The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-11-17
IT NOW RUNS BUFFALO
STREET CARS.
CONNECTED AT MIDNIGHT.
Hereafter the Greatest Cataract ON
Earth WIN Turn Factory wheels so
Towns Many Miles tea5 fleo-
tric Power for safe tt $50
Per Horse Power Ldi-
son aud Tesla.

BUFFALO, n. y, Nov lG. At mid
night last night the turning
of switch in the big power
house at Niagara Falls CONE
pleted a circuit which caused Niagara
river to llow up hin, SO TO speak, by re-
turning fraction Of It's resistless en-
crgy, which had already yswept past the
gates of Buffalo. back into the city,
twenty-seven miles distant
The harness was bucl5lcd that bitches
the factory wheels OF Buffalo Co the
greatest cataract ON earth This morn
| ing the street cars of this city moved
! by Falls power Hereafter the Falls
must work enough To earn their living.
The distance covered boy the line be-
tween Buffalo and the Falls is twenty
seven niles and the expert electricians
who have the work in charge, estimate
that the loss of energy win be less
than ten per cent, and may not much
exceed five.
Careful tests are to be made in this
connection, the tests covering both
night and day, and clear as well as
rainy weather, The electricians are
paying particular attention to this
test, as on the perfect insulation of the
carrying line depends much Of the
future success of the undertaking.
The line that has been built 10 carry
the current bearing wires is of a most
substantial nature. Unlike the ordl-
nary telegraph line. the poles are
placed very close together and are
braced in such a manner as 10 be proof
against heavy storms. At curves the
poles are set double. and are guyed 20
numerous smaller poles to prevent
| sagging
The overhead line extends from the
power house at the falls to the city
limits of buffalo where the wires
enter cement conduits On the over
head line glass insulators are found
unequal to the strain, and porcelain
insulators were made especially to hold
the wires.
The insulators were subjected TO a
current of 10000 volts before being put
in use. There are az prosout ON the
poles eight cables, cach with "a carry
ing capacity of 1000 horse power, on
10000 horse power in all The poles
are of such a substantial character,
however, that this number OF cables
can be doubled without subjecting
them to greater strain than is con
sidered safe.
The only contract made SO far for
the delivery of power in Buffalo by the
power company is that with the Buff
falo Street Railway company for ,OOC
horse power. Under the contract Will
the city, the completion Of the under
] taking Of delivering power in Buffalo
was not obligatory before next June
Il was in order tO secure the contrac
with the street railway company that
the work was hurried through so fan
ahead of time Contracts with Others
desiring TO use the electrical power
will now be made and 10 is though
, that by the opening of spring the
power will be we'll distributed through
- out the city
. Since the inception of the undertake
. ing, and during Its carrying out, th'
company has frequently called upol
- Messrs. Edison and Tesla for advice
and these famous masters of electricit,
r have been frequent visitors to th'
Niagara Falls power house To solv
technical problems The power vii
p sell in Buffalo for SJG a horse powe
> per annum, and under its contrac
d with the city the company must IN
crease its capacity 10000 horse powe
per year until the maximum of 5000
- horse power has been reached.