Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1894 — A Peculiar Electical Effect. [ARTICLE]

A Peculiar Electical Effect.

An incident recently occurred u; tho powor station of an olacttio railway in a largo city, which stopped all tho cars. When tho damage was to paired and the current turned onto tho linos the circuit breakers all dropped, showing that the wires wuto ovcrloudedAgain and again it wat t ried to got tho lines in operation, with tho sum.! re. suit. Tho difficulty was that overy motorman, us soon as ho found the current on, started his cur, and the simultaneous demand from so many sources overloaded tho wires. Filler's wore sent out to repress iomo of the cars, and so tho system was got into motion gradually. Tho wiring was subsequently changed so ns to ullow of starting by motions.