B THE OMAHA SUNDAY r.EK: MAY 1007. 7 '3 4 I T f 1 "' " '-'''- -1 I A Tff ONLY FECT ICE Made From the Best and Purest of Alaterials in PER CREAM tte Most JL Js In hurry to amalgamate Letd oe Eailway Toardi of Pro land Take Tbtir T;tue Combinine. L'KtLY TO GET T06ETHIR SOME T.ME. Xotable El la History of SrottUli la Atrtrmrnt of Churches on tew Caterhlam Jut Or aered Pabllahed. GLASGOW. May 25 (SpeclaL) The pe? Ulatlon that ha arlaen over the aufgosted Conference of the three leading railway boards of Scotland and their offlcera on the auliject vt ir.orf harmonious traffic working has been all out of proportion to the facts of the case. At the recent meet ings of the proprietors In Glasgow and M Edinburgh the points of criticism which were promised remedy resolve themselves after all Into purely administrative matters. Buch a large question a railway amalga mation Is. of course, more difficult of necutlon than of comprehension. The ne j Cfsslty of holding the conference on the ' lines proposed, and promised at least by v tha chairman of the North British com pany, does not seem very real to some at all. At any rate, the railway boards have been In no hurry about meeting. Neither la the' date nor place fixed, and many ques tions have been raised as to whether a conference will be held. Borne of the di rectors are at present abroad, and a diffi culty has arisen on this account. Com munications have passed, but with no defi nite result. The sugKes'lon however, that the officials of the three great railway comiianlt-s are on anything but friendly relations la, of course, absurd, and It Is Just probable that all of the features of railway working complained of may be amlratily adjusted In the ordinary course of managerial administration. Oae ef the Tow Ilaroaeta. There can be few. If any, younger baro nets than Sir Windham Frederick Car-mlchael-Anstruther. who Is Just i years Of age. This little fellow Is honorary raner to the royal household of Scotland and one of the hereditary masters of the household for Scotland, honors plainly rather obsolete today which were conferred on one of his ancestors by James VI of Bcotland before ihnt monarch became M l.mua f . XT .... I .... .4 T f.mlu t An. truthe.r descends from William de CandaU. " who as far bark as the year 1100 was lord of the Isles and barony of Anstruther. In Flffshlre. The css-.ie of Preel. a grim fortress close to the sea, was In Charles 11' time the seat of the family. The Mt'Try Monarch stayrd thert soon after lis coronation. At the conclusion of the banquet, the king Jokingly aald to the owner: "Eh! What a fine sufper I've gotten In your craw's n.'- This remark greatly offended the head of the An St ru triers, more especially as It mas punctu ated by the loud laughter of the courtiers, so that he built a new house and allowed 1.1s "craw's nest" to disappear. The general officer commandir.g-ln-chiet Is authorized to convey to all ranks the entire satisfaction of his rojal hlghiiru, tha prince of Wales, with all military ar rangements In eoiinevOnn with the visit of i the princess of Walei and himself to Glss fow. His roal highness wss much pl-asej with the smart appearance and steadl:vas under trmi of the troops that formed escorts and guards of honor that lined the at-reets. Ills royal highness u glsd to see ao many cadet corps taking part la ILla last named doty and a as struck a iia BE mm A r Now Being Served 1 " & a S ooo i E FAIRMONT their sturdy appearance and aoldler-like bearing, and also appe related the manner in which the duties of all ranks were per formed. Pabliah Sew Catechtsss. A notable event has Just occurred In the history of the Scottish cn-irch. Representa tlvea of the Episcopal, Established, Vnlted Free Congregational, Baptist and Wesleyan churches In Scotland have Just held a meeting In Edinburgh and have approved the draft of the catechism- and have ordered It to be published forthwith. This waa the ! third gathering In connection with a move- t ment initiated In 1901, which resulted early ' the following year In the Church of Scot land Issuing an Invitation to representatives of the reformed churches In Scotland to at tend a conference "to consider the whole question of religious instruction in public schools." Till then no sach meetings had ever taken place In Scotland since the sec ond reformation Sn-ATIi. Bd 1 Is rec-arded as a happy sIrti of tha times that ecclesi astics can sink their differences and as semble together to discuss, as they have done at epoch-making conferences, purely religious and moral questions. The Impor tance of these conferences, the labors of which have Just been completed, cannot be overestimated and throughout the country nothing but eatlsfactlon will be felt that representatives of the reformed churches In Scotland should have been able to meet and co-operate In performing a piece of work, the practical benefit of which will tell on the present and future generations of the Scottish people. At the first conference In 1904 a small committee was aprwinted with the late Principal Rainey as Its convenor to pre pare a simple catechism embracing such teachings In the facts and doctrines of Christianity as mlRht be acceptable to all branches of tha reformed church. Since the death of Principal Rainey Pr. Mair has acted as the convenor of tha committee. Another amsller but no less Important com mittee was appointed to prepare a syllabus of or scheme of lessons In religious Instruc tions for the schools. This committee ali expects to be able to submit the result of Its completed labors to the conference at an early date. In the number of ques- j tlons and answers the new catechism is J very nearly the ssme as the old. but tha ' text haa been made very plain. I Aet a 1'rlsa Passle. Tha nlthean cuidreamacu agam rl allhrls dhuion ai an am so. M ILXJC L.'T Sl'THERLASI). Ceann suidn Cumuiui - cuiueuciiaiuiia Uum-niaouiair nan UaidoaL The above la not a prise puxzle or the ork of an amateur practicing on a type writer or a lln-o-u pu. It is part of a cir cular letter signed by Uie duchess of Suth ciiaud on behalf of the Scottish Home In dustries association. There are larger dis tricts of the United Kingdom where the circular of written in Enslis-h would be as rtran-e to the Gaelic rpeak:ng Britons who receive It, as the present cirvular Is to Ent'lith reaJcra. Provost Eadlo recently paid a high trib ute to Journalism at the Institute of Jour nalists which met recently at Paisley. Pro vost Eadlo said be had noll.lng but ad miration for tha ar--d and facility with J which they epitomiie, condense and seise i the texic9 of that which is going on sroune lht-m. He said the world had I passed through a grest transformation even during his lifetime adn no ap ncy has con tributed more towards this than the print ing press. It was a greater teaching agency than church or school and con sequently a "nUh standard of principle was required. The Information the Journalists furnished comes over mountain ranges. i through ocean depths, and lately the' i id saddled, and bridled the very ethti' of heaven, outstripping In tha race the chariot of tha aun, as a 'motor car would outstrip a coatertaocgar'a donkeM Sanitary AT THE AUDITORIUM N.-W. CORNER 12th AND JONES STS. FREAK IDEAS IN RAILROADS 7 he Gjroscrpe Wonder and Thoie Which Hate Gone Eeftret EARLY PROMISES AND PRACTICAL TESTS Experiments with Moaorall Devices at Hone and Abroad Germany's upended Method is a Sarcesa. Considerable Interest has been aroused among railroad men and mechanics In this country by accounts of the Inventions of a gryoscope railroad, a working model of which was on exhibition In London re-i-enily. The Inventor, Louis Rrennnn noted as a builder of submarine torpedoes, explained to wondering spectators as his miniature car and locomotive sped around the single rail, with apparently nothing to balance It, that the vehicle maintained Its balance automatically. "The characteristic feature of this system of transportation," he sid. "Is that each vehicle Is capable of maintaining Its balance upon an ordi nary rail laid upon ties on the around, whether It be standing still or moving in I either direction at any rate of speed, not- withstanding the center of gravity if ! several feet above the rail and the wind ! pressure, a shifting load, centrifugal action, I or any combination of these forces may ! lend to upset It. "Automatic stablity mechanism of ex treme simplicity, carried by the .vehicle fl- I self, endows It with this power. The mech anism consists essentially of two flywheels .rotated directly by electric motors In op posite directions at a iiigh velocity, mounted so that by their gyrostattc action their stored up energy can be utillxed. These flywheels mounted on high-class i bearings are placed In air exhausted cases. J so both air and Journal friction Is reduced ; to a minimum, consequently the power re- quired to keen them In ranld motion Is I extremely small. "The wheels are placed In a strgle row beneath tne center of the car and are car ried on bogles or con pound bogles, w1ch sre not only pivoted to provide for horl aontal curves in the track, but for vertical ones also By this means the cars can run upon curves ev.-n of less radius that: the length of the vehicle Itself, or on crooked rails, or on rails laid over uneven ground without danger of derailment. "The motive power msy be cither steam petrol, oil. gas. or electricity, as considered I most suitable for local conditions. In the first Instance, however, It had been decided I to use petrol and an electric generating I set carried by the vehicle itself to supply j the current to the motor's stablity mech anism. A mechanical export. reviewing the Brehnan idea In the Boston Transcript, as serts thst It is without novelty or prac ticability. Continuing, the writer says: j inert iias never Deen Dut a single type t of monorailway that was entirely satis factory. That is the Decsavllle system. It , consists of a sirgle rail on which is bal 'anced a two-wheeled car with a wide plat ! form and an outrigger. The load Is bal j anced on the car, the coolie or mule is I fastened to the outrigger to complete the j balancing as well as to furnish power, and . the whele, whtthtr for a street car or a truck, is exactly suited to North Africa, Persia, India and other slow places where i It la used. It costs almost nothing and ' does Just about twice that much work. j An Irish Llae. I It waa the Decauvllle, however, which I led M. Lartlgua to devise bis system of peC-lS4 railway, wUcb la atlU la Chela Plan! ii by the Ladies of the Memorial Church at FOR DEI MANUFACTURED BY tion In Ireland. There from Llstowel'l to B&Uybunnlon runs as peculiar a style of transportation facility as the world can ahow. It la a train upon a fence, with Its legs hanging over to balance It. Every one In America is familiar with the gams of straddling the fence. The conception of the Lartigue railway might have come from a political campaign In Massachusetts. The track consists of a single rail set upn a top board and upheld by A frames st at short Intervals. Along these near the ground are other rails for the cars to put their feet on. The engine Is double and hangs with a boiler on each side of the driving wheels, which run on the top rail. Each car Is also double and hangs over the fence. Each haa a set of horizontal steadying, wheels pressing against the lower raila This little hump-backed affair, which cost but $15,000 per mile, has Iteen running with eminent satisfaction (to the Irish) for twenty years. It Is useful for mora purposes than transit. It keeps the cows out and cannoi ie uoti ty the pie m a sleeping chamber. To be sure, a switch on this road is a whole section of fence,, but It has the proud record that In Its twenty years no train has fallen through or Jumped the track. The little cars, which obviously cannot mount up over the fence, whirl around sudden corners at dlxzy speed, and the engineer In charge dreams 'of what it might be If he had money to build a bigger and a better one. This engineer In charge, in fact, Mr. Behr. ha been for several years badgcr- i Ing Parliament to build him an experl I mental line from Manchester to Liverpool, J on which he will startle the world. Par I llament is Impressed with the speed he promises, but so far has not been con ' vlnced that he can stop the cars without . banging Into Liverpool. Mr. Behr built a ' little line In Paris In 1S3S which waa a great success, and then put up another In Brussels, at the expense of the BelrUn government. In 1W7. It was this Belgian I track which first convinced Europe that ! there was a good deal to be said In fsvor i of a single-rail road. Mr. Behr had an elliptical track three mile- long, nf which 75 per cent was curved, and the govern ment furnished him only one-fourth the promised power. Nevertheless he attained on it a steed of seventy miles an hour I with his animated saddlebags hi a sixty, I foot car which weighed seventy Ions and ; had 300-horse-power motors. Later, with j a car of fifty-nine tons he attained a speed . of eighty-three miles on hour on curvea of bi- ard radius. I These figures he presented to his own ' government In the endeaeor to establish j an experimental track, but the project has i apparently fallen through. He expected 1 to go the thirty-five miles between 'the two cities in twenty minute. Moody Bayaton'a Coney Island Rand. Mr. Behr'a Lartigue system Is not, of course, rroperly a monorail system. Neither Is any other except the Decauvllle and the Brennan. All the others have supplemen- : tary rails which preserve the balance and ! prevent derailing. Of these the first to be j developed In America, was Moody Boyn 1 ton's little line at Coney Island about , twenty years ago. There his motor ran t upon a single rail, and. balanced by an other rail overhead, drew Its train of cars at gratifying spd. Mr. Hoynton's tram : at once drew the attention of two other 'men who look up the study of monorslls. ' Mr. Brott and Mf. Beecher. Brctfa Idea i was an eletrlc road with cars running on ' big drive wheels on a central rail, and J auxiliary wheels held down under inverted , rails at either side, the whole upon an 1 elevated structure. The cars of this line 'were, for tha first time, to be pointed lik I projectile. I Tha projectile Idea also appealed to Cap tain Una Beecher, who had exhibited the rst cerartugai rail say at Coney Island 1 at4 so led. Ute wsjr tut all tba "iooti-iha- lie ICIA CREAMERY wV'Tr'J loop" contrivances which have made mur der among us these many summers. As far as the general public could see. there waa little to choose between Brott and Beocher, nor any great fault to find with either, except the cost of installing an elevated structure of great strength where a simple surface line was giving pretty fair satisfaction. In 1SC3 Prof. A. C. Albertson was ready to go both of them, and Boyn ton, too, at least one better, by putting magnets under the rails Instead of safety wheels, and on them lifting the weight of the train until it skimmed along tha steel as lightly aa a swallow In air. It was mys teriously announced that the heavier the train the more swiftly and easily It would move, but somehow this simple solution for freight congestion was allowed to drop from right without getting a test in daily practice. The Snspended Railroad. "The orly power-driven, high-speed "mon orail" wl Ich has attained success In com mercial -ueitiori, and, tht one so simple and easy of construction that It has ex cited admiration In many countries, Is tha suspended railway which runs from Bar men to Elberfeld, in Germany. This line, which has often been described in print, operates upon a different principle from Boynton's or Brennan'a. In it the center of gravity Is below the rail. The car, of light construction, is hung by a big steel "hook" which curves over the track closely to a guard on the inside, thus pre venting the train from Jumping the track or flying out on a curve. The motors arc carried on this hook and the whole ap paratus is light, easily attains Us highest velocity in a short distance, and Is oper ated with a minimum of power. This J Parnien-Elberfleld line is almost noiseless ' and free from vibration and it haa so many ! other udvantages that It has renewed the ', atrugglea of all mono-experimenters. j The Aniline Hslford tiradlent. t Of course, all seekers after Vmll-an-Ijour speeds have not trifled with the monorail. Of all tha widely heralded ln rentlona of twenty years none haa been more loudly exploited than the so-called "Halford gradient," which waa patented In England eight or nine yeara ago. Mr. Halford, the Inventor of thia. designed a road which was supported on hydraulic rams. Trie whole road was In sections. The train hung suspended from a moveable track. When the engineer wished to start ha caused water to enter the ram back of the train, which began to rise, tilting the track up and shooting the train forward. Thence on the train automatically regu lated the rama, causing them to rise ss it pasaed, keeping the cars continually slid- ! ing on a down grade. It was evident that enormous speeds could easily be obtained and there appeared to be no difficulty about controlling the trains by reversing the process. But the cost of constructing a road which must be more heavily framed than an ordinary elevated arid must In ad dition be equipped with powerful hydraulic rama every few feet and with pumping power to lift entire tralna continuously prevented H aver oomlrig to a practical test. How the Gyrwseone. No auch fate as that awalta Mr. Bren nan'a new mode. The gyroscope is v- known. Every top follows Its principles or those of Its cousin, the gyrostat. Tha Whitehead torpedo is steered by one, and (only a couple of weeks ago a Germs n tor pedo boat was filled out with two small gyroscopes set horizontally to counteract tha effect of the waves at aea. Yeara ago a hopeful Englishman constructed a ship with its cabins all hung on pivots si that 1 gyroeoopee might keep them horizontal, but without avail. In brief, the gyroscope OOjecis, w.ieu revolving, 10 i.avn.g lis piuna of rotation altered. Once It has assented Ui that alteration, hoaa-rsr, tt mt longer Uffllei K ountze o oo tutx-p'" struggles. Thus the Inventor rightly says that a cyclone could not blow his train over. But Sir Hiram Maxim as truly adds that It seems likely to a careless observer that a persistent and gentle breeze would do so. The gyroscope yields a little at a time. It gives before steady pressure. And while It might for a few mjmrnts resist the pull of the weight of a few extra pas aengers on one side we will have to see many more and lonper experiments before we are convinced that It will not in a long run gradually yield to the soft persuasion of gravity and sag off to the side on which i the extra weight is placed. ( SAFETY ON RAILROAD TRAINS Invention of a, Utorelan Will He dace Railroad Wrecks to a Mlnimam. . Out at the Withers Foundry and Machine works, at AUanU, Ga.. J. T. Andrews, an old railroad man, whuno homo is at Mont gomery, Ala., has Just constructed his first workhig model of a patented attach ment for railroad cars which every railroad expert who has soen it declares will prevent wrecks from any cause resulting in a de railment of tars. Mr. Andrews' patent is an attachment which Is fitted to the trucks of the freight car, the passenger coach or to the engine and his model is now pi actu ally, complete Nothing now remains but to put the trucks under a regulation box car and secure a track in or near Atlanta, when the inventor will demonstrate how his patent will save millions of dollars every year to the rail roads of this country. Mr. Andrews' attachment consists of a hciivy steel case encompassing the axle en tirely. Sus4-nded to a heavy frame on the lniside of the wheels are quarter wheela. 0erative on Journal with eccentric propor tions. In its periphery a cable cord is at tached to the quarter wheel, running over a roller at each end of the truck, thence be ing carried to the air valve of the car. The quarter wheels are carried three Indies above the rail and are hel in normal posi tion by coil springs to tlie front and rear. On the outer side of the regular car wheels are tw o 'other quarter wheels, sus pended by Journal from a frame which is strapped securely to the Journal boxing and the equalizer beam, and connected by tie brace one with the other and made integral wl;h the equulixer beam. Wrecks resulting In a dcr&llnient are gen erally due to one of seven causes: 1, from bmken axle; I. from broken Journal; 1. from loose wheel; 4, broken flange; S, spread track; C Irregular track, and 7, a sr'lt switch, and Mr. An.lrewe claims that his Invention will prevent a wreck from any of these causes. If the axle cf a truck should break, there would be no wrc-k where his attachment was used, as the axis being In a case, the rasing and the Journal larings would keep the wheel In allfinnient. If the Journal should break, the Inner Journal boxing of the Inner wheels, frame bracln?, etc., would taka the place of tha rt f ilar car Journal. If tha wheel of a tru-k should expand to the point of forcing flanges to mount the rails, or should contrnrt or wobble enough In ordinary cases to cause derail ment, with Mr. Andrews attachment the truck would be taken care of by tha one Inner and outer quarter of the pair of wheels In trouble, putting the lnoee wheel out of commission. Operative by the fric tion of the track and the momentum cf tha train, the quarter wheel when coming in contact with the rail ll'ts the regular wheel of the car and all parts of the truck above the cross rails, frogs and switches, the cable cord pulls open the sir vulve and the air brakes are applied sutomsf'-ally to th remotest part of the train. In the same manner It operate In caae of a broken 21 ass npm flange, or in the event of an irregular track. ' A rpread track usually occurs on a right or left an.tle curve and a wheel wii!-h has Its bearings upon the upper rail of curve, usually follows the sircad rlaco in tha track, which allows the inner wln-el on lower side of the rack to drop In toward the crosattcs. In rii-b. a cast as this the outer quarter wheel fcr the protection of this wheel in trouble woulJ tcke the plucj of the regular wheel, lifting it and plowing It back upon the track after the spread place Is passed, and allow:.. t; any num'.-cT of cars to pass the spread place In thy track, yet not permitting u single wheel to hit a crcsstie. , In case of a split switch the ' quarte r wheels would convey the train s-afely over the trouble, at the same time applying tha air brakes and stopping the train auto matically. In going into a split switch, when the truck strikes the x''n' of th curve leading to the side track, one rcirular car wheel is on the main track, while the other tnkes the side track rail. Now- when the reguktr car wheel drops between the side track rail and the main line rail Mr. Andrews claims that the nniln line rill will be causht by the Inner quarter wheel and outer quarter wheel, on other main lino of track, the quarter wheel will lift the regular car wheels above the cmon-ovcr rails and through the frogs, and the- truck is kept on the main lino, at the samp tlmo the air brake being automatically applied and tho train brought to a standstill. Mr. Andrews estimates that the cost of fitting his attachment to engines will bo about H ''. about JlTeO for fittinp to pas senger coachc-s and about iie(j for titt'nir to freight cars. Whew' is seen that freight cars usually cost from SSjO to f'-.C'-J. pas senger coaches from Vn to JK'.'1'1" nr.J engines all the way fioni fir, (KK t ''. 9 the cost of his attachment will aod little to the cost of the cars, but If it ih s w h-t be ch-.lms for it and what expi rts who have een it are confident it will do. Mr. An drew's fortune is made and the riironels of the country will annually be s.f. eel mil lions of dollars and the less of hundred of lives will.be prevented every j.r. Atlanta Journal. How J P. sobscrlbr.l. One Easter not long ago a Methodist min ister in trie south wiote to Mr. Murg in and asked Mm to subscribe! to tho ercctioa of a new church. "Since I am an Episcopalian," ilr. Mor gan wrote bick, "1 can't cona'uentlojsly Join the Easter subscription tu inc baled Ing of a Methcedist church. Bef re er -ct-Ing your new church, thotiKh, you rtr polng, I understand, to tar the- old cli nch eiown. For that purpose I glHdly 1m los my check for 12a0." Cleveland leader. HIS TEETH WERE LOOSE HI T AHE NOW TIGHT IX HIS JAW OWING TO GOOD WORK OF LOCAL DENTIST. Dr. Fiekles. a dentist of 3 11 is Bea Building believes that oftttmea oneg own teeth are better than any that can be put In. By the aid of a clever and original method he has tightened aid kept In their mouths the natural teeth of fcoiue of Omaha's woti prornluent meij, men. Who have a great! deal of talking to do find the nikelve greatly handicapped by loeise teeth. Aa they dare not wear plates it ii a great boon to them to be once more ablo to eat comfortably aud ttu wtleV