The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

chase of the electrical will O the wisp. The engine was a long ways off, after the young inventors interview with his father By the same token for the mere detail of a few dollars the world narrowly missed one of its great dis coveries.
 At last and with great trouble the young man got the money to buy an old worn out engine. He hammered and patched on this old engine in an old workshop until it could give a wheezy and uncertain service.
 Cropping in the dark of electrical knowledge and believing that a sep arate dynamo was necessary for each lamp VanderpoeI was operating two dynamos for his two lights. The en. zine was furnishing the power for the two lamps py separate equipments of belts With RAhRzN idea of regulating the speed of the dynamos Vandepoel connected the poles of the two dyna- mos with positive and negative wires.
 In5 the midst of his experiments in the old shop one belt snapped. Van depoel expected it's light to go out im- mediately But it only flickered a mo- ment and then burned on. He looked on the pulley wheel of the dead dyna- mo and it was still revolving regard less of the broken belt and apparently without force or power from the en- zine. The light continued to burn.
 Stirred with excitement and surprise Vanderpoel seized a piece of scantling and tried to stop the wheel The scantling was knocked from his hand and he found that while the wheel was whirring rapidly it was revolving in the opposite direction from that in which the belt had turned 1t.
 Then the truth flashed upon him. He had stumbled upon Q great discovery ft- ted through a wire from one live dy- namo to another If power could be transmitted through by wire for ten feet why couldn't 1t be transmitted for ten miles? His head whirled at the great thing that he had fallen upon.
 He gave his electric light exhibition at the circus, but his mind was filled with greater things.
 Vanderpoei's Great Iden.
 Then he went to work on his Idea. Men with ideas and the devotion to carry them forward are the men who have made the history of the world. VanderpooI ma na ged to get hold of an old rattle trap Of worn out street ear. He worked on this with some wires strung in back ward until he had shaped the skeleton of the present electric car.
 It, was such q curiosity that h" took it over to the aggic lltural fair at Tor pnto. Canada. There he rigged up a track about 700 feet long with . wire overhead He ran this old worn out uar with it's rude motor back and forth taking the nickles from sight scers who wanted % ride on it for the cur iosity of the thing.
 This odd sight caught the eye of Joseph Arthur Gaboury civil and me- chanical engineer, capitalist and chief owner of the street car lines Of Mont gomery and Columbus. Ga. When MT. Gaboury went over to examine this strange attraction at the Toronto fair. q new chapter in the history of street car operation in the world began.
 MT. Gaboucy was a Canadian by birth and a graduate of the University of Quebec. When he had finished in Canada he went to Paris tc pursue higher course in civil and mechanical engineering. Equipped with an acute and, trained mind, a big strong body and an indomitable will. MT. Gaboury's