Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 11, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 September 1897 — Page 3

POWER MAD NIAGARA

GIGANTIC FORCE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST CATARACT.

A Plan to Develop Enongh Power to Turn Kvory Wheel In the Empire State—A New Town Established The Money

Making Cliff.

[Special Correspondence.]

NUOARA FALLS, Sept. 6.—Everybody hereabout has gone power mad, aud

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wond«r, for each day as it passes bat adds to the certainty that wealth far greater than any to be wrested from the Klondike's frozen sands is to be got oat of Niagara's green waters by those who have dared to harness the world's greatest cataract. The most marvelous dream of the age is being realized in the quiet looking gray stone powerhouse that stands a mile or two above 'he falls. Three enormous dynamos, each weighing many tons and whirling at the rate of 260 revolutions a minute, are constantly transforming water power equal to that of 15,000 horses into the inexplicable thing we call electric energy. But this is only a beginning.

Stupendous Figures.

On both sides of the river men are steadily at work in tjie sunlight by day and in the mystic current's glare by night making ready for the production of nearly fcrtyfold more power. By tomorrow, so to speak, enough force wilt bo got out of the rushing water to turn every wheel in every factory in every city of the Empiro State, including the Greater New Yoik it.self. When the work now in profjrus is done, the total output will he as follows:

Horsepower.

To bt dovrlojM'rt in the pnwnt tunnel.. ItlO.OOO To Ir developed in the second tunnel mot yet built) 150.000 To developed tn the three Canadian tunnels 860,000 To t»e developed by the Hydraulic Pow er company 150,000

Total 750,000 The real meaning of these figures is not clear until it is remembered that

THE MONEY MAKING CLIFF.

Lowell, Mass., famous the world over as a manufacturing town, came into being because it was possible to develop 11,845 horsepower from the waterfalls within its bounds that the total water horsepower available at Minneapolis, renowned wherever men eat bread beoause of its gigantic (louring mills, is ouly 25,000 that Buffalo, now a city of nearly 400,000 inhabitants aud ranking fifth or sixth among the cities of tho Ofnited States, uses less tbau 50,000 horsepower, and that all tho manufactories in New York state, including those of the great aggregation of cities at tho mouth of tho Hudson, are operated by less than 550,000 horsepower. In other words, there are now plnuufd enough hydraulic aud electric installations at Niagara falls to furnish power for a city so vast in extent that London. New York, Paris and Chicago would bo ouly villages in comparison.

Some there bo who predict that such city, greater than any the world has yet seen, will grow up in the immediate vicinity of the cataract. Others believe that the power will be transmitted miles away to cities already in existence. It matters little which of theso are right. Tho electrical development of Niagara's power is certain to bring about an entirely unprecedented and plfcnomennl state of things, for beyond a doubt, it is now possible to make power here cheaper than anywhere else on earth. When I inquired at the power house today concerning the cost of power production, I was told that, it can be furnished to customers who will transmit it themselves for #20 a horsepower per annum. It is delivered at the Buffalo line at!5 days in the year for $36 a horse power.

Tho Matter of Tr*n»MI»»lon.

The most wonderful thing about this great power development is the manner in which tho current is transmitted. It is only 10 or 15 years ago that Niagara's electrical development was first seriously considered. At that time it was declared, and by men who certainly ought to have known what they were talking about, that it would never be possible to transmit the current any great distance. There was not enough copper in the world, they said, to make a cable big enough to carry a heavy current economically to New York, and it would strain the mightiest capitalists to buy enough of the metal to transmit 100,000 horsepower as far as Buffalo.

Even as late as 1S94 it was declared that, after spending millious on the back of millious in hydraulic and electric installations, the men at the back of the enterprise were in the dark concerning transmission methods. It was whispered that Thomas A Edison and Nikola Tesla. the world's greatest electricians, had been appealed to for a device that would m-ep the intractable agent in check, but iu vain. Every now and then sensational stories appeared in the scientific journals, later to be copied in the daily press, to the effect that at last a new aud wouderfal plan had be* discovered A sample story of this sort had it that IV la had found a way to do the trick by riiling a fl« xshk tube with a mineral fluid of his own discovery that would carry an aalimtt

ed number of volts, of any amperage whatsoever, over enormous distances with no loss whatever. Mr. Tesla denied this particular story in a talk with the writer, adding, however, that when the right time came a way would be found.

Niagara Power In Buffalo.

And so it was. When the right time came, a way, and an extremely simple one, was found. At the present time an alternating current of 2,200 volts, of sufficient amperage to furnish 1,000 horsepower, is being constantly transmitted to Buffalo, 26 miles away, for use by the Buffalo Street Railway com1 pany over three bare cables, each consisting of 19 wires so twisted together as to form a copper rope about fiveeighths of an inch in diameter. These cables are strung on poles, and no insulation whatever is used excepting simple porcelain pole insulators differing little in form from the ordinary glass ones in use by the telephone aud telegraph lines. At the Buffalo boundary, where the cables are put under ground, heavy gutta percha insulation is used. It is not of extraordinary thickness, however, aud, although there is a slight loss of current, it is so small that the railway company finds it cheaper to use power developed more than a score of miles away than to make its own power directly on the ground.

In a few mouths the Buffalo Street Railway company will take 2,000 additional horsepower, or 8,000 in all. Twelve hundred and fifty horsepower has been contracted for by one great, new elevator now being erecced in Buffalo, and 600 more will be taken by another. A little later the Buffalo Electric Lighting company will receive 8,000, and it will not be long after the contracts for these deliveries hatfe been executed before the Buffalo General Electric company, which handles Niag ara power, will be reaay to deliver power in almost unlimited quantities, either in big lots or in single horsepowers, to any who may desire to use it.

Upon this contingency, now safely counted as a certainty, Buffalonians are building the wildest hopes of unprece-

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dented growth for their city, and he would be a daring man who should deolare these hopes unlikely of fulfillment. At the same time new factories of all sorts are being put up at Niagara Palls and at Echota, the new town established by the Niagara Falls Power company. Eohota, by tho way, has long since ceased to be a prospective entity. Already it has miles of well paved streets and smoothly laid sidewalks. There are blocks of dwellings, schools and churches are in process of erection, there is a fine hotel, and before long Echota will have to be reckoned with among the cities of the Empire State.

Extensions of the Power.

The present power plant is the embodiment of the original plans. It contains three 5,000 horsepower turbines and corresponding dynamos, so that its total possible output is 15,000 horsepower, but contracts have already been let for 26,745 horsepower, and it is to fill these that the plant is being extended. This extension will provide seven more wheels aud seven more dynamos, each developing 6,000 horsepower, or 85,000 in all. The total output, when all are running, will be 50,000 horsepower. The present tunnel, however, has a capacity of J00.000 horsepower. This will be utilized as the demand comes, aud it is expected that it will come about as fast as the installations can be made. According to the company's present charter another tuunel, with a capacity of 150,000 horsepower, may be put in, and, as shown by the table above, the Canadian company lias authority from the Dominion government to develop and use 850,000 horsepower more. It should be understood that while the American and Canadian companies are distinct and separate organisations, yet the stock in both is held by the same group of capitalists.

There is auother corporation at Niagara Falls concerning which not much has been heard of late, although it is destined to play an important part in the cataract's development. This is the Niagara Falls Hydraulic and Manufacturing company. It is now using 7,525 horsepower direct from water wheels, 5,105 horsepower electrically developed and 860 horsepower from the maiD shaft of its electric installation, or 12,990 altogether. As shown above, its eventual capacity will be 150,000 horsepower, and this amount will andoobt* edly be developed as soon as the market is ready for it. At present, while all the water in its canal is used, comparatively low beads only are utilised, and most of the water is allowed to waste away in a dozen or more picturesque cascades over the rocks of what is known as "the money making cliff." This cliff will not be so pretty when the possibilities of the hydraulic canal have been fully realised, but there will be a notable increase in profits for its owner.

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Covert Cloths For Outdoor Wear.

Veils are not more than half as long as they were and are not hemmed, nor do they fall over the faoe. A small knot of orange blossoms fastens them, or perhaps a bit of a wreath. The most of the wedding gowns are high in the neck. 'ihe form of the bodice is a matter of jcaste. Some are snug and pointed, but the most of them have something of a blouse effect, and others are draped in surplice fashion. No bouquets are carried.

Bridesmaids may wear almost apy pretty goWn for a home wedding. If they like, they may dress in light stnffs and oolors, or they may wear less festive gowns. Gray in the soft pearl shades of almost any of the season's material is handsome.

Among the new fall goods is broadcloth. This is as soft as velvet and as smooth as satin and very fine and glossy. Most ladies like to have a broaifoloth gown, and who oan blame them? A queer effeot is given to a tailor made broadcloth by having the blouse waist droop all around. The short empire jacket is liked to wear with this design, but the really elegant dresser will have her gown made entirely plain with a perfectly fitting waist and skirt with no garniture save two or three rows of stitching. Such gGwnsare made to fasten closely down the front with small silk buttons, and the newest design has the back cut with the side seams running up to the top of the shoulder, which gives a slender effect. Blouses are the .vogue, however, and the beautiful new plaid and other silks will be called "shirt waista," yet each will show more or less blouse effect. The new brown is so rich and woody that no one could help liking it. One style proved very taking in the model. The skirt had a deep key design in seal brown velvet, a .belt, short figaro and collar of the seal velvet There was a line of point de gene insertion around tho figaro. This means just only the heavy design without the net backing. & full white lace jabot aud frills at

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wrists and collar finished the waist With brown is used saffron canary or sulphur yellow in fine lines of piping. It is very artistic.

Bayadere stripes are to be a fixed fact this fall and winter, and woolen stnffs are woven with raised and curled wool stripes, straight, in fanciful edges, in open patterns and in graduated stripes of satin, astrakhan weave and brocaded weaves. Some skirts have the stripes from the bottom to within a few inches from the topi In some instances the stripes are in graduated widths, in others all alike and still others in clusters.

The roman striped taffetas are handsome and in very rich combinations of color, softened a little by fine black or white linens.

Govert cloths are made double faoed and in all the newest colorings, even deep red. The inner side is finished in plaids. The coverts are for outdoor costomes entirely. Ouvs HAKPKR.

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, SEPTEMBER 11,1897.

NEW WEDDING GOWNS

FASHIONABLE ATTIRE FOR HOMELAND CHURCH CEREMONIES.

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What the Bridesmaids May Wear— N«w Fall Dress Goods—Designs and Colors. Striped Skirts Roman Taffetas and

[Special Correspondence.]

NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—There will be such a lot of weddings dnring this monttv and October that it becomes the duty of the fashion writer to tell the prospective brides abont them, for a wedding outfit requires long and care-

FOR BRIDESMAID AND BRIDE.

fnl consideration, and, as a general rule, gets a greater amount than the momentous question of marriage does.

Wedding gowns are more simple and therefore more really elegant and tasteful than they have been. The material is of white peau de soie, taffeta, satin duchess and sometimes chiffon over light silk. The peau de soie, being so rich in itself, requires absolutely no garniture. Demitrains for home weddings are the most fashionable, though not entirely obligatory. For a grand church wedding the train should be long and may be trimmed with a festooned lace flounce caught by knots of orange blossoms, or personal taste may dictate any other sort of arrangement, and there are hundreds of dainty and delicate fancies possible, though, as I say, where the material in the gown is good it cheapens it to overtrim it.

i'' Embalming Perftunea*

Myrrh, which was fabulousIy suppiS*ed to be the tears of Myrrha, who was tnrned into a shrub, was a plant of handsome appearance, with spreading, fernlike foliage and large umbels of white flowers. It was found principally in Arabia and Abyssinia. In early times the perfume distilled from it was greatly in requisition for embalming.

Herodotus gives a detailed account of the ancient mode of embalming, which is perhaps more instructive than pleasing After the body had undergone much preparation, which, to spare your feelings, I will not describe, it was filled with powdered myrrh, cassia and other perfumes. It was then steeped in natron, a strong solution of 6oda, for 70 days. After this it was wrapped in bands of fine perfumed linen, smeared with aromatic gums. /v

Not only people were thus embalmed, but the crocodiles of Lake Moeris, which, after their mummification, were decorated with ornaments and jewels and laid in one of the subterranean passages of the great labyrinth with much pomp and display. The sacred cat, ichneumon and other cherished animals devoutly worshiped by the Egyptians were embalmed with scrupulous and fanatical care. On days special to the memory of the dead the mummies were newly sprinkled with perfume, incense was offered before them and their heads anointed with fresh oil—in the same spirit as we lay new blooms upon the graves of our dead. —London Society

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Here is a first view of the sultan as Mrs. Max Muller sees him She describes it in her "Letters From Constan tinople:" "The green enameled and richly gilded barouche comes in sight, drawn by two glorious black horses covered with golden harness, driven by a man in bright blue aud gold livery, and on each side the grooms in blue and gold and every man in sight, naval, mili tary, civil, master or servant, in the all pervading but all becoming fez. "In the carriage sits a small yet stately man. in a simple cloth military overcoat, with no order or decoration of any sort, only his curved sword and a fez like the rest. His large hooked nose proclaims bis Armenian mother His piercing eyes are raised to our window as he passes, but his face is still and immovable, and he salutes no one, though bis whole person has a swaying motion, so faint that it may only be oaused by tbe swaying movement of the cariage Opposite his imperial majesty sits Osman Ghazi, the hero of Plevna, almost his only intimate friend, whom he trusts implicitly."

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Mother Goose.

The most popular children's book ever written was "Mother Goose's Melodies." Mrs. Goose, or "Mother Goose," as she was familiarly called, was the mother-in-law of Thomas Fleet, a Boston printer, early in the last cen tnry When his first child was born, his mother-in-law devoted all her attention to the baby. and. it is said, greatly annoyed Fleet by her persistent and not particularly musical chanting of the old English ditties she had beard in her childhood. The idea occurred to Fleet of writing down these songs and publishing them in book form The oldest extant copy bears the date of 1719 The price marked on the title page was "two coppers. This account of the origin of "Mother Goose" is discredited by some critics, who declare that iiy',,697 Perrault published "Contes de ma Men* 1'Oye," or "Stories of Mother Goosa" Tbe name "Mother Goose" was familiar in French folklore, being used by writers of this lit erature over a century before the time of Perrault.

Sisterly Admiration.

A raw Scotch lad joined the volunteers, and on tbe first parade day bis •ister came with his mother to see the regiment.

On tbe march past Jock was out of step. "Look, mither," said his sister, "they're a" oot o' step but oor Jock." •—Glasgow Herald.

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Everybody Says So.

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Edison's Marriage!

The idea of the great, electrician Edison marrying was firsi suggested by an intimate friend, who told him that his large house and numerous servants ought to have a mistress. Although a very sby man, he seemed pleased with the proposition and timidly inquired whom he shonld marry. The friend

Those Love Letters.

Mrs. Newwed recently returned home to find her lord and master diligently tearing up the contents of a drawer. "Why, Herbert, whatever are you doing," she exclaimed—"tearing up all our old love letters? The ideal" "But these are no good now, dear. They only fill up the drawer." "Yes they are, and I want them. Whatever made this sudden fit of tidiness come into your head?" "Only this, my dear: When I die, some one who wished to break my will might get hold of them and use them to prove I was insane. "—Pearson's Weekly.

Ilow to Keep Awake.

The Am«rican in England affords matter for much perplexity and astonishment to his English kinsmen.

Atypical Yankee was being shown over an old cbnrch wherein hundreds of people were buried. "A great many people sleep between these walls," said the gnide, indicating the inscription covered floor with a sweep of his hand. "So?" said the American. "Same way over in our country. Why don't you get a more interesting preacher?"— London Fun.

A Mathematical Wonder.

Jedediah Buxton was the greatest prodigy of mathematics that ever appeared in England. His education was very limited, and be had never been taught arithmetic or indeed any branch of mathematics,

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Lincoln's Sentiment.

Abraham Lincoln once receiyed a letter asking for a "sentiment" and his autograph He replied:

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somewhat testily replied, "Any one." But Edison was not without sentiment when the time came. One day, as he stood behind the chair of a Miss Stillwell, a telegraph operator in his employ, he was not a little surprised when she suddenly turned round and said, "Mr. Edison, I can always tell when you are behind me or near me." It was now Miss Stillwell's turn to be surprised, for Ediscn fronted the young lady, and, looking her fnil, said, "I've been thinking considerably abc#t you of late, and if yon are willing to marry me I wonld like to marry yon." The yonng lady said she wonld consider the matter and talk it over with her mother. The result was that they were married a month later, and the union proved very happy one.—San Francisco Argonaut

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