The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1908-03-26
ELECTRICAL FLASHES.
Many Wonderful Things By Electricity
Electric News Servioe.)

run special funeral cars to the city
cemeteries. Each car will seat forty
people and contains a special com
partment for the casket. The cost
Of hiring such q car is only about
$4,000 while the regular carriage
hire for such an occasion is about
S700 for each carriage used.
In Preston, England. the power
generated by the city's waste is SUI
ficient to operate the electric rail-
ways. This is suggestion for the
wasteful cities Of this country.
The big Saltese tunnel in Western
Montana is being bored by electric
power generated by nearby streams.
The trains to be run through this
tunnel when it is finished will be
hauled by electric engines. The
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail
road has secured ether water rights
which, it is estimated, will generate
nearly 2oo,0 horse power.
For the production Of local and
intense heat directly where it is
wanted electricity is in class by it
self. For facility and fexibility cf
control as to the degree of heat it
has no rival.
The electric light in the dark
clothes closet which lights when the
door is opened is one OF the most
useful adjuncts to the home.
Blueprints in large draughting
departments are now made by ma
chine. The prints are made with
mercury arc lights and the drawing
is turned with electric motors to in
sure an even print. The prints are
dried after the fixing bath with an
electric fan,
Buenos Ares is to have an under
ground railway.
A company Of Hamburg, Germany,
business men has been formed to
erect a tidal power plant at the
mouth Of the river Eibe near Cix-
haven. The ebb and flow OF the tide
will be utilized to develop electrical
energy 14,000 h. p. A recent test
is said to have demonstrated the
practicability Of the plan.
A $500 a minute, day or night,
penalty has been agreed upon be-
tween the Now York Edison Com
pany and the city of New York for
failure to supply power for the
pumps Of the new high pressure wa
ter main system. This agreement is
backed solely by the reliability and
perfection Of the new General Elec-
trio switchboards with this company
recently installed.
Electric fans are now being made
very small for desk and table use.
The large fans produce too much
breeze for this service.
If all the telephones made last
year were one telephone the monster
instrument would be 800 miles high
and would weigh 1000 tons.
A wireless telegraph station is be-
ing installed in the Eiffel tower by
the French government. 1t is hop
ed to send messages to New York.
The Cia Centraes railway Of Bahia,
Brazil, has placed an order with the
General Electric Company Of New
York for considerable new railway
The order includes a
Of motors, controllers and
air brake systems.
Toxic, Japan, has 80 miles of e'ec-
tric street railways. The track is
narrow gauge but the cars are broad.
The projects for electric railways in
that country since the late war ag-
gregate an estimated expenditure of
$3.50, ,OOO, 900.
An ingenious inventor has patent
ed an electric foot warmer which is
in the shape Of a pair Of light felt
over-shoes. An electric battery sup
plies the source of current and in
wires are the heating ele-
ment. When the boots are pull
ed on a touch of tuition starts the
current and the foot is soon com
Portable in a genial warmth.
The Danish government is very
much interested in the development
Of electric power from wind. An ap-
preparation has been made for exper-
iments. Thirty wind-power electri-
cal plants are now in operation
through Denmark.
The Jefferson hospital of Philadei-
phia has just purchased an electric
ambulance. The machine is Of the
most approved type.