Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 37, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 June 1926 — Page 15

JUNE 30, 1926

INTERSTATE HAS 14 CARS MAKING 1 LOUISVILLE TRIP Superior Equipment Used on Traction Lines —Busses Supplement Service. Fourteen flyers are In service daily on the Interstate Public Service Company’s line between Indianapolis and Louisville. Included in the list of trains are five parlor and buffet cars each way,-two sleeping cars each way, besides the usual local trains and freight and express service. Perhaps no other interurban electric company in the country has more superior equipment than the Interstate. All the trains are the last word in comfort and convenience and the desires of the traveling public are the first consideration. Cars Comfortable The sleeping cars, for example, are roomy and with the quiet elegance of a drawing room. The berths are longer than those on steam line Pullman cars and one notabe improvement over the steam ine cars are that the Interstate’s upper berth have windows above them that can be regulated by the

A Belt of Power —Vital to Indianapolis

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occupant for whatever kind .of ventilation desired. The buffet and parlor cars are handsomely equipped and the meals served offer the best in cuisine. In fact the entire equipment of the road, both frelight and passenger service, is regarded as the best in electric travel. The terminals at both Indianapolis and Louisville are located in the heart of these cities, thus making them convenient. Supplemented by Busses The Interstate electric service is supplemented by a fleet of some forty busses, owned and operated by the company, which act as feeders to the electric lines, thus affording quick and dependable services to any part of the State traversed by the railroad and busses. The Interstate company is the pioneer in the combining of bus electric interurban business. This company also pioneered the first electric dairy train in the country. The train carried a herd of fine dairy cattle, which were shown under the auspices of the Purdue Agricultural School and the Interstate Company. The company presented gifts of herd bull calves to farmer organizations in order to increase the interest in dairying and grading up herds. In addition many other fine specimens of dairy cattle were sold to farmers in the districts visited by the train. HUMAN SKULL JOKE MEXICO CITY. —A practical Joker recently.left eight human skulls in a bag in front of a woman’s home here. Thinking the bag contained some stolen articles she took it to the police station without opening it.

In a complete loop about Indianapolis, high above the heads of the city’s dwellers, run strands of copper wire. Through those wires pulses, every second, day and night, a force vital to the community’s life—its industry, its business, its demosetic comfort. This belt of power, 41 miles long, is the 33,000 volt high tension line of the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company. From the two great generating plants, at Eighteenth and Mill streets and Kentucky avenue and West street, so tied together that both or either can take the load at anv time, this line makes the full circuit of the city. Connected to it at suitable points are five transformer substations, where the current is reduced from its tremendous voltage for distribution to industrial and domestic consumers. For additional protection, other lines radiating from the generating stations can he tied in to the transformer substations if any part of the high tension loop is out of operation. Altogether there are about 1,120 miles of distribution lines. Then there are si? substations generating direct current for the downtown district within the mile square, and four great storage batteries, each of 10,000 amperehour capacity. And back of all this is an army of loyal, enthusiastic men and women whose first thought—in daylight or darkness, in wind and rain or sunshine —is “Let’s give service.” . _ The history of the electrical development of Indianapolis is closely tied up with the growth of the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company. From its beginning in 1888, a crude generating plant in the rear of the old Indianapolis Sentinel building on West Market Street, to its present widespread system serving a territory of 390 square mile, with an estimated population of 450,000, it has striven always to be ready for any possible demand of the community. Now its generating capacity, 84,000 kilowatts, is far in excess of the requirements of its customers. Its performance in the past is its pledge for the future.

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WASHER COMPANY MAINTAINS LOCAL FACTORYBRANCH Manufacturer of Pioneer Product Improves Article, Says Manager. The Eden Washer Corporation is one of the few washing machine companies that maintains a factory branch In Indianapolis. The concern is a pioneer in the Washing machine field and has been manufacturing the *Eden” since 1910. A. L. Stock manager of tbe Indianapolis branch said the Eden company had made many improvements in the washer until it has been refined to a point where perfect washing is obtained. “The Eden company has never changed its original principle of cylinder washing,” said Stock. “Engineers have found this principle the easiest on clothing and the cleanest washing of any demonstrated. The Eden is made of rustproof, noncorroding metal and can be cleaned without removing the cylinder—merely wiped out and it is ready for storage. "The method of washing is by the

•dip’ method, the cylinder raising the clothes to the top and letting them gently fall back through the soapy water, thus forcing the dirt from the fabric. “A feature of the Eden is the sediment zone, a trough in the bottom of the washer, which catches all the dirt washed from the clothes and traps it, thus preventing it mixing with the wash water.” Stock said hundreds of Edens are being demonstrated in Indianapolis and the fact that the machine would do a big washing within an hour, and do it clean, was a feature that appeals to women who want to get their clothes on the line early in the day. The company maintains a demonstrating and sales room ,_ai 42 S. Pennsylvania St. GOOD-ENGLISII CONTESTS Station WO AW, Omaha, has Introduced good-English contests to radio listeners. The purpose of the contests is to stimulate proper pronunciation and grammar by announcers and to interest radio listeners In offering constructive criticism.

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MYSTERIOUS DONATION Unknown Man Sends $6,850 to Be Applied to Brittain’s debt to U. S. Bs United Press LONDON. June 30.—An unknown man, whose only Identification is his statement that lie was born in England, but has lived in the United States for the past fifty years, has sent Winston Churchill. Chancellor of the Exchequer, bonds to the value of $6,850 to be applied to the reduction of the Anglo-Amer-ican debt. This Is the third donation sent by the man during the past three years as a contribution toward the English war debt. Churchill was unable to write the man through lack of address, but publicly thanked him through the press. KILLED ON WEDDING EVE GLEINCOE, 111.—After attending his last bachelor di'iner, Richard Collins was killed in an auto smashup, on the eve of his wedding.