The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-02-22
TO SWEEP WITH WIND.
Chicago Genius Goes 10 Atlanta With
Breezy Invention.
Uses Air Instead OF Brooms to Clean
the streets.

n snort, ttockY leiioW, Win uhrki
swnrthy complexion, and bearing all the
marks of genius, stepped into the Office
of Chief Sanitary Inspector Veal the other
morning and submitted novel plan, by
means Of which the streets of Atlanta can
be cleaned nj saving of at least 90 per
cent Of the sanitary appropriation.
The caller was a stranger TO Inspector
Veal and was mum on all questions relat.
ing to his personal history. His yolubility
could only be measured by the cubic yard
when IL came 10 discussing the merits Of
his invention, but on all matters Of pri-
vate character the mechanical genius was
silent. But after a great deal of question
ing il was wormed out of him that he
hailed from Chicago.
The invention Is one Of the most novel
of its kind, probably, in existence and is
somewhat embryonic, so far as the finish
ing touches on the machine go.
The material parts OF the plan have all
been perfected and patent will be ap-
piled for. The inventor is deliriously en-
thusiastlc over the scheme he has for rcvo-
futionizing the present system of cleaning
the streets Of the cities The device is sim
Hi'f dilN ~ - NAtti-AAAh Aittb ~ tdii bc blti-
ated in such manner that the streets of
Atlanta can be cleaned at a cost not To ex
ceed 800 year
IL is one Of the most startling inventions
of the age and is the product Of an ingen-
ious mechanical mind, and, If adopted, it
Is claimed will cause the biggest slump in
city taxes that has ever been known by
any Incorporated municipality in the
Ifpifp1 Gfataa Az tal
will be put on the streets of Atlanta for
the purpose of testing the practical merits
of the invention and with the ultimate
view of forcing the city council to adopt it.
The inventor has dubbed it "the sani-
tary air bellows and claims that he can
clean the streets Of Atlanta and leave them
as clean as the track of cyclone at cost
of per cent Of the present appropriation.
It is nothing moro or less than huge air
bellows on wheels, with lot Of wings or
fans propelled and worked entirely by air.
The cost of the machine will not exceed
$3.50, and the inventor asserts that any
common laborer can manipulate IL, and
that the cost Of operation would not be
more than 81 cents day, as the machine is
run entirely by air. The advantages of
the machine over our present street sweep.
ing machines is that il will clean Forsyth
and Marietta streets, with all their holes
and gullies, as well as asphalted Peachtree.
1t simply sucks in all the upper air i'm the
street and blows II out only few inches
above the pavement with such velocity
that nothing but the solid, well laid Bel
gian blocks can Withstand it,
IL runs at tho rate of about mile i'm
i've minutes and consequently can be put
TO work at IL o'clock at night, and before
the milk wagons make their appearance
every paved street in Atlanta can be left
as clean as n newly swept floor. -
The inventor claims that he got his idea,
as all other inventors do, from nature, and
that the sanitary department of nature is
conducted on this plan--that when sec
tion becomes poisoned with garbage and
the like nature sends great wind and
sweeps all the accumulated filth away.
The man from Chicago claims that he has
only captured this force of nature as
Franklin did years ago and has machine
that will give it practical application To
an every day need.
The inventor stated that as soon as his
plans became better formed and the patent
granted he would give his name TO the
public, and not only this, but have one of
the machines on the streets of Atlanta for
experimental purposes
IL is n marvellous invention, and IL tho
idea is ever given application in this form
IL will revolutionizo the sanitary depart
ments in all the cities in the country. -
Atlanta Constitution.