Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-08-19
A NEW SENSATION.
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Prevent Railroad Accidents At Night
From the Now York World. Aug. l.
The last sensation made by the entel-
prising Mr. james Fisk, Jr., comptroller of
the Eric Railway, is tho undertaking Of n
plan by which it is proposed to make tho
line of the Eric Railway, from the foot of
Chambers street and Twcnty-thrd street
TO Buffalo and Dunkirk, IN unbrolscn belt
oflight all through the dark nights, both
in summer and winter. The Bergen tun-
mol il to be so brilliantly illuminated that
upon lowering dry tho eyes OF tho pas
sengcrs will DO almost blinded ~ the train
emorges from tho mouth of tho
tunnel. owing to the difference between
tho bright light Of tho tunnel and the dull
rays Of tho sun. The means to be adopted
to carry out this great plan, and thus pre-
Guiding the possibility OF any further acci-
dents on tho road on account of darkness,
is in tho application oftho electric light to
every locomotive on the line, and stationary
lights ut the ferries, in tho funnel, and ut
dangerous cnrves along tho rortc. The
attention Of the Eric company was first call
ed to consider this scheme, by Mr.. T.. G.
Morse, and Mr.. Fisk ut once authorized
him to 20 to work and SEQ what could be
done. Mr.. Morse therenpon commenced
t' make arrangements for tho manufacture
Ola large number Of a largc number of tho
electric lamps Mt Jersey City, and he is
quito confident that within three months
he will have Erie all nbaze.
Mr. Morse claims to have made several
valuable discoveries and improvements in
connection with tho electric light. One in
vention claimed by him Is II self-sustaining
battery, and another is n device for making
the carbon points, used to give the electric
light, burn for months without WASTING
away. This electric light, it is said by
those vino have experimental with it, will
cast shadow behind an Opaque body at Il
distance of ten miles. But when jarred by
the motion of tho locomotive, the intensity
of the light is diminished. The light will
il)umine the track for three miles ahead,
however, SO that, where tho road is straight,
the engineer can discern any object
at that distance. BY another in
gcnious device, tho electricity used to run
tho lamps will be collected by the friction
of the wheels MS the trains are in motion
Two lights will be used for lighting Bergen
tunnel, with ono in the middle, as the tun-
mel il not straight, but curves. Other
lamps will then be stationed ut each end of
the Pavonia ferry, which will throw a
broad belt Of light across the North river
every night, to guide tho traveller safely
to his homo in tho metropolis. These
lights will, it is said, be so intense that on
the darkest loggy night there will be no
danger of collision on the water, any more
than in the daytime. Still more, it is pro-
posed to fill Twenty third street every night
with flood Of white light, from tho North
river to the Fifth Avenue Hotel, so that
travellers at the heart of the metropolis may
at all times be reminded of tho broad and
happy Way