The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-09-05
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.

Electric launches are to be oper-
ated on the lakes of the Cotton States
and international exposition at At
lanta, Ga, and a concession for rum
ming these boats has been awarded to
Gen. c. II. Barney, of New York.
When the thermometer registered
% degrees in the shade one Sunday it
was but 70 in the auditorium of the
Second Congregational church at Rock
Island. A hose is used on the gravel
floor in the basement and then the
electric fan set to working makes the
church delightfully."- cool.
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 very few minutes.
A palace" trolley car is the latest
novelty in electric street railroad
equipment. Such a 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 sub
urbs. 1t is intended for the use of
private parties, who can charter it 10y
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 a
| long time was almost monopolized BY
the English, is making rapid headway
in European countries as well as il
| America. 1t has often been suggested
that it was especially adapted for fer
ry service, and it's suitability for tina
purpose has at length been proved il
Norway. The city of Bergen is bull
on two sides of a narrow harbor, sur
rounded by abruptly rising ground. /
line of ferry boats has been started t.
carry passengers from one side of tn
city to the other across the harbOr
and the service is in every way salts
factory. The boats are worked b
storage batteries, thirtv-two cells
weighing $3.50 pounds, being EN-
ployed in each boat. The boats ar
constructed so as to operate withou
turning about to go from one STATIC
to another, and the work of recharg
ing the batteries is easily effected
Each boat carries on an average l.sC
passengers per day, covering about
miles. The cost of the fleet of eigh
! boats and the charging station is PIT
at SIS. 900.
The extraordinary extension
; electric railway work during the la:
six months is to be followed bya furthe
. most important development-the Us
of electricity for freight cars. A schen
is now on foot to extend the electr
, lines to the great grain belts of tt
. northwest, of which Minneapolis is tt
center, and to establish regular Sc
. vice of electric cars built especially #
the transportation of grain. The ca
for this purpose will be lighter tina
the ordinary freight cars, but mo
dura BILE, and they will be supple
with chutes for quick loading and u
loading. While much smaller tn;
the regular grain cars now in use, th'
will hold fully as much, as they w
be loaded to the top, and through Il
top. Each car will be provided with
set of buckets that will be operat
= electrically for loading and unloadin
which will be done with much great
4 celebrity than under the old methC
1t is believed that within two yea
y the greater part of the grain CARR
into Minneapolis will go by the tr
ley.