The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1906-01-04
NATION ON THE VERGE
OF AN ELECTRIC EPOCH
Weird viii Soon See Direct
Process Of Power From
Coal, Says Edison
FEED NOT CARRY COAL
Horses Will Become Obsolete In Flu.
ture-Power in Future VIII Be
cheaply Transmitted by
Wire.

New yorx special: In the optimism OF
Thomgs \. Edison. wonders are yet To
be unroldcI ia the world OF electricity.
I'VE are cropping on the verge OF an
other great epoch I'm the worlds his
tory" he said I'm an interview Mt his
laboratory IN West Orange. ~. j, 1T
wodld not surprise me any morning TO
wake up and learn that someone. some
group of 100000 scientific men who nre
investigating all over the group. has
seized upon the secret OF electricity by
direct process and begun another prao-
teal revolution In human affairs.
1T can be done: u will be done. ]
expect 20 see IL before I die.
Abolish Coal Carrying.
The first great change I'm the pro-
duction OF electricity will abolish car
rying coal for that purpose" he said.
Instead OF digging gross material out
OF the earth. loading IL on cars and
carrying IL. say 500 miles. there To put
IL under n boiler and burn. and so get
power. We shall set up plants at the
mouths OF mines. generate power there
and transmit II wherever IL 10 needed
by the copper wire.
1T Is preposterous 10 keep on put
ting coal mines on wheels. IL In too
clumsy. IL In to0 costly. There II no
necessity for 70. 10 IN easier TO carry
molecular vibration by millions OF
waves second than freight cars full
OF crude matter. We can ship 100 900
horsepower over the wire quicker and
more economically than we can send
the equivalent In coal over a railroad
track.
EIimirste the Railroad.
We must eliminate the railroad al
together from this problem. What's
the use OF it7 We don't want coal any
how. IL does Us no good tn look nj IL.
What we want In the resultant OF the
utmost energy that can be produced.
And there II no sense In carrying
around millions OF tons OF raw ma
terial' like coal when we can get n
product delivered TO IN By wire.
Everything points To the fact that
III the near futrc electricity Will he
produced Tor general consumption by
great powerhouscs ~ the mouths OF
Ccaipits Tat ~ the logical and COM
mon sense outcome " present events.
Now the ;rgth ~. that & viii cost
q laird les tn transport electrical pow
- hy wire thrn Ia carry Il ~ the form
ut GOAL IN railroad cars Assume tho
Tric" or r'al 20 D. 90 90 the month
20 tan w'.r su6 asSuv" the frciGh;
- - $50. Srw. IS" ,gn ;vrn coal
ir'n .ls,'r.llty at iNo vlr" ard convey
- - wiz 70 l.rr tNra half of the cost
90 go e. 'r,t'nT' % crll
Nv5y w'sh iIerscs.
"s-lr,tr!gity vii take IN" place %
NU'n =. "a VIII solve tho vehicle ana
traffic problems 81 cities. Ny new
'I'JtrIc stoii rsr battery Itself viii make
'icctri,ity cheaper than horses. In the
spring wc VII! hc ready 20 furnish new
batteries. Net only viii they take half
th" space ~ horse iraiglc. but they wifi
20 twice as fast. They can be- stored
OF upper floors hy means 81 elevators.
Th" swing of Stable space In New York
win cover At least S2C0.0CO.OO0 worth OF
property.
Not only VIII electric power be de-
vcloped and distributed from coal mines
Ia tho future. but all the watcrpower I'm
the world viii bc used for the produc-
ton OF electricity. That movement has
begun and rs advancing rapidly. In
California, where men have nerve
enough To overcome habit. they are
trErsn itting electric power 275 miles
by wire and running street cars and
lighting cities by Il. That is the sort
Of spirit that viii wake the world up
ono OF those days. wish that spirit
In California would spread every
where"