TTTE OMATTA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 10, 1000,
IN THE FIELD OF ELECTRICITY
Bfceat Promt Mad in Soieno and
Praotioal Application.
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ELECTRIFICATION OF RAILWAYS UNDER WAY
PiilTaala md Baltimore Oklt
Maes Decline to Accede to De
ntali of the District ol
Colombia, Commission.
The Penni.ylvanvla and ths Baltimore efc
Ohio railroads have declined to accede to
tho request of th commissioners of the
District of Columbia that thoy substitute
electrlo motors for ateam locomotives
within the District. The Inconvenience of
making the chang-e la the ground on which
the refusal Is based, the president of the
former road saying It would be "seriously
objectionable In view of the high speed
ervice which we propose to establish be
tween Washington and the north." The
commissioners, not satisfied with the an
swer, purpose to appeal to congress to com
pel by law what the roads axe not ready
voluntarily to grant.
A few evenings ago In an address before
a gathering: of men on "Railroads and
Karly Transportation," relates tlie Boston
Transcript, Colonel J. IL Benton, Jr.. for
many years counsel for the New York,
Kew Haven & Hartford road, ventured the
prediction that In the future, not so dis
tant, but that It would fan within the ex
perience of those there present, rallrond
development would reach a point that
would make all that has now been achieved
seom as comparatively primitive aa the
gxoplngs of two generations ago In this
new field now appear to us; and he Inti
mated that electricity would be the me
dium through which this transformation
would be brought about. Two or three
years ago, wtien his words carried farther
than they do now, Chauncey M. Depew
made thla statement before a meeting of
the Transportation club In New York: "I
predict that ten years from tonight locomo
tives will b In the museums, while we
shall be carried along,. clipping; the seconds
eff seventy-five miles an hour, by. electric
motors."
Without attempting to fix the rating of
these gentlemen as prophets they doubtless
knew what the trend of discussion was In
the large railroad councils on this question.
The progress made by the New York, New
Haven & Hartford In the application of
electrical force In Its business Is more con
vincing evidence of tlie general tendency In
this direction than any amount of prophecy.
Tho New York Central has almost com
pleted a long stretch, prepared for elec
trical traction, from tho Grand Central
depot. This has been partly the result of
pressure or compulsion, but It has carried
the new departure farther than It was com
piled to, evidently with reference to longer
id larger extensions In the future.
To electrize the main systems of steam
Toads In this country wljhln the next j
dcc".c'.o would be loss of a radlcnl advance
than It has been to change from horse and i
cnblj cars In all the cities in the perl.id
not much longer than that, nnl It would I
not surprise us to see the Pennsylvania j
rood going not only Into and out of Wash- i
lngton under that power, but employing It
for the whole distance. A hlgn-speea
sen-ice between Wushlngtr.ii and the north"
would then h:ivo a larger significance than
the same terms carry now. The big lines
do not like to be hurried, but thoy are
quietly adjusting their business In many
quarters to tho new conditions.
Selective Wireless System.
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"flashing" the current carbon filament is
well known; but the author has succeeded,
as he states. In producing a carbon, which.
In hia own words, "has characteristics so
differing from those of any previously
known filament as to seem to Indicate that
KnKii'eerini;, I'udua, Italy, Is the Inventor - it is a new form of carbon. Besides being
of a new arrangement or system or wire
less signalling In which a phenomenon of
electro-magnetic resonance Is utilized for
obtaining a separation of the radlo-tele-irvaphio
signs. A nbnmugnctlo metallic
wire Is extended between two points, hav
ing tho north and soui-h poles of the mag
net on each side of tho wire hear its center.
The wire Is Joined up to a detector of elec
tric waves and a battery. The tension of
the wire is so controlled that when vibra
ting freely it performs a predetermined
number of vlbrationa every second. If the
detector Is reached by electric waves
emitted from a radiator with the samo
frequence n via: by oscillatory sparks pro
duced with a speed n per second the elec
trlo wave detector will be Influenced n
times per second, and the current passing
through the wire Is a pulsating or alternate
current having the same frequence n. The
wire is In thla way enabled to act as the
receiver of wireless signals only If they
are emitted by a series of sparks at a rate
of n per second. Thla apparatus Is there
fore aelectlvo of the message received.
A German Ijimp.
According to IVF.lectrlcian some exhaust
ive trials recently Ynade In Germany of
the Ostram lamp have given the following
results. The lamps were of thirty-two and
fifty Hefner candlepower. respectively, and
were tested at from 100 to 130 volts, with a
consumption equivalent to one watt per
candlepower. The duration of the test
was 1,000 hours and the diminution In can-dU-power
at the end of the tests Is stated
t have been almost negligible 1. e., about
per cent. From the tabulated results It
;i eara that a thirty-two candlepower Os-
iti lamp shows a saving of current
barged at pence per kw., amounting to t
shillings per 1.000 hours over a carbon fila-n-ent
lamp rated at the same candlepower.
With a fifty candlepower Osram lamp the
equivalent saving In current to obtain an
equal amount of light per 1,000 hours Is ap
proximately 60 shillings. It Is stated that
thla new lamp burns also at much less cost
than the tantalum or the Nernst lamps and
radiates 70 per cent less heat than the or
dinary carbon filament lamp.
New Carbon Filament.
What appears to be a discovery of some
aigniflcance In relation to electric Incan
descent lamps has been made by Mr. John
W. Howell, of the American Institute of
Klectrtcal engineers. It was described by
hlro In a paper read recently before the
Institute. The process of "squirting" and
very Interestingon account of its physical
characteristics,, this filament Is of con
siderable value on account of Its much
better life or efficiency than the carbon
filaments heretofore known." The author
obtained the filaments he describes by sub
. mining treated filaments to the excessively
high temperature of an electric resistance
I furnace. The treatment Is thus described:
I "The furnace consisted of a carbon tube,
I held at the ends by large water-cooled
I copper clamps; the tube was Imbedded in
powdered carbon to prevent Its combustion.
The filaments were packed In small, cylin
drical carbon boxes, which were fed into
the heated tube. The temperature was
usually between 3.000 degrees and 3.7O0 de
grees C. Vnder such firing the ordinary
treated filament changes In appearance; Its
graphite coating looks as though It had
been melted and Its specific resistance Is
greatly reduced. The resistance of one
of these filaments, measured at ordinary
temperature, may be reduced as much as
W per cent by the firing." The author
"" wie caroons inus produced as
' metallized filaments," and states they are
much more stable at high temperatures
than ordinary carbon filaments. He states,
finally: "The most effective carbon fila
ment lamp now In general use oierates
3.1 watts per candle, and under accurate
test conditions gives a useful life (to $0
per cent of Its Initial candle-power) of
about 500 hours. At the present time
motallxed filaments that give the same
useful life at about 2.5 watts per candle
are bolus produced with a fair degree of
uniformity."
A NATURAL DETECTIVE FORCE
Effective Barriers Against
Escape of Criminals In
Alaska.
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AN 1 INDIAN SPARTAN RACE
Story of How the Yaqnla Have Fought
for Their Homes for Two
Hundred Years.
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"We have a better detective force In the
cold country than there Is In the states,"
remarked Governor H. P. Hoggart of
Alaska.
"That detective force Is nature. When a
man commlte a crime In the states he has
many places to hlde and he often manag-s
to evade the authorities forever. If one of
our people who dots something wrong be
lieves the climate of some other country
will better suit his health and he makes
for that country he undertakes the Impos
sible. All we have to do Is to sit and
wait. There Is only one way out of
Alaska, and that Is by coming to the coast,
and when the criminal comes to the coast
he is sure to be caught.
"So well has the United States Signal
corps does Its work In Alaska that we
have a telegraph line to every mining camp
of Importance, and when a man takes leg
ball sll there Is to do Is to telegraph to
the coast towns, and the authorities wait
for the man. It would be Impossible for
the poor fellow to try to get away by any
other route than the coast, because he
would never live to relate his experience.
When some new Homer shall arise to
sing the glories of a herolo but vanishing
race he will find ready to his pen a
worthy story In the Yaqul Indiana of the
California gulf. These people have never
made a treaty with the while people, they
have never bowed the knee for a moment,
even under the relentless and never-ceasing
march of a superior race, and they
have never yielded a foot of their ancestral
hills as long as there was a man to de
fend them. They have made no plea for
the sympathy of the world, have called
upon none of the people of their own color
and race to help them defend their homed,
and they have never wantonly committed
atrocities. But whenever a while man In
vades the Yaqul country with the inten
tion to remain and occupy It, lie is Just
mortally sure to find a grave there. A few
white men have gone there and been well
treated, but In every such case they have
gone to trade with the Yaquls or to trans
act some business with them, and with the
avowed Intention to leave again as soon
as their business waa finished. In nearly
every case, too, the victim has been duly
warned by the fighting men of the tribe
what he might expect If he did nut leave.
1 have been there and I know.
Gregorio del A mo, a Spanish gentleman,
long a resident In Old Mexico and for the
pUKt ten yeara a resident of southern Cali
fornia, came to Chicago recently, on his
way for a visit to his native Madrid. He
Is a physician and surgeon, a natural scien
tist with sufficient of this world's goods at
his command to enable him to please him
self In the matter of an occupation, and for
many years he has pleased to visit among
the aborigines; In these visits he has min
istered to them as a physician and nurse,
and In the course of time he came to be
regarded by many of them In the light of a
superior being able to perform wonders
In the driving out of disease. This advan
tageous point he has used to bring him Into
a form of intimacy with some of these peo
ple, and It was in this way that he came
to know the Yaquls so well.
"Even during some of their worst out
bursts of war against the white men," he
said, "I lived right In their camps,
ate of their miserably frugal fare,
nursed their sick, attended to the wounded
who were brought In from the fighting
line, and I must confess that sometimes
I have given them a word of advice as to
the white man's methods of war and his
tremendous resources. Once I started to
argue with one of their head men in fa
vor of their giving up the awfully one-sided
and devastating wars against the whites,
but the old man gave utterance. In the
simple way of his people, to so many fine
theughts on the desirability of all being
killed rather than brought under the white
man's domination, like so many of their
kindred tribes in the new . world, that I
had not the heart to persevere, and It
would not have done the least bit of good
If I had. '
"When let alone they are a most friendly
and peace-loving tribe of Indians; they
party gets out In a big hurry there will
be none left to get out."
'Do they always hold themselves aloof
from the white people about them?"
"Oh, no; many of the men go quite a
ways from their hills to work for the
farmers, especially on the American side.
and they are faithful, hard-working people,
and If this country were to Interest itself
in aome sort of modus Vivendi between
them and the Meican government I am
very aure that In a short time they would
yield to civilizing Influences and take up
seriously the white man's ways, but until
now no one seems to have taken any in
terest In their welfare, and they have
come to believe that they are to be an
nihilated without mercy. This belief on
their part has made them suspicious and
very wary and inclined to fight on the
slightest provocation. It is too bad. They
are too fine a people to be wantonly killed
oft" Chicago Record Herald.
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ADD YEARS TO LIFE
DOOR LOCKS ARE EASY
Expert Finds Only One Fastener War
ranted to Keep Oat a
Crook.
"There's only one lock In the world that I
can't open If you'll give me a few minutes
at It, and as for ordinary door and drawer
locks, I'll open them as easily as If there
was no lock there. Any expert burglar can
do the same."
The foregoing statement was made by an
experienced locksmith of this city.
"Few persons' know how Insecure their
homes are," he continued. "Few persons
realize that the average lock Is absolutely
worthless for keeping out an experienced
burglar. The ordinary door lock Is good for
nothing but reminding casual business or
social callers that they must ring to be ad
mitted. None of these ordinary door fas
tenersand that's the best you can call
thorn, will deter a burglar two whole min
utes. If there's no key In the look he soon
fits one to It. If there is a key In the lock,
he Inserts a pair of pincers and In ten sec
onds has It opened. Understand me I am
speaking of the experienced burglar. The
clumsy buiglur is the one who gets Into
trouble. He'll fumble around with a lock
until somebody hears him. . There Is' only
one unpickable link made. That's the six
pin lock used by the government. It will
defy any expert. There are six little steel
pins In the lock, which have to be raised
Just a certain distance to open It. Some of
the pins are one-fourth of an Inch long and
some of them half an inch. If one of the
pins lacks even a hair's breadth of being
raised the proper distance, the lock will not
open. It baffles nil the experts."
This locksmith Is so expert he can opn
the majority of the sufes by putting his ear
to the combination nnd listening to how the
tumblers click into places as he turns It
"I Intended at one time to le a burglar,"
this licksmlth declares. "I had it all
planned out, even had a set of burglar's
tools made. Then I decided that honesty
wus the bent policy and I stuck to my
trade." Kancas City Times.
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On the other side- of the coast range of j are industrious fax beyond the common run
mountains sre vast plains, stretching: for
many hundreds of miles, wholly uninhab
ited. On account of the haste with which
criminals generally leave there Is no time
in which to provide an adequate outfit. If
such a thing were possible.
"But It Is seldom that It Is necessary to
make use of this natural detective force
to track wrongdoers, r will venture to
say that there Is no country In the world
where the people are aa orderly as they
are In Alaska All the tales of lawless
ness of the mining camps of the forty
n.ners are not repeated In Alaska. From
the very first the people have been orderly,
and they make It so uncomfortable for the
criminal who comes among them that he Is
glad to leave." Washington Post.
Don't forge that a little money now and
then is relished by the preacher nick,
of Indians, and In the Intervals of war
go about their business, cultivating their
small fields of wheat and corn, melons,
the citrus fruits and berries; presently
some one of them will see a band of
American or Mexican prospectors Invading
their hills; then he lays down Us crude
tools and goes to alann the rest of the
tribe. Presently a soil of committee waits
upon the Intruders, asks their Intentions,
and unless their atory is satisfactory they
are ordered away. If they refuse to go
they are again waited upon, and this time
told that death will be the result of their
remaining longer. More time la given, and
then. If the Invaders make no move to
clear out, one of them Is waylaid and shot,
generally In such a way that he will be
merely wounded, but Lot killed. This Is
their formal declaration of war. The next
move will be a dead tuan, aud unlua the
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THE BLIGHTING EFFECTS of WEAKNESS and DISEASE
What a vast amount of wretchedness, misery and sorrow dis
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It Is a serious thing that men contract or inherit disease or weak
ness, but the) most serious results are sure to follow neglect or
Improper treatment. It seems strange that some men w' 1 '
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Special diseases and weaknesses of men have been the means
of blighting the most radlnnt hopes. Weakness unfits a man for
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'lusiness. where men should meet with success. It unfits Mm for
'riendstilp and leads him to shrink from companionship. The
magnetism that wins men Is absent. The manliness that attracts
women Is displaced by u. shrinking weakness, and the victim,
knowing this, usually seeks solitude.
Nervous Pebllltv numbers among Its victim the best men
"""heir youth promised hutch and their iusllflcatlnns deserved It.
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faculties. No greater mistake e-in be made than to consider
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