Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-08
MARKS is SCARED.
Locomotive Engineering.

IL has bin sum time since / last wrote
you rcgardin' the event Of the elektril,
lOkomomotiv, as wus predikted by our
friend Marks and Prof. Bell, but al that
day Hasn't yet nrriy i am still hangn
onto my old job and waltzin Their same
old slSrap heap over the road on time
five days In Their week.
But there is more danger ahead fur us
old runners who aint so nimble jointed
as we wus wunce aud who may not be
able TO do the 1yin trapeze act In quick
cnuf time fur Their new inventions
Their latest skeme fur paralyEin time
and gettin tur New York and back be-
forebrenkfast Is now on exhibition on
Arch street In Their village called philn-
dolphy. But | warn all Their boys not
tO go there unless they wear ueckues and
look as though they WIS preachers or
other stockholders. as this Is not bein
exhibited fur information. but ter sell
stock; at least that's what they told me
when | wanted ter see the masheen run
This arrangement Is patented / believe,
by two rBen from the wild and woolly
West, and besides hein wild and woody
IL duz seem az though they wuz rare
sort Of undcrdOne like, not thOrOughly
baked, ms they sometimes say.
The names are Holman aud Caldwell
and for pure, unadultcrated genius"
they outrivnl Kccly himself Their plan
engin ~ much like any engin on the road,
but Il is lacked NJ on two sets Of trucks
run under the drYin wheel so as ter
make the driyin' wheel tire run on the
truck axles and Their upper story of Their
truck play ther same game with the base
ment tenants Of this doubled-dccked ar
rangement.
Even an old backwoodser like me can
see that when Their driyin' wheel re-
wolves once Their upper trucks will turn
more than once, and this IL agin multi
plyed in Their lower trucks, so that it
seems clear as mud that engin will
travel whole heap faster "goin' at ther
same speed rs they do now, / mean
they Will run over more ground when the
drivers are runnin' the same ms now, and
their seems no limit 10 the speed with
this arrangement. Their great beuty il
that (as must seem perfectly clear TO alD
II takes no more power 10 run Their en-
gine 100 turns mint when she is up
on stills than " she was on the rail, and
yet Gas must also be clear she will cover
a crate deal more ground than when
butt ON the ground toor plan as at pres
ent.
As Their load will be no heavier and It
takes no more power ter turn thor
wheels at this same rate, which moves
Their engin over double the ground. Il
shows that by simply adding this patent
double genred friction truck Their speed of
ther train is doubled and yet no power Is
consumed. Nv cOrsc this don't seem exc
actly possible, but as we can see that the
doublin' nv travel takes place with Their
same speed of drivers, IL can't take eny
more as / can see, and Their thing must
go. Now, II this was some electrical
duck who talked about volts. wat
meters and gas meters and Their like, /
shouldn't think anything NV IT, but set
him down as crank and know IL
wouldn't work anyhow, but here IL is. a
plain everyday locomotive (sumthln like
my old skrap heap, only with two
story apartment house" truck showed
under Their drivers and truck wheels.
dOublin' Their speed and only tal;in' Their
same power, az must be plain ter eng
one and how can i dispute ther worlin'
Of IL. / can 5ow see the folly Of Fon-
tame and his upside down friction wind.
mil" III bp had only put those friction
wheels under Their drivers Instead of over
them he Nould have had things by
the mock" as the boys say "aud Ind "A
down phil. Then too IL he had put IA
two sets Of extra wheels IN place OF one
he might have made the engin howl more
than she did But what IL worryin' me
Is not tibet Their engin win 60 but thct I
may heY 90 rpn one Of Their animals IN
stead Of my old skrap Now I'm not
struck on my engin az present, but az
never WIZ ava nkrobat, think / would
rather hey her thnn wun of their new
ones fur several reasons.
Not hein hod carrier By professhun
don't Ike Their idea NV climbin 10 several
flights Of stairs 10 reach the top story 81
tbig family hotel, namely Their cab Then
ain II the wheels should bee damp and
greasy sum OF these mornings 1 don't
fancy liyin over such griNt min or
thrashn mashcen as these two story
truck wheels and thor drivers on foD
viii keep coin after they cot started