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The daily Alaskan., 1907-08-24

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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-25

his words were taken as the words of
dreamer. Today the splendid vision is a
practical working realization. Yet 1t was
ten years afterward that Starr was a
member of party which included Charles
II. Yerkes, invited to inspect the first
public trial of a trolley car in Chicago.
Yerkes' high priced expert adviser pro-
nounced the new contraption a car of
Juggernaut. ANY man who would put
that thing before the public. he said,
would be a murderer, and he didn't mean
1t because they were tenderness, either.
He said the deadly current would play
about the vehicle like forked lightning
and kill people right and left. Yerkcs
stayed out
Is Conservative Inventor
But all of Edison's appliances are today
too expensive in practical use for the
ordinary citizen to take full advantage Of
them. The first vision is realized; how
about the second one? During all these
weary years no one has heard Fred Starr
claim he had solution of the problem
of the wave motor. He has kept his hopes
and his failures to himself. Others have
loudly proclaimed from time to time that
they had it, Starr never. When he was
ready to make a demonstration he in
vited experts to investigate On their re-
ports capital was Forthcoming to put the
thing on commercial basis
From this time forth those reports and
the companys patent drawings are open
to inspection by the public. They make
interesting reading.
Perhaps the building of the commercial
plant at Redondo will have large mean
ing now that you have caught glimpse
of the grim fight that went before.
If ever the hearts blood of man went
into gears and shafting and derricks, the
very life of Fred Starr is crystallizing
there in that installation.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-25
LOS ANGELES HERALD SUNDAY MORNING., AUGUST 25 1907

merely anchored so that 1t cannot move
too far from under the pier and so that 1t
cannot chafe against the piles.
Solves Hardest Problem
But how attach to the barge with con-
nections sufticiently fiexIole to allow this
freedom of motion while still keeping In
contact to the extent of the power de-
veloped? The ball-and-socket joint was
tried and failed. Again new mechanical
principles were invoked, and attachments
devised to make it impossible for the
barge to bind for single fatal instant.
Once given the rotation of driving
shaft under full load, the generation OF
some useful form of energy is an every
day question of mechanical engineering.
Starr uses compressed air. The compress
sors feed into a common reservoir and
maintain there a pressure sufficient to
operate ordinary steam engines. which, IN
turn, driye electrical dynamos.
Barge Under Construction
Observations carried on by Mr. Starr in
the vicinity of Los Angeles show that at
this point the total movement upward and
downward of a loaded vessel seldom ialls
below forty feet per minute. Dividing
that by four, Mr.. Starr mas based his cal
culations upon tonnage travelling ten feet
per minute. Mr.. Starr is conservative.
The barge now being constructed at Re-
dondo and soon to be ready for launching
Is for a hundred hors, power unit, the
size named by most of the experts as a
final test of the commercial practicabillty
of the enterprise. This unit will be used
by the company for making an electrical
display on the pier at Redondo. Its com
paratively small size enables the com
pany's engineers to put 1T in operation
while preparations are going on for the
manufacture of the ..eavy machinery foI
the larger units to follow.
AS to the pier itself, the plans have been
approved by competent engineers and It's
stability is guaranteed by the great con-
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-25
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anchorage on top of the waves it could
ride more quietly underneath the surface.
Students of physics know that the mo-
ton Of the water in a wave, aside from
the crest, Is almost entirely vertical. The
wave travels shoreward, but the water
merely moves up am down. The hori-
zontal movement is confined to the break
ing crest, which hurls itself forward with
sudden fury. Submerge the barge. and 1t
loses little of its verticle motion, mean
while riding out the storm in safety.
Waves Are MuIish
Another difficulty was the confinement
of the barge to vertical motion. Starr
was not the only inventor who perceived
that the power desired was that yielded
by the rise and fall of a float in the wa
ter; where he differs from the rest Is in
not deducing the corollary that the barge
should be allowed no other motion. For
the waves had something TO say about
this business of setting guides for the
barge to travel between. They wouldn't
have 1t that way. The barge acted like a
contrary mule. Hitch him to a post and
he seems seized with determination to put
long stretches of road between himself
and that post. yet after he has Kicked
every strap off from him he stops right
there and eats grass.
So the barge aid not want to go far. but
1t was determined to break away from
tight fastenings. Tossing cork overheard
one day, Starr saw something suggestive
in the way 1t washed back and forth, but
stayed near the spot where 1t struck the
water. why, we can let the waves have
the barge" he said. They won't take 1t
away, anyhow. They don't want to do
much with that barge. but they want to
do that little mighty had Resideq 4.
wouldn't do us any good II we could con-
fine the float to vertical motion" So in
the plant in its present form the barge is
a.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-25
viii Cheaper Electricity


Will Cheaper Electricity
Is Los Angeles then upon the eve of
revolutionary development in the pro-
duction of commercial power? Had Mr..
Starr perfected his invention the day he
started upon 1t, it would have been use
less.
Edison had first to produce the cleo
trical appliances necessary to generate
and utilize the electrical current. But
today with electricity every kind of me-
chanical work is performed. Light is
Produced; heat is generated; in short, all
| the complex devices that actuate the life
of modern city are operated by cleo
| tricity
| With cheap electricity furnished by the
ocean waves the coal trust may hug its
! fuel supplies ad lib and no coal famine
will have terrors for the consumer. The
great commercial problem of California,
cheap power, will have been solved.
Great Help to Manufacturers
The dead weight which all coast manu-
facturers have so long carried will be
done away with; she will stand on equal
| ity in that regard with the most favored
manufacturing centers.
| A vast deal of smoke and turmoil and
noise may be done away with. and cleo
tricity used for all purposes in the house
hold as well as in the shop will make life
pleasanter and more wholesome.
| New methods of electrical transmission,
developing so rapidly that even special
lists hardly pretend to keep up with the
new improvements introduced, will rem
der this power more and more available
| for the interior.
| A radius of 800 miles is already practi-
cal from a given source of energy. OAR
| ing inventors predict that during this gen.
GRAFTON an electrical current may be
| flashed around the world without pro-
hibitive loss. New methods of lighting
are constantly being invented; new meth
DDS of power application.
! When Edison said thirty years ago;
Electricity is the power of the future
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-25

uses All Energy
More specifically, the problem was to
transmute a vertical motion, erratic and
variable and. withal. irresistible, into
the circular motion of a driving shaft.
There were a thousand minor desiderata
to be considered this was the great
basic end he held in view. We have
already seen how Starr met this prob
lem.
The roller clutch. worked by cables
reaching upward and downward from a
crosshead moved by connecting rods
from a heavy barge in the water, takes
the power and takes it all. Be it a
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-25

SECTIONAL DRAWING OF STARR ROLLER CLUTCH DRUM "a
REVOLVED BACK AND FORTH BY CABLE FROM CROSSHEAD.
ROLLERS Al" IN CARRIERS UNTIL CENTER GRAVITY
PASSED. THEY LOOP INTO PLAY AND LOCK AGAINST
DRUM, LEAVING DRUM REVoLVE BACKWARD GOING
RIGID AS TO FORWARD NOTION CLUTCH CAN
MOVE FORWARD WITHOUT TURNING POWER SHAFT. 1T
is SENSITIVE LEAST BACKWARD MOVEMENT, THUS TAKING
SMALLEST WAVE WEAR PLATE "E" PROTECTS
COREM ERn
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-25
~nENr / ow sN1tR Use

Diagram shows end view of power
barge, attached by connecting rods
to machine on pier. Two cables, one
upward, one downward, pass from
CROSSROADS around clutch drums.
Clutches are in pairs at each corner
of barge, and cables are crossed to
reverse stress on drums, one turning
power shaft with rise of barge, the
other with its fall.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-25

struction company which is putting it in.
This again is mere matter of everyday
engineering experience.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-25

ripple of an inch or a storm billow f1f-
teen feet high this form of clutch takes
and uses every pound of energy exerted
by the swell in raising an lowering the
float And like many great invention.
the successful device is almost absurd
in its apparent simplicity when once
found and applied. 1t does not allow
the barge to move in any direction with
out turning the power shaft.
Some of the minor difficulties deserve
glance. They have served to wreck many
a promising wave motor when put to the
test of service iH the open sea. For one,
there was the destructive force of the
Starr that no barge of any size could be
left to ride out storms in the open, and no
more they could in any way known to
well-behaved craft as launched from time
immemorial. But. that didn't make Starr
unhappy. He merely sought a new kind
of a craft, one that would act contrary to
all the conventions.
Lesson from Ducks
There was another man working at the
same time along the same lines. His
name is Holland, and his boats go to the
bottom, thing abhorrent to well-behaved
boats. Starr caught the same idea in the
same way-watc itching a flock of ducks
avoid the rollers while swimming in rough
water. They merely ducked under the
a barge tnat could be partially or fully
submerged at a moments notice, so that
in case the water got too rought for safe
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-25

In the future The Herald VIII Issue to sub
.crihers holding six months contracts The
Housekeeper, instead of the Woman's Homo
Companion. The Housekeeper is preferred by
many Of our patrons. 1t Is bright, fuii OF ex-
ceIient articles of especial interest to women
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-08-01

To- w.
subscribed and sworn TO before me this Sth day
pf January, 1907, J. Walsh,
Notary Public. Wisconsin.
The reports of the Clerk OF Cir
cult Court, for the years 1905 and
1000, were presented by the spec
ial auditing committee, and on
motion were adopted.
The report of the Register Of
Deeds, for the year 1906, Of births
deaths, accidents and marriages
was presented, read by the Clerk
and, on motion adopted, and the
Chairman and the Clerk were in
structed to draw orders in payment
for the fees stated above therein.
The resolution regarding the ex-
penses Of the Coroner's office for
the ensuing year were read at
length by the Clerk, and on mo-
ton the same was not adopted.
The bonds of the following
county officers were presented and
on motion severally approved, both
as to the form thereof and sufficien-
cy of sureties, all members voting
aye" on the roll call.
+. o. Rusch, Sheriff.
c. G.. Himley, County Clerk.
w. b. St John, County Treasurer.
M. l. Dickinson. Reg. of Deeds.
w. A. Wescott, Dist. Attorney.
VIM. Bassett, Clerk of Cir. Court.
i. II. Dawley, County Judge.
! w. Crawford, Coroner.
n. S. Bishop, Surveyor.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-08-01

INsptVIIuIIN HuUHIlITeH'
Il. O. WOODBURY.
County Treasurer
Subscribed aud sworn 10 before me this sth day
OF January 1906 j. A. Walsh
Notary Public, Wisconsin.
County Treasurers Report.
(Ioo6)
TO the Honorable County Board,
of Forest County, Wisconsin.
Gentlemen herewith hand
YOU a certified statement of all
moaies received and disbursed by
me as County Treasurer from Jam
nary 1st, 1905 to January 9TH, 1907.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-08-01


rejected.
On motion the minority report Judiciary was
accepted.
On motion all bills except hers BY the COM
Judiciary allowed" severay allowed bv
the board
On motion all bills recommended by the committee Judiciary to
be dlsaowed each several disalowed by the board
On motion all bills recommended by the Judiciary to
be laid over each severaly laid by the
On all sherIs bills recommended by
committee the whole each seveay
On motion all shes bills by the
committee of the whole seveay board
On motion all Judiciary bills marked "daowed, former
carried.
petition signed by all the County except
presented to the board asking for the installation
different County Offices
Motion carried that the Clerk get the
possible from the telephone sat
actory, have telephones installed House
and Jail
Motion carried that the number limited to
six, the County to phones" on above conditions.
On motion all county ORDERS certificates
municipal orders and certificates by
Treasurer during the
OF the board "a list of which
inclusive of the Record Of Proceedngs.l
On motion the committee Finance following
diem and mileage be allowed the
which, adopted by the board All voting
aye" o the roll CALL
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-08-01

l. =. y. Blmleys County
Clerk Of Forest county, Wisconsin, do hereby
certify that the foregoing statement is true aud
correct to the best Of my knowledge and belief
{. g Himley
County Clerk. Forest county. Wis.
dated Crandon, Wis., this 9TH day OF Jan. A. D..
1907.
The following report Of the County Treasurer
for the years Of 1905 and 1906 we're presented BY
the special auditing committee. read at length
by the Clerk and on motion we're adopted all
members voting aye" on the roll call.
County Treasurers Report.
1905.
To the Honorable County Board Of Supervisors,
OF Forest County, vi consin.
GeGtlemen:-i herewith hand you a certified state
ment 1s required by law, 81 all money whatsoey-
er nature received and disbursed by me ~ Coup-
~ Treasurer. from January lst 1905 to January
LIST 1906
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-08-01
c. G. HIMLEY,
County Clerk.

On motion board adjourned sine die
Counterslgned, Chas Ross c G HnLEY,
Chairman. County Clerk
State of Wisconsin
County of Forest -
/, c. G. Himley, County Clerk of Forest County, Wis.
do hereby certify that the proceedings
County Board of Supervisors of said County adjourned
meeting commencing the 18th day of January A. D.
c. G. HnLEy, County Clerk.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-20
connietlng Reporta.

New York. Sept. ls.--Confiicting re- 1orts regarding the possibility of an early settlement of the telegraphers' strike were current tonight. From unofficial sources. it was given out that direct negotiations had been opened with President Roosevelt. seeking his aid to bring about arbitration.
 According to this authority. Percy Thomas deputy President Of the National Union, and Daniel L. Russell. former President of the New York local, had a two hours talk with the President ct the latters home in Oys- ter Bay, on Wednesday. This could not be confirmed tonight. but Mr. Rus sell did say: 'arhe most important action taken in connection with the strike was made on Wednesday. and we are satisfied that 1t will bring & speedy and sakiAeAefory settlement.
 MT. Russell. who is also enairman of the local atrtke committees added that word had reached him late toe nignE that tmfo members of the union had gone to Washing Ston to see Labor Coninissioner Neiii and express to the Commissioners dissatisfaction with the conduct of the strike. If the report was true. MT. Russell said. the men who had gone to Washington are not authorized to speak for the strikers, and theiE action was unwarranted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-20
PREPARING PRESENTMENTS
 IN CAPITOL SCANDAL

Harrisburg, Pa, Sept. 19.-Lawyers for the commonwealth today began the preparation of the presentment to the grand jury of Dauphin County against the fourteen men involved in the cap- itol scandal. for whose arrest warrants were issued yesterday by direction of Attorney General Todd.
 The grand jury will meet Monday and the attorneys expect to submit the cases during the next week. accompa- nied with a request for a speedy trial of all those indicted.
 A detective has gone to Johnstown to serve the warrant upon James M. Shumaker, former superintendent of grounds and buildings, who is too i'll to leave his home. Shumaker has arr ranged with the Attorney General to furnish $60,000 bail. A detective also went to Marietta to serve the war rant upon Congressman Cassel who also will be required to furnish $6O.- 900.
 The amount of bail required of Geo. P. Payne and Weller of Philadelphia has not been fixed although 1t is doubtful if 1t will be less than $5O.000. erer of New York will each be re- qulred to furnish $2,OOO,O0O bail
 The Attorney General said today there was no truth in the rumor that former Governor Pennypacker, who was President of the Board of Grounds and Buildings, during the construction and equipment of the capitol, Is to be arrested.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-20
YOUNG MEN TO CONTROL
 STANDARD OIL COMPANY

New York. Sept 19.-Wall Street generally believes that new era in the Standard oil Company's leaders is beginning. It is thought that the young element in the great corporation Is coming to the front and that the older element is relinquishing its act i've hold upon the affairs of the com pany. and those of the vast interests which have been affiliated with It.
 John D. Rockefeller, Jr.. Wm. G. Rockefeller, Urban Fl. Brighton. a son in-Iaw of H. H. Rogers, and H. H. Rogers, Jr. are among the young men who are looked upon by the street as controlling affairs.
 William Rockefeller is remarked as likely to take a principal part in the eompanys counsel, but most of the other men who have been called the makers of the Standard oil Company. including John D. Rockefeller. ST. John D. Archibold and H. H. Rogers are ex- pected hereafter to leave to their iu- niors the task of handling the great business which they founded.
 What leads the street to hold these views is the recent decision of the directors of the Amalgamated Copper Company to cut down the output of mines to one-half the normal. It is held that this is a departure from the policies which was pursued several years ago when the corporation was declining and that it signifies that the younger element is in control.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-20
WANT MORE POWER
LOUISIANA RAILROAD COMMISSION
 APPEALS TO PEOPLE.
Following Lead of Other Southern States in Reducing Freight aud
 Passenger RAteB-Want
 Constitution Changed.

New Orleans, Sept. 1s.-The begin ming of agitation for drastic railroad Legislation in Louisiana, following the lead of other Southern States. was announced tonight in an appeal to the public by the Louisiana Railroad Com mission. Voters are urged to change the State Constitution to give the Commission more power.
 Chief among the powers asked is that of making the orders of the Commits sion immediately effective. Under the present Constitution. the Commission points out, the mere act of railroad filing a suit against the Commissions order acts as an injunction delaying the execution of the order sometimes two years. During these delays. the Commission declares, The rates may be sufficient to seriously cripple if not altogether ruin an industry or busi- ness."
 Regarding the principle of immediate enforcement of rates ordered by the State the commission argues that the order of injunction Is sufficient pro- tection to the railroads whenever the Commissions orders are unjust.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-20
AND VOID
THE TwO-CENT RATE LAW IS so
 DECLAhk1D,
PennsyIyania Judge Hands Down an Imporsanf Decision aRd Heavily Scores the sO-Called
 Reform Movement.

Harrisburg, Pa. Sept. 1e.--Tne g. cent fare law. enacted at the recent eession of the Pennsgleania Legisla- ture, was adjudged invalid. unconsti- tutIonal and void. in its application of the SusQuehanna River and Western Railroad Company which connects Duncan and Bloomfiedl, in an opinion delivered today at Bloomfield by Judge Shull, of the Perry County Court.
 The law, he declared in his decree, is in derogation of both the United States and the Pennsylvania constitu- tion. He quoted figures of the com pany's earnings to show that the en- forcement of the rate ordinance by the act would be confiscatory. He says that the act Is a caprice of a Legisla- ture, many of whose members, with out rhyme or reason, facts or figures, information or reputation, pledged to perform the act in the name of "re- form" and that i've might say of re- form. as was said by Madam Roland of Liberty, in the days of the French revolution, "oh. liberty. liberty, how many crimes are committed in thy nameT
 The opinion also states that to com pei this company to comply with the 2-cent fare law would rob the bond holders of their securities, deprive the community of the facilities of trans nortation of freight. and coniscate the property and franchises of the stock holders.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-20
KILLED B; INJURED B
 = Disastrous s.feck on . Mexica lentral. SEVEN C LIES DEMOLISHED Freight and Passenger Trains
 Collide Head-on. Relief and wreckins Trains are Now on Scene and Injured are Being
 Taken to the Hos
 pitfalls.

Mexico City. Sept. 19.-There has been disastrous wreck on the Mexi- can Central Railroad. freight train and a passenger train came into col lision at Encarnation, near the city of Aguas Calientes, and it Is reported that thirty persons were killed and many injured. The passenger train was the regular Fl Paso express which left that city Tuesday.
 No train from the United States has come in today over the Central, but one is expected tonight.
 It is impossible to get further de- tails of the wreck at this moment.
 Authentic reports received here say that thirty-two persons were killed and thirty-three sustained injuries. There are no prominent persons among the killed or wounded. The Pullman cars were not badly damaged. but the two engines and seven first. second and third-class coaches. of the passenger train, were demolished,
 Relief and wrecking trains are now at the scene of the wreck. The injured are being taken to the hostita1 at Aguas Calientes. The disaster Is said to have been due to disregard of the train orders.