The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-26

of our best racing records have been
made by horses carrying aluminium
shoes and pulling aluminium sulkies.
For decorating purposes it is better
than silver, because the air. which
blaclens silver so quickly, has no eff
feet on it. The president of one of the
largest palace car companies in this
country is said TO have remarked that
the price alone kept aluminium from
being used entirely in car decoration.
A short time ago an enterprising firm
in Ohio built several aluminium duck
ing boats, as we'll as a number of row
boats They found, to their surprise,
they were filing a long felt want, es-
pecially in the ducking boat, as this
craft was extremely light and non
sinkable.
Price has been the only drawback to
the general use of aluminium, but that
will soon be such that the rich and
poor alike will be able to enjoy the
great advantages which the metal Of
fers. It seems likely that the year 1897
will see aluminium selling at less than
80 cents a pound.
Thus the growth of this wonderful
metal has been spreading out in all di
rections. A few weeks ago an alum
mum bicycle was shipped to an emf
nent politician in England, Mr.. Bal
four. Here again it's beauty and non
Punishable qualities together with its
lightness make it most desirable. The
possibilities of flying machines and
ALUMINIUM railway carriages occur to
one when one thinks of the gigantic
strides the metal has already made.
A CASE OF AN ALUMINIUM LEG.
Two years ago a friend of mine met
with a frigGltful accident. He was run
over by Brooklyn trolley car OF the
results of this catastrophe I knew
nothing, when 1 met him some months
later at ball. He was walking across
the room when he suddenly tripped
and fell. l rushed to help him and
found he had tainted so to avoid a
scene l picked him up and carried him
up stairs. 1 was surprised to find
how light he was, but supposed he had
been i'll and consequently lost flesh. AS
was leaving the room l heard some
thing drop behind me with a metallic
ring, and at the same time I felt my
friend grow lighter. Not daring to
look back 1 fastened to get up stairs
as quickly as possible and as L turned
at the top of the stairs a. man ran up
saying, excuse me, sir, you have
dropped something" handing me at the
same time my friends right leg-an-
put. Cooks of the twentieth century
will no doubt demand that their en-
ployers supply them with aluminium
cooking utensils. as the metal is an ex-
ceHent conductor of heat and it is al
most impossible to scorch anything
While cooking. Dentists are already
using it in making plates, etc, as al
uminun has this advantage over gold,
that on contact with metallic sub
stances no disagreeable electric cur
rent is set UP. For scientific instru-
nlents such as sextants. transits, lev
els, ETC. where the inertia of a heavy
moving part is to be avoided aluminium
is the metal par excellence. Photo
graphers. find aluminium flash light
, powder better than the present magne-
SUM, as it is cheaper and not so liable
10 explode in preparation and produces
none of the white fumes so disagree
able in the use of magnesium Amongst
other uses for aluminium are keys
watches, musical instruments, car