The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-15
WASHINGTON
CORRESPONDENCE.

Special Dispatch TO the Post-Inteiligenesr
WASHINGTON, March N-By careful
watching ihs friends Of the seattle pubic
nssisd.fsS succeeded getting into tae sun
dry civil bill ar APPROX aatsosa OF $sasVn 10
be available July fDw purchasing a site.
The secretary of senator who h In
position 20 knox. tod me today That Sc
attic could coslratter herself lucky In getting
that public build Eg as he happened 20
know that a scheme had been connected
among certain senator's 20 give Tacoma tue
first paaa5ssc budding and that TIE bill call
ing for al appropriation OF hasf million
which Senator Wilson passed through the
senate last July. MAS only campaign
measure intended to influence the King
county electors.
BE that as Il may. il Wa. the bey. thing
ever done for Seattle Tor IL made II possible
TO get the bill higher OH the Est taan ne
could have placed his own AID then, after
he fdi went through the house by virtue
81 the combine. IL was aga easy matter TO
get the senasu TO concur In the reduction
of the amount to 1880 600 and other amend
.ssea,tle's frtendx,'' said Lewis to your
correspondent today. mug tie alert as
every effor. viii now be made BY those op
es'ng her interests to have the govern
nsnt architect give preferences to other
bills. hoping that In the rsxt congress the
appropriation may be withdrawn, provid-
ing neae Of IL has been spent by that time.
Bay. Or. and the public syalsing al Butte.
Mont.
Tire following postofYiees In Washington
state will De made money order Offices
April /: tsfsar}ake. saagtt county, Eureka,
Whitman county. Liberty, kittisas county;
Meridian. Pierre county; Mahter. Lincoln
county: New kamilche, Mason county:
ss sa,a md Stones, hins count county.
teensh Infantry. has been ordered To Gov
errors Island. N. r., for escort duty.
csnsnl johnson. al Venice. reports the
''T1ss agent Of the Austrian Lloyd Steam
Navigation Company In Venice has
brought 70 MT notice an interesting series
uf experiments recently conducted at
fsuma by the director OF the Lloyd ship
Yards. The experiments tested the eff
elenes q an invention by q Hungarian en-
gnter. Air. sveFAesieh. for stopping yes
sels under fun steam The Austrian Lloyd
Placed lts so@eoat 1tatiide at the disposal
III tEs.s Inventor. sud three trsais were haAo
g lest the invention under different con-
distons
This marine brake IL sort OF para
esale of fine sgring-stees plates which,
ahea out Of use. TT into one another and
hang above gie water
REur the ht@s trial, the apparatus was
attached 10 tie stern of the Cioti.de and
ne steamer pat OH !aa steam. When
faaA mum speed WAS attasnsd-an Austrian
hook sas released and the parachute
aIisaged into the water With a scarcely
p.sc~fsttssss sack. the yeesse. sYse 10 a
stsfsssstlu Ia @s feet, IL was found how
the brake were badly strained II they had
aot sieiaest. the sslagk would have been
HstseA naafc severe. TIE fact thai the sup~
PORTS did ysesd d.3 moi argue seriously
against Inc efficacy OF the bfake bsit WAS
attributed To the provisional character OF
tile arrangements.
The second trial was designed to show
how far The vessel would proceed whes,
asr engines were stop1ea at fan speed no
tSssse beng sss-d. The distance was found
10 be 20 yards
The third trial measured the forward
movement anen this engines were re-
ysrssd from fun speed ahead to fun speea
Msfesn Thas time The aSo,ilde stopped Ia
~ ysnhs
sW hiia the second and third trial. were
II progress the marine brake waS re-
nttea with more powerful sasspcrsx ana a
fresh experiment wsss made The time The
sssssssf STOPPED almost instantly
These fsssAts. while hafsiiy 90 be CON-
sidsfsa valid FOR the fsa~eesass ocean lin
eEs, With Nhwh the necessity for q szt,icx
stop II occasionally 50 crucial .ndtca ,e
tAaf al important principe hass been In
ssc1 ucea among ntarasse Aafegraa rgis TIE
Aassssass ieosa Company Is awaiting WITH
snssTwsf the result. OF an IMPROVEMENT
watch Mr. SSetkevIch wishes to ada 10 his
device. ard ses ezs4y CONCENTRATES es.sl,s,~
ping It's great teet with the usual anna
rasks>