The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-07
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.

The larger proportion of street rail-
| way mileage in the United States is
operated by electric power.
The New York & Philadelphia
Traction Co. proposes 20 construct an
electric road from New York to Phila-
delphia. with lines running down from
Trenton on both sides of the Delaware
through the groups of towns which
dot the banks of that waterway.
Officials in Philadelphia say that
the passenger business. which was di-
verted by the trolley lines. is coming
back, and that the receipts are begin
ming to show an Improvement. The
introduction of trolley lines has. how
ever. checked the construction of short
lines by the steam roads. An illustra-
ton of this is found in the prospective
abandonment by the PENNSYLVANIA of
line from point on the Germantown
branch to the Trenton cutoff.
There is wonderful artesian well
Mt Pierre. = ID. Its temperature is 100
deg. 1t is SO highly magnetic as to-
magnetic "a knife blade in few min
utes. and it has almost precisely the
medical qualities OF the Carlsbad water
of Europe. Its flow is about one thou
sand gallons minute. ur l.JO0. 600 gal
Ions per day. Natural gas to the
amount OF about 5000 cubic feet per
day comes up with tine water. being
thoroughly mixed with it. rising from
the water as il leaves the pine. where
1t will burn continuously with large
flame. The well i I. 100 feet deep. ard
is siX-inch bore.
The National School of Electricity
has recently established headquarters
in New York city at the Decker build
ing. Union Square. Classes viii be or
ganized at several points in the city as
well as in Brooklyn and surrounding
towns. Another office has been opened
in Philadelphia, in the DrexeI build
ing. and q Boston Office Is also 20 be
opened. From the western office ut
Chicago. classes have been organized
in seven western and middle states. ag-
grega ting in membership something
over l 800 students. Tesla Edison and
Others eminent in electrical sciences
have been announced as the faculty"
of this school. and the inference has
Al
the actual teachers. But this is not so.
These. according to the Electrical
World. are only an honorary body,
though some of the members will pre-
pare the lesson sheets in departments
assigned to them.
Some months ago an English man.
ufacturer made a number of expert
ments to- determine the best method of
his cloth mills. Gas jets,
lamps and arc lights were
all tried and found wanting. Finally
l novel idea was adopted. The walls
md ceiling of a room were paint
I'd white. and under each of a number
If arc lights was suspended u reflector.
which threw all the light up to the
white ceiling. from which it was re-
1ected to the room below. This sys-
EN- was successful from the outset,
md has attracted considerable atten-
ion among English weavers. 1t has
)een adopted also by a braid mill in
'awtucket to light a braiding room
% feet wide and 200 feet long. The
DOM is admira bly, adapted for such 4
ystem of illumination. as there are no
columns in it, and but few belts near
me wall. On entering it. it is said.
here seems to be an absence of proper
ight. but in few minutes the feeling
# dusk disappears in the unusually
ven, steady illumination.