The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-11
HOW ELECTRICIrY GROWS.
A Budget of Electric Items From !

A Budget of Electric Items From All
over the Country.
Savannah is now considered the best
lighted city in the country.
Boston will probably have the distinction
of being the first city to operate an electric
elevated railroad.
Storage batteries in electric train light
ing are being tested and experimental with
by car-Duilding companies.
An electric railroad, fifteen miles long, is
to be built at Albuquerque, N. NJ, by
Philadelphia company that has $75, 900
capital.
1t is estimated that there are l 900 miles
Of electric light, telephone and telegraph
wires strung through the streets and lanes
of Savannah.
Savannah burns over 1000 incandescent
lamps, supplied by the Brush works, besides
those supplied by private plants, and over
$50 arc lamps.
The contract for the power house for the
Belt Lines electric works, which was to
have been awarded Saturday, will be
awarded this week probably to-day.
The new electric light plant to be built at
Asheville, n. c., will consist of 100 arc and
l 900 incandescent lights, and will probably
be one of the largest plants in the state.
Savannah will be the third city to have
the Westinghouse electric car motor system.
Pittsburg, Pa, and Nashville, Tenn, are
the other cities where it is in operation.
In New South Wales there are now more
than 5, 900 incandescent and 500 arc lights
in use, and it is noticeable fact that Amer
lean plants and systems are predominant.
An electric railway on the overhead sys-
TEN is in process of construction between
Seattle and Tacoma, Washington. When
finished the road will be forty-two miles
long.
According to the american GeologiSt,
the largest gold mine is in Alaska. 1t Is
lighted throughout by electricity, and is
worked day and night. An offer of SIG, 600
600 for the mine has been refused.
The first electric street railway estab-
lished in America for actual service was on
"a suburban line, two miles in length, extend
ing from Baltimore to Hampden, Nd. This
line has been continuously operated since
Sept. l, 1885.
The largest engine in use in Rhode Island
ia now being set up at the station of the
Narragansett Electric Lighting Company,
in Providence. 1t is ], 800 horsepower. The
fly wheel alone weighs $1,000 pounds, and
the whole engine weighs nearly $50 tons.
The Savannah Belt Line will have four
teen cars equipped with electric motors. 1t
will require eight cars to run the schedule
on the present time when the electric sys-
tenn is put in operation. The circuit of the
Belt Line will be made in forty minutes.
After a stubborn fight between rival
companies and the city authorities, the city
| cou Gil OF Little Rock, Ark, has granted
to the Capitol Street Railway Company the
right TO put in electric motors on their
| fifteen miles of road. The electric lines
viii be constructed at once and will cost
J 100000.
An old man would not believe he could
| hear his wife talk a distance of five miles by
telephone. His better half was in shop
several miles away, where there was tele-
| phone. and the skeptic was also In a place
where there was a similar instrument, and,
! on being told how 10 operate it, he walked
/ boldly up and shouted: "Hello. Sarah" At
that instant lightning struck the telephone
wire and knocked the man down, and, as
he scrambled TO his feet, he exoitedly cried,
"That's Sarah, sure as fateln