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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-02

1t is not likely that many people, either
in or out of New York, have even a faint
idea of the enormous proportions that
city and suburban passenger traffic have
reached here. The stranger, being of an
hquiring turn of mind, looked up some
of the figures, and enormous" is not ono
whit too strong an adjective to apply to
them.
About $50, 900 passengers are car
ried annually, or almost ESQ, 900 day,
by the lines of transportation within
the city limits. Tho exact figures for
1892 have not yet been made public, but
during 1891 the number was 40S, 903, o66
OF this total the elevated roads carry
more than 40 per cent, or rising 500 900
Q day. In 1891 the daily average was
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-02
Roads and Horses.

One of the best arguments for good
roads is contained in calculation re-
Gently published in one of the engineer
ing papers. 1t states that on the worst
earth roads, not muddy, but sandy, q
horse can draw twice as much as he can
carry on his back; on a fair road, 81
times as much; on good macadamized
road, nine times as much; on u smooth
plank road, twenty-five times as much;
on stone trackway, thirty three times
as much, and on metal rails fifty-four
times as much. The men who use the
country roads can therefore make money
by improving the roads rather than by
buying new horses every year or two.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-02
Fashion Notes.

The lightweight woods are exception
ally pretty and dainty in design and
color. Plaid leads with the youthful.
But one very neat and very peculiar
gown for young lady was made Of
twilled cashmere in snuff brown, with
hunters green velvet trimming. The
skirt was plain and had five rows Of
graduated green ribbon on it, and the
blouse and sleeves were also trimmed
with it. The blouse was plated in very
narrow plaits from the bust down to the
end of the points of the bottom Of the
blouse. The velvet crossed the waist
diagonally, and the upper part was
plated with box plaits held by green
velvet buttons. The back was plated
from top to bottom and had row OF
khe buttons down the middle. 1t was a.
Gerry handsome dress.
A new wrap for bride is made of
gray and white plaid cut on the bias,
with crystal silk yoke, sleeve caps and
forearms of dark blue, bordered with a
very narrow binding of astrakhan. The
hat was of the crystal silk, with silver
gray bow and aigret Tho wrap was
princess shape, with loose falls front
and back. This wrap is particularly
graceful and would look Us we'll mada
up III plain material.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-02

ton keepers, yardmen, photographers or
any other employees of the road. We
now have total of nearly 1000 people
supported by the passenger travel in and
to New York city, not counting in the
ferries, the internal travel of Brooklyn
or other tributary towns or the people
grocerymen, tailors, dressmakers, mar
ketmen and others-who live by min
lstering to the wants of the railroad peo-
pie, and tho total length of the train that
would be operated by these thousands
would be about ninety miles. or as far as
from New York to Philadelphia.
If tho $4,000 people engaged in the
passenger railroad traffic tributary to
New York were to form in q process
sion, marching III ranks of six, each rank
occupying two feet of space and sepa
rated from the next by three feet, the line
of this monster review would stretch
out over more than n miles of Broad
ways magnificent length. In ranks of
Six the parade would cover fifteen miles
of pavement, extending from tho Bat
terry to the Harlem river and four miles
out into Westminster county.
The evening of the strangers second
day in New York had set in by the time
his investigations had reached this point.
and though he could in his minds eve
BEHOLD alluring vistas of other curious
metropolitan statistics he determined to
cease at once from figuring. During the
remainder OF his visit he enjoyed the
sights and sounds of tho big town with
out analysis. I. D. MARSHALL.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-02

SOS,132. Perhaps two-thirds Of al pas,
sengers on surface and 81" trains, OF
6Sa, 900 a day, are going to and returning
FROM work. Though New York's trans.
portation facilities are Ssetter than those
OF any other city in America, if not in
the world, they are now painfully made
quate to the proper performance of the
work they are called upon to do.-
The elevated railroad lines have in
service 9iS cars and POI locomotives,
These, allowing so feet to each car and
20 feet to each locomotive, would stretch
over more than 10 miles of the 32i miles
of elevated tracks i'll the CITY.
The surface railroads of New York
operate 26S miles of track, over which
about $500 cars (2,37S in 1S0D are hauled
by about 5,400 horses (5,2SO in 1871.
There are 40 lines of surface road, 81
running longitudinally of the island and
22 across town. Allowing 40 feet for
each car and team, the cars of the sur.
face lines would, if placed on one track.
cover between 10 and 90 miles of rail.
Tho"L' trains and surface cars of Man.
haitian Island stretched in line would
reach moro than thirty miles, or twice
as far as from Buffalo to Niagara Falls.
The number of persons employed by the
elevated railroad i'll all capacities is, so
Colonel Hahn tells me, 5000 in round
numbers, and $4,000 people at least gain
livelihood i'll various ways from the
surface roads, 10000 in all living on
New York's passenger traffic. If each
worker supports one person besides him
self, there is grand total of 10000, or
enough people to fill city about as
large as Harrisburg, the capital of Penn
sylvania.
Now for the suburban traffic-the
traffic supported mainly by New Workers
who do not live in New York. Twenty
eight railroads terminate on or opposite
Manhattan Island, and thirty-one ferry
lines, exclusive of those going to Black
wells, Randalts, Bedloe's and Ellis is
lands, land passengers on Manhattan's
shores. In the nature of things it is not
possible to give exact figures in this di-
rection, but Colonel Dickinson, n local
railroad man of repute, who has patiently
gathered the statistics, estimates that
more than 342, 900 arrive here every day
by all ways, including railroads, ferrieS
and bridge, who earn their daily bread
in New York.
TO transport this vast multitude would
require $40 railroad trains of ten cars
each, each Car carrying sixty passengers.
Five hundred and seventy locomotives
would haul these trains, and allowing
sixty feet for each car-they range from
tifty-four to sixtyfour feet i'll length
and thirty feet for each locomotive, the
combined train that should carry them
all WOull be more Than 81 xtv rniIae 1O,,,r
Allowing six men to each of the $40
trains-a low estimates, APO men would
gain livelihood by running this train
Applying tho rule that each worker
supports one other person, and this big
train would give a living to 6,S40 per-
sons, and not counting in trucklnen, sta.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-02
Tho Salt in the ooean

The waters of the oceans and seas of
our globe hold not less than 60, 0OO, OOO,-
600, 1000, 900 tons of salt in suspension. If
.hese figures are correct and the ocean
should be entirely dried up, there would
DC n deposit of salt $50 feet deep over
every foot of the great basin. If taken
out and spread upon what is now dry
land: it would give us salt covering
DEARLY 1900 feet thick.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-02
Especial Correspondcncc.l

NEW YORK, Jan. ct was an early
winter morning on Manhattan Island.
City Hall park was deserted. To the
stranger who the day before had first
watched New York's strenuous thou
sands in their mad race with time and
each other after the dollars the place
seemed by comparison dead beyond tho
possibility of resurrection. AS he stood
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-02

eieSoiiO ASH1 tilere Cdlle from the cast
the dull sound of tramping feet. He
turned and say thin stream of men
and boys descend the stairs from tho
Brooklyn bridge. 1t was met at Broad
way by another stream that had come
up Barclay street. Before either of these
had dispersed third came up Cortlandt;
then Liberty street added its quota to
the rapidly growing throng.
Up Broadway and down Broadway
they came, first by dozens and then by
fiftles; every surface car brought its
load; crowds poured in from Fulton,
Wall, Park place and other cross streets,
and from tho elevated railroad stations
came thousands more. In half an hour
the park was crowded, and Park row
was filled with Il hustling, jostling null
titude. New York's industrial army
had begun another days battle. The
advance guard of this army was COM
posed almost exclusively of men and
boys, but rs the minutes passed women
and girls began to Appear, and long be-
fore o'clock they formed fair proper
ton of the mass.
While the stranger was watching the
influx of people at City Hall park other
thousands were pouring into the city at
various points along the islands periph-
cry. Railroad trains were hurrying
down the mountain sides and across the
marshes of northern New Jersey, along
the shore of the sound from Connecticut,
over the level reaches of Long Island
down the Hudson's picturesque banks
and from the uttermost parts of Staten
MI 10.
alive with great ferryboats, each bear
ing hundreds and some thousands of
people to their daily tasks. And the vast
multitude was made up mostly of New
Workers who do not live i'll New York.
1t was not until about o'clock in the
evening of the same day that the stran-
ger fully understood why so many New
Workers have established homes outside
the metropolis, and why the call for
rapid transit is so loud. Then he
boarded an elevated railroad train at the
City Hall station for ride up town. He
will never do it again if he can help it.
Although a well hammered man by ma
ture and training, he was obliged to
struggle with other men, and even with
women, to gain q foothold on the plat
AOi LII VI OH dSlldl Car. ln6n, SUl1Ier1Q&
from rain of fine cinders, trodden upon
and crushed by his fellow martyrs and
shivering in raw wind, he had to stand
during half hour of torture while the
train dragged its slow length to Forty
second street.
The next morning he read in the news
papers a report of q meeting of the rapid
transit commission, which came near
breaking up in row over the method
that should be employed to relieve the
city's congestion. To the stranger it was
as clear as it has been for years to New
Workers, both Manhattanese and sub
urban, that, if the metropolis is to keep
as residents q 1.-THE of tho people annu-
ally added to its working army, better
facilities for intramural transit must be
speedily provided. To the stranger it
was apparent also that the means is q
secondary matter; more rapid transit is
an imperative necessity.
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HE OLD RELIABLE AND POP
ular Dye Works ia the only place
ave your clothes perfectly dyed,
med and repaired.
ficcs very moderate. Goods sent
Express Will receive prompt atten.
Z. WALSAK, proprietor, cor.
Commerce and Campbell streets,
noko, Va. may29-6m.
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AHONK.
ETZ'S BULLETIN.

have again accepted the agency
10 celebrated "LADIES' TEN
FEET SHOES" Will sell
again under tho same guarantee
low rs ever.
ds damaged by flood will be sold
eat sacrifice. Come and look ut
there may be o pair to At you.
GOETz'B,
o. Salem avenue, Cor. Henry.
i'm.
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CITY DIRECTORY.
the Principal Business
Houses of Roanoke.

OF the Principal Business
Houses of Roanoke.
Tns following Is published daily for
the benefit OF strangers and the publia
generally. It includes all trades and
professions and cannot fail to provo ~
interest to all WHO intend trsns.cs,nr
business In Roanoke:
ARCHyTEors.
holland q DE sAUsSURE, Architects, NE
sonic Temple.
WILSON u HIGGINS, second moor. Cemme,.
cial Bank Building.
ATTORNEYS T-LAw.
MoHUGH n BAKER, Room 800 Terry BUILDING
BOOTS. SHOES. TRUNKS. Ero.
l. bAChRACH, 81 Salem ave.
BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS.
Ed. AMwEG, Terry Building.
FRANK X. MAY, Rom 2iO Terry Building.
BUSINESS COLLEGE.
NAT. BUS. COLLEGE, Srd ave. Il Henryst,
CANDY, MAN.FR. FANoY oAKE BAKHw
d hoe CREAM FURNIsHER.
CAToGNI'S, 80 Salem ave.
OLOTHIER, TAILOR AND HArvup
JOS. COIN tE. II. Dawson, Manager), a saIsr.
ave. " S"i"A3
CoRNICEs. SLATE AND TIN ROOFING.
TIE ROANOKE ROOFING AND INITIAL CON.
NICE COMPANY. Room 7os, Terry Building.
COURT sTENOGRAPHER.
CHAs. B. GRAVES. Office room 6O6 Terry Bldg.
FUNERAL DIRECTOR.
q; W. s1SLRR, 4o7 Second st. n. 9. (conina, cas-
kets. robes, &c.), Tel. 109
FURNITURE. CARPETS, ETC.
COPPER d STONE, 10 Salem ave. q. c.
GRoCERs.
F: III: WALKER, Campbell st., door cast OF Jes
HARDWARE, WHOLESALE AND RH.
TAIL.
BROWN Ru'U 3 JOHNSTON. IL Jefferson street.
HAY, GRAIN, Sc.
DANIEL q HoLLADAY, IA Kirk. rear 20.
LIQUOR DEALERS.
OPPENHBIM " CO.'S EXCHANGE. cor Oon,
mcrce and Campbell streets.
LUMBER, LATHs AND sHINaLEs.
W. II. CLARE " Co, Office 100 Henry street,
TINES building, =. o. box 1856. Eyerythinc
that goes into building ut mill prices. BY the
car Dad only.
MERCHANT TAILORa.
LEWIS. TIMES Building.
PAwNBROKERs.
8. NYBURG, 80 Railroad ave., SO.
PHOTOGRAPHS.
ROANOKE PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO, No.
Il. V. LINEBACK ucccssor to Rutsler, q Sailor.
avenue.
PLUMBING, GAS-FITTLNG, 40.
ROANOKE SANITARY PLUMBING CO., No,
10 Sonth Jefferson Street.
PRACTICAL HORsEsHOER.
H.; HALEY Greats oil diseases of horses fee,,,
Fourth ave., between Jefferson and Henry sts.
REAL ESTATE.
SIMMONS d TINSLRY. 10 Jefferson ct.
RENTAL AGENTS.
II. H. O'MOHUNDRO, 4 s. Jefferson street.
sCAvENGER AND GARBAGE WORK
PRYOR WOoDSON, 293 Fourth ave. n. W.
SEWING MACHINES.
NRW HOME, j. a. CAMPBELL. Agent, sOs
Henry street.
SHOEMAKERS
ID. MORGAN, the Shoemaker. Makes and re-
pairs oil kinds OF boots and shoes at 1O4 Nelson
street. opposite market house. Satisfaction
guaranteed.
STEAM LAUNDRIES.
DIXIE, Franklin snd Second sts., tel. 1877.
sTENOGRAPHERs TYPEwRIrnRa.
o. NJ. HOGSKTT, room II Masonic Tomplc.
TRANSFER COMPANIES.
ROANOKE TRANSFER COMPANY, Packaaa
Room, South Jefferson st.. tel 119.
CITY MARKET.
OHOECE MEATS,
BRBADY (keeps the best, stall 8, Market Houaa.
g. y. CATT, stSll No. (eausagc specialtyS
]. w. HOGAN, Stall 3.
THOMAS NELSON. stall No. 8,
W. N. SALK, stall No. 16.
CURED HAMS, BEEF, LARD, 40.
H. j. KEMP (specialty beef tonguee), stall IL.
FRESH FISH. OYSTERS AND PRODUCE,
b. K. oDELL BROS, City Market.
DRESSED FOWLS, VEGETABLES. M.
8. j. AKERS, City Market
j. w. SIMCOE, City Market.
PRODUCE. FISH AND OYSTERS.
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'ERICK J. AMwEG, o. E., m.
Soc. g. e. 81 Engr's Club OF
lphin;engineer, contractor and
Commercial Bank Building,
3, Va. apr22-tf
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'HR ROANOKE TRANSFER
Company is prepared to do ali
Ids OF hauling. They keep good
CONS, good teams and rospon-
10 drivers. Prompt attention.
Ices, Freight depot and jefferson
act, south. Telephone, 119.
ctl-l-yr
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PERSONAL POLITICS.
HERE is SOME INTERESTING GOSSIP
ABOUT PUBLIC MEN.

MIR. Cleveland Thinks Carlisle rs tho Great
est Man In tho Country-A Dark Horse
for Secretary of State-CIeveland and
Gresham.
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TRAvELI IN NEW YORK
1T WOULD FEED, HOUSE AND cLoTHE
A CITY LIKE HARRISBURG.

Forty Thousand People mt Least Support
ell by IL" and Surface Roads-A Ninety
Mile Train-A Stranger Grapples with
tho Rapid Transit Problem.
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Y II KENNKRLY,

AGENTS FOR
ebratcd Lincoln Block coal and
in Pocahontas gas Goals and
Office: Norwich Lock Works.
promptly filled. II 81 6m
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MONEY TO LEND.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
ertisomcnts In this column will xopsy
porusnl.

NEW CONCERN.-E. w SYKES
IN has opened first-class carriage
shop next to his grocery store, be.
tween Patterson avenue and Rorcr
avenue, on Ninth street e.w., where lie
is prepared at all times to do any and
all kinds OF repairing, manufacture
buggies and all kinds OF wagons ut
short notice. L. w. Sykes Is u first.
class carriage maker, No. 309, $40. Sl2
Ninth street, telephone 2VS. 127 limo
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-02

Why do you read this when
you know it Is an advertise
mcnts You have begun, now
finish your reading. What we
want You to know is: That we
do printing.
LOUKABlLL'S PRINTING
HOUSE,.
ROANOKE, VA.
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ID. MORGAN, the Shoemaker. Makes and re-
pairs oil kinds OF boots and shoes at 1O4 Nelson
street, opposite market honse. Satisfaction
guaranteed.
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SHOEASAKERS.

NRw HOME, j. a. CAMPBELL. Agent, suz
Henry street.
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TRANSFER COMPANIES.
ROANOKE TRANSFER COMPANY, Pachaaa
Room, 8 South Jefferson at. tel. 119.
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ROANOKE PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO, No.
Salem avenue.
Nv. LINEBACK uccessor to Eutsler. Is Salon
avenue.
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CITY MARKET.

OHOIOE MEATS,
BRBADY (keeps the best, stall 8, Market Houaa.
e. Il. CAT1, stSll Mo- / (eausage a specialtyS
J. w. HOGAN, Stall 8.
THOMAS NELSON. stall No. 8,
W. N SALK, stall No. 18.
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FRESH FISH, OYSTERS AND PRODUCE,
b. K. oDELL BROS, City Market.
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CURED HAMS, BEEF, LARD, 40.
*. j. KEMP Especially beef tonguee), stall IL.
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SEWING MACHINES.

sCAvENGER AND GARBAGE WOBK
PRYOR WOoDSON, 293 Fourth ave. n. W.
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PLUMBTNo, aAs-FIrTINo. M.

PRACTICAL HORsESHOER.
ID. HALRY Greats oil diseases OF horses feet,
Fourth ave., between Jefferson and Henry Gta
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PHOTOGRAPas,

PAwNBROKERs.
3. NYBURG, 80 Railroad ave-, g. o.
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STEAM LAUNDRIES.

STEAM LAUNDRIES.
DIXIE, Franklin snd Second sts., tel. 1877.
STENOGRAPHERS O. TYPEWRITHRa.
o. NJ. HOGSRTT. room II Masonic Tomp,e.
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MERCHANT TAILORa.
LEWIS. TIMES Building.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-05-04

One of those English customs which
would be more honored In the breach
than in the observance is that of pre-
senting a lecturer to the audience by
a chairman. This unnecessary pre-
siding officer, having read up on the
subject, "rises to say few words Of
introduction, and sometimes antici-
pates some Of the lecturers best
points.
In an English village loquacious
squire and a garrulous rector both in
troduced a lecturer, and their "few
words" occupied nearly all the time
which had been allotted to the lect-
ure. The lecturer, however, was
equal to the occasion. He spoke
about twenty minutes, and then,
looking at his watch, said:
Ladies and gentlemen, / must now
leave, that l may catch my train, but
will ask your permission before. l
depart to suggest for your considera-
tion an occurrence which took place
on board a small American vessel.
"The captain, the mate, and pas
senger dined together. A roly-poly
pudding was placed on the table, and
the captain said to the passenger:
"'Stranger, do you like ends?'
"'No.'
oh, don't yer? Me and my mate
does;' and the captain cut the pud-
ding in two, giving one end to the
mate and appropriating the other
The audience saw the point, and
heartily applauded.
An Englishman, temperance lect-
urer. was invited TO speak on total
abstinence. Being nobody in particu-
lar, he was placed last on the list Of
speakers. The chairman also intro
duced several speakers whose names
were not on the list, and the audi
ence were tired out, when he said:
"Mr. Bailey will now give US his adj
dress"
aMy address," said Mr.. Bailey, ris-
ing, ais As, LOughborough Park, Brix-
ton Road, and / wish you all good
night. youths Companion.
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Ages OF Men Before tho Flood.

1t may safely be said that a very
slight error in the translation Of He
brew numerals has led to all the ap-
parent disparity, and on the author
ity of Genesis vi. 3, it may be accepted
that the age of the antediluvian was
not to exceed 100 years. That passage
reads; "And the Lord said, my spirit
shall not always strive with man, for
that he also is flesh; yet his days
shall be an hundred and twenty
years"
AS already remarked, the errors in
the ages Of the patriarchs as given in
the Bible may be ascribed to the i'm
proper rendering of concrete numer-
ais by the translatOrs. The verse
Genesis v. 8, is properly rendered, and
reads thus: adam lived a hundred
and thirty years, and begat a son"
ETC., but If that verse had been trans
lated in the same way as the fifth
verse is, in the authorized version, it
would read thus: adam lived thirty
hundred years, and begat a sonl"
This shocked the consciousness OF the
Christian translator and he was
driven to the true rule Of the Hebrew
use in cases of concrete numerals. In
the fifth verse the authorized version
reads: "And all the days that Adam
lived were nine hundred and thirty
years, and he died." The true reading
by the Hebrew rule would be; "And
all the days of Adam which he lived
were hundred and thirty and nine
years, and he died." making the en-
tire age Of Adam 1879 years instead Of
$50 years.
Further, SO primitive was the sys-
tenn of enumeration at the date Of
the writing of Genesis that the He
brews had no means Of writing nine
hundred, or any number of hundreds
above one, without repetition OF cir
cumlOcutiOn.
The following are put forward as
the ages Of the patriarchs before the
Deluge, with the remark that they
are subject to a few uncertainties in
the numbers below one hundred:
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cars will be suspended. The transit
on one of these rails will be in the
direction opposite to that on the
other, and the cars will be firmly held
in place and perfectly secured against
tipping or running off the track by a
grooved wheel, which is to be the
motor.
Above the car there will be two
separate wheels of from five to eight
feet in diameter, one on each end of
the car, and beneath, on one side of
the car, will be four guide wheels,
which will run on continuous side
rail secured to the sides of the posts,
thus preventing any swinging motion
from rapidity Of transit or the wind.
These guide rails answer also for a
conductor of the electric current, the
upper rail supplying the return cur
rent, a connection being made through
the motor attached to the car wheels,
thus forming the circuit.
An endless oblong track is to be
built in the vicinity of Passaic to test
the practcability of the new scheme.
On it the car can be run hundreds Of
miles without stopping and be in
sight all the time.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-05-04

acrimonious discussion the consent
of both the late and the present
German empress had been obtained
to her marriage with Prince Alexan-
der Of Battenburg, who for the space
of few years ruled over Bulgaria
The match excited great irritation in
state circles. The most elaborate
preparations were made by Queen
Victoria and Empress Frederick for
the wedding, the trousseau was pur-
chased, and the presents already
sent, when suddenly news was re-
ceived ten days before the time ap-
pointed for the ceremony that the
prince had just married at Cannes a
very beautiful opera singer, named
Loisinger, the daughter of the valet
and Of the cook of the old Austrian,
Gen. Won Martini. The union has
not, however, proved a happy one,
and to-day Prince Alexander, who
now bears the title of Count Hart
neau, and his plebeian wife are sepa-
rated.