Telegram-herald., 1890-07-29

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Allow uas u Isfy - your ceres
pendent aS.agle Overhead" notwth.
slaadsng tie very u&iyetatntUds Which
I he taSss 81 - generously opiallg that
I knOs very htlle q what / am taking
about. and then g9sag On 10 ass0nlef
/ the lass or as 0Bn argQnent entire.
/ lie assumes t1at each car carraes Z
/ conlusenlenE OF 100 eeiis." having an
sssrezais Weight II solO pounds and
/ that cueh ssi clst s.. and Aakts other
sssum pllOas aid slatrmeuts axailst
I tie storage battery which have even
/ iess foundation "a fact, looay. The
gentleman appears 10 nave ~ Mlud tae
state or the Art Ot storage batteries as
10 Nss last year, TO wBieA hls ngures
would apply more accurately. But
when / expressed the hope that Mr..
Bsgler's visit East which lie 50 ke OF
IA last weeks papers, might result IN
nls i.noiBg 4 storage battery there that
would do the work OF street car pTOpul-
son satisfactorily, 1 Was speaking from
knowledge " the stale vi tue art as il
Is al present. There is ia NASsachuse Is
tOdas-sO sonic oi the best experts there
declare, after actual tests IA storage
battery which wall propel b street car,
not with $500 pounds, but with con
slderaDiy less than 500 pounds, and re-
quiriEg instead of 100 or more cells. less
tnan sixty. These cells are IN actual
use today for lighting purposes and are
snfF afaF for -F. f,sfr fas. -fH IT,
Instead OF "a cost OF $500 per car fitted
with 100 cells which "slngle over
head" has in mind. TINS would make
the cost per car but 5000, besides a cor-
responding saving IN the other parts OF
the equipment, and III labor OF hand
ling.
Your correspondent, in common with
many other intelligent men, most street
railway managers included, real zas
that the storage battery is the coming
motive power for street cara; but ne
may not be fully informed when he
says that exhaustive experiment must
yet be made before II is proven TO be
less expensive than the single overhead
wlre," for tests which have already
been made with storage battery upon
four street cars IN Paris (seatng nifty
persons each) put the cost ut about
D per cent. less than animal traction, 10
use the account of French writer, an
electrical engineer. And this saving
was made, Notwithstanding that the
battery used weighed 1920 pounds per
car.
The French author of this statement
land he Is oulY one of several electrical
engineers, ''ln this and other coun-
tries, 10 whose satisfaction ii has been
proven "that street cars may be success
fully and economically operated with
the storage battery system" as Your
correspondent might learn by reading
the electrical periodicals of the last
three months) this electrical engineer
figures that the whole probable Swing,
rs compared with animal traction, when
1.-THE diminished expenses of paving,
rent OF stables, stations, etc. went into
effect, would be "about II per cent"
These calculations were Obtained from
a large, fitty-seat car, propelled by two
groups of batteries per day, making |
two changes per day only). each group |
contalning-vessels included, |
5o2O pounds. Comparative tests show |
that the Massachusetts, battery referred |
to produces the same electrical horse |
power with only 2793 pounds. and it |
must therefore be considerably cheaper |
than horses. Moreover, street railway !
managers say that adding about $500 !
pounds to the weight Of car improves !
the traction.
STORAGE"