The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-09
IN THE ELEcrRIcAL WORLD.

Electric launches are to be oper-
lted on the lakes of the Cotton States
and International exposition at At
Ianta, Ca, and a concession for run
ming these boats has been awarded to
Gen. c. III. Barney, of New York.
1t is dangerous to inclose the bulb
of an electric lamp in any fabric, even
as light as mosquito netting, as by this
practice many fires are originated
Experiment has shown that an mean
descent lamp globe closely wrapped
with paper. so that no air can pass be-
tween it and the glass, will cause fire
in a very few minutes.
"A palace" trolley car is the latest
novelty in electric street railroad
equipment Such car, built on the
Pullman plan, with compartments
fitted with tables and easy chairs,
opening from a center aisle, with an
adequate wine and food locker, and
with dazzling Examinations and gorge
Gus furnishings, has just been put in
service on one of the Philadelphia troll
ley roads running far out into the SUBJ
urbs. 1t is intended for the use of
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the trip or the day. Trolley parties.
for excursions to suburban resorts, are
becoming quite a social function in
Philadelphia. San Francisco has a
trolley funeral train, with hearse and
mourning coaches, appropriately fur
nished and decorated, which is now
being quite generally used between
the city and an outlying cemetery.
The electric launch, which for =
long time was almost monopolized by
the English, is making rapid Roadway
in European countries as well as in
America 1t has often been suggested
that it was especially adapted for fer
~ service, and its suita ability for that
purpose has at length been proved in
Norway. The city of Bergen is built
on two sides of narrow harbOr, sur
rounded by abruptly rising grouut A
line of ferry boats has been started to
carry passengers from one side of the
city to the other across the harbor,
and the service is in every way salts
factory. The boats are worked by
storage batteries, thirty-two cells,
weighing $3.50 pounds, being en-
ployed in each boat. The boats are
constructed so as to operate without
turning about to go from one station
to another, and the work of recharg-
ing the batteries is easily effected.
Each boat carries on an average 1,S00
passengers per day, covering about 81
miles. The cost of the fleet of eight
boats and the charging station is put
at SOS, 900
The extraordinary extension Of
electric railway work during the last
six months is to be followed by further
most important dsvelopment-the use
of electricity for freight cars. A scheme
is now on foot to extend the electric
lines to the great grain belts of the
northwest, of which Minneapolis is the
center, and to establish a regular SER
vice of electric cars built especially for
the transportation of grain The cars
for this purpose will be lighter than
the ordinary freight cars, but more
durable, and they will be supplied
with chutes for quick loading and un-
loading. While much smaller than
the regular grain cars now in use, they
will hold fully as much, as they will
be loaded to the top, and through the
top. Each car will be provided with a
set of buckets that will be operated
electrically for loading and unloading.
which will be done with much greater
celebrity than under the old method.
It is believed that within two years
the greater part of the grain carried
into Minneapolis will go by the troll
lev