Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1907-06-27
An Engineers Invention.

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From engineman to millionaire.
This was the remarkable transforma-
tion that took place at Dover. Del
last week when John 81. Parsons be.
came one of the incorporators Of the
Parsons Engineering Co., capitalized
at $5,O00.000 Parsons, it is said
refused 81 800 600 for his simple lit.
tie invention. On Delaware cross.
country branch of the Pennsylvania
railroad, Parsons drove his engine
through Milton few weeks ago with
peculiar device upon it.
I'm just seeing if we cannot do
without smoke and gas" he said to
some inquiriug and smiling friends
who pointed at the contrivance- Il
got permission from the company to
use one on my engine if it did not
interfere with our movements.
Since then some OF the best engi-
neers in the Pennsylvania system
have been examining the invention
and getting their heads together, for
it seems that at last device has been
invented which will consume every
atom and vestige Of smoke, gas and
odor from the locomotive and at the
same time act as a fuel saver to a
marvellous extent.
On Wednesday high Pennsylvania
Railroad officials visited the Delaware
state. house and fled a charter with a
capital stock Of 100000 for the
Parsons Engineering Company" to
acquire letters ofpatent for the burn
ing and consumption of carbon and
gases for the presentation Of smoka.
The inoorporators are John Il. Par
sons. of Delaware Theodore G. Search,
of Philadelphia, and Herbert Fl. Ward,
of Wilmington. There is every evil
dence that the Pennsylvania road in
tends to take care of this inventor, for
Mr.. Parsons is not only named as the
principal incorporation, but is to be
president of his SIS, 100000 concern,
for which the charter fees IF 81 900
were paid in cash.
1t developed with the filing of the
charter that Parsons device will not
only be public benefaction in dis
posing of all the black smoke and an
noying gases of the coal burning loco
motives, but that it will save the COM
pany so per cent of its fuel. at has
demonstrated that at least one-half Of
the fuel can be saved by its use, said
former A torney- General Herbert q.
Ward, of Delaware, counsel for the
Pennsylvania Railroad, and one Of its
iucorporators.
It's great saving to the Pennsylva-
MIA company in one city alone will
amount way up into the millions. In
the District of Columbia an ordinance
was put into effect providing that at.
ter July l coal.burning locomotives
entering the city of Washington would
have to equip themselves with smoke
consumers of some sort or would have
to give place to electric locomotives.
This would mean that the Pennsylva-
MIA company would have been put to
an expense of SIS 100000 in equippipg
all their trains with electrical loco
motives, had not this device been in
vented.
John II. Parsons lie Delaware man,
born in lower Kent county, about As
years ago. For nearly 20 years he
has been running as an engine driver
on the Delaware division of the Penn.
sylvania Railroad, although few
years of his early experience were
spent in the Baldwin Locomotive
Works.
His device resembles large French
horn. 1t has large bell or funnel
shaped mouth, which takes the black
smoke and gases and draws it around
through circular tubing until it is
chemically separated and returned to
the fire pit, where it is burned all
ava. a r,o,n ~ i MN Loo m ,ntanea HAT