The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-01
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ham. Ala, and is succeeded in the hrst
named position by p. \. Chadwick
a petition has been filed in the Atlanta
circuit of the United States court by the
attorneys for Carroll county, which shows
that the county holds two Fl fas, for taxes
issued b. Controller General Wright one
was issued ia December Of 1892 Tor @dl.-7,
and the other, for 81, 093.Si, was ISSUED IN
the same month in 1898. The suit is Tor
the recovery Of the principal of the q ias..
the interest and the costs from the receiV-
ers Of the Savannah and Western, Messrs.
H. n. Conner and r. j. Lowry. The
amount is for taxes on the property OF
the Chattanooga. Rome and Columbus
Railroad Company in the county OF Car
roll during the years 1892 ana 1893. In
those years the road was in the posses
SION of the Savannah and Western, ana
suit is brought for the recovery of the
money on the grounds that the Savannah
and Western receivers are liable, because
that road got the Chattanooga, Rome ana
Columbus earnings in those years.
Mr.. j. f. Adams of Hubert was in the
city yesterday. Mr.. Adams exhibits a
model of one invention and a cut OF an
other. They are an automatic railroad
car brake, and an automatic cinder shield.
The inventor is a mechanic who has gain
ed a store of knowledge of railroad mech
anism from his work in the shops of the
Central and Plant systems that, with his
inventive genius, seems to have made him
able to patent two admirable devices.
The automatic car brake is peculiar in
that its friction is applied at the buffets
of eacn car in a train. The brake is not
worked by air, but by purely mechanical
arrangement Of leverage that,
by resistance to the trains
momentum, applies the brake. The
engine works the brakes on the whole
train, 1t does not do this by any act of
the engineer further than his control OF
the locomotive.
When the speed of the engine is decreas-
ed the cars, of course, bump against each
other When this forward bump is given
mechanical device calls the brake into
play, and, with each second of the con-
tinued pressure of each car upon that in
front of it, great FRACTIONAL force is eX-
erted toward the stopping of the train.
When desired, the brakes may be discon-
nected from the engine, so that this pow
er will not be applied. The inventor says
that a car can be equipped with the con-
trivance al a cost of only 81. He says
that he is now having holdings made,
and that at an early date he will make
his first trial of the device on the Georgia
and Alabama General Manager Gabbett,
he says, has expressed a desire to see the
brakes in operation. They seem thorough.
ly feasible, and to offer a safe and reliable
means for quickly stopping a train.
The patent on the brake was securet.
Jan. 3.
The other invention has been tried and
found to be a success. 1t has been placed
on only one passenger car as yet, but
Mr.. Adams has the unqualified indorse,
ment of all the passengers abroad that
car at the time of the trial This cinder
shield was patented in December. 1t is
automatic in it's action and will keep cut
cinders and smoke and dust, whether the
windows are open or closed. The con-
trivance is placed on the outside of the
cars. 1t consists of a metal sheet three
and a half inches wide, running parallel
with and from the bottom to the top of
the window. One of these sheets is at
| either side of the window. They work
on hinges that admit play of 80 degrees.
The plate on one side works one way and
on the other in the opposite direction. A
| spring is attached by which these plates
! are held down while the car is stationary,
| but when 1t moves the plate on the side
| of the window in the direction of the mo-
| ton is lifted by the breeze created. When
| 1t is lifted this way, IL serves as the guard
| or shield, and, when the car stops, re-
sumes its place close to and parallel with
| the cars side.
| Mr.. Adams left last night for South Car
| DINA, but he will return to-day. He says
| that II is his intention to submit his in.
vention to the local roads