The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-26

els OF the new steel barges now going
into use will float. These little boats
will be towed by a miniature model
or the Lamb motor, running on cables
strung from miniature posts. the
whole being an exact reproduction I'm
little of the new system in actual oper-
alton.
GOVERNOR MORTON TO OPEN
THE SHOW.
OF course II is expected that a great
number of eminent men outside the
electrical professions will be present
On the opening day there will be most
interesting ceremonies. The exhibition
Will be opened by Governor Levi p.
Morton In person, and he will connect
the current of the Niagara with the
great electrical main of the exposition.
using the same golden key which was
used for a similar purpose at the big
Chicago fair. The mayor of New Yorl
and the mayor of Brooklyn and a host
Of public men, including governors
and judges and congressman and other
big wigs, will take part in the ceremo-
MES, and the gathering will undoubt-
edly become historic because of the
brillfance and prominence of those in
attendance.
Edison, silver matched and stout
but with face still boyish, and Tesla,
much younger, slender and bark
haired. with a countenance deeply lined
with strenuous thought. will both be
there. and thus the two men who have
contributed most to the marvels of up
to-date electrical science will be on view
at the same time. This OF itself will be
a most unusual circumstance-one not
at all likely soon to occur again. Tes-
las most interesting exhibition will.
OF course. be his famous oscillator,
from which so much in the economical
production of power is expected. Edi-
sons will doubtless be his ingenious
Horoscope. by which IL is possible. I'm
effect. to see through solid substances
in way that discounts Roentgen.
whose photography through solids is
to-day the most absorbing subject for
scientific discussion. OF course there
will be exhibitions in plenty of TX ray
apparatus.
BOTTLED UP NIAGARA POWER.
Quite as significant as any feature of
the exhibition that has so far been
noted will be the display OF storage
batteries. Reference is not now made
20 the show of the different forms and
methods of electrical storage which
will undoubtedly be fun and complete.
but or the carloads of batteries charged
with Niagara power that will be
shown. This part of the exhibition was
suggested by Frank w. HawIey. who
believes that by the judicious use OF the
storage battery the cost of power in
cities remote from the places where II
can be most cheaply produced may be
enormously decreased. Suppose" he
said In talk with the writer. that
we were to take no account whatever
II power produced by falling wafer.
but were to confine our calculations en-
TREY to power from coal combustion.
food steam coal is worth in New York.
aay $40 n ton. At he mines IL is worth
IS cents. The difference In price Is
what we pay for hauling the coal from |
he mine to the consumer. Now sun
lose we were to build a great power |
louse at the mouth OF the mine. so
placing the boilers that the coal could |
,e shot directly from the hosting cars |
o the furnace CRATE bars. The steam /
by burning this coal could |
hen be used to produce an electric /
at much less cost in money |
han IL could be produced for in New /