The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-10
HOTEL GOSSIP.

All the work now being done in the
held Of electrical engineering indicates
| clearly that the day is not far distant
when the consumers of the heat, light and
power, of whatever nature. will be sup
pied from the same mains, said 2. II.
Knight at the KnutSford yesterday. At
present the street railway companies are
using the direct current, and some OF the
| arc lights in the streets and buildings are
| also SUPPLIED from, that source. The in
5candescenI lights, some of the arcs, and a.
rev OF tbs isolated motors are working
on the alternating circuit. Tremendous
strides have been made in the application
OF the alternating current for power pur-
poses, DutAaS Yet no motor has made lis
appearance that would start up of its own
VOhtlon.s when the energy was turned into
| ~ under the stress produced by y load
am speaking of alternating current mo-
tors But it will all come in time, and in
| SnorI@tIme at that. When IT. does. the
strength of the current for different pur-
| poses will have to be regulated. but that
can easily be done by means of storage
! batteries Some alternating current mo-
tors of a special design. are being used for
power purposes in Switzerland, but they
are having difficulty in regulating the
speed.
being operated at its. full capacity of 3d.
OQo-horSe-power, and the comparative
cneapness of the power and the ease with
which it is handled has caused a large
number of new manufacturing interests
to spring up in that nsighborho0d. The
principal industry in the Falls-aud, by
the way, it is one that created quite stir
the manufacture of calcium carbide, from
which the acetylene gas is produced. The
Union Carbide company has just finished
a number of buildings to be devoted ex-
ciusiyely TO the manufacture of that in
teresting and novel product of human in
dustry. They will rake one-half of the
entire output of the Fails Power COM
pany, or about 25.G00 horsepower. The
carbide company is the largest single
user of electrical power for manufacturing
purposes of any manufacturing concern in
the country.
Il think that the day is coming when
the motors used on the street cars today
viii be entirely done away with The ac-
ton of the alternating current induction
motor in inducing a mass of metal to re-
yoIve when subjected TO the field produced
ny an alternating current, suggests the
IDEA of substituting cars for the metal and
then causing them to revolve. Now open
out the circle and it becomes a straight
Ene, and the cars will be operated by in
duction. The project is quite beyond even
the pale of electrical politics at present,
but it will come along later
81 feel like a man who went to sleep in
stable and woke up a little 1loarse' said
Billy Moon, in husky tones at the Knuts-
ford yesterday. II am peddling laces-
to get orders in Denver last week. Joe
Henshaw noted my sad condition and rec
commended me to two of his doctor
friends. The first was an advocate of
Christian Science, and after l told my
troubles he gave me some capsules filed
with a few drops of hope floating in a sea
of faith. Then l looked up the other chap;
ne was ALPHABETICALLY inclined. and admin
tstered a couple of hypodermic injections
of rhubarb pie. l caught cold wearing a.
pair of decollete shoes; 1 couldn't afford
a high-necked pair owing to the high
handed actions of the leather trust.
= am Irish, and the Shamrock is going
to win the yacht race. When we get the
Americas cup we are going to fill it with
good Old Irish whisky. drink the health
of President Mckinley and the trusts, and
Saint Patrick and the snakes, and confu-
sion to parliament and the queen of that
Sligo"
C. F. Spillman the editor of the Tintic
Miner. spent a good part of yesterday
afternoon roaring through the telephone
to his native hearth. and when he got
through he let out a few more roars and
hQwlS about the schedule and service of
the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone COM
pany.
One would think from the way the
cussed thing acts said he. that l dwelt
in a bed of roses at home, when the truth
is, am a country editor, and have every
breed of trouble that was ever Matched
out of .life's incubator. Diseouragement
and misunderstanding pursue me at
every turn of the newspaper road to sue
cess, until 1 firmly believe that there is
nothing left in the world but a choice
+ between lunacy and suicide No matter
what do or say in print or not, carping
critics must needs proceed to put me in
the human oven of adverse criticism and
roast the very life out of me. Nobody is
satisfied COMMUNICATION is out of the
question, and / am the target at which
every mountebank in the land shoots his
pGlownlsh wit: People seem to think that
am a quadruple expansion perpetual
motion machine, that ought to go over
the toughest paths of life without jar
to my physical or mental mechanism.
without developing the slightest bit of
friction, and this in spite of the fact that
they are too hanged disagreeable to lubri-
cate me once in a While with a smile of
approval, or a pat on the back with a
well done. old man I'd like to have
some one tell me that J WASH altogether
lying. but L d like it just the same. There
are moments when a fellow wants to be
palavered and soft-soaped. but If he
wants to see how he can go through life
him taffy, let him get a job as a country
editor-if you see fellow who represents
the square peg in the round hole problem
you can bet dollars to doughnutS that he
is a benighted newspaper man.
This is the kind of a day that sealskin
coats for women sell like the winning col
ors at a football game was the senti-
ment made manifest by Sam Leon of New
York, at the Knutsford yesterday. Seal
skin garments are increasing in price
every year because the number of animals
is growing smaller. There was so much /
of rumpus over the Bering sea pelagic |
sealing several years ago that the animals
held a convention at which the grand !
daddy of the herd announced that he had
had a revelation from Neptune prohibiting |
polygamy, and stating that it was no /
longer compatible with the law of moral |
ity, as prescribed by the whales, porposies |