Fort Wrangel news., 1898-08-10
CABS MADE CLEAN WITH WIND.
Pneumatic Device Ussd ln santa Fe
 Ymr,la Tn Chicago.

If The average housekeeper who has had morc or less unpleasant experience with thc old-fnshionei broom could drop down Into the santa Fe yards. nt 17th street. almost any morning she would behold q sight thIt would set hrr wild with envy. Shc woull be as- tuuished hy prformauce that she might think little short of miraculous She would scr q man walking up and down strip of carpet ut the sile of a Pullman palace ear und accomplishing n feat apparently far beyond the nlas- tcrVieee of the greatest pncstldigita- teur. to her way of thinking. The man might point ont what the woman would cali n long stick with q broad cud' at the carpet and straightway dust would ny from the surface in immense clouds at least it would 1T there was any dust n the carpet.
 This peculiar and Interesting opera ton has been going on down in the santa Fe yards for nearly two years, but T k nevertheless almost unknown. What the housekecper would call q long stick with Il broad end Is m Iron pipe with Il spreading brass nozzle through which compressed air rushes under pressure of seventy pounds to the square iach. The upper end Of the pipe k inserted n rubber hose which leads from an air-eoapresslng ma chine. The workman takes Tn hand the plIo, which Is between four md i've feat in length, and, placing the brass nozzle within nn Inch uf the surface of the carpet he walks down Is length passing the instrument over every square inch of the carpet. The brass nozzle x about three Inches wide and a narrow aperture through which the al. escapes extends from one side to the other This aperture Is almost as long As the nozzle Is wide. but Il Is only about ono~fourth of nn Inch n width. Tie air eseapes with such force tAat wherever | strikes the carpet the dust Is blown ont so elcanly that q pro.es- s!onal carpet leater would dnl t iln- possible to extract another particle
 The unique device is used not only 10 clean thc carpets outside of the cars, but to clean the entire interiors of the cars as well. Tor the interiors n small CT p.Ie md nozzle are used and long CT hose Is attached. The workman passes around the .nsiGe of the ear pointing the nozzle it every spo; which he wishes to cleanse. He doesn't have To po!at 1t la1G at any one spot before the a'r has effectually cleared the sur face of all dirt that Is loose.
 There is 10 patent on the invention, wh!cA seems to have been perfected ny Q process of evolution Anybody who has tAe dcs,re and the moroy 10 pay for tAe machinery has the eantr.vanep at A.s disposal II is now GSo1 Tn several of the railroad yards If the c.ty and has proved universally satisfactory. Tie device Is especially eXcelle1at for tAe removal of dust and dirt from corners and crevices which cannot well to reached with n broom. The a!r can. of course. ire thrown into my place Into which dust can drift aad tAe dirt he blown out without tAe least difficulty. Tn sleeping ears there are many places I , found to be great Improvement oycr cd methods. The cleaning of the uI- per terthS was always accomplished with mnCh trouble until the n!r con trivancp was adopted. but since then the work has tpcn done win ease and dispatch. The workman simply pulls down the berth. antl, reaching .n with his pipe, he poteS about in every nook and corner until he can no longer blow my dust from the berth. Then be knows 1t Is clean and h. passes 10 the nex: ore. All of the upholstery, as well as the floor ceiling. ete.. Is of course cleaned more easily than inc NerthS.
 The cleaning can be done at practical ly aay distance from the a.r-compreSs- lng machine. A lo2g line of hose leads from the machine. or, perhaps more often the compressed air Is carried Tn Iron pipes to the various points where tie cars are brought 10 be cleaned. The rubber hose Is then attached to the pipe line near the car and the air turned on. X stop cock on the pipe line controls the massage of the air into the hose and another at the top of the four-foot nine controls Its exit from the nozzle. The hose Is always long enough to per init q workman to walk the entire length of q palace car.-Chicago Chron- icle.
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