The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-05-04
POWER FROM NIAGARA FALLS
viii be Transmitted to the Electrical
Show in New York.
THE WONDERS OF ELECTRICITY.
The Show to be opened Tonight by Gov
ernor Morton with a Golden Key-Dr.
Chauncey M. Depew to Send a
Message Around the World.

NEW YORK. May 4. 4.-Tonight Governor
Morton will open the national exposition
OF electrical appliances in the Industrial
Arts building, in this city Elaborate
preparation has been made for this event,
ana 1t Is expected that the attendance will
be large and include some of the most dis
tlnguished electricians in this country,
Inc convention is that of the National
Electric Light association, to which dele
gates nave been sent representing more
imam 10000 electric lighting plants in the
United States, whose aggregate capital is
In excess of $500, OOO0 900
The principal feature of the opening ex-
ercises will be the turning on Of a current
of electricity generated by the waters of
the Niagara river in the great power house
of the Niagara Power company, which
current of electricity will be transmitted
over an ordinary telegraph wire of the
Western Union company. The insulation
of this line is such that no considerable
amount of electrical energy for power
purposes can be transmitted, but by the
use of the recently invented two-phase
Tesla system enough energy will be trans
mitted to establish beyond question, it is
claimed, the feasibility Of long distance
electric power transmission upon COM
mercial basis. This line will be 462 miles
in length. The longest line heretofore
ever established was from the Falls of the
Necker to point no miles distant
The governor will use upon this occa-
sion the gold key with which President
Cleveland put in motion the wheels of in
dustry at the Worlds fair. Governor
Morton will also, at the declaration that
the exposition is open, discharge four
pieces of artillery, one stationed in the pub
llc square at San Francisco, one in Au-
gusta, Me-, one in front of the public
buildings of st. Paul and the other in a
public park in New Orleans. This dis
charge is also accomplished by a current
of electricity generated in Niagara and
transmitted over the telegraph lines of
the Postal Telegraph and Cable company.
The current of electricity, which is trans
mitted from Niagara, will be used in put
ting in motion model of the Niagara
power plant recently constructed by syn
dictate at a cost of upwards of S., 600, 900
This plant consists in tunnel 5000 feet
in length, entered by a wheel pit 1856 feet
in depth, at the bottom of which are mann
moth turbine wheels, operating shaft, on
the top of which are immense electrical
generators, with a capacity of 5000 horse
power. The total weight of the turbine
wheel, shaft and generator is upwards of
100 tons.
This model, which is shown and operated
with Niagara current, is a cross section
view of the tunnel, wheel pit and ma
chinery and also shows section of the
city of Niagara Falls, with the course of
the river and American falls, the islands
and the Canadian frontier. Surrounding
this model will be series of telephones,
which will be connected with receivers
placed in Victoria Park, on the Canadian
side of the Niagara river. All present, as
they witness the movement of the ma
chinery by the current of Niagara, can
hear distinctly the roar of the cataract
There will also be exhibited and oper-
ated miniature section of the Erie canal,
showing the cable way system of electrical
canal boat propulsion recently adopted by
the state of New York and soon to be put
in operation upon the Erie canal. Floating
upon this miniature canal will be a fleet
of model canal boats of recent design pro-
PEELED by the electric motor, which travels
upon the cable by means of the electric
current.
Another feature of unusual interest will
be the closing of circuit around the
Woriut ny Mhlch chple iuesadSe Will W
sent by Chauncey NJ. Depew over the !
cables to Lisbon, through the Mediter-
ranean and the Suez canal and the Red |
sea to Alden; thence to Ceylon and Aus |
tralia, returning by way of the Cape of |
Good Hope, the African coast, the Bra
lillian cable, the land line to the City of |
Mexico; thence by way of San Francisco
to New York This message DIR. Depew |
will send from table which will be placed |
In a gallery of the exposition building. 1t |
will be addressed to and received by Ed |
ward ID. Adams president of the Niagara |
Power company, whose reply will be trans |
mitted to and read by DIR. Depew, who |
will follow with brief address upon the |
electric era.