Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-13
ALOOK AROUND.

CONCERNING the training of the police
n the line OF local geography, OF which
spoke some days ago, superintendent
OMara has this to say. The Pittsburg
officers are all residents Of the city OF
years. standing, and in general way are
familiar with the location of public build
ings and places OF interest. In regard to
streets, and especially new ones which are
constantly being created, he admits that in
the East End districts especially 1t would be
we'll to have the officers inform themselves
further. With this in view he will shortly
inaugurate some system by which the men
can become acquainted with the names and
locations OF streets and alleys on their beats
so as to be able to answer questions asked
by those in search of information. The men
are all provided with copies OF the official
city hand book, which contains O list OF
streets and much other information for
which there may be sudden need while on
duty.
AND so Fred Leslie, the thorough actor
and artist in his own line. has Joined the
silent majority, and of the famous comed1-
ans, male and female, who made the Gaiety
in London the most famous variety theater
in the English-speaking world, only Lefty
Lind remains, for Nellie Farren is likely, so
the cables say, to follow her husband. Up to
the time of his sudden Illness Leslie was
playing in "Cinder Ellen Up Too Late" at
the Gaiety and funnier more amusing per-
formance was never given by him. In some
ways he was too English in mannerisms to
be entirely agreeable to Americans, but this
was the fault of those who furnished him
lines and parts, rather than OF the man or
the actor himself. AS story-teller, where
he had to depend upon his own merits, or in
the thousand and one bits of comedy busi-
ness which he originated and which were
stolen from him by dozens of smaller fry, he
showed himsel! to be n keen comedian, full
of native wit and drollery.
AS market for fine oil paintings of high
price, Pittsburg is rapidly growing in the
estimation of the dealers. A foreigner, who
has been coming here for years with n really
good lot of examples OF the various English
and French schools, tells me that his sales
have steadily grown from year to year until
they have reached goodly sum-sufficient
tojustify him in bringing with him 40 to so
pictures worth from 5000 to $4,000 each,
which he exhibits for q month or two at q
time. A number of mon of moderate means
have become picture buyers and to quote
the dealer, they have in the main shown
good taste and good judgment in their Sc
lections.
A NEW YORKER, who deals in holiday
fancy articles, tells me that the Christmas
card fad, n thing which grew from 30 cent
to $50 proportions in few years, tnat fad OF
painted satins and all that sort of seductive
ness, has died q natural death. There are
signs of the funeral in the stores to be sure
and they will continue, nc doubt, for many
Christmasses to come, but the really correct
fhinp W nj n n
a person to whom you do not wish to make
a present, is to send benison by telegraph
or your visiting card with a written mes
sage.
In a short time the PENNSYLVANIA Rail-
road Company will begin work on the addi-
ton to its present station and Office build
ing, on Broad street, Philadelphia. The
com any has purchased all of the property
between its present building and Market
street. and the new building, when COM
pleted, will be q splendid home tor this cor
poraticn.
I SPOKE some time ago of the fact that
the Westinghouse Electric Company was at
work on experimental machinery for the
Niagara Falls Power Company. This plant
will be one of the wonders of the world
when it is completed. 1t means the pur-
chase and operation of more electrical ma
chinery than has so far been made by all the
companies of the United States for electric
light plants. The power company owns the
power on both the Canadian and American
sides of the Falls, and will establish there n
plant of 250, ,G00-horse power which will be %
times greater than any power plant in the
world. BY means of the wonderful Tesla
discoveries, which are owned by the
4 IUaeH 81,
will distribute power to any and all sorts
of electric light or manufacturing establish
ments within q radius of 80 miles. This
much has already bcen definitely settled
and experiments are in progress which al
ready indicate that the same degree of
power can be furnished anywhere within
100 miles of the Falls. In addition to the
$50 900 horse power machinery for gener-
atng purposes the power company will use
from 100000 to 5O000 horse power dynamos
to distribute the power. The same system
of distribution proposed by the Westing-
house people for this plant is now in suc-
cessfuI operation in Southern California
where with 10000 volts on the Tesla process
the power is transmitted 2S miles In
the Niagara plant the voltage will be at
least 10000. The loss in transmission on
these high voltages is comparatively small
With a voltage of q, 600 it is expected that
100 miles can be covered.
THIS is not only great triumph to the
alternating current system, but it also
makes it certain that long distance electri-
cal railways can be operated by this process.
The road between st. Louis and Chicago, for
example, can be run with stations covering
80 miles of road each, and on this passenger
traffic can be handled, where there are no
switches and no freight trains in the way.
at tremendous speed. When it is realized
that the power plant at Niagara will have
capacity for 1900, 600 arc lights, its enormous
strength can be seen and its possibilities es.
timated. WALTER.
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