The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-10-05

A Cleveland. ONO, tlrm is engineering
scheme to build a SOL mile railroad
along the south coast or Cuba, from
Havana to Baracoa. The project involves
an expenditure or $l,QO0,0OU.
me DE Forest system of wireless tele-
grapny VIII be esta bl1shed In a short
time between YonkerS and Newburg,
N. Y.
Rev. DR.. Henry NJ. Wharton. of Balti-
more, Md. is about to start on a tour
in car called the Evangelist" which
was built TOR him and presented by Mrs.
Mary +. GeIger, OF Jamestown, Pa. Inc
car is seventy-two feet long and mas
two sleeping rooms. with baths. dining
room and Kitchen and drawing room
The car is designed to accommodate the
Doctor and musician, who will travel
with MIN on the tours which he Will
make, While the evangelistic meetings
Will be held In a large tent. which IS stor-
ed under the floor OF the car when not in
USE the main object OF the trips is TO
raise money TOR certain Charities IN which
the Doctor and Mrs. Gsiger are inter-
ested.
Inc first long-distance electric railway
In Europe Will be that to be constructed
from brussels to Antwerp, a run of
uwenty-slN miles, winch It is proposed to
make In twenty-five minutes. The work
VIII be done by the Belgian government
and it has been recently daciaad to pro-
coed with the work of construction.
A Brazilian company, with a capital OF
SIS, uAUuUU has been recently organized to
undertake some big electrical work. 1t
is proposed TO unite all or the COM
panles OF Rio Jane1ro into one concern,
and also to establish a new plant on the
river Paranypa, and to transmit 40.uuJ
horsepower TO point ninety miles
away. TWO or the engineers OF this COM
pany are now on a tour OF this country.
looking up the practlX In matters Of
electrical generation and transmission.
These gentlemen are Adolph Aschoff and
Edouard Gulnle. and they have thorough
" gone over the held at Niagara Fais.
Andrew Carnegie was recently elected
president OF the Iron and steel institute
OF Great Britain at its annual meeting
neld at Dusseldorf. A paper was read
at this gathering by Professor Henry
Al. Howe, OF Columbia University.
professor S. w. Stratton. who is at
the head Of the new Bureau Of Standards,
is now at Berlin acquaintlng himself in the
matter of the equipment OF the new build
moda ton Of the department over which
he presides.
Sir Henry Thompson, well-knoWn
writer on medical and astronomical sub
iects, recently celebrated the elghty-sec-
ond anniversary Of his birth.
Drs. C. F. Wood and F. B. Power have
been appointed by Secretary Hay to rep
resent the United States at the annual
convention for the Uniflcation of the
Formulas for the Heroic Medicines.
King Edward has granted a charter for
the new British Academy for the promo
ton of historical, philosophical and philo-
logical studies.
The gunboat Topeka will be used in
some wireless telegraphy tests to be car
ried on for the benefit of the cadets a t
Annapolis The vessel will go to Norfolk
for repairs, and will at the same time be
fitted out with the masts necessary for
the purpose Of receiving and transmitting
the MESA ges. After the cadets have
been made sufficiently acquainted with
the system the Topeka will be assigned
TO work with another boat similarly
equipped, both craft to be sent to sea.
Aluminium is coming largely into use
as a substitute for copper in the trans
mission of electricity. About .0Ot
pounds, which is equivalent to over 100
miles. were recently purchased by the
Massachusetts Electric Company, and a
Boston firm has bought somewhat
larger amount for use on the lines under
its mana cement.
A memorial has been proposed to the
memory of Joseph Henry, the great
rhvsicist whose work did so much to-
ward the development of electricity in
the early DAYS, and 1t has been suggested
Nv tha committee having the matter in
barge that the memorial take the form
5of Z scholarship or scientific course at
a-5g 81