The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-09-26
Tho Wheel Question.

In your issue OF the 10Th there appeared an
article signed by P II. Wait, intended for re-
ply to q challenge offered by me, for!a test Of the
comparative merits Of the "Wait Jonval Water
Wheel" and tho "Leffel Double Turbine Water
Wheel" but which any intelligent reader will
not have failed to discover svades all the main
points at issue.
In the first place he Intentionally misreprssents
the terms of the challenge by saying that pro-
pose that the test be made under my special Girec-
ton
A reference to the challege will show that
nothing Of the kind was said or intended.
In the next place, did not ask Mr.. WATT to
come here to make the test, only proposed that
the test be made in this vicinity. He has some
three wheels operating in this vicinity. Mr..
Wait did nothaps TO como here to put those wheels
in. He has some one here representing his
wheel, and l suppose, and as all reasonable per-
sons would infer, thst if the trial were made,
Mr.. Waits agent would conduct it-ss / certain
ly should conduct it On the part Of the "Lefel
wheel" and if Mr.. Wait should see proper to.
and come superinteud Tin person, he certain
ly would have no reason to complain of me.
l st least have no intention of sending for the
proprietors and manufacturers of the "Letfel
Wheel" 70 conduc, the test, nv part.
Even if l should, they would have to come
from New Haven, Conn, Springfield Ohio, or
Cincinnati, Ohio, at all of which places they
have extensive works for the manufacture Of the
"Letel Wheel" and would bs subject to nearly
or quite as much expense and trouble az Mr.
Wait
Then his Counter Challenge" to Local
agent whose authority does not extend beyond
his immediate vicinity, fact which he very well
knswl TO go 10 Sandy Hill, n. Y, entirely out of
my juriodicton-this challenge, too, coming
from the manufacturers OF wheel which he
claims no is selling all over the United States,
is simply ridiculous, and was intended for "bun-
combe" emily.
/ would have ne object in making test in n.
Y, for | do not expect to sell any wheels there.
On the other hand Mr. Wait would have, and
has, An equal iRducement to make the test here
for il successful, he would sell quite number of
wheels in this vicinity.
He refers to y test of Water Wheels made at
Paramount Water Works in Phi,da lphia, and
says that zone OF the Jonvxl WheD f which
his is an Improved copW gave out 90.'' per cent.
Of the whole power Of the water" ,n. then at
tempts, and intends to convey the nat his
whsel is giving like results.
If this is true, why need he fear tate to
make the public trial propose?
The fact is, his wheel is about mach like,
and As much to be compared to the aov wheel,
as Mississippi River scow to q HUDSON River
steamer. lie knows that his wheel is no match
for the "Lsffel Wheel and hence dares not make
the trial propose
II he wishes TO back up the test with two or
three thousand dollars to make il interesting
he can be accommodated.
My object was only to test the comparative
merits OF the wheels. ,......
His low fling at the LefFel ~ the 'Lion" and
the Double Terrible, &C." pass by with the re-
mark that such filings do not enanate from gen.
tlenen. ii. J. LOGAN,
Agent for the Leffel Water Wheel.
Ottawa, Sept. 2lst, 1868.