The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-07
HOW TO AsATE a NUISANCE
. oaI should he Excluded From cities aud
Heat and Light supplied.
From, CasseIIs MAGAZINE.

oaI should re Excluded From cities aud
Heat and Light Supplied.
From Casseu's Magazine.
The conditions of the great problem
OF entirely excluding coal from n city
may be treated as follows: Artificial
illumination, motive power, heating,
cooking. manufactures and various
domestic opera tiOns. now performed by
the aid Of coal. must bc accomplished
without bringing coal or any object
iOnable substitute into the city. Bur
how can such n radical and StupendouS
scheme be accomplished? The first re-
ply 10 this, as 10 all other apparently
unanSwerable questions would almost
certainly he. "By electricity. of course. -
If a suitable water power he available
within a reasonable distance il would
naturally be utilized for driving the
dynamos to generate the electrical cur
rent for supplying the city In the
case Of nearly all other large cities
however. the power would almost.
necessarily. have 20 he obtained from
coal which would be brought 10 one
or more large stations, located on the
outskirts 81. or at a sufficient distance
from, the city. 50 that the latter would
be free from smoke and other disagree
able consequences of coal combustion.
The current generated by the dyuamos
would be carried by overhead or under
ground conductors TO the limits Of tho
city, where the pressure would be rec
duccd by stepdOWn transformer sta
tiOus 10 transformer SupStat ions. 800
volts i'm one or more stations, located
at convenient points. The distribution
Of the current would De aCcoWpli shed
by running underground conductors 90
the transformer suhstatiOns, where the
potential would be brought down to
go volts for feeding lamps. motors.
Ole by the three wire system. These
substations should be quite numerous.
so that the local distribution at low
pressure shall neccSsitate only the
minimum weight of copper for the con-
ductors.
4 transformer substation could be I'm
each block Of the city. TO hc supplied
with a current Local circuits from
the secondary Of the transformers
would Ice carried round the block
These circuits would not be dangerous
since they would be- operated at only
$50 volts and they could De strung as
aerial wires, supported upon fixtures
or brackets attached to the roofs or
back walls IT the buildings, or they
might Toe run through trOughs laid ON
the tops Of houses. Strong objections
would probably bee raised against al
lowing wires 20 be put up in this man
neT, but it should be remembered that
from the streets and would save tho
constant and very serious nuisance of
digging up the latter for making con-
nections 10 the Individual houses. With
overhead wires this could be done with
triding expense and trouble. All rea-
Spnable objections to these conductors
are really less weiEhty than digging
up the streets "A single time to make or
repair a house connection for gas or
electric lighting This substatiOn would
occupy only a part of the cellar i'm
some building IN each block. and there
would not be sufficient noise or yibra-
ton from stationary or even rotary
transformers to be at all perccptible in
the rest Of the building. The only pre-
caution necessary would be the locking
up of the transformers In a room ac-
ccsSible only To a regular attendant
who could take care of 10 or more sta
tiOns, visiting each occasiona u pv-
anime thu apparatus and perhaps also
to regulate IN" voltage or 70 connect I'm
circuit more transformers during the
hours Of a heavy load. These last two
operations could be performed clertri-
cally from a central station or auto
matically by cl1ckWork, if desired