Show KINETIC MOTOR A WONDER LOCOMOTIVE Remarkable Recent InventionNo Smoke No Noise No Exhaust Steam No Cinders No Cab No TenderTests Made LatelyHow the Motor Works Charged With Superheated Water Every 100 Mes Looks Like Street Car A locomotive that makes no smoke that produces no cinders that blows off no steam that makes no noise that has no bell nor whistle nor smokestack smoke-stack nor engine cab nor tenderthis marvel in mechanics is the invention of Arthur Pillsbury Dodge He calls it the kinetic motor He has just opened a large plant at Wilmington Del to manufacture motors of this variety in large numbers Recently Cornelius Vanderbilt jr Robert G Ingersoll and other capitalists visited Mr Dodges works and rode In one of the new motors mo-tors at forty miles an hour After the test was over Mr Vanderbilt said I should think the kinetic system y would be well adapted forwork on elevated ele-vated railroads It fulfills the claims f made for it Colonel Ingersoll said The kinetic is a splendid motor Mr Dodge is not an easychair theorist but a constructor construc-tor of practical theories and he knows how to carry them out in good shape All I know is that the motor works all right and as it is an improvement over the locomotive I suppose it will have some sort of a revolutionizing influence in-fluence upon the future of transportation transporta-tion Noris Mr Dodges invention a mere toy It has actually been used with great success on a suburban railroad at Babylon L I on one of the lines In Detroit Mich and in Chicago The inventor is now negotiating with one of the elevated railroads in New York looking to its adoption as the motive power to the exclusion of all others and he has received many flattering offers of-fers from capitalists for rights in the new invention It was nine years ago that the Inventor In-ventor began his Investigations lIe explained his theory to a number of I railroad men but they laughed at him They were all of the opinion that the perfection of the locomotive had been reached and that it would he idle to speculate further upon the subject All of the prominent investigators were buried in the work of solving the problem prob-lem of propulsion by electricity chemicals chemi-cals compressed air and cables Mr Dodge came to the conclusion that inasmuch in-asmuch as electricians and others are using the steam engine indirectly for I motive power the direct use of steam in a perfected locomotive system would make it not only cheaper to operate but also give each motor car the Independent Inde-pendent property of moving stopping and reversing at will And after nine years of work Mr Dodge has according to many experts produced a noiseless highpower locomotive loco-motive that could take a train of cars to Chicago on regular schedule time without as much as losing a single I puff of smoke or steam on the WPl and without a cinder to betray its course The Dodge motor is acceptable to all forms of automobile mtrivjj a nnres to carriages as well as to launches It is even feasible so says the inventor to construct motors of sufficient capacity to move an oceangoing ocean-going steamship at the same rate of speed as now attained while attended by a larger factor of safety and economy econ-omy of operation than that present in the ordinary steamship engine The Inventors Beginning Arthu Pillsbury Dodge was10 years old before he made it his business to make money to use his own expression expres-sion Three years previous at the age of 37 he founded the New England Magazine having Edward Everett Hale as chief editor Wellknown persons representing a party of capitalists and noted men of letters including Secretary Secre-tary of the Treasury Lyman J Gage William Dean Howells and the late Prof David Swing and others urged him to go to Chicago to publish a magazine mag-azine there according to an admirable plan devolved by Mr Dodge and it was while l making preparations for this project i pro-ject that the late George M Pullman feJh sG f oUI called Mr Dodges attention to some experiments made there with a certain stored steam motor This very imper j feet attempt to solve the problem of r Jocomotlonrby steam without loss in I the shape of exhaust steam and back pressure on the cylinders appealed to Mr Dodge in principle and the following 7 follow-ing nine years he devoted to making t the theory of the stored steam motor z feasible in practice causing an evolution F evolu-tion of the original principles governing govern-ing the latter f How the New Motor Works Believing that the steam locomotive mechauiJm is unqualifiedly the best the simplest and the most durable I irieUiod in all respects for applying power to turn a car wheel Mr Dodge c retained the link motion feature of the I ordinary locomotive and adapted it to carry the equally simple and direct f I > 5 j tllf IifiiIII i1 I condenser system of his invention Instead In-stead of charging with cold water as In the locomotive he charged the boiler or storage reservoir with superheated water at a temperature of 400 degrees In other words he started with the motor boiler reservoir stored with the I same quality and power of available energy that the locomotive can get I only through forced draft and rapid imperfect combustion of fuel necessitating necessi-tating the carrying of a tender and a tremendous fire under the boiler I f M 3 Iv I It I ll dl r ARTHUR P DODGE FROM RECENT PHOTOGRAPH AND HIS SIGNATURE SIG-NATURE Mr Dodge found by experiments that only a very small fire was necessary to keep superheated water at a continuous continu-ous heat of 400 degrees and to this end he placed a small lirebox within the holler under the car body This firebox fire-box is so small that it would hardly be noticed except for the drop lid with which it is closed and as it is charged with ready prepared burning anthracite anthra-cite coal it does not emit any appreciable appre-ciable gases and is therefore an inoffensive in-offensive contrivance for assisting the boiler in maintaining the temperature of the Water it contains This water is now converted into steam in the ordinary or-dinary locomotive manner it passes the cylinders as steam and instead of escaping es-caping through a smokestack with Huffing noise causing a loss of some 20 odd per cent it is retained in Mr Dodges system in an atmospheric condenser con-denser which is stored away practically practical-ly Invisible on the roof of the car I Through the successful operation of I this condenser which undoubtedly is the crowning result of Mr Dodges inventions I in-ventions the oldfashioned forced draft and wasteful form of geierating power in transit Is entirely done away with and likewise the attendant nuisances nui-sances such as smoke steam sparks and cinders The motor must be recharged re-charged every 100 miles First Trial of the New Motor Having achieved this feat Mr Dodge I very properly named his Invention the kinetic stored steam motor kinetic meaning force and motion and It was placed on trial In Chicago running on the West Madison Street Cable com panys line and there demonstrated inefficient in-efficient service on schedule time runs the practicability of Mr Dodges theo ry Mr J Xb Murphy master mechanic of the West Madison street cable line I of Chicago who was inspector of the trials said to Mr Dodge You have made good all your claims r for the simplicity directness and economy econ-omy of the stored steam motor for street railroads It Is truly remarkable the success you have had in doing away wholly with noise and with the show of steam and smoke particularly In condensing all of your exhaust steam without causing any back pressure so far as I have observed The work of the motor with snowplows and track I sweepers especially during the recent blizzard was most remarkable Not satisfied with the success of the first motor which now forms a part of the regular equipment of the Babylon Baby-lon LL railroad Mr Dodge constructed I con-structed several other motors with a view of still further improving the system One set of these models are single truck motors trial cars of which have been in practical operation on the Babylon railroad New York for nearly a year and the other set are double swivel truck motors a trial car of which is on duty on a spur track running run-ning close by the companys plant on the Delaware river near Wilmington i Vanderbilt Rides on One of the Cars It was in the latter motor car which I Is fortyfive feet long having a seating capacity of sixty passengers that Cor nelius Vanderbilt jr and Colonel Robert I Rob-ert G Ingersoll recently made an ex I OT fe feMg 3 f tovfBgj gy D t 1 a r t1 tv BaSM riiE iy trjrtit < siz t r1 r l t I 13 Ylia9rt 9 dt1 in jq r > ii CS yr e iir iir tiNETit MOTOR In usa T 1 BaeYion Ll I i r r I II w 11 v lttiltd I tONE r r K r ONE OF a DOUBLE SW1VCU 4 MR DODGES ARLIEST u t TRUCK KINCTIC MOTOR FK t cursion to test the merits of the Kinetic The writer was favored as a guest of the party onboth occasions 1 was inclined in-clined to believe that a motor having boilers under the car body would be avery a-very oppressive vehicle during the summer sum-mer but upon inspection I found that the boilers were not only properly insulated In-sulated but that an air space was left between the insulation material and the car floor I did not quite understand how it would be possible for a car to run 100 miles on a single charge of superheated su-perheated water but after riding on the motor at the rate of forty miles an hour and finding it In better shape for running at the end of the journey than when the start was made I began to grasp the fact that the motor was actually ac-tually accomplishing the work claimed I for it and that I was enjoying a ride on the locomotive of the future When I asked Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr what he thought the motor he said in substance sub-stance I came down here as the guest of Mr Dodge to see if his system would be adaptable to our tunnel but I did not know that the Kinetic motor was adaptable adapt-able to railroad locomotives also We want a system that will obviate smoke and cinders and I find that is the point attained in the Kinetic system Cost of Operating New Motors Through the operation of the Kinetic motors now running on the Babylon railroad the extended trial runs in Chicago Chi-cago and through the average record made by the new motorson exhibition at Wilmington Mr Dodge has been able to carefully compute the cost of building and equipping with his system as compared with all other existing systems From these figures thus compiled com-piled it appears that the Kinetic system sys-tem is not only cheaper than all known street railroad traction systems but also cheaper than the operation of the ordinary locomotive which has hitherto hith-erto been considered the most direct and economic motive power According to the New York railroad commissioners commission-ers report for 1897 the motive pOwen cost per car mile on the Manhattan Elevated Ele-vated railway of New York City Is 199 cents per car mile Ofjthe three known traction systems namely the underground under-ground and the overhead electric and the cable system the overhead electric trolley system Is the cheapest and the last offensive The report of the Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts railroad commissioners shows that the motive power cost on the West End street railway in Boston where the trolley system is In use Is 53 cents pcr car mile The operation of the Kinetic motors in use on the Babylon railroad has proved that the motive power cost of Mr Dodges s stem s-tem amounts to the fraction of but 71 of a cent per car mile It Is not only in operation that this system is cheaper and better than the other known traction agents but also in the cost of equipment per car mile which the following table prepared by Mr Dodge will show Cost per mile of equipment including three motor cars per mile Cable 175000 overhead trolley trol-ley 31750 underground electric 75000 to 200000 kinetic 3500 This marvelously simple system requires re-quires no bonding of rails it does not demanding the raising of poles and extending ex-tending of wires or of underground conduits and it does away with the un mechanical reconversion and transmission transmis-sion losses of power attendant on others other-s stems The weight of the Kinetic motors mo-tors rests upon springs thus avoiding the great damage to rolling stock and rails and rail joints experienced with electric systems the adjustment of the weight of the motors of which is either actually upon the dead axles or equivalent equiv-alent to it The wearing parts the mechanical me-chanical machinery of the Kinetic motor mo-tor are the same as in the locomotive which has no superior in mechanical perfection It Is said that Mr Dodge has already closed a large deal for motors and that he is making arrangements to Increase Immensely the capacity of his plant in Wilmington Governor Roosevelt recently signed Senator Douglas bill which permits the running of Kinetic motors over any part of any surface rod Previously the railroad commissiap era claimed that these motors belong in the classification classifica-tion which prohibits the running of locomotives lo-comotives on street surface roads but the Douglas bill does away with this distinction stating that inasmuch as the Kinetic motor does not emit smoke I steam nor cinders and since its steam power is not primarily generated in transit as in the ordinary locomotive this motor comes under the new clause which now permits the employment of locomotive power in the use of which neither steam nor smoke is visible JOHANNES H WISBY |