The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-07

Special Gable to The Globe.
SCARBORO, Yorkshire, Eng, Sept.
6.-I have just reached this charming
West of England watering place from
the interior Of the great county Of
Yorkshire, amid whose wide solitudes
OF moor, and scaur, and fell, dominated
by the impressive influences always
present in places where nature shows
herself In her vastest, loneliest, and
widest aspect, to reflect with much
surprise and considerable gravity upon
the discovery made during my recent
trip, that there, in the county of Char
lotte Bronte, with the remoteness Of
whose grim rural solitudes she has
wildly acquainted the outside world
through her, bcoks, modern invention,
with all It's prosaic accomplishments, Is
becoming supreme.
While Yorkshire has ever been a
county of contrasts, with it's busy
manufacturing towns and it's solitary
fells, the marvel now is that one of the
most ingenious Of latter-day scientific
ideas, adapted to practical purposes,
will soon dispei the gloomy atmosphere
characteristic of the manufacturing
centers by scattering the dreary smoke
clouds which have hitherto hung above
them like dusky PAIL and allow the
blue Of the skies and the rays of the
sun to gladden. the hearts of those
whose lot Is cast near the roar of the
factory furnace and the whirr of never
resting machinery. In this way, some
thing of the freedom, of the light and
air OF the spreading moor, will be Sc
cured to the pent up people Of the
towns.
Not so often does the genius of COM
merclai invention act thus directly for
the promotion Of the health and COM
fort of the sweating millions. But the
intended establishment Of great plants
for the generation of electricity-in
order that that power may be substi-
tuted for steam, will clear the land
Scape of the tall smoke tower and the
Lungs of the urban populations of the
smoke itself.
Electricity the Medium.
So electricity, in all it's essential
modernity, Is to be the medium Of
making the man-built town approxi-
mate little more to the God-made
country. The smoke is to go, for the
present plans take in an area of over
LOO square miles, within. which ex-
tenslve territory are conducted, on a.
vast scale, great number of different
industries requiring an immense
amount of steam power. Some three
millions OF people dwell within this
territory, and at least $4,000 factories
are working full time, besides 800 coal
mines which are in constaunt OPERA
ton.
The figures mean that here in this
same section of the great West riding
OF Yorkshire factory steam engines are
daily supplying a force aggregating
more than one million horse power to
make the operation of this vast volume
or industry possible.
AS manufacturing area the region
represents an enormous aggregation Of
invested capital. It is therefore no
matter of surprise that in the contem-
plated improvements by which cleo
tricity shall be substituted for steam
power a sum of two million pounds
sterling will be expended
The details of the scheme indicate
it to be of somewhat colossal propor-
tons. 1t is proposed to lay a com
prehensive network Of subterraneous
and elevated cables whereby electric
power may be conveyed In any desired
direction.
Any person who wants power-no
matter how small or how large his re-
quirements may be-will be served.
mutually 1t is proposed to furnish the
power on q wholesale basis to civic
bodies or to corporations who will
agree to become local distributors of
power In lesser quantities. Alterna-
lively the consumer will have the OBJ
portunity of securing, at an increased
cost. the amount of power he may
need.
100000 Horse Power.
The money that will be sunk In the
works will enable electric power to be
furnished to the factories of subscrib-
ers to the extent Of one hundred thous-
and horse power. Great expense will
be involved in equipping the power
plant, the erection Of the cables cost
ing an enormous fortune-nearly eight