Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-12-24

amount OF valuable ana lntolllgeDt
oral testimony in every State and
of the West, besides
many written answers to specific
questions.
The Next OeRsu-.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23i.-The
question of the practicability of al
lowing fourth census district for
at the expense of cur
failing the number allotted for
Massachusetts, has not yet been de-
termined. Meanwhile the Califor-
mia delegation have agreed that the
three districts, as already mapped
out, should be provided with super
visors as follows: Henry @. Lang
ley, for the district comprising San
Francisco and the coast counties;
j. r. Hardenburg for the district
composed of the southeastern coun-
ties and most of Pages Congress
sional district, and some one to be
named by Representative Berry
and Senator Farley for the remain
Ing district.
Edison Successful nt Last.
NEW YORK, Dec. 23d.-The Her.
aid devotes a page to "Edlson's
Triumph in Elertric Illumination"
giving a full and accurate account
OF his work from it's inception to
its completion. The Herald says:
"The first public exhibition takes
place New YEARS. Eve, at Menlo
Park. The new light is produced
from tiny slip of paper that a
breath would blow away. Through
this slip OF paper is passed an elec-
trio current, and the result Is a
bright, beautiful, mellow light.
Edison makes the paper more in
fusible than platinum, more dura-
BILE than granite. The paper is
merely baked in an oven until all
its elements have passed away, ex-
cept its carbon framework. The
latter Is then placed in glass
globe connected with wires leading
to an electricity producing ma
chiue, and the air is exhausted
from the globe. Then the appara-
tus is ready to give out a light re-
quiring no matches to ignite, Civ
ing out but little heat, vitiating no
air, and free from all Pickering.
This light, the inventor claims, can
be produced cheaper than that
from the cheapest oil. The invent
or finds that the electricity can be
regulated with entire reliability at
the central station, just as the pres
sure of gas is now regulated. The
entire cost of constructing the lamp
is not more than twenty-five
eents.n
WHAT THE TRIBUNE SAYS.
The Tribune says of the latest
electric light that there is no new
principle involved in Edison's
light, and the notifications he has
made in the Sawy erman light are
but a poor return for the fifteen
months of labor. The new Sawyer
man-Edlson light is not likely to
be regarded as complete and sat-
isfactory solution of the great prob
lem which has so long been absorb
ing the attention OF electricians.
The Aspinwaii-BouId Notabies.
NEW YORK., Dec. 23d.-The Times
says, relative to the departure of
notables for Aspinwall in the inter-
ests of the Inter- Oceanic Canal:
Some absurd atories were circulated
yesterday that the gentlemen were
going down to do what they could
to oppose the canal project In the
interest of the Panama Railroad.
A reporter of the Times called upon
Samuel G. Thompson, the largest
stakeholder in the road to learn, If
possible what truth there was in
these stories, and speedily learned
that so far from opposing the canal
project they were altogether in fav-
or of 1t, and, above all, In favor of
the Aspinwall and Panama route.
If canal is to be cut, they want it
lust as near the railroad as it can
be got, and especially and emphat-
ically they are opposed to the Nicar-
augua route. John Thompson said
the intentions of the Directors of
the road were to see what De Les
seps intended to do. If he really
meant to cut that canal, they
would do all they could
to help him. The Railroad
Company has an exclusive grant of
land for thirty miles either way
from the railroad. which ran for 80
years. They certainly did not ex-
pect to make De Lesseps
pay for any land or
grant he might want of
the Company, but they desired to
see how things were to go and look
after their own interests. If the
canal was to go by the Panama
route, the ports of Aspinwall and
Panama would become two of the
largest shipping ports in the world
aud the railroad would, therefore,
be correspondingly benefited.
There would be plenty OF business
for canal and railroad too. Ger
tainly no one interested in the
railroad desired TO see the canal
carried away off to Nicaragua.
They intended to let Lesseps un-
derstand this. GAS Parks said to-
day." added Thompson, eve went
to let him know that there are
some people in America who are
in favor of the Panama route.n
Thompson said he firmly believed
that within the next fifteen years
ships would go from San Francisco
through the Isthmus of Darien, but
whether Lesseps would cut the Ca
nal or be bluffed off by Am erican
opposition, 1t is not easy to say.
"You see," he said, "there is job
In this, as in most other things,
and that is where the opposition
came in at Paris. If Lesseps does
the work at Panama, its French
job. II Ammen does it, by the
Nicaragua way, then it is an
American job. But suppose the
French put in their 100000, 900
francs and Lesseps makes that
hole through the mountains, l
don't see how America Is to lose
her prestige on that account. sup
pose there are some people here
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