Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-01-02
IN THE ELECTRIC WORLD.

Two or three projects for convert.
ing water power into electricity and
transmitting the latter to Atlanta over
a line seven and a half miles long are
now under consideration in that city.
One of them would develop fourteen
thousand horse power, another twenty
Thousand, and third thirty-six thou
sand. These are all notifications of the
same general plan
The Westinghouse Electric Com
pany has begun the drilling of a well
for natural gas on the land in front of
its immense works at East Pittsburgh,
and the novel experiment of using
electricity for power will be made. An
ordinary twenty-five-horse-power mo-
tor, such as is used in a traction car,
is placed in the engine house, instead
of a steam engine, and the electricity
is supplied from the works. The ex-
pertinent is understood to be under the
special direction of Mr.. George West
inghouse, who believes great economy
in drilling wells will result in the use
of electricity.
The news comes from Springfield,
Ill, that final incorporation papers OF
the Inter Ocean Electric Railway Co.,
of Chicago, have been granted. The
capital. stock of the company is $780,
COO, 600, The object of the corporation
Is to construct, operate, lease, bond
and mortgage electric railways, both
surface and elevated, telegraph and
telephone lines, to manufacture coach
es, sleeping cars, water and electric
power machinery, and to issue bonds
and mortgages upon all such property.
The chief object is to build an elevated
electric railway between New York
and San Francisco. 1t is proposed to
construct the line first from New York
to Buffalo, and thence extend it west
as far as possible in intermittent
stages.
The constitution of the Independ-
ent Telephone Mems association, which
has formed in Pittsburgh, Pa, recently,
is brief and to the point The objects
of the association are thus defined:
Mutual protection from unjust legal
and other attacks by owners of al
legged telephone and cognate patents
tending to impair the lawful business
of this association; to discourage liti-
CATION between members of this asso-
citation by providing means of arbitra-
ton" Section nine defines the course
of procedure in defense of suits as fol-
lows: Whenever the association shall
receive information of the bringing of
a suit for infringement of any tele-
Il %e - choll ut aXarnlna
into the case as far as practicable, and
may call meeting of the board of di-
rectors, who shall provide for the
means to defray the expenses of such
litigation as they shall deem proper
under the circumstance"
At the Victoria station, Manches-
ter, Eng. "a new departure has been
made in electrical application. which
has excited great interest The par
cells business at the station has been
for some time increasing at rate
which severely tried the constantly
augmented facilities of the manage
snent. 1t struck the engineer of the
railroad that the whole situation could
be simplified by the introduction OF
electricity, and forthwith miniature
electric line was suspended from the
pirders of the roof of the latest erected
parcel department Along the rails
runs an electric traveller, capable OF
lifting and conveying ton weight, al
though it is not ordinarily used for
more than half that weight When
parcels have to be transferred in bulk
from one part of the department to
another, they are placed in large
hamper, which is lifted up to its place
under the motor cab. and run along
the rails to the desired point. The de-
vice is working so well that the rail-
road company is putting up second
pair of rails parallel to the first.