Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31

where they are used for drying
clothes; in silk mills, where they dry silk
in the skein; cotton mills and divers
other places. Ironing machines for
laundries and shirt factories are also of
long standing
''Brass finishing by machinery is also
an old story. Long ago brass was
FURNISHED by hand, but for years this
work has been done more effectually and
quickly by the use OF machinery. Its
introduction was great saving of labor
and of money.
Labor saving machinery has also
found its way into farm yards. Hay
cutting and chopping, corn husking and
dressing, and oat threshing is done by
mechanical continuance instead of by
hand.
GA labor saving machine itself, and
one that has done wonders IN the way OF
pushing other labor-saving machinery
into popularity is the electric motor. 1t
has been the means of introducing labor
saving machinery into small shops, hotels
and private houses. It runs all manner
of machinery, from crapenter's lathe
or scroll saw TO a flour mill or street car /.
'fThe electric motor has displaced
thousands of small steam engines and
boilers in this city, and is continuing its
progress. 1t is cleaner, more compact,
and far less troublesome than the
stationary steam engine, and
does not require the attention Of
an engineer or fireman. The most popu-
lar are run by power obtained from street
wires, and the cost is from 3 to cents an
hour for light work, such as running an
elevator. ANY one can manage a motor,
and there is no waste of power when not
in active use.
An officer of the Sprague Electric Motor
said: 'fThe electric motor is proving the
most wonderful and popular invention of
the age as a labor saving machine. You
will find it i'll operation now in almost any
place you go into. Hotels and res
taurants use it to run dish-washlng
machines, confectioners use to turn their
ice cream freezers, which used to take
the united efforts of two or three men;
You will find it in grocery stores, running
coffee mills and coffee roasters; in tailor
shops, giving power to button machines;
in box making factories, operating paper
cutters, in private and fiat houses, haul
ing up and lowering elevators; in cutlery
shops, turning grindstones; in poorly
ventilated buildings, pumping fresh air
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other useful ways you will find the cleo
tric-motor employed.
"Dentists' lathes, dairy, envelope,
cancelling, agricultural, gloremaking
and all manner of machinery are now
run by electric motors. They do away
with the dirt that is always made by a
steam boiler, and the expense is only for
the actual running time. When you are
through with the electric motor, You may
shut off the current as you would shut off
a water faucet. There is meter similar
to that used in measuring gas, and far
more effective, which registers the
amount of power used. The cost of run
ming a four-horse power motor is about 3
cents an hour.
"They are inexpensive and handy,
therefore they find their way into private
houses They can be used there for run
ming small elevators and for ventilating
purposes. Most al the large houses that
are being built in New York nowadays
are equipped with elevators, and electric
motors are furnishing the power. They
don t require continual attention, which
makes it necessary to hire fireman or
engineer, and therefore they are also
coming into popularity in small carpenter
and other shops whore little power is all
that is required. We are running street
ears with them, too, and although there
may yet be Improvements made, the mo-
tors are now wonderfully satisfactory.