New-York tribune., 1885-03-26
TELEGRAPHING FROM A MOVING TRAIN.
c1.crr.sri,1 EYPERIMENTS on THE NEM-HAYEN


ROAD.
"Click Click Buzz Buzz!" went the instru-
ments on the baggaRe-caT attached to the 3:55
D. IN. train out OF Harlem, Oh the New-York and
New-Ha Road, yesterday. The new method OF
telographng TO and from moving trains was being
exhibited for the edihcaton of the members OF the
New-York Electrical Society, who crowded into the
car and surged back and forth as the train started
stopped and slowed up in sudden and unexpected
ways as if the engineer had designs on the SOci-
etys eorns and wanted them to be well trOdden on.
As the tram passed the terminal station President
Van der Weyde threw off sealed dispatch which
the operator working there picked up and tele-
graphed to him on the tram. Many messages were
sent and received, At all the following dispatch
was received: -
"Ths leaves us at $40. Telegraph what time it
reaches you. CheeveE Pres"
J. w. English an operator from the Western
Union office, who had never seen the instruments
before sent and received several messages. felt
last as much at hoRe as If was using my own
key and sounder IN the otlce sald he as he smiled
with satisfaction at the result of bis trial.
There were two complete sets of apparatus in the
ear one working an ordinary sounder, aud the
other telephone IN which the Morse characters
could be distinctly heard as they were tcked of by
the operator at the terminal station: ID. NJ.
Adee, special agent of the Metropolitan Telephone
Company, put the instrument TO his ear and hist
ened 10 tine familiar 90 buzz buzz" which Is the
bane of telephone mans life. WollW said he
'pvc been fighting this thing IipductiOnl all nv
life irving TO arnIhilate it, but / expected
to sec IL harnessed down and made useful"
AS test of what could be done, on the return
was running on the other track at a distance of
eleven feet from the nam line Of wire, which runs
along the up track, the instruments were worked
and messages sent flying across that cbasm with as
much ease as If il ordinary metallic
circuit. The expedition was a success, and the in
yentor, .Lucius J. Phelps, was III much better
humor than on that ill-omened Friday, February
13 when the invention failed dismally In the
presence of a hundred people who went out to see
practice, however. Besides the twenty five mem
bers Of the ELECTRICAL Society present there were
also Professor Peckham. of the Adephi Academy,
Brooklyn, and +. Il. kinsmau, OF the Electric Con-
struction Company, among The spectators
SECOND DAY OF THE HORSE SALE
Horsemen again filled the American Horse Ex-
change Fiftieth-st. and Broadway, yesterday Ii
was the second day of the eighth annual combina-
tion sale Of Peter Q. Kellogg 81 Co. Forty-nine
horses were disposed of for $10,955. The highest
price of the day was brought by Bergen Belle a
six-years-old brown mare. by Sweepstakes. She is
said 10 have fve-years-old record OF 2:46 and TO
have trotted trial last fall IN 2:36A2 The compe-
tition on her was spirited aud her price was sent
along by $25 and $50 bid. She was finally
Knocked down to A. w. Cowan, Of Jersey City, for
Joseph c. SON Of Kentucky Prince which sii IS said
to have trotted last fall in 234. he paid $3.50 for
him; Goldbeeator. chestnut golding seven years
$3.50. Mr.. Meyer also bought lnwood, by Black
wood dam by Aberdeen. for $3.50 and Lockington
by Don Giovanni for S3O6 With the exception OF
mails offered brought $40O. The aggregate receipts
of the two days sale is $500. Ii will be con-
tiuued to-day aud tomorrow. Among the we'll
known horseInen present were General B. +. Tracy,
c. j. Hamlin. Of Buffalo; Elzur smith, Lee, Mass;
Alden Goldsmith, j. u. X. Lawrence, Captain Cos
Ter and w. II. +. Mali.
WAS 1T YELLOW OR CHAGREs FEVERf
The Pacific Mail steamship City of Para, which
arrived from Aspinwall ON Tuesday, and was de-
tanned at Quarantine because of two deaths hav-
ipg occurred on the voyage, was permitted to come
20 the city yesterday, after thorough fnmigation.
The two persons who died were q. B. NoDero an
Italian steerage passenger, age forty-sx, and
Henri Flory u French saloon passenger, age thirty
three. Nonero died last Wednesday and Fiory on
= the following day, from malignant attack OF
fever The offcers of the vessel were in doubt as
70 whether the disease was yellow or Chaercs fevAr