The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-07-31
Electrical Jots.


The municipal council Of St Petersburg
Is 10 send an electrical expert 10 the
United States In order that he may study
the telephone system OF this country with
a view OF reorganizng the one I'm use in
ST Petersburg
An attachment Is provided in Sweden
by which the secrecy Of the telephone
is rented at moderate rate. indicates
whether the telephone operator is listen
ins go The conversation or not
Mr. Marcon has motor-carriaee which
rs equipped With \ Folding cylinder on top
of the car and devices -tnr-taa- -transnii@-
sion of wireless tclcErap phic signaling
Motor ears ntted with this device are TO
be- used IN the forthcoming military man
euNars
The vibrations caused by tho new elec-
trio underground railway in London nave
heen 50 great tha committee has been
appointed To Investigate this difhcuitv.
u Was found that large proportion ~
the locomotives We're not horne hy
springs aud THAI the rails lacked rigidity.
new type of locomotive has been or
dercd
An British battle-hps and cruisers in
commission for home stations and al ves-
sells being prepared Tor the Reserve Train
Ing and Channel sauadrons are To he
fitted with wireless biography apparatus.
All future hatflcSh'ps and cruisers sent
20 Inc Mediterranean are also 90 be 50
equipped. Apps Newton coils are being
used
The traffic on the new electric under
ground railways IN London and Parts Is
about ihe same. The total number of
passengcrs carried froin July ~ to De
q 20 shr
don road and ~ SaO5 SIS for the Paris line.
The receipts ar" highest FOR the English
rpad, but ne London road cost much
more 20 build, tho expense being =. sos 0i0
per mile, while the French road cost only
S io3go per mile.
I'm q pspcr read recently before the
Socleie lnternAtionale des Electricians.
NJ Plcou who was The cngipeer-in-chicf
for the electricity supply service at the
Paris Exhibition, gave some figures as TO
the output and power consumption The
total duration OF the electricity service
was 2756 hours. during which public light
Ing was supplied for 900 hours. and the
average number OF hours OF running OF
the genera tors was 1875. The total con-
nectlons 10 the mains represented II 265
kiowatts-practlcally 10000 horsepower.
The mean daily output of the generators
was IS 3SS kilowatt hours
The Chicago and Milwaukee Telegraph
company has announced that 10 Will trans
nit telegrams between Milwaukee and
Chicago at the rate OF ten cents for ten
words, and one cent for each additional
word The lines OF this company have
heretofore been-nsed Almost Exclusively
for board. of trade business, hut have
now been opened for a general CONNER
ciai business. The company accepts ana
sends any message at the rates quoted,
which can be delivered by telephone either
I'm Chicago or Milwaukee. No arrange
ment has been made for the delivery OF
messages in any other way than by telc-
phone, but they will he mailed TO the
persons for whom they are intended II
they can not be reached by telephone.
a new telegraph cable has been laid he
tween England and Germany. reaching
from Bacton in North Norfolk to Emden
making the third cable by this route
The cable IL the property of an English
company but owing 60 the German gov
ernmenrs having contributed to the cost
OF laNlng the same. the new German
cable-iaying steamer Won Podlielski be-
longinR 10 the Norddeutsche See Kable
company, was chartered 60 undertake the
work owing TO the rough sea that was
raging Off the coast OF Norfolk. Il was
found Impossible 90 haul the heavy cable
ashore In the usual manner by towing
so a warn was brought To land and the
cable itself nosted 10 land by means OF
a number Of huge rcd buoys. body OF
one hundred men then hauled the cable
along the trench TO the small cable sta
tion. This task completed, the Podbiel-
ski set out for Emden, trailing the cable
from her stern