The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 19, 1903, Page 15

THE SUNDAY CALL. 13 s apends o v ELEVEN. MILLION ¢ sesin vaves ot v HORSEPOWER KEEPS T ANERICA MOVING valuable. One (jowa Anne is wortn farm adjoining the ING 100 AIRSHIPS. Sir Hiram Maxim, the era He ntral stations for electric current for ses, and the to- er used to gen- be more than One company alone opetates several cen- ating nearly 250,000 le the isolated electrical that city represented over 100,- power. rn office building, often hous- ation equal to that of a small most wholly & creation of the vears, and ‘the power required gr uctures forms a large n the number of these bulldings nited States is taken into con- s A% sideration, as about 1000 horsepower is re- g, 2 b yaft quired to operate the lighting plant, €le- romre and i irifie vators, pumps. compressors and ventila- ¥ " ess > &pe tors in a sixteen-story modern bullding e days; and while we are containing 560 offices. e we shall have stock New York leads the list of States In pplied hourly, the use of water power, having 368,456 the wor'd, by horsepower d d’ from this source in oni—if wireless 1900, against in 18%, an increase of seded by the time 134,661 horsepo r 51.6 per cent directly ng machine spreads traceable to the great expansion of the v Herald. wood pulp industry in that State. ect ane that express & carrier pigeon d will be 42 miles an oy - Yompuse g wan wosat | N\