St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-05
STORIES ABOUT TOWN.

W. j. Curran, of New York city, was
at the Ryan yesterday, and in converse
ton with reporter for the GLOBE
developed as one of the projectors and
a heavy shareholder in company re-
Gently formed in that city for carrying
out somewhat unique idea. This is
no less than the building of milk pipe
line from New York city to Middle
town. The company has capital of
100000 and active preparations for
the construction Of the line are
now being carried on. The method
to. be adopted of forwarding
dairy products is one which seems ell
tirely new, aud certainly there is
nothing of the kind in existence at pres
ent. Several lines of pipes will be laid.
and agents of the company at all the
points traverSed by these ducts Will dis
patch through them the milk, butter
and other commodities to the crowded
cities in cylindrical tin cans. These
will be surrounded and propelled by
water, and the promoters assert that
the time of transportation will not eX-
coed one hour per 100 miles.
Silas S. Thomey, representing an
Eastern firm in the manufacture of
electrical apparatus, is in the city, and
will bring to the attention of the cleo
trio lighting companies a recent inven-
ton for the prevention of danger to
life from electric light and other wires.
The machine is the invention OF Ernest
p. Clarke, and consists of a small con-
trlvance not dissimilar in appearance to
the telegraph instrument. A coil of
copper wire surrounds metal rod, and
surrounding the whole is q small but
ton. The lower end of the rod con-
meets with brass bar. At the opposite
used in connecting with the dYna-
mo, and by the use of which
the current can he turned on or off.
When the charged wire is severed at
any point on the circuit, the safety
device is so constructed that the swing
ing bar. until then in contact with the
lower end OF the rod, drops from the rod
in the coil, releasing the switch lever at
the other extremity and automatically
cutting off the current from the dy
namO. 1t is thought that if the instru-
ment is demonstrated to be one of prac-
tical working qualities its adoption will
become general. In New York it has
been tested several times and has been
found to work perfectly.
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S. E. Lloyd, of Omaha, who was at
the Merchants yesterday, stated to a
reporter for the GLOBE that the project
which has been agitated in that city for
some time past for the carrying Of river
freights from Omaha to PittSburg is
about to be realized, steps having been
IN, bn nf
pany for the purpose. The scheme has
been fought by all the lines of railroad
running out of Omaha with great vigor,
in the belief that the realization of any
such scheme would seriously damage
the interests OF these companies. MIR.
Lloyd holds that such will not be the
case. urging that the character of
freight to be carried by the river
line will be such as the rail-
roads have never handled. AS
matter of fact there is nothing to pre-
vent the carrying out OF the idea other
than the roundabout way that must
necessarily be followed in reaching
PittSburg. There is navgable water
the entire distance, however, and as
considerable share of freight carried
does not call for shOrt-time delivery,
the idea seems practicable. In view of
the freight complications that contin-
ually arise, even under present con-
dltions, there seems good reason for
anticipating difficulty for the new COM
pany in the matter of handling through
freghts, despite the protection of inter
state commerce laws and anti-diScrimi-
native legislation.
There is story that the authorities
at White Bear are vowng vengeance
against two harmless-lookl young
commercial men who arrived In st.
Paul late OH Monday evening and boldly
registered at the Clarendon. Ii is some
what difficult to explain exactly what
the twain were doing at White Bear in
the com merclal line, but not at all sur
prising that they found themselves
stalled in that interesting locality as
result of the erratic movements of the
traiuS said to run at stated intervals to
st. Paul. These two young men wanted
to get to town very mucll-SO much, in
deed, that, falling TO induce any of the
local jehuS to drive them, they stole a
handcar and began pumping them
selves to town with the thermometer
below zero. The theft was dis
covered shortly after its commission
by the section boss, and that worthy
with several of his sturdy henchmen
gave chase on another hand-car. 1t
didn't take the drummers long to dis
cover that they were pursued. The
regular chug, chug of the pump han
dies on that rear car, as four sturdy
pairs of hands manipulated them, rang
ont on the still, frosty air, and caused the
flying couple to strain every nerve in
the effort to distance their pursuers.
1t wouldn't work, though. Eight arms
are better than four. aud in the course
of time the front car was 0verilauled.
The captOrs at first evirced DISPOSE
ton to thump the captured, but were
eventually induced to compromise and
pump the commercial gentlemen to
town for a consideration.