The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 2, 1899, Page 23

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, S8UNDAY, JULY 2 ONSIDERABLE atfention has been directed of late toward the South Sea - Islarids -and some of the peoplé prominent in the.so- life these n-baked kingdoms bety cial -and’ political bound, with oeccupatic secure the crown Malietoa is on the of both eat Mataafa's efforts to been thwarted ssessions of t reduced world; has upldity’ of larger and more nations to the three groups Haapai and Vavau. g George I of Tonga was ome of hle of men, and by his administration onga to. a high pla on &nd won for him: tion of some of the wor n. His son, G land time, than Tongan Mir wa faithl spatch Apla, Kir ove a E has:arranged ficlency in the r shortly: celebrate wedding. . Dt visers have be wil S N WITH PRESENTS Tx4 \ADE pEOPL i to thelr wishies King George Tugou will tent himself with one wife. This r to more complications. s Majesty expressed & there has be belles of Ton- Queen, and e to be of drawing will be the two f the honor. young man of about e was educated in ed from the when 18 years Tonga with his succeeded Baker be- im. Select- treasury was n looted the and got away the steamers islands and kingdom m one of the »d the throne soon af- follawing the counsels was able to so admin- that the ro coffe with gold and si a few months ago, he was a particu- ng potentate. He some palace, people, com improvements com- dfather, had the stocked with and manufactured ough money in »egan to jir ver coin, and wh he decided to m had erecte pleted man ury to run his kingdom d ng up the yoke of wedloc orta Tonga, majest Crown Kaapai. Kaapai was a ancier, and had the entire confidence of his maste nning of last February ogether h advisers, ached an e had now r s able to shoulder the dition to the re dom and 4 nk discusston and 1 among the isl- king the m two dus out S of was a pretty peasant girl from 1 Island and - the other, Fabinia Kubt 12-year-old daughter of the Ton ster of police. The two maidens were submitted to George, who showed his appreciation of his advisers’ good taste by choosing them both. Now wonderfully far ad- = £ FLOCKE"D TO THE WEDD iy, / i 2 %(///M/ —— (T ( (i I M’( W = ‘,71 7 Zhl Wk ( vanced in civilization, and many of the traditions of the outside world hold good in Tonga soclety. Polygamy is tolerated there as in N York , and ‘when the youthful ruler of- fered to set aside the old civilized state of affairs and take a couple of W Tonga :ty was shocked. The King of Tonga, like other Kings, can do no wrong, and if h sty had insisted, : ‘ in the Friendly nds to prevent. g the wedding ad- . The people of notified, and from his brides. ‘The royal palace was ren- ovated from cellar to garret and everything was In readiness for the ceremony, when the alarming discovery was mac for the second ti within a few years a falthless stewar: had cleaned out the royal coffers and fled. King George, like all Tongans, Is an enthu fc yachtsman. Every native of this group of islands fs a natural r , ‘and George, being King, ed of more money than any of his subjects, had purchased a mag- nificent yacht. This vacht lay in the harbor when his Majesty was not using it. In this yacht Kaapai sailed away with the royal gold. The morning before the wedding George walked out on the veranda of his palace, took a look over the harbor and noticed, to his surprise, that the royal vacht was not at her moorings. an attendant he bade him make inqu regarding the pleasure craft. The investigation did not take long. Kaapal had gone aboard before day- He had several long and appar- ently heavy boxes with ., which con- tained, he informed two whose alled in, wedding pre assistance he ents for the King. The wedding was postponed and the King devote 1 his energies to over- take, if pc ible, his defaulting officer and recover the stolen funds. Vessels tions, and one ordered to re- were sent out in all di of the state officlals w port the matter to the outhorities at Apia, which is some 300 miles away. Kaapal did not get far with h gotten wealth, He was a better finan- cier than sailor, and two days after leaving Tonga he managed to pile the royal cht on the rocks of the Samoan coast. She became a total wreck, went to pieces and rried 1l treas- in- ures to the bottom with her. apai managed to get ashore and reached a few days after King George's y had brought the news of the rob- He was promptly thrown into jail. King George was no- tified, and the assistant Minister of Po- lice was sent to bring the culprit back to Tonga. Kaapal, however, had very good rea- sons for not wanting to returm to the scene of his cruel breach of trust, and broke jail the day before the Tongan official reached Apia. He fled to ths woods, and so far has managed to evade rearrest. AN AMERICAN'S INVENTION OF A SMOKE- LESS AND NOISELESS LOCOMOTIVE. . that p blows off makes no. noise, r whi: and- oth Dodge's . wor ew miotors a After the test was over ersoll the netic - system ted. for work on ele- fuifils the claims “The kinetic is Mr. Dodge s not an , but a constructor of ,‘and lie knows how to t in gond shape. - All T know is motor works all right, and, as it #is"an Improvement. over the locomo- i, 1 suppose it will have some sort of fu- raevolutioni g influerice upon £ transportation.” ture Tt was finé “vears ago .that the in- ventor began his .investigations. He ex- plained his theory to a number of rail- t. they laughed at him. all :of the opinfon that the o¢ ‘the locomotive had been reached;. ‘and’ that it would be jdle to speculats furtliér upon the subject. All af buried. in the work of solving lem - of . propulston by electrielty, chemi- the. rirominent -investigators were the prob- cals, campressed” air . and cables. Mr. Dadge came to the conclusion ~that inas- much @s electricians. and others are using fhe steim engine. indirectly for motive power, the direct use of steam in a perfected locomotive system would ke it not only cheaper to operate, but ) glve each motor car the independ- roperty of moving, stopping and re- T vears of work Mr. Jodge has, according to many experts, ed a noiseless high power locomo- at could a train of cars to with- chedule time, g a single puff and witho ¢ its course. The Dod ble to all forms of : ces; to carriages It 18 even feasible, construct mo- to move- an n o attended and economy nt in the or- am -Jocomotive mechanism is 1 the best, the simplest and the most durable method in I respects for applying power to turn a car wheel, Mr. Dod retained the link motion feature of the ordinary locomo- tive and adapted it to carry the equally simple and direct condenser system of his invention. Instead of charging with cold water as in the locomotive, he charged the boiler or storage reservoir placed transversely under "the car body with superheated water at a temperature of 400 degrees. In other words, he started with the motor boiler reservolr stored with the same quality and power of avallable energy that the locomotive can get only through forced draft and rapid, imperfect com- bustion of fuel, recessitating the carry- ing of a tender and a tremendous fire un- der the boiler. Mr. Dodge found by experiments that only a very small fire was necessary to keep superheated water at a continuous temperature of 400 degrees, and to this end he placed a small firebox within the boiler under the car body. This firebox so small that it would hardly be no- ticed except for the drop lid with which it is closed, and as It is charged with ready prepared, burning anthracite coal it does not emit any appreciable gases, and is, therefore, an Inoffensive contriv- ance for assisting the boiler in maintain- ing the temperature of the water it con- tains. This water is now converted into steam in the ordinary locomotive man- ner, it passes the cylinders as steam, and instead of escaping through a smokestack with puffing and nolse, causing a loss of some twenty-odd per cent, it Is retained in Mr. Dodge's system In an atmospherio condenser, which is stored away practi- cally- invisible on the roof of the car. Through the successful operation of this condenser, which undoubtedly is the crowning result of Mr. Dodge's Inven- tions, the old-fashloned forced draft and wasteful form of generating power In transit is entirely done away with, and Iikewise the attendant nuisances, such as smoke, steam, sparks and cinders. The motor must be recharged every hundred miles. Having achleved this feat, Mr. Dodge very properly named his invention the kinetic stored steam motor (“kinetic’” meaning ‘‘force and motion’), and it was placed on trial in Chicago, running on the West Madison Street Cable Company’s line, and there demonstrated in efficient service on schedule time runs the practi- cabllity of Mr. Dodge's theory. It is not only in operation that this sys- tem is cheaper and better than the other known traction agents, but also In the cost of equipment per car mile, which the following table, prepared by Mr. Dodge, found that not only had i taken all the ready money in sury, but had been systemati- robbing his royal master for over , and had left the kingdom sadly To make matters worse, varfous creditors of the crown began to press for money. One firm appealed to the German Vice Consul for assistance in ecollecti a large obligation from Tonga, 1d for ~while it looked as if George would not only have to go out of the king business, but would have his territory divided between his credi- T2 1) 5 & S==“THF THEEMEETS st WITH Disaster tors and England and Germany. This appeal to the German represen- tative caused Georg trouble. The firm had advanced mc to the crown, and was owed a lar sum by a number of the nativ The s, by international law, cannot contract debts, yet the German Vice Consul, in a series of interviews with King George, and despite the fact that Tonga is within the sphere of British influence, threatened that all private as well as public debts must be forthwith discharged or he would seize Vavua Island in satisfaction and settlement. Alarmed at this turn in his affairs, George appealed to the British Consul and then sent to Apai for Attorney Willlam J. Napier, in whose hands he placed the whole affair. The trouble was amicably arranged and George was allowed to turn his attention to making up the deficit in the treasury and re- storing the solvency of his kingdom. Meanwhile the proposed polygamous marriage was not lost sight of and was the subject of discussion at every meet- ing of the Great Council. When it be- came evident that the ministers would bring considerable pressure to bear on the King in order to dissuade him from flying in the face of all precedent and setting a bad example to. his people, the friends of the two brides began to get anxious about their chanc ing an alliance with the royal Then there were other Tonga who thought they would look well ting beside George on the royal throne. They had friends, and every member of the Council and =ven the King himself was kept busy standing off the im- portunities of the candidates for the royal hand. George finally agreed to submit ‘o ihe advice of his friends and promised to try and get along with just one bride. The problem of selection was left by the King to his advisers, anG accord= ing to a dispatch received here a few days ago they havelimited the candi- e KiNGSYACHT WASGONE:, dates to the two originally selected. The girls will draw lots for the hand of King George. The natives have agreed to submit to an extra tax in order to make up the amount of the treasurer’s defalcation, and affairs in Tonga are beginning to look up again. King George, the center of all the tangle, is about 24 vears of age, and is said to be a particularly bright young man. He speaks, in addition to his native Tongan, French, German and lish. He surrounds himself with =s 1ch of the prmp of royalty as his xchequer will allow, and when he ap- pears in public always wears an elaborate military uniform. His king- dom, in spite of reverses and dishonest officials, is quite prosperous. His sub- jects are indolent, but manage to turn out a large number of cargoes of cocoa- and copra every year. The ex- I s of Tonga in 1897 amounted to £240,000. Tonga is a civilized and independent nation, possibly the oldest in tue world, and the ancestors of the reigning iaon- arch have been seated on the throne from time immemorial. This kingdom is shrunken in size and power, but it once held as tributary provinces all the island groups in that part of the Pacific Even in the da of Captain the kings of Tonga regarded Fiji and Samoa as within their dominions. The King of Tonga had made treaties with only two nations—Great Bri and the United States. A singula ult of this is seen in the mone tem of the kingdom, all accounts being kept, not in pounds, shillings pence, but in dollars, shillings pence. hen his marriage has been cele- brated and the financial standing of Tonga restored, King George will make an effort to enter into diplomatic rela- tions with European nations with the of increasing the trade and pros- - will show: Cost per mile of equipment, including three motor cars per mile—cable $175,000, overhead trolley $31,750, under- ground electric $75,000 to $200,000, kinetic $23,500. This marvelously simple system requires no binding of rails; it does not demand 1 The New Kinetic Stored Steam Motor. the ralsing of poles and extending of wires or of underground conduits, and it does away with the unmechanical re- conversion and transmission losses of power attendant on other systems. The weight of the kinetic motors rests upon springs, thus avoiding the great damages to rolling stock and rails. and rail joints experienced with electric systems, the ad- Justment of the weight of the motors of which is either actually upon the dead axles or equivalent to it. The wearing parts, the mechanical machinery of the kinetic motor, are the same as ix the lo- comotive, which has no superiorin mo- chanical perfection. It is said that Mr. Dodge has already closed a large deal for motors and that he Is making arrangements to increase immensely the capacity of his,plant in ‘Wilmington. ’