The Republican journal., 1908-11-26
ELECTRIC FLASHES.

Fifty years ago, August 5th, the At
lantic cable was completed.
Capitalists are talking of an electric
line from Buffalo to Pittsburg.
There are 1894 miles of street railways
in England, an increase of 1880 miles in
ten years.
An electric blower for hot air furnaces
has been devised which greatly facili-
tates the heating of buildings.
No cities of any size in the japanese
Empire are without electric street cars.
There are 545 miles of trolley tracks.
Three French naval officers have re-
ported wonderful progress with their in
vention of the wireless telephone.
Centrifugal air blowers driven by cleo
trio motors are said to be far better for
pipe organs in churches than the old form
Of blowers.
A dispatch from Berlin states that
wireless communications between war
balloons and land stations have been
highly successful.
The remarkable development Of plant
life in the Arctic regions where the sun
is weak is thought to be due to atmos-
pheric electricity.
Germany possesses large number of
small water power developments. In
Prussia alone in the year 1898 no less
than 20, 600 plants were reported.
The Long Island Railroad has set aside
So, 900, 900 for the electrifcation of its
tracks from Long Island City to Port
Washington, and from Flushing to Malba.
It is understood that company, to be
capitalized at So, 500, 900, is being formed
to generate electricity at gas fields in
West Virginia, to be transmitted to Gin
cinnati, Ohio.
The Unaka Tenn.) Tanning Company
will erect large electric plant for in
dustrial power A dam will be put in and
the fall of Pigeon River utilized to run
the dynamos.
Power from the new plant of the
Spokane and Inland at Nine Mile Dam is
now being used by the railroad for its
Inland division, running from Spokane,
Wash, to Palouse and Colfax.
The beautiful mountain peak of Japan,
Full Yama, so frequently pictured on
/ fans and screens, is to be lighted by cleo
tricity at night. Refreshment houses
will be built along the trail to the top
and equipped with telephone and tele-
graph stations.
The number of telegraph messages
sent in the United States in the year
1906 was 94,0OO,0OO The number of
messages sent in this country for the
same year by the Western Union alone
exceeded II, ZOO, 900, not counting those
sent over leased wires or under railroad
/, contracts.
The construction Of the power plant of
the Great Northern railroad, which will
supply power to the three-phase Cascade
tunnel section of the line is now under
way. The dam is 600 feet long. The
en- conduit and 700 feet of steel conduit
with head of over 200 feet.
The trees of Central Europe are pro-
tected from the ravages of the Russian
moth by new moth traps. Two large and
powerful refectors are placed over a
deep receptacle and powerful exhaust
fan. The beams of light are thrown on
the distant mountain sides and it is said
that three tons of moths were caught
the first night. i.
Mr.. E. H. Hartman states that three
lines of the Hartman system are to be
electrified; the mountain division of the
Union Pacific, which runs over the Rock
les, the mountain division of the South
ern Pacific, which runs over the Sierras;
and the mountain division of the Shasta
x,-hio b
mountains. 1t is estimated that this will
=, cost $40, 600, 600.
The General Electric Company, Sche-
nectady, N. Y, has produced mercury
arc rectifer in connection with moving
picture machines. The use of the rectl-
fer enables the operator to obtain direct
current from an alternating cir
cult. This outfit forms simple ano COM
pact piece of apparatus, requiring prac-
tically no more attention or adjustment
than the ordinary rheostat, and will oper-
ate satisfactorily on any alternating
current voltage from 200 to 240, and any
frequency from 40 to 14G cycles.
Whenever the reighing sovereigns Of
Great Britain travel BY rail through their
English domain, special train de luxe
il at their exclusive disposal, It is ven
tilated, heated and lighted by electricity,
and in the Kings own private car an
electric reading lamp is fixed over the
head of the bed. In the Queens boudoi1
car the furnishings are marvels of beau
ty, while the equipment of the dining
car and those for the accommodation Of
the royal suite is all that convenience
and comfort could suggest. All expenses
connected with this train are borne by
the owners, the London & Northwestern