White Oaks eagle. (White Oaks, N.M.) 189?-190?, 1897-02-11

given themselves the name OF the Allen .
syndicate. The Aliens, OF the we'll (
known steamship company, are at the .
head OF the combination. The price Is,
as has been alrolly stated S6,700,0G0, .
and the sum of slG00000 has already
been paid TO Mr. Brambel by check upon
a London bank. The values or the pat.
cnts in various countries were appor-
toned as follows England, 81 500, 900;
France and Garmany$2, 1000; United
States, s3,l00,0OO.
Mr. Bran toI has always be en- Of an
inventive turn Of mind. Way back 10
the days Of his poverty, he devised a
burglar proof lock and submarine in
caudescent lamp. These we're the prod
ucts of his ingenuity while he was oper
ator for the Western Union Telegraph
Company in little OH &c back of How
lands drug store in Skanratles, lie
tried but could NOT otintare3t Shane tiles
capital in the development of them. So
he packed his belong sand they did
not till a Saratoga trunk, either, and NOV
ed westward, Pretty soon be succeeded
in selling his two patents, and thus got a
little money to put into experiments for
developing his rotary engine the idea
for which had already dawned upon
HIM.
Such problem is not to be solved
between breakfast and dinner; it takes
time, and man must live meanwhile
Brambel proceeded to earn his own hv-
ing by telegraphing or anything else
that so handy man could do. He spent
most OF his leisure time in study. While
he never really took his mind off the
rotary engine. he managed to learn
enough alb out electricity to make him
self an expert in certain branches of
that subject
! Four or five years ago he went to
Sleepy Eye, Mnn where he was tele,
graph operator and station agent for the
Chicago & Northwestern road. Since
then he has handled train order, made
ont freight bills. looked after goods sent
and received, figured up demurrages,
kept the local grain buyers posted on
the daily price Of wheat and performed
all the mutifarious and petty duties
connected with such position.
Ia addition, he has been the jack of
all trades for the village. If anyone
wanted a lot surveyed |, or race track
laid out, or half dozen lots drawn off
into such shape that they would divide
up nicely for several houses, or had a
scheme for new idea, Brambe was
appealed TO, and seldom in vain. H
had settled the local difficulties, and he
acted as expert auth lrity when the vii
lhge got into II fuss with its contractors
for nav eIectri; light and water sta
ton. lie had beel IA private citizen uu-
I'll few weeks ago, when he was
elected. by a greater majority than any
of the other candidates, to the office OF
village trustee, which he regards Hs
more Of a compliment to his having ad
vertis' d the village by his Inventions
than as a tribute to his social qualities
for he is not particularly soeiable.
1T took great many models to get
the thing right" he said, "aud there
we're great many failures. more than
one would imagine to sec this simple
little thing, | call the 'Brambel rotary
engine. For years | worked on one
minor matter that could not get tC
suit me, bat for the last four years. eve
since / have heeu here, have had the
thing perfect and have only been trying
to see how it would work IN every po
sition in which could place it before
trying to sell it. by reason of tins iso-
lated Locality and the ignorance of th,
people Of my work, MS well as by the po
sition in railroad employ, have beer
able to do this without exciting com
ment, and nothing has been said abou
the engine until few weeks ago. al
though my patents have been out con
sideraby more than year, both in thi'
country and in Europe"
The machine has been tested for sey
eral years in all sorts Of ways, and ha
proven success SO far, 1t is elaine,
that one machine on the Brambcl pat
ents is at work in a Trenton, N. j. dy
uamo room, whore it is giving the bcs