Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1901 — TREMENDOUS FORCE. [ARTICLE]

TREMENDOUS FORCE.

I Power of the EJectrlc Current Cabled From Magarn to BufTulo. To look upon the cables of the trans- ! mission lines that extend all the way ! from Niagara Falls to Buffalo one fails ! to get any idea of the power of the I force that Is being transmitted by these : conductors. Tlie cables hang like any t other cables; drawn taut, there is no BM-aying in the wind. They stretch from 'pole to pole for mile after mile, but throughout their entire length there is I nothing that gives an intimation of tlie wonderful work they are doiug. L. B. Stillwell, who has been prominently connected with the Niagara development, points out that the jiower that | is so silently and Invisibly transmitted along the six copper conductors, lessthan one Inch in diameter, would easily j break six steel cables of equal diameter 1 moving at a rate of 10 miles an hour, . Such is the wonderful force of the | electric current from Niagara of which the Pan-American Exposition is to receive 5,000 horsepower.