The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1891-01-31
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.
The stores at Holland, Mich, are
lit by electric lights.

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The stores at Holland, Mich, are
lit by electric lights.
in all sections of New York City
great activity in underground construc-
ton has been shown during the past
year, both in building subways and lay
ing conduits.
The Lewiston Il Auburn (Me.)
Street Railway Company, it is reported,
is to adopt electricity as it's motive
power, and hat in the coming spring the
cars will be operated by electric power.
"A Spanish nobleman has recently
had an electric plant installed at his
country place, which will be used to
pillow his land with plows run by cleo
trio motors. The power is generated
by a water wheel of 20-horse power, and
is sent u distance Of three miles.
A Riverside Gal man is reported
To ave arranged an electric frost alarm
which will be Il great convenience to
orange growers. 1t consists of IN ac-
curate dial thermometer, electrically
connected with u bell and switch in such
a hat it will cause the bell to
ring when any desired temperature is
reached.
The French section of the telephone
line and cable, which is to onnec Lon
don with Paris, has been completed. 1t
consists of two bronZed wires, parallel
and crossed at intervals, to diminish the
effects of induction. There will also be
direct telephone communication be-
tween London and Marseilles, and Lon
don and Rome.
Club men and others, who stay ont
late of nights and have "A difficulty i'll
finding the keyholes of their doors, IA
now take heart, for some genius has in
vented a walking stick, in the head of
which is a tiny i~ncandescent lamp,
covered ordinarily by a polished knob.
The power is applied by a miniature
storage battery in the hollow of the
cane, and the light can be turned on at
will. This instrument is called The
Club Mans Friend; or An Adjunct to
Jollity."
Electric lighting of theaters has be-
come quite general in some sections of
h country, and promises to become
universal, owing to it's great mobility
over the old forms of lighting. One of
the most interesting pieces of work of
this kind, say the New York Times, is
that just finished at Herrmann's new
theater III New York, where the appa-
ratus is of the most elaborate and com
plete nature, so that by means of lights
of different color and the judicious in
terpolation of resistances, lighting eff
fects of any shade Or degree of brilliancy
can be secured by the gas man" on the
turning of a single switch.
"A new departure in electric light
ing, and one which is certainly to be
most highly commended, says Modern
Light and Heat, has just been made by
the Pennsylvania railroad, which is
about to equip a line of track, seven miles
in length, with electric lights. The piece
of track in question runs through a very
heavily populated district, and is one on
which, in times past, there have been
frequent accidents. 1t is fully believed
that the advent of the electric light will
prevent their recurrence, and should il
prove as successful an illuminant as is
expected, the wires will be extended to
cover a much longer district.
1t is announced that the Metropoli-
tan Street Railroad Company Of Wash
ington, ID. c., has decided to change the
entire equipment of its main line from
horse cars to storage battery cars. 1t is
now building the first instalment of
cars and preparing to commence the To-
cation of an extensive power station at
Rock Creek. between Washington and
Georgetown, adjoining its present car
stables. About 40 ears will be required
on this line, and they will be put in OPP
Grafton, probably in lots of five, as fast
rs they can be gotten ready and as soon
as the charging station Is started. 1t is
expected the first ears will be running
in three or four months, and it is said
that the cost of the change to the com
pany will be $500, 900. Engineer Mail
louX's motors and gearing will be used.