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1308 Farnam Street, Omaha,
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THE FIELD LLECTRIGHH
Eusqnebanna Falls Harnessed for tho Benefit
of Near-bj Oitirs.
BURYING OVERHEAD WIRES IN CHICAGO
Electrlelty I'mjei'lcil nn n ItnlnmnUt-r
Vtlll or the Current In Lon
don II onp I (ii Im I'roKrcxn
In Otlirr I. turn.
A .Maryland company which baa harnessrd
tho flowing wntrr of tho Susquehanna river
for factory power haH hail Its charter privi
leges enlarged by tho state bo as to permit
greater development of tho water power
und transmit It In the form of electricity
to Baltimore, Washington nnd other nearby
cities and towns. This company Is the owner
of valuable, water power covering about
(our miles on the Susquehnnna river on both
the 'Harford and Cecil county sides, and
covering a fall of forty-two fee-:, from
which thero will bo developed, when tho
contemplated Improvements are made, 10,-OOO-horso
power. Tho Susquehanna
watershed drains an area of 26,900 square
miles lu tho states ot Pennsylvania ami
(New York, nnd tho minimum llow during tho
low water period of 1893 was at this point
about 6,600 cubic feet of water a second.
inn united railways or iialllmoro nro
much Interested In tho development of this
jiroperty, as tho recent advance- In tho prlco
of coal, amounting to almost $1 a ton, ha$
enormously Increased tho cwst of producing
power for their railroad nnd lighting pur
poses by steam. Electrical scloncc In tho
last fow years has made such rapid strides
that It Is now a practical, every day business
question to gencrnto largo amounts ot power
tiy means of water and transmit tho energy
to tho busy centers of population, where a
ready market Is found for all that can bo
produced, especially as power can bo de
livered In naltlmorc nt ono-half tho present
cost of producing It by means of steam.
This property Is also within thlrly-flva
miles of Wilmington, ho that power can bo
transmitted by electricity to that city. It
Is proposed to develop tho properly by means
ot a. dam across the river nnd the erection
nt a power house about flvo hundred feet
long, all ot which will bo built ot masonry
In thn meet substantial man new, nnd will
contain turbine wheels and electrical gen
erators. Tho cost of this completed Im
provement, Including tho Unto of wln to
lialtlmore, will be In tho neighborhood of
J2.600.OO0. and capitalists -In New York are
willing to furn'.sh all the money necessary
for this purpojo.
Washington Is sHo about to receive tho
benefit of tho power existing nt Groat Kails,
on tho Potomac river, and cx-Scnator Oor
nun la Interested In the company that ha
been organized to develop tho falls at this
rolnt. nnd supply the city ot Washington
with 30,000-horso power
Wire I iiiliTuromid.
Thirty miles of overhead telephone, tele
graph and electric wm circuits In tho city
of Chicago limits will bo taken down aud
tho wires placed underground within tho
next six months at a cost of $300,000, As
from 100 to 180 separate wires arc on tho
lines of poles which are to be removed tho
total length of wire actually put under
ground will exceed 4,600 miles. Under direc
tion of tho city electrician twenty miles ot
overhead circuits already are being removed.
Of thei total cost $10,000 will bo expended by
tho city In caring for tho wlrcu of the flro
alarm system,
Thore are now about R00 miles of polo
Unco In tho Chicago city limits, carrying
approximately 100,000 miles of separate
wire. Too work ot tbo next six months, it
Is asserted, will bo onlv the entering wedgo
ot a campaign which will reduco this over
head mileage by ono-half within a fo.v
years, I
Tho telegraph and telephono companies
assign ono Inspector to every two miles of
overhead circuits In the city. This entails,
on tho thirty miles to be put underground
at once, thi employment of flftCEii men,
oach nt a salary of $1 ,000. To this Item of
$15,000 annually In salaries, tho matorlnl and
other repairing expenses add $10,000 more. J
In tho evont of heavy storms during tho
winter tho expen&o of repairing wires in tho
city rnnnes from ?S,000 to $20,000 for each i
storm and consequent damage. j
Tho removal of the greatest number of i
wires falls on the Wmturn Union Telegraph
company, owing to Its many llno3 entering
Chicago. The I'obtal company han but ono ,
line of entrnnco. Tho chango will ncccasl- ;
tato tho tetpenditure by tho city of a con
edderablo turn for the erection ot new elec
tric light supports In place of telegraph and
telephono polns now utilized for hnnglng 500
arc lights op.?rated by tho municipal light
ing plants.
Kli'ctrli'lly iih ti lliilmiiiikcr.
Eloctrlclty prints seme particulars of the
alleged discovery of Prof. Klmcr Gates of
Washington, that c-Uutrlclty Is tndlroctl
tho cause cf rain. According to the quoted
authority. Prof. (Jatcu' theory Is that "If
ono locality or cloud becomes positively
charged soma adjacent locality or cloud
must ncqulro a ncgatlvu charge, or vlco
versa. Midway between these two oppojltely
charged clouds or regions of moist air there
must bo ono or mor secondary regions
where their respective- particles commingle.
Tboso of ono being positive and thoso of
tho othor being negative they attract, cohero
and form rain drops. Ono region, accord
ing to tho learned proftsjsr, mny bo a
cloud or vapor-charged air mass and tho
other may bo either another cloud or tho
earth. When disturbances of tho so-called
electric equilibrium of tho ntmosphcro occur,
differences In demilty. prcciure, temperature
and moisture reuult.
"The abovn explanation an to tho cause of
rain will probably come as a surprise to per
sons who have hitherto looked upon It ts
simply due to a condensation In tho atmo3-phore-
of moist nlr.
"In support of htB theory Prof, dates Is
paid to have charged a curium ot mo'st air
as It entered his laboratory through an
open window with ncgatlvo oltvtrlclty and
n slmllnr current from another source wlih
positive uloctrlclty. At a distanco between
the two InletH and wlicro tho two currents
mingled a mist was seen to form. When
naked by the writer of thi, article already
referred to how a completo thunderstorm
might bo prodticcfi by such nrtlflce, Prof.
dates replied that thin was done by main-1
talnlng a layer of most alt In tho top of a
room and by charging this to a potential
different from that of the floor below If
charged to a sufllclcxitly high patentlal nnd
with sufficient qulckncns thrre would retult
a sudden flash and dlfchnrge, accompanied
by a fall of rain upon the- floor.
"If Prof, dates' discovery ever extends
beyond the laboratory we may expect to
sec In times of drouth Immense static ma
chines Invoking rain for farmers! by charg
ing the breozei as It blows by either posi
tively or nogatlvely. In the same way that
bombs aro now occasionally projected Into
space In certain weutern districts to please
unsophisticated sons of tho soil. And we nro
not sure hut what tho one process In an
efficacious nH will ba the other."
Kleetrlrl t In London II nn i I ( n I n.
Tho use of electricity In medicine and
surgery has been a favorite study with cer
tain "professors" for years, but last weak
the Institution of Klectrical Engineers had
the benefit of bearing- a paper by Dr II.
1jwls Jones of St. Hartholomow's hospital.
In the course of which he gave an account of
the conditions In which electricity is founl
to cxerelso curative effects, and of tho ap
paratun used. Dr. Jones said It was now
150 years since tho beg'nnlng of medical
electricity, nnd during all ,thnt time It had
to light Its way In the face of many obsta
cles, tho most serious of which had been tho
passive resistance of medical men them- ,
solves. The vitality It hnd shown under j
adverso circumstances was very significant, j
During the last decade progress had b'en
very great, and the commercial application
of electricity nnd Its housc-to-houo dis
tribution had called Into existence many
new Instruments and modes of treatment,
while the study of medical electricity was j
being helped by tho simplification of the
means for obtaining tho current. The dls-
covery of the X-rnyw nnd their application i
to medicine nnd surgery had dono good by
bringing electrical apparatus Into inoro ox
tended use. Most of tho London hospitals
bad electrical departments. At St. Har
tholomow's about COO raseJ woro referred
annually to tho electrical department from
all quarters of the hospital, excluslvo of
tho cases for tho X-ray photography, tho
numbers ot which wero oven greater. There
was no branch of medical practk'o upon
which tho light of criticism beat more
fiercely than upon medical electricity. From
conversations with engineering friends the
lecturer was disposed to thlpk that tho num
ber nud extent of tho applications of elec
tricity to medical practice wero not gen
erally realized by electrical engineers; In
deed, any reference he hail observed at all
to medical electricity In the proceedings of
the institution and kindred societies had
usually been one ot disavowal and dislike.
He theretoro felt that In making the present
communication ho wns undertaking the lnslt
ot trying to show that electrical applications
had a large and legitimate field of useful
ness In medical practice, that It was qulto
possible to practice medical electricity with
out thereby becoming an cutccst nnd that
the advertisements ot clectropathlc or mag
netic appliances did not represent the posi
tion of medical electricity.
Xiiierlemi l'.ntfrirlc Aliroml.
United States Consul Itldgely, at (Jcnova,
Switzerland, In his last report tells how an
enterprising American Is stirring things up
In thnt old city:
"Some two nml a half years ago Henry
13. Ilutlcr of San Krnnclsco, Cal., was In
Geneva. He found n congested population,
badly served by old fasbloned steam tram
ways nnd horse ears, ami tho Idea of secur
ing control of tho frnnchlso of tho principal
companies and organizing a new company
for tho operation of a street railway sys
tem on the American plan occurred to him.
"Butters and bis associates bought the
Narrow Gaugo Street Railway company of
Geneva, which operates somo forty-four
mlleo In the city and suburbs. They nlso
secured tho franchises and 'property of two
other tramway companies, which owned
sixteen miles In tho heart of tho city and
Its environs. Tho price paid was $1,254,
500. They also secured tho right to con
struct nnd operato a line on the famous
lakcsldo drlvo from Gonova to Vcrsolx, a
distanco of some five miles.
"Tho engineer under whoso minarscment
the new lines are being constructed Is Ste
phen D. Flolrt of Now York and lloston.
Nino nillcfl of track has already been laid.
One, nt least, of tho new lines will bo In
operation by Juno 1. Tho Amorlean over
head trolley system Is being used for the
first tlmo In Europe."
lMci'Irlciil Note.
The sixteen electric floats built In New
Orleans at a cost of $12,000 have been sold
to Dnnver for an exhibition thero ami
fiom Denver they will bo ent to Wichita,
Kan., for tho next M.root fair to bo held
earlj In October. They woro modeled after
the Omaha flonU. One. of them, named
"Tho Kr.i of Electricity," Is said to be so
dazzling that ono cannot stand within fifty
feet of It and look nt It without Injury to tho
ce This float alone coat $7,000, Theso
floats arc built on car truck provided with
motorn, which nro operated tha tamo ns
thoso on trolley cars by current takon from
an overhead conductor.
It has bojn found that alternating cur
rents of high frequency and low potential
may bo used to sterilize liquids. The ob
jection to olcrtrlclty for this purpose has
nlways been that n.currcnt powerful onojgh
to do any gocd would decompose tbo liquid,
thus rendered usclcus. An apparatus liaa
been devised for tho treatment of wino
which conslstH ot a small tube, through
which the wine passc3. lnsido tho tubo
thero In a series of metal disks, which aro
Insulated nnd connected with tho currant.
Tho speed with which the liquid passes
through tho tubo can be regulated easily
and tho current kills the microbes and
tends to preservo the wino.
A resident of Perry, Okl., who Is an
editor and an electrician nnd who during ,
the past year has couducted a series of
experiments In wiralesH telegraphy, claims
to havo transmitted messages over 1,000 '
miles. Ho asserts that when his system Is
perfected messages can bo sent 25,000 miles
as readily as 100 miles. However, ho has
given the public no Idea of his methods and
until ho does tho scientific world will bo ,
Inclined to look In a rather skeptical way on
his claims. I
Kloctrlc llatlrons aro used exclusively In
many large laundries; their advantages aro i
apparent. Tho halt can always bo con- '
trolled so ns to keep tho Iron at thci right
tompcrature. thus qbvlatlng tho danger of
spoiling a finished drees by smut from an
Iron hented by gas. i
OYSTERS AND THE TRUST
Enull Po.'Bibility that ihi Combine Will
ImproTO the Quality.
USUAL BENEVOLENT IDEAS GIVEN OUT
llorxc Triiillniv Htilcx.
Memphis Scimitar; David Harum was a
gnoil horse trader, but a recent transaction In
horseflesh, which was made by a well known
Mumphlan, shows that thero aro othcts who
know how to get tho long end ot a horse
trade. Several wcoks ago this Memphis man
saw a flno buggy horse which ho thought he
wanted. He located tho owner and asked i
tho price. "One fifty," was the reply. After
looking the animal over clcscly aud trying j
her speed, he concluded It was a good trade,
nnd without more ado wrote a check for the
amount. The next day ho found that the '
mare was as blind ns a bat, but this did not
hinder her speed nor detract from her gen
eral appearance. Ho drove tho animal for
several weeks and succeeded In attracting
tho admiration of another lover at horso
flush, who made a proposal to purchaue.
"Woll." said the Mcniphlan, "I gavo one
fifty for her, but I will let you have her for
ono slxty-flvo."
Tho prospective owner looked tho animal
over and concluded he had a bargain. Ho
paid over tho money anil tcok tho mare.
When tho animal was unhitched tho first
thing she did was to run against a post nnd
then, by way of emphasizing tho fact that
sho was blind, fell over a barrel. Tho next
day tbo buyer camo back to tho Momphlan
with blood In his eye.
"Colonel, you know that mare you sold
me," ho began. "Well, sho's stono blind."
"I know It," replied the colonel, with an
easy nlr.
"You didn't say anything to me nbout It."
said tho purchaser, his face reddening with
anger.
"Well, I'll tell you," replied tho colonel.
"That fellow who sold her to mo didn't tell
mo about It, and I Just concluded that be
didn't want It known."
Tho now owner took his medicine and Is
now on tho lookout for a friend on whom ho
can even things.
W. W. Mayhew. Merton, Wis., says: "1
consider Ono Minute Couch Cure a roost
fccn4?rful medicine, quick and safe." it Is
tho only harmless remedy that gives Immedi
ate results. It cures coughs, colds, croup,
bronchitis, grippe, whooping cough, pneu
' monta and all throat and lung diseases. Its
rsrlv iMin nrpvent.i ronsumntlnn. PhlliSran
j always llko It and motbern endorse It,
Home SeorH of the Trnile HIviiIrfiI
! Drntcru Uunllty nf the
Rnoiln Sold I niler I'op
ulnr Nnmrs.
Ono of tho promoters of the proposed
ojster truat, In Bpeaklng to a New York
Tribune reporter a few dajs ago, said that
thn object ot tho combination was not only
to roduce the expenses ot production, but to
Improva tho quality of tho product; that tbo
formation of a trust, while It would havo no
effect on tho retail prlco of oysters, would
control tho output to such an extent as to
withhold from tho market all but tho better
grades.
"Tho forces which operate In making oys
ters good or otherwise," said Eugene Hlaclt
ford, "cannot bo controlled by any man or
combination of men or means, and that part
of tho combination prospectus which hints
at Improvement In quality is ridiculous.
Oysters chnngo In quality, nnd that Is a fact
known to all oyster dealers and to all stu
dfnts of tho subject. Tho blue point oyster,
for Instance, was known for years as the best
In flavor. It brought a good price and no ar
gument was strong enough to convlnco some
people that thero woro other good vnrlotles.
Then It foil off In quality, became poor nnd
tastelrss and this took place when the samo
conditions prevailed as when It wns acknowl
edged to be the most deuirablo nrtlclo of Its
class. This matter of deterioration has been
tho eubject of much research for years and
somo years ago I made experiments nt Cold
Spring Harbor with Prof. Hashford Dean of
Columbia by which wo hoped to dctermlno
tho causes ot oyster deterioration. Close
examinations of tho oystor wero made by
Prof, Dean at various times during tho sen
son. Tbo food on which tbo blvalvo sub
sisted, tho quality and quantity taken, were
all closely watched and this Investigation
waB carried on over two years, but, unfortu
nntoly, these were good years, and- no re
sults were obtained ns to causes for degen
eration or deterioration. Put our exami
nations established tho theory that varia
tion In quality Is duo to tho supply of dia
toms upon which tho oystor feeds.
"After his first two weeks of llfo the oypter
becomes a fixture and must take tho food
which Is brought to blm on tbo tides. Great
drouths will mako him . thin and small,
abundant rains will improve his condition
nnd there are many similar uncontrollable
agencies which have n direct bearing nn the
oyster's condition. No man can tell with
any degree of certainty what tho quality will
be from ono season to another; the product
of a bed may bo plump, fat and of good flavor
In September and by December It may have
run down to such nn extent that It could not
be recognized as tho same stock.
(louil nml It ml !ear,
"I bad a remarkable experience a few
years ago in oyster culture which will
Illustrate my point. I visited a place In
Connecticut where there was a mill pond
opening on Long Island sound. I ate some
oysters which had been taken from the pond
and thought them the finest I had ever eaten.
They wero fat, plump, slightly golden In
color and had a delicious flavor. I bought a
large quantity and sent them to friends, who
were ns loud in their pralaco of the oysters
as I bad been. I went back to tho placo,
took a lessee of all the oyster territory that
I could obtain and employed a practical
oystcrman to take charge, plant und look
after the property. The conditions werof
of tho most fnvorablc kind; tho waters ot tbo
sound ebbed and flowed through the pond
where I planted tho superior oysters and I
ran tho place for five years, but was never
nblo to get as good an oyster out of It as In
the first year. Some natural causes wero at
the bottom of this deterioration nnd they nro
beyond tho ken of mnn. This happens nt
all beds. There aro good yearu and bad
years, and how can a trust control such
mnttcrs?"
This chango In tho quality of oysters Is the
cnuso of tho rotation In popularity of the
various varieties. Middle-aged men tell of
tho tkuo when tho big Saddlo Hocks, which
camo from ,Iong Island sound, commanded
tho highest prices, nnd wero considered tho
best. They hecamo poor and unpopular, and
the beds havo been exhausted. Other va
rieties have hnd tho same fnte, nnd for that
reason tho people who know how the quality
fluctuates do not order any particular va
riety, but lenvo that to tho dealer, who
usually knows from which bods tbo good
stock Is received.
"Wo nro compelled to carry many va
rieties of oysters on our bills of fare," said
tho proprietor of n popular restaurcnt, "be-
causo there are so mnny peoplo who nre
cranks on tho subject. A man will, some
day when ho Is In good form nnd properly
primed for tho occasion, find a certain
variety of oyster Just right, and after that
tlmo ho will nlways order that particular
kind, nnd If It should grow poor ho will
blnmo mo and not tho oyster. When the
oyster gets too poor we stop taking it, but
lenvo tho narao on tho bill of faro and servo
somo other good vnrlety, nnd by the pious
fraud wo satisfy the customer nnd keep his
trade. Of course, most varieties have somo
distinguishing characteristics which nro
known to tho oyster experts, but that class
is remarkably small,"
In proof of this atscrtlon It was said that
tho llttlo Cherry Stono oyster from Virginia
beenmo so popular nt ono tlmo that all sorts
of small oysters wero sold under that name,
nnd as long as tho size was satisfactory tho
rest scorned of ilttlo consequence to tho
buyer or the consumer. The samo Is true
of tho Llttlo Neck clam. "There Is not an
oyster or chop house In tho country that
does not havo Llttlo N9k clams on Its bill
of fare in the season, but tho real artlclo
would not no sufficient to supply 5 per cent
of tbo demand of Now York.
om: ok ikioi.uvs chomks.
Story or n I'okt-r (innic In Wliieli He
"Wiin i'nk -ii In,
Speaking of tho Chicago saloon keeper,
McGnrry, who Is suppesed to bo the proto
type of Mr. Doolcy of "A-r-lchcy road," a
former resident of the Windy City tells a
good story In the Now Orleans Times. "Mc
Garry was not only a most picturesque
character himself," he says, "but he had
several old cronies who were almost equally
quaint and racy. Ono of them was Colonel
Cleary, a sbrowd old Irishman, who had
mado a fortuno as a contractor, nnd waa
Incllred to bo something of a sport. Ono
evening tho colonel was beguiled Into a
poker game in which a very smooth card
sharp named Jim Forbes wns sitting. Korbco
passed himself ort ns a livery stable keeper
from Cottnge Grovo avenue, and claimed to
know nothing ubout tho game, but when ho
bogan to win ovcrythlng In sight tho old
man's suspicions becamo aroused.
" 'What did ' say ycr name wan, sor?'
he asked, peering over tho top nf his glasses.
" 'Forbes,' replied tho gambler; 'I havo a
livery stablo uptown.
" 'Um-m-m,' grunted the colonel, 'an' ye
don't play poker much, Mr. Forbes?"
' 'No, very seldom,' mid tho other good
nnturcdly. 'In fact, 1 hardly know tho
cards.'
" 'U-m-m-m.'
"Tho colonel said no more, but got up
several hundred dollars loser. A few datt
afterward ho was drinking a bottlo of wino
with Mlko McDonald, tbo famous old-time
sport and politician, when ho happened to
notice the sol-dlsant livery man sitting In
one corner of tho barroom reading a paper.
" 'P.y tbo way, Molke,' ho said to Mc
Donald, 'there's a poker gamo on the wist
lido that's made up of a lot of rich dudes
that ought to lose n hit of money Jist for to
tacho 'cm a lesson. D'y know of any shmart
young feller now that's a proflsslonal
chnte an' a good talker that I could give tha
tip to ring himself Into the gamo an' Bkln
tho wholi crowd?'
"McDonald glanced around the room.
'Why, yes,' ho paid, 'there's your very mnn.
Oh, Jlmmle,' ho called, 'come here a minute!
Mr. Forbes, shake hands with Colonel
Cleary.'
"Tho old man Jammed his fists deep Into
his pockots and turned on his heel. 'I huh
plcted ns mooch,' he said dryly, as ho
walked out of the place."
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AVIiiiCh WmiiK wlfli KiuiKimf
An easterner traveling through Kansao re
cently heard a great many tall corn stories
nnd thought ho would tell some of them In u
letter home. This was how he did It:
"Mcst of the streets nro paved, the grains
of corn being used for cobblestones, whllo
tho cobs aro hollowed out nnd used for newer
pipe. Tho husk when tnke off whole nml
stood on end mnkea a nice tent for the
children to play In. It sounds queer to
hear tho feed men tell tho driver to take a
dozen grains of horse feed over to Jackson's
livery stable. If It wero not for soft, deep
soil hero I don't sec how they over would
harvest tho corn, n tho stalks would grow
up In thn air ns high as a Mothodlst church
steeple. However, when tho oars get too
heavy their weight presses the stalk down
in tbo ground on nn nvorago of ninety-two
feet; this brings tho car near enough to the
ground to bo chopped off with nn axe,"
(irrnt Men I'nll Out,
Chicago Tribune; Now It chanced that Pro
Ilono Publico, whllo taking a stroll, fell In
with Vox Popull.
"It nlways makes me tired," ho said, "tu
see your name In print. You are such nn
infernal humbug! You never ipeak for
anybody but yourself, and you know It!"
"You mlscrablo fraud!" hotly responded
Vox Popull. "You never advocated a public
measure In your life that was for anybody's
good but your own and every man of senso
knows It!"
At this Juncture they wero nbout to clinch,
when Veritas happened along, and thoy both
fell upon him and gave- him a severe thrash
ing for being tho Illggest Liar on Earth.
All llllH)-.
"Whpro Is your mother, Johnny?"
"Playing golf."
"And your aunt?"
"Hho Is out on her bike."
"And your sister?"
"Sho Is gone to the eymtiaslum."
"Then I'll see your father, plc.mo."
"Ho can't rome dqwn now. Ho Is up
stnlrs giving tho baby a bath."
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