The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-19

which, ii is said will be operated by COM
! pressed air next year 10 welcome visi-
tors to the Paris Worlds Exposition.
| 1t should be remarked that We're it not
| for the inventive enterprise of Mr. Ser
geant of the acknowledgement Drill Com
| pany of New York, most of the compress
ed air methods and machinery here men
| toned would not now be available in prac-
| teal form.
It might bore the lay reader to describe
the new air-tight system for pumping ar
| tesian wells, the hundred-and-one handy
| little inventions, such as pneumatic track
| sanders for locomotives, sand blasting ma
| chimes for removing the scale from met
/ ais of all kinds, coal cutters, etc. But
there are a few things in the way of
air novelties" which are most interest
| ing.
Take the work of basket making. Sure
ly no one ever heard of any of the old
| machines turning out $50 bushel baskets
per hour, or 1SO0 baskets per day, but a
compressed air basket making machine is
now doing Ii at the Michigan Basket Fac
tory, Traverse City, Mich. The slaves of
| the baskets are fastened to the hoops by
staples of wire taken from the coil, joined
and driven by the machine The slaves
radiate from center in disc-like shape.
To bend them into the lines of the basket
form, four processes or movements are
made by the machine. all of which are
aulvilicit4N anu ODldliSu Dy the InGdluIu Oh
compressed air. The whole com binati is
very simple. The air Is not cooled, and
the machine runs ten hours every work
ing day.
Painting Pictures With Air.
Then there is the fountain air brush
which some claim will soon be adopted bv
the leading artists for applying color on
canvas. 1t is shaped like and Is but lit
tie larger than lead pencil, is handled in
the same manner, applies color in large
quantities in a short time, and is yet ad-
Unstable for the finest line ever drawn on
canvas by a gifted artist.
We Lead in Pneumatic Mail Service.
The pneumatic mail tube dispatch sys-
tenn is familiar to most readers, but the
fact that previous TO 1894 it was D actically
unknown in this country, and that since
then we have made swifter strides in that
field than Europe, may not be genera ly
known. Five years ago when John Wan
amaker as Postmaster General opened the
first pneumtic mail tube line, extending
from the postofIice to the house in Phil
adelphia, the start was made on entirely
new lines. While to this day in Europe
they are using little two and three inch
tubes for kilograms only, We began at the
outset by constructing siX-inch tubes, and
use them to trasport mail in large quanti-
ties. Tubes had never been used success
fully for the transmission of ordinary mail
matter before.
he mail tube industry has now devel-
oped so fast in this country that even
S-inch tubes, with cartridges carrying 600
letters. are in successful opera ton in our
big cities. The longest circuit ever built
in the world is the main line recently laid
in New York city extending from the ter
minal postoffice to the Grand Central
branch postoffice. a distance of three ana
I Fry,g Q H.
cult the cartridges travel at tremendous
speed the time of transit consumed in dis
patching in either direction being only
seven minutes. Another big circuit has
been laid across the Brooklyn bridge so
that you may nave the pleasure of know
ing that while you are speeding over the
bridge in the cars, your mail may be MAX
ing better time ahead of you shooting
away in the cartridge inside the big tube
like an S-inch projectile from a modern
breech- loader. A total of seventeen miles
of S-inch tubes have been laid UNDER
ground in this country since Aug. l. 1898,
which shows the rapid increase of the sys-
TEN.
A method of sweeping and cleaning rail-
road depots by compressed air blowers has
been instituted by the Central Railroad Of
New Jersey. 1t has been found there that
sweeping and scrubbing and cleaning can
be done far more enectually with air than
ed with compressed air blowers are turn
ed loose after working hours upon the
floors Of the various buildings. They go
over every square inch of surface, and
over the walls and the furniture with their
blowers, which sweep every speck of dust
and dirt before them, doing the work much
better than double the help could do with
brooms. The railroad hands have found
many unique uses for the compressed air
which is so handy for them. They find
that It win clean clothes and fine fabrics
as we'll as plush seats and carpets, and
dozens Of them take their clothes and uni
forms to the men who handle the com
pressed air. to be cleaned. The work
takes but a few seconds, is done thor
oughly, and has the advantage Of costing
nothing. The men have also found an
other and still more unique use for the
air.
II never pay for a shampoo any more"
Is a common saying around the yards
now. Il can get the best shampoo to
be had right here for nothing. How? dye
say-why compressed ARR
Johannes Hfolf WHISKY.