The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-15
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During recent heavy thunder
Etorm in Cincinnati a $4,000 dynamo
was ruined by lightning, and the light
ming arrestcrs in l,200 telephones were
burned out
The electric railway between 81
Paul and Minneapolis is government
mail route The electric cars carry tho
mails so that deliveries are made in
each city every two hours.
by the use of buckwheat coal for
fuel the managers of the electric street
railroad at WillSesbarre, Pa, figure it
out that at a cost of 81 they can secure
sufficient power to transport 1000 pas
seugcrs over their road.
An electric car in ST Paul, MINI,
while passing the end of bridge
in n heavy rain recently, was
struck by lightning. The car was set
on fre and the machinery rendered use
less. Not one of the passengers was
injured.
Attention is being given to length
ening the life of lncandescent lamps.
Discolored lamps can now be opened
and cleaned without interfering with
filaments and mopntiugs. When the
lamp is re-exhausted and sealed it is as
durable as when new.
The latest window advertising
scheme in New York consists in the ar
rangement Of two brass knobs at the
window ledge, with the following pla-
card: Electricity no more subtitle than
our bargains. Take free, harmless
shock We press the button. See our
Accent. bargains in neckties." Tho
scheme draws immense crowds.
There is some talk at Portland, Me,
of lighting the city hall there by means
of an isolated plant to be owned and
run by the city. An expert who made
an examination of the building thinks
that the plant could be installed at a
cost of about S. Those who are
interested in the scheme assert that by
means of such a plant the city could
save from 81, 200 to 81, 500 year.
The Plymouth IN. H. people want
an electric fire alarm service and some
time ago they appropriated $500 to Sc
cure one. Those having charge of the
matter, however, have come TO the con-
clusion that the work can not be done
well for so small sum, and, as the
town is apparently unwilling to in.
crease the amount, it will probably
cling to its present old-time system for
some years to come.
An elevated electric road of unpre-
cedented height is to be built ut Ma
pies. According to the reports that
have been received in this country it is
intended to have the supporting pillars
over 800 feet in height The road will
connect the central part of the city
with the Corso Vittorio Emanuele, and
win cost about $1,000, 600 The power
win be furnished by waterfall of the
Sorrento river.
The electric plant of the San Miguel
Consolidated Gold Mining Co. is being
installed at Telluride Col To utilize
the water power in the vicinity for the
purpose of running the stamp mills of
the company's mines dam was built
across the San Miguel river, above Tel
luride, which falls at that place 400 feet
in less than a mile. From the head
gate the water is taken through 4, 000-
foot pipe, gradually increasing in diam
eter from 20 inches to IL inches, to the
power station, where it is delivered to
two six-inch Pelton wheels. The loss
in transmission between generator and
motor over 2M-mile circuit is said to
be barely per cent.
The Electric Railway Advertiser,
referring to the bulletin in regard to
street railways, recently issued by the
census bureau, says: ''The first thing
to strike the investigator is that these
figures completely refute the claim
made frequently in behalf of cable
roads, that the actual cost is very little
IN excess of electric roads We can,
fortunately, select for comparison a
cable road and an electric road, oper-
ating very nearly the same length of
line. The former covers 594 miles of
street, double track; it cost 81, 4G7, 900,
and carried in twelve months over
1O,OOO,OO passengers; the operating ex-
penses per car mile 2115 cents and per
passenger carried 9.54 cents The cleo
tric road was single tract, six miles long
and cost Sll5, 900, 1t carried little less
than a million passengers per year, at
a cost per car mile of 1868 cents, and
per passenger carried 2.7l cents.