Paar 6. FROM HORSE CAR T0 THE TROLLEY Story of the Wonderful De. velopment in Electric Traction During the Past Twenty Years. PASSING OF STEAM TRACTION of velopment Distance of Elimination 180 Tooomotive- Gradual Through the the Electric Chicago to New York in Hours. fen there Sun Durin appear follow: “They Fourth &0 an tion fro and Sevent thing steambo yelled wade sin 1887, the Ors First Electric Rallway of the World, Ber. lin Exposition, 1870, O00) tx x) thirty -fis ear horses the bom legated “sausage elous things of world of merely since th { electricity opened up a wen vereni, e knowledge new aod hve crossed the threshold. In 1880 the elec tri was a dream: in 180, an ex periment NE), a gre wonder ful fact w h is revolutionizing genger tr bun : pince 1 nt. wer ear ind pas hile Born in Old Vermont, THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., JANUARY 10, 1907 fn machine to a live cirenit Dy mls take and was greatly astonished to see it begin to rotate. ‘Luis reversibility of function was publicly demonstrated for the first thine at the Vienna expo gition in INT. Not until 1879 was the first electric rallwa in the current mod- | HISSengers nt the le and it mn from aperation, an dynamo nel Wis taking using n ern Ww Tins Berlin expos two-third mote carrving in flon and novelty operation Wis a n length The Hl \ tna hle of hed nosy train con. il i 1 of ¢ : gisted of a I three won "i | small wen ty peopl LB ELT Electricity af wholesale Is the completed gold to cities route for lighting purposes: electricity for power Is sold to farmers. Traine of elegant into Chlieago at a speed which hn im possible n few years ngo Pissengers wave tras paralleling which they A parlor and dining enr h the snburhbanites fro and villnges along CArs run would meered wl hye to stenm on a rallrond pass enully Is one of the Iaxuries whi the eity enjoy y., and table gold going to nl 1 mine f A "i . y TRE T he ae Klsetrie Train Just Installed on D. Fleld United, In 1880) y Park pulled Hallroad, The First Electric Edison Fleotrie Locomotive Operated Kx. perimentally at Menlo Park, | 580, One Handred Mile an Hour Electrie Train, Chicago New York Electric Alr Ling the moder: poss : mn les an hour In INS R dren mot of four burgh (i) later erated ried Inmp sd het the | eame inte Prof ess tute was gevers! fi Was naed by n ittery of —— elements April 29 a railroad running from to Bladenshurg A miles an honr was deve lopd, so great that it destroyed the hatioriea Numer other fol. lowed, all commercial failures beeatide the motors were crude and the source of power a primary battery. The de. Yelopment of the wonderful modern dynamo was necessary before electrie raliroading could become a commercial success. The first great step was In 1860, when an Italian named Paeinot. ti Invented a continuous current dy. pamo. Three years later the first practical commercial machine for econ. tinnous current operation was made by Grumme, Still the modern electric rar was In possibie. The “reversibility of fune. tion™ had yet to be discovered, Invol- Fing electrical transmission of energy through two machines, one driven by er and generating eiectricity: the er reversing the operation, recely. Ing electricity and developing me enanieal power, Like many other important diseoy. eries, this Is sald to have been the re sult of accident. A workman coupled road one iis hundred with Wor a2 horn ia vidsor of Aber in electric OD wi ily reac) ol a Deed Edin Nine years Professor wes (3. Farmer h on the in expert ir wl car New shire tex] States congress he By in) Smithson rested Page of nided ad la grants inst of of them driven , ’ i'n nstrnetion ie L8T a8 a locomotive and me hundred (irove wha trie qa ING1, on Washington need of nl neteen us sxXperiments IRs Fy tex in traction began with his motors nae OTT with elects attract attention Twenty Years of Achievement. T there were thah sixty id track, and motors and motor cam In 1905 there were nearly thirty thousand miles or electric track in the United States alone id lesa miles f el raliro . hosted ony i it one hundred . This change was not accomplished without opposiflon, Iscouragement and fgangial difficulties. Mr. Sprague himself, who was so potent a factor in working this change, has told the story of his first Important contract In the spring of 18ST, the Union Passenger Rallway company of Richmond, Va. engaged him to bulld an electrie rall way. The first car was run sut one night while the skeptical people slept, to make sure [t could ellnb the hills fi elarted out In a blaze of glory and ignominiously was towed back again! by four big mules But Sprague per. sisted until on Feb 2, 1888. In a drizzling rain, the road opened for business, From that time forward the future of electric rallroading was assured and events moved rapidly. City after efty adopted the new motive power; horse ears became things of the past; In terurban roads began to gridiron the country everywhere, and In each In stance a commercial success was | scored. Electric Interurban lines have been money makers from the start The greatest development has been | fn the east; but the west is vot far | benind. The Aurora, Elgin and Chi. | eago Electric railway (the third-rall | system) which has been In operation several years, Is famous. From one central power station over two hun. dred miles of road are operated, or will be as soon ag the line to Delvidere I» Chicago to New Hovirs 1s ! 4 " tra tow hours relics the Line, this Is u-hour Aight track and seventy-five to» easily be first clam miles at hort ds BrY Ce THSaTY 18 the New “Th wnicl marks subst! e stean f long dis he Chicago reat ied the Feb IDL whnateve! ndua the gr self save that speed ¢ What he then asks fl factor, as It must ndustrial ings in operation return for traffie fair dividend on oir ny other great oh AB cased ol equip werated by arles PP. Steinmetz, one authorities on elec ted as saying, "There Is we speed that may be de etric traction-—that Is t up to 150 or 200 miles Higher speed than that the 1d not stand. They | from centrifugal can a speed of 120 our maintained on a pped with electricity, but In a miles a ! train equ he First Regular Elsctrie Hallway in United States, Haltimore, 1886, my opinion It Is an entirely feasible scheme from the commercial point of view” At any rate, the world seems on the eve of great things, and no sclens | tist dares say today as was sald twens | ty years ago, “a man Is a knave or a | fool.” The attitude of the American | public is one of faith and expectancy, | Lest expressed by a recent remark of an old lady In her last sickness: “I don't want to dle” she sald, “1 yal to see what they are going te 0. 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