The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-04-13
BFIGTUM's FUTURE KING
Interested In the Manufacture 81
Bicycles, Visits the Columbia
Works.


factory, that of the Pope Manufacture
ing Company in Hartford. He is trav-
cling in the United States under his |
minor title of Comte De Rethy. The |
Hartford Courant in speaking of the |
prince and his visit describes him as a
very democratic appearing young fell
low, 23 years old, of stalwart frame, six |
feet tall, aad having a development of |
large man in his general makeup. He |
is very much interested in mechanics
and appears to thoroughly understand
machinery, and during the afternoon
spent in the bicycle works asked many
questions about automatic machines,
and frequently picked up parts of the
bicycle as they came from the machine,
and did not seem to care about the
soiled condition of his hands, using the
mechanics towel, bunch of waste, to
clean them. He seemed perfectly at
his ease, and made every one with whom
he came in contact feel the same way.
On his arrival in Hartford he was met
at the station with the Columbia Motor
Carriage, and with his suite taken to
the Pope Manufacturing Company's Of
fees where delightful luncheon was
served in the officers dining-room.
After luncheon the party began the
tour of the allied interests of the Pope
Manufacturing Company.
The first of the mechanical depart
ments visited was the test department,
where all steel stock bought by the
company undergoes test of its tensile
strength. A round bar of nickel stee'
was in the testing apparatus and pres.
sure was brought TO bear upon it. The
registering dial was watched very
closely by the prince, and when the
figures Indicated over 10000 pounds he
asked how much more the bar would
stand.
at will break shortly" said Mr..
Souther, the engineer in charge OF
tests, and sure enough it did, swapping
like a pipe stem at something over 93,-
900 pounds pressure.
This evidently pleased the prince, and
as he left the department he said: 81
have been very much interested in
this"
The party, consisting of Prince AL
bert, his suite, Col. Albert A. Pope, Col.
George Pope, George H. Day, general
manager of the Company; Secretary AL
bert L. Pope and other officials of the
Company, then began the tour of the
bicycle shops under the immediate di-
rection of Superintendent A. P. Day,
who personally assorted Prince Albert,
and explained to him all the automatic
operations of the bicycling-making
machinery. In the room where gears
are cut for the chainless wheels the par
, ty remained for long time, the prince
, being greatly interested in the process.
The big drop forging machine, that
strikes bicycle hub from hot bar of
, steel at one stroke and can make hum
r. lreds of them in a day, was another
special thing that interested the dis
= tinguished visitor. The assembling OF
v The wheel and the shipping room were
n inspected, and in the former the infla-
S ion of the single tube Hartford tires
: was of interest to the prince. He was a
little skeptical about the repair of a
t single tube tire and after the tour O1
= the factory he received an illustration
=" If the repair of puncture while the
v machine was on the road, with the or
binary repair kit. His skepticism van
shed.
The party went from the bicycle
IS Ihops to the motor carriage factory
le Col. A. A. Pope accompanying thu
Is prince in motor carriage and manipu
> ating the vehicle. The prince was 81
delighted with this sort of locomotioI
that he manipulated the carriage him
,e self on the return trip, taking Col. Pop
h. ilong as passenger.
le At the motor carriage works and a
the tube works Lieut.. Harold H. Eame
ID escorted the party and explained tn
g machinery and the objects for which
to was constructed. The tube works, wit,
g It's automatic feeding boilers and tn
w 5elf-regulating engines, adapting tn
exercise of power to the requirement
=, Of the tube drawing machines, wer
"a evidently something new to the visito
O. and the members of his suite, and the
ie remained for quite time watching th
big engines in motion.
is At the Hartford Rubber Works til
d. prince was escorted by j. c. Wilson
.. manager of that department, and til
e. mysteries of rubber grinding, the nal
aS ing, vulcanizing and joining of the tire
. were explained to the visitors, the Wis
NJ ending with an inspection of the in
m mense storage room for tires which a
IS parently had enough tires in it to NAL
r. the world go round on an inflated riI
he On taking his departure from the ia
tories, Prince Albert cordially thankt
d. Col. Pope and all the officials vino h;
OF shown him about, and declared that
IL II had passed most enjoyable afternoc
n' inspecting the manufacture of whee
he King Who is a Hotelkeeper.
in According to lie journal des Deba
M of Paris the most prosperous hoteikee
a er in the world is the king of Wurtel
- berg. He runs two large hostelries
-. Stuttgart. These hotels are visited
VI the best of the merchant class in &c
many, and enrich the kings priva
&C. purse to the tune of $62, 500 a yes
al bookkeeping has been followed I
n nearly 200 years by he rulers OF w,
temberg. 1t is recorded that at the
h ginning of the eighteenth centu
of Peter the Great paid visit to t
in reigning duke at Stuttgart, and
w. avoid the pomp and ceremony of t
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