The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-09-24


day observanoes. There Is no use dodg-
ing this question. 1t must be a point of
issue. And the "dumb dogs that can
not bark, ISee Isaiah, SO. but suffer
"the man of sin, the son of perdition" to
steal this sacred truth from Gods
church, (the Sabbath, had better hang
his harp upon the willows, and behold
with silent quietness the fall Of Babylon,
| for 1t Is me table. 81" ."TF~
Yours for u thorough reform.
JESSE DoRCAs.
The Problem Solved. Steam Car
riages for roads success.
From the Scotsman.
On Saturday afternoon very re-
markable sight was reen in this city.
A train Of heavily-la EN- coal wagons,
looking exactly like luggage train,
was observed coming steadily up the
steep incline leading into Edinburgh
from Dalkeith. 1t was one of Mr.. II.
w. Thomsons patent road steamers,
with india rubber wheel tires, having
four huge loaded wagons in tow. Each
wagon weighed when empty, two and
three quarter tons, and carried load
OF five and one quarter tons Of Goals,
making the gross weight of the wagons
thirty-threo tons. The road steamer
weighs eight tons. Thus total Of forty
tons was in motion. The road steamer
had drawn the train from Newba tile
colleries, eight miles from Edinburgh,
over a very hilly road, with rising gra-
dients of one i'm sixteen.
The hill from Pow Burn up to Mimic
street is both long aud steep, but the
road steamer drew its train to the top
with the most perfect ease. 1t was very
curious to watch the behvior Of the pat
ent india rubber tires of the road steam
er rs they passed over the various dc.
scriptions Of road surface. In the out
skirts of the city, where the roads are
macadamized, there were many places
where broken stones had just been
spread on the surface. Over these sharp
loose stones the india rubber tires of the
road steamer passed without crushing,
or In fact disturbing them in the least.
The toughest and sharpest bed Of bro
ken stones sank gently into the elastic
cushion of india rupber, which rose from
the contact with the most jagged frag-
ments Of stone without any traces
or mark Of injury. The perfect COM
mand which the conductors had over
its movements enabled them to control
both its course ard speed with tho ut
most precision. The line of streets
through which it passed are always the
most crowded streets in the city, but
notwithstanding all these obstacles,
aggravated by the streets being ut some
points under repair and closed for one
half of their width, no difficulty was
experienced in steering clear Of every
impeiiment. ..s.. .s..
The extremely curious way In which
the whole four wagons follow, snake
like, in the track of the road steamer
was clearly seen in passing out of North
Bridge into Leith street First, the
road steamer had to turn to the right,
and, before tho last wagon was around
the corner to the right, the road steamer
had already turned sharply to the left
to go into Leith street. Thus the train
actually assumed the form Of the letter
:, every wagon going over the same
ground as the road steamer, with the
most perfect accuracy. The final ma
.y,l, ,.l, ~ 4
Of the train did not expect to accomplish
without breaking it into two portions.
It had to be taken out of the Benning-
ton road, which is narrow street of
thirty feet in width, into lane twenty
five feet wide, which rises with steep
incline to the entrance gate of Bower
shall Works. It was determined to at
tempt this narrow entrance with the
entire train ninety feet long, and it
passed in mt the first trial. leaving sn
much space to spare that it was found,
on afterwards mearuring the wheel
tracks, a width Of fourteen feet would
have sufiiced, though the breadth of
the wagons is seven feet. The train
ukNSu III lldITOV eIllIuIte,
mounting ut the same time the steep
incline leading up to the works, and
drew up in the yard in perfect order.
There can be no doubt this invention
of the application of vulcanized india
rubber to the tires of road steamers forms
the greatest step which has ever been
made in the use of steam on common
roads. 1t completely removes the two
fatal difficulties which have hitherto
barred the way to the use Of traction en-
gines-viz., the mutual destruction of
the traction engine and the roads The
india rubber tires, interposing a soft and |
elastic cushion between the two, effect
ually protect them both from every jar
and jolt-in fact, as much so as il the en-
gine were travelling over tramway of
india rubber. The road steamer which
drew the four wagons Of coal from New
battle Colliery OH Saturday, was con
structed to draw less than one half Of
the weight comprized in the coal train.