The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-21
ELECTRIC NOTES.
Matters Of Information in Relation to ElHc-
niGity.


railroad at Portland, Me-. will be in run
ming order this month.
A bill giving borOughs the right to estab
lish their own electric lighting plants has
passed the Pennsylvania Legislature.
Pittsburg. Pa, now has five electric street
railroads in actual operation. The very
latest, the Duquesne, has over twenty
eight miles of track.
Why wouldn't it be good thing to have
the lighthouses along our coast connected
with one another and the mainland by
means of an electric cable?
There Is now being built at the Thomson
Houston Works in Lynn an electric freight
locomotive, which is to weigh ten tons and
to be Of sixty horsepower.
The first IhomS0n-HoustOn installation
with alternating currents and transformers
IN France is that used TO light st. Bricue.
The plant is run by horsepower.
There is some talk Of connecting the
Maine towns of Belfast and NorthpOrt by
an electric road. A survey has been made
and IL is possible that work may be begun
this summer.
The power station of the new electric
road, connecting Worcester and Leicester.
viii be completed by July 1st and the man
agement hopes to be able to run cars over
the new road by the Fourth.
The announcement is made that a stock
company Is to he organized in Cleveland,
ONO, with capital OF 81, 100000 In cOnnec-
ton with the Amstutz patent for the trans
mission of pictures by telegraph.
Glasgow, which already owns its own gas
lighting plant, will in al probability soon
have an electric-lighting plant of its own. 1t
is proposed to spend about $50, 900 as a
starter, and to adopt the three wire sy3tem
with accumuatOrS.
Marseiles, France, has decided to adopt
the overhead electric system for Street-car
nronnlSinD and a Strpnt- limo
which franchise was recently obtained,
will be built In accordance with it. The
plant will be the first high tension electric
installation OF Ito kind III a large city in
France
A French inventor has invented a stove
built in the cylindrical form, around the
central fue of which are grouped several
hundred thermO-eectric elements. a small
stove thus equipped is said to be able to
produce with the usual consumption of
fuel enough electricity to run twenty-five
l00-candle power lamps.
The great a lice" mill. recently built by
the WOonS0cket Rubber Company at WOOn-
socket Il. l., is to be lighted throughout by
electric lights. The plant will consist of
two Edison dynamOS, each of a capacity of
80 l6-candle power lamps, and one com
pOund dynamo having n capacity of $50 IT,
candle power lamps, giving total OF 1860
lights.
The demand for stationary electric motors
Is something enormous, and one firm having
headquarters at New York reports that it is
1000 motors behind orders already received
and that other orders are pouring in from
all sections OF the country. The motors are
used for all sorts Of purposes, from tie
beating of carpets 10 the chopping up of
sausage-meat A large number of orders
are received every week from printers, and
it is estimated that at least 200 newspapers
are printed by presses run by electricity,
while thousands OF job officers have dis
| carded steam power for the new and conf
| pact motors.
Experiments are now under way at Hart
! ford, Conn.,, IN which the cars OF the Bar
| rett Storage Car Company Of Springfield
| are being tested. The ear used in the eX-
! perimentS weighs SIX tons, and.iu one test
/ ran at a speed of sixteen miles an hour.
| The batteries are charged for forty miles,
and have already proved themselves cap
| able of running for over thirty-tye miles
without recharging. Those having charge
of the road are not as yet ready TO give any
opinion as TO the commercial probability
of the car, but express themselves as salts
fed with the tests as far as they have
gone.
The New England Shaver Telephone
Company secured charter at the May ses-
sion OF the Rhode Island Legislature, and
will soon enter into active competition with
the Bell Telephone Company in that State.
| The company has an authorized capital of
$1,000, 900. aud viii have its headquarters
| at Providence. Complete organization I'M
der the charter has not yet been effected,
but the following officers have been chosen
Edward ). Aldrich. President; Joseph G.
johnson, Secret Try and Treasurer; Fred |.
Cafe, Manager; Elisha C.. MowTy, Joseph
c. Johnson. Henry Ii. Fay, Edward 5. AL
drich. John II. Thompson. John b. Branch,
William c. Baker Trustees and Directors.
Lucre has smiled on the explorers in the
field of electrical science. No scientific body
in the country has SO macy millionaires as
the American Institute Of Electrical En-
gineers. At the top of the list is Alexander
Graham Bell, whose profits on the telephone
are represented by eight figures. Next
comes Edison with seyen-hgure fortune.
Brush of electric-light fame, and Elihu
Thomson, whose financial future is perhaps
brighter than any of the others just now,
are more than mllliOnareS. Frank j.
Sprague was junior officer in the United
States Navy six years ago. He is now lIy-
ing in the mansion which was built for the
Grants. His company sold out to the Edi-
son Company for 100000, and half OF it
went t. the inventor. Franklin l.. Pope Of
New York and score of others have indie
pendent fortunes. Most of these men were
telegraph operators, and most of them began
their experimenting and study without
dOllar.-St Louis Globe Democrat.