The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-08-21
WHEELING DAILY INTEILIGENoER MONDAY, AUGUST a. 1888

cheap" fare of five cents. Their time
from tho Palmer House is about one
hour; tho time OF the elevated thirty.
five minutel from Congress street, and
the time Of the Illinois Central fifteen
minutes from Van Buren, street,
These facilities are not all the means
Of reaching the lair that tho location at
Jackson Park invoked into life There
is the great big water line known as
the Worlds Fair Transportation Com
pany, running boats every half hour
from the pier ut Van Buren, street to
the pier at South inlet on the lake front
OF the fair, a distance oil seven miles,
for Is cents, or % cents for the round
trip, by which route You get cool ride
on hot day, and also an excellent view
OF the south side frontage OF tho city on
your way down. The time consumed
is generally-Qbout three-Quarters OF an
hour, You can step from the boat at
the pier ut South inlet onto curious
device for entertaining and exhilarating
the multitude who come to the fair to
be amused, viz, a movable platform
that goes round the area OF the pier in
the form Of the figure s, an eighth OF u
mile, and keeps going all day long, ac-
cess to it being gained first by the ppr'
chase of a fve-Ceut ticket, and next By
stopping onto a slowly moving platform
that parallels it all the way round, like
the tire on the ielloe OF the wheel.
There you can sit and ride all the day
long, and view the lake and the fair
frontage as you make tho circuit, and be
famed by the gentle zephyrs that are
there always blowing, aud all for the
ridiCulously cheap price OF i've cents.
Situated as | am near the fair grounds,
l can take in from my hotel good deal
OF the transportation problem every
day. All the elevated trains and all
the siXty-frst and Sixty-third street
cross.town electric ears pass before my
eyes. The eleCtrics arc n sight to behold
every morning and evening, You have
seen bees swarm on the limb OF tree
in such numbers as to completely hide
the limb, This is pretty much the case
with these Glectric cars, They are almost
hidden under the piles and clusters OF
people who are in them and on them,
and hangingon to them loan extent that
! suppose You never saw in Wheeling on
the biggest day the electric cars ever had
there, II once bad any doubts as to
the future OF electricity as The motive
power OF the future, they have been
dispelled by what | have observed on
these cars. A train OF three cars thus
crowded goes by US here at the corner
OF Rhodes avenue and Sixty.hrst street,
with the rush and roar OF western
tornado, AT night the point OF contact
between the trolley and the wire emits
a succession OF sparks and flashes as 1t
skins along that make these cars look
like flying meteors shooting along the
highway. Not only are they propelled
and lit up inside by electricity, but they
catch, such a surplus OF IT that it can
find no sufficient vent over the arma-
lures underneath or through the
incaudescents inside and must needs,
like Wagners Flying DutChman,"
make ghosts OF themselves by these
corruscations at the mast head.
There is no object lesson in the great
electrical building on the grounds that
interests me more than the daily exhibi-
ton Of the speed and power Of these
heavily loaded cars that are propelled
by Il power 'as mysterious and invisi-
bio as the will OF man" as some one
said OF it.
Not only are these swiftly aud power.
fully moving street cars propelled by
this mysterious power, this dominant
power of the future, but likewise the
elevated trains that move upon the
"Intramural" railway inside the
grounds ut the fair. l like to visit the
power house OF the company at the
south end OF the park and see them
generating this mysterious power
through the medium Of one great,
swiftly moving wheel, "whose seed is
in itself," rs were the endowed sources
OF life in the opening drama OF creation;
evolving power from the CoiIel magnets
within it, and sending it forth OH a wire
to make thousand other wheels re-
volve. There is nothing in all the ex.
hibits OF the fair so mysterious as this
evolution OF electrical power. 1t is like
the fable Of Jupiter stamping on tho
earth and releasing the giants OF Olym-
pus to work their will on mankind.
Think of wheel that generates five
thousand amperes OF electrical force.
only two thousand Of which are neCes.
sary to KEEP all the trains moving on
the Iutramural railway, and that fur
nishes at the same time an indefinite
amount OF light for multitude Of
lamps. What is the ultimate destiny
OF q power that can furnish at once
power, heat and light. In the great
electrical building NIL thaso phenomena
are to be seen. Animal life Is thore
produced by electricity. The incuba-
tors pour forth their broods Of duck.
lings hatched by electricity. Bread is
baked aud meat is cooked by electricity.
Steel is melted and welded by electric.
ity. Engraving on china and glass lie
done by electricity. There is no end to
its functions. A. W. C.
A WONDERFUL SEARCH LIGHT.
Tho Largest III the World Mt tho Worlds
Fair-An Interesting Description.