The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-06-21
ALBERT BRIsBANE,s NEwMo-
TOR.

| Among INC recount hCS ulOonRteSS Wa
one appropriating $4,000 for the purpose
OF instituting an,experiment In 1.-THE new
system Of transportation by means Of hol.
low spheres carrying their loads inside
and moving In pneumatic tubes
AS Mr.. Albert Brisbane, the well. known
Fourierite leader, Is the author Of this
scheme, and his energetic efforts carried
the bill through Congress, the writer
sought an interview with that gentleman
recently. He was found in an uptown
restaurant in company with Stephen
Pearl Andrews, the pantarch, and several
other noted persons, who, Il seems, had
Just come from lively discussion at the
Liberal club rooms. Conversation at first
was Of an abstruse nature, and the Ian.
guage Of Alnato was frequently brought
into requisition. =
The subject Of thon new mode Of trans.
portation being broached, Mr.. Brisbane
described 1t at some length. he said that
the sphere Is the simplest and true form
of a vehicle Of motion. II rcVolyes upon
its periphery without friction, Is moved
with the. least power, and permits tho
highest rate Of speed attaina6le by any
form Of ponderable or material body. Ma.
turc, in all her departments in which she
requires high velocity, employs the sphere
as the formibest adapted 70 rapid and I'M.
varying motion, as Is exemplifled In oil
her works, from the planet which Is
spherical body, rotating on an imaginary
axis, TO the falling drop of rain, which
assumes the spherical form in passing
rapidly through free space.
The, motor In this, conveyance is TO be
compressed air. Mr.. Btbbauewa enthu.
siastically confident Is to the success of
the scheme. He said that when 1t was in
successful operation the great city dallies
would monopolize the newspaper bust.
ness. The World would reach Chicago by
8 A. NJ, and st, Louis by $50 A. M He
went into the particulars Of his interview
with Sumner and Wilson, as well az But.
Ter, Garfield and Speaker Blaine Of the
House. II was Mr.. Garfield who engin.
eered the $4,000 appropriation to build
q tube hall mile long, which will reach
from the Capitol, at Washington TO the
Government Printing Office.
"Spesker Blaine" said Mr.. Brisbane,
saw the thing at once when l explained
1t. s All, i see, said he,;tthe wheel Is tie
sphere analysed; the sphere Is the synthe.
sis of the wheel That" said Mr.. Bris.
bane effectively, "tells the whole story"
"But," said the writer, "you expect Of
course great success IN this undertaking.
Have you had any assurance from your
past history that you will succeed ?"
"Well," said Mr.. Brisbane, II think
am as modest as most men, and must say
that my life so far Is pretty much taii.
ure. have urged the formation of
sOCialistlc institutions and they have most.
ly failed. l have built houses by the
block on speculation with poor results. I
have specialized in stocks and generally
lost. Such personal application as have
made OF my social theories have not re-
suited happily. Inshort 1 have BEEN
Here Mr.. Brisbane made use Of an I'm.
complimentary expression about himself
which the writer must not repeat)
"But said all this about myself" he
continued, "in my lecture tonight upon
The Religion ofthe Future, IbelieveI ],
was very modest; was 1 not, Andrew ~,
"Yes," replied the pantarch, "preten.
tiously modest"
Here the discussion became abstruse
again, and, the de6hition OF the word
claw" was mooted. Mr.. Brisbane said
that, in his opinion, there were two kinds
oflaws: first, laws in the sense OF the order
ofnature;and second, laws of organization,
which he recognized as principles under
lying phenomenass a FL ~ ~.
One Of the company ut ged that law, in
the scientific sense, is simply the way in
which things happen;l again, that law!
was simply succession and similitudes
that TO use tin, the sense iuSwtich MIR,
rockingham had lately done in lieu Of
the word "force," as will or thing which
does something was mere anthromor.
phism. People who, has, got out of,the
habit Of using the word God were now
using the. word law-in very much the
same senscTas somebody who did some.
thing. "a .--- r. - .-.r-r
The pantsrch said that he understood
that distinction, and helm certain sense,
was willing TO use claw" in that way, as
a force under certain circumstances
which effected results Of necessity:y5Sil 8
This talk continued some time, but the
upshot was that II Mr.. Brisbane succeed:
ed in his undertaking att Washington
IN appropriation would be obtaine for
buildings line between Washington and
Baltimore. II that succeed, transporta-
ton the world over Is reyolutionized. All
conveyable commodities would be carried
with what we might now call inconceiva-
ble.rapidity, and at a minimum Of cost.
This result would render almost useless
all present railway facilities. The social
and industrial consequences Of the event
would also be Of the utmost importance
M Y. World.
(FrOm tho Washington Chronicle Of Tuesday,
THE PNEUMATIC TUBE.
ALBERT Brisbane is in town, andsis ac.
lively engaged, with the Archite6tof the
Capitol, inpreparing for the construction
of the pneumatic tube to be laid between
tho Capitol and the Government Printing
Office, for the transmission Of books and
manuscripts. Mr.. Brisbane claims for his
invention the greatest economy Of results
in time and cost Of transportation. Many
scientific engineers who have indorsed It
theoretically now await the practical test
about 10 be made.