The Press., 1892-07-14
-Needham will unload another car

StaffOrd springs, July Hun: MISS Eul6n Bercura, Mrs. Lizzie Clark, Gilbert o. Green, Mrs. Mary E. Neff, Miss Bertha Whipple.
 Insurance men were in the place on Tuesday readjusting rates. Several were expecting to be favored in the readjust- ment, but so far as changes were made it was to increase rates.
 M. E. Sunday school will picnic at Evergreen Park on Friday, July 15. The committe on athletics have arranged the following games: Boat race, running broad jump, running hop, leap and jump, running and standing high, standing broad, standing three jumps, pole vault, putting the shot, ball game and tug of war.
 HI. S. Abel has a Columbia wheel, and is agent for its sale.
 Personals.
 MT. and Mrs. H. s. Abel were called to Putnam to attend on Sunday the funeral of Mrs. As father, Geo. M Harris, who died very suddenly on the 7th inst.
 Rev. E. R. Brown of Grace church attended the ordination at Rockville last Thursday of Rev. N. s. Derby of St. Johh's Episcopal church.
 Miss Taft is at home on her summer vacation, and Miss Nettie E. Weedie of Hampton, New Brunswick, has been her guest during the past week.
 -Mayland Park is one of the busiest places in Holland county these days, the Mayfower being we'll filled with guests, largely from Southbridge. MT. and Mrs. A. F. Hall of Boston and friends have been for long time guests there. Among those from Stafford during the past week have been E. H. Pinney and wife and Misss Lottie Weston, and friends. About 60 persons from Southbridge were visit ors on Sunday, largely friends of the cottagers then and still as follows |: Home cottage, Geo. Wells and family ]: Cliff, Geo. Davis and family; Clearview, Stephen Edwards and family. Next week Judge Chamberlin and family from Staf- ford Springs will occupy Clearview.
 Mrs. M. R.West of Hartford, is guest of her sister, Mrs. J. M. Leach, on High land Terrace.
 W. G. Ellis is rusticating at A. C.. Eaton's camp, Crystal Lake.
 Miss Fife Chaffee of Wales and Miss Myra Fiske of Monson have been spend ing week with the Misses Fenton.
 Mrs. c. II. King is visiting at her old home in Columbia.
 John Sullivan, blacksmith, has been spending his vacation at Providence and Block Island.
 Rev. w. c. Newell and family, of Moodus, are at Mir. Newell's farm, near Crystal Lake, for a weeks outing.
 Miss Albina A. Bourassa started yes- terday to visit relatives in Montreal, Sher- brooke, Quebec and other places in Can- ada.
 The Electric Lights
 Please everybody to an extent beyond In most places where in- troduced there is trouble at first. intervals of darkness, through some defect, and times of irregularity, these being over come by time. Here there has not been B ripple f1om the start. The works were put in perfect order before starting. It would have made sensation in the bor- Ough to have been assured twelve months ago that within even two years we should have had electric lighting on our streets in r1o If h,1c io hut months since it was first told the public that already an organization was formed and ready to begin, and since that time public impatience at every delay has at tested that a public want was to be met by the new enterprise.
 The electric light company starts busi- ness with one of the finest and best equipped plants in New England for it's size. It has a strong water power, with a massive and apparently impregnable dam, yet to insure that absolute certainty so necessary in it's business is about to put in at once an engine for reserve power, in case of accident or emergency. Its present dam gives a fall of 13 feet, and the upright wheel (from J. & W. Jarley, Holyoke,) has 165 horse power. The company further controls on the stream privileges affording in the aggregate 80 feet of fall and 100 horse power, all to be brought into use if needed for transmitting power.
 The building now used is staunchly timbered and braced, 36x42 in size, and holds all the machinery now needed, also has room for 75-horse power generator soon to be added. The great pulleys re- volving with great speed carry broad belts transmitting lightning like rapidity to the two dynamos, one 50-light arc dynamo fairly sparkling with the lightning cur rents it is shooting over the wires leading to the borough, the other 1OOO-light in- candescent. Upon 8 framework at the side of the room are mysterious machines, whose work is understood, only by scien- lists, the methods of whose work are yet enclosed in the veil of mystery, but which are very important aids to the electricians in charge of the works.
 The outfit of the room, as said before, is most complete. The equipment for the business is first-class. On Monday night, for the first time, 0 governor of fine mechanism was attached to the driving power. The remarkably steady char acter of the lights before this improve ment is now better guaranteed in con- tinuance.
 The electric outfit is from the Thomson & Houston Go. of Lynn, Mass, the shaft ing and pulleys from the Cuyahogo Falls Co.,, Ohio, the belting flom the Jewell Co.,, Hartford. The building is but one story, but has full size basement, used now only for motive power and storage, (the wheel pit and all water works being outside, however, and giving plenty of space for engine and boiler when added. The grounds about the station are being