Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-14
ERA OF WATERFALLS  POWER FROM THEM COMING IN-
 TO GREATER DEMAND. The Saving of Fuel Is One of the Prin. cipal Points at Issue-Focal
 Centers of Great In- dustries.

Every day sees more ana more Of the wasted power of waterfalls, which lies a. mans disposal ill every hilly or moun- tainous country turned to use in fur nishing electric energy. The power oi waterfalls. writes Garrett P. SeTviss, in Success Magazine, is driving the great. est of all tunnels, the double Simpion bore. through the Alps; it is sending another tunnel. by devious ways, behino prscipices and under glaciers to the sum- init of the snowy Jungfrau; and plan is now being perfected for constructing once more with the aia of waterfalls. and to be run by them, when finished, a rival to the Simplon road, which snaii cross the Alps between Turin and Mar tigny.
 Everybody knows what Niagara is do' ing, and how the waterfalls of Cailtof' mia. and of other mountainous states. are being harnessed.
 A. A. Campbell Swinton, at the re- cent meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, pre- sented accurate statistics, which he had personally collected showing that noless than 1.50O .000-horse power derived rom waterfalls is now being utilized in vari- ous parts of the world for the develop mept of electric energy. Of this grsa' total which he believed did not repre- sent the full truth, for he thought II probable that the real aggregate IS 2 .OOO. .OOo-horse power. nearly one-third must be credited to the United States.
 There is one feature of this utilization of water power in place of steam power. which NIT. Swinton brought out, and which is seldom thought of. and that is the saving of coal which 1t enects. On the basis of 1000, ,o00-horse power derived from waterfalls, this saving amounts 10 nearly 12 900 0o0 tons of coal per year But the maximum amount of water power that is available has not yet begun to be approached in actual utili- zation. so that the annual saving of coal must become larger and larger every year. This. in view of the increasing difficulty of working many coal mines, owing to the great depths to which they have penetrated. and in view of the approaching of some of the most ia nous fields. becomes q highly important consideration. Every little while the world is reminded. more or less sensa- iioraiIy. of a coming ccai famine. The fact is that coal. oi the better grades. possesses 50 man advant9gss and ccn- yeuieaces ss fues .hst the sslih's sGp- plies c. l. should 10 ec-szTveG for Au- man ase as long ss possible. Men of science nave more than Cuca sounded warning a2aias- tho waste Q! coal, ior coal IS inc zifr of 2 geologic ass which cannot be -e1esed. ThIs water fails. hy enabling Gs to spare cJal. are performing an indirect seTTi,c oaiy isss { important thsE their dirEct service iI supplying clsctric power. Bat fer thsln the groEi7g rs. cf electricity would soon make a drain upol the cosI mines c. ;he mezt seriozs charsc.sT-
 i The ara ol waterfalls seems Gzrtai1ly :c have daras5. Every great sstarscs ' -iI5 Es, ome 2 tccus Of izGust-r- just ss every great r.ser waller has slways ben a center of poFdist.oE- ana Prof Brig hams prediction that Niagara is to bs the industrial center of America. may ! be fulfilled within a generation