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A COTTON PICKING MACHINE
THAT PICKS COTTON
George A. Lowry's Invention That May Double
the Cotton Crop.
Albany, Ga., Oct. 31.—A cotton pick
ing machine —one that picks cotton!
That is the “long-felt want*’ that
will be offered to the cotton planters
of the South at the beginning of the
next cotton picking season.
It is not a theory nor a prospect,
but an accomplished fact, and the
practicability of the machine has been
demonstrated in cotton fields near Al
bany during the past ten weeks to the
entire satisfaction of those who have
seen it at work.
About Aug. 1 Mr. George A. Lowry,
of Boston—the same man who invented
the wonderful machine that makes
what is known as the “Lowry round
SKELETON VIEW OP THE MACHINE
SHOWING THE COTTON STALK.
bale”—came to Albany with a machine
different from anything that had ever
been seen in these parts before. No
body suspected what it was or what
it was Intended for, and perhaps the
last thing in the world that the aver
age cotton planter would have taken
it for was the very thing it was—a
cotton picker.
.Mr. Lowry asked nobody to look at
his machine, but at once sought the
owner of a nearby cotton field and
negotiated for the privilege of taking
his machine into it for an experiment.
To those whose curiosity prompted
them to ask Questions he said that he
didn’t know whether his invention
would do the work for which ft was
designed or not. but that he had come
to the cotton fields with it to put it to
the test and perfect it, if possible. He
has stuck to his work faithfully, and
not until about three weeks ago did he I
announce to even those whom he had
SIDE VIEW OF THE LOWRY PICKER.
taken Into his confidence that he was
himself confident that hia Invention
was a success.
After tinny Experiments.
By this time the machine that he
" r ® u ßht out from hia shop in Boston
nad been so altered, first by one
Ll’ an , 8 ° ~n<l lhen another, to meet ob
stacles that were encountered in the
t .v. that sent hls assistant back
shop to construct anew model
“-the original plgn of picking the cot
ton being retained, but the general
construction of the machine being so
red ar to hear very little resem
oianee to the original. The new mod
i came and was put to work a few
oays ago, and to-day it was given the
nrst public trial in the presence of
f ' v " ra * gentlemen of this city and a
w who have been invited to come
irom ether states.
A| id after seeing the machine pick
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cotton they were all, on the principle
of "seeing is believing,” ready to say
that it was a success—that a practical
cotton picker had at last been in
vented-something that they had
never expected to see.
The purpose of this article is not to
advertise or “promote” Mr. Lowry’s
invention, but the fact that a machine
has been invented that will really pick
cotton and facilitate the harvesting
of that staple crop is a matter of such
interest and importance to the cotton
planters of the South that it at once
becomes a subject for the newspapers
to handle as news.
The Machine.
The Lowry cotton picker is not in
tended to pick cotton automatically,
but to increase the speed and lighten
the labor of the negro. And In this it
differs from all other attempted in
ventions. for picking cotton. With the
Lowry machine the cotton picker has
no stooping to do nor bag to carry,
but he sits on a comfortable seat be
tweens the rows and with each hand
touches the open bolls with a point of
a picking arm, which is as nicely bal
anced and as easily manipulated as a
billiard cue. Through the arms runs a
rapidly moving belt with hooped teeth
expossed at the point to engage with
the cotton and open at the top so a
revolving brush may flick it off into
a_receptacle. The machine carries four
operators and a driver and gets its
power from a four-horse power gaso
line engine.
Its Capacity.
As the removal of the cotton from
the boll is instantaneous, one can
readily see th*at one boll per second
with each hand is not very rapid
movement. This means 480 bolls per
minute, or 28.800 per hour from the
four operators. Early in the season,
when the bolls weighed 60 to 80 per
pound, ten hours’ picking would have
yielded from 3,600 pounds to 4,800
pounds per day. At present it is fully
one-third less, or from 2,500 to 3,000
pounds per day. The machine with
four boys and a driver does the work
of twenty average pickers.
The picker licks up cotton that has
fallen on the ground quite as readily
as it takes it from the bolls on the
stalks.
Many millions have been spent in
futile efforts to pick the cotton crop
by machinery, the earliest and most
frequent methods being to attach a
hand-operated mechanism to the oper
ator, who turned the crank with one
hAnd and guided the picking arm to
the boll with the other. Most of these
devices picked cotton, but not one
fourth as much as could be picked by
hand, besides being more laborious.
There have been many costly auto
matic machines, but they lacked the
power to discriminate between ripe
and unripe bolls and ruined the plants.
Suction and static electricity Wave
also been tried, but the bolls fail every
way but the desired one, and though
they have very yielding, innocent
ways when on the work bench of the
inventor, they are tricky and evasive
when he tries to capture them on their
“native heath.”
Crop Limited to Picking.
The cotton crop of the United States
is limited to its picking capacity, and
twice the present crop could be culti
vated, if there were any certainty of
harvesting it.
So many other avenues for labor,
with steady employment, have arisen
that the unemployed hands required
for the short cotton season are almost
impossible to secure at any price.
Georgia has harvested most of her
crop for about 50 cents per 100 pounds,
but many of the other states are pay
ing from 80 cents to SI.OO per 100
pounds.
The picking of this year's cotton
crop will cost the planters of the
South over $100,000,000!
Mr. Lowry will probably have no
difficulty in developing his machine
and placing it on the market, to at
least a limited extent, by next season.
As to what his plans are in this direc
tion is not the purpose of this ar
ticle to discuss. The sole purpose of
the writer Is to convey to the cotton
planters of the South the assurance
that a cotton picker that will be with
in the reach of all and that will really
pick cotton, and do it well, is at last
In sight. H. M. Mclntosh.
—Claus Spreckela, greatest of the
sugar barons, is 76 years old, and Pa
cific coast estimates put his wealth
at $100,1)00,000. A poor Immigrant, he
started out in life with no capital be
yond n large stock of German thrift,
rugged health and a nose for the al
mighty dollar. He has had enough
family troubles to kill ten ordinary
men, strife eternal with sons, daugh
ter, son-in-law and brother-in-law. He
kept his daughter under such restraint
that she never had opportunity to make
acqusintsnre of desirable young men.
An old fellow was Invited to the
Hpreekels palaee to entertain her and
h!n she married. Much unhapplneaa
was the result. Clnus raged. The Ill
mated couple went to London to live.
Finally the husband died and the
pretty widow le now one of the great*
net catches In England.
S*Y*\NAH MORXTNU NEW*?: TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 1. 1904.
SPELLBINDERS
WORKINGOVERTIME
NOBODY IDLE NOWADAYS.
M WHIRL W*INDING W IS THE SLOGAN
AJIOL'ND POLITICAL HEAD
(HARTERS.
Secretary Shaw Assure* Roosevelt
That It's AH Over Hot the Imag
ination—Bat the President Is Not
Telling Anybody to Go to Sleep
Around His Headquarters— Parker,
Cleveland and Other Democratic
Speakers Are Keeping the Admin
istration Explanation Bureau
Busy.
By R. M. Lamer.
Washington, Oct. 31, Secretary
Shaw made a brief visit to Washing
ton last week on his way West to
wind up his spellbinding pilgrimage
at his own home in lowa. The distin
guished Secretary of the Treasury has
been absent from his office so long,
since the campaign opened, that some
one remarked, facetiously, that he
“had to be vouched for at the door of
the department” before the watch
man would allow him to enter the
building.
When he put in an unexpected ap
pearance at cabinet meeting Friday
morning he was fairly boiling over
with confidence that the election of
Roosevelt and Fairbanks is assured,
and the only work left for the Repub
lican managers to do from now until
election day is to hold the party in
line, and devote the surplus energy
and unexpended campaign funds to
securing a majority in the House. To
hear Secretary Shaw tell it, the battle
is already won. •
Working lor All They Are Worth.
While Secretary Shaw’s expressions
of confidence may have been entirely
sincere, and at the same time grati
fying to President Roosevelt, the lat
ter intends to work the men under
him for all they are worth until the
polls close on the Bth of next month.
For a professed apostle of civil service
reform who would scorn to give offi
cial countenance to anything savor
ing of pernicious activity in politics,
President Roosevelt is a record break
er. No occupant of the White House
in previous campaigns has played pol
itics with the same determination and
unflagging energy as President Roose
velt.
Officeholders Active.
Every member of the administration,
from the highest to the lowest who is
capable of doing anything to advance
the interests of the Republican na
tional ticket, has been and is non
working over time to elect Roosevelt
and Fairbanks. Republican officehold
ers are now traveling all over the
country making speeches and perform
ing other campaign work, which
would have been condemned had such
a thing occurred under a Democratic
administration. It will be recalled what
a row the Republicans made over Eu
gene Higgins of Baltimore, while he
was appointment clerk in the Treasury
Department, during Cleveland's first
administration. So bitter was the at
tack upon the administration for the
appointment of Higgins that President
Cleveland requested Higgins to remain
at his desk and not go to Baltimore on
election day.
However, conditions change and men
frequently change with them. At pres
ent the President is carrying on his
personally conducted campaign from
the White House, and the indications
are that he may be successful. He has
hit upon a clever plan for unmuz
zling himself whenever he thinks the
Occasions requires a contradition of
any statement by his political oppon
ents.
Explanation Ilurrna Kept Busy.
Judge Parker, Grover Cleveland and
other Democratic speakers have kept
the Administration Explanation Bu
reau exceedingly active during the past
week or ten days. If President Roose
velt consulted his personal inclinations
he would go upon the hustings and
do a little “whirl-winding” on his own
account. As it is he is pledged to keep
off the stump and refrain from making
speeches until after the result is an
nounced at the polls.
The President is a close reader of
the morning papers. The moment he
reads that a Democratic speaker has
made a statement, which he thinks
needs contradiction, a cabinet officer,
or a senator or some public official Is
summoned to the White House and the
President dictates a statement which
is fathered by the person selected for
the purpose and the Associated Press
sends it forth as an authorized inter
view with the person who happens to
be named.
The President's Mouthpiece.
At headquarters it is known that
the statement originates with the Pres
ident and the managers govern them
selves accordingly. In this indirect
way the President relieves himself of
his surplus strenuosity and takes ai.
active hand in the fight, over the shoul
ders of Secretary Hay, Senator Knox,
Secretary Taft. Senator Lodge, Secre
tary SWaw, or any man of sufficient
strength to carry an "inspired” state
ment. These observations, however,
are simply to show the President’s tact,
in introducing the “Tom Sawyer,” sy.
tern to get his political fence white
washed by his play fellows.
—Bank President—"l hear that our
cashier has turned Christian Sclen
'tist.” Director—“By Jove! I hope
he won’t give us any absent treat
ment.”—Life.
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'THACHER MEDICINE COMPANY, -. Chattanooga, Tana. Xl
Tip He Gave Wns Too Good.
From the New York Sun.
The red-haired barber was still grin
ning when the regular customer slid
into the chair, and he went right to
work to explain.
“See that sporty-ldoking man that
just went out? " he asked. "Well,
he’s been coming in for months, al
ways a free tipper and always with
a roll of money that would make you
homesick to look at it
“I figured him some way to be mix
ed up in the horse game, and I had
a strong idea that he must be wise
to it. So one day -when he was good
and friendly I braced him.
“ ‘Anything that’s worth a bet?’ I
asks.
“He kinder sized me up.
“ ’PISy 'em. do you?’ he gays. ‘Well,
there’s nothing in the game. But ask
me that question to-morrow.’
"So I tried him, the next day. and
he looked at me a while and finally he
says:
” 'There's one in the third at Sara
toga that may be good, but I haven’t
got the last word yet.’
"You see how this shop’s fixed. You
can stand most anywhere in this base
ment and see folks going by on Broad
way. So this horsey customer gives
me the name- of the horse and says:
“ ‘l'll be walking by here in about
thirty minutes. If I nod, the horse
is worth a bet, if I shake my head
let it alone.”
’’Well, he walks by in half an hour
and gives me the nod. It seemed kin
der too good to keep and I let the
rest of the bunch in, and altogether
we raised SSO and sept Joe the boot
black out to make the bet.
“Joe used to take bets out for some
pretty good men upstairs and he knew
a swell room around on New street.
To cut it short, we got 8 to 1 and
won.
“That isn't very much when it’s split
up among eight or ten, but it looked
mighty good to us. I hadn't got over
being ifappy when my sporty-looking
customer comes In to-day. He wasn't
looking very unhappy himself and he
starts right in to kid me about how
good his tip was.
i ” 'Did you make a- few dollars?’
gays he.
“ ‘Sure,’ I told him. and then, feel
ing pretty proud, I feayS: ‘We took S4OO
out of it right here.’
“ ‘Good,’ says he. ‘Where did you
get your money down?'
“ 'Oh, round at so and so. New
street.’
“With that he jumped, so I nearly
cut his ear oft.
” ’The thunder you did,’ he says..
Why, hang it *ll, that's my room.’ ”
ik STOMACH gg Heartburn,' r '
Poor Appetite,
8 H tg-IrsW Dyspepsia <>r
• • Indigestion.
ed after a shot has been fired, It hap-
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R. R., N. C. and St. L.
and I. C. R. R.
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Double Track Railroad.
Dining Cars, Buffet-Libra
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For Tickets. Sleeping Car
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Guide Rooks and any other In
formation in regard to your
trip call on
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Traveling Passenger Agent
Illinois Central R. R., At
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Dec. 15th Fifteen-Day
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520.10 Ten-Day Limit, sold each Tuesday and Thursday
in October.
For information, reservations or literature apply City
Ticket Office, 141 Bull Street.
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Ar. New York 2:30 p.m. “ *•
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can spend the following|day at Norfolk and Old Point
Comfort* by leaving on the 12:10 midnight train you
make direct connection with the steamship.
Tickets at above rates are on sale daily; and are
limited for return six (6) months from date of sale.
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