The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-09-10
land Electricity
us FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH THE
AMERICAN ARTICLE.
:. ranches q switchboard With n
walking stick In the Power
uouSe of the NiaEarn Power Com
amy. and the stick IL Thrown
yiolentIy From His Grasp-Li
sc.red but NOt Injured.

\i1nd ri filiS. y. l., NtlIl. o. lie
~, ,narial train bearing Iii Hung Chang
,Asoh au and his party arrived here to-day.
- valid Pain was falling at the time and the
=, rs alterO visitors dampened their silk blOuseS
'"'oees and gold lace somewhat in the journey
seized "a the Cataract house. where rooms
: LEGO had been engaged.
q, KILN, Immediately upon arriving here Iii
'le eh st for Il dentist and hau his teeth cX-
ing Of ,uined. The rain was Il great disap-
eminent. There was no cessation i'm
10 h0l tp downpOur for several hours, when
miles trly the sun struggled through the
heer kE buds. Carriages were quickly sum
pulled rOned and the visitors spent two
Na hnrs in inspecting the wonders of
" gone Niagara.
At the electric power house of the
ritter. d4 Niagara Falls Power con,pany the dis
lille. y inguished visitor had his first expert
eDce with American electricity. the re-
'uSh Dq suit being as startling as it was eX-
little, LF pcted. With his usual curiosity and
a~SSOcatj desire to make Il personal investigation
succsq Of the machinery before him, he poked
at the switchboard with his walking
stick. The metal feTrulc closed a cir
cult instantly and Lis stick was vio-
rain an hntly thrown from his grasp. He was
= naturally much aStOnished at the effect
>eplehlr Of the sticks contact with the switch
y 1-%Y board, and. fortunately. he suffered no
iDeNenlba damage beyond Il good scare.
.,p'eubi Last night Ii and his party passed
way I'm their first night in an American sleep
'y' VI" ins car. Before this novelty they en-
Januar io,nd dinunr i'm - lininr cor This
Is; JAM ncaI which was osnnrioIv nrona rod
ep'emlt by the Pennsylvania railroad dining
noHAIE car people. was quite elaborate. Thc
h, y. vi pcnu card was decorated with ,bc
)ecembl American and Chinese f,os iutn,.-
'Wemte1 tWined. and II fac-simile of the auto
graph of Earl Ii done in yellow.
\ Talks About the War.
CLOSED After eating n rather hearty meal Ii
J0El sent for George W. Boyd. assistant
ck-M general passenger agent of the Penn
No. ~sylvania Railroad company, who pilot
ed the train over the lines of his corr
5 steat pany. and spent about two hours ques-
3E tioning him about railroads. He had
ecembe a map Of the United States before him
|. 2OE- and he branclied off 10 the War of the
No Rebellion asking the names of the
mai; states that seeded from the Union.
shady Ii asked particularly about the battles
H. pom in which Grant participated. and all
of them were indicated on the map for
aKet his benefit. he dwelt long on this sub
iaIF ject. and marvled that although the
tsh9 Southern forces succeeded in approach
NSS ing quite close TO Washington. they
Wee not able to capture that i'm
s-Aa1 prant point. The story of the as
cltso SssinatiOn Of Lincoln also interested
saNs y him greatly. He inquired what be-
letun came Of Booth and where Lincoln was
sN'" buried. The deep interest he shows in
nllrOad matters cOnvInces those who
paid attention to the subject that his
principal object in visiting this cOuE-
try Is to study American railway con-
"" struction and management, with a
80 N view TO the adoption Of some Of the
: hand features in a proposed general extern
,s"- sion of the Chinese railway system. In
nav fact. the vicerOy minated to-day that
70 he is negotiating for the service Of an
ons American civil engineer. who. if he
~ an accepts the offer made him. will go to
Sc ohn IL IL near iuluie ~ ,ahe
phf so%as e =" IL rhiMa! eN't"son
of there are only about 200 miles of single
eygu track railroad in China at present.
i mai only three trains are run each day,
Of and there is no traffic mt night.