The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-11-28
IOO-MILE AUTOMOBILES RUN
That Gives Great Satisfaction I'm HART
ford.


An event Of the greatest interest to all
who are watching ths Development Of
automobiles occurred In the vioinity Of
Philadelphia last week. IL II safe to say
that had sIch m achievements % running
q carriage over 100 miles Tn one charge
of n 3d. pound storage battery been made
In Europe 10 would have bssn cabled 10
every American newspaper as an import
ant event. Only last July the New York
Herald published. and doubls-leaded, q
cattle dispatch from Paris, announcing
that the worlds record had been broken
by the Count Chasseioup- Lsubas. who
had succeeded In making journey OF
Sic miles on q single charge Of an cleo
trio storage battery. which battery
weighed 20O0 pounds, while the vehicle
itself weighed 24oo pounds more The
Herald said Of this that at opens up pos
sibilitiss Of tar-reacbing character.
Ii was at about this time-July last
that George H. Day Of this city. having
heooms president Of both the Electric
storage hattery company Of Philadelphia
and the Columb,a and electric automobils
com pany. dstsrT3ined to see what was
the best result those companies could at
tain In duration Of run, lightness Of ve-
nicls and battery. etc., In q perfected au-
tomobiis. The engineers Of the two com
paniss were given carte blanche to design
q web icle that would surpass anything
that had been done in this country or In
Europe.
The demonstration occurred last week
w hen the new carriage built for this test
was put through q series OF trials near
Philadelphia. The carriage IL four
wheeled and provided with single cleo
trio motor WHOSE power Is supplied to the
rear axle. The motor has spsed OF 1000
revolutions per minute and capacity Of
SO am psrcs at 60 volts. The battery CON-
sistsd of 4S cells, each colt containing
IL lead PLATES Of the LATEST improved type.
The batteries altogether weighed $50
pounds, and the vehicle without the bat
adults In the carriage the total weight
moved during the trials last week was
$500 pounds,
The carriage was started from Phiia-
delphia on Wednesday last and made tee
trip TO Atlantic City on the nrst day.
The distause Of 81 mil.s BY road was
covered In six hours and four minutes.
On Friday occurred the l0c-mtle test, 80
miles north from Atlantic City over the
common roads and back again. The dis
tance was carefully measured OF by three
bicyc who went in advance Of the
motor carriage. setting up marks about
five and fivs-ssveatns miles apart ihs
first i've aud dve-sevsnth miles WIS
covered In 90 minutes s5 seconds, the road
being much ~ncumber with trf I'll !.
The fourth five and fvs-ssvsnth miles
was covered in 10 minutes 80 seconds.
The first 30 miles run began at 80
m. and ended at 1I.49. The return start
was made Mt noon, and the 80 miles to
the Windsor hotel In Atlantic City Was
covered in four hours, minutes, making
the total time Of the 100. mile run seven
hours IS minuter. Average speed IL o
miles an hour. The voltage Of the bat
tsry Was eS at the start. fell to 81 during
the second and third hours, 9S during the
fourth hour, 81 in the fifth hour, SO dur
ing the sixth hour and Si.7 during tbs
seventh hour.
On Saturday during the return to Phil
adelphia some very rapid time was made.
ons stretch Of 1--we niles being oovsred In
IA minutes 40 secondA A coed part Of
the distance was covered at q three-m!n-
ute gait, and the average speed for the
whole distance was 1873 milss-G9.7 miles
In all.
The battsry charge for the l00-mile
journey Was 1870 ampere hours, OF which
the cost At Atlantic City WAS about xi.s5
The actual cost Of this amount Of energy
at the dynamo Is Al cents.