Los Angeles herald., 1892-03-30
THE RAILROADS.
Progress Made in Building
Electric Motors.
A Specimen of the Latest Style
to Come Here.
Several Parties of ExcursiOnists
From the East Arrive.
A Description OF q Motor in Use in Poo
ria-Climate Refugees Arrive.
Notes.

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A recent number of the Chicago
Herald contains dispatch from Pc
oria, Illinois, in which the latest devel-
opment of electricity as applied to trans
portation is given as follows: Elec-
tricity as means of street-car propul-
sion on the primary battery system
showed itself to be success in the test
of the Pennock primary battery locomo-
tive on the Rock Island steam road to-
day. The locomotive is 16 feet long and
z feet wide. The engine cab is 5 feet
deep and feet wide. The cab is sur
rounded with large windows. The bat.
terry room is II feet long, feet wide,
and will hold 200 cells, or about thirty
horsepower. The electric motors are
built in tandem, one motor directly on
the axle, the other geared to it. The
old-fashioned chain gear is used, and
the motors are wound for fifty volts.
The power is all generated in pri-
mary battery, the electrodes of which
are carbon and zinc. The electrolyte
is composed of sulphuric acid,
chronic acid, and melted hyalo-
phane, which contains alumina, baryta,
potash, soda, sulphide of calcium and
sulphur. The retaining cell is of leath-
eroid, lined with lead, six inches square
and eighteen inches high. In this COM
pact space there are exposed 1000 square
inches of carbon surface and 500 square
inches of zinc surface the zinc is sur.
rounded by another solution in porous
pot, size three by sixteen inches. This
cell will deliver working capacity of
100 watts, 30 that horsepower can be
packed in floor space of two square
feet. One machine is called an auto
other an electric controlling switch.
Mr.. Pennock has perfected plans for a
large electric locomotive capable of run
ming passenger train, and when it is
finished it will be offered to the Penn
sylvania railway for a trial between
Chicago and New York. The present
locomotive will be run here for a fort
night, then taken to Chicago and ex-
hibited on one of the roads there. 1t
will then be shipped to California,
where several street railways are wait
ing for the system.
CLiMAIH ErUdEhos
The following is list of passengers
which arrived with J. @. Judson Il Co. e
excursion today: Mrs. Mumford and
daughter, H. R. Mumford, M. G. Num-
ford, G. Dalgren, Miss Ginty, Miss
Fleckerstein, Mr.. Matheison, B. Free
man, Miss Tighe, Mrs. L. Green, Miss
A. s. Clapp, Mr.. .Golding, G. E. Hatch.
Mr.. and Mrs. Aubitt and children, w.
Aubitt, A. Aubitt, Mr.. Fernald, B. Hart,
G. @. Franklin, Miss Cudmore, Boston,
Mass. Mrs. G. d. Silver and son, Aver
Junction, Mass. !; Mr.. and Mrs. McCook,
Mrs. Frye, Providence, r. /. Miss Julia
Harvey, White River Junction; Mrs. G..
7. Marsh, st. Johns, Quebec; M. G. Au-
burt, Lowell, Mass. F. Auditte, G. Au-
ditte, Mics Auditte, Fall River; A. Ul-
brech, Chicago; E. Miller and wife, New
York Miss Nellie Parsons, Miss Mabel
Parsons, Miss Laura Parsons, Indianap-
oils; Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Daley, ST..
Paul; Mr.. ]. s. Arnold, Parnell City,
Mo-. Miss Ana Coda, New York r.
Macarthur, A. Cameron, Chicago.
The following excursion arrived yes
terday in charge of A. Phillips & Co:
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Slavin, Miss Annie
Ward, Mrs. J..A. Yerex, Picton, Ont. !;
Miss l.. Cook, Mrs. L. Richards, Mo-
mence, ILL.,; Mics M. Dibble, ST..
Stephens, N. B.. Mrs. DR.. L. Webster,
New Haven; &. q. Menifee, Chicago ;
Mr.. and Mrs. M. H. w. Schillinger,
Miss E. A. Erickson. Miss S. johnson,
Geneva, ILL.,; j. M. Parkhurst, ]. Hen
messy, Boston; B. B. Caswell, L. B.
Greenall, Fall River, Mass; N. Dillon,
7. Dillon, Napaner, Ont; E. D..
\ n-k 4,
Mrs. A. Davis, Boston, Mass. R. s.
Hartford. Mich; Mr.. and Mrs. J. F.
Bates, Boston; Mrs. R. Graham, King
ston, Ont. r. P. Walken, M. H. Honey,
f. N. Dunbar, J. S. Rand, Boston,
Mass. N. Jessen, Mr.. and Mrs. B. M.
Nonkan, T. B. Nonkan, Peabody, Kan. +;
Mr.. and Mre. III. g. Hermensin, E. R.
Hermensin, New York cityi N. G. Saver,
Ralph Saver, Detroit, Mich.
THE CROPS ALL RIGHT.
Mr.. J. E. Blackman, travelling agent
for the Santa Fe company retuned yes
tetday from an extensive tour of the
country and in conversation with a
HERALD reporter stated that the crop
prospects were excellent.
''There has been a little frost, but not
enough to do any damage; the young
potato plants even have not been
touched. In a few places where the
soil was light the grain looked as if it
needed rain, but, on the whole, every
thing fin the way of crops is looking
well.
''There will be as many carloads of
lpotatos shipped out this year as last,
though the average is not as great.
II found one man in the southeast
part OF the county who is very anxious
to have the rainmakers 60 down there
and work their machines. He offered
to pay large part of the expense him
self. I don't see, however, but what
the only original ]. P. will look after
things all right"
NOTES.
Superintendent J.. A. Muir, of the
Southern Pacific, was in Redlands yes
terdsy.
Roswell Miller, president of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul railroad,
arrived in Los Angeles yesterday.
T. E. Stillman, director of the South.
0rn pacific comnQnv arrival in the citv