The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-12-03
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.

Half of the four hundred street
railroads in the United States are now
operated by means of electricity.
The Columbian Electric Perambu-
lator Co., is the name of Chicago con-
Germ recently started with s1,OOS,0O0
capital to manufacture and sell electric
ally propelled vehicles.
IA "A magnet at Willett's Point, Long
Island, is considered the largest and
strongest in the the world. 1t is made
of two fifteen-inch Dahlgreen guns,
wound around with eight miles of cable
and charged with electricity.
st is said that French electrician
has discovered method of applying re-
lay batteries to cable currents, making
practicable the use of landsline instru-
ments on cables of considerable length.
The device is reported to have worked
successfully on an S00-mile cable.
-Curling-irons are the latest things
heated electrically. They are manu-
factured so as to be adjusted by means
of silk cord and a plug to lamp socket
in dressing-room. All of the annoy
ances experienced from using the older
forms of hair-curlers may now be over
come if ones house has, an electric
lighting circuit in it.
The question of lighting the city of
Buffalo by electricity generated at Nj
agara Falls has brought out novel
suggestion. Instead of running wires
over the distance it is proposed to erect
| high steel towers at the falls and place
| reflector lights of enormous candle pow
er upon them. The rays of these lights.
| it is said, can be made to illuminate
Buffalo, and the cost of copper wires to
| and about the city and return will be
be saved.
ST. Louis has recently broken q rec
ord in electrical illumination. Trans
parencies of the presidents of the United
States, of Columbus and De Soto, d
mammoth revolving globe lighted by
200 incandescent lamps of various col
ors, an electrical portrait of George
Washington, ia statue of the Goddess
of Liberty, besides numerous brilliant
ly illuminated arches, formed the chief
points Of interest. The spectacle was
witnessed by $4,000 people.
The new system of electric street
| lighting which is to be introduced on
Fifth avenue will employ two instead
of one arc lamp on each post. In this
way more effective light and better diff
fusion are expected, SO that shadows
will not be noticeable. The wires are
to be concealed from view and connect
ed underground to the low voltage
mains of the Edison Co. Each lamp
will take about fifty volts, and the
pairs will be connected up in series and
the system in multiple, so that no wire
will carry over 10 volts electric pres
sure.
During the last hot wave a mar
was seen walking down the mos,
crowded street in large city with a
unique load. He had in his right hand
a storage cell about the size of a hand
valise, and in his left he carried tripot
on the head of which was fixed far
motor. A flexible cord connected til.
motor with the battery cell, and the
fan was spinning away at a rate thai
produced a lively breeze all around
There are, perhaps, few people who arc
desperate or enthusiastic enough I,
carry their fan motor outfit with then
in their peregrinations through ;
crowded city. but that the thing is pos
sible has been demonstrated.