Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-08-18
A NEW SENSATION.
The Erie Railway to be brilliantly
Illumluated--A Plan to Enectualiy
Prev emit Railroad Accidents at Night
From the New York World, Aug. l.

| Vho ERIE RAILWAY 10 DC nranuh..y
| Prevent Railroad Accidents at Might
From the New York World, Aug. l.
The last sensation made by the enter
prising Mr.. james Fisk, Jr, comptroller ot
the Erie Railway, is the undertaking Of q
plan by which it is proposed to make the
line of the Erie Railway, from the foot OF
Chambers street and Twenty-third street
to Buffalo and Dunkirk, an unbroken belt
oflight all through the dark nights, both
in summer and winter. The Bergen tun-
mel is to be so brilliantly illuminated that
upon lowering day the eyes of the pas
sengers will be almost blinded rs the train
emerges from the mouth of the
tunnel, owing to the difference between
the bright light of the tunnel and the dull
rays of the sun. The means to be adopted
to carry out this great plan, and thus pre-
cluding the possibility of any further acci-
dents on the road on account of darkness,
is in the application ofthe electric light to
every locomotive on the line, and stationary
lights at the ferries, in the funnel, and ut
dangerous curves along the route. The
attention of the Erie company was first call
ed to consider this scheme, by Mr.. Il. Q.
Morse, and Mr.. Fisk at once authorized
him to 90 to work and see what could be
done. Mr. Morse thereupon commenced
to make arrangements for the manufacture
ofa large number of q large number of the
electric lamps at Jersey City, and he is
quite confident that within three months
he will have Eric all ablaZe.
Mr.. Morse claims to have made several
valuable discoveries and improvements in
connection with the electric light. One in
vention claimed by him Is self-sustaining
battery, and another is a 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 who have experimental with it, will
cast q shadow behind an Opaque body at u
distance of ten miles. But when Jared by
the motion of the locomotive, the intensity
of the light is diminished. The light will
illumine the track for three miles ahead,
however, so that, where the road is straight,
the engineer can discern any object
at that distance. By another in
genious device, the electricity used to run
the lamps will be collected by the friction
of the wheels as the trains are in motion.
Two lights will be used for rlighting Bergen
tunnel, with one in the middle, as the tun-
mel is not straight, but curves. Other
lamps will then be stationed at each end of
the Pavonia ferry, which will throw a
broad belt of light across the North river
every night, to guide the traveller safely
to his home in the metropolis. These
lights viii, it is said, be so intense that on
the darkest foggy 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 the North
river to the Fifth Avenue Hotel, SO that
travellers at the heart of the metropolis may
at all times be reminded of the broad and
baDpy Way