Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 4, 1888, Page 15

AMONG THE ELECTRICIANS. @Gossip of Telephones, Motors, Wires and Batteries. FLASHES FROM THE DYNAMOS, A Wonderful 8treet Car Propelled by a Mtorage Battery Motor—Full Pescription of the Sys- tom in Now York. A Wonderfual Oar. St. Paul Globe: The electric . car which is running on Fourth avenue. New York city, is propelled by an ele trie'motor, or rath: by two of them, and the poweris deri batteries. The ear is eighteen foet long from door to door. The platforms are about four feet wide, rather more roomy than those of the standard street car, which has a sixtecn-foot body, and so the total length of the new car is about ved. from storage s it has eight, on two trucks of four each. placed well out toward the body and attached by “‘king- bolts,” just ng ‘the truck of an ordin- ary steam railroad ¢ attached. This enables it to round a short curve easily and without jarring. Instead of oil lamps, the car has elec- tric lights, a group of three i 17 and one at either end. 's head on either platform is a big gong. with which to warn off the track the driver of the slow dray who won'’t get out of the way. This bell the driver rings by touching a push button on the platform with his foot. The current, as well as that for the lights, comes from the storage batteries which operate the motc These storage ba s occupy the space under the se The panels on the outside of the , below the win- dows, open outward - on hinges and ex- pose a place on either side large‘enough 10 hold four big wooden trays—eight in Il—cach of which contain thirty-six —square boxes - of haid rubber. ach cell contains anumber of plates of lead, atranged in positive and negative #groups. and also contain the “solution,” which is nine-tenths water and one- h sulphuric acid. Vhen these tr of cells are placed m position in the car, they are con- nected - automatically, so cells in one side of the car in effect, one storage batte v, with its contents, we hundred pounds, o that when a car dy to start it has abourd about two tons of storage Tiie company has a” “station” and a "rlnn‘u" at the Eighty-sixth street depot of the Fourth avenuo line. The “sta tion™ is, in effect, simply & big room in which it houses the car, loads it up with electricity, makes repairs, if necessary, plant” at the “station” con- s steam eng ) mos, such ‘nerate electricity incandescent lights. The current is one of low electromo- tive force and will not hurt anybody. The storage batteries won'’t blow up or tip the car off the track, or sting any- body to death. A man may take the full'force of the current from the dy- namo through the ends of his fingerse and not feel it a tenth part as much as he would that from the ordinary med- ical battery, Supposo the olectrician wishes tostart out the car, eight of the trays spoken of are ranged on benches, on either side of a bit of track in the station,on which stands the car. Four are on either side, and the benches are just of the right hoight so that the trays may readily slide from them into their places under the car seats. The engines start up and the dynamos begin to revolve. The olectric current which they generate travels along wires to the tray cells and fills them up. It's like pouring water into aseries of pails with a hose. If the batteries are empty at the out- sot it will take about six hours to fill them, and then they will run the car about thi miles, but as there are two sets of batteries for the car, and will be for each one when there are more cars, the batteries will be charged at the end of each trip, and so it will not take long to fill them. When the batteries are full they are slid into their places under the seats, the *mlwls are closed up and the car is ready to start. The motors are on the car trucks. They do not differ materially from other well-known motors, excepting that they nre designed especially for the work they do. They have two puivs of “*brushes,” that Is the sheets of copper which rest on the revolving part of the motor, and which convey electricity to 1t. hem the motor is reversed one pair is thrown off automatically and he other pair is brought into contact. On the truck just below the motor is o counter shaft, which has a geared wheel which engages a pinion or Little geared wheel on the motor. It also has & toothed wheel on the axels of the truck. Thus the motor moves the coun- ter shaft through geared wheels and the counter shaft moves the axles of the truck with a chain belt. The propor- tions aro such that the motor revolves about seven times to turn the car- wheel once, Now the car is ready to go on. The driver—he was justan ordinary stroet car driver a few months ago, bui he has been trained to run the new car and he likes it—the driver stands in the same place as he would if he were holding the reins. At his right hand is the brake, which has a wheel iustond of a crank, and at his left, on top of a square box which rises from the foor, is a lever. Inside the box is the ‘‘governor,” which is a device for turning as much or as little electricity as may be wanted to the moter, With the lever at the top the driver may turn on the full force of the butteries, a little force or may turn it off altogether. Or he may reach down, turn a switch and send the cur- rent in the other direction, so the mo- tor will propel the car backward. « The <canductor gs the bell, the driver turns his lever one notch and the car begins to move slowly out of the sta- tion; another noteh and it goes merrily down the avenuo until it reaches a hill. Still further the lever is turned and the car climbs the hill as easily as if a loco- motive wore pushing it. Some one signals to get aboard or a team comes dashing out of a side street and back goes the lever as easily as you can turn your hand. The diver applies his brake, and the car slows down or comes to a stap almost at once and withe out a jar. . Avnd 50 the round trip is made. The car is under better control than a horse car. It can make twelve miles an hour it it is dosived, and if it loses time by getting into a blockade it can make it up much more easily than can one drawn by a pair of horses. An Electric Mountain Rallway A correspondent of the London Daily News in Lucerpe sends to thut paper an account of an electric mountain rail- way—the first of its kind—which has recently been opened to the public at the Burgenstoek, near Lucerne. Hith- erto (he says) it has been considered i ble to construet & funiculur moun- railway with a curve; but the new R et Aty e g . THE OMAHA : DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 4. 1888 —-SIXTEEN PAGES. line up the Burgenstook has . achleved that foat under the superintendende of Mr. Abt, the Swiss clectrical ongineer. The rails describe ona grand curv formed upon an angle of 112 degrees, and the journey js made ns steadily and smoothly as upon any of the straight funiculurs previously. constructéd. A bed has been cut for the most part out of the solid rock in the mountain side, from the shore of the Lake of Lucerne 1o the height of the Burgenstock—1,830 feet above its level, and.2,860 feetabove the level of the sea. The total léngth of theline is 038 meters, and it com: mences with a grandient of 52 per cent, which 15 increased to 58 per cent: after the first 400 ‘meters, and this is main- tainéd for the rest of the journey. A single pair of rails is used throughout, with the exception of a fow yards at alf distance to permit two cars to pass. hrough the opposition of the. Swiss government each car is.at the present time only allowed the half distance, and they “instst upon changing, in ovder, as they say, to avoid collision or accident. 1 have madea number of Journeys up and down the mountain in company with an en- gineer, and the experien: sufficient to prove that the prohibition is alto- gother uunecessary, The motive power, electricity, is generated by two dyna- mos, each of twenty-five horse’ power, which ave erected ipon the River Aar at its. mouth at Buochs, three miles ¢» Owly one man is required to e the train, and the movement of s is comploet under his con- trol. One dynamo is sufficient to per- form the work of hauling upand letting down the ears containing fifty or sixty persons. At the end .of the journey. completed in about fifteen minutes, nt an ordinary walking speed, the car moves gently against a spring buffer, and is locked up by a lever, without noise and without jolting the passen« gers. This interesting undertaking has béen carrie d out at a'costof £25,000. the passengers A New Electric Disease, Chicago Journal: Not a little uneast- ness is said to been caused in cer- tain manufactur gions by the out- break of a peculiar disease in persons whose duties necessitate constant work- ing under electric light. The disease, which is known as ‘electric prostration,” ys siege to the subject’s throat, face and templés. Some very severe cases of it are reported from Crensot, a town in France, a large number of men being kept at work in th where met heated by an ele furna The strength of this furnace 100,000 candle power, and, while at is notin itself sutficient to hurt the men, the intense brill ¢ of the light brings on the “electric pro tion.” The first symptom is s:\h‘ 7 a painful sensation in the throat, fol- lowed by irritation and inflammation of the eyes. vietim’s skin, mean- while tak per-red color, while the pain in the eyes is followed by copi- our discharges of tears for forty-eight After four or five days the vie- skin peels off in pl and he is otherwise made to feel the unpleasant nature of his situation. The general outbreak of such a dis- ease as this would involve serious con- sequences. The number of men whose employment brings them into contact with the electric light is enormous, and is caleulated to increase at the same rate as the comparatively new agent supplants the old means of illumination and becomes used as & motive power. Some claim that the eléotric light is destined ultimately to supercede gas as lighting power entirely,and should this be the case a malady springing di- rectly from contact with the new power would be a grave mattor. The only remedy so far applied in cases of “‘electric prostration” has been the wearing of a shade over the eyes by the person affected by it. This, however, while it relieves the direct strain on the eyes, does not mitigate the gravity of the other symptoms, The great minds that gave the elec- tric light its being are naturally the ones best caleulated to provide a means of remedying any unpleasant conse- uences that may be entailed by its use. Sl'n a mind like ) Edison’s the discov- ery of a cure for “‘electric prostration” should be a simple matter. The malady bears an evident resemblance in some respects to the disease known as “‘color blindness,” the victims of which are workmen whose duties entail a constant scanning of parti-colored lamps at night. The entire subject isone that demands the attention of scientists. The electric light is far too valuable an ageut to be retarded in its advance- ment by a drawback which a little care- ul study by those most familiar with it hould remedy. Electric Rallways. Cloctrical World: The discussion which took place at the American insti- tute of electrical ongineers on the paper read by Mr. Frank J. Sprague, made it evident that electric railway practice is yet far from the point of be- ing standardized; and from the state- monts made it would also scem that uni- formity of practic ists i other systems of traction, is s the future. It is not necessary to take up the criticisms that were made on the electric railway in Rich- mond, as Mr. Sprague was amply able to take cave of himself and defend his work. His acknowledgements, how- ever, of some wenknesses, as well as the revelations as to the cause thereof, pointed directly to the fact that in elec- tric railroading, as in ele ic lighting, or any other application of elec- tricit; hasty work is apt to show itself in the very shortest time. Ou the other hand, much of the trouble caused at Richmond, relating to the cars, must b ught for in the great lnck of regular attention, and as Mr Sprague stites, probably no other piee of machinc in the world could be maintained in ion with as little ectric motor. Mr. Sprague to the stutement mude by him some time ago and received with considerable doubt, that he will soon produce a machine which he will b able to clean by washing it down with ? mature which ean be left over night. it evident that hall soon see the machine about which so much curios is naty aroused, The interest manif throughout the discussion and the large attendance which its announcement at- tracted, show that the subject is uppe most in the minds of muny electrical engineers, and will fuenish more than on resti tood for g meeting. An Indianapolis hia Press say n o divorce suit filed at Lafayett the plaintiff, Lena Christoffer, allege that three months after marriage her husband went on a spree and made trade to sell his wife to Jacob Demerly, In return Christoffer was to receive Demerly’s wife. The trade fectly satisfactory until a few days afterward, when Dem :alled at the house and Christoffer attempted to de- liver the ‘property. “The pluintift “refused to be deliv~ ered, mnhms so angored the husband that he threatened to kill her if she did not loave the house. In great fear she left the premises and has since contip- ued to reside with anaunt. The di fendant is quite wealthy and his wifean intelligent and & rather prepossessing | wowan. pecial to the Phila- was smr- 'INCIDENTS OF THE ALTAR. Mated and Mismated Couples, Their Joys and Sorrows. MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE ITEMS. A Minister and His Aged.Bride— Catching a Duke—Marriage by Lot—Tried to Trade— Connubialities. Gifts For the Bonnie Brides. Philadelphia Record: The Warrea county (Pa.) fair managers will have two_ couples married on the grounds. One pair has been already secured. They are John A. Lund and Sophia A. Anderson. These presents will be given to each couple. when splived, hy busi- ness. . mén of Warren: A white satin dding dress, a solid gold wedding rivg and a pait of hand-made wedding shoes for the bride; a set of s knives and forks, a rocking chai toilet set, a” photograph album,.a chair pillow, n box of toilet soap, a i ver button hook. and a bottle of shoe dressing, a water setya silk high hat and a pair of white kid gloves for the groom, a box. of cigars, a sack of flour, a wash tub, washboard and broom, a chamber set, pair of infants’ shoes, n sitting-room lamp, two pounds of baking pawer, a silver napkin ring, a cake stand and two ‘boxes of French crystal- ized Iruit. Mrs. Cleveland's Engagoment Ring. Chicago Herald: Mrs. Cleveland’s en- gagement ring is not, as is generally supposed, the beautiful diamond which she woars just above her wedding ring, but is n large, old-fashioned seal ring. which now ‘adorns the president's finger. There is quite a little hi attached to this ring and the w came to be bestowed upon Mrs, land. A few doys before the departure of Mrs. Folsom and her daughter for Europe, 1t will be remombered the president went to New York for the purpose of sceing and bidding them It was upon this ¢ n that » president flrst definitely asked M Cleveland to become his wife and fixed the date of their marriage immediatoly upon ber return to this country. T ing from his finger the seal ring he had worn for years, and which had been oviginally a gift from Mr. Folsom, the president placed iton her finger, in- tending, almost immediately th after, to forward her the handsomest diamond which could be found, This. plan Mrs. Cleveland herself ultimatoly changed, as she decided it would be less likely to attract attention if, during her stay abroad she wore the old seal ring which had belonged to her dead father. On the day of her marriage, as i known, Mrs. Cleveland received nificent ring and nockl from the prosi which well mag- e of solitarie idont, diamond pins for the hair and breast from Seccretary Whitney and. Mrs. Whtn, in addi- tion to numerous other small gifts of a similar nature from others. But, curi- ly enough,. the first dinmond ring irs. Clevelund ever. possessed tiny little star of diumom&s. which she wore on the little finger of the right hand on the occasion of her mrrriage. Thisring was the gift of a friend in New York, who had known Mrs. Cleve- land from early childhood, and who, hearing her mention the fact that she had never owned a diamond, sent the little ghttering star from Tiffany’s the day before her departure from Washing- ton when she came on to be married. This friend was among the number of those who came on in the same train and was present at the ceremony. A Muchly Married Man, New York Commercial Advertiser: Paittsburg has a divorce suit that has just brought out a queer history. When _ee surrendered at Appomattox there was among his captors one Winfield Scott Whitlach, who felt called to help further in subduing the rebellion by marrying a Virginia girl and settling down to farming. In two years, how- ever, he grew tired of it,and left be- tween two days for northwestern New York, not troubling himself to take his family along with him. There he soon woed and won a girl just out of college, and with her spent three years before eighin% for fresh flelds and pastures new. But her time came. Without a farewell he went to Pittsburg, and six months later married there a third wife, who proved so attractive that he remained with her for fifteen years, un- il 1882, ¥hen he disappeared after the old fashion, and since then, save vague rumors that he has been seen in Mon- tana with yet another wife, the Pitts- burg partner has heard nothing from him. A year ago it was borne in upon her that he was dead, and to i nsure his being so legally, she brought suit for the annulment of her marriage, with the result of finding out that she was only one of several who had grounds for divorce from him. A Minfster's Aged Bride. Chicago Herald: A wedding entively out of the usual run was that of Rev. John Holston and Mrs. Matilda Pierson ot Marshall, [1l. The groom is forty-two years old, of medium height, rather slender, and weighs about one hundred and fifty pounds, while the bride is nearly six feet tall, weighs fully two hundred and fifty pounds, and is close to eighty years of age. She hasa son who is several years older than her new husband. Holston claims to be a preacher of the Campbellite denomina- tion. He has lived in Wabash town- ship a little over three years and has occupied himself chiefly with holding revivals, ~ Mrs. Holston is an old resi- dent of Wabash township and owns a good farm. Holston hus been at the Pierson residence much of the time ng the last two years, making that his headquarters during his revivals. He and Mrs. Pierson started out yeste day morning ostensibly for a buggy ride, as they had often done before, but came to Marshall, procured a license, and were murried at once by the coun judge. They drove home immediat and no one'in the vicinity knew an thing about the marriage until it was announced, Catching a Duke. Chicago Tribune: Auother duke has been caught, it is said, by auother American woman, or vice versa, as the case may be. The duke in question is the duke of Norlolk,a young widower of 41, The lady is Miss Virginia McTa- vish, and she has as much and as good American blue blood as her affianced husband has English. In this di tion, indeed, honors are easy. The Mc T hes have the Scotts of Virginia oo the one hand and the Carrolls of Maryland on the other their aristocracy and proofsof pedigree. Any woman who can claim Winfi Scott and the Carrolls of Carrolton as the main branchesof her family trec is blue-blooded enough for any duke, so at least Americans will think. It is also to be noted that she has money enough maintain _ her state in first-class shape. She will havye $30,- 000 a year !or&in money, which repre: sents an Euglish capital of a round mill- ion. Both by blood and cash, therefore, she is amply qualified to look after, the Hpusekeoplog - of - Arunde Castle. Thyee,gther McTavishes, aunt® of hiers, havg also invaced the peernge and taken captives. It appears to ‘be a wiy the McTavishes have but “Miss Virginia, who 15a typical blonde, cate ries of the pajm for beauty among them all,and can buy and sell all three of hor aunts, - This,_ {resh ‘success, while it illustrates 'a, new craze of American woman for titles, and at le: pensatien. for the McTavish has caught w reat clean, brigh, simon pure, unsoiled Duke, and not one of the off-color kind, like the Hamersley's capture, Marriages by Lot. Paris Register: Many mar place ‘annually in Naples bocause of money left, according to last will .and testament, by benevolently disposed in- dividuals, to endaw a certain number of virtuous poor girls with a smaltl sum of money asan outfit,ind when these girls, say twenty or thirty, present them- selves to the trustees as candidutes for that dow and the will provides only for six such ma goes, all the gi must step up to the urn and dr: Of course, out of the twenty girls who have qualified, only siy the lucky ones. These six are not entitled to the dower until all the legal rrangements for the marriage are gone through. There are alw: plenty of young workmen, either day laboper mechurics, who are rveady to accept a girl’s hand and 100 or 150 frmu, dower, for she has had to go through a rigid examination a8 to her honesty, neat- niess, ue; ete. Iv ften sée the announcements in the daily papers of such marriages, and last Sunday one of these announcements attracted my attention more than usual on nccount of the length of time the tos- tator had been dead whose funds w to annually benefit these virtuous girls, I translate the advertisement literall as follows: “MARRIAGES—The trustees of the Capalno Chapel of the Church of alvador of Pictra-Sante (in Naples) mike known to the public that on the second: Sunday of September, 1888, at 12 m., lots wili be drawn for three mar- riages, each successful person receiving the sum of 120f., left by the will of Capaldo, who died in 1610, and left such sums in favor of three young women who will qualify themselves, which qualii tion must take place on or before the 6ith of September,. The following are tho qualifications: 1. They must be de- scendants of the testator; 2. They must be marriageable (whatever that may meu They must be honest and must be over twenty- Now here we have a provision made differently from the usual run,in that the candidates for this lottery must be the poor descendants of the testator. Just fancy that will made for'such a pur- poso by a man who died ten yeurs be- fore a Pilgrim placed his foot on Plym- outh rock, and that it is faithfully car- ried out! Dr. Wright's Two Wives. Philadelphia Press: There was a re- markable romange in the life of Dr. O. V. Wight, who 'died at Harper hospi- tal, Philadelphia, Dr. Wight was one of “the most noteéd sanitaripus of this an author, minister, lawyer and physician, When quitg,yopng he met Miss Sarah Whitmore, and after a short acquain ance became engaged to her. Her only e, her ,mopher, died quite sud- y, and this hastened Dr. Wight's ge. Adter-marriage he learned that his wifc wasan insane epileptic of the worst type, and that her frionds had purposelykept: the fact from him by refusiug to let_him see her whon in that condition. When the doctor went to Indiana he secured u divorce. He had a guardian appointed for his wite, and when he married his second wife they adopted the first wife as a daughter and cared for her on -the death of his second wife the epileptic was placed in charge of sisters of charity ina Wisconsin retreat, the dootor paying all the bills up to the day ot his death; and she is still living. The doctor was always very reticent about himself, and although he lived in Philadelphia many years, and was De- troit’s health officer, this sad chapter is history never leaked out here till he died. Some Curious Wedding Fees. The Rev. J. B. McGehee, of Jackson, Miss., once marvied a couple, and two chickens was his fee. The groom had tied the chickens hehind the parlor door before the arrivalof the minister, and after tho ceremony he pulled for- ward the door aud pointed behind it with the remark, “Here’s your pay.” Some time ago the Rev. H, R. Fo*der, of Lander Parish, La., married a couple and was rewarded with three staiks of sugar cane. In these two instances the marrying business was a “failure” for the minis- ter, whether it was with the parties or not. 1t would be unfair to expect, when a $5 man marries a $7 girl, that the groom should give $20 to the ofliciating minis- ter; still are people in better circum- stances as considerate as they should bo of the pay to which a minister is fairly entitled,” who takes a long ride on a cold day to uccommodate a loving couple? The ‘LUDLOW SHOE Has obtained & reputation wherev: troduced for "(‘a?umr-n STYLE,”* ' #O0MFORT AND DURABIL- ¥ hew¥é no superiors in Hand Turns, Hand “Welts, Goodyoar Welts, and Machine Sewod. 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