The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-04
Scranton's Fine Future.

Scranton's Fine Future.
After noting the fact that power gen.
Grated at Niagara and electrically
transmitted, will cost the initial charge
of SIS per yearly horsepower, plus the
cost of electrical apparatus for the
utilization Of the delivered current;
and also the fact that the yearly cost
of q steam-generated horse power
under average conditions approXlmates
| $le.24, Power for June says:
There is another source of latent power,
less talked Of, perhaps, than Niagara, but
! possessing, it seems to us, great possblli-
| ties of development. We refer to the i'm
mense culm piles of the anthracite regions.
In Scranton, for example, fuel is ,deliv-
cred at the boiler room at % cents per
! ton, not so very bad fuel either If we may
! credit the statement of the secretary of
the board of trade that the average con-
sumption is 3 1-3 pounds per hourly horse
| power, and the average fuel cost per year
less than 81 per horsepower. Suppose
| there were used of it, however, twice as
much per horsepower as of Mr. Man
nings' expensive coal, then the price per
horsepower would be $Gl25 in the plant
where no counter charge is made for ex-
haust steam and s4.75 when one-quarter
of the steam is so used, making the total
cost per horsepower per year $l5.S75 and
| $1i.i9 respectively. This, remember, is the
total cost including every conceivable
charge that can be trumped up against
the power plant, while the SIS a Niagara
! is the bare cost of the water or electric
| current.
| 1t has been suggested that electricity
might be economically generated by sta
tions at the culm piles for transmission
to distance. 1t is true that Scranton has
no Buffalo within twenty miles, but when
| the financial practlcability of really long
| distance transmission shall have been
demonstrated she will be at an immense
advantage. In New York state everything
east of Syracuse Is nearer to Scranton
than to Niagara, and Scranton Is nearer
to Boston than Niagara Is to New York,
while between Scranton and the metropolis
are several large manufacturing cities Ike
Newark and Paterson, capable of absorb
ing an immense amount OF power. Water
in the coal regions is apt to be impreg-
mated wuth sulphurous products, and to he
very injurious to boilers and pumps.
Scranton has, however, an abundant sup
ply of water, absolutely free from any
corrosive ingredients, and an excellent
boiler water in other respects Boilers
which have been run for ten years with
only the ordinary precautions against
scale are found to be clean and without
indications of corroslon.
There seems to be no wildness in the
prediction that Scranton will yet be
the center of the electrical industry.
An exchange In a timely article calls
attention to the fact that trolley cars
are not the only menace to pedestrians.
Another danger appears in the increas-
ing horde Of bicycle riders, who, in
many instances, seem to consider that
the man on foot has no rights that they
are bound to respect. This Is more
noticeable with the young riders; and
as a rule the less control the 'cyclist
has over his wheel the more anxious he
seems to be to exhibit his skill in
lodging pedestrians and vehicles while
riding at breakneck speed. Where one
rider exercises care on crowded streets
there are sometimes n dozen hump
backed freaks whose wheels are with
out bells, lamps or other signals of
warning, and who depend upon their
own deXterity to avoid collisions as
they spin along at nghtfall. Scranton
has the usual quota OF this dangerous
class, and it would not seem a bad idea
for the police to give the matter little
attention. Several accidents have al
ready occurred, and as the number of
riders is rapidly increasing, restriction
should be put upon their speed on
crowded streets of the city.
The japanese soldiers, it is said, have
had enough Of war and will be content
with almost any arrangement that the
powers may suggest, in the way Of d.
viding territory, in order that fighting
may cease. In this respect Japan
seems to be in accord with the nations
of the earth. The men who fire the
guns are not nearly so anxious for
war as are the individuals who do the
yelling at safe distance.
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Our esteemed contemporary, the Buff
falo Evening News, heroically exclaims:
1.-THE society women of Buffalo have
done a courageous and sensible thing
in lifting out Of reproach one of the hap
piest terms used In current art. They
have made living pictures mean some-
thing" There seems no question that
proper subjects impersonated by, Buffa-