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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1908)
TIIK MOttNING ASTOUIAN, ASTORIA, OMEGON. FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1908. i iMim mi irHMlt II I J Mill I II We Have Received Our New Assortment jMRDIN lERESt-l-'' and FERN D LS.fr ES In Matt Green. ... SeeVindowJpjsrdjgr A. V. ALLEN SOLE AGENT FOR BAKER'S BAKRINGTON HALL STEEL, j BRANCH PHONE-713 PHONES-711 AND 3871 mmmmmvumemmammmimm ELECTRIC M0TO8 The Construction of Them Very Caieiully Explained. POWERFUL MAGNETIC FORCE SHOCK AND REACTION FROM BAD NEWS REPORT OF THe! DROWNING OF HERBERT FURNEY AND ITS DISPROOF BY HIS AR RIVAL AT HOME. the boat. He came to the surface on the other side and struck out bold ly for the bank. But the men on board, having scut him disappear under the vessel, took no note of his subsequent rise and success in reach ing the shore, but rushed to the Niemi home and sent the fearful message . .1. I i I. . i t - imo inc city oeiorc ne couiu stop u When he did appear among them again, the news was already at his home and his sole thought then was to get there as fast as possible and give his devoted mother the strong counter-proof of his presence, in dis sipating the horrid conviction of his death. The "Swift" was turned home ward and speeded for all she 'was worth, and in a short while he was there in the flesh, to the abounding joy of all concerned. The news spread rapidly over, the city and gave the friends of the fam ily a severe shock, but the happier intelligence of the mistake was just as rapid in circulating and those who grieved in the first instance rejoiced. in the reaction that came with the denounement Yesterday afternoon about 2:30 o'clock a telephone message was re ceived at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Rich, 75 Fifth street, from some point out on Young's River, advising that lady of the death, by drowning, of Herbert Furney, the well known young launch man of this port, who dwells on Sixth street, between Bond and Commercial, with his widowed mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Furney, whose mainstay in life he is; and begging Mrs. Rich to break the awful news at the Furney home. The t3sk was a very trying one to Mrs. Rich who is a devoted friend of the Furney family, especially as it was but six short weeks ago, that Mrs. Furney was called upon to lay away her eldest daughter, a promis ing and lovely girl; but it had to be done and she was the closest and best friend near at hand, to do the heart , breaking errand. She called in a neighboring lady friend and the two went to the Furney home, and in terms as gentle and soothing as were possible under the dreadful stress, told the news to stricken mother. Mrs. Furney sank under the blow and was taken to her room where all that was in the province of kindly ministration was done for her by Mrs. Rich, and others who had called to sympathize and render such aid as might be timely. Rev. John Waters, rector of St Mary's Catholic Church, was soon with the sorrowing mother and gave her the consolation and peace derivable from such abundant source. As he left the room to go down stairs on her way out, he met a young man at the head of the stairs, who, for the instant, he took to be the brother of the lost son (the boys look very much alike), but his amaze- men may be better imagined than j he was going to make an investiga described when he realized that it ! tion of the question of submarine de was Herbert, alive and well, and not ( fense on the Pacific and particularly, Albert, the second son. In an instant I believe, in reference to Puget Sound mother and son were united and the and that he was immensely interested terrible mistake in course of grateful in the subject, having been a war cor explanation. respondent for various papers, and It seems that Herbert had gone to that he would like to send me a re- Just as the Task Seems to be Com pleted the Little Revolving Commu tator Has Reversed the Current and Work Has to be Done Over Again, CONTINUES SPEECH (Continued from page 1) ripened to a point of falling, but he did not think they should .be hailed as benefactors afterwards." During his speech occasional con versations occurred between the Sen ators on the Republican side caused La Folette to discontinue reading his remarks. On one occasion he re marked: "If there are any comments on my remarks I would be glad to have them made so audibly that I can hear them." La Follette said this was not the first time in the hiMory that the chairman of the finance com mittee has brought in propositions by executive decree to work the railroad bonds into the treasury department. After ' speaking more than two hours and a half, La Follette yielded the floor with the statement that he will resume his speech Monday next. SUBMARINE BOAT QUERY (Continued from page 4) Young's River on the launch "Swift" cn business, and while she was lying at one of the landings above Young's Bay, severeal little children gathered on the decks of the launch and were playing about as children will. One little girl, a daughter of Harry Nicmi's, stumbled in the course of a frolic, and plunged over the side into the fast running ebb of the tide, and Herbert, seeing the mischance went over the side in a flash, calling upon the other men on board to stand by; just as he was about to grasp the little one, one of the men on the launch reached down and grabbed her, lifting her to the deck and safety, while the tide caught young turney port of what he found. I answered him that of course I should be very glad to receive such a report from him or any other man who might in vestigate the subject. He sent a let ter on the subject a few weeks later which I transmitted to the Secretary of the Navy. I have transmitted doz ens of similar letters from men who have told me of investigations that they have made or of facts which they had found or, suggestions which they believed were important. It is the usual course; it was followed in this instance exactly as in all similar cases. Sincerely yours, "THEODORE ROOSEELT, "George L. Lilley, House of Rep- and swept him beneath the hull of resentatives." Having returned from San Francisco with a splendid stock of spring and tammer suitings of the latest style and having spent several weeks in studying the fashions prevalent in that city, we are now more than ever in a position to give thorough satisfaction to the most fastidious dresser. NOT IN WORDS, BUT IN DEEDS. HAUTALA & RAITANEN Tailors, Corner Eleventh and Bond Streets Small wonder that this is the age of electric power when human minds seek daily for new applications of the motor to rest the tired and worn muscles of human bodies. Industry after industry has been electrified machine after machine has been di rect connected to the labor and time saving electric motors. From the dainty little motor, small enough for a watch charm to the monster 6.000 h. p. motor used in the steel mills at Gary, Ind., the powerful little engines are made in every size and installed wherever power is required, until to day nearly 2.000,000 electrical horse power is used in this country alone. So rapidly is the demand increasing for electric motors throughout the in dustrial world that the great plants of the General Electric Company dur ing the year just closed averaged nearly 3,000 motors of all sizes each month to keep pace with the orders. With all these motors scattered broadcast over the land and used daily by thousands very few people, outside of the practical electricians, understand thcorking principles of the motor beyond the fact that it is a device which does jmechanical work at the expense of electrical energy, N'ow everyone knows that a magnet will attract the opposite pole of an other magnet and will exert alt its energy to pull it around. It is also well-known that every magnet placed in a magnetic field tends to turn around and set itself along the lines of force. The compass is but a small balanced magnet which, in setting it self parallel with the earth's lines of magnet force, points north and south. These facts were well-known "by scientists at the time of the invention of the electro-magnet by Faraday in 1826, which gave to the world a mag net which could be controlled. About this time a number of keen thinkers realized that it would be possible to construct an electric engine utilizing this magnet phenomena. It was found that if an electro-magnet was suspended between the poles of an other magnet it would be pulled around parallel to the lines of mag netic force of the stationary magnet and that by reversing the current in the swinging magnet at the right time the movement could be made con tinuous. The first to hit upon this happy find was one Thomas Davenport, a poor, self-educated blacksmith of Ver mont, who in 1834 constructed a rotating electric motor of to-day. Between the years 1834-60 a number of inventors perfected different types of electric motors. Jacobi in 1834 placed a motor to run a boat; Henry, Fromant, Farmer, Siemens and others built motors. Electric motors were employed to drive cars as early as 1834-38 by both Davenport and Davidson. With these first inventors it was extremely difficult for them to get away from the old steam engine ideas and some of the first types worked and looked like the steam en gines of that day. Many of these early "electric engines" received their. power from reefprocating pistons at tracted and repulsed by magnetic coils. It is needless to say that they were mere toys. Davenport set the scientific world iifyftty wit h his electric motor. In ! "C"CJ 18S2 Page succeded in constructing a motor large enough to run a circu it always a mystery to the layman ns he stands and watches the busy ma chine, yet it is nil simple enough when1 carefully explnincd. Of course in the latest types of three-phase motors such an explanation would be complicated but the working princip les remain the same a In the simp lest form of motor. By way of ex plahntlon take the direct current bl polar motor, which ns its ntmtc linn lies, consists of a ainftlc t'etd magnet of two poles. The mngnetiing coils of this field magnet are placed In t solid frame with the polar ends fac ing leaving a suitable, space between, known as the magnetic field, in which uie armature revolves, vvtien an electric current is passed through the magnetizing coils of the Held magnet powerful magnet is produced of which one end is the north, or posit ivc pole and the other and opposite etui the south, or negative pole. The lines of invisible magnetic force ex tends across the' intervening space. N'ow if a loop of wire, through which was flowing an electric current, was passed downward straight between these two pole, cutting the lines of magnetic force at right angles, a mysterious power vwould force the wire back to the top of the magnetic lines. Therefore the armature which rotates between the poles of the field magnet in a motor is nothing more than a series of coils of wire through which an electric current is passing. Those coils which are at the bottom of the lines of magnetic force be tween the poles of the field magnet are bring forced upward on the posi tive side ami downward on the nega tive side. This motion would stop as soon as the armature coils adjusted themselves in accordance with the lines of magnetic force if it wasn't for a little device called a commutator The duty of the commutator, which is a divided ring of insulated copper fastened to the axle of the armature, is periodically to reverse the current passing through the armature coils so they never adjust themselves to the magnetic force flowing between! the poles of the field magnet. No matter how fast or slow the motor runs, as the armature revolves, the 'brushes" which feed the current to the armature coils by contract with the split surface of the revolving commutator, reverse the current in time to keep the strange magnetic force always exerting its invisible powers to drag one side of the arma ture tip and to force the otner smc down. This force gives the arma ture continuous motion and power. Increasing the electric current in the armature coils increases the power of this magnetic "pull" and the horse power of the motor grows accordingly. A glance at the motor running so quietly and doing so much work for so small a body will reveal all these facts. The field magnets can be readily seen and it takes but a little imagination to realize the lines of magnetic force extending between the opposed poles. In the surface of the armature, when the motor is stopped, the coils can be seen imbedded in slots. These coil, arc made of in sulated wire in the smaller motors and heavy, insulated copper strips in the larger machines. After these things are noted it is easy to under stand the powerful magnetic force which is pulling continually to adjust 'the coils in the armature to a certain position and then, just as the task seems to be completed, hc little re volving commutator has reversed the current and the work has to be done all over again. And so on minute after minute, day after day, year after year the magnets arc working to set the lines of force right accordingly to nature's own irrevocable laws and man keeps them ever opposed aid utilizes the energy expended to turn the wheels of his industries, drive his railroad trains and to supply him with power for everything. DANIEL APPLETON DEAD. NEW YORK, Mar. 19. News of the death in London of Daniel Syd ney Applcton, English representative lar saw and a lathe. Davidson, in p0 thc Publishing House of D. Apple- 1842, ran an electric carriage about the streets of Glasgow at four miles an hour. A motor of ten horse power was built in 1849 by Soren Hjorthxat Liverpool. Two import ant steps were the invention of the shuttle armature by Siemens in 1855 and the ring armature in , 1864 by Pacinotti. The motor development came after Cramme's 1 dynamos in 1871. All the first attempts at motor building came to naught because the was too cumbersome and costly' and because the electrical engineers of those days did not clearly understand the physical laws of the energy with which they were dealing. The source of power in the motor ton and Company, was received in this city yesterday. Mr. . Applcton, who was 47 years of age, died of heart disease. He went abroad in 1906 and established a publishing house in London. ' Mr. Appleton was the son of the late Daniel Sydney Appleton, one of the founders of the establishment which bears his name . Upon grad uation from Yale University in 1880 he entered his father's publishing house. As a literary adviser he was known by many of the , formost writers of his time. POPULAR MECHANICS. To pick out the salient feature! of a inagatlne so brimful of good things as theApri number of Popular Me chanics were a feat well nigh Impos sible. Salience in this Inntance rest with the Individual's taste rather than the masses' appetite, for such a di versity and range of subjects are treated that nolle can fall to find something of special and peculiar in terest to himself. Everyone, how ever, desire to know exactly what Uncle Sam is doing and expecting, in the airship line, and the article "Unit Supremacy" will tell him just what he wants to know. Another feature de scribes with illustration an aluminum heavicMlmn air flying-machines a Milwaukee jnventor has built, There are 18$ articles and 156 illustrations in the April number. Many times a picture will tell graphically a story words cannot express, This is true of a description of the punishment of criminal in Orientad countries, "Evolution of Rubber from Seed to Auto Tires," "Removing a Live Wire Victim from a Pole,'' "Topping a Cy press Tree," "The Ghasting End of Old Horse," "A Cyclone Photo graph" and other. An Italiun en gineer has a plan fr climbing the Alps with boats. Strange a it may seem, other noted engineer hv en dorsed his idea as practicable and several illustrations accompanying an article on the subject show how It is proposed to carry on the scheme at a cost of $300,1)00,11110. The article on the Navy's cooking school will be of interest to many, Every motor boat enthuiat will want a copy of the April number of Popular Mechanic. Motor boating hat become great national pastime and thousands of new crafti are being built this year, by Individual i welt as regular builder. Every type of motor-pro-polled craft house bout, launch race life-boat, dory, cabin cruiser, etc It described, and there U ,alo, a good Ihmtrated article on "The Launching of Launchci." 1 . Faturc of the Anivitteur Median' let department are "How to Make a Wireless Telephone," "A Home Made Microscope," "Photograph In Relief" "Experiments with a Mirror" nnd others. The Shop Note department is adapted to the needs of craftsmen everywhere, and Is, In fact, a com pilation of practical experience of practical men. In the April number It enhtain 46 articles ami 40 illustra tions, Every article in the maga fine Is "Written so you can under stand it," ORA2INO ALLOTMENT. Forestry Service Mm Recommended Number of Grating be Increased. WASIIINGTOnT March 19. Tito forest service has recommended tha the number of cattle and horses al lowed to graxe upon the Blue Moun tain National Forest In the State of Oregon, during the season 1908, be Increased from 16,000 to 17,900 head and the number of sheep from 150, 000 to 152,500 head, This forest hat recently been divided into three ad ministrative units, and the Increase in the number of headj of stock to grate on the range this year wa made to permit an equitable adjustment among the former users of the forest THIRD DAY GREATER REDUCTIONS THAN EVER "WHITMAN'S" STEEL & E WART i Electrical Contractors 1 Phone Main 3881 ... . 426 Bond Street ASTdRIA THE ATER FRANK W. HKALY Presents THE T0YMAKER A Dainty, Dancing, Delightful Comic Opera With TEDDY WEBB and the San Francisco Opera Company 40 PEOPLE 40 Special Feature "The Beauty Chorus" Prices: 25c to $1.00 'Seats Ready: Sat. 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