The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-06-19

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and the subtitution Of the storap c
battery will be mere incident. Flee
trlcity will be available for transpor.
tatlon uses to which it ) COW impos-
sible to put it on account Of the diff
Guilty of transmission. Under present
conditions The electric automobile is a
vehicle of limited utility, but with a
sufficient storage battery the automo-
bile principle can be applied to trucks,
10 dTays, street cars, and even, per-
haps, to railroad trains. What this
will mean is not easily conceived.
Consider, for instance, the drayage
in large city. sIn great Cities"
says The Evening Post, "the sums ex-
pended annually for trucking are enor-
! nous. 1t has been stated on good su-
thority that the amount thus spent in
New York is greater than the revenue
of one of the largest railway systems
entering the city. OF all forms Of
transportation in common use, that by
horse and truck is most expensive. If
a package is shipped from Boston to
New York, for example, the probabili-
ties are that more than half the
cost of its transportation goes to the
trucking necessary for its delivery to
and from the terminal railway sta
tion.' Anything which will decrease
this expenditure is naturally to be
hailed as benefaction, and it is be-
lieved that Mr.. Edison's battery will
"go far toward solving the problem"
But this is not all. The Evening
iost presents still other possibilities
based upon the assumption that the
new battery ''is all that it is claimed
to be-" 1t looks into the future SO
far as to see these revolutionary re-
suits:
"The cart horse will disappear from
our streets, because no one can afford
to use so expensive means for NOV
ing merchandise. just as the trolley
car has caused the extinction of the
car horse, SO is the electric automobile
dray, the delivery wagon and the ply
sician's carriage. The horse will be-
come luxury rather than ncces-
sity. The greatest economony in the
storage battery is found in the appli-
cation OF water power to the charging
OF the battery in the night time, when
the dynamo is relieved Of its ordinary
load. The water then usually runs to
waste, but if It's power can he turned
into the storage battery during the
night, it is SO n:eh clear gain.
Electric navigation will be possible
with perfect accumulators, and We may
reasonably hope to see electricity tax
ink the place of steam for the propul-
sion of most vessels running short dis
tances between stopping places, such
as tug boats, canal boats, ferry boats
and the like. Electric torpedo boats,
free from smoke, noise, and the danger
Of flaming tunnels, low Of freeboard
and fearfully swift Of speed, will make
q ooast-guard that will daunt the most
formidable invader.
ELECTRICITY in bulk, so to speak, may
be shipped to distances beyond the
reach of power transmission lines.
Power may be delivered, in convenient
units and at high economy, to the
household, the factory, the mine. It's
use may be extended to the farm, and
we may yet live to see the automobile
plow."
This may be perilous fight Of the
imagination, yet it is unsafe to doubt
suoh predictions. No one can afford
to discredit the promises of the scien-
lists and inventors, least of all of Edi-
son, and il be says he will give us an
electric plow, an electric plow we shall
expect to have.-Thc State.