Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-05-16
SOUTHERN Standard MEANWHILE TENNEseEl*-
DAY, MAY l6, 1891
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.


The stores at Holland, Mich, are
lit by electric lights.
The Lewiston IL Auburn (Me)
Street Railway Company, it is reported,
is to adopt electricity as its motive
power, and that 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
plow his land with plows run by cleo
trio motors. The power is generated
by water wheel of 2O-horse power, and
is sent distance of three miles.
"A Riverside Cal man is reported
to have arranged an electric frost alarm
which will be great convenience to
orange growers. 1t consists of an ac-
curate dial thermometer, electrically
connected with bell and switch in such
manner that 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 connect Lon
don with Paris, has been completed. It
consists of two bronzed wires, parall,l
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 In
finding the keyholes of their doors, can
now take heart, for some genius has in
vented walking stick, in the head Of
which is tiny incandescent lam Z,
covered ordinarily by polished knob.
The power is applied by 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
the country, and promises to become
universal, owing to its great mobility
over the old forms of lighting One of
the most interesting pieces of work of
this kind, says the New York Times is
that just finished at Herrmann's new
theater in 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 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 very
heavily populated district, and is one or
which, in times past, there have beer
frequent accidents. 1t is fully believed
that the advent of the electric light viii
prevent their recurrence, and should i
prove as successful an illuminant as il
expected, the wires will be extended t.
cover a much longer district.
J 1t is announced that the Metropoli
, tan Street Railroad Company of Wash
ington, D. c., has decided to change tn,
entire equipment of its main line from
horse cars to storage battery ears. 1t i
now building the first instalment o
cars and preparing to commence the 10
cation of an extensive power station a
Rock Creek, between Washington ant
Georgetown, adjoining its present ca
stables. About 40 cars will be required
on this line, and they will be put in op
Grafton, probably in lots of five, as fas
as they can be gottewTeady and as 500
= as the charging station is started 1t i
: expected the first cars will be running
in three or four months, and it is sal
S that the cost of the change to the CON
| pany will be 100000. Engineer Mai
Il louX's motors and gearing will be used