Show WHITEHEAD INVENT inventions kONS inventor whitehead came in fr front ik washington D C thursday eveni and was seen at his home thursday 41 by a news representative he was wasl L in the best be st of spirits and says that tha h 1 reception he met with at the nationals nation capitol was of the most moet gratifying 5 character he was not averse to tailed ing and only became reticent when cee tain subjects were broached most moat w Q his time and the entire time of his ati torney ool oo l nat ward fetzgerald hada had A been bf en taken up in entering ente ring and gett bettl through the patent office some of 11 1 many inventions in speaking of I 1 electric automatic field gun he s si d 1 that they had no difficulty in inberg ing the war department in the tion it was his bis intention when deavil 1 salt lake to bo have a perfect gun r at one of the great ordnance fattori fad fa cie tori orl connecticut upon reaching wash agton however he was advised to go 0 o a gun shop at baltimore and he arted the manufacture of a gun there yut t the actton taken by the war de rement hater caused him to return 0 O washington and the gun is now be aig manufactured in the ordnance de of the navy yard As to the petion tion of the ordnance board on the eab h dinst he was reticent only stating at the board had determined to build ehe e gun which will be completed upon ids s return to the navy yard which will be in about two weeks when hen asked as to the other inventions s he was pushing through the patient t office he said that one was his aple keeled steam boat this invention n he said had created a greater in irest st at the navy yard than the gun explaining the principle of his boat said bald that it had always been the bot of shipbuilders ship builders to obviate the addy dy suction auction in the craft the less as s was present in a vessel the faster fee e boat became when asked to ex ain n he said that the more rapidly old style of hulk was propelled St trough ough the water the greater was the ayward ard current that was caused the on of the wheel at the stern caused t to the rear hence the ship set van an eddy between the two ad A nearly half of the initial force was in his keel boat this was entirely avoided by two of water being between the Is the boat did not cause a ford current and the wheel was con aly cutting into a solid mass of rater ter this style of a boat could be tt celled through the water at a rate B over sixty miles an hour dpn going to washington he took with lax his small working model which said bald was a revelation to the experts fethe the navy yard he is to build a large lurking ng model at the yard which will tested there this model will be be been n twenty and thirty feet long the fe antor said with a laugh that he had tear fear of the outcome ewhen en asked the effect this would gave e upon the united states navy he d that it would render the craft alady y built by the government nearly unless ess as a battleship could be made at could easily cross the atlantic ean n ln in three days and that could be as easily as a yacht 1 how ow about your carpet cleaner mr lari ahead asked the reporter ifton ou can say that I 1 have the only carpet cleaner ever invented he bed 1 I have succeeded in securing f format or mation tom of a company with a attal tai of five millions of dollars and nd ild to open up plants all over the arld id you will see these in every elty city any size in the united states before p M years when en asked if f the company was lined ei of eastern men he answered a jat it was almost entirely so when as aa to bo his accepting a gov eat pool tion at the navy yard amply laughed and replied IT believe I 1 have said that I 1 was wa s fig back to bo the navy yard to tio oversee j construction of the gun and the wt that is all ibee was delighted with the machine aps a at the navy yard saying that by were the most midst complete he had bad 9 beheld the workmen were all exa and there is nothing in the line of gailon that cannot be made on the a whitehead brought with him ete te drawings of his inventions were made by government amen and they were truly works i he stated that he had no trouble e patent office and that none of his etow did he conflict in the slight j degree with anything filed there Ms gun and projectile alone are covered by thirty one claims the inventor returns to salt lake at a this time to make arrangements arrange menta to move his family to this would probably he said saad take him ten orr or twell twelve vee days col fitzgerald in the meantime is looking after his interests at the capital |