The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-10

veyance IS kept warm by steam from
the locomotive. The cake" which is
the residue from haxseed pressed for
oil, is the stuff that is fed to cattle in
England, to give the peculiar flavor OF
the famous London beef The ami
mails thus shipped, feeding and resting
all the way, will arrive in as good con-
dition as when they started. 1t would
not be necessary to fatten them up and
get them into good condition for kill
ing after their arrival and in this way
much money would be saved.
WHAT HE CLAIMS.
Mr.. Ward claims that he made the
electric telegraph a success at its be-
ginning. The first line was established
between Washington and Baltimore.
AT the start the wires were laid eigh-
teen inches underground, encased in
lead pipe. They would not work.
Morse went, in great agitation, to
Ward, who was at that time employed
In the patent Office. This was in 1874.
He said that the telegraph was a fail
ure. Ward said simply. Hang up the
wires" Morse at once accepted the
suggestion, and the wires were strung
on poles in the fashion which holds to
TINS day. Ward also suggested that
glass 1nsulators would be needed, and
lot tnat purpose beer and porter bot
Ties were utilized. Quantities of these
were obtained from hotels in Baltimore
and Washington
Mr.. Ward asserts that he nerforrned
an equally important service with re-
spect TO the first Atlantic cable He
declared IN advance that the recording
instrument would not work, because
a current Of electricity strong enough
to produce mechanical action at a dis
lance Of 1000 miles would melt the
wire. Preliminary experiments proved
fnn he
stock Of the cable company dropped
almost to nothing. Four of the direc-
tors drew out and sold their interest in
the enterprise for what they could get.
For the time it was believed that the
great enterprise could not be carried
to a successful issue, the obstacle be
ing apparently insurmountable. But
Ward suggested that an alphabet could
be sent over a wire across the ocean,
or around the world for that matter,
by means of sparks. This plan, he
said, was accepted as a solution of the
difficulty and made the cable practical
BILE.
TO CAST GUNS HOLLOW.
In 1912 Mr.. Ward was employed in
the Washington arsenal. He observed
that in proving the guns MANY of them
burst. Having been meanwhile trans
TERED to the patent Office, he published
IN a scientific journal some suggestions
for new process by which guns that
would be much stronger might be cast
hollow, instead of making them soli6
and boring them out afterWard. This
idea, which he could not patent, be.
cause he was an employee of the patent
office, was adopted by Rodman, who
got fame by it. The early locomotives
mad only one pair of driving wheels
Engines so built would slip on the rails
II there was a slight frost. Ward sug.
gested that the way to get over the
dltnculty was to double up the
drivers" So then Baldwin built the
hrst locomotive with two pairs of driv.
ing wheels and there was no further
difficulty.
1t is a fact that in a sense Mr.. Ward
did actually found the department o.
agriculture in 1S43 Ellsworth, the ther
commissioner Of patents, will go dow1
10 history as the founder, but Ward die
the work. He bought the seed intend
ed for distribution and put them up II
packages for mailing. From that SINAI
beginning grew the great department
IN winch the inventor is now employed
as doorkeeper, pulling the string TO,
every visitor, while he still neditate,
with undiminished enthusiasm 11r,on III.
schemes which are to make him ricI
When he gets his bullet money from
the government and is able to carr
them out