Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-06
HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR.
German Electric Motor is. Being Pre-
pared for Trial Next Summer.

German Electric Motor is Being Pre-
pared for Trial Next Summer.
Berlin Correspondence London Mall
1 have today had an interesting converse
ton with Messrs. Siemens and Halske, the
eminent electric engineers, who were good
enough to give me some very valuable in
formation.
1.-THE members of the English Society of
Electrical Engineers they said will be
afforded a full inspection of our works and
those of the Allgemeine Elektrizitats Ge-
sellschaft on June "a next. We have in
vited them to come to Berlin, and they have
kindly accepted and promised to come.
Concerning the much-talked-of project
of rapid electric traction, We can tell you
this much: We ourselves made some years
ago very extensive experiments with cleo
trio railway engines of very high speed. We
have 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 kilometers 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 it comes to sixty kilometerS an
hour they have to pull up for want OF
space, or, rather, for want of rails.
I'VE 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 committee for the study OF
the project. Members of the society COM
prise all the great manufacturers and bank
ers in the empire, among them krupp, Van
der Zypen and the DeutSche Bank; they all
help toward the great expense of the ex-
pertinent. Thirty-seven thousand five hun
dred pounds has been subscribed, and be-
yond that we can get any sums of money
that are required
1.-The minister of war has put at our dis
posal the military railway line between
Berlin and Zossen, which is thirty-three kill
ometers long. The minister of railwa VS.
lends us engines and wagons, and the war
office supplies with soldiers to guard the
line on account of the danger-a very nee
eSSary thing.
Our electric railway engines are to run
at a speed of 200 kilometerS Ola miles, an
hour, whereas the fastest trains in Ger
many at present run at eighty to ninety
kilometers- Two of these engines are now
being finished. They are of two distinct
kinds, so that We can make experiments
with both to see which is the better type.
One of them our own firm is 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 or in early autumn we
propose to make the experiments. We are
now about to build huge accumulation On
our military line to provide the necessary
electric power Probably the electric dyna-
mo which Messrs. Borsig exhibited in Paris
will be out down and connected with our
own dynamo. We are also considering the
scheme OF connecting up our own electric
works in Nieder-Schonweid with the en-
terprise at a cost of about 81, 800
Our elevated electric railway IN Berlin
will be opened on January l. 1902 1t is GER
tain to attract the keenest interest among
experts all the world over because of the
number Of new inventions and appliances
The trains are to be run at speed of thir-
~ k1iometers an hour. which is greater
than that OF the electric railways IN New
York and London"