The evening world. Newspaper, September 30, 1905, Page 8

| Published by the Press Publishing Company, No, 63 to 63 Park Row, New York Entered at the Fost-Office at New York @s Second-Class Mall Matter WOLUME 46.. ——s NO, 16,i11. By the census figures for the. year ending on June 30, 1902, there are 3,620 central electric light and power stations in the United States. They supply 385,698 arc and 18,194,044 incandescent lamps, pay out $20,646,692 in salaries and wages annually and represent aj cost of construction and equip-| ment of $504,740,352. And these totals do not include | the innumerable small plants which furnish light and heat for single-buildings and power for small industries. The electric light is the Aladdin lamp of fact, with which there is nothing + 4n fiction to compare. From Ben Franklin's kite-flying experiments in !4752-has come the world’s greatest wonder story. And the development of electrical lighting, marvellous as it has teen, is but a prosaic chapter in the story. In the telephone and ths telegraph, in the electric railway, in the extended use of electricity for }Purposes not conceived of a quarter-of a century, ago, lies a tale of yet { greater interest. ! ¥ An itemized-estimate of the capitabinvested-in electrical enterprises , Ofevarious kinds in the United States in 1900 assigned, $250,000,000 to { telegraphs, $300,000,000 to telephones, $1,200,000,000 to electric light- Re, #1,800,000,000 to electric railways, $250,000,000 to power transmis- sion, electroplating, &c., $150,000,000 to electrical manufactures and + 625,000,000 to automobiles, storage batteries, &c. Here is @ grand total of $3,975,000,000 of capital Invested: in in- ,, Gustries of which the fast generation had only begun to dream. It was , not till #670:that the dynamo was perfected. Arc lighting in practicable yform dates from 1878 and the incandescent light from 1880. Kansas _ . City in 4884.gave-the «world its first avorkable example ofthe overhead Perhaps, everything-considered, the growth of the electric railway ts:tlte most-notable and important of the recent phases of electrical - Gvolution. ‘ In 4867 -there-were-but fhirteen-smail electric roads In the United , States. By 1897 these had Increased to 953 companies, owning 15,718 ", Inlles of track. In #899¢here were 874 companies, the number diminished E ig! 4 ‘? The Evening World's Kome Magazine, Saturday rvening, September 40, Murphy’s Beefsteak Dinner. W LAKE THE KNUCKLE? | att Cheer Up, Pat! Brooklyn Is Growing in Population, and Some Day You May Give Murphy a Dinner. Powers. [hi YS SS | The Origin of-Manners and Fashions. HY should a man remove his glove when shaking hands with a woman? Capt. G. A. Hope answers this question In the pages of the Grand Maga- gine, Like many other fashions, this one had its origin in utility. ‘When men wore tron gauntlets it wan obviously necessary to remove them ‘The offering of the right hand can be traced“to the same origin. Wormerly, when one man met another tn friendship, he offered him his unarmed sword hand, to signify that he would leave sword in Its sheath, and that the other need not be on this guard against attacks. ‘T uf | | of all kinda, runs drtile in mines, illuminates shafts, tunni when clesping an unprotected handéand now that its origin has been long lost 1905. Jarnessing Mountains to Pull Street Cars: HE si*eet car cystema of many big Western citles are operated by the power of mountaln atreams. Already hydro-electric energy has invaded San Francisco, ang within @ year the entire street trinsit system of this city will be operated by the aleo- | trically tranamitted power of Sterra streams. Hydro-electric energy canniny furnishes the power to run @hipyards, flour mills, mines, factories, gold dredges. It illuminates cites, pumps water for the man- 1re of tce and to heat bulldings in faraway locaiitles; tt propels machinery cross-cuts and stops, operates hoists to conduct men and materials to ang from lower levels, and rune fans to keep the mine dry, says the Omiha News, ‘The use of the water for power production does not consume one drop of the q é fluid, but only the energy furnished by its fall, Thus irrigation and the devel- opment of electric energy go hand in hand, and whenever the resources for tre rigation ai appeal ». double return for the capital emp'eyved ts obtained througty the installation of electric power transmission pJints, i Imagine @ perpendicular colwnn of wacer 1,960 feet high, 26 Inches dn @tameter at the top and 24 inches In diameter at the bottom. Such a column of water te not altogether fanciful. What ts known as the Mill Creek plant, ten miles from Redvinds, Cal,, operates under a head of 1,050 feet, which is higher than that of any other power plant in the United States. The presvure pipe is in reality 8,000 feet long, but at the point | at which the wi r enters is 1,960 feet above the nozzle where the water strikes the water wheel. } This Uttle column of water, which, if I!berated, would be just ubout enough j to make @ good trout stream, furnishes 6,200 horse-power, or as much power a8 i that of an ocean greyhound As the water strikes the buckets of the water wheel it has @ pressure of 8&0 pounds to the square inch. The average locomotive | carries steam at a pressure of 190 to 200 pounds to the square inch. Were the stream as it issues from the nozzle turned upon s hillside the eartiy would fade away before it like snow before a jet of steam. Verhaps the most extraordinary feat in the power plant building is that accome plished by the Puget Bound Power Company, watch lees than two years ago coni- menced building a great plant upon the Puyallup River, a stream fed by the siacters of Mount Rainer. To-day this plant develops 20,000 horse-power, which te used in all branohes of service, light, power and railway, to the 100,000 people iy the cities of Seattle and Tacoma, Wasn. +o Wreck and Speed Ratio. HENEVER excessive speed !s blamed for a wreck on the rails all railroad men set up a loud howl of protest. Yet it is the confidentially expressed opinion of disinterested parties ho know the railroad business that four | coldents out of five on every railroad system uré caused by putting on too much steam where conditions require a slower pace. says the Chicago Tribune. “In eight cases out of ten," sald one railroad man whose experience {gs tha® gained from neany years of railroading in the United States, ‘the cause of rall- Way accidents can be found tn excessive speed—that is, speed too great for the roadbed covered. There are in every road stretches of track where operating of- t ficials have a right to call for every ounce of speed the engine can make, but | there are @ great many places where the least possible speed is required, | Places such as curves, track exposed to high water, yards, active switches and other such soft spots as they are called . “When the apeed schedule is adjusted to the necessities of these conditiong an engineer usually can take his train through in safety, but ft ts when the run- ning time has been reduced without due consideration of these soft spots, and the.engineer is forced to make high speed where safety requires a let-down, that an accident is the final outcome. . “It is the hardest thing in the world to get an engineer to confess after @ wreck that he was going at a high speed at the time. That is why we always } hear of ‘spreading rails’ and sich things when a train jumps the track. This em . by consolidations and mergers, with 19,213 miles of track. They ‘owned 39,360 motor and 11,298 “‘trafler” cars. They had crowded out the old horse cars so that of that primitive form of traction only 416 miles ‘were in operation. It 1s not stimulating to civic pride to know that . the bulk of this mileage was in Manhattan Borough, though since re- duced. Of the 14,888 horses employed in the nation in 4899 for surface car traction 9,663 were in New York State. ‘About 100 new electric railroads are projected every year, calling Capt. Hope adds these interesting notes on the sword as the origin of many| planation was once offered me as the cause of such an accident on the road. 1 dlern fashions for which most of us are unable to account: which I knew every inch. I got hold of the engineer and asked him how ‘ ‘The sword is also responsible for our habit of mounting a horse on the near! ye was going at the time. He thought it might have been twenty miles an hour, i sido—a custom, in all probability, of comparatively modern origin, for the swords| on account of the curve. Little by little he increased his estimate, until I foun@ of civikzed nations before and at the commencement of the Christian era were| that he had time to make up and had taken the ourve at a pace which acted on. i na: only short, generally speaking, but worn on the right side of the person. But| the train like the old game of crack the whip acts on the small dey on the ena. Not to remove the helmet was as much as to say that the owner was guarding | when blades began to lengthen the sword was of necessity worn on the left, as a| . (himself against a nomibie “buffet” from sword or maco, long weapon cannot be drawn with any speed or convenience by the hand on the Capt. Hope shows that the military salute had originally much the same |side at whioh it is worn, and in consequence men took to mounting their horses meaning, What soldiers call “going through the motions" once signified willing- | from the near side because it was impossible to do it otherwise with any come neas to unhelm if you were not prevented from doing so by the exigencies of the | venience. 8 moment. The practice of firing artillery salutes can be accounted for in the | aight of the fashfoneble fiction still survives. Fashionable fictions, indeed, have almost as much vitality as legal ones. ‘Why, for example, do you remove your hat? That rather banal courtesy had in old times areal significance. On entering the hall of a castle a “knight r-- | moved his helmet to show that he had confidence in the good-will of his host. The Kaiser at Close Range. HAVDB eeen the Emperor of Germany see him at such a moment, he said for the expenditure of $100,000,000 annually for cars, power-houses, Wires, poles, &c. By the census of 1900 there were 50,782 persons fol- lowing the occupation of electrician, exclusive of 20,153 electrical en- same way, Guns came into use long before the abolition of anmor, and in those days tt wee considered a courtesy to load all the castle guns—not blank-«t the approach of a distinguished personage and fire them off. ‘The emptying of the mms, just before the visitor came within eange, proved of a tall coat on @ soldier's tunic to this di sword are apt to be disastrous, ac any military, man can testify. To the sword, |kewise, we owe the two buttons that are placed at the back ‘Their oriinal purpose was to support the sword belt, as they do The consequences of attempting to mount from the off skle when wearing a | without hesitation, I can say that at clowe range several times, and,) “I am only doing ny duty.” Later, am, Emperor, he has eaid: “It ts not neces, he is one of the most nervous of mor-|@ary that I live, but ie essentialsthaa’ tals, He shifts from one foot to the! T work.” ‘. the absolute confidence of the host. paces two or threo ateps back-| Once on his way to cateha tram ~~ gineers. Figures regarding the army of motormen, conductors and other forward or shakes | end having an hour to epere, he stopped employees and the number of workers engaged in the newer lines of . ‘ Thands with this one, speaks to that) to chat with the Austrian ambassador! " ‘ing, 2” applied elecirity are not procure. Some hint of the mmber of Letters from the People # Answers to Questions. cect unis cf |fitias” ke sicimed: erent motormen may be gained from the 39,360 motor cars, though these fig- ment ceasing to give pent-up energy) with my castle that I may bid my wife aa ‘i Disapproves of Navy Career. local to Fiftteth street. But after teav-| order to make @ man act like a gentle-) and sulks and looks sad every time I/vent in one way or another. He risos " y. ures antedate, the Subway and the instatlation of electricity on the “L” el Saanien ee tea arate anak: tng the express T had to walt fully five |man hes made me ashamed of myself. | complain of his miscrliness, ‘Then he| Carly and. is in his office, exranging | S0¢bY.” They called up the castia Tines, the ¢lectrification of the suburban lines of the Long Island Rallroad| ‘rooklyn" asks about the navy for| minutes more for a local. T boarded the | If it is any satisfaction to you to know | brings me home ® measly bunch ot affairs of state, when most of the other aay kT eaiee ae eo aaa oa iy e | focal and on reaching Times juare| you have made one man recall and | flowe! ni be of . till M1 + and the five years’ growth of long-distance trolley systems, Oe a Ne cae, Out of Mey station the guard called out: “Pitty-| resolve to ablde by the precepts of| Saturdays, and grine ae if he thought | toeisee ts to ey he ta customariiy | UmDeG the Empress, She threw hem Of what young'men think of electrical work as a profession there Jeighteen. To the tenth st offers oppor-| Ninth street next! No stop at Fiftieth| politeness taught him by his mother, | such petty gifts could be welcome to|at work by 6 o'clock, says Fritz Morris | ttm around the Emperors neck, kissed; fs a suggestion in the preferences of the students at the Brooklyn Even. | tuntty: SUBWAY. | Govt know het te We COLE, | On te my thanks, MAIL CLERK. |a netire like mine. He seems to ex-|in, Success, Tester ea eLt a See zi lon’ now what ts, v. LE. i -Hune* Bad Subway Connections. | A Wife's Allowance, pect me to go through the mockery of| Jt has always been a habit of the fig Trade School. Of 1,070 students 226 have chosen electrical en-| 1, ené-attor of The Evening World | Prise Offer ears Fruit. To the Eaitor of The Evening World: thanking him for such absurd trifles. | Kalser to do what has to be done and feu garncron s0e/ taberruption | state > * gineering and 102 electrical wiring as against 16 who Hack: .| At noon to-day I entered the Subway To the Editor of The Byening World: | My husband makes $30 a week. Of of iim and teach aim t a his | to do st at once. Even on the morning | tHe joves to call his children “ ‘ 5 fi mithing and 30 patt s : seed Dinesh at Dowling Green and had to wait five) In a car last night I rose and gave|this he gives me $4 a week for allow-|tmoney Uke a man? . “Pena MIB) Oo ay lige he appeared at the| ‘little company,” always takes nts yy g, 50 tinsmithing and 30 pattern-making. or ten minutes for a train. Luckily it) my aeat to a woman for the first time |ance. On it T must dress and pay car-| Ul-TREATED WIFE. | perracks at Potedam at 6 o'clock to| Photographs with hm when he travels, «» ‘Asa road to riches for an ambitious young man electricity furnishes | was an express, but when it reached) {n years. Tt was not in hope of win-|frre and get any personal luxuries I) 4, 8, H.—Jastrow Alexander, No. 1| give a medal to a sergeant-major. Hol toon rhon he returs ere os alata cal early a ral one as is te be found i tradi Grand Central Station of course I had ning the $10 you offer, Dut because the|may want. I think the sum Is insuM- | Hanover Square, is State Inspector of| was then simply Prince William, but/ with his own hands a boxful of prese as nearly a roy: 0 in any ie. to leave that train in order to take alfact that a prize must be offered in! ctent. Ho says it is all he can afford, |Gas Metere for this city. to the ofMflcers, who were astonished to ents for them, 1 is BAL SMA: uprising. 1904, tm Greet, Beate, ent ere Pee > | ga, and this was well for me, for its PRECEDING CHAPTERS, | "Ot hed would have bem on my ‘Holly, two Saa-| throat. and} man and dog together. At one turn I tholight that I saw Leo and the Khan lowed | the SOs BES EV8E, SGD ORRNE MESS, atleua ta ground; et enother, that he, the fave been 2.000 youre ‘id and to have loved | han, was sitting against a stone look- , ‘had seem- | ing at me, end it came into my mind Sealy perished; but Leo in a vision is told | that he must have killed Leo and was “that sho stil! lives and te waiting for him in) watching while the dog worried me to ‘across the Thibet mountains ene | Ont. eno mountains they come to Trees, eas anata Shaeen seiaren Katoon, black, something sprang forwerd end I ) yn as Heme. tk A; mks dese Th earth. Its jaws opened, my erm came free ana fell againet my elde, Yes, the brute was whirling round fn the alr, Leo held it by ite hind lems. and with all his great gtrength whirled it round and round. ‘ Thud! He hed Gashed its head against Ay be- | the rock ang it fell and May atill, « au Glo heap of black and red. Oddly enough, I did not faint; I sup- Pose thet the pain and the shock to my aed awake, for I heard Leo ‘Rerves kept m: GHE FVR_GHER. HI/SGORY OF a Saw the huge hound lifted from the s Cod She-Who-M & may, in @ matter-of-fact vaioe between his wasps for breath: ust-Be-Obeyed. BY H, RIDER HAGGARD Author of “She,” ‘Allan Quatermain,”’ ‘King Solomon's Mines,’’ etc, the weconf dog thet I had wounded, which was still yowling and snarling at After this he collected the two spears and my knife, saying that they might be useful, and without trouble caught the Khan's horse, which stood with banging hoad close by, so tired that even this desperate fight bad not frightened i enay. brought over the black horse and the: remaining weapons, and, having unsad. bled the beset, knee-haltered and turn- ed it loose, whereon it immediately lay down, for it was too spent to feed, Ly y fu “Now,” he said, ‘up you go, old fel- | Ov low, You are not fit to walk any | wet further; and with his help I ollmbed into the saddie, ‘Then, slipping the rein over his arm, he led the horse, which walked stiffy, on to the river that rap within a quar- ter of a milé of us, though to me, tor- tured as I wae by pain and halt de- linious -with exhaustion, seemed long enough. Still, we came there somehow, and, forgetzing my wounds, I tumbled from the horse, threw myselé flat and drank drank, more, than before. z 3 aS &g Not ite gE i i i fei i a be i I i the Journey | ® Brive of linen torn from o garments hn fustened ‘a coup Reonded “Hime. on this Ty Suppose’ that