The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-14
HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR.
German Electric Motor is Being Pre-
pared for Trial Next Summer.


pared for Trial Next Summer.
Berlin Correspondence London Mail.
have today had an interesting convex
sation with Messrs. Siemens and Haiske.
the eminent electric engineers, who were
good enough to give me some valuable
information.
1.-THE members OF the English Society
Of Electrical Engineers" they said, will
be afforded full inspection of our works
and those of the Allgemeine Elektrizitats
Gesellschaft on June "a next. We have
invited them to come to Berlin, and they
have kindly accepted and promised to
| come
Concerning the much-talked of pro-
ject OF rapid electric traction, we can tell
| you this much; We ourselves made some
years ago very expensive experiments
with electric railway engines of very high
| speed We have a railway line of our own
between Lichterfelde and Teltow, near
| Berlin, across the fields. We have been
| successful, but we are hampered by the
shortness of our line 1t is only. two kilo-
meters long and the trains have TO stop
Just when they get up full speed. We
have engines of 10000 volts that might
go at almost any speed, but when 10
comes to sixty kilometers an hour they
have to pull up for want OF space. or.
rather, for want Of rails.
1--WE have obtained the support OF the
government and the financial houses in
Germany, also of the minister of war
and the minister of railways. We have
founded society and a committee for
the study OF the project. Members of
the society comprise all the great manu-
facturers and bankers In the empire,
among them Krupp, Van der Zypen and
the Deutsche Bank; they all help toward
the great expense of the experiment.
Thirty-seven thousand Ave hundred
pounds has been subscribed. and beyond
that we can get any sums Of money that
are required.
1.-THE minister OF war has put at Que
disposal the military railway line between
Berlin and Zossen, which is thirty-three
kilometers long. The minister Of railways
lends us engines and wagons, and the
war office supplies US with soldiers to
guard the line on account OF the danger
a very necessary thing.
"Our electric railway engines are to
run at speed Of 200 klometers Ola uniles)
an hour. whereas the fastest trains in
Germany at present run at eighty to
ninety kilometers. Two of these engines
ere now being finished. They are Of two
distinct kinds, so that we can make ex-
periments with both to see which Is the
better type. One OF them our own firm IL
building, the other is to be built by Mr..
Van der Zypen in Cologne.
Both will be ready in June or July.
and in the late summer OF In early au-
tumn we propose TO make the expert
raents. We are now about to build a
huge accumulator on our military line To
provide the necessary electric power. Pro-
badly the electric dynomos which
Messrs. Borsig exhibited In Paris will be-
| put down and connected with our own
| dynomos We are also cousidering the
scheme OF connecting up our own electric
works In Nioder- schonweide with the en-
| terprlse al a cost OF about $500.
"Our elevated electric railways In Ber-
/ I'm will be opened on January /. 1900 IL
IL certain n attract the kenest interest
among experts al the world over because
/ o. the number Of now inventions ana APP
| planes. The trains sre 20 be run AZ
speed of thirty kilomstera an hour.
which IL greater ihan that 81 the eiecirio
railways in New York and London"