The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 6, 1898, Page 22

29 dino Being Control One of the Larges WElectric Plants in the Country. ; THE SAN FRANCSICO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1898. Harnessed to POWER CARRIED EIGHTY MILES. ITHIN the next two weeks one ‘of the greatest pleces of ness success of the enterprise depend- ed, was the reduction of the loss in transmission to a minimum. ot { i with their beauty, but they bespeak of strength and permanence and the very alr seems to breathe of power. To the right as you enter are three small dynamos, called exciters, which induce a current of electricity in the magnets of the blg dynamos, the first step necessary to the generation of electricity. The regular dynamos, four in number, are set to the rear on the opposite side. The machinery was made after special designs prepared by greater part of the islanders gazed with superstitious wonder, and in order to make the captives like themselves they tore the clothing from the young men and left ‘them to run naked. The young Americans never went otherwise during their long stay on the Hawailan isl- and. When the curlosity wore away the superstitious wonder of the natives had turned to contempt, because the white men were not so agile at tree climbing and enduring at aguatic feats as them- ‘Spreckels ‘Building That Runs Ninety Miles a Day. Up and down, up and down. All day and part of the night, at the speed of express trains go the elevators of the Claus Spreck- els building. To see these emall cars of or- electrieal. : oy yemgineer\n€ In the “The water, in order to secure the re: O. H. Ensign, by the General Electric' sclves. They began a serles of horri- S hrdone ' S quisite fall,'must necessarily be carried Company and the Pelton Water Wheel ple abuses toward the poor captives. : working order in Southern through mountains of solid granite ‘ Company. Fach complement of ma- For weeks and months Holden and flying between the California. It is the very largest plant for a distance of four miles. The trial i chines is complete in itself, as each his companion never slept at the same floors of the build- of its kind in the world, and so vast are test of the transmission of 33,000 volts dynamo s driven by its own water time. One would feign sleep, but keep Bt the works, 8o stupendous the undertak- = = awake, fearing that a horrible fate was ing gives ut a ing, that it seems incomprehensible near at hand for both of them: Al: faint idea of the how it was all accomplished, ;Ylmn"f_rtOf,;"}:k:,e‘gew"r‘:cfil‘:;‘g rorme speed at which To be brief, the turbulent Santa Ana i Y cr‘;?fl:;;e; e h o B they travel. How- River has been harnessed. Miles of two men, and when they would run ever, careful tab tunnels havegbeen bored through solid and dodge and scramble out of range B is kept on the cars rock, gigantic dams have been built 2s best they could, the Hawalians so that every trip and tons of electrical machinery hauled would roll and scream with luuc:hteré < is accounted for into position over some of the rough- It took weeks hefere Holgs cop (ol and it is known to est mountain trails in the State. Small Sttt b . ki Hote e ieymITve, snrunE dntoegigtenceiin o raw mullet. His companion, however, each car travels in dozen places. The mountain stiliness sickened and wasted away under the a day, & week or a of ages has been broken, and now the treatment, and one day he was found = month. whir of turning wheels fills the air. dead on the seashore, where he had ' 1 th The result of all this work is that crawled to take a farewell look across After al ese Los Angeles, eighty miles away, will the waters. figures are aver- jopopbecth, SEl. 3 SR ‘Along with about 150 other slaves— fge ap. ik 18 shawn B Leliet i ol e iy STV black-skinned men, who had been taken i it o s eivas ith all needed power for street cars in recent warfare on some adjacent isl- | bout 90 miles a nd industries. Incidentally, light and and— Holden was set at work in 3 taro I g oSX —_— power will be distributed to all the field, owned by a L‘h:ief whom the white F' ay. al s in ns and cities along the way. The man had been taught was his master. 5 both directions. ant out in the mountains at the head The heat under the flerce tropic sun'orl; For[y-flv? miles up )f the San Bernardino Valley will de- the interior of the island almost roaste and 45 miles down ot - Holden. In vain he motioned to the B just like traveling elop about 10,000 horse power, and this dusky boss (who sat in the shade near e ; E is all to be distributed among the sur- at hand and watched the slaves work) I L‘ in a circle. If all ounding valleys. And after doing all that he was suffering from the intense | this were stretched this work the water then plunges on of electricity, having a working efli- cable hoists and one incline rallway, wheel, both belng attached to the same Deat, but the Hawalian only erinned = R o \zain and irrigates the fertile acres in clency of 4000 horsepower, a distance of used to carry men and material to the shaft, They rest on separate concrete CTiSIY elyhfgndto:kere(m e an HbL = would be enough e e et elghty miles, is a matter of vast impor- line of operations. A ride in a bucket foundations, 16x20 feet, built up from Lack to his task. o trmd burnea || to siizy s posscn To supply all the electriclty neces- 'A1CE to the business and scientific up one of these cable hoists is pleasant bedrock. O R e e 0o notseem R ger. as far as i Yh T e ok over T souiie world. This is to be done with a loss and exciting, but one needs good nerves The generators are of an {improved fo SRCT s %d have suffered so and I Stockton or Santa sary fo y 3 of only 10 per cent, and if entirely suc- to travel 1300 feet in midair at an angle three-phase type, revolving fleld, ex- DY ©0ne cou = AR st iy tion In these days of electric lighting, cessful will be the greatest and most of 45 or 60 degrees, especially when the fernal armatuce. and eack has ‘a ca. lved. He was carried uneeachunit LIS But electric travellng and transportation, practically important electrical downward trip is made in about a min- pability of 1000 horsepower and gener. 2 SPring and thrown In the sRecs o0 S5 gthere are 2 and its almost limitless use in the mul- achievement to date, ute. At other places are pumping sta- ates electricity at 750 volts. This ig Polms. There the cool o e good many other tiform industries of civilized life, is & The works of the Southern California tions sending water above for the con- conveyed to transformers, of which Lhe €Vening Testored o ot him S| interesting and as- great undertaking, but that is what the Power Company ardreached by driving Creting. One of these pumps is a hy- there are twelve. In these machines a ihg Master came anc O0Cie o but tonishing facts Southern California Power Company from Redlands. The power house is draulic ram, operated jmerely by the wonderful transformation scene takes ?}?d °;‘.‘§,’e Sy isious to obsérve the about these eleva- has set out to do for Los Angeles. ThiS ahout thirteen miles to the northeast, force of the stream. place. - The current of electricity enters ey te mburn.on & white man’s | tors. “The mumbér enterprise was concelved by Mr. H. H. Once in the canyon one sees enough to _ At & point in the canyon where tun- at 750 volts and comes out at 33,000 280nY Of SWODUTE OB G VR S rce of i s imads s Sinclair, manager of the Redlands make him forBet the weariness rastlt. Bel No. 1 opens the solid granite walls volts on a line of wire that has no con- SKIn that thew wwere s % il p: as- Electric Light and Power Company, ing from the incessant jolting of the are only 100 feet apart, while receding nection with any dynamo. How is this 2npovance an }‘;{Idye e becn whon tonishing. about three years ago, and is the stage. On every hand is seen the water Pack for several miles is an almost flat accomnlished? Ask an electrician. ‘When ¥y ‘3“!!£ m;m fr‘m S ol During the rect outcome of the success of that gevelopments that are the life of cer- basin made by the junction of the two ~ All the unsclentific observer can say (he Hawallan (S18ac SO0 & DSV 0 o) 2 TT§)] month of August company in supplying Colton and Riv- tain portions of the valley below. Here Vvalleys. is that in some mysterious way, In the 3erjed € 7 S e ot maRing the e NG made 4 erside with electric light and power. runs a well cemented ditch and there a From the mouth of the first tunnel <“step up” transformers, as they are f“rh = ?tlne—the three chiefs that h 180 wins: ca N Bl i While in the quest of more power hugh wooden pressure pipe line carry- t0 the pressure pipe line, which con- called, a secondary current of elec- fght- o e the most. {0 d0F with LT P i for that almost wholly local enterprise ing water up over a high bIuff tothirsty Vevs the water to the Pelton wheels in tricity of high voltage is Induced irf an S¢emed l'd" A I bo tattaned g 2, 14,062 trips; car i he decided that practicable and profit- plains beyond. High up on the moun- the power-house, is a distance of four entirely separate coil of wire by wind- him dec “‘b ':)" Rl oA g 8RB No. 3, 7985 trips. I It able use could be made of all the flow tain side smooth white blazings show milgs, and the fall is only nine and jng it in close proximity to a coil of > ";?et"h" fmm‘ never get away from . b0 | of the Santa Ana Canyon at the head the course of the Bear Valley Canal, one-half feet to the mile. Of this three wire of lower voltage. The heat gen- 50t ek ® Holden did mot know what TR ' of the San Bernardino Valley, at a carrying water to far-away Alesandro, and one-half miles is in eighteen tun- erated in this transacfion is so great the tribe HoBet T8 TH Hh o “Fas i i point where it is joined by Bear Creek. Every few hundred feet is passed a Dels of varied length and the rest in a that a cold air blast is kept constantly a2 "f“d‘g {’“ on the grass by a dozen i I He filed upon the flow of both streams, moss-grown spring and at one place few stretches of fluming. The tunnels turned on the machine. stretc e and. t1a’ prone. 10 ! f which averages about 5000 inches of there spouts from a solid wall of gran- &are all four feet wide by six feet and The electricity is now ready to be POWer “‘] t ““q Water, and made it the basis of this ite a stream of hot mineral water, €lght inches high. The roofs are gent on its way to Los Angeles. It has POStsandtrees. ... ... oo pest he larger and more important electrical which falls into a basin below, in which arched and where the formation of the a volume sufficient to do 4000 horse- 0 vain he trleC 2 J€L S8 JCCould roject. Mr. Sinclair associated in 1t the weary traveler would fain take a mMountain s not sufficiently solid to power in work and as a horse-power QUM in the newW fongUE LB E TOn Mr. Henry Fisher, the multi-million- plunge. ~As the mountains become Withstand the action of the water the fs defined as the force required to raise Serve his masters =atweor & b red aire who made Redlands his home at more precipitous the canyon narrows, tunnels are lined with concrete a foot 163 tons one foot in one minute, one NeVer m“,”"f“r_,’mhsm tattooing. But fi about that time, and active steps were and the stage crosses and recrosses the in thickness. The sand which is liable can see that the power is capable of the ko et 1be fare: hands =ud 2t once taken to determine the practi- Santa Ana River with the river surg- to wash into the tunnels is gotten rid moving many a ton of freight in the 21l his body, except (A€ (260 ARVE o0 cability of the scheme from an engi- ing way up above the hubs. = About of by an immense sand box With two electric cars of the southern metropolis. [eet mas subje millions of = pricks Car No. 1 traveled neering, electrical and business point four miles of this and the power house compartments, which can be flushed The current also has a voltage of 33,000, tion- h'f ;‘eh“e”one hidaous dealzh s A e of view. is reached, but with only a short stop out alternately, It is located at the Voltage is explained as representing in 100 the H“li v T il aara reanied -7 miles; car No. The most serious problem that had the Journey Is continued about four end of the first tunnel. There is another electriclty what pressure does in water, alone on Folden's SREW R LEPR DG 2 traveled 12043 :0 b settled, and upon which the busi- miles farther to the terminus of the also at the end of the line so that not We know that the ordinary incan- Seven davs of DRYSIee’ anfi S S0 miles; car No. 3§ mountain road. Between these two & grain can reach the pressure pipes. descent system requires 110 volts; so ens ?f thm“s:?»(inr RIS T At traveled 7228 miles. points are four camps, where material _The power-house is a plain building, one would judge the voltage furnishea ISvery othev cay SoF SOVIET W2 02,0y < otal Tillen trwv and tools are kept and where the hun- 130x40 feet in size, with a high steel would light a great many homes in the tattoolng of the WR.E AR PPOAS (o0 - led, 2756.8. dreds of men employed on the flumes truss, corrugated iron roof. - The walls Cit- of the .Angels. Of course the when at ":‘f‘“n g R i A eled, 2706.8; and tunnels, far above the mountain are of concrete, two feet thick and be- high rressure has to be changed before ture of the tattoome WES O C e 10 BN Daily averags sides, eat and sleep. Some of the camps sides supporting the roof, hold up a distribution in Los Angeles by ‘“step den woul e e bl loe e a R 1A car miles of travel, contain half a dozen houses and have fifteen-ton traveling crane of the most down” transformers, as it was changed Dis own mo e‘f&h B¢ Whiskors fia face iu including nights the appearance of small villages. Then approved pattern. The power-house in the power house bv the “step up” pruldx}zlnl:‘s g&j’e\;e e i’rom'the- Bok I @ Sl Sandai ket at different vantage points are three and its furnishings do not strike one process, but that is another story. :T;Sh‘;;'; Sar;d o oas s rides Gt ftat{ /o 510 1ce, ‘96,88, = tooed designs from neck to feet. = Tater, when he had learned the lan- i In dally service guage of his captors, he found that his of busy hours from was the most elaborate case of tat- T i 9 a. m. to 5 p. m, O ' Mose 4 giclayxtar ation, and that he wi e from the petty cruelties of the kanakas. makes 30.7 _trips Remarkable Story of Advent the Natives by the mb e s B 5 Sl T saw there was no possible return 0 makes 3 Ips emarxa e Org o entures Among e atives y e civilization, }Ae Yecartne mo]re rec‘u:cnfid per hour; No. 3 s « to his life and almost popular with the makes 305 trips l & 4 natives, and he no longer suspect- ;5 On M S\J vivor O{: = LlOSt Whaler ed to hard work. He was counseled by per hour, thereby ALEM, Or., Nov. 4—Horace Hol- den of this city is one of the very first Americans who lived in the Hawalian Islands. Many pecple put him first among all white men who lived on any of the Hawalian group. Captain Cook ante- dated Mr. Holden forty-one years, but Captain Cook never spent more than a few weeks on either of his two visits in the archipelago. The. story of the life that Mr. Holden led among his dusky captors, the manner of his appearance among the Hawaiians and his final es- cape from them are as interesting as a chapter from “Robinson Crusoe” or “Swiss Family Robinson.” Horace Holden is to-day a white- haired, feeble old gentleman. He has lived quietly in Salem for thirty years. But very few people who have met this aged, quiet, modest man daily for years on the streets here have had an idea what extraordinary experiences have been his. Mr. Holden was born in a little vil- lage In Néw Hampshire in June, 1810. He Is therefore over 88 years old. He Southery California’s Elzctric Light and Trolley Power as It Will Beyas 5 born sailor, and from his earliest Furnished ty the Eiggest Plant in the West. ' boyhood his dreams and aspirations were all of the sea and life in strange Special to The Sunday Call. lands across the broad ocean. One Oc- tober day Iin 1828, when he was 18, he went on his first long voyage, sailing on the famous old whaler the Mentor out of the great port of New Bedford, Mass. The crew were all experienced whalers and had been with the Mentor almost from pole to pole in pursuit of whale oil and whalebone. Now they were er.barked for a two years' voyage around the Horn and up the north Pa- cific Coast. Young Holden eagerly ac- cepted the chance to see new parts of the world. This was ten years before. Richard Henry Dana salled from New Bedford and made the voyage so fa- mous §n his “T'wo Years Before the Mast." The ship rounded the Horn in Janu- ary, 1829, and proceeded up the coast toward the whaling fields in the north Pacific. The vovage proceeded without incident until one densely dark night, May 21, 1829, the Mentor, while in a terrific storm, was tossed upon a ledge, which later was found to be an im- mense coral reef. The ship was wrecked, everything on board was lost and all the crew but two washed away and drowned. In some unaccountable way young Horace Holden and a fel- low sailor were carried to a bit of reef projecting above the water. When day- light came the famished, drenched and terrified men saw that they were with- in sight of land. All that day they clung to the coral. At sunset a dozen long, canoe-like boats, paddled by naked, yelling savages, came out to Holden ‘and his companion. The na- tives had seen the wreck and had come out to look it over more closely. The two sailors were taken to one of the islands of the Hawalian group. The particular island Holden believes was Hilo, from the descriptions he has since réad of that island. Thousands of the nude natives were on the shore when the two white men were landed. Great excitement prevailed, and the news that there were two real, live white men on the island was carried to the tribes inland. For days Holden and his companion were regarded with intense timidity and curiosity. Great throngs of native men and women, al- most as nude as on the day they were born, would feel the flesh of the white captives, pinch the white skin and twirl the fine hair in their fingers to. see whether it was all natural. Chil- dren in droves viewed Holden and his campanion from safe distances, and ran screaming toward their mothers if the white men moved toward them. The <he chief of the island and he was looked up to by the men generally. He saw four distant sails in two years, and when each sail faded from view across the tossing blue of the Pacific he resolved to abandon alF hope of ever living a life other than that among the island savages. He learned to fish and swim as the natives did. He con- stantly declined marriage with the ka- naka girls, and he was kept busy man- ufaeturing excuses for preferring to re- maln single where boys and girls of 17 who were unmarried were curiosi- ties. Once he lay ill for weeks with a dreadful fever. He was very near to death. The natives, who then valued his_services, wanted to keep him alive and_ they ministered to him. in their crude way and practiced superstitious arts to drive the evil spirit out of him. And again he recovered. One day in the autumn several na- tives ran shouting to the chief that a white man's ship was out at-sea off the west coast. The whole settlement was wild. Holden was indescribably moved, as may well be imagined, at the sight of a ship so near the coastline, but he dared not show his emotions to his watchful and suspiclous captors. Going down on the beach, Holden saw several proas filling with ka- nakas, and, feigning indifference, got Continued on Page Twenty-slx. <= giving an elevator Bervice to every floor an average of 40 seconds. No. 1 elevator in service from 5:45 a. m. to 6:30 p. m.; No. 2 elevator in service from 6:45 a. m. un- til night service is over; No. 8 eleva- tor in service from 7:45 a. m. until 6:45 LR N Sunday service, one eleva- tor from 5:45 a. m. until night service is over. Rane,, s rO.Section of Clause Spseckels’ J} Bulldihg Showing Floors and A One of the High Speed Ele- vators. N @ LAY THIS ELEVATOR RUNS @S FAR AS THE TRAINS THAT GO FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO SACRAMENTO @ND FrOM i D O S TN Y 2 — SAN FRANCISCO TO SANTA CRUZ—90 MILES,