The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-26

.AANlA 0A the continent OF Europe. EuEn as
4 resldent Faure OF the French republic,
the premier of the German empire, and
others Dr. Depew will send the message
over the long circuit.
Besides all these manifestations of the
wlre-harnesed power Of Niagara, a model
OF the system of electric tOwage to be in
HH0auced by M. Frank w; Hawley on the
Erie canal Will be shown. This will consist
OF miniature canal, circular in form and
nlled with water, on which a number of
models of the new steel barges now going
into use will float. These little boats viii
pc lowed by a miniature model of the
Lamb motor, running on cables strung
exact reproduction in little of the new
system in actual operation.
OF course, ii is expected that a great
number of eminent men outside the Cleo
trical professions Will be present. On the
opening day there will be most interest
ing ceremonies. The exhibition will be
opened by Gov. Levi p. Morton in per-
son, and he viii connect the current OF
Niagara with the great electrical main OF
the exposition, using the same golden
Key which was used for similar purpose
at the big Chicago fair The mayor of
New York and the mayor of Brooklyn
ana most of public men, including gov
errors and judges and congressman and
other blg-wigs, will take part in the cere-
monies and the gathering will undoubt-
eddy become historic because of the at
tendance and prominence of those in at
Edison, silver matched and stout. bur
with face still boyish, and Tesla, much
younger, slender and dak-haired, with
a countenance deeply lined with stren-
uous thought, will both be there and thus
the two men who have contributed most
10 the marYels of up-to-date electrical
STShIee seer VIII De on view at the same time
rms or itself will be a most unusual cir
cumstance-one not at all likely soon TO
occur again. Teslas most Interesting ex-
hlDltlon Will, or course, be his famous os-
cnldtot; from which so much in the eco,
nomlcal production of power is expected
aaalsons VIII doubtless be his ingenious
microscope by which it is possible, in eft
rect, 10 see through solid substances in a
way tnat discounts ROentgen, whose pho-
tograpny through solids is to-day the most
aDsofDlng subject for scientific discus
sion; OF course, there will be exhibitions
in plenty of ''X-ray'' apparatus
Quite as significant as any feature of
t1e eXhlbltion that has so far been not
cd VIII be the display of storage BATTERIES
Reference is not now made 10 the show
OF dlnerent forms and methods of electri-
cal storage which will undoubtedly be
Lull ana complete, but to the carloads of
| batteries charged with Niagara power
that will be shown. This part of the ex-
nIoltlon was suggested by Mr.. Frank w
HaWley, who believes that by the iudi-
clous use of the storage battery the cost
OF power in cities remote from the places
where is can be most cheaply produced
may be enormously decreased. 'Suppose"
SAID ne IN talk with the writer that we
were to take no account whatever of
power produced by falling water, but were
TO conf1ne our calculations entirely to DOW
| er from coal combustion Good steam coal
is worth in New York, say $40 a ton. At
the mines II is worth As cents. The differ
| ence IN price is what we pay for hauling
| the coal from the mine to the consumer
| Now suppose we were to build a great
power house at the mouth of the mine,
| so placing the boilers that the coal could
| be shot directly from the hosting cars
10 the furnace crate bars. The steam
| generated by burning this coal could then
De USED TO produce an electric current at
much less cost in money than it could be
produced for in New York or Chicago.
BOSTON or any other center of Industry
win TINS current we could charge stor-
| age batteries. A sufficient number of these
batteries to furnish a thousand horse
power for a day of twenty-folLr hours
could be transported for much less money
than 1t would cost to haul coal enough
to furnish similar amount of power for
/ the same length of time. AS fast as the
charged batteries were exhausted they
could be returned for recharging and
| the saving would be great. And as the
power house al the mine continued in
operation, there would gradually rise a
great gray heap of asheS-the useless part
of the coal, millions of tons of which are
miles of railroad tracks, at almost infinite
waste.
1T seems to me-" said Mr.. Hawley
that the economy of this plan of power
production and distribution ought to be
| obvious to everyone; and of course it is
| just as applicable in places where the
current can be made by water power. 1t
bears the same relation to long distance
wire transmission than transporting pc
troleum in tank cars does to pipeline
transmission, and under certain condi-
tons 1t may be the more desirable"
At all events several carloads of stor-
age batteries charged with Niagara power
will be shipped to New York exposition
and much of the current needed for the
show will be derived from them; so that
Niagara power will be almost cons family
used, even during the hours when it is
not transmitted over a Western Union
commercial main.
A most important feature of the exhi-
bition will be the daily lectures on diff
ferent phases of modern electrical deyel-
opment. Some of the topics and speakers
may now be announced as follows: The
Work of the Telegraph, Gen. Eckert. pres
ident of the Western Union Telegraph
Company, and A. S. Brown, general man
ager; Electricity as a Railway Motor
Power, DR.. Louis Duncan of Johns Hon
klns University; Electricity as a Science
and Study, Prof. w. A. Anthony of New
York; Electricity Old and New, DR.. PARK
Benjamin of New York; Electric Power.
DR.. I. d. Croker of Columbia College
Electric Power Transmission in Modern
Industries, Frank w. Hawley; Electric
Lighting, Actual and Possible, Prof. Elihu
Thompson of Lynn, Mass; Machine
Telegraphy Instead of Letters by Mail, P
b. Delany; Telephone for Every House
Herbert Laws Webb of New York: Elec-
trio Heating and Cooking, Howard Leon
ard OF Hoboken, N. j. Alexander Graham
Bell, the inventor of the telephone. who
will be present on the opening day will
also be one of the lecturers in all proba~
blity.
These lectures will possess a distinct
educational value, and through their de-
livery the public will, no doubt, be made
aware of many of the practical uses TO
which electricity may be put of which thew
have heretofore been in entire ignorance
Dexter Marshall.
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