It QUEEN REGENT AND UNCROWNED KING OF SPAIN. IIEL 130 Wyoming Are. OIllOnDSMD DlsMONO JEWELIT, CLOCKS IND BRONZES, RICH CUT GLASS STERLING IND SILVER WTED WIRE. LEATHER BELTS, SILVER NOVELTIES, FIRE GOLO IRO SILVER WITCHES. THE SCBANTON TBIBUNE-WEDNESDAY HORNING, JULY 15, 1896. mmmm KIERGEREAU 5 GONNELL ELECTRICITY FOR RAILWAY TRAVEL Further Triumphs Believed by Engineers to Be Immiueut, GREAT INCREASE OF SPEED POSSIBLE Last Tl car's Experiment iCt'vieued. What Ktenni Koud Mn mi kith Are ThinLing suit Dointt-'Train In lead of Mingle Car I'or I.oiifDis lance Kuburbun Travel. " From the New York Tribune. "In a few years electric road.1- will have absorbed practically all the local (pnssenfjer) trafllc, an J will begin to cut Into through transportation. The steam reads cannot afford thl.-i. Their only safety Is to make electricity an ally Instead of an enemy, and before it Is too late." These words were uttered last summer by Dr. Louis Duncan, then newly elected president of the Ameri can Institute of Electrical Engineers, The most casual observer knows how abundant and strong were the reasons for such n prophecy then. And yet they are still more numerous and convincing now. Take, for Instance, the Immediate outskirts of the metropolis. Above the Hnrlem river, over in New Jersey, and in the region lying south of older Brooklyn there has been a marvelous extension of troljey lines within the last two or three years. All of these ronds have been taken from steam mads with which they compete a large proportion of their classes of patrons: First, Typical suburban residents, who come into the business part of town regularly or Irregularly; second, essen tally rural passengers, who only ride from one station to the next, or possib ly to the second or third beyond their homes; third, pleasure-seeking excur sionists. The reduction in fare and frcater frequency or trips are advan ages which appeal to the purses and ronvenience of every one. It is not to e wondered at that the steam lines lave suffered heavily In conse pience. Near Boston, Philadel phia, Chicago, St. Louis and other cen :rcg of population In the t'nited States lubstantially the same revolution has seen effected. Then out through New England and the middle states, In re gions thnt are so well built up that mall but thriving towns and villages tro strung along the railway like beads in a cord, there is a great deal of social lid business trafllc between -neighboring places. Heretofore the steam roads pave had almost a monopoly of that business, liut now the "Inter-urban" trolley, running over the parallel route, providing more frequent service and Hopping anywhere between the regular nations of the old lins, has captured n enormous percentage of It. TROLLEY TRAIN. Then again ther are more pretentious tiectrls roads which run trains, instead 9f single cars. The Cleveland, Plalns rllle and Eastern, for instanee, running through thirty mllesoftheLake Shore's territory, has regular coaches, hauled by o. motor car something like those fvhlch are being built for hauling trains across Brooklyn Bridge. The Cleveland and Akron line, of about the some length, has similar cars and motors. The electric road from Buffalo to Niagara Falls, fourteen and a half miles long, Jld an enormous business last year with light cars, but Is now being freshly equipped with heavier rolling stock. All three of these, like the road still under construction from Washington to Haiti more, compete with old established team lines. The Niagara Falls road in particular has greatly damaged the in terests of its.venerable competitor. Per haps half a dozen other surface roads and two or three elevated roads in Chi cago could be enumerated which are already running regular trains, made up of a motor car and trailers.. And it la needless to say that there are hund reds of schemes on foot, only a part of which will ever bear sulAitantlal fruit, which contemplate paralleling ether team lines for distances varying from ten to one hundred miles, or else reach ing out Into territory nc-t now provided With better transportation facilities than a horse and carriage or a bicycle; fcnd many of these programmes include Brat -class roadbeds, heavy rails and teals Instead of Individual car. UKE OF MEDINO-SIDOKIA, MASTER OF COURT. THU INFANTA ISA11ELX.A. Among the corporations whose pas senger traffic has been thus Injured or threatened the New York, New Haven and Hartford and the Pennsylvania companies have been the most active in adopting Dr. Duncan's advice. Such steps as have been taken thus far na turally have been to a great extent ex perimental. Last summer the New Haven company substituted electricity for steam on a branch road seven miles long, Bturting from Old Colony House station and reaching out to Nantasket Bench. Current was taken from an overhead wire by a trolley pole and wheel; and trains of two, three or four open trailers wore hauled by a motor ear composed essentially of a baggage or express car with one or more motors on Its axle3. The Pennsylvania com pany, at about the same time, placed on Its Burlington and Mount Holly branch closed coaches, one of which was equipped with motors so that it could haul the others. These cars were about the size of an elevated railway car, and somewhat lighter than the standard day coach of the steam roads. The New Haven people ran their road all summeh without an accident, In spite of a greatly Increased patronage. The Immense success of that venture has encouraged the company to go fur ther. At the present time, It la said, definite plans have been made for re placing Ht-am with electricity on other short sections of road, altogether amounting to about one hundred miles. Moreover, experiments are being made on an extension of the Nantasket branch (up toward Boston) with a third railln iilaco of an overhead wire as an electric conductor. A plan having some novel features in being tried, and if It yields, the hoped-for results the equip ment of the other portions of the road just referred to with facilities for elec tric traction 'will doubtless be pushed rapidly. The ' Pennsylvania company seems no less pleiif ed with the outcome of Its Investigations. Kufus Hill, ams ter mechanic of this extensive system Is quoted as predicting that within five years nearly all of the feeders, or branches, of his road will be operated by electricity. Vv'hat more Impressive signs of the times could r.;;e look for than these? ELECTRICITY FOR STEAM ROADS. Meantime, by careful scrutiny of the report.i of these ventures contained In I he technical perlod'rals, ,y personal visits and by correspondence, the man agers of other steam roads have been in forming themselves as to the possibili ties of electricity for traction purpose". Besides, there have been a sood many anxious interviews with those electrical engineers and manufacturers cf electri cal apparatus who could be;t point out the way of palvat'on. The bust year haj been a period of attentive observation and profound thought among progress ive railroad people nil over the country. A slfinifltnnt illustration of what is coming In the near future Is afforded at Louisville, Ky. Between thet city nnd New Albany, Ind., there Is a bridge 2.4G5 feet long, over which railway trains have run for years. Over about four mlle3 of track, reaching from the heart oC one city to that of the other, electric train?, each composed of a motor-car and one or two trailers, are now running. The single track across the bridge 13 now traversed dally by 1"9 steam trains (freight and through passenger) and 141 electric trains. In like manner the heavy coaches of the Washington. Alexandria and Mount Vernon Electric road come over the same bridge and into the same station with the steam trains of one of the Southern lines. Another fact, which has a closer re lation to the subject than might be perceived at Ilrst, deserves mention In this connection. At several points, no tably In New England, an electric en gine Is used to haul freight cars to and from factories situated on sidings. At Whlttlnsvll'-e, Mass., It Is said, an economy amounting to $18,000 has been effected by this change. The same scheme has been adopted In New Hav en and Taftville, Conn., and negotia tions are now pending for the construc tion of several mere Independent mo tors of this cluss for use In other places. They are not so large and mighty as the huge l.COO-horse-power electric en gines now nt work in the Baltimore tunnel, rhlftlng long freight and ex press trains (with their steam locomo tives attached, but dead); but these noiseless, smokeless, money-saving substitutes for the present style of switching engine have a great future before them. MAKIA CHRISTINA, Few persona who are closely watching the progress of the great revolution In traction methods which has just begun can have failed to notice how cheap water-power Is being utilized all over the country, by conversion Into elec tricity, which Is transmitted to a dis tance for a variety of uses. For in stance the Baltic dam, near Norwich, Conn., is thus made to run a mill at Taftvllle, four miles away, and to run street cars from three to four miles more. No doubt a dozen slmiliar In stances can be found up In New Eng land alone. Scores of them can be found in Switzerland, Italy. France and Ger many. Among the most striking devel opments in this direction, though, are the Pacific coast enterprises. From a power plant at Folsom, Cal., capable of developing several thousand horse power when needed, electricity is sent over the wires to Sacramento, twenty four miles away, and there distributed about the city for driving machinery, propelling street cars and affording light. Another such line starting from San Antonio Valley, supplies Ponona, fourteen miles away, and San Bernar dino, twenty nine miles distant. The construction of other works on the Col umbia, to give Portland light, heat and power, is well under way, while plans are well advanced for the same pur pose along the St. Lawrence at La chine Rapids, and on the Potomac above Washington. Then there is Nl gara, with its practically Illimitable possibilities, so far as the quantity of available power Is concerned, and which. If there was a sufficiently large demand, could economically minister to places as far away as the metropolis, though of course Buffalo and Rochester will be the first served. These prece dents are sure to be followed by shrewd business men all over the county dur ing the next few years. Cheap water power cannot fail to be an Important factor in the development and operation of electric railways. STEAM- FOR LONG HACL9. Several questions In regard to the near future are now practically settled. The hauling of freight trains for long distances will be left for the present to steam. So will the great through ex presses, with their enormous dead weight and Infrequent service. The in dividual trolley-car will continue to possess city streets and run out a little way Into the suburbs. But the most Immediate and radical change which this p.gi is likely to see la the use of electricity for running; frequent, light, faat trains over the tracks of existing steam roads, or entirely new roads, which will compete with old lines. It seems probable that service of this kind for distances of ten. twenty, fifty or perhaps a hundred miles, will be abun dantly afforded within the next live years. The type of coach to be used will be very much like the best elevat ed railway cars. The utmost effort will be made to reduce the percentage of dead weight to the live weight carried. The trains will be composed of from two to five cars, according; to circumstan ces; but the tendency (except on ele vated railways) will bo toward fewer cars and greater frequency of service. It seems unlikely that an Independent electric entrlne will be used to haul the trains. Instead, as on the Mount Holly and Nantucket branch reads, the leading car will be equipped with elec tric machinery. The type already adopted on some Chicago elevated roads will perhaps be tried at first. This is a regular parsemrer coach, with a steel frame and electric motor on each of its four axles, and controlling devices In a cab at the end. Such cars would really be double-tenders, just as our trolley-cars are. CONSIDERATIONS OF SPEED. The speed to be developed would de pend more largely on the track than anything else. It would be practicable to make 120 or 150 mites an hour. The latter Is considered the maximum of safety by some experts. But to attain even 100 miles an hour It would be nec essary to have no grade crossings, al most no switches, and exceedingly gen tie curves. Grades are of little conse quence. Electricity Is more Indifferent than steam to such difficulties, especial ly as the electric motor of the future will doubtless be momentarily changed Into a dynamo when frolng down hill, and transform the force of gravitation into stored electrle energy that can be Utilized for the next climb. Another thing which Is pretty well settled Is that while direct currents will continue to be used on street railways REGENT OF BP AIM. and for short suburban lines, a road runnlg through, fast trains for twenty, fifty or a hundred miles will probably employ the alternating current. This Is the only one suited for economical long distance transmission. All, or nearly all. the great electrlo power plants of the world employ it. Another matter on which opinions are not unanimous is the best way of leading a current into a railway motor. One serious drawback to the overhead wire Is that it does not afford as broad a surface for contact with the trolley wheel as could be wished. When a large volume of current Is to be trans mitted from one electric conductor to another It is essentiul that there be a good contact. For single cars the pres ent system Is well enough, although none too good; but when It comes to moving a train' of several cars, more current Is required. The Intramural railway at the World's Fair employed a third rail for supply purposes; 10 does the Metropolitan Elevated, of Chicago. In both these cases the rail was outside the regular track. In the Nantasket experiment nqw being: made, the third rail is placed between the two on which the cars run. But the third rail plan has objections of Its own. It works well on the elevated or entirely Inclosed structures, but it presents dif ficulties at crossings, where the con ductor must be severed. Again on sur face roads it would be possible to "short circuit" current and paralyse the road by laying an Iron bar across from the third rail to another rail un less some special precautions were taken. And on the Nantasket branch upright boards will be erected on either side, reaching high enough to preclude any such possibility as is here suggest ed, and yet without interfering with the Bhoe which will come down from the car and take the current. But this, again. Is largely a question of detail. Human ingenuity will sooner or later overcome the difficulties Involved. A FORECAST. It should surprise no one, therefore. If some such state of things as this should be seen in Greater New York five yenrs hence. Substantially all of the surface roads and elevated roads operated by electricity; all of the su burban passenger travel, within a ra dius of forty or fifty miles of the city hall, conducted In the same way; a through line to Philadelphia over which a trip could easily be made In leu than an hour, and electric swlthch Ing engines exclusively employed In bringing the great expresses into the Grand Central station. People would no more be getting cinders In their eyes nor be stifled by smoke when the heat compelled them to open car windows. Not even tunnels would restrain them from the latter Indulgence. If not here, nt least In other great ctles. it seems creditable that local ordinances will re quire the suppression of the steam locomotive entirely for moving all trains within municipal- boundaries. Nor is It hard to conceive of another possibllty. Instead of hundreds or separate corporations each manufact uring Its own electricity for light, traction and other purposes, they may unite In buying supplies from some wholesale producer, just as Sacramen to, Portland or other big cities will soon be doing. Economy may dictate this change, as ,-vell as many others in the fight of electricity, before the twentieth century Is five years old. IT RAINED A TERRAPIN. Fact Cited to Prove That Fish Drop from the Skies. A terrapin about as large around as a silver dollar was the subject of a good deal of talk In Valdosta the other day, and the came terrapin has come near settling I;- the minds of some people the theory that fish, frogs and the like are often rained down In severe storms. During the heavy rain of last Friday, according 'to the Macor Telegraph, the terrapin fell in the tftrttt between Mlddleton's shoe store and Davis' beef market. It was seen to strike the ground by two men In the shoe shop and by Mr. Davis' little boy. There is no explanation as tc where It came from except on the theory that It rained down, and the question now Is was that really the case. Irrecoverable. Mrs. Casey (belligerently) Phere's yer weeks wages, an' th' rint comln' due ter morr&r? Mr. Casey Be aisy. thin, Bridget. U losht It troo a hole so Ol did. Mrs. Casey In yer pocket T Mr. Casey Be ahry. thin, dartlht-lt slipped troo a bole in in face.Wudga, ALFONSO Xiil.. KINO OF SPAIN. DUKE BOXC.ViAYOR. GRAND "WASTER OF TUB PALACE. MEN WILL SOON FLY LIKE BIRDS Chicago Experts Make Novel Experi ments on Indiana Soil. TRIALS OP TWO QUEER DEVICES What Octave Chanute lias Hopes of AccompUhing"A Satisfactory l'e Is Made of the Lilicnthal Aeroplane, and the Natives of Hooslerdon Look Oa and MarvelTho Expert meaters lail Eighty Feet Against a Strong Wind ia a Tweaty-Foot Drop. If a lake steamer had passed by the beach the other day opposite Millers, Ind., the other day, the passengers would have had a good opportunity of seeing a man flying through the air. borne not exclusively on the wings of the wind but apparently sustained by twelve gigantic white swans. Octave Chanute, No. 413 Huron street, ex president of the American Society of Civil Engineer, and three companions were practising aerial navigation with a Lllienthal aeroplane. Mr. Chanute, who is regarded as an authority In aerodynamics, has closely followed the experiments of Otto Llllen thal of Berlin, Germany, and he re cently retermlned to duplicate them and go ahead on the same lines in the hope of evolving a machine which would be able to sustain a man safely in the air and which would be under perfect con trol. Temporarily the question of the motive power Is left out of considera tion. The other morning Mr. Chanute. A. M. Herlrng, William Paul and William Avery, all of Chicago, took an early Lake train for Millers, thirty miles south of the city. The natives had their curiosity highly excited by the enor mous and queer shape of the luggage of the party. Mr Chanute and his friends went to a little hotel and left their personal belongings, but had the other things conveyed over to the beach about a mile east of the station. ODD SIGHTS. Some of the natives could not resist the temptation to follow and saw a tent erected under the protection of the highest of the hills near the lake shore. Son the other bundles were unwrapped, and what looked for the world like a three-mast schooner's rigging was erected, with sails set o he sand. The natives waited patiently for the boat to be brought out. thinking a sail on the lake wns in prospect. A psnlc struck them when they saw Mr. Herring mount the cdd-ihsped affair and sail through the nlr. "Jess watch," tittered one of the nu tlves; "I'll he Pound It won't be long afoie he'll come down from that 'ar high hoss." Mr. Herring disappointed this pro phet, and fulfilled every expectation of himself and Mr. Chanute. He suc ceeded In floating quitw a distance In the air. The wind was not favorable, and the experiment"' were resumed yes terday. This time a number of com paratively long rides were made by all the younger members of the'party. Mr. Herrings sailed ever SO feet, measured horizontally, while falling only 20 feet. This was in the face of the wind, and none of the experimenters are yet will ing to turn themselves loose before a breeze as stiff as that blowing yester day In the neighborhood of the lake. Mr. Chanute has two machines, one very nearly like the Lllienthal machine and another designed on different lines by himself. The Lllienthal machine Is in apeparance like nix pairs of birds super posed. It consists of twelve wings of oiled nainsook silk stretched tightly over a spruce and willow frame. Each upper pair of wings is connected with a lower pair by a (In of the same ma terial about three feet long and a foot wide. The wings are a little less than seven feet long and are In a measure diamond-shaped. The machine is about fifteen feet long and fourteen feet wide, and weighs thirty-two pounds and has spread of 180 square feet. It Is curved about as much as a birch canoe. Mr. Chanute's own machine, which has not yet been fully tested, is formed of two large wings stretched on curved spruce sticks eight feet each way. with a fin nine feet long and four feet high to the rear, and a kite-shaped tail hinged on. Its weight la also thirty-two pounds. It has a spread of 167 square feet, and Is spoon-shaped, being nine teen feet from tip to tip. It will be tried today if the wind Is not too unfavor able. EASY TO OPERATE. The Lllienthal machine ia apparently easy to operate. It was carried yester day to the brow of the smooth, sandy urn, unu air. nerring, wno had the most experience of any of Mr. Chanute's as. slstants In work of this kind, placed his arms over the two parallel bars made for the purpose, and while the others oaiancca it in the air started on a run down the steep slope. Within ten yards Mr. Herring's feet were lifted off the ground and he went sailing over the vaney. With every gust of the wind he would have to shift his weight to keen th machine going straight. The greatest aimcuity is right there. The wind shifts so suddenly at times that no one can move fast enough to keep up with it. On this account both Mr. Herrlna- and the others who essayed the wings of regaaus came to grief. However, they met with no harm, as the machine al ways falls right side up and descends quite gradually. A small model with a spread of 7.2 square feet was also operated. It was sailed as a kite without a tall. There Isn't a small boy In the country that would not be proud to own a kite like this, for It can be made to rise from a valley while the operator stands on a hill. Mr. Chanute was desirous of making the experiments without the knowledge or the press and sought Miller's on that account. "The trouble with most men that have experimented on this subject Is that they have bitten off too much at once," he said. "This Is only one phase of the subject. After a man Is able to guide and control a machine In the air. It may, perhaps, be found less difficult than has been feared to secure a motor that will not consume too much fuel for Its lifting power." Llllenthal's experiments began In 1888 and have been continued ever since. Some of his machines have found their way to almost every country in Europe and to the United States, but few except the inventor have been able to master the problems of their manipu lation. It ARBERM IN AISTRIA. Tbcy Must Serve a Three Years' Ap prcnticeship. From the New York World. The Austrian take no chances with their barbers. Thsy must be good, and the Barbers and Wigmakers' I'nlon of Vienna sees to It that they are. Pro vision Is also made In their code for women barbers who desire to carry on the business of their husbands In case of the latter's death or Illness. But In order to do this the wife must have been enrolled in the union as an apprentice for three years. Appren tices, by the rules of the union, must appear In Vienna In the presence of judges of the union and show their skill before they are allowed to open shops of their own. A properly certified barber must have a knowledge of and pass an examina tion In shaving, hair-cutting, hair-curling and wig-making, and during the period before the issuance of a certifi cate the poor and others who are frugal serve as subjects for experiment. At the examination the young men have their razors dulled by four strokes In a pine plank, and they must then sharpen them. A subject Is assigned to each, who must be tonsorially perfect, In the opinion of the judges, when the apprentice has released him. After this a certificate is Issued and the apprentice serves two years as a Journeyman before he may open a shop as an employer. The average age of apprentices when they begin to laarn their trade is thirteen years. From Bad to Worse. Mrs. Newlywed (to hr bachelor brother) Bob, Where's your diamond rlnz? Brother Bub why er you see, flue my hem Mrs. Newlywed (scornfully) Same old story, of course: your uncle's got It. Brother Dot Why, no, confound it, It my little nephew this time; I let him take K to play wl.h yesterday, and he swal lowed it. Judge. , ee8aw. Tourist (up In the lumber region) There doesn't seem to be muoh to see up here. Practical Reetdent No; but here's lots to a.w.-Judc. Jewelers and Silversmiths, 130 WYOMINQ AVE. 6TEINWAY aON'g . . Ackaowledged the Leading PIANOS Ot the Wwi4 DECKER BROS., MMNICHB BACHB sad other. ORGANS Musical Instruments, Ilusical Merchandise, Sheet Music and Music Books. arcaesei will alwsys Had a oa arete stock asd at prices s lew as the aaab jf el the hutrasMat wUl ptraut at H. A. n flUSIC STORE, 117 Wyoming Art. - Scrantos JAMES MOIR, THE MERCHANT TAILOR Has Moved te His New Quarters, 402 Lackawanna Avenue. Eatraace on side n.xt to Firtt National Bank. II. u now la a Comprising (Torything reqnlatt for Marehant Tailoring. And th. Mm. a fla bo shows to advantage in his apian dial? fitted up rwn A SPECIAL INVITATION Is Bstned te All Rcsdtr of Th Trls a to Call on "OLD RELIABLE" la His New Ballots Homo A Y LES WO RTIi'S MEAT MARKET The Finest In the city. The latest laprovei fornlab' IE lip aid aaparataa for toaflaf it cat, ratter aid eggs. t23 Wyoming Av. .........1 ;I$0)i$ivMail$you? Have you a feel Ing of weight in t the Stomach i Bloating after li ill M Vii eating Belch-1 I ill JV K in of Wind I t Heartburn Bad Taste In the Mouth , in the Morning Palpitatioa of the. J Heart, due to Distension of Stomach ( Cankered Mouth Gas In the Bowels 1 Los of Flesh Fickle Appetite I Depressed, Irritable Condition of the 1 I Blind Dizziness lli.id.iche Con- ' stlpation or Uiarrhcia? Then yon have ' DYSPEPSIA k Id of Its many forma. The tie BMltlve i ' cart for this diatreMlnc complaint 1 K&tr'i Dyspepsia tablets by nail, prepaid, on receipt of $ cents. ('Niit cs RkUtrr. Kntm Tmnrfnl Vmm i York, uya: '1 miirirnnl horribly from dyt-I ) pfinu, but A-kfr's Tablets, taken attr , ' meals, haveciirvii me. . t i Acker Medicine Co., i-i8Chaiberi8t, H. T. IT,,, - ins What Sarah narahar4 aays