, 1880-08-15
The KE-HUISANCE.
Trial of Berney's Consumer on
the Illinois Central.
It Fails to Meet the Requirement Of
the Railroad Managers.

the Railroad Managers.
Derncy's much pulled spark-arrestcr ane
smoke consumer received q trial yesterday, anc
did not prove the SUCCESS that was claimed FOL
| it by its owners .,nu the Boston papers. The
| apparatus was applied by the Illinois Ccntra
| Company to cnEine No. l67. This locomotive
| wis built at the Weldon shops by this Company
| O few years ago, and is one of their larecss
passenger cngihts- Her cylinders are 16 inches
| diameter, ~ inches stroke; driying-Wheels, I
feet inches diameter; the cylinder purt OF the
| boiler is Il inches in diameter, and the
furnace feet l',ng and IS inches wide
Tho boiler IS supplied with 100 two~inch nues
II feet inches long. It will be seer
| therefore, that. so fur as tho heating surface
Is concerned, the bi,ilcr has large area In pro-
portion to the size If the cylinders Of the en-
glnc. The weight of the engine without tc1l-
der is three ous, and with tender, sup
piled with coal and water, tifty-sir tons. The
engine WIS selected by Mr.. Borney himself rs
the most suitable for the test The train pulled
by the engine consisted of nine OF the new sub
urban recently built by tho Illinois Central
railroad Company, modelled after the Mctropoi-
itnn Elevated Railway cars in New York. AL
though the Herney patent has heretofore boon
described, it may be well to state briefly its sail
lent feuturcs. For the prevention of smoke mir
is admitted to the furnace Of the
boiler nboyo tho fire, beng conveyed from
the front end Of the engine through
two thrcc-inch pipes. Tho supply Of air is OBJ
tanned and regulated BY means Of a srnAli Jet OF
steam discharged into each pipc, thus creating
a current Of air into the furnace, the jet
compelling the air to enter. BY graduating the
quantity Of stoa1n admitted to the pipes the
amount Of air c:tn be incronscd or diminished
The eomDnH1 force Of steam and air p;tsSlig
through the pipes operates to some cxtent ~ u
convey sparks from, tho stack and smoke-box to
Tho forward car Of the train WINS set aside for
the special use OF tho party, which consisted or
Aid. Clark, Storey, Hldreth. Cu1crtot, Law1er'
InlhoF, Sanders, Young, Smith, aud Others M ,s
and Daguy; Ironlas Is. Quunbly. General Mns-
ter sicch:1nic .chfcaso. Rock lslal,d s Pacific;
Consumer; Mr.. Oryis Of Orvis' S1n0ke-Coniuln-
er; ]. &. Clarke. ice-Prcsident; E. T. Jedery,
General superintelldent; s. J: Hayes, SupeTHnv- u
i. Snow, Master Aochnntcs Of the Illinois Cent
raj. Col. Bcruey, tho inventor Of the new
smoke-consumcr and spark-arrcstar, was also
before sturttng htr. S. J. Hayes, Superintend-
cnt Of machinery OF tho lllinuis Central, g:tye
brief Of aG ta to tue bepot at
.:l5 y. IN. Owing to the limited time the train
did not go to kensi,Mton, but only to Grand
Crossing. The action OF the spark-:irrcster anu
smoke-cons1,ner w,s watched with deep interest
by ALL It was evident thatt, while tho quantity
of fine cinders thrown froAa the stuck WIS 1eas
~ VOLUME OF slroKE
was about the same. Gel. Eerne5 tried to e1-
plain this Inter circumstanc@un the ground teat
nc bud attached his spurk- k-arfester ONLY, but not
course, caused general surprise, as it WAS
generally understood that sue entire ap-
ea been Of nRpe 4Sa Illinois Even tn
who had assisted In putting tue, apparatus
to the engine, felt surprised rs th.s had also ID
bored under the opinion, up to tk:s time, that
the attachment consisted Of both 6moke-eon-
Sunlcr and Rpark-arrcStcr.
When the engine WAS working heavily tho
strong irlught created by the exhaust stca,n
discharged through the smoke-sta.k This.
however, is said to he generally tho c,sse with
locomotives. When fresh steam was thrown In
the furnace, or When steam was shut OF frum
the engine prcparutoryto to stopping for Il atatlon.
about tho usual quantity Of ssnoke was emitted
two pipes Of three inches dian-
eter heretofore to-; mc1tioncd r adm*ed
ing Of the engine w:ts impaired. The s,eaia-
pressure Indicated BY the steuul- gauge attached
tine 6of6 fi no4 m to
run at a pressure OF 125 pounds. Plugs with ~
inch holes were then put in the
mitted. As 4 result, the engine made steam
rather more freely.
On the return trip from Grand Crossing the IL
admitted. The t engine & Consequently steamed
still better, but did not at any time make steam
rs freely us without the Bcrney patent.
1t was evident that the engine buried moro
coal than it would hnve done without the patent
AID. Young, lnlEof, mud Saliders rode OIL the
engine nnd watched the results with great in
The trial demonstrated fully that the Rcrney
patent us applied to tlsc engine will not 1lsa-
csrr .f1,f II G
suits. The Aldermen who accompanied tho
party verr unanimous III expressing the opinion
without having smoke thrown from the stack
clark, who. lntrolaced the orl,nanco
safsd e' 10 ?: HE ae IN 1ae
that he WINS xatistled tllut an ordinance pro-
hibitlug the emission Of Smoke could hot be en-
forced, but he thought that IN ordinance should
be passed that would compel the ruilrOnl8 tn be
more careful i'll handling rheir locomotives by
imposing penalty for Throwing such volumes
Of smoke aud cinders from the locomotives as
to causc nuisance. Whether this was accom-
plished BY the appliance OF smokc-consumcrs
care He felt confident that curcful firing alone
would accomplish good results, and such an
ordinance would have the effect Of making tho
toiore, and the nuisance would in great meas
General ai-Superintendent Jeffrey, of tho 1lli-
ney oil the facilities IN his power TO make the
trial Us perfect nnd effective US possible, and al
lowed him to pick out uny locomotive he de-
sired, and allowed him TO make any alterations
on the locomotive he desired, u,1d even placed
his mechanics at his disposal. He would hnye
allowed him to put tombstone on it II he de-
sired it. Col. Dcrncy had all the time he wanted
to put On his complete apparatus. the smoke
consumer as we'll lii the 6purk-Arrester. and he
could see no reason why it was not done. He
certainly was Of the opinion up to the starting of
the train, that the whole apparatus wus applied
to the engine and be felt surprised When Coi.
Deruey STATED that his smoke consumer had not
been attached. He was satisfied, however, TINT
even 1t IN additional apparatus Wis put On for
the consumption Of smoke 1t would not only not
better things, but would make them rather
worse. 1t had been demonstrated by this trial
that tho apparatus lcssencd the steam making
capacity Of the engine to such an extent ns to |
MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO RUN |
q heavy train On an up grade With an addi- |
honnl apparatus the Steam making capacity of
the engine would be still more lcssunod He !
would show fully us good If not better results |
with one or his ordinary engines without an np- |