The times., 1897-05-23

'You may have noticed in the papers"
said Mr. Robert shepley, OF Pittsburg. at
Wizards, IAN item relative TO the closing
OF contract with the Carnegie Steel Com
panY, OF Pittsburg, for furnishing all the
steel material for a four story office build
ing 5Ox235 10 be Immediately erected In
Toxic, Japan
This contract is not an exceptionally
large one in amount, but is interesting as
an Indication of the probability for future
growth in this direction, being the first
steel building 10 be put up in the empire
It win naturally attract much attention
in Japan, aud it IS believed Will lead to
the adoption of this system OF building
The possibility of earthquakes precludes
the putting upof higher buildings than this
one; but there appears to be no reason why
the most substantial buildings should not
IL the future be built OF steel The building
win be erected by and for Sntsue & Co.
Of New York, Yokohama and Toxic"
1.-The day is coming" said Mr. A L.
Carroll, Of Philadelphia, at the Regent.
whenbicycle manufacturers VIII be obliged
TO suhjeet'th their machines to a fixed test
before putting them on the market Many
accidents, and some Of them fatal are
occurring as a result OF defective con-
struction and the use OF inferior material
and workmanship in cheap wheels, sold at
auction and otherwise, and think the sale
OF such machines should be stopped, as
dangerous to life and limb"
Mr.. william E. lockwood, Of Glen Loeb,
Pa lis much interested in high speed travel
aud safety therein. and is an authority
on mechanics and locomotive construction
He is here partly In the interest Of a bill
recently introduced by Mr. Bingham in the
House, appropriating S25, 900 TO the
Franklin Institute, of Philadelphia, and the
Purden University, of Lafayette, Ind, for
the purpose Of determining the quantity OF
the so-calIed hammer blows, centrifugal
lifts, and tangental throw OF locomotive
driving wheels in use on American rail
ways Last night at the Riggs House
Mr.. Lockwood said:
1.-The constructors OF locomotives 60 not
know the correct principles of mechanics
when producing the ordinary type Of To-
cOmOtive, JJdgngOf their knowledge by the
product III a locomotive. The unequal bal
ancing or bad mechanical arrangement OF
the locomotive is the cause of the thump-
ing and jumping which we feel and hear in
our railroad travels Experiments have
proved beyond doubt that the driving
wheels of an engine actually jump from
the track upon each revolution, and the
hammer blow is result 1t is due to
this hammer blow that rails are broken
and spread, bolts fractured, bridges
shattered, and consequently lives lost by
the thousands. Engines have recently been
Constructed overcoming this defect in the
mechanical action and giving a drawing
power OF 20 per cent more, which Is
lost IN the ordinary locomotive I hope
that the interstate Commerce VIII take ac-
ton on the bill which was introduced
by MIR. Bingham, as it is matter OF vastly
more importance to the travelling public
tnan appears on the surface"
Mr.. lockwood is the inventor of the me
chanieal arrangement which overcomes
this hammer blow, and he is just complet-
ing arrangements 18th the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad for the use of same In
their equipment.