The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1904-02-11
Two Miles q Minute.

Oa . clear morning 10 October. 1903
the interest Of the electrical world wss
oentsrsd 10 > group Of gentlemen gathered
10 The vestibule Of 90 electric car u Mar
ienielde. near Berlin. Gsrmsny.
The osr vas 10 sppesronce much like
those on the inter.nrbsn lines 10 Americs
-stost % large 20 90 osdinsry sleeping
osr, but having 90 the roof What sppesr
cd 10 be two semspbores With three arms
esoh. These we're the trolleys; ,sch arm
pressed ss.iast one Of the three trolley
wires suspended beside the track.
Jn . distant power house engines we're
throbbing. and 10 the wires vss dosmsnt
. pover Of fourteen thousand volts. .
three.pbsse slternsting current twenty
eight times the electric p. .essure Of street
car trolly wire.
10 the vestibule we're the ususl cir brake
and controller. and . number Of cages for
registering the electric current. the speed
OF the csr snd The resistance OF the out
side cir. The controller wss in charge Of
% expert electrical engineer, the men With
bin we're deeply interested 10 the highest
development Of electric traction. They
looked ont throush windows Of besvy
plate glass. built 10 withstand enormous
pressure. and saw trsck boltsd and bAl
lasted 10 bear the highest sttainsble
speed. te
The word to ttsrt YES given. The eb
gineer turned the controller through . ies
degrees. From the wires alongside. though
the semsphore trolleys, the fourtsen.shon.
sapd.volt current, reused TO sotivity, leap
cd 10 Tbs transformers beneath The 90
Of the csr snd through them 10 the mo
tore, The c.r thrilled. shos ahead. snd
without isr or svsying beasp 10 dsvour
the ,r.ok sreediIy sod more srssdily,
Its sight tons weight gave II stssdiness
Tsspiy.six.huudred borse-poSer wss driv
ing Il such power % We shoold not oh
tain u We we're 70 bsrness . tventy.ioot
ssterisil having . A,v OF sixth thousand
cubic ieet Of sster esCh minute. Along .
straight and level irs ck II 6sv; the msn
10 the veshbuls closely Watching the
cages Al intervals OF tep seconds little
bell struck tsic., aud st the second stroke
esch man noted the residing Of the gsge
under bis charge. Three inshoneo.s,s run
BY clock york. computea and fesistre3.
esch 10 difi .rent vsy, the speed o. which
the car wss trsv.line
In hslt . mile Il vas e1ios d the rate
oi mile . minute Bcsrcely had the esse
marked IL when the engineer turned ths
controller point. Toe or iesped shesd
-nioetyi6se miles an bon,. more thsn .
mile snd . halt . miont.i Ytso s1ooiLly
did The csr rnn that the pas myers eould
hardly believe IL vas going ss fest - 90
ordinary express.
Ahead the track seemed TO cod bat 10.
II vu ouiys curve. the car rouoded 1t
si.boo, trsmor. Ass slight grade the
eoeipesr cent three bupdred sddilionsl
horse poser through the motors
las minute the cf sa RAINING one
houdred snd fifteen miles 90 boar. 10
soother stroke OF the bell Il sss running
one hundred snd tssb,y The engineer
cot G a the Isst resistance, G. v, the or foil
spted sbe.d, sni snll It's pace s:csIerst
ed.
Fragments OF rock bsllsss % large -
vslnats ssrs sucked 40 ~ IL psssed. sad
fell sssio cot Of tbs svioi VORTEX sstern.
There vsss er.sh sssint The window.
A bird bed beeo ovsrlsksn 10 its nlsht and
killed -stsssk 90 II IL bed been stssdips
ssiil 10 sbs psth oi liuitsd sxprsss Yet
IL vss H,iss its fastest to sss oct Of the
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