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The Only Line of the Kind In the World, Tircnly-flve HZiiuites to Ite Saved at ft Cost of 3?ore Titan 87,000,000—Eietvtricity Against Steam.

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BAL'mioKi-:. -V.—Think of spending 87.hOO.OUO i~~-Mve 25 minutes'time! Docs it, not nuiko your head ache?

People who do not think this is a fast world will smile incredulously at this statement, but it is true. This is why what is known as the Baltimore Belt Line railroad was planned five years ago—so that trains of the Baltimore and Ohio railway could go rushing underneath tho heart of the city on their way between Now York and Washington without being ferried across the Patapsco river. True, the Belt Line gives the railroad company an opportunity to secure passengers from stations in different parts of the city, but this was only a minor consideration. The question of time was the main issue, and this outlay of money representing 434 years of labor and the construction of what is tho only line of its kind in the world was the result of a quiet conference which agreed that this time must be saved at any cost.

At the conference was a short, stout, black eyed man, with a determination which showed itself plainly on his features. He was the father of the plan to bore under the city and lay tracks many feet beneath some of tho largest buildings in Baltimore. Tho idea of Mr. John B. McDonald was at first received with amazement, but by facts and figures he proved the possibility of the work, and its progress has since shown his ability and judgment, which may be called Into play if he receives the contract to construct New York's proposed underground railway from the Battery to Harlem, on which his company is now figuring.

The Baltimore Belt Lino, as it isfamiliarly termed, is less than eight miles long, but its feature i.s the tunnel work. One tunnel is 8,140 feet long and the other nearly 400 feet, or in all about 1"/• miles. It begins at Camden station, in tho southern part of 1 he city, and extends north and northeast under one of the main business streets, at somejioints tho top of the arch being 40 feet below tho pavement and at other points as near as 10 feet to tho surface. The line emerges into a deep cut. in the northern suburb and thcnco winds around in a long curve to a junction with tho main road just beyond the city's limits. The excavation for this great hole in the ground is over 30 feet wife and 2i to 30 feet high, as it is large enough to allow two trains of the largest sized cars to pass each other between its brick lined walls. Passengers who go through it may be interested in knowing that every foot of the road, including the tunnel, cost just —rather expensive when you come to puzzle over it.

But what makes this Belt Line so especially interesting to engineers, inventors, railroad men and electricians is that the long passenger and freight trains over it are to be hauled by enormous electric locomotives. In scientific phrase its inotivo power will be the trough conduit system. For miles and miles in the open cut and on the stoep embankment are what look like little bridges built over the traoks. Big iron posts hold these "bridges" of steel trusswork over the rails. From one bridge to another are suspended iron cables, which in turn support two long narrow conduirs, which look somewhat like the eaves troughs of a house, only turned upside down. No one would dream that these troughs and their supports area substitute for the ordinary electric trolley wires from which the street car of today receives th powerwhio.il sends it humming along from one part of the city to another. That is just what they are, but so great is the force of the current to be generated that they require the most powerful support and the most careful insulation to see that the current is not lost and the power of the locomotive diminished. As the latter comes along the track tho spectator sees that it has two trolley poles. Their upper ends are brass slides which are loosely yet perfectly fitted in the trough and slide along in it instead of rolling,as the streetcar trolley does, on tho wire.

It is certainly a funny looking locomotive is the first impression. Apparently it is a little houso on big wheels, with an ordinary locomotive tender at each, end, on each of which are a bell and a headlight, but the curious and wonderful mechanism by which this unseen force is controlled at tho will of the engineer needs careful covering from tho elements, and this form is considered to give it. the best protection.

Tho motorman with one hand pulls a small lever, not unlike a steam engine throttle valve. But no steam hisses. Silently the,: machine begins to move. As the speed increases one notes the peculiar whirring or buzzing sound made by the trolley motor of common use, but it is not so loud, although now the apparatus may be rushing along at the rate of 35 miles an hour. By degrees the man at the lever pushes it back and pulls at another handle. This causes the familiar hissing of the airbrake with which he controls tho motion after the current is 6hut off as easily as does a steam engineer, but there are no redhofc furnace doors to open, no gushing of steam from the safety valve, no soft coal to throw into a huge firebox glowing at a white lieat. All these are absent, but still there is the marvelous force which has pulled the train of seven or eight Pullman cars, representing a dead weight of 800 tons and over, up a grade which would requiro a high steam pressure on a mogul engine.

This is what is expected of these machines, which will weigh 95 tons each and have motors equal to 640 horsepower, enough to withstand a current of 700 electric "volts." This power, it is calculated, will allow them to haul passengers and freight trains through this tunnel at a speed of 85 and 15 miles per hour respectively. Near the junction Of the Belt road and main line the 6team power motors will rcplace tho electric motors, which are especially intended to operate in and near the tunnel, so that it will be free from smoke and gases.

To generate this enormous power requires five engines and 13 steam boilers, giving in all 8,000 horsepower and also supplying current to 1,000 incandescent lamps, by which tho long tunnel is to be mado at all timos bright as noonday. The curront for tho motors is conveyed in large copper cables insulated from tho elements and firmly joined to the trough system already described. The steam plant is inclosed in a largo brick building in the southern part of the city. It is completed, as well as most of tho electric system, so that the men who are now making tho first practical trial bt electric against steam power in railroad use oxpect to have the hew system in operation in a few days.

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A SWEET SONGSTER.

The Bobolink, His Habits and His Summer Haunts. [Special Correspondence.]

PHILADELPHIA, .. —The last days of May, or the first"\ve«ii in June, when all green things are speaking eloquently of a mature spring, is the best time to see and hear this the most beautiful and cheery of all the starlings. Of -the family leteridae he is scientifically designated as the Dolicbonyx oryzirorus, which would no doubt be a burden to him if he knew it. He has been with us nearly a month and has had amplo timo to feel thoroughly settled in his summer home.

During the coldest months most of his kind sojourn in the West Indies, where an abundance of the food he enjoys is to be had. Bob seems to prefer islands to continents, as the majority of his tribe seok them rather than follow the host of birds who flee from the cold northern winter to tho perennial warmth of Central America and southern Mexico. Our bird in his passage south last, autumn met with much persecution, for his is a dual character. As the time arrives for his departure he assembles in flocks, which are constantly augmented on the journey by the addition of families and small detachments of bobolinks joining the migration. He has lost his brilliant summer coat and now wears the sober color of his demuro mate. With the cold weather his appetite, always a hearty one, becomes voracious, while he pays tho penalty for the greediness by growing so fat that at times the tender skin across the breast will burst when killed on tho'wing by a shot from one of the numerous gunners who eagerly watch for his advent in their hunting quarters. He is now no longer tho bobolink, but in New Jersey, Maryland aud Virginia is known as the ortolan, while his poor little round body is stripped of his feathers and sold by the dozen in the markets of our larger cities—tho rarest tidbit of an epicurean feast. In the middle states the marshes have been his resting place, but reaching tho far south he takes kindly to tl:o rieefields and then becomes the famous rice bird of Louisiana. Here a merciless slaughter is waged against the birds until they leave this inhospitable region for their winter home. But with us his life is a joyous cue, for here he distributes himself widely over the meadows throughout the north in pairs, each couple taking possession cf a whole field, if small, but if very largo sometimes two or three with their wives occupy the same ground.

The rollicking singer in his gaudy summer suit of black, yellow and white immediately makes his presence known by his merry voluble song. These colors of his are oddly distributed in patches. On tho back part of the neck is a spot of cream color running into white, which covers tho back as far as the tail, leaving the breast wings and tail a rich black. Our destination is a broad, level, verdant meadow, where tho ox eyed daisies later in the season will spot tho pasture with largo patches of white. Long before we reach it snatches of rich bird music como to our cars, borne by tho soft south wind that i.s blowing in our faces. As we climb tho old fence wo aro saluted by a burst of intoxicat ing mel-

BOBOLINK.

ody sounding close by, gushing forth in siich a bubbling, joyous, inimitable flood of music th'it it is hard to believe all those rapidly delivered jingling notes are proceeding from one bird alone. But it is so, and the author of it spreads his gayl.v colored wings as, startled at our approach, he springs off the red clover to fly slowly across a portion of the meadow, singing as he goes. A hundred yards away a solitary stately oak is growing, and our bird alights near the top of it, plumes himself for perhaps five minutes, then launches out again into the air and floats away to his loving mate, who suddenly shows herself clinging to a slender grass stalk, which sways and bends with her weight. Love is tho burden of his song, and ho sings for her alone, his voice gaining in richness and power as honours the object of his devotion, who demurely waits until her adorer is close by then, with a coquettish flit of her tail, she flies swiftly away. Bobolink accc£tn tho challenge and gives chase.

Ordinarily tho flight of this bird is a leisurely one, but now they wheel up and down, zigzagging about tho meadow like a flash, the male still singing. as they go in a perfect ecstasy of delight until tired of their play, when tho female pitches suddenly down and is hidden by the grass, while the male rests himself on a fencepost. Before long tho duties of rearing a family will begin. The' jiest is a ground one, generally built beside a tuft of grass in such a cunning manner that it. is quite difficult to find, as in coming and going they alight some distanco off arid silently make tho balance of the journey on foot. Their small house is snugly mado of dried grasses woven together during tho last days of May or the first week in June, and in it aro laid four or five eggs of a bluish white, covered with Irreguliir chocolate brown spots. These hatch out in two weeks. While the little ones are being reared their gay father attends to his helpmate's wants, and rJso brings tho nestlings food, though still leading a sportive existence as far as he can. Toward the middle of Juno this wonderful song of Robert's is given in snatches only, the pauses becoming more frequent until July commences, when it ceases altogether, and he only utters a simple chirp for the remainder of his stay among us, flying about with his family that aro now as large as their parents. Tho fat her and the young birds, both male and female, are dressed in tho simple colors of the mother bird.

This sketch would bo incomplete without speaking of tho bobolink in- the house. He is one of tho few wild songsters that will sing almost as soon as caged, beginning shortly after daybreak in the morning and hardly stopping long enough to crack the seeds in his food box. Bob's loud but sweet and unique melody floods the house untU night draws a veil over his head. Wild at first, he jumps and flutters about continually when debarred his freedom, but with timo and kind, gentlo handling on the part of his owner lie becomes more reconciled to his fate. By tho soccnd season you would not recognize the turbulent follow of last year in the staid bird before you. W. WARRKN BROWN.

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