The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-19
ELECTRIC COOKERY.
ENGLAND TO ROAST ITS BEEF
WITH THUNDERBoLTs.

An Important Now Sy5tem-Houso-
keepers in West st. Fancras Sup
piled With Electric Heat as Well as
Light at Reduced Day Rates.
From the London DSilv Teleoraph.
In st. Pancras Of London, in the western
portion Of the parish. supplied by the vestry,
electrical current is now obtainable during
the daytime at a cost Of pence per board
Of trade unit, and during the night at 6
pence-that is to say, IL pence cheaper
than the price charged by certain of the
metropolitan companies, and 2 pence
cheaper than the maximum parliamentary
rates demanded by majority of them.
The explanation OF the matter rests in
the simple fact that the ratepayers in St.
Pancras have their own electrical station
and plant, erected at a cost of $4,000; but
they do not need to pay high dividend to
shareholders or TO provide salaries for an
expensive staff. During the past few
months the estimates of Prof Robin
son, the electrical engineer, have been
more than realized The Consumes who
represent all classes from the householder
who has only five lamps to the large bust
ness establishment with 1000, take all the
current which can be at present generated
in StanhOpe street, and the immediate ex-
tension of the premises If necessary to meet
the growing demand in the western dis
trict, while new stations will be wanted for
the northern and southern divisions of the
perish.
DAY ELECTRICITY.
In West St. Pancras the mains are con
structed to carry rs 900 lamps, the existing
number supplied being 10000. During the
daylight hours the consumption Of electric
ltY necessarily is limited, and as the supply
is continuous, available at any time during
the twenty-four hours--the staff being
worked on the 3-shift principle-the vestry
hasr esolved to encourage the use of cleo
trieity for motive power during the
day time by charging their subscribers one
half the rate which remains applicable to
that part OF the day when the current is
utilized for lighting surposes. Already the
officials have demonstrated that this can be
done, not only without a loss, but at a
profit, for the machinery need not then
stand idle during the daylight hours.
There are indications that tradesmen and
others requiring an economical motive
power will avail themselves of this oppor-
tunity. For example, one hair-dresser has
arranged to run his machinery by electric
ity at a cost of l pence day for the current
supplied. 1t mas also been practically DEM
onstrated that at pence per unit and even
at 6pence, electrical cooking apparatus, with
all kinds Of domestics labor-saving
appliance, which some people have
regarded in the light of expensive expert
ments, may be practically and profitably
employed. Sewing machines, knife clean
ers, coffee mills, pumps, fans, ventilators,
ETC., may be driven with one-eight-horse-
power motor, costing &5. One such motor
may work the lot in turn, and in any part
of the house, as the motor is portable The
cost of the current would be three-eighths
Of penny per hour. No knowledge OF the
machinery is necessary.
AS TO ELECTRIC COOKERY.
In regard to cooking, visitors to the
Crystal palace who have watched the
demonstrations carried out under the super
intendencs of h. J. Dowsing, representing
Crompton q Co., may have seen that the
results obtained from the electrical frying
pans, kettles end hot plates are, from q
culinary standpoint, quite satisfactory. 1t
IS difficult to say who discovered the princi-
pie of the electrical cooker Suppose you
took an ordinary frying pan," says Mr..
DOwslng, land coated the bottom with an
Insulating enamel, in which you imbedded
the ziGzng wire conveying the
current, and you would have
the exact form of the cleo
trical cooker" To prevent radiation from
the Insulating enamel, the Llate on its under
surface is protected with asbestos, contained
in a metal case. The wire is made OF
secret alloy, and becoming very hot, makes
the iron plate above it, with which it is IN
contact, hot also, QS0' to 500S) but 1t is
impossible that it should become incandes-
cent, partly because the resistance increases
when the wire itself is heated. and there
fore becomes, to a certain extent, an auto
matte regulator. The wire, too, will carry
certain amount of electricity, and no
more.
ADVANTAGES OF ELECTRIC COOKING.
A householder might use either the cooker
or the two lamps al the same cost. In six
u ten minutes. on the cooker, he could do
NIL ofz ot o,on tfVV,a fn~ hos, 1
farehing and then switch the current back
to mis- lamps. At the recent dinner at the
Crystal palace to electricians seven cookers
simultaneously at work in the banqueting
room cooked fifty mutton outlets, thirty
chicken outlets and forty pancakes, and
made forty cups Of coffee Ore great
advantage is the cleanliness OF the
utensil, its immunity from the risk
OF fire and its freedom from unpleasant
fumes. The electrical kettle, constructed
on the same principle is quite self-contained.
As water requires considerable heat to
bring it to the boiling point. quart will
need to be in the kettle about fifteen min
utes before it is ready for the teapot, and a
little more electrical current viii be neces-
sary than for the cooker. All that one
needs to do in using either frying pan. ket-
lie or motor is to plug the wire into connec-
lon with the main supplying the house.
which can be done in an instant without
any technical knowledge what's ever.
At present the initial cost of these cleo
trlcal appliances is somewhat high-the
price of the cooker being So; but it has been
suggested that, as other electrical fittings
ere obtainable on hire the householder ought
not to be put to any capital outlay whatso-
ever in order to make the fullest use of the
cheap electrical current which, in
st. Pancras at all events, the vestry
is prepared to produce, with
profit to the ratepsyers sufficient to pay for
the cost of the public lighting of the streets
by arc lamps. The "leads" which supply
The lncandesoent lamps will suffice for the
cookers and other apparatus, so that no
extra outlay in the first cost of the installa>
tlon will be, 1t is said, the result Of employ
Ing electricity, not only for lighting, but for
heating and motive power as well, in a
large variety of ways, yet to be completely