Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-26
A EEw KIaDa og LoComoTIvg. e

The few people who were in the depot
just before clock yesterday afternoon
were considerably surprised to see the 2:4S
train from Hartford come round the curve
drawn by an engine which gave out neither
smoke nor soot. 1t was labelled sc.
Holland, No. and on the tender were
the letters IN. Y. H, L & P, Co., >" which
means New York Heat Light and Power
Company, who control the patent, the in
ventor DR.. Charles Holland, OF New York,
who rode on the engine, being the largest
stockholder. This locomotive uses no
coal or wood whatever, merely burning
the gas which it condenses from the ., 500
gallons of water which the tender holds,
using 54S gas jets. It is the only one of
the kind ever built, and was constructed
about year ago at the Grant Locomotive
Works at Paterson, \. j., has handsome
exterior, and weighs thirty four tons, being
of the same grade as the Southern roads
fast passenger engines. 1t differs from
them merely in the construction of the
fire.pot and boiler. There are -four, ,retorts
in the fire.box, two for oil and two for
water. When the engine is first started
the gas is made from the cold water in the
retort, but when the gauge registers from
twenty to thirty pounds of steam the
water ia shut off and the steam is taken
from the boiler, which process saves heat
ing the water twice. Even should the fire
90 out The engine will continue to run for
some time. This locomotive has been
used on the Erie road about year for an
average of four days in the week. Il IS
claimed that the use of this patent makes
q saving 0, 5000 IL repgirs on the loc3mO-
tive aud a large one on the cars, besides
doing away vita tue possibility OF setting
fires alongside the track. Tue improved
CRATE can be put into an ordinary locomo.
tive at the cost of few hundred dollars.
The Southern road officials are much in.
terested in the engine, and propose to test
it thoroughly. The inventor is confident
that they will adopt the locomotive, and
that it will soon become indispensable in
all passenger train service Springfield
(Mass.l Republican.
A New FLYING MACHINE.-H c. Lin
field, the inventor of a fying-machine,
conducted an experiment with his inven-
tion on Wednesday betwesn Colnbrook and
West Drayton. The apparatus, which is
described as q steam sailing machine, is
constructed of light wood and is shaped
like the frame of four-wheeled carriage,
with two large wheels in front and two
small ones behind. Motive power is to be
obtained by steam, which will work a
nine. bladed screw and the inventors idea
is to propel the machine by steam on land
until it attains a speed of thirty or thirty
five miles-a velocity which he calculates
will be sufficient to lift the machine into
the air-when it will benavigated by means
of the sails with which it is lifted. From
the result of his experiment he is confident
that it is possible to fly in the air at the
height of a mile. By the permission of
the Great Western Railway Company the
experiment was made on the newly fin
ished portion OF the railway to Ssaines,
between Colnbrook and West Drayton,
and the inventor was accompanied by Mr..
Trevithick, the locomotive Superintendent
of the company at Paddington. The ma
chine was placed on a truck and con-
nected with an engine, from whence
the steam is derived, and the gearing was
manipulated from another truck. The op-
erotor succeeded in getting the machine
lifted from the truck into the air and ex-
pressed himself fully satisfied with the re-
suit of the triAl.-[ Pail Mall Badget.