Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-08
The Greer County Question 1ipped
Over Into the Next Congress.

SohouhC oAy Seu duu iii u COACH with
odorcus gases with painful rapidity.
10 remove these foul exhalations from
the coach was primary necessity. and
this task was easily accomplished. AL
ternate windows along the TOP of the
coach are made to open in opposite d.
rections. Each is guarded above and
below by projecting tlues and each
open window becomes an air syphon.
drawing out of the car when the train
is in motion the hot aud impure air
rising to the top of the coach. All
these alternate shutters are opened
and closed by the conductor by two
rods, one at each end of the coach. 1t
is thus needless to disturb occupants of
berths in sleeping coaches in order to
ventilate them. The lower windows
of the coach are constructed on the
same principle, each half of each win
dow opening outwardly as well
as having the present move
ment upward and downward.
II these windows, thus constructed, do
not remove all foul air within the
coach ventilator or air syphon, con-
structed OH the same principle, on top
and at each end of the car will draw
out of 1t every impurity and all dust
and cinders.
LIFE AND DEATH ON THE Ro AID.
Then the substitution and supply of
fresh, COOL dustless air must be pro-
vided. The inventor first proposed to
extend large self-coupling tubes along
the whole length OF the train having
wire gauze-protected openings in front
of the locomotive. This, of course, ac-
complished the end aimed at; but
there were practical objections and he
finally adapted his air syphon to the
purpose. 1t is fixed on top and at the
end of the car. The forward motion
of the car opens its valve and the
screened air Is driven down into an
ice box in the bottom of the car.
Through holes in this and over the ice
and through the water flowing from
the ice the air escapes and fills the car.
The water itself cleans the air.
Through an opening beneath, the
water and cinders, that pass through
the wire gauze protecting the air sy-
phon on the top of the car, the water
and dust cinders may be drawn off.
Water, without ice, through which
the air passes, constantly shaken by
the motion of the train, takes up every
foreign substance in the air before it
enters the body of the car. The only
dust that can enter the car, thus sup
piled with cold and dustless air, enters
when the doors are opened and closed.
But the opening of the door opens the
valve of an air syphon just above it,
and the current of air sis drawn up
wardly with sufficient force, if the
train be in motion, to lift the conduc-
tors cap from his head. But SO clear
the Car, provided with these windows
aud with this ice water air-cooler,
that the use of the air syphon above
the doors of the car may be dispensed
with. The car is supplied, if need
be, with Rogers telephone connec-
ton with the engine. The whole of
these appliances of course are patented
They are each most simple and will
of passenger coach. The air syphon
is the perfection of simplicity and
utility. The air current passing
through it on top of u car cannot go
down into the car. The tube is double
and the inner horizontal one passing
beyond that going down into the car,
creating vacuum into which the air
PUSHES from within the car. This the
inventor has long used in drawing foul
air from deep wells and cisterns and
cellars, and long before he patented 1t.
If one were placed on top of the federal
capitol, with a pipe extended into the
hall of the house, many intellectual
teather-weights of that body would be
drawn out and projected into infinite
space. But the device costs too little
to be approved and is too simple to be
understood. A million of them will
be placed within ten years on the tops
of houses and chimneys that smoke,
| and dnaf and fruI me ha drawn
out by resistless force.
SUMMERTIME TERRoRs OF RAILWAY
TRAVEL.
Countless people in New England
having weak lungs dare not make
transit of the Carolinas and of parts
of Georgia in summer time is simply
uncomfortable. Cars, now used, are
ventilated" with dust and cinders
and not with air and when this dust
emanates from red sand hills or when
Q train stands still in q cut, into which
the sun shines, have seen sweltering,
roasting passengers painting, ana
swooning, even dying, for one breath
of the air of heaven. A railway train
in dusty summer time, whether In the
North or South, Is migratory Tophet,
and this toiling, patient inventor, who
rObs travel of summertime of its ter
rors, is the greatest Of public benefac-
tors. French and English genius 10
not creative. American inventors lead
those of all the nations, and however
great the sums expended In Europe by
railway managers In attaining com.
forts on railways, they must buy ~
last these American patents.
THE ROUTES TO NEW ORLEANS.
l have heard hundreds inquiring for
the best routes to New Orleans ana
Texas. (Which route is busiest and
hottest?" is the only inquiry. Let u
be advertised that either great railway
route is provided with passenger cars
such as this inventor perfects and
ninety-nine of every hundred readers
OF newspapers that tell these facts
would select the same line of road.
Its tickets would command pre-
MUM.
THE GREAT sIoNoPoLIsT.
But the story was current yesterday
that Pullman. an inventor himself ana
most enterprising of capitalists, Is ne
gotiating for monopoly of the patents
have mentioned. III he buys them
they can be readily adapted TO his
sleeping coaches and every traveller, IN
summertime, will be forced to buy
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