The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-23
POWER FROM THE CAR AXLE
New Railway Electric Lighting System
Tested and Found to Be q Success.
Hitherto Wasted Force Utilized and the Deadly
Kerosene Lamp DoneAwsy With-The New
York Cen,ral's Display at the Big Fair.

factory trial trip of o car lighted by new
railway electric-lighting system was made
last night over the Central railroad of
New Jersey. from Newark to Roselle
and return. The car has already been
run over three shousand miles OF track as q
test 1t is an ordinary railroad pssseD-
ger coach, in which there are twenty-five
eight-oaudle-power incandescent lamps
of which is in the dynamo
room, the small apartment ordinar-
lily used for toilet purposes. During
the trip the lights were clear. white and
steady. and the motion of the ear in no
way affected them, sufficient light being
given to fully illuminate 1T least
two such coaches. The one-horse-
power dynamo on which the cleo.
tricity IL generated gets it's power
from the axle Dy aseries of sprocket wheels
and chain belts and two shafts between
the axle and the direct connecting shafts
of the dynamo; One of the intermediats
shafts is movable. OF swinging. and makes
the chain belts conform TO every move
ment of the car at whatever speed.
The power taken from the car axle
has heretofore gone to waste and the process
by which 1t 10 being used to make electrici-
ty is called equalizing or power. and by
the mec hanical contrivances the Ill effects
of osoillatton and vibration have been over
come. While the train IL In motion the
lights are made directly from the cleo
tricity generated, mp to certain limit of
speed which ID fixed. When higher speed
is attained tho superfiuous electricity gen.
Grated is stored In batteries under the car
SO that at any gwen time there Is
lights four hours without the train NOV
inc. The machinery complete weighs about
nine hundred pounds. but no power Is
taken from the axle until the train
has attained the fixed degree of
speed. 1t is expected that in q short
time improvements will lessen the weight
and reduce the cost to less than that OF any
Of the present sy stems. besides giving bet
two Newarkers. each about TWENTY-FIVE
yenrs old. 1t IL the outcome OF nearly four
years of work.
First Train Run I'm America.
NEW YORK. April 22.-There was great
crowd all day long yesterday in the annex
of the Grand Central depot to see the SEQ
ton of the worlds fair exhibition to be
furnished by the New York Gen.
trail company. Alongside the latest
and largest engine constructed by the COM
pany was q fac-simile of the first
railroad train ever run in America, drawn
in 1881 by the locomotive Dewitt Clinton
over the Mohawk & Hudson road track.
The modern engine is to represent the Gen.
trails progress. and 10 of the class that now
draws the fast Empire State express
after which it Is named. IL Is the largest
and heaviest piece of machinery ever
turned out In this country, and Is mass OF
woods 1t is thirteen feet high. and weighs
alone more than one hundred tons
Alongside Of il: the , Ieproduotion
pigmy. Attached to the latter are
semble the old-style coaches mounted on
iron fianaed wheels The Dewitt Clinton
WAS built at the West Point foundry at
the foot of Beach street. New York. In
1881 She was mounted on four wheels
four feet SIX inches in diameter and there
were two cylinders five and half inches
in diameter by aixteen inches stroke. The
weight of tho engine was about SIX tons:
The boiler had thirty copper tubes two and
and half inches in diameter. As. IL
would require about ten days for this
little train to travel to Chicago IL will be
mounted on fat cars. and be drawn to the
worlds fair city behind the big engine
now on exhibition with IL.
Big Passenger War Impending
CHICAGO, April 22-The storm clouds
are already looming up on the horizon Of
the Western worlds fair passenger rates,
and, If they are not dissiutaed by May !,
there will be NO peace for many months
again. When the Atchison road announced
that IL WAS about to leave the Western
Passenger Association 1t declared that it
would under no circumstance begin q war
of rates unless compelled to do so in self
defense 1t sent q notice to-day to its
competitors that 1T had found ON the Denver
market tiolxets sold by the Denver g. Rio
Grande reading from Pueblo eto Kansas
City over the Burlington g. Missouri from
Denver, with the Pueblo coupon cut Of.
These tickets were all being sold at from
S. to 81 under the regular rate. The Atchi-
son announces that If these tickets are not
taken of the market by May IL will
immediately after that date make similar
reductions In the regular rates from Dem
yer TO Chicago and st. Louia This means
bound to last all through the period of the
worlds fair. If it is allowed TO begin. 1t
means tine utter GENERALIZATION of
all rates throughout the West dur
which have opposed the Atchison in the
fight of that road against the Denver d.
Rio Grande are not particularly favorable
to the rate Of 500 announced from Cali
say that it will not stick. and this, compiled
with the speck of war ct Denver, is
ominous of general upheavaL All of the
roads are now working desperately to get
their tickets ont TO ba on sale on Tuesday
next. They are all beng issued with in
structions to agents to demand their so per
cent. of double local rates for the round
trip.
The Mexican CentraPs New President.
BosToN. April 22.-Mr. A. A. Robinson,
who recently resigned tho position of gen.
eral manager of the Atkinson, was elected
president of the Mexican Central yester-
day. He will have his Office at the City of
Mexico. President Reynolds remains in
charge of the financial affairs of the COM
pany in Boston under another title than
presidents, the duties of the office practi-
cally being divided. His title will be de-
termined later.
NINE STUDENTS DISMISSED.