The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-05
Monday
Scientific Things That
Are We'll Worth Knowing

The sugar brought into the United
States in the year 1905 was over $780,
900 of this comes from our islands of
Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippines,
and more than $1OO,000,000 worth from
foreign countries.
1t is stated that the largest paper
making machine built to date has been
recently completed in Edinburgh for a
mill in Sweden. The machine is 1856
feet long and requires a ,2O0-horse-
power engine to run it. It makes a
sheet of paper $50 inches wide, and the
web comes thru at a speed of 500 feet
a minute. @
The new sewage pumping plant of
Chicago has been completed and started.
Tt is on the lake front, at Thirty.ninth
street, and was designed to. handle the
sewage of the South. Side district,
pumping it into the south branch of the
Chicago river, which flows away from
the the lake and ~dischargese into the
Illinois river. The plant has a capacity
Of 100000 gallons a day.
Electric locomotive No. 5000, the
AAoo ohC IiioAC " UHS 4NSW IOIh CGu-
trail railroad, has just completed a test
run Of over $4,000 miles on a private
testing track owned by the makers at
Schenectady This is by. far the most
severe test W given a locomotive of
any type, and despite its remarkable
record, the machine was found in per-
feet order, requiring neither repairs nor
adjustment. II, is predicted that with
in five years many Of the leading trunk
lines OF the country will be equipped
with these locomotives, recent demon
STATIONS proving that they will pull
all classes of trains at a saving in cost
Of from 1873 to over 40 per cent, while
the repair expense will be reduced by
rs, per cent.
It is. stated that New. York is to- give
the knowing sidewalk a practical
trial on the new Manhattan bridge. It
will be a long walk from one end to
the other of this bridge, and if the fare
ne. doubt prove "a success. The, moving
sidewalks IS, not new a practical demon.
stration Of it was made at the Colum.
blan exposition twelve years ago, and
again at the Paris exposition, in 1900
but it has v been commercially ap-
| piled elsewhere. 60
It, is now proposed to make the Chi.
cago-St. Louis ship canal with a depth
Of twenty feet of water. AS it is 36E
miles from Chicago to the Merchants
bridge, with the mouth of the Illinois
river .thirty-eight miles above the
bridge, it is doubtful if. the work car
be completed for the sum asked for
The first estimate of the engineers fol
fourteen feet of water was $40, 100000
but a bill has been introduced in con.
gress to appropriate $31, OO0, 900 for this
work La -
The project of alake-and-gulf water
way is one of. the, projects back Of this
The construction of a twenty-foot chan
be too stupendous and costly both 70:
construction and maintenance, and GU
of all proportion to it's value as a traf
ic-carrying. route. ,.s~ l. >.-
A new industry in the shape of al
eel factory has lately been started a
St. George, Newfoundland. The PAL
ties interested in the concern are j
Bergoff and his son Of New York. The:
visited st. George, some time ago an
made all arrangements for the cor
Germ and have erected a main build
ing, and next year. will build a refrige1
} ator, 40 by go, and also wharf: Eel
are said to be plentiful: in Bay s.
George, and this factory will +likel
make the venture a paying One. In
cells taken at the factory are bein
dry sailed in l,000-pound package
where they will remain all winter. I
> the spring they will be skinned, pit
up in pickle and shipped to#America.
A British locomotive engineer, Hug
Read, has invented a new turbine-ele'
1 trical locomotive which he will SOC
give a practical test on an. Englis
5 railroad. It is a self=contained electr:
: locomotive, which will generate it's ow
i current by means of a boiler and tn
bine engine of the Parsons type. NJ
e Read: has also devised an .%air:coole
condenser of somewhat novel desiensft
: use with the same, which will" be tt
: first attempt to use a yc%ondenses on
s railroad locomotive, and the forthco1
S ing experiments with this machine a:
e being. waited for with great interest K
n British engineers. ~
e ( The: MISUNDERSTANDING steel tar
ever erected has just been put in oper
o tion at the plant Of the Duquesne ste
x works on the Monongahela river, TT
d plant has a capacity Of 100000 gallo1
e an hour, and being in continuous oper
d ton, is softening $4,000 900 gallons
n water daily. The tank is 81 feet hig