Show YOUNG mm BRIGHAM cm CITY NAN KM BEC BECOMES OMES E AN INVENT INVENTOR OR A young brigham city man has achieved success and poss lUly farne fame call J lindale 2 23 1 years old has invented a system of oe safety blocks tp be used on both single or double track rack railroads which it if it can call be proved by use to lie be practical will revolutionize the block signal system and its inventor a fortune lindale Is a locomotive loco engineer formerly in the of the salt 1 lake ahe route in pursuing his vocation lie he had plenty of opportunity to study and pick out the fallacies of the present system for the possibility of an en engineer gincer tailing falling asleep at his post nor for the possibility of the night being foggy that the lights could not 1 be e discerned and went to work to create a block system which vi would m make ake the safety of passengers or prope property arty entirely independent of either the en engineer ineer or the elements WHAT TIE HE CLAIMS FOR IT As a result lie he claims and has a logical argument anda practical model to back up his claim that he has not only eliminated the possible fallacies of the he present system but has also developed a system which beats any other system for the reliability and sl simplicity of I 1 its ts C coat 0 a eruct ruction I 1 on ills his invention briefly is this to place a short post two feet high on oil the side of the track at intervals of one half mile these to be connected to 0 o the rails with a copper wire inclosing a small fuse after the usual manner 0 of f bonded track now in vogue with the ordinary block signal on the post is an arm which when raised will extend out over the track so as to be about the elevation of the coupling pin on the pilot of a locomotive this arm is controlled by the copper vf wire n e leading to the rails and is so arranged that any open switch broken rail washout runaway car or any train coming from the same direction in which another Is going would break the circuit caused by the bonded tracks and copper wire attachment and aad would cause the arm to drop out over the track BIG OFFERS FOR IT th this is much of the invention is merely an improvement over the old s system s but here lies the principle of the invention lindale proposes to have every leco locomotive co provided with a water glass connected to the cowcatcher and leading by means ol 01 of a rubber or metal tubero tube to the apparatus in the cab of the engine when the arm drops out over the track signifying danger ahead it is at the same elevation as the water glass and comes into contact with this glass as soon as the engine reaches the signal post the result is that the glass is broken en the air brakes in the cab of the engine are released and the train Is brought to a dead stop within a few rods whether the engineer wishes it to stop or not mr lindale has had his invention patented and has already received several offers for it he says that one company has offered him cash and a one third profit on all royalties he intends to hold it for a bagger offer lie he declares as he is confident confide fit that many railroads will eventually adopt his system |