1904 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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mill on top of his warehouse, in one of the 

 photos here shown. 



" What is that for? " I asked. 



" That is to run my elevator."' 



"Run an elevator!" I exclaimed; "what 

 do you do when the wind does not blow? " 



" I have got that fixed, or will have very 

 soon. " 



He went inside and showed me a sort of 

 grain-elevator which he had rigged up to 

 carry sand from the basement clear into 

 the fourth story of the warehouse. The 

 sand is dropped in a large bin, and he has 

 a connection by means of a rope so that 100 

 lbs. or so of sand can be dropped into a 

 counter-weight box at any point where the 

 elevator ma3' be located. The elevator is 

 so balanced that, when this box is emptj', 

 it will go down by its own weight. When 

 he desires to carry a load he pulls the lit- 

 tle rope, and that lets a quantity of sand 

 run into the counter-weight box until the 

 elevator load is counterbalanced. The 

 brake is released, when the load, man and 

 all, is carried automatically to the desired 

 point, when the brakes are applied and 

 the load taken off. When he is ready to 

 go down, the same rope empties the sand 

 out of the counter-weight box, and, of 

 course, the elevator drops of its own grav- 

 ity. Whenever the wind blows it stores 

 enough sand in half an hour to run the ele- 

 vator for a day's use. 



"Why don't you use water?" 



"It freezes in my warehouse," said he. 

 "I had to have something that would not 

 freeze — don't you see?" 



Mr. Salisbury did have at one time the 

 elevator rigged direct to the windmill; but 



he contrived to do most of the lifting when 

 the wind blew; but when business was 

 pressing it was very annoying to be with- 

 out power. Now he stores his power when- 

 ever the wind blows, in a large bin in the 

 fourth story, and lets it out by pulling a 

 rope just as he wants it. When I was 

 there the rig was not in operation; but I 

 have since heard from him, saying it was 

 coming out all right. 



" But, Salisbury, this must have cost you 

 a whole lot of thinking; and wouldn't it 

 have been cheaper for you to have an elec- 

 tric motor so that you could ' turn on the 

 juice ' whenever you desired to operate the 

 elevator? '• 



" Yes, but that would afTect my insur- 

 ance; besides, the cost of the current would 

 be something. Sand will not freeze, the 

 mill works for nothing and boards itself, 

 and will not set any thing afire." 



Another of Mr. Salisljury's hobbies is 

 electricity and steam heating. He is plan- 

 ning to make a storage battery to run the 

 lights at the house. The windmill will run 

 a generator that will store a current in the 

 aforesaid battery. 



Mr. Salisbury told me the size of his 

 building, and how many carloads he could 

 store away and have ready so that he could 

 pick out any package, but I have forgotten 

 the figures. The rooms are divided into 

 alleyways, and goods of a kind are kept by 

 themselves. Instead of having goods piled 

 on top of themselves, and mixed up. requir- 

 ing handling four or five times before they 

 are actually given to the drayman, they are 

 handled but once after being placed on the 

 floor. 



SALISBURY'S WAREHOUSE WHERE HE KEEPS HIS LARGE STOCK OF BEE-SUPPLIES. 



(View from the house.) 



