantages or produce the results which follow with certainty the regular use of the wheel, and which are testified to by thousands of Its users. Moreover, as to pleasure, the motion of the wheel is far and away more exhilaratingy as it is more smooth, even and harmeniou However slowly one travels, there is always the same agreeable motion, far remoyed from the list- less walk of a horse, which constitutes a considerable portion of horseback riding. The other gaits of a horse are too violent to be long kept up by horse or rider. At best the exercise s varlable and more or less violent. How different is the wheel, which Is uniformly gentle, pleasant and exhilarat- ing, and Infinitely more certain and bene- ficlal in its effects.: A good many wheelmen are disposed to drink very frequently during rides in warm weather, but even water, which s the ordinary drink, can easily be used to excess In such cases; though, If one perspires freely, some liquid is particularly , necessary. Ex- ercise, during its continuance and after its cessation, causes a sensation of thirst. Fre- quent drinking, however, soon becomes a habit, but neither a satisfactory nor ad- vantageous one. The constantly recurring sensation of desiring to drink makes one uncomfortable, while too frequent gratifica- tion of the desire is bad. for the system One can and should cultivate moderation in this respect. Water, of course, most is available and generally answers, but If one is mueh glnger ale phate and parched some shmple lime juice and #oda, acid phos- soda, or milk, will better quench the thirst. For exhaustion an egg beaten up in milk is more nourishing. Nothing elcoholic should ever be taken during 2 ride, thing like and only in great moderation after it is over. WOMEN AND THE WHEEL. One motable thing about these experienced | wheels a speclalty have assumed such pro- portions that insurance against loss of bicy- cles by theft has become a big business. Companies have been organized both in Chicago and the east, which, for a fixed annual premium, guarantee *bicycle owners against loss of their wheels by theft, and supply them with equally good wheels in case their own are stolen and not recovered. Bicycle stealing has been reduced to a sci- ence Last year the police of Chicago broke up a gang who made a practice of stealing wheels here and shipping them to Milwaukee to confederates who disposed of them there. The wheels stolen by the Milwaukee con- tingent of the gang were shipped to Chicago and disposed of here. In this way the chances of detection and the recovery of the wheels were reduced to a minimum. But other gangs are working the same game. Several wheels stolen in Chicago this s son have been recovered in Cincinnati, De- troit_and Indianapolis, It is a comparatively easy matter to steal a wheel, but some of the thieves display no litle_ingenuity and daring. One of them, dressed in a bicycle suit, came into one of the leading bleycle club houses only a few days ago, riding a solid tire machine not worth §10. He stacked his machine up with a lot of others, asked the janitor for the pump, as though he wanted fo inflate a tire and in a minute or two rode off with a good wheel. It was all done o naturally and unostentatiously that it was some time be- fore the full import of the occurrence was realized. SLANG TERMS USED BY RIDERS. A bicycle slang has sprung up which will be constantly enriched, says the New York World. A youth was talking boastfully of some deeds of his in a western town in the presence of a group of young men and women who were resting on their wheels at Claremont. He had evidently not se- hearsed his story sufficiently and was plainly befogged both as to his geography and chronology, He stopped short, never to resume that story again, when one of the young women quietly remarked, your lamp is out.’ Being cyclists all, the point was appre- clated and Freddie was squelched. ‘‘Scorch- ing"” is the term that indicates the making of very fast time. The suggestion is that the roadway is being fairly burned by the rapidly fiyng wheel. Hence a young man who s traveling through life at a very rapid kait s called a “scorcher,” and an especially Jovial or hilarious gathering is referred to as Fredde, a “scorching good time,” He has lost his tire” is a cousin to the generally understood expression ‘He's off his trolley,” and means that some person is acting in an extravagant, unreasonable or foolish manner. A cyclist who Is weary or exhausted and desires to stop by the roadside for refreshment remarks to his companion, “Let us stop here and pump up, “‘pumping up” bemng the process of renewing the air in the pneumatic tire, One of the delights of cycling is coasting down long hills. No effort is required other than to preserve an equilibrium, Hence a person with whom the affairs of this world are running very smoothly is referred to as ‘‘coasting. “Life is one continuous coast with him,"” remarked a tired cyclist as he stood with his wheel on the side of a Central park drive and watched a young man who Is trying to spend $50,000 a year spin by on a silver-mounted wheel. When young men are together the term ‘“‘bloomer’ is used as applying to any member of the fair sex. “Here comes my bloomer,” “He's out every morning for a spn with his bloomer,” ““His bloomer gave him the shake' or “Here's to the bloomers, bless 'em,” are sample expressions heard at any of the hun- dred roadside resorts where the cyclist stops to allow his wheel to cool off, A policeman Is known among’the fly youth wheelmen as “a header,” a term indicating the danger that lurks in the bluecoat for the cyclist. It 1s a reminiscence of the days of the high wheel, when a common and oft- times serious accident was the “header” or dive over the wheel. The cyclometer, a little device for reglstering the distance traveled is called a ‘“ticker.” A bicycle s called a “bike” and a wheel- man is also called a “bike.” The Michaux club, when out on parade, Is halled with the remark, “Here come the Mick: BEST WHEELS THE CHEAPEST. The amateur with no ax stantly besieged with questions as to the relative advantages of different makes of bicycles. Amateurs are more open to preju- dice than professionals, probably, as they are far more ignorant, and ignorance, as we to grind Is con- all know, is pig-headed. But pertons of both classes, amateur and professional, of the best capacity, unite in declaring all high- grade bicycles to differ slightly, and indeed imperceptibly. One kind of tire may have a pretty general preference, and one kind of spoke; some makes of wheels are weak in a particular spot, and some riders may be so easy on that special spot, or so lucky, as not even to find out the weakness. Given cer- tain undeniably first class parts, and it makes little difference what expert puts them to gether. Last year there was more decided indorsement of favorite machines; this year there is less feeling, and everybody is willing to admit virtues in everybody else's wheel, Ot the lower grades of wheels it is impossi- ble to speak too disparagingly. As well might one try to economize on false teeth or a wooden leg as on a bicycle. The best is the cheapest in this case, If in no other, and when you find yours:\f on a lonely road, far from a car route or alleviation from the hot sun, the rain, the wind, or a fierce thirst with a broken pedal or a fractured handle bar or an unblowable tire, or any other cheap disqualification, you may give the $25 you saved on the wheel “to boot” for another make, or to the doctor for a cracked crown There is no economy in a cheap wheel. It s llke a cheap steamer or buggy, or inexpen- sively put up bridge—bound to break down some how, and at the most inopportune mo- ment. As there 18 no opportune moment however, to break one's neck, this last re the that a wheel thirty inches It scems absolutely Engineering New: in diameter, with a wood rim and wire spokes, so light that the whole structure weighs only twenty ounces, should sustain without permanent distortion the welght of four men standing on its side, with supports at four points only under the rim, and no hub support whatever, It also seems incredible that a cycle capa- ble of carrying a man of 160 or 175 pounds in weight can be made so light that the whole structure weighs less than nine pounds, Yet this has been done; even at the roadster welght of twenty-two or twenty-four pounds tho cycle carries a greater load with safe than has ever been put on any other vehici impossible, says The influence of the cycle on social life 1s already great, and wiil probably con stantly extend, as it provides an outdoor sport and amusement for women which did not previously exist in any form in America American women are not walkers, but the cycle is perhaps even better suited to woman's use than man’s, and seems destined to add an outdoor clement to the life of woman of the world over which was not possible without the “winged wheel.” The miracle of the bicycle lies in its birth, death and resurrection; in its incredible load-bearing power in proportion to weight in its displacement of the horse as a means of pleasure, and in the selection of its me- chanical details of compressed air support, tubular framing and chain driving. All of these are details often before intro- duced in machines, but never before per- manently rctained. That these cast-offs are undenfably power savers is convinclngly proved by their continued use under human muscle driving power. Finally, the one great achievement of the bicycle i to increase the human powers of locomotion so that the slow-footed man is made one of the swiftest of all running crea- tures, THE WHEEL IN THE ARMY. The sum of 100,000 marks is included in the German army estimates the present year for the supply of bicycles to the army. Two wheels are assigned to each battalion. Bi- cycles are to relieve the cavalry of a great part of its intelligence duties and to take the place in quarters of mounted orderlies, An Australian officer has invented a militas¥ bicycle, whch has been received with heurty approval. An exceptionally high rate of speed i3 attained with it. The saddle is placed very low. The Russian, Belg'an and Portuguese armies have all made careful experiments with the new service, the result being that it is per manently adopted in each. Regular in. struction, practice and _drill are provided for. The general conclusion, as expressed by ‘the editor of the United Service, is that there are few parts of any civilized country where a wheelman cannot in a day cover at least twice the distance possible to a horse- man, and in several consecutive days' riding the ‘difference is greater still. This is not a theoretical conclusion, but one based on personal experience, bearing out the results obtained in the several ar- mies above named. Good roads are desira- ble for bicycles; so they are for ammunition or baggage trains. But the wheelman can take across country over almost any lne practicable to a mounted man, and often where the latter could not go. The wheel can be lifted over stone walls or high wire fences. Unless fields have been too rc cently tilled or grass is too high, most open country is found to be practicable to the army wheelman. S LABOR AND INDUSTRY, Operations have been commenced at the new tin plate plant of the Crescent Tin Plate company, at Cleveland, 0. Over 100 engines were built in that de partment of the Buffalo Forge company's works, Buffalo, N. Y., in the first quarter of 1895. The Reading Iron company, Reading, Pa., on June 1 restored the wages of its 500 em- ployes to what they were in 1893, which means an increase of 10 per cent. luminium s being used in making the bodies of cabs. The French have devised a method of pre serving fruits by means of alcoholic vapor The fruit is placed in a room containing open vessels containing aleoh In the production of steel the United States stands first, largely exceeding the output of Great Britain, and being nearly double that of Germany. The Pittsburg Locomotive company has been asked to bid on the work of constructing a number of locomotives for the Chillan government. Manufacturing The nt of the American Steel Casting company, at Thurlow Station, Pa., has been started up, employing 200 men. The plant has been idle more than a year. William Griffin of Pittsburg, who was one of the first to enter the tin plate business in this country, will ercct and operate a new plant at North Washington, Pa., in which he will give employment to 400 men. The Michigan Peninsula Car company has one of its car building departments and the attached founderies working nearly to full capacity. The work now on hand will last to the end of July. From thirty to thirty- five cars a day are built According to the figures of Joseph Gruen- hut, the city's statistician, there are em- ployed in the manufacture of clothing in Chicago at present about 15,000 persons, two- thirds of whom are women and girls, 1 are in the city about 800 sweat shops, There are 50,000 women and children in New York City working tfom ten to sixteen here hours a day. In the far east and west side stores woman and children are often em- ployed until 9 or 10 o'clock at night, until after midnight on Saturday and occasionally mark may be stigmatized as a superfluity, There is absolutely no reason for stooping over the hapdles in either of the two ways so commonly seen, and there 18 no excuse for so dolng in ordinary road racing. It may be half a day on Sunday. There are 20,000 chil- dren under 16 employed frequently sixteen hours a day. The average wages of cash girls 1s $1.50 a week, and they are fined for absence, tardiness and mistakes, as best they could started out to find help. DEATH IN THE BLIZZARD. They wandered round in the dark and the storm all night trying to find a house, but not until daylight appeared was one dis- covered. Help came, only to find that the glrls had been freezing within 100 feet of a haystack, which was hidden by the dark- ness. They were carried to the house in an unconscious condition, from which but one recovered. The other died before the could be removed to her home. A short time afterward a friend of Mul- len's, a young fellow who had been working up the Platte, came down to spend Sunday at the ranch. Later in the evening three other men applied for accommodation for the night and were taken in. Along about morn= ing the vigilance committee of the county put in an appearance. The committee were In search of some horses stolen down near Nebraska City. They had found the horses at the head of a stream near the thieves to the h The three st ranch and had traced the 1 ngers and the young friend of Mullen were loaded into a wagon and driven to a place near Plattsmouth known us Eight Mile grove. There the committee proceeded to hang all four in regular vigi- lance style. No questions were asked. There was no trial. Ropes were placed about the prisoners’ necks, tied to the limb of a tree and the wagon driven from under them. A NERVY THIEF. One of the thieves was rvy enough to tell the committee that they were not digging his grave deep enough and actually got down and dug it to suit himself. The young man from up the Platte declared his innocence and simply asked for time to prove it. But it was useless and he was hangel with the rest. Later it was shown that he was in 1o way connected with the crime. It was the last act of the vigilance com= mittee. They never got over the murder of the innocent man. Even one man, who still lives near Nebraska City, went wildly insane and 1s always talking of the affair. The four graves of the men are still seen at Bight Mile Grove, Mullen's ranch also figured in the Cass~ rpy county feud which waged in the early days. These two counties are separated by the Platte river. In the river was a large island which supplied wcod fcr the cf iz ns of both sides. ach county claimed the i:land. THE DISPUTED ISLAND, For a good many years there was considers able feeling over who was ent't'ed to the use of the island. In time this grew into a regular southern feud. Whenever a Cass county man met a resident of Sarpy county upon the place there was pretly certain to be a fight. One day a large party f discovered a man named drove him off and followed him home. The man was dragged out of his house and prep- arations were commenced as If to hang him, His wife opened fire from the house with g volver, Killing one of the fellows from rpy. In the meantime the hired man fled to the ranch near by and aroused the men who were always hanging about. They arrived at Gilbert’s just as his wife was being dragged from the house. A desperate fight occurred; Gilbert recelved a wound from which he died in about a year, and several others were badly hurt. Finelly the Sarpy county men were driven over the hill and across the river. In a short time the ownership of the Island car up in the coufts, where it was decided that the property belonged to the government. HARRY G. SHEDD, e RELIGIOU m Sarpy county, hoit cut 11 wood, An Ohlo bellever in the Sabbath objects to church services on the first day of the week, because they prevent ministers, sexton, ore gan-blowers and cholr singers from enjoying their day of rest. d Joseph Benton of Metropolis, I1., better known as the “blind boy preacher,” had been totally blind from infancy, a period of twenty years, until Monday night, when his sight’ was suddenly restored, and he now. sees perfectly, The ministers of Mount Vernon, O., have, in view of the increasing laxness regarding divorce, passed a resolution giving public no= tice that they ‘“decline to marry divorced persons, except the innocent pearties whers the divorce is granted upon scriptural grounds.” A new religious sect has been started In Missouri. The members elect an ‘“angel,” whose business It is to fly to heaven every little while and find out what God wants the members to do, A census recently taken In New York shows that in the district bounded by Fifth, Canal, Essex and Mercer streets, having nearly 000 residents, there are seven churches and 563 liquor saloons, or one church to eighty saloons. Efforts are belng made, it is £ald, by the strict Presbyterians in Scotland to have Prof. Henry Drummond called to account om the charge of heresy, expressed {n his mem= orable lectures on evolution delivered in the Lowell institute course Boston twe years ago. One of the curious sequels of the Emanuel church murders in San Francisco is the schems of the pastor, Rev. George Gibson, to deliver a series of lectures throughout the state in ald of a fund to repair the church and settle its debt. One of his lectures will in be on “The Crimes of a Century.”” He hopes to make enough money (o reopen the church next month In all probability the most distinguished female clergymen ‘i the country is Rev. Ph be A. Hannaford, at present a resident of Gotham. She s not occupying a pulpit, however, and it is hardly possible' she evep will again. Rev. Hannaford for almost thirty years has been an ordained minister In suce cessful charge of a number of congregations, Dr. Hannaford {5 a member of Sorosis, and & well known writer and lecturer, as well as minister. She has the honor to be the plos neer of women in the sacred desk in this country, as she was the first ordained woman minister ln America, and the fourth in the world,