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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-30
Professor Goldsborough, Chief
81 the Department OF Elec-
tricity Tells Mr.. Carper-
Ter About Them.
By Frank G. Carpenter.

Especial Correspondence 10 The Times
Dispatch.)
ST.. LOUIS, Oct. 29.--If you want TO
see what the world is really doing. come
to the ST. Louis Exposition The latest
Inventions along every line are shown
here. This Us d twentieth century fair
and 1t has all sorts OF new tTchtleth
century machinery. ] have spent to-day
in the great palace OF electricity talking
q with Professor Goldsborou2h, who has
charge OF the electrical department \
have watched girls cooking with light
8uing. and smoothing boiled shirts with
electric irons. I have seen men healing
i diseases With electric sparks, telegra Pm
ing d thousand words Il minute, telcphon-
ing without wires and even without the
aid or the hello girl.
The Passing Of the Hello Girl
Yes. Actually telcphoning without the
intervention OF her nasal twang, and
without tho danger OF her pink ears
hearing the secrets they transmit. They
4 make their own connections and talk as
long. as they please. Embossed by her
Z majesty
In my talk with Professor Goldsborough
asked him about these automatic tcle-s
i phones. Said he:
1--WE have three different systems ex-
hlbited here. The Stronger system has
been in progress OF development for q
number OF years. but It has only recently
become thoroughly commercial, and It -
now extensively used In the factory towns
about Boston and Chicago. We have II
here in the electricity building and use
81 in our business. The exchange Is 50
arranged as to show tho working Of about
ten thousand telephones. We nave tele-
4 nhones at each OF the varons entrances
az this building. In our Offices, IN the
laboratory Of tho national bureau OF
+ Standards and otherwheres. The sys-
tenn gives US a means Of secret communi,
cation with one another, me centrai
onerator being eliminated, We can tele-
nhonc what We please, and It Is pracu-
cally Impossible for any one else to know
what goes on.
"In addition to this" continued Pro-
fcssor Goldsborough. eve have tho Faller
automatic telephone system, which has
n bcon so developed that It is now ready
for commercial application on a large
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Telephone Takes the
Place of5the Hello Girl Talk-@
ing Without Wires-Ele "A
trio Locomotives for
Steam Roads.

Ing 8 Mr.. Colds borough, tells ~ me that
startling progress has been made In II his 4
field. Flo has exhibits OF the electric
light bath and 1t Is. 1 believe. possible
Z for a perso n who feels under the weather
z to take one here in the full view Of the;
public. In the same way various cleo
trio brushes are shown and f.H-ray ms tru-55i
lnents Of different kinds. s n u
Ono OF tho most In teresting features OF Z
the Palace Of Electricity is an ELECTRICAL
apparatus by which the deaf are made Z
TO hear. Glasses of deaf mutes come
here and are thus taught to speak, and 4
through this apparatus their education
can he carried on. Indeed, tits believed
that IT will soon be in general use
throughout the United States and that IT
will do much to better tho condition OF
our so-callcd deaf and dumb.
Other New Things.
But cannot even mention the number
Of new things in electricity which are
shown here. There is much new In cleo
& trio lighting Including a factory where
4lncand cscent lamps are made The com
gplete process OF manufacture Is shown
tho factory having an output Of more
+ than one thousand lamps per day.
"A nd then there arc electric locomotives
which claim a regular speed of more \
than ono hundred mics an nouri and z
telegraph instruments upon which can be
sent from one to two thousand words IA
minute. There are other instruments for
sending pictures and handwriting by tele-5j
graph, and there are also telephones and
monographs combined. by which one can 4
4 have recorded on n wax cylinder tho
messages sent him when he is away.
There are electric motors nd generators.
some OF the motors so small they are
& lust ut TO run a sewing mac hine, and
some generators SO large thar they do \
the work Of ten thousand horses. There
are all kinds OF storage batteries. some
for use In country houses anu others
adapted to automobiles. There are au-f
Itomobiles from different parts OF tile
United States and from the several coull-
tries Of Europe, You can ride about the
: grounds In automobiles, and there Is an
automobile service to and from the ho-5
tells. In short, there are az sorts ~
things here moved by electricity, and In
every branch there are many new inyen- n
tions, FRANK G. CARPENTER,
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tombstone at Shockoe, Is consid erably IN
doubt. The records Of intcrment which
are KEPT at the city Alnrshouse date back
to April ls22 The first grave recorded
In the earliest volume was dug for a
Mrs. Mccormick, who died of>nervous
fever
There are tombstoncs OF previous date.
Possibly they were removed rom older
buryIng grounds. Close along the west
err wall Ia Il long row OF tall, thin slabs.
rho Colonial lettering on them Informs
Us that here lie the Elliott family.
There Is Thomas Elliott, his wife Mary,
and their daughters, Mary, Nancy, Patsy,
Elliott died Iii 1882. There are other
ancient slabs In this part OF the Gene
tory. Did tall grass and weeds permit
we might discover the tombstone bearing
the oldest date. Is
Let us ramblc about the old grave
yard awhile, not only to trace names OF
note. but TO discover, II we can. what
manner OF men and women these were
that nade{ our city once What we're.
they worth to their community? And
what was OF worth 10 them?
The Tomb Of Marshall.
or course we Will 10 first to The section
where the greatest occupant Of the ceine-
tery--John Mnrsllailis buried. On the
way let III Tcc!te for younger readers
some OF the facts in the life Of our
greatest turist.
John Marshall was born September y,
1865, at Germantown, In Fauquie1' coun-
", Va. His father was Colonel Thomas
Marshall formerly OF Westmoreland
county, a man OF talents and character,
an officer In the Revolution. The mother
OF John Marshall was Mary Keith. John
was the eldest OF fifteen children. Colo-
mel Marshall devoted himself personally
to the training OF his sons; nc also en-
ploycd for them Scotch tn tor. e
John Marshal early showed a strong
love for literature. When he was four
teen his father sent him TO Campbells
Academy In Nvestmorelnnd county Colo
mel Marshall and George Washington mad
both attended this school.
At the age OF eighteen, John Marshall
laid down the study Of law to Join
company Of Virginia volunteers. AS leu
tenant he took great interest IN drilling
his men and melting them to military
duty by patriotic speeches. In the bat
lie with Lord DHnmore near Norfolk.
Marshall aud his company largely con-
tributed to the success Of the action.
AIarshalls good temper and lively spirits
at Valley Forge made him the idol Of his
soldiers and brother at.co-s Here his
judicial capacity and fairness were 50
highly esteemed TINT he was constantly
chosen arbiter in disputes Az deputy:
Judge advocate OF the army he won the
confidence Of Washington.
His Services in War.
Marshall served for some time IN the
war. He took part in the assault ON Stony
Point Sent On military business to VIII.
liamsburg he attended while there q
course OF law lectures which Chancellor
Wythe delivered. Marshall found, not
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The NEWES 7 THINGS IN The WORLD OF ELEC1RlClI

other means.
'.As to the use OF electrical heating al'-s
paratus in the household, it is SAT- to.
say that 1t Is constantly encroachins
upon, the more primitive methods t -S,.s
5trical heating and electrical cooking arc
far superior to any other. In the matter
OF convenience. NJher ever water must 20
heated 1t can be heated as economically
by the electrical apparatus as by gas OF
coal, and such cooking and heating can
4 DO moro easily done than by any other
means. f
IA very Important thing about cooking
and heating By eectricity,' continued
Professor Goldsborough. '.ls that DC is
much mora healthy than cooking or heat
i Ing by coal or gas. Electricity makes
less dirt and the apparatus Gamble QUICK
aly and readily cleaned. Again. you can
!. heat any desired vessel without netltlns
up the rest of your surroundings. I on
Brnn make II coffee without bringing the
cook and the room to n high tempera--
/ ture as you must do I You would heat
n smaller quantity Of water by Goa X
wood or gas. BY the electrical appara-
tis all the heet Is kept inside the coffee
pot and tho cook and the room are 8 :
comfortable temperature. on 4 may see
this cooking going on In tho building.
we have here utensils for the entire
range Of cookin &, and hey are tholoueh-
lyS successful commercially
Trying to Educate the People.
II hyould like to say. remarked Pro- %
lessor Goldsborough, that the exhibits
OF the palace Of electricity have been
designed especially for the general pub
lie rather than for the electrical en-
sinee,. This Exposition is educational
and We are trying to show tho people as
much as possible about the new things
in the electricity of to-day. We have
here complete arc lighting systems. so
displayed that the layrnnn can see Just
how his city plant Is operated and han
died. Flo c,,1,, II he Will have all the
details explained by calling upon the at,
tcndants In charge OF the exhibit.
1--WE have also a splendid laboratory
here for the testing Of large electrical
machinery. The facilities of this work
shop are beyond those OF any OF our uni
yerglty la boratores Indeed, "a group OF
cIpht Students could bic CONTINUOUSLY
occupied there for more than two years.
studying the behavior and characterls-
tics OF electrical machines, and not ex-
ha,le,t It's resources. 1t Is so With many
other features. They are made for the
public and the attendants are ready 70
answer why and wherefore everything
is. so that the visitor may carry away the
knowledge Of much In each exhibit that
is not apparent on the surface
Healing Diseases by Electricity.
The use of electricity In curing disease
is well shown In the electricity build
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exhibited here. as the person having the
receiving apparatus In his hand knows
that II IS entirely free from any out
( side connection. -
Then the only use OF this Invention Is
to listen to some central speaker or Q
talk between man and man '&s gS &:
$50 far the system Is used here only
as a means OF enabling one speaker to
talk to large number Of listeners. Whe-
8ther It Will ever have q numerical
value remains to be shown.
Il How large an audience could one man
address through one Of these machines
and be distinctly heard, Professor Colds
4 borough?" asked.
3"As an engineering possibility 1t would
be perfectly feasible to Install such an a p
paratus. so that one speaker could adj
dress at least one hundred thousand
people. and each could hear him with
equal disInctness. Such an experiment
however, would require the ms tallatlon
OF a set of instruments which would be
valueless In connection with any other
kind of a demonstrations. a54
The Wireless Telegraph.
How about the wireless telegraph! e 3
THAT is a different proposition, said
the chief Of the electricity palace. Half
n dozen systems OF wireless telesra pms
are now being used. There are several
operated in the United States, and Great
Britain is spending a large sum OF money
4 every year to equip Its battleships with
them. Our government is also expcr-
menting with the different systems, and
wireless tcegraphy Is nov used by the
public on very extensive scale. II Is
used fnr more than the people realize
in communications between stations on
land and upon sea. There are at the
present time two well organized and
strong companies carrying on the wire
less telegraph business in the United
States. The De Forest Wireless Tele-
graph Company has here at the EXPOSE
ton, in addition to two finely equipped
stations inside the electricity building,
two towers, each Of which Is over two
hundred and fifty feet high. From these
towers messages can be smultan eously
sent out to two different points, and be-
fore the closing OF the fair they will
transmit messages as far as Kansas
City and Chicago
Wireless kilograms to China.
do YOU think It will ever be possible
10 telegraph across tho Pacific, Professor
Goldsboroug h p y.
ut Is within the range OF possibility,
although it may be long before It Is
attained, The De Forest Company has
already equipped a large station at Sc
attic. We have a model OF that station
in the electricity building From Seattle
messages will be sent to Alaska, TO cities
on the Pacific coast, and POSI- to the
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H0CK0E HILL BRYlNG GROUND ONE OF RICM0NDS LOWED SPOTS

of ladies and always warmly defended
their equality liz native intellect Will
men.
In religion Marshall was for many years
a Unltarihn, butt his daughter tells US,
was convinced of the supreme divinity
OF the Saviour by reading Keith on
Prophecy. While he waited for his health
TO enable him to apply for admission l1li:ts ~
to the public communion of the Church.,
he grew worse and died. For many
years Mr.. Marshall held IL pew In tne 4
Monumental church and regularly attend-
ed services there He was member or 4
the Virginia Bible Society and ~ friend
of Sunday-schools. TO show his earnest
.-ter,est In Sunday-school work he once 4
walked at the head OF a Sunday chool 2
procession through the streets. e
Chief Justice Marshall died in Philndel-
phia, July G, 1885, In the eigftietliS year OF
hts age. a few days before his death
he wrote the simple Inscription for ~,
tomb which we find in Snockoe Gene
terry. &
Inscription ON the Tomb.
The Marshall section is a ectangular
lot lying towards the northern ehd OF
the burial ground. we push open a natne-
less gate In u black iron fence and hnd /
within six tombs In q row aiiG ono
grass-covered grave Marshall Is buried
under n neat marble erection not three
feet high. On the top slab, which Is
supported ut the -four. corners by pilas-A
ters, we find but these few words.
John Marshall
Son OF Thomas and Mary Marshall,
was born the gath OF September, l7b5.
Intermarred with Mary Wills Amber
k5s the Cd of January, ! ISL. as
Departed this life
the 9Th day OF July, 1886.
I've read the inscr!ptioli on the next
tomb and reach back in Imagination to /
the pathos OF the simple man berett In
old age ofwhat was his dearest, but too
iigh-minded far frenzy: VI
Sacred al 4
# to the memory Of 4 P5R5aS ~
Mrs Mary willis Marshall, HI
Consort of John Marshall 4
Born the 18th of March, 1766.
Departed this life on the 18th of Decem-
Der, 1881. This stone is devoted to her
memory by him
Who best knew her. worth II
And most deplores her loss. 3
Outside the Marshall section, against
It's ca stern railing, a number Of tall slabs
lean in q trustful manner. They appear
to testify still to the eminent man who
was kind and unpreten tlous always to his
neighbors. The atmosphere OF the spot
is all III keeping. From this point one
sees the smoke arise from this great
factories In the valley. A reminder OF
the life Of toil,3it drifts across the 8ceme-S
|8tery, which lies wide to all tho breezes.i
sparrows chirp In a homely way in the
I poplar over Marshall's grave. We carry
away one OF the Wild daisies that grow
about the tomb, and say In deep 8rever-5
ence: High honor to great sim ple-heart-.
ed John Marshall. III al .s5
(To be continued next sund Sunday
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Hawaiian Islands and the orient. It
would he wonderful thing II we 1could
telegraph from San Francisco to litllha'
would It not?" ,8..
New Things in Electrical Trans
portation.
s2The conversation here turned to cleo
trcal transportation, and asked as 10
tic progress made in that direction. Pro-
fctssor Colds borough replied;
f"In electrical transportation there Is
nothing new which tho public can APP
prec!ate There are new things. might
SAY startlingly new, to the engineering
world, and likely to entirely tevolu-
tlonize the system OF electrical trans
portaton, especially oyer long distances;
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scale, and also the automatic telephone
of the Bell Company. The Bell T tat'
phone Company has been quietly per-
fectng such machines for several years,
and they have their apparatus nov on
view In section II OF this building. las
Is practically the first announcement tnat
has been made OF 1t and 1t Is one OF
our most important noyeties. MI
The Sphere Of the Automatic
Telephone.
..yyiIl suci, telephones come into general
use?''
In small installations, said Professor
Gioldsborough. ,"It t may take some time
to adapt them to the cities orito make
II posi- bic that they should take care
OF the enormous traffic OF q large city
without the use of operators. That IS
i matter Of gradual development, and 1t
Involves serious engineering problems
9..Then We shall have operators for some
time yet?' 81
5,Ise tallow candles gas lamps and coal
oil: although we have the electric Ish,,
which cxces them ms an illliHllnaflt. u
is not possible to say as yet that inc
automatic telephone VIII 40 away com .o,n
pletely With the central station tele-
phone.
Talking Without Wires.
"How about the wireless telephone?"
.,rhat is n new Invention which Is shown
In a comprehensive way and on 2 SOUND
engineering basis for tho first time at
this exposition. You can see IT IN tsc
palace OF Electricity and listen to the
Transmission OF articulate speech With.
ont wires. Prior to this. demonstration
have been effected where tho ground or
currents OF water have been used as a
meansb of perfecting the circuit between
the instruments. Hero at the Exposl.
Stion we have an absolute d!Vorcement o.
the transmitting and receiving instru-
ments, one from the other, without any
physical connection whatsoever, a per-
son. equipped with one Of these telephone
and the coll attached there's
To- can pass freely through the court
md central aislcs Of this great building
and distinctly hear the words spoken
at the transmitting station which IS en-
tirely out OF view and far beyond ear
range. III,
S"rhe intent Of this demonstra tion IS TO
fconclusiyely prove that the connection IS
absolutely wireless. We can easily show
the general public that wireless tele-
nhonc stat tons arc inst tailed and in opera
ton, but 1t Is difficult to make many
believe that there Is not some means Of
transmission between the stations You
can easily see that this could not be the
case with tho wireless telephone system
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t9z&0 OF the belligerent powers IN the
3 russo Japanese war will accept arbltra-
ton. Their second argument is that no. no
body knows the true Intentions OF either
Russia or Japan. and that consequently
nobody can suggest a basis on which
peace might be arranged. Nov, this
second argument is nothing more or less
than an asylum ignorant!as," and u the
diplomats and the press which they in
spiro will seek cover under this II simply
means that they are SO little Interested 90
that they prefer to let things take their
course, or that they are not equal to her
duty, which imposes upon8them the task
OF ending this disastrous and cruel war; L
The intentions OF both bellgeren1s are
we'll known to everybody. Let US, then
analyze what these Intentions are before
yo take up tho question of the Feasibility
Il OF mediation. 4,
The future regime of Mnnchurla y the
principal point Of contest IN the Russo,
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but the character Of the inventions Is SO
extremely technical that the general pub-
lie would not be able 2to appreciate as
that theyE carry with them. A car equip
ped with an apparatus designed 70 Wo ,
\ under a high-pressure alternating cur
rent, does not appear different IN any
degree from tho present trolley car TO
the layman, and indeed, only a5gtraineo
ana skilled electrician can appreciate 70
any great extent what this new de-
velopment involves.
Electric Locomotives for Steam
Railroads.
"poes that mean that electricity VIII
take the place OF steam on our DE
railroad g 81 t4Es 5gE, lls S
SCI think 81 safe to say" eplied the
electrician, 'inasmuch as electric cars ~
now being operated between cities severaal
hundred miles apart, moro cheaply and
with the same safety and speed as tho
seam railroads, and that without inc
aid Of freight traffic, that the ca pitalists
viii eventually see that they can make a
saving by doing away With the steam
oco1nptive, and taking the electric 1000
motive in its place. This Is esp ,.
SO because recent Developments include
electric railway apparatus which are
much moro economical for long dis
lance work than those now common
In America. !,
"rhe fact that the New York Contra!
railroad has equipped thlrty-six miles OF
its main ira ok near the city OF New
York with electric apparatus 4 and mas
placed an order for thirty electric loco
motives capable OF making speed Of
seventy-Ave miles per hour with heavy
Pullman trains. Is ono indication that
great change is about to take place III
the method of handling traffic on our
big roads. This change will first come
where tho volume OF business Is heavy.
and whore there are many trains every
day."
Cooking by Lightning.
II see that you have girls cooking by
means OF l!ghtnirg You have electric
irons and electric stoves, and all sorts
Of electrical cooking appliances as well
as electrical hea ters,, Arc these things
practical?"
II think they are said the head Of the
electrical department. Of the Worlds
Fair Electric heating Is now used very
extensively a great number OF fac
tories now employ electric soldering irons
and heating irons They find It economi-
cal inasmuch rs the person pressing out
hats or cloth does not have to stop evory
few minutes TO get a hot iron from q
stove or heater. The electric iIOn Is
always hot and always ready for use, and
the operators efficiency Is greatly In
creased by her having an electrically
! heated device rather than ono heated by
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HE principal argument used by
the friends OF peace, who are
mostly people OF many words,
but few deeds, Is that neither
OF the belligerent powers In the
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d Marshall served for some time In the
war He took part in the assault ON Stony
Point. Sent On military business to VIII
he attended while there q
course OF law lectures which Chancellor
YytheS delivered. Marshall found. not
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RORANCE OF DURBAR.
Cora, Cosntess of STAFFORD, a Former
American, Married to Kennard,
the Famous Explorer.

Cora, countess OF STAFFORD, the beau.
tiful American woman. has just been
married for the third time. Before her
second marriage to the earl OF Strafordr
who survived 1t but seven months, the
countess was the widow of Mr.. Colgate,
the American millionaire, and the great
wealth he had left behind was hers un-
til she became a woman OF title, when,
with the exception OF about 81 00o, 900, II
passed to her daughter, who herself has
but lately married. Martin Thomas Ken
nard, to whom her ladyship has now
been married, lisa distinguished English
man who is we'll known and liked in
London. Exploring expeditions In all
parts Of Africa, and big game hunting in