Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-09-11

electricity, in one form or another, is
81 per capita Of this amount S1.25
per head represents the demand for
electric apparatus and supplies; So
per head for traction; electric light
ing, s1.50; telephone service, rs cents;
telegraph, fire alarm, ETC., 80 cents.
These values are rapidly increasing.
The people in short, pay as much now
for electricity as for bread.
The turning point of electrical de-
yelopment was, of course, the substi-
tuition of the dynamo for primary bat
teries. The relative cost of electric
power from the dynamo, as compared
with the battery, is as u cent to ST.
The possibilities of electric energy
through the dynamo are in still great
or proportion over the restricted scope
of the battery. The average power
OF 0ynamQS has risen to seventy-fiYe
horsepower. The largest dynamos
are at Niagara Falls, where 10000
horsepower is developed in a single
machine. These generate a current
of $4,000 volts The increase in the
use of electric power is shown in the
case of one company, the Edison COM
pany reporting a total of 50,634 horse
power of motors attached to its cir
cults, more than thirty times as much
as was used in 1890. The total horse
power in manufacturing estaDnsh-
ments of all kinds in the United
States in 1890, 900 of which only "A
per cent. is electrical. Yet the in
crease of electrical power was 1897
per cent. from 1890 to 1900. Most OF
this increase was during the last three
or four years. Electric power, there
fore, is coming into use at marvel
GUS rate
Electric power transmission is an
other development of the past five
or six years, generally speaking. Ap-
parently waterpower has decreased
from one-half to one-sixth of the total
power used in manufacturing. but in
fact This water power has been turned
into electrical power and trans mitted
long distances. A small proportion OF
the energy of Niagara is used in fac
tories. Much of it is used to propei
street cars at Niagara Falls, Tonawan-
da and Buffalo as well as for lighting.
etc The longest power transmission
in the world is in California, from the
Sierras to San Francisco, distance
of 220 miles. The power is used along
the route for mines, lights, street
cars, motors, sewing machines, hoists.
and dozens of other uses.
In 1890 there were 1852 miles of
electric railway tracks and 1896 cars.
In 1900 there were 50,65S cars, and the
number of miles of track had increas-
ed to 1859. Gable cars decreased
in number. and horse cars were near
ly wiped out.
During the five years from 1895 to
1900 electric power for automobiles
came into use This is a new indus
try, but is growing with breathless
rapidity. In 19OO-19O1 the number of
horses in Paris decreased 6 per cent.
and in London 10 per cent.
Electric fans form a noticeable feat
ure in the use of power from lighting
companies. The total horse power of
the fans used in this country was 12.-
766 in 1900. Elevators, also, utilize
electric power largely. Reference is
made to the big elevator in the Wash
ington monument. 1t moved fifty feet
per minute, carrying thirty-five people.
with electricity as a motive power the
elevator moves at the rate of 100 feet
per minute, with the same load. 1t
ascends to height of 500 feet.
In speaking Of the production of
graphite by electricity, the bulletin
says:
In connection with this work
it should be recalled tina,
Moissan, the Frenchman, who
has pushed the employment
of the electric arc so far as to produce
minute fragmentary diamonds in his
furnaces, noted in 1896 the production