Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1890, Page 10

10 ed THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTO D. C. * ATURDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1890—-EIGHTEEN PAGES, THE NEW CITY OF LORELEY! To Be Built on the Plateau Formed By the Bluffs That Crown the Great Gunpowder River on the PHILADELPHIA DIVISION OF THE B. & 0. RAILROAD JUSTLY ESTEEMED ONE OF THE MOST ROMANTIC, BEAUTIFUL AND HEALTHFUL SPOTS IN THE SOUTH. The Property of the New Baltimore and Chio Land and im CALA AT OFFICES OF Under the terms ihe Company’s charter, it ie au- lease, mortgage, improve, dispose of, or otherwise deal in lands, and to lonn moncy on real er personal property. The subscriber to stock of this Company will re- paid-up, non-assessad! RES, lawsof Maryland stockholders are m Mable beyond the amount of stock subscribed and un- paid. The Company owns 1,563 acres D tunted on and Onio center of Baltimore giving nearly three miles of railroad front, and there are two stations on the Property. Twenty-two passenger trains pass daily, and the fare at present by quarterly tickets is 9 1-2 cents, and will be about 5 cents when the Belt Tunnel is completed, ome twenty min ‘The land is excepti y '¥, being the highest point between Baltimore and Philadelphia, one hundred and sixty feet above tidewater, and sloping by gentle declivities to 1s proximity to Baltimore, city, Wilmington and P' ites’ walk of all business centers, and the use and attending expense of street cars avoided, now neces= sary whe ad is used. ting upon the Rail- d just sufficiently wooded by large eaks and shade trees to make it attractive and peculiarly adapted for subdivision into town lots and villa sites. ‘This has been subdivided into 6,500 lots of various di- jess than 25x150 feet, The remainder, ivided into cottage of the simitarity of its position, natural benuty and ad= vantages to that ceicbrated and historical spot on the Rhine. Our land possesses the advantages of natural drain- age, fertile soil, pure, cool, delight water, salub of climate and beauty of scenery in a degree not excelled by any other section of the United States. It is free from excessive neat and c which makes it a detightiul seasons of the year. point, and two hundred fect higher than entirely free from ail malaria diseases. ure’ ride from the City of New York. One hour One hour and a hatt less than a halt hour We have four mites of water power, unsurpassed in provement Co., CAMPBELL CARRINGTON, 505 D STREET NORTHWEST, LORELEY CITY * SUBDIVISION: OF NEAR_BALTIMORE. MD FOR COPY OF PLAT, GIVING LOCATION OF when Et fo. Bote ~ LOTS, &c. ——————— ee a An Opportunity is Offered the Public to Inspect and Verify the Statements of the Company Without Expense, as Free Railway Tickets ‘ the country, having capacity to furnish power to an ale most unlimited extent trap reck, eminently suited for Belgian bio < bi side railroad tracks aarries; also, two immense granite quarries, pronounced by experts to be admirab! ing and monumental purposes. There clay, aluminum and sand, which, together with the ber and reck upon the place, furnish all material for ¥ suited for bulld- are large deposits Negotiations are in progress fer the establishment of several manufacturing plants. Th le to the property is perfect. There is NO GROUND RENT, and purchasers of lots will receive their deeds, with certificate + free, with neither inter~ est nor tnxes to pay on the same til allthe purchase mm is paid, itew and water privileges granted free, and money loaned for approved manutactures. ‘The Company jormed an association for the pure Pose of advancing moncy to those who desire to improve their property by houses, and will advance seve y-five per cent, for this purpose, payable in weekly or moathiy ‘There An especial reservation at the falls of the Big Gunpowder river of some twenty acres, which embraces the handsome ss! excursion house, with tts large porches and beau ly furnished rooms, the tinest danc- ing pavition in the State of Maryland, summer houses and outbuildings, and & casine of artstic design, capa- Process of crece one of the most romantic and this country, m excursion ground and as ® perpetual park for all lot-owners, their heirs and Gssigne, with right of use and enjoyment forever, TERMS OF PURCHASE.—Ten dollars cash, and five dollars per mon cash; Company's stock AS CASH, AVE tWentysfive per cent. of returned to they commence the time of their purchase, if a busband purchaser dies before his purchase is completed, the Comp widow, if the sam Purchasers of lots will the cost of their st, INO4, they so Wish, have their money re= funded on a written notice delivered to the Sec: ary of the Company, between the first Gud fiftecuth day of July, iso4. There is no suburban property that offers to any one more than the opportunity of buying a country home on Feasonable terms; but this Company docs more than Others—it offers you, if a stockholder, a jo! are for Distribution at Any of Its Offices. EXPRESS TRAINS LEAVE EVERY DAY AT 8 A.M. AND 12 M. FOR LORELEY. Special Excursions Every Thursday at 12 O’Clock M. fr Depot, Royal Blue WILLIAM A. FENWICK, } om the Baltimore and Ohio Line Coaches. casinos, timber All its properties, and the prot he receipts from its ¢ auy of its property Farthor information can be ebtained at any of the officer of the Company—1 43 52 New Strect, New York Oity, and 5035 D Strect Northwest, Washington, D, C, jone and granite and land, and it receives its its face value, xington Strect, Balt- building purposes, T, 505 D ST. N.W SALES AGENT, - N.W. — o —— = — — WHY THE BAR KEEPER LOOKS | Written for Tre Evestno Sran. like Hamlet's description of the world—“weary, | NOODLES WANTS TO GET MARRIED. upon by unprincipled human beings with | STORAGE BATTERY TRACTION. | countered in storage battery traction SO SAD. GERMANS AND LEADERS. stale, unprotitavle.” Even He Has Woes of His Own Like Any Other Human Being. don't like the disrespec’ that some of me customers show to me free lunch,” said the saloon keeper near the Capitol. “Fr instance, they'll step up to the bar, take the fly cugo off the plate of sausages and say, ‘Is it eats today?” “ ‘No,’ says I; ‘it's spitz to- day; tomorrow we have bool- dog.’ That's repartee, you know. “There's plenty of bums that come in here and ask me to give "em drinks, ‘cause they ain't got money to pay. If Ido it once they try it again, until I have to say that this isn’t no charity gin mill and fire "em out. But the cheekiest feller I ever struck was one that bought a ‘stovepipe ot beer over this bar yes- terday. He let it stand on the counter while he tackled the free lunch in a _m nner so artful that I just let him go ahead for the sake of secin’ how he did it. “I was mixin’ drinks and dodgin’ about the bar for spoons and lemons and things, and the — whose beer stood waitin’ walked up and jown the room, thinkin’ very hard apparently and takin’ immense interest in the red and Yeller theater bills on the walls. Goin’ back and forth between the free lunch and the other end of the saloon, he’ take his chance each time when I ducked my head under the counter and grabasheep’s tongue or a big hunk of Sausage so quick that it was li magician’s trick. Then he would walk away with his hands Dehind bis back, just as if he was doin’ it for ex- ercise, though I could see trom the back of his neck that his jaws were workin’ in a desperate way. The man must have been 'most suffo- ated, though he managed to get away with bis mouthful each time, while he stood lookin’ at the colored posters.' He kept this up until Be must have eaten about eight sheep's tongues besides a lot of sausages. It was one Of the squarest meals I over saw got away with, thoagh it must have been a dreadfnlly painful one. Anyhow, pretty soon he came up to the bar and took a few gulps of his beer, which I take a pride in — in the biggest stove- Pipes in the city, mr. When he had taken a sip @r two, he said in a careless way: “I wonder if these sheeps’ tongues are good, Darkeep? Anyway I guess I'll try one.” “$0 he helped himself to another, and while he chawed it, having by this time swallowed about one-third of his beer, he shoved the storepipe across the bar and said: ‘Barkeep, I wish you'd fill this up for me. It's got a little flat.” “Weil, do vou know, I was so flabbergasted that I took the stovepipe to the keg and filled it. The feller drank it down. sayin’ that he liked to fee! was gettin’ the worth of his nickel, and wentout. I'm waitin’ for him to turn up again, with a plateful of patent medi- cated sheeps’ tongues that will sicken him of workin’ free lunches for good, I guess.” Endurance. How much the heart may bear. and yet not break! How much jesh may suffer and not die! I question muc! Pi f soul or body brings our end more nigh, Death chooses bis own time; ti!l that is worn, il evils may be borne. We shrink and shudder at the surgeon's knife, Each nerve recoiling from the cruel steel, Whose eige seems searching for the quivering life; Yot toour sense the bitter pangs reveal ‘That still, altnough the trembling Geeh be torn, ‘This, also, can be Lorne. or ache rising in our way, And ty to flee from the approac! ta ‘We seek some smal! escape—we weep a pray, But when the biow fails, them our hearts are Ut = ‘Not that the pain is of its ad mrasiesrro We wind our life about another life, ‘We hoid it closer, dearer than our own; Anon it fainw and falls in deadly strite, Leeving us stunned, and stricken, and alone; But ab! we do not die with those we mourn: ‘his, also, can be borne. Behold. we live through all things, voment pain; all grief and tt en ataen, ——cee Dector is sent for to attend sick woman. On bis arrival finds woman dead. “Why was I not summoned sooner?” did think of it,” “but we couclt let “er die o natural doctor asks, angrily. “Wi er] laine the bereaved husband, that it would be cheaper to death.” Some of the Pleasures and Disappoint- ments in Society. E PAYNTEK—but let the word be printed in tho middle of a sentence so | that we can have the full benefit of the | small d—de Paynter of Newport, Lennox and Washington was in the city for a few | days last week on his way to visita friend who | has a fine country place in Maryland, He isa re- markable man, de Paynter, and is a born leader—of the german. Do you know whata german is? Well, it isn't a dance, it is a way of dancing dances, It isakind of dancing class, where the people sit against the wall and dance | when they are allowed to by the leader. When you are given this privilege you have the | additional privilege of asking somebody else to | dance too, and of giving him or her a present to remember the occasion by. When it ien’t | your turn you can sit still and look pretty and wait and pray for somebody whose innings it is | | to come and take you out for a dance, and give you a little present to remember the occasion by. When you are waiting you are apt to be | bored, and especially are you tired when a per- son near you gets presents, or “favors,” as they are called, and you don’t, THESE FAvo! | vary in splendor with the wealth of the person who is giving the german, Some rich New | Yorkers here a year ago had silver-mounted sticks and cut glass pony glasses for the men | and ostrich feathers and golden smelling bot- | tles for the girls, and the most usual gi: | boutonnieres worth about fifteen cents for the | former and bouquets worth about $1.50 for the | latter. Mrs. Astor in New York give: jewelry | when she has a german, and thero is a story afloat that another prominent New Yorker once | had diamond rings and gold sieeve buttons as | favors, ‘This is probably not true, Lor is the report of saddle horses for the men and village | carts for the girls correct. The tables upon | Which the favors are placed are under guard | of the lady of the house. The suggestion has been made of having # policeman, but the id | was abandoned because nobody was willing to | trust him. But the favors don’t require much | ofaguard im many cases. Cigarettes tied in blue ribbon, inexpensive paper caps, rosettes and things of that kind are favors which are very common and which don’t cost much, and | yet answer all the purposes for which such | things are properly intended. Then again there may be a german with very few favors. In this case they use figures, A figure is where the leader places a certain number of couples in the middle of the floor and attempts to make them execute certain evo- | lutions which nobody has ever learnt except himself. The dancers, however, learn these figures before the evening is over if he doesn't lave too many of them. 4A GREAT LEADER. ‘The gentleman alluded to a little while ago, Mr. de Paynter, with the small D, is making a life study of germans, and he really does lead them beautifully. He is none of your slow, bungling leaders that ype you waiting an epoch for your turn to lead out and sometimes overlooks you entirely. He doesn't attempt feats of leadership that he cannot accomplish. There is no danger of mysterious disappearance of the favors when is in charge, nor is he, like stern schoolmaster, governing his class through fear. There isa species of un- lawful dancing at germans called privateering. When it isn’t their turn to dance an adventur- ous couple may sometimes chance their frail bark upon the merry waters and take a little cruise without having taken out the necessary clearance 3, #0 to speak. Ac’ ir BOv- ereign of the feast like de Paynter winks at this coutraband trade, if it does not surpass modest bouuds, A tyrannical leader arrests the pri- vatecr’s —~ and — Partner, loses 2 abi temper and causes others to get ungry, w! ho ahould use all gently, x ANOTHER CRIME OF LEADERSHIP is to permit the court favorites to have more turns than they are entitled to. These things are self-evident in « ball room, that all people are equal and have equal right to dance when their turn comes around. The secretof de quick and consequently saliveaing. ‘fen caw’ and conseque: vening. You come bw germen to dance, not totalk. Your only chanee for conversation is when others are dancing and then you don’t feel like it, because you are probably on the vive waiting tobe eeked to dance. But wi have to wait and wait merely because the is neglect- ing his duty, you conclude that s german is PLEASURE AND NORE, Fifteen years ago the german was looked upon as a curiosity in society, but now it holds the most conspicuous place in dancing enter- tainments. If you are popular and dance weil it is charming. If you are a woman you go home with your arms full of favors, and if you are a man both lapels of your cont are covered with ornaments like the decorations of a much- honored foreign prince, But if you are neither popular nor a good dancer, you probably vote the german a bore, a bore! Let us be candid and say the truth. It is an agony. Poor Miss —! What a tragedy a german is to her. Hoping against hope, that it is due to accident that she has received so little attention, she will persist in go: only to discover in the end that this is a sphere of life that she had better shun. And so finally she flies from the scene of her bitter disappointment, aud no man pursucth her in her flight. And poor old —, such a good fellow as he ix, but so gawky! Ho sits and sits and nobody will dance with h And he too finally runs away and seeks sol. ‘at his club, and it is amusing to hear him rail against the world in general and germans in particular. After all, what gricfs our ploasures cause! The subject is too terrible, We started out with a little comedy and we will not ring up the curtain upon the tableau of a tragedy. Jags and Bats. A young man who lives in Boston wrote toa Washington cousin of his the other day, This cousin we will call John C. Smith, and the ad- dross of the letter was so carelessly written that Mrs, John C. Smith, his mother, opened it by mistake. ‘This is tho way it read: “Dear Jack: You will be sorry to hear that wo have been put out of our boarding house, where we had got so nicely settled for the win- ter. My chum, Billy, wentona bat last week and gota jag on that’ was a regular clinker, and he kicked up such a deuce of a racket that our landlady fired us the next morning.” And so on, more of a similar tenor. Now, Mrs. Smith being an innocent lady was at loss to understand the second sentence of the letter and she sat dowr to study it out. The bat she knew was a species of insect, or bird or ver- min, and indeed she had often seen them fly- ing about in the twilight of the early evening in the country. The verb to bat seemed to her anew invention, but one who bats she mado out to be one who gocs flying about in the twilight of the early evening. The next word that bothored her was jag. Sho remembered that when she was a girlin New England she used to hear the farmers speak of a jag asa small load of bay or produce on a medium- sized wagon or sledge. It didn’t seem to her to make any sense, but she supposed her son's friend meant to say that Billy had got a small load on. But how could a small load be a clinker? Clinker, to the best of the good lady's knowledge, was s hard, heavy formation of conglomerated substance, Sho finally wrote the sentence to the best of her ability, using her comprehension of this unusual use of the words bat. jag and clinker, and this is the way it read: “My chum Billy went flying about in the twilight of the early evening last week, and gotasmall load on that was a hard, heavy formation of conglomerated substances.” When her son came home she handed him the letter, saying that sho had opened it by mistake, but that she had not understood it very clearly, but it is probable that being ‘‘one of the boys" he grasped its contents sufficiently wel ee God Gave the Baby. From the Old Homestead. A lady along a street came upon s little girl wheeling « baby carriage. “What e beautiful baby!” exclaimed the lady as she discovered a pink face dono up ina cream-colored shawl, “Whose child is it?” “Mine,” the little girl answered. “Oh, a mean that it is your little brother I mean that he is not my brother, but Ineé—my child.” ‘ou are a very young mother.” ain’t no mother.” “Then why should you say that the baby is yours?” the lady Imiscbievously asked, "Cause God sent it to me, iy mamma asked me if I didn’t want little beby in the house, an’ I said yes, an’ she said if I ed for one God would send it, an’ then I said I would pray for a little sister, ‘canse | like girls better than boys, but mamma said I'd just better pray for any kind that God has a ‘mind to sead, but I = nts T prayed for 0 little oe oe Cod aber guess it was cause he didn't have any on hand. Then Isaid I would pray to to senda aa s0on ashe could, but our folks said that I needn't put myself toaay trouble on that ac- He Tries Two Methods for Catching an Hetress and Makes Dismal Failures. oe AM ACCUSED of not being a marrying man,” said Nood- les laet night at the Ornitho- hynchus Club. “The charge is not justified. It isnot my fault that the nearest I have ever come to family life was finding ® coloured baby on the doorstep of my board- ing house when I got home late one night last spring. “I don’t mind telling you fellows, if Tar Star man will keep mum, that my attempts at matrimony thus far have been most melan- choly failures, How is it to be expected that a clerk in the forcign office at $1,200 a year, born to asituation in life that obliges him to keep up appearances, shall indulge in such a luxury asa wife and possible, if not probable, off- spring? Asa@ bachelor I can swell around, wear good clothes and be a rollicking ram in a mild and not too expensive sort of fashion. Five hundred dollars supplies my board and lodging, $200 more enables me to be attired like the lilies of the field, my club costs only $40 outside of what I choose to spend in it, and Iam not expected, as would be the case in any other city, toreturn any equivalent for the hos- pitalities extended to ine in society. READY FOR A RICH GIRL. “T have never felt any prejudice against mar- rying an heiress, On thecontrary, I have been desirous of committing myself to such a ven- ture, No one can justly say that a consider- ation of mere money in such a way has fright- ened me from the undertaking of matrimonial obligations, Here in Washington we finda situation of affairs in this regard that is peculiarly happy. On the one hand there are ever 80 many very rich girls, while on the other there are hardly any young men who are not poor, A combination of the advantages and disadvantages ought tobe made, Let the poor young men marry the rich girls and there would be happiness all around. Unfortunately, for some reason which I have never boen able to fathom, the rich girls do not seem willing to endow the poor young men, however attractive the latter may be, with their wealth, per- sons from other cities, usually with more o1 less money of their own, come here and scoop in the gilded damsels and we are left. “The object of my first choice was only pos- sessed of a paltry $100,000, but she had that in her own right and I thought it would do. With 100,000 I could afford to retire from the pub- lic service and do nothing, which was at that time my ambition. I did not Jove the girl— that is to say, I was not in love with her—but it occurred to me that love was an ephemeral pas- sion, When love, even supposing that I felt - had vanished the $100,000 would still be a soli foundation for domestic content. At the same time you must distinctly understand that I did not propose to go upon false pretenses in the matter. The occasion that I chose for my pro- posal of marriage was game of billiards be- tween myself and my inamorata, I told her frankly that I was notin love with her, thet thed 81,200 year in my own right, subject to the discretion of the Department of State, and that I understood she had $100,000. subject to no discretion, unless she had some of her own. My notion, as I expressed it, was that, inasmuch as she had money and I needed it. we should ef- ae & combination. FL eons es ane d her to be my wife. As ad anticipated, she re- fused, though amiably, a ‘I trust,’ she said, ‘that this will make no ——— bet ia oe Rel avé ‘Not at all farie,’ I replie (t's your shot; I'm eight points bebind.* r WITH ONLY TEM MILLIONS, “My own experience points to the conclusion that heiresses are hard tocatch. I shail never get over my adventure with a young woman who came to Washington two years ago with ten millions in her own right, without mention- ing & prospective reversion of twenty millions posing that she aver'est oxptia a never from her father, $10,000,000 ehags fec-$ sunt 3 whom he is 80 contiding us to enter into con- tracts. Having tried one method of wife seek- ing ona high moral basiv I thought that, just for fun, I wouldexperiment with the other and ry A HORRIBLE BUT GENTLEMANLY VILLAIN. “With this notion I sought my heiress. I was introduced to her by a girl who agreed to serve in the matter as my confederate, At the start Isucceoded in making a most favorable im- pression and this I followed up with an ardent wooing. The object of my suit always re- | minded me more of a young heifer than any- thing else. She had round, wide-open brown eyes, with which she would gazo at me while I talked in a sort of surprised way. It rarely occurred to her to say a word, and my conver- sational resourc>s became well-nigh exhausted | after my first dozen visits, But, keeping the | $10,000,000 steadily in view, I persisted in my attentions, devoting to her all the precious leisure time which I would so gladly have ap- | propriated to other and more amusing pur- poses. Tevenran heavily into debt at the Norist’s to buy bouquets for her and sacrificed my pocket money in the purchase of gilt-edged | candy, thus depriving myself of many neces- saries in the way of drinks and cigars. So ad- mirably did I piay my part of the villain who still pursued her that at the end of three months I was on the point of making a formal | pro) 1 with every expectation of success, But at this point I committed a fatal mistake, TROUBLE WITH THE CONFEDERATE, “T squabbled with my confederate, In order to be as villainous as possible I had promised her $10,000 for her share, in case I secured the hoiress and the $10,000,000. Seeing my hopes on the verge of jruition she declared that thi sum was not enough. I did my best to show her that I had no means of knowing how much of the $10,000,000 would be settled upon myself, and, therefore, that I could hardly enter into an extravagant contract, inasmuch as I had to get a living and eupport out of the enterprise myself. Already I had gone into debt on ac- count of the matter without a penny of return, and tho flower man was becoming clamorous for his money. In short, I refused, and wo had word: “The next day I met the fair object of my pursuit on the street, accompanied by my con- federate, The latter bowed with a sardonic smile, while the former cut me perfectly dead. I saw the situation at a glance. The game had been exposed, my goose was cooked, the $10,- 000,000 had fled from my grasp, and I was once more a$1,200 departmentclerk without fortune OF, prosp cts, Such have been my two adventures in the E it of heiresses, Being a really truly vil- in I have not found agreeable, save as an ac- cidental episode, and it does not do to own up in prosecuting one’s suit that one is not in- spired by passion. Either way one gets left. I cannot afford to marry 8 poor girl. and, there- fore, it is, without blame to myself, that I re- main a bachelor.” ———_——+90—____ Barn Storming inthe West. ‘From Ounce s Week. A Brief Review of the Development of This Motor System. THE £ARLY EXPERIMENTS BY FAURE AMD JULIEN—THE FIRST ATTEMPT MADE IN THIS COUNTRY IN 1895 AND THE INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF CARS 80 PROPELLED SINCE, From the Electrical Fusincer, The time is certainly ripe for at least a brief review of storage battery traction. It was first attempted at the Paris exposition in 1881. Two cars were run from the Place de la Concorde to the Palais de I'Industrie. This was shortly after Faure and Julien had begun to introduce the storage battery in Europe. The experiment began and ended there and was resumed in 1833 by Julien, who put » storage battery car in service in Brussels, After a year or so of service thie car was exhibited in service at the Antwerp international exposition of 1885. It attracted so much notice there and did its work apparently so well that it was awarded the first prize us the best and most economical method of street railway traction then known. Suc- ceeding this favorable report, and no doubt actuated by what had been done at Antwerp, the Electric Power Storage Company cou- structed and put in service one or more storage battery cars at their works at Millwall, England. In the early part of 1885 Mr. Bauer, now of the Pullman Company, made some experiments with a storage battery car in Itimore with varying degrecs of success. In October, 1886, storage battery traction was brought prominently before the attention of engincers in this country by a Julien car which was ut in service on Sth . ‘hat car was afterward tran: and Madison avenue line, and was, by degroes, followed up by more cars, unul in 1889 the largest installation of storage battery cars that had ever been attempted (to wit, ten in all) Was put in actual service ou the 4th and Mad son avenue line in New York city. They hav continued in service up to the present time with the exception of an intermission brought out by adverse litigation. Following the ex- ample of the Julien people in this country the Electrical Construction Company, limited, of England have made an installation of twelve storage battery cars at Birmingham, England. ‘They have built a large station there expressly | for storage battery service and Mr. Pritchard, the engineer in charge, reports the road as now in successful operation. Within the last than those to be met with in the overhcad system. There nowseems to be left but one question as to the final outcome of storage bate tery traction and its relative position with other systems. That question is its relative economy. The only element entering into the question of economy is that of the dura- tion of the battery. The battery, as is pretty generally known, 18 composed of about an equal number of positive and negative plates, The negative plates as now manufactured might last indefinitely. It is fair to say that they will last ten years, It was once thought that they would not last over two or three years. The only question, therefore, is the life ofthe positive plates, if they can be made to last six months there is no reason to doubt that storage battery traction is as cheap as horse traction where ten or twenty care are in service, and cheaper than horse traction where the number of cars in service exceeds twenty. Allthe mechanical difficulties heretofore en- countered in storage battery traction have been substantially overcome, They have been overcome as fully as the mechanical diffcul- ties of the overhead system. The car goes and is as reliable in service asa steam car or an overhead car—probably more so, It shifts ats batterics in a sufticiently short period of time to admit of that method of trac- tion, no matter what the headway may be on the most crowded line, and by ingenious arrangements the batteries can be shifted economically and can be stored within a small space. The motors, gears and switchesare substantially the same as those used by the overhoad system, and are, of course, equally reliable, then, is as to the life of the positive plates or e-half the battery. They cost at present for ar about $600; they can be furnished for @ much less figure than this when used in large uantities, They ought tolast for one years that would mean €2 a day or two cents « car mile for 100 days’ run, They will last longer running 100 miles a day than if they should rum 50 miles a day, One gratifying point about storage battery is that the more continuous the service the better its condition remains. There is nothing more harmful to a storage battery than disuse. Almost all the difficultics encoun- tered on 4th and Madison avenues due to the storage batteries arise, it is stated, on Monday, end are to be attributed to the fact that the batterios have been idie, as the cars do not rum on Sunday, From all that can be learned three cents @ car mile for storage batteries isa conserva tive estimate. This leaves from six to seven cents acar mile for steam power and the Year or 0 storage battery traction has been re- ceiving considerable attention in various quar- ters. Mr. Wharton bas now five or six cars in actual service on Lehigh avenue, Philadelphia; that line is run exclusively by the aid of stor- age batteries, Another em ped is running four cars at Beverly, Mass.. and has been doing so for over a year with considerable success, The Electric Traction and Manufac' Company in New Orleans have now two —— battery cars in actual service and have ten a ditional cars which they expect to have in serv- ice by the Ist of November, while a number of additional cars are being constructed fur New Orleans. Two Julien cars are in service at success, by the Daft Indianapolis, Ind., it is said, with A storage battery car equipped Electric Company (now the United Electric Traction Company) is and hss been for several months past in service in Toledo and with great success, It has carried as many as 1,100 Passengers in ove day. One or a bave for some wo weal no in service on letropolitan street way in Washington, D.O. o'now in Paris and that srrecgemoutenre be are now in an teare iny made to enlarge the number. iu addition to the ve battery cars in service at Birmingham rene about eight other cars in service bere and throughout rhe oy yao og York, 4 cars at ton, D.C., 5 di i F i Te and the g g maintenance of the motors and gears. Con- servative estimates by electrical engineers = cost of motive power for these items as foll tery or generated on the overhead system. 20. a car mile. Maintenance of m ae ae “too le. “ ccvcesccsecces 8 Oo or eight cents percar mile by the storage bat tery aystem. Cost of motive power in horse traction im large cities 1s ten cents per car mile, leaving in favor of storage battery traction two cents per car mile. Add to this the superior service ob- tained and the advantages are unquestioned. Justice Scores a Bull’s-Eye. From Judge,