The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23

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article.
The Discovery that is Destined to
ReyolutiOnize the Railroad
Business.
Virginia (Nev.) Chroniele.l
At one of the trials of an aerial rail-
way in Virginia City. There was present
pale, slight built young man who
asked many questions of the inventor
so many in fact, and SO pointed that the
latter finally asked him if he had any
prior knowledge of the invention.
The pale young man replied that he
had not, but that he was perfecting an
invention which would prove to be one
of the most important of modern times.
Although closely pressed by reporters
and others present at the trial, he re-
fused to make any further statement
concerning his invention, and the Incl
dent was soon forgotten.
| About three o'clock on the forenoon
of February %, as the shifts were being
changed at the Consolidated Virginia
works, a Chronicle reporter standing
near the shaft noticed miner who had
Just come up the shaft whose face struck
him as very familiar. After moments s
thought the reporter became satisfied
that the young man was the pale,
slight young man. Following him
as he descended from the changingroom,
the reporter addressed him. when he ex-
claimed:
am glad to have met you, as want
to explain my invention to you. [ was
not ready to speak, when l met you at
McIntosh's, some months ago, as my in
vention was not perfected, and l had no
patent. But it is now ready. Ireceived
a caveat from Washington last week, and
Idon't mind showing up my plan to you
If you will come with me to my cabin
will show you my invention and ex.
plain it"
The reporter acceded, and the cabin
only two blocks distant from the mine
was soon reached. Locking the door
behind him, the young man opened 8
large chest, from which he took small
model of an air-compressor of nearly the
same pattern as those used in the Com.
stock mines, but mounted on wheels
also three four-wheeled cars, and a deli
cate ladder about four feet long ant
| three inches wide.
, "This,'.' said Alfred Marsden (that''
his nancy, is railway, and that il
) the train. You are probably aware tha
: the nitrogen, oxygen, ozone, of which
| the atmosphere is composed, can be boil
l liquifed and solidifed separately. Thi
4 is not much more difficult than com
4 pressing air; it can be done by the sam
0 process, and with the same kind of /,
e machine, only the machine will have t
: be much stronger, since whereas air
S only compressed to four atmospheres
h will have to compress each of the ele
d ments of which it is composed to pref
O sure equal to at least one hundred thor
S sand atmospheres.
O "This is all nay secret. All my inve1
r ton. 1 propose to liquify the atmo
d phere and then solidify it. You ca
y say that propose to freeze it, if yo
J. will, and you will not be out of the wa,
n as that is what it amounts to. TT
,r balance of my invention is simply tt
:; application of the railway principal on
n stupendous scale. I shall start my a
S. compressor to work, the compressed a
is being elected in the shape of molecul
ID that will have such a strong affinity tn
N they will unite the instant they a
E. elected, and will form solid roadwa
tie upon which the rails will be laid in Sc
le tions, the train advancing as the way
N ready. There will be nodelay, as the q
I'd will be compressed and elected instant
ge with the same velocity as strong win
n, and the train will travel at the rate
n, two hundred miles or more per hour.
IS Gas the compressed air will have
temperature of thirty-five hundred al
sixty four degrees below zero, no natul
heat can melt it, and it will thus form
roadbed that will always be smooth a
compact. twill never get out of ord
vn and will not cost cent for repairs.
,es will give it a grade of forty-fi five degre
ar so for every mile of travel one will
il gained in height. In a comparative
he short time the moon will be reache
nd and communication can be establish
III, with this planet and all the Others"
But what will you do when you rea
to the moon, which has no atmosphere
as. the reporter asked.
lin "The moon has an atmosphere" t
nd inventor replied, otherwise how COT
tn any thing live herew He then resume
to "That is the object of my invention.
ev have worked at it for four years, a
le- know that it can be done. All I la
now is the money required to carry {
m my plans. About nehundred thousa
!, + dollars will do. That is nothing VIII
'ou ~ the profits are bound to be gigantic. ,
w.. The reporter said the room was We
~, close, and raised the window near VIII
MS he sat as high as it would go. The
,ed ventor continued:
rbs "When get to the moon [ will ts
. os os possession of it in the name of the Co
~ pany that 1 will organize to cooper
with me. There are vast deposits
oe diamonds, gold, silver, tellurium, 8
less even the more precious metals there, a
rop as soon as the moon is reached 1 v
Iul impress into our Company's service
the the inhabitants of the new world bef
the they can recover from the astonishm
WI which my arrival will cause. The th
I'M month after our arrival we will decl
om- dividends of $15, ,0O0,0 to $4,000,
per month, payable in diamonds of
the first water. We will revolutionize
the universe, and have gold for cents inst
the of copper, with diamonds for curren
uty Will you join in the first trip made
ing mortals from the earth, to the moon
ine- want the trip to be we'll written up"
!; 3, The reporter assured the inventor
les; nothing would afford him greater pl
4: 5, ure than to accompany him on the ]
ted posed trip; and then, while the in1
tors attention was directed to his
.lvn chine, the quill-driver sprang out of
rye window and ran off as swiftly as his
ion. could carry him.
han
in Disraeli's Great Stroke.