The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-10-22
SEEING THE
FAIR In DETAIL

WONDERFUL Rssuits From Liquid Diet
Among Gas Eneines--New Field For
Usefulness For the vapor Generators.
Pumping Engines FOR Irrisatins
Desert Lands Pumps That Protect
the Exposition From Fire--The Steam
Turbines Laid Open So One May See
Their Secret Chambers xtraordi-
nary vsloeity Of One Type Of Tur-
bins The Largest Engine In the
World--Enoines OF Many Sizes.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE BY
MARK BENNITTl
No servant Of man returns so much
for simple drink as the gas engine.
Pour into its thlrsting interior a given
quantity Of gasoline, kerosene Or pc.
troleum and you receive a certain re
turn Of power that discounts animal
Drawn for cheapness ana gives the en-
gineer permanent holiday. Any man
with recollection Of the farm still
lingering III his memory il certain 70
stop and study prime movers in the
Palace OF Machinery The ingenuity
81 engine makers has for years been
sitting out the completely Of engines
until we fsd them adapted to the SIN
| plest tasks that demand power and SO
easy to handle that any one with com
mon ense enough to be d juryman In
| Justices coprl can safely be given an
engineers licease for limited service.
The gasoline engiua and the oil engine
are becoming machines Of the farm. IS
common as tie hayrake OF the mower.
lTEey are supplanting the windmill fol
dumping. they are doing the churninA
and saving the wood. they are shred.
ding the eornstaik and grinding the
feed. Nothing Ii too mental for the
gas engine, which responds smilingly
to the coveted drink Of real fire water
1 and with many little hiccoughs goes
! on gayly with its tasks, no matter how
Z arduous.
II A new type Of gas engine is now e
the fore having a greater task than all
! This form of power Is entering the
vast field Of irrigation. and future cit-
: les Will. willie great commonwealth
I may, owe their existence to the eco
nomical pumping powers Of engines
j driven by gasoline and oil Engine
q builders are giving these new possil9ih
I ties their studious attention, for tbs
!, deserts that can never come undel
Il gravity irrigation are a thousand timel
more vast than those which can. Even
!. tie sahara may become an empire II
the supply Of petroleum holds out
AL 1t Is the experience Of practical irri
q gators that 50 per cent OF the water
4 used IN irrigation seeps through tho
J soil and returns to its natural channel
+ Here again the gas engine has Its field
d to raise to a higher level once more
!. the used water Of previous irriga
i ton.
A little farther along 10 the west
! ward among the marvellous engines W
! come to one such as the public ha
/, never before been privileged to see. !
Il Is the steam engine of the future th
steam turbine such IS they are goin
Il to nut into the 800 foot Cunarder an
L AUNit us utt NOV IA Nts7t t-l ~ --et
boats in the English channel and else
where. Here IS one Of them, exertin
3 the power Of 600 horses. undergoin
= an endurance test ii was started 0
Il June 20 and when | last noted th
II figures II had run more than 200
hours without even a halt for oil or
cooling. Here are the several part
T. " laid open FOR public inspection like q
he two halves Of an apple. ! revoiXin
cylinder covered with annnlar rine
Ut vanes thai suggest Kernels Of cor
ne on a cob or rows Of brass teeth Is mad
u to lie in a hollow cylinder whose inns
ia surface IL studded with other teeth !
or hundreds Note the shape Of the teei
all slightly concave. The eoncayll
" of the teeth on the revolving cyllndl