Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 15, 1895, Page 11

1 . TROLLEY POVER 1§ DANGER Oompressed Air Likely to Lead an In- dustrial Revolution, GRADUALLY COMING INTO PRACTICAL USE Interesting Experiments in the Trans. mission of the Power for Use at Long Distance—~Mechaniam of the New Motors. (Copyright, 1895, by 8, 8. MeClure, Limited.) Years ago, before electricity had made any headway worth speaking of as an agent for the transmission and application of power, there was much talk about the utilization of compressed air, as the mystic current from the dynamo has since been used. Common alr, sald the enthusiasts, is one of the most elastic substances known; it can be forced by the application of power to oc- cupy much less than its normal spage, and ‘Wwhen 80 compressed 1s like myriads. of finely tempered stee} springs, in that as soon as the pressure is removed It will at once re-expand #0 as to flll its original space, and in expan- slon glve back ali the power used in packing its particles close together. This expansive quality fs such as to make the use of com- pressed air by means of the ordinary steam eéngine perfectly feasible, and, unlike steam, its oxpansive nature is not destroyed by cold. Rightly handled, tho enthuslasts held, air might be made the great power transmitter of the future. It was to be but a short time then before the horse was to be displaced by the new agent as a motive power on street rallway lines; very shortly it would be dis- tributed through pipes in the streets to users of light running machinery, the same as gas is now supplied to consumers for {lluminating purposes; tanks of air were soon to be fur- nished from central pumping stations for the ropulsion of horseless carriages and small aunche: storage batterles are now in some degree supplied, and practical uses of the new agent were proposed in many other directions. Pneumatic transportation was a0 soon to come, certainly for mall and ex- press matters, and probably for passengers; in #hort, a revolution in the application of power was* belleved to be at hand and large sums of money were expended here and there for the development of the new idea. But although compressed air has come Into practical use In some few Industries, the more sanguine predictions of the enthusiasts have failed to materialize. In Paris and some other old world clties there are tram cars Tun by the power of air, but none as yet in America; in most great European capitals there is pneumatic mail and express trans- thission, but very little this side of the water. ©On both continents, in fact all over the world, whero there Is extensive mining and tunnel- ing to bo done, rock, ore and deep cutting drills are operated by compressed air and it 18 also extensively used In certaln engineer- ing operations. 1t is In these directions, in- deed, that this agent has made most notable headway. COMPRESSED AIR TRACTION. Quite recently, however, renewed efforts have been made to bring compressed air to the front In America as a factor in street car tractlon, In the transmission of power over long disfances and in many other of with the new agent the same as any other. It is claimed by the sponsors of the new agent, however, that these cars can be run more safely than y others, since they can be controlled far more fiecuvely Ag with mac fess exvfi on the part of the mglormaf. On almost trolley and cable 1fiea this functionary I obliged to bring the cars to a sfop by Main strength, the air brake not being generally introduced on surface lines as yet because of the frequent stops necessary, which make accumulation of ajr for brakes difficult. But on lines operated by the new agent air brakes of the utmost efciency can be used, the alr belng furnished direct from the tanks and the entire pressure of 2,000 pounds' to the square inch being available it required, while the cxertion on the part of ihe motorman in bringing his car to a full stop need only be that necessary to turn a little hand lever. It fa claimed also that the new cars will climb grades as well as electric cars, since a great increase of prossure, even the entire 2,000 pounds maintained in the tank, can be turned loose upon the engine when occasion demands it. TRANSMISSION OF POWER BY AIR. Next fn interest to compressed alr traction, perhaps, is the pronosition to utilize the new agent for the transmission of power over long distances, This Is not a new idea, having come up years ago, long before the proposition to transmit power clectrically had come to anything practical. It s now revived, how- ever, and Herman Haupt, a compressed air expert, declares that he has proven by ex- periments and deduction that the cost of producing and transmitting 2,600 horse power tubes the atmosphere is employed at too low a pressure to be properly termed com- pressed air, and in some cases a vacuum and no pressure all s used. Pneumatic tube transportation Is used on a small scale In thousends of buigess and manufacturing es- tablishments in America for the moving of small cash and other packages, but its use upon a large scale in this country Is not extensive. Mail matter is carried by air in but one American city—Philadelphia. The adoption of a_similar system between the postofices of New York and Brooklyn has been advocated for some years, but no favor- able decisfon as to the proposition has yet been made by the authorities, certaln news- paper statements to the contrary notwith- standing. The pneumatic tubes in Philadel- phla, though not the longest, are the larg- est In the world, being six and one-half inches in diameter. They lead from the main postoffice to a substation a half mile distant and return under Market street. Dur- ing the first year of its life the apparatus was maintained at the expense of its makers, and its performances were so satisfactory that the plant has now been accepted by the gov- ernment. Only seven pounds air pressure is used, but it is sufficient to propel ten and twelve pound packages the length of the line in fifty-five seconds and to send them at in- tervals of a few seconds. In New York an extensive pneumatic tube system is in use by the Western Union Tele- graph company for the transmission of mes- sages. From the main office at Day street and Broadway, four tubes (two express and two local) cun under Broadway, Fourteenth street and Fifth avenue, to the Twenty-third street branch office, a distance of three miles. COMPRESSED AIR LOCO — MOTIVE USED IN MINES. 100 miles in pipes, exclusive of the cost of coal and including nterest, repairs and depre- clation of boiler plant, wages of firemen, in- terest and repairs on compressor plant, n- terest on pipe line and wages of engineers, would be $43,075, or $17 per horse power per annum, about $10 less than the cost of steam power generated locally. In his calculations Mr. Haupt leaves out the cost of the coal to operate the compressors, since his proposi- tion is to erect the plants in the coal regions, where hundreds of thousands of tons of coal dust now go to waste every year, but might be utilized by the adoption of his plan. How- ever, as this use of compressed alr 1s only prospective, it need not be entered into fur- ther here, Of the use of compressed air in the oper- ation of rock drills In mining, tunneling, ete,, It may be sald that it was first intro- duced during the boring of the Hoosac tun- nel, that it was only by its use that this work, the thirty-mile tunnel of the New York aqueduct, all the Alpine tunnels, the tunnels at Niagara Falls for the great elec- trie plant, and many great mining excava- tlons have been possible. By its use the drills can strike the rock at the incredible rate of 400 to 800 blows a minute, or sixty-six to 133 times a second, and each machine ¢an do the work of from eight to twenty men. At the same time the air released by the working of the drills causes much more com- plete ventilation of the tunnel or mine than could be secured by any other method what- ever. Compressed alr is also used in coal A COMPRESSED AIR CAR. SR e the’ ways that it was Intended to utilize ft fifteen or twenty years ago. As a result of the experiments lately made in compressed alr traction It is probable that air will soon be introduced as a motive power on the sur- face lines of several cities, the first of which will be Rome, N. Y, and the second New York. At Rome, where most of the experiments have been carried on, a single car has been regularly operated by compressed air for some time and so successfully as to win the en- tire approbation of the state railroad com- missioners. A month or six weeks ago these officers made speclal inspection of the sys- tem and unanimously authorized the local street rallway company, which had secured & charter to operate its road by means of the trolley, to substitute air for electricity as its motive power. Preparations are therefore now going on with all speed to fully equip the line upen that basis. In the meantime satisfactory in- wvestigations of the new system have been made by the Metropolitan Traction tompany of New York and within the next seven or elght weeks it will put six cars, fitted with the necessary tanks and engines, upon its Ninth avenue line. 5 It Is quite possible that success on this line may lead to extensive adoption of compressed alr as a motor on other New York surface roads. Nowhere on Manhattan lsland has the overhead trolley been allowed as yot to secure a footing, chiefly perhaps because of the con- gestod condition of metropolitan streets and the generally enforced city ordinance against overhead wires of all sorts. Thus, although there are a few cablo lines and the depressed trolley has begun to make its appearance, the tinkle bell of the horse car is still heard on nearly all of the big city’'s surface 1'nes, both cable and depressed trolley systems be- fng not only enormously expensive to build, but dificult of operation in o crowded a city as New York. PRESSED AIR CARS. In appearance the new compressed air cars are vrrp; similar to the cars of overhead trolley systems, the trolley pole being con- eplcuous by Iits absence, of course. The chie? other difference In appearance Iis furnished by ‘‘aprons’ that extend from the sides of the car néarly down to the track level and serve to conceal the com- pressed alr engines, each consisting of ©eylinder, piston rod slides, connecting rod and crank, the same as the working parts of a steam locomotive that are placed on each side of the car. The air is stored in tank: dlsposed under the seats and else- where to bo quite out of sight. These tanks are seamless steel, so far made only in Germany, &nd, according to Lawrence S. Mott of New York, were it not for unex- pected delay In securing their delivery on 1his side of the water it is understood that the Ninth aveune cars would have been run- ning before this. Some years ago & com- pressed air line Was operated for a time fn Pullman, DL, on which the alr was furnished from & pipe running between the ralls, which was tapped at Intervals by an ingenious contrivance reaching downward from the car, but In the system about to be intro- duced alr tanks on each car are to be charged at sta‘ed intervals from a com- pressing station at a pressure of 2,000 pounds to the square inch. It is under- stood that there is no danger from this high pressure, ce the s are tested to"stand twico much, or 4,000 pounds to the square inch, and when by raising the ressure to 7,000 or 8,000 pounds they have een ruptured, thero has been no explosion, only a smart puft of cold air, quite harm- Jess in its eftects. By a simple reducing device the pressure of the air in the tanks is brought down to 150 pounds before it reaches the engines, and it has been found that at this pressure there is no noise of exhaust as there is of course no smoke. In very cold weather there is a slight vapor, as of the breath of a man or horse, due to the fact that the alr Is passed through hot water after leaving the compressor and before en- tering the tank. It will be possible to run compressed air cars as rapidly as steam locomotives working at 160 pounds pre with driving wheel of the same diameter (twenty-six Inches), oould be run—say fifteen or twenty miles an bour—though the city ordinances regarding Speod must be observed by cars .’:;uu cutting, In locomotives for hauling out coal and ore from mines, and in many other va- rietles of mining machinery, 1Its use in calsson work for the foundations of bridges and buildings, and by railroads as the power to operate brakes are too well known to need more than bare mentlon here. The two largest compressed air plants in the United States are at the Anaconda copper mines in Montana and the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal campany's shafts, Plymouth, Pa. At both theso places air is used for many purposes besides the operation of drills. OTHER USES OF COMPRESSED AIR. A most fmportant use of compressed air Is for the operation of signals at railroad terminals and other points where the alr is furnished through pipes from a central compressor to small cylinders, each of which operates a signal and a switch, and is controlled by a lever in the hands of a sig- nal man located at some central point. The introduction of this system has been found to greatly Increase both the safety of trains and their rapid dispatch. Compressed air is also used to operate many small and some large machines in many of the great railroad and other shops of the land. It is especially fitted for the operation of traveling cranes, holsts, punches, etc., and a large machine shop has recently been fitted up in St. Louls in which every machine is operated by com- pressed air, furnished from a compressor Tun by a fitty-five horse power engine. In- stead of transmitting the power from the engine by means of belts, shafts and pulleys, alr Is tubed to each machine, as In the case of tho drills in the minea and’tunnels, and the ir released by the operation of the machines assists in the ventilation of the shop and adds to the comfort of the workmen, The cost of installation and operation are about the same as if steam power were used di- rectly. The use of compressed air in guns, at- tempted on the so-called dynamite crulser Vesuvius, otherwise does not eeem to have been quite successtul, but it is said that the “locomotive torpedoes,” in which compressed air, filling all the interior of the torpedo except that portion occupled by the charge, operates the screw giving motion to the ma- chine, works to the entire satisfaction of the government officers. PUMPING AND FREEZING. A very interesting and simple machine is the compressed air pump, which will force water or any other liquld from any depth or to any height, and that without regard to the amount of dirt, sticks, stones or other foreign substances that may be contained In the liquid. It is simplicity itself, consisting merely of two pipes, an air pipe being run alongside the one through which the liguid to be pumped is discharged, The air is then liberated at the lower end of the pipe and the liquid is forced to the sur- face. There are no valves or pistons or buckets to get out of order, and nothing smaller than the discharge pipe's diameter can clog the apparatus. Of course there must be a compressor and engine with every pump, but with these provided all that is necessary t0 o Is to turn on the air and see the stream flow, This is a comparatively new contriv- ance, and so s the employment of air for refrigeration purposes in place of anhydrous ammonia. The use of compressed air as a freezing agent was explained to the writer by W. D. Saunders of New York, to whose cour- tesy the writer Is indebted for a large portion of the information in this article. “When air |s brought to & high pressure,” sald Mr. Saunders, “the particles are crushed closely together and there is a tremendous lot of friction, and th! es an immense amount of heat. So great is this heat that the air cylinders of compressors have to be jacketed with water to keep them from becoming red hot, Now, when the air ex- pands, after having cooled in its compressed state, it stes heat from whatever it comes in contact with, thus producing refrigeration much more cheaply and with greater safety and cleanliness than can be produced by any other means.* So much impressed have been certain men in one of the cities of the west that a propo- sition has been made to lay pipes in the streets there for the purpose of supplying customers with cold air and doing away with the consumption of ice. PNEUMATIC TUBES, poeumatio transportition through | | Tho carrlers are propelled the entire dis- tance In seven minutes and the lines are op- erated by natural air pressure acting against a yacuum, Other lines run to the comparny's office in the Cotton Exchange in Pearl street and to the newspaper offices, a pressure of seven pounds being used instead of a vacuum. Altogether the Western Union company has 70,320 feet, more than thirteen miles, of pneu- matic tubing under the streets of New York. Compressed air is used for many purposes which cannot here be spoken of in detail— such as purifying asphalt, stirring nitro-gly- cerlne, making a silk-like fibre from wood pulp, painting broad surfaces as at Chicago (when the World's fair bulldings had to be expeditiously painted), aerating impure drinking water, raising’ the pressure of nat- ural gas, unluading dump cars and cleaning car cushions. This last has been most ex- tensively developed on the Pacific coast, where every particle of dirt and dust is quickly washed out of car upholstery by a stream of air under high pressure, furnished through a hose connected with a compressor. DEXTER MARSHALL. THE AI'S NEW ELEMENT. Points About Argon and Hellum Not Yet Made Clear. The present state of knowledge with re- gard to argon and helium is summed up in a joint paper by Prof. Rameay, J. Norman Lockyer, and W. Travers, which is published in the Journal of the Chemical soclety, and entitled “Hellum, a Constituent of Certain Metals."” “It cannot be doubted,” they say, “that a close analogy exists between argon and hellum. Both resist sparking with oxygen in the presence of caustic soda; hoth are un- attacked by red-hot magnesium, and, if we draw the usual inference from the ratio between their specific heats at constant volume and at constant pressure, both are monatomic gases. Thes: properties un- doubtedly place them in the same chemical class and differentiate them from all known elements.” The ratio of specific heats, that at constant volume and that at constant pressure, 1.66 points to the molecules being monatomic. If that is so, If a molecule of helium co tains only one atom, the atomic weight and the molecular weight of helium must be th same, and as the molecular weight is twice the density, it follows that the atomic weight of helium in 4 It {9 assumed, however, in making this calculation that helium is a single element, and not a mixture of ele- ments. Whether this is so or not has not yet been proved for helium. What evidence e ists is derived from the properties of argon. It is known from countless examples among the compounds of carbon and hydrogen that increase in molecular weight is accom- panied by a rise in the boiling point, and it is a proved fact that a complex molecule has a higher boiling point than the simpler meleculs from which it is formed. Thus a preot that the molecule of ozone is com- plex is supplied by the fact that it boils at a higher témperature than oxygen. The boiling point of argon is 187 degrees, be- tween nitrogen and oxygen; If argon con- sisted of more than one atom its bolling would be above and not below oxygen. This is no proof, of caurse, but it strengthens the clusion that argon is monatomic; if that conclusion s correct it applies also to helium, and it follows that the atomic weight of helium is 4.26. An answer to the question, How Is it that argon occurs in the air and helium only in minerals; why is not helium present in the alr? glven by Dr. Johnstone Stoney seems satisfactory. = He argues that if hydrogen were present in air, escaping combination with oxygen it would, by virtue of its own molecular velocity remove itself from our planet, and be drawn to some celestial body naying sufficient gravitational attraction to hold it fast. In this way he accounts for the absence of an atmosphere and of water vapor in the moon, and for the presence of an atmosphere of hydrogen in the sun. This would also account for the absence of helium in our atmosphere and for the presence of the line D3 in the solar spec- trum. Of course if an element can form compounds or can be absorbed by solids, as helium seems t6 be, it will be found like hydrogen and hellum on the earth, The inertness of these gases would favor their existence In a free state. Argon exists in the atmos- phere because it forms no compounds, Similarly, nitrogen is a constituent of the atmosphere because the elements with which it combines are comparatively rare, and be- cause its compounds ere mostly decomposed by water. The excess of nitrogen therefore occurs In a free state. So free oxygen is due to some remalning over after all the oxidiz- able substances have combined with oxygen. If gases exist with an inertness similar to argon. they, too, may be looked for in the air, The great difficulty with argon as an ele- ment is that it does not exactly fit into the periodic table of atomic welghts, which s one of the foundation stones of modern chemis- try. Its density Is too high; to flll the proper place between chlorine and potassium it should be 19 Instead of 20, and the atomic weight thirty-elght Instead of forty. The periodic theory admits of no exceptions; in fact, one of the reasons for believing in ar- gon was that it did fill a gap in the table, as galllum and other metals recently discovered have done before. Lord Rayleigh and Prof. Ramsey have shown that its high density cannot be accounted for by the theory that its molecules are compound; the only other supposition possiblo s that the gas is a mix- ture, but no attempt has yet been made to test the correctness of this view, though ex- periments have lately been startéd, whica, it is hoped, will throw light on the subject. As the density of argon is too high there might be suspected the presence of another unknown element with a density of 41 and an atomic welght of 82, to follow bromine in the table as argon follows chlorine, but unluckily the spectrum Interposes a difficulty. Some of the argon lines coincide with the heltum lines. Now, unless two elements can have spectra with ‘identical lines, which Is very improbable, the only explanation of this is that the two contain’ some common ingredient. But the density of helium is so low that there does not seem to be room for any large quantity of a heavier gas, while to fit the periodic table the density of argon ought to be dimin- ished by the removal of a heavier mixture rather than increased by the removal of a lighter one. Until the relations between the two new elements are established it will be a loss of labor to consider thelr connection with the established elements and their proper place in the perlodic table. In the mind of the layman who considers the conclusions reached in this paper the suspicion will probably be strengthened that in argon and helium one discovery was made by two entirely different processes, and the tmpression will be found that the discoverers cl)‘l‘ argon are unconsciously beglpuing to real- CARPETS This week’s great Fair Sale wil be an opportunity, We have made preparations for the greatest week’s salye of Carpets we have ever had. 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The Cunarder Etruria, which sailed from Queenstown on Sunday last, a day after the Paris left Southampton, arrived this morn- ing, and reported that on September 11, at 2:30 a. m., in latitude 48.44, longltude 39.08, she passed an American line steamer bound west, which was supposed to be the Paris. The Etruria had a very rough pissage, en. countering strong northwest gales through- out the voyage, and the Paris is no doubt having the same experience, which would ac- count for the delay. No anxiety Is felt re- garding her safety, as she is well known as a stanch vessel and Captain Watkins is a cautious navigator. CITY OF PARIS "LONG 2l CAUSE A REIGN OF TERROR. Miners Attack Severnl Men Who Hnd nken Their Place HAZELTON, Pa., Sept. 14.—The Eatimer coal region was the scene of a .cold-blooded murder last night. The discharged Italians, who were, recently dismissed from the mines, are on the warpath, and have created a reign of terror. While going to his home Lote Lashaw was attacked on the railrcad behind the Lattimer postofiice, at No. 1 breaker, and shot five times in the back and body, ' He cannot live. Charles Jacks, watchman at No. 8 Lattimer breaker, was assailed by five Italians at midnight. He was badly wounded. He says he can iden- tify them. Superintendent Levin of Milnes- ville, was accosted by the same gang, but was not harmed. Several arrests have been made, but the main party is still at large. Detectives are still working on the case, assisted by workmen of the several collier- fes. Intense excitement prevails. The dead man was an_inoffensive fellow, and the crims is simply the development of the criminal instinct which seems to be inherent in the class of Italians living in the vicinity of Latimer, LR D R ROASTED GOOBERS BY WHOLESALE., ries Set Fire to a Ofncin- nati Peanut Warehouse, CINCINNATI, Sept. 14.—At 3:30 this morn- ing an alarm of fire called the entire de- partment to the river front, where the build- ing on the southeast corner of Vine and Water streets was found to be burning fiercely. In less than an hour the building and entire contents were destroyed, entall- ing a loss of $195,000, and making the third time that the place had been burned out, twice while occupied by Emery Bros.,, the present owners, as a_ candle factory. The loss on the building will be $125,000, which is Insured. 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