The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-13
ELECTi:ICAL MARvELs SHOWN
Many Wonders at the New York City Elec-
trIcal Exposition.


New York. May 12.-Now that the Ma
sional Electrical exposition has been
running a few days, and has settled
down to smooth operation, better
opinion can be formed OF IT'S quality
and merits These are so unmiseaka-
BILE that irs immediate popularity with
the public need not be a matter or sur
prise Even electricians of experience,
engrossed in the development of their
own line Of art. are astonished and
amused when they find, as they do at
the Grand Central Palace, the eXempll-
fcation of the electric current has been
carried out in other directions with
which they are totally unfamiliar. They
In common with the public, cannot but
observe in such an exposition as this
the underlying and close relation which
all the branches of the electrical arts
have one with the other. and of the
fact that the success of one makes for
the prosperity of all. Those whose ideas
of electricity are based on the belief
that the supply current Is drawn from
n little primary battery are brought at
once 10 the modern conception of the
subject by seeing that the dynamo is
the only recognized source, even for the
telegraph and the telephone. which,
equally with the electric light and the
for their energization.
The exhibit Of the local Edison Hum
3nating company is a curious nlusira-
tion OF the fact that the central sta Don
Is today a source Of supply for far more
varied uses than are the water Teser-
Soires in Central Park TO which they ale
analogous. for they also have their
equipments OF storage batteries from
which large drafts may be made in any
emergency. When IL is stated that N
the same exhibit from the same source
of dynamo current may be seen work
ing a machine for Y rays. a printing
press. a piano. and a bed-warmer. Il
may be inferred that The fexibiiity and
variety Of the modern method are with
out end. The same curious interpola-
ton Of large with small units through
the agency of the dynamo is seen in the
huge electric elevator in the exposition
building, which carry 100 people but
which is started and stopped by the
mere pressing Of a push button Yet
steam in bulk is under not less delicate
control. for az the exhibition the big
battery of steam-boilers that furnisas
steam 10 the engines driving the dyna-
mos is entirely handled during the even
ing by woman. One gets a new idea
of the social adjustments as TO sex go
ing on around US 10 see this placid mar
rled woman walking around quietly
turning a handle here. adjusting a
switch there, with an occasional inteIli-
gent filance at the gauges. her depea-
dence being not upon muscle but upon
the numerous automatic appliances
with which the big generator Of steam
Is equipped with throughout.
When one comes 10 differentiate the
s1ow so as 10 suggest the best way 10
study 1t, analysis is a little bit difficult
in some respects the grouping might
nave been more systema tic, bu the man
agement excuse themselves for the ab-
esnce OF classification on the ground
that this would more or less have bun
ched the groups. an object that they
were DESTROYS 10 avoid for many OBJ
rtous reasons. Il is safe 10 say that