The Monte Vista journal., 1897-08-07
STORAGE BATTERIES.
fAsir sale Has Become Regular Buslnsss
In the East

1hsif Sale Has Become Regular Buslnoss
In the East.
For some time electricity has been
selling In cans like milk In the streets
OF New York. There IL one company
which makes Z speciality of furnishing
storage batteries to hotels, small fac
tories. mercantile houses and other es-
Adjustments where a little power is
needed, and not enough to Justify the
investment Of money In plant. To
these storage batteries arc delivered
every morning. Some Of them are as
small az a cigar box. others are as
large as the cylinder of soda water
fountain.
This method of securing power is so
popular and economical that 1t will not
be long before electricity delivery
wagons Will beas common in the streets
ns the milk wagons are now. One
company at present has eighteen wag-
ons on the street. They load every
morning at the factory and start ou,
on their various routes. As the driver
hauls up at the door of customer
he rings the bell and leaves the box
on the steps or In the area. where he
finds an empty jar. Of which the con-
tents were used the day before. In
some Of the hotels the lighting appa-
ratus IL supplied by this method. hut
1t ia not so economical nv connection
with the regular wires. Some Dress
makers have small storage batteries
attached to their sewing machines, and
buy one-tenth or one-fifteenth Of a
horse power u day. Surgeons and 9TH
er professional men find various uses
for storage batteries In their Offices par
ucularly those who give the electricity
treatment for rheumatism and other
diseases. The company l speak Of has
six wagons engaged In supplying pro
fessional men neutrality-suspicious.
doctors and dentists.
The dentists use the portable bat
teries with small motors to run ma
chimes for cleaning the teeth and for
drilling holes In the molars of their pa
tients. Surgeons often carry about in
their cases small lights charged from
portable batteries. These lights are
useful In examining the threats OF
their patients. Orders for vest pocket
batteries are frequently received from
vaudeville performers and actors In
comic operas, who use them for spec
tacular effects. They make Christmas
trees sparkle and monographs talk.
and automatic pianos play. They illu-
inmate the tables at dinner parties and
receptions and add brilliancy to the
decorations Of balls and weddings.
There were ninety storage batteries
used at the wedding reception OF Miss
Vanderbilt to the Duke of Marlbor-
ough and at the French mask ball last
winter the pocket batteries were so
common that they attracted little at
tentiOn. In the summer one of the
greatest markets for canned electricity
Is In supplying launches on the rivers
and lakes surrounding New York.
Some country residences have n stor.
age battery shipped down to them ev-
cry day from the city. and an even
more extensive trade In small bat
teries In from the bicycle riders. who
md them more convenient than oil TO
light their lamps. On the boulevards
In New York and Brooklyn and other
highways much paironized by bicycle
riders there are shops where storage
batteries may he renewed in case they
give out.-Chicago Record.