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About Corvallis daily gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon) 1909-1909 | View Entire Issue (June 12, 1909)
TALK OF THE TOWN "Walter Kline is a Portland visitor to day. Trunks and suit cases at Blackledge's . Furniture store. ' ' 5-17-tf Mamie Cauthorne came home today from a Portland visit. For Sale Household furniture at 857 Tyler street. Phone 2264. . 6-9-10 t. Acme Quality Paints anil Floor Var nish that wears at A. L. Miner's. 5-17-tf. Call up the Palace of Sweets for your ice cream and sherbets. Free delivery. 5-6-tf Floyd Bogue went to Portland yester- ' day to take a bird's eye view ot the i city. Doc. Frantz, of Hoskins, was looking after business matters in Corvallis yes terday. Mrs. Weir, of Albany, who has been visiting Mrs. Groves, went to Newberg yesterday. A. L. Tozier went to Portland yes terday to see the sights and take in the Rose Show. Mrs. Effie Smith is prepared 'to do dressmaking at 242 Eighth street, cor ner Jefferson. 6-10-6t Dr. Mentor Howard will be absent from the office until Wednesday on ac count of sickness. Miss Edna Beach, of Portland, will be the guest of Miss Ethel Berman during the commencement season. Mrs, Fred Buchanan, of Southern Benton, was placing a little surplus change with the merchant's yesterday. . General repair shop. All work first class, promptly done. Back of Beal . Bros., blacksmith shop, Wood Bros. - 5-7-tf Mrs, M. M. Long and little son went to Monmouth today where she will visit home folks and attend the commence ment at the Normal. Wanted. By young lady to engage place to work for next fall. Will want to attend college. Address 446 18th and Tyler streets, city. 5 24 tf must De sola at once, tnree lots on Main street ; one lot on First street ; two lots on Third street. All well lo cated. A bargain, Hughes & Miller, 140, Second street. 6-7-tf. A. L. Stevanson had a blowout yes terday and the new auto is side-tracked for repairs, A. L. is a philosopher and now begins to realize that none but the wealthy can enjoy the luxuries of life After a day of royal sport at the driving park yesterday the fun lovers gathered in little groups about the city to discuss the merits of favorite horses and poke each other for lack of Judg ment in placing the little wager. It was a good-natured jolly crowd vieing with each other as to who could have the most fun. A foot race between Tom Graham and Skeeter Swan was a novel feature of the nightly program, the last named gentleman being called from peaceful slumber to convince the . doubting Thomas and his friends that although married, he was still a Skeeter when it comes to running. To make it interesting an occasional little plaster was placed on the side and as they are all game roosters everything went merry as a marriage bell. The finish ing touches were put on outside the city limits and although somewhat afflicted with that tired feeling they will be ready for the days' program. IE. W, S, PRATT, STRICTLY Ready - to SUITS, SKIRTS These. Garments for . Ladies and Misses are of excellent quality. The styles speak for themselves and the prices are really less than the cost of material and making. YOU CAN SAVE MONEY - Henfcl Read the Daily Gazette for all news. J. F. Aldrick is reported to be seri ously ill. Walter Burnap is in Portland for a few days. Mrs. Max Meyer has gone to Port land on a business visit. J. R. Montgomery has been spending the week in the Rose City. ' ' - Did you eat Golden Rod for break fast? Get it at Kline's. ' 6-12-7t Floyd Williams was up from Indepen dence on business Thursday. L. W. Mulvany returned from his ranch on Big Elk yesterday. L. Davidson, of Iowa, is visiting his sister - in - law, Mrs, T. J. Davidson. Miss Florence Adams has returned from a visit to friends at Monmouth. Mrs. John Schuldt and Mrs. William Andrew, of Oregon City, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Troxel. Miss Allie McDonald has returned from Portland where she has been help ing care for her aunt who is sick. Cecil Cathey, of Albany, was inter viewing Corvallis business men yester day in the interest of McCaskey's Cash register. Mrs. Bendshadler and Miss Bessie Spencer, of Elgin, Oregon, are visiting at the home of Chas. and Geo. Bend shadier. They are here to attend the commencement exercises at OAC. Eat Golden Rod Flakes, They are better for breakfast, Than old-fashioned corn cakes, And five minuets time, Is all that it takss At Kline's. 6-12-tf T. A. Niece, of Osceola, Iowa, son-in-law of John R. Montgomery, is a re cent arrival in Corvallis. He seems well pleased with ihe country and in speaking of the very peculiar conditions this year says the crop in Iowa is very deplorable and farmers greatly dis couraged. Incessant rain has delayed corn planting and late frosts killed the fruit. The Southern Pacific Railroad called Willis Vidito by phone yesterday and sent him into the Alsea country to fight fire. Two fires are reported and unless closely guarded may spread to the fine timber and do great damage. This is one of the finest timber belts on the coast and the building of the Corvallis & Alsea railroad is being constructed to reach and market the lumber. The loss of this timber would be a serious blow to Corvallis as plans are now under con sideration for establishing immense saw mills here with the Alsea country as the base of supply. For several years Mr. Vidito has acted as fire warden in. the interest of the Southern . Pacific Railroad but never before has he been called so early in the season: Women Who Are Envied. Those attractive women who are lov& lv in face, form and temper are the envy of many who might be like them, A weak, sickly woman will be nervous and irritable. Constipation or Kidney poisons show in pimples, blotches, skin eruptions and a wretched complexion, For all such, Electric Bitters work won ders. They regulate Stomach, Liver and Kidneys, purify the blood, give strong nerves, bright eyes, pure breath, smooth, velvety skin, lovely complex ion. Many charming women owe their health and beauty to them. 50c at all druggists. Ladies' Watches need Constant Repairing Their method of carrying them is responsible for the fact. Pinned to the waist or hanging on a chain the delicate mechanism is easily disar ranged. We pay special attention to ladies' watches, and when re paired by us you wiirfind that they keep in order longer. Jeweler and Optician STYLISH - Wear and WAISTS BY BUYING HERE NOV & Davis AILROAD CAR THAT EATS AND WRITES Wonderful Machine For Saving Life, Money and Time. THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD Extraordinary Accomplishments of Dr. P. H. Dudley's ' Dynagraph Car, Which Charts Slight as Well as Dangerous Defects ' In Rails and Roadbeds on New York Central Lines. By FREDERICK R. TOOMBS. Who has seen a dynagraph? No; it is not some strange nocturnal marauder felled by Mr. Roosevelt In the East African wilds. It is something considerably more unusual. A dyna graph is a railroad car that eats, drinks, writes and almost thinks. Frobabiy every reader of these words has benefited from the work of the dynagraph. and it is "safe to assume that he never knew of the fact until now. Much of the ease, comfort and safety of the railroad passengers of a large portion of the United States for over a score of years have been due to this railroad car, which is equipped with most ingenious mechanism. Yet it Is almost impossible to find a single member of the general public not con nected officially with some big railroad company who has ever heard of, much less seen, the dynagraph. I say the dynagraph because there is only one in the entire country, the only one, in fact, in the whole world. ' The dynagraph Is the Invention of Dr. P. H. Dudley, an Ohioan of well known mechanical engineering abili ties. It is a large, heavy, intricate, del icate mechanism which performs the highly valuable service of detecting and registering defects, irregularities and weaknesses in the tracking and roadbed of railroads, and, being faster and more accurate than trackwalkers, it thus enables road officials to pro ceed expeditiously with the proper remedy for such defects. The saving of money and life and time to the rail roads is enormous, as also, are the services rendered to the traveling pub lie. In its especially adapted car, de signed and built by Dr. Dudley Him self, the dynagraph car goes on its journey day after day over the glisten ing rails of numerous states, charting the slight as . well as the dangerous shortcomings in rails and roadbeds, whether they arise from flaws in the metal or length of exposure or wear or from attacks by nature's forces or from accident or carelessness . of em ployees. All - these are shown and plainly-differentiated in ink on a roll of white paper, and when Dr. Dudley's expert eye reads the telltale record he can report to the company's offices down to a matter of Inches where the tracks, need repairing and the detailed nature of the repairs required. He does not necessarily have to look at a single inch of hundreds of miles ot: tracks in order to do this. All he has to do is to sit or stand before the dynagraph in - his private car and see that it operats smoothly. His wonder ful invention does the rest Therefore it is no matter of marvel that distinguished railroad experts have come from foreign lands to ex amine this machine that has powers' approaching some of those of human eyes. For does it not 'write a record in ink that it drinks with many mouths? Does it not eat voraciously the paper which it feeds automatically to itself? And, while It of course does not actually "think." yet the writer Is about to explain certain of its proc esses that show the apparatus .to have almost uncanny powers in imitating the workings of the human eye and the human brain. Here is an Ameri can invention fully . as remarkable in lte sphere as the telegraph or the tele phone or tha sewing machine or the self reaper and binder, the wireless telegraph, the phonograph or the aero plane and dirigible balloon in their fields, yet the inventor remains unknown ex cept among railroad men, simply be cause the machine has a narrow field of use or adaptability and because the. Inventor Is a very modest man who shrinks from the glare of publicity. Dr. Dudley is like the Wright broth ers of aerial navigation fame because he lets his imitators do all the talk ing, while he does the thinking and the working. .Let us take a trip of a column or two in length over this dynagraph car, a trip that should prove Interesting from a half dozen viewpoints. On its Idle days, which are very few, the car may be seen on a siding at the Grand Central station of the New Tork Cen tral railroad in New York city. At one end of the car, which is fifty feet long and comfortably furnished, will be seen a curious, low setting piece of machinery, from which un rolls a broad sheet of paper marked with what to the uninitiated appear as unintelligible Ink lines. Resting on the paper or chart are small glass vials, fifteen In number, filled with red ink. When the car is in motion the ink feeds through tiny holes In the pointed vials and as the chart unrolls traces lines thereon." These vials are set on thin bars that reach out across the chart like lears of a tarantula or the tentacles of a young octopus. As the car speeds over the steel rails It will ri3e or fail or swerve or rattle or tilt, according to the condition of the rails or roadbed , or ties. The wheels search out. and are affected by even -: slight ' irregularities and of course, as In the case of an ordinary passenger coach, readily convey jolts and jars to the car itself. In the case f the- ordinary passenger, car, how tver, the jolts shake up the travelers, rattle the windows, etc., but when the dynagraph car is shaken from such cause or allied causes a record Is si multaneously made on the chart Each one of the fifteen glass vials is partic ularly affected by some kind of de fect or another. It registers in ink a mark that indicates on the chart just what kind of defect has been discovered,- and, as stated previously, the lo cality of the flaw or depression or im proper elevation can be ascertained within a matter of inches, no matter how long the distance that Is covered by the car in its flight, nor how rapidly it may be traveling. Among the weaknesses or defects, etc., recorded by. the dynagraph are flaws in the tops or upper flat surface of rails, irregularities In the sides of rails, defective joints, bends in rails which broaden or narrow the gauge. loose rails, too much elevation or de pression of rails on curves, etc. The record on the chart is made up of continuous lines of ink, and, assum ing, for Instance, that we are anxious to locate irregularities In the surfaces of the rails, just how would we ascer tain mem; ,ve wouiu rouow me course of the particular ink line which Dr. ' Dudley would tell us indicated the condition of the surfaces, and if the rails were flawless in this respect the line would be perfectly straight, as recorded on the roll of paper, unwind ing from one roller and winding up on another. But when improper depres sions., etc., exist the line of Ink is no longer straight. The tiny vial from which the fluid flows swerves to right or to left, and the broken line is quick ly interpreted by Dr. Dudlly to mean that a' certain kind of medicine must be administered to the sick rails by the section gang. Therefore the more Irregular the line registered on the chart the- more defective Is the track ing. . -;,- At the finish of a test run Dr. Dud ley calfs into use a special system of computation and ascertains the "sum of Irregularity" which indicates the general condition of the road over which he has traveled. The recording apparatus ft operated by electricity from batteries carried In the car, and the sensitive machine Is watched con stantly While in operation. Another extraordinary accomplish ment of the dynagraph is the ejection of paint by means of unique mechan ism beneath the car, so that it smears a rail where a defect of a certain na ture exists.. The paint is blue, and when Jhe fault , in... the rail starts the mechanism working a "daub of - the fluid Is "set" on the steel track in a manner' and position : according to-the nature of the flaw. The blue paint is a signal -to-; the track repairer that something is wrong and just what and where the Imperfection is. . r.Eyyt,inch-of ink lines on the chart repres-its fifty- feet of railroad track. ; Abe :uUiigraph is ah indication of the expense undergone and the care exercised by railroad companies in the perfecting of their roadbeds and track age and in minimizing the chances of accident When a catastrophe occurs excitable ' individuals or yellow jour nals, usually dilate hysterically on the carelessness , of the railroad officials. In many cases the hearer or the reader would imagine that the officials of the roads - were In the habit of meeting secretly-in dark rooms and deliberate ly planning how to bring about the ditching of transcontinental fliers. As a point of absolute truth and a fact that" . can easily be demonstrated by cold logic, railroad officials are" more in fear of accidents on their lines than any other class of people, and it is a simple business proposition that they should use every means to lessen the dangers of travel and transportation: Dr. ? Dudley carries many scientific books , and instruments on his car to aid his- investigations, which extend over a field considerably larger as re gards the railroads than has thus far been indicated In this article. For In stance, he is an expert on the quality of the steel - used in the rails, and he carries three very powerful micro scopes, which he uses in examining rails. and other materials. The strem- matograph is a novel aid to the in ventor. This device takes photographs of the track as it passes over it, re vealing its condition In minute details, the lens used being one of unusual ex cellence- He can run his tar on practically any railroad, but almost all his Inves tigating is confined to the system of the New York Central and its associ ated lines. - Of late years the dyna graph car has been chiefly occupied in inspecting eastern" roads, though dur ing its entire career it has covered immense-stretches of territory through out the United States. It is absolutely impossible to accu rately estimate the actual value of the dynagraph. It represents the study and labor of much of the inventor's lifetime, and he has improved It from time to time. To him it is priceless. and it is no exaggeration to state that the railroad company also considers it as beyond monetary valuation. Dr. Dudley and his wife live on board the dynagraph car year In and year out; They have lived on it since 1878, the year In which it was built In Wilmington, Del. They can exhibit ail the comforts" of home, in spite of the , necessarily cramped quarters . piano, comfortable sleeping quarters. well stocked bookcases, dining room, folding chairs, kitchen stove, etc. and Mrs. Dudley assures the visitor that she is as comfortable In her home on wheels as any one of her friends who have expensive apartments or resi dences, v. ' " Interesting to . note, both ' Dr. and Mrs.. Dudley are descendants of for mer governors of Connecticut govern ors of the Nutmeg State in the earlj colonial period prior to the Revolution. OUR COFFEES every Week by Wad ham and Co. of Portland Oregon, Ensuring Freshness and Cleanliness. DIAMOND W. COFFEE " MAGNOLIA COFFEE 40c per pound 25c per pound Please give tiiess Brands your attention when ordering coffee. HODES GROCERY 1 COOPER 8 rao . Successors to MELLON & PINKERTON Second Street, - Dealers In Hardware, Implements, Buggies, Wagons, Cream Sepa rators, Graniteware, Tinware and Builders' Hardware. Sole Agents for Congo Roofing and Quick WHEN YOU WANT SOMETHING GOOD TO EAT Phone Your Orders To No. 7, THATCHER & JOHNSON'S GROCERY Where They Will be Promptly Filled. Fine Line of Crockery, Glassware, Cut Glass, Haviland . LAMPS Summer R.ates During the Season 1909 via the Southern Pacific Co. from CORVALLIS, OREGON To OMAHA and Return - - $62.60 To KANSAS CITY and Return $62.60 To ST. LOUIS and Return - - $70.10 To CHICAGO and Return - - $75.10 and to other principal cities in the East, Middle West and South. Corr espondingly low fares On Sale June 2, 3; July 2, 3; August 11, 12 To DENVER and Return - - .$57.60 On Sale My 17, July 1, August 11 Going transit limit 10 days from date of sale, final return limit October 31st. . These tickets present some very attractive features in the way of stop over privileges, and choice of routes; thereby enabling passengers to make side trips to many interesting points enroute. Routing on the return trip through California may I e had at a slight advance over the rates quoted. Full particulars, sleeping car reservations and tickets will be furnished by R. C. LINNVILLH, Southern Pacific local agent at Corvallis or WM. M'MURRAY, General Passenger Agent Portland, The Benton County Real Estate Agent Corvallis, Oregon If If you have anything to buy, sell or exchange,' see us. No padded prices, f As to our responsibility, and methods ot doing business, we refer vou to the business men of Corvallis. 1 Some splendid bargains send for list. v . YOU GET WHAT WE GET prove1!! . w Our books axe open for your inspection. XEL Buyers nam given i wanted. 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