The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-28
IN r4E ELECTRICAL woRLp.

IN lTtE ELEO hINAL WOhIVs
The state subway commission has
ordered the telegraph and telephone
wires underground in Jersey City and
Newark
1t suggested that IL the electric
lamps uied as footlights are too brilliant
Tor actors eyes, the trouble might be
remedieh by using ground glass bulba
1t y said that the Palace hotel of
San Frahcisco, CAL, has the largest iso-
lated lighting plant In the United
States, there being 5000 incandescent
lamps
The courts of Georgia have recently
given ott some interesting telegraph
law. oie decision exempts telegraph
companies from penalties for failure to
deliver messages on Sunday, and an
other decides that a telegraph company
is not excused from using care because
q message Is ungrammntical.
The longest single span of wire in
the world Is used for telegraph in
India II is stretched over the river
kistuah, between Bezorah and Sectaua-
grum. II is over 5000 feet long, and
Ia stretched from the top Of one noun.
tain to tho top of another, each noun
tain being nearly 2,O10 feet high.
The Vienna Budapest fast line Of
electric railway enterprise, about which
SO much has been written, is said to
have been abandoned, not because such
railway as that proposed was not
practical but for the reason that the
passenger traffic 1t would enjoy would
not pay interest on cost and running
expenses.
The telephone has been put to q
new use in San Leandro, Cal A man OF
intelligence, who is afflicted with lep-
rosy, was isolated in cabin away from
the hospital A l1ind.hearted gentle
man of the town had telephone put
into the cabin and connected with the
reading room of the hospital, thus en-
nbling the leper to talk with, il he
might not visit or be visited by, people
Of the outside world.
The Swiss telephone system, which
is now under government control, is
said to be the best and cheapest in Eu-
rope. The government allows 500 calls
year to each subscriber, without ex-
ira charge, and all calls beyond that
number are charged for ut 1 cent each
The usual charge to subscribers is S24
for the first year, $40 for the second
year, and less than s16 per year from
then on. Telegrnms are received at the
telephone Office and delivered to the
telegraph department at 2 cents each.
Some interesting points on trolley
roads were brought out of discussion
recently carried on before the the Amer
ican Street Railroad association meet
ing. Among the electricians present,
representing various roads throughout
the country, it seems to be the universal
opinion that the current of their roads
was decidedly detrimental to the gas
and water pipes as we'll as to grounded
circuits within the districts in which
their roads operated. Various sugges-
tions as to how electrolytic action on
lead pipes might be stopped were made
but the only way out of the difficulty
seemed to be to stop running the road
or give up the use of the earth for re-
turn currents by running an overhead
return wire.
An electrically controlled machine
which will effectively stamp 10000 let
tcrs in an hour, is one of the interesting
inventions which has been adopted in
the post office department The letters
are placed on their edges in horizon
tai hopper, an ingenious device carries
one at n time between two feed rolls
in this way the first separation is eff
fected. A second set of feeding rolls
performs another part of tho work. In
II simple way the mixing rollers are
reached, when the envelopes are
stamped and passed on, one at time,
to the stacking table. A register shows
the number of envelopes cancelled. The
date and hour in the die must be
changed by hand. The various rollers
are run by belts, passing over different
sized puleys, which are in turn con.
nected by gearing to the,axle of tho
electric motor.