Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 11, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 September 1897 — Page 4

POWER MAI) NIAGARA

GIGANTIC FORCE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST CATARACT.

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

Making Cliff.

[Special Correspondence.]

NIXOABA FALLS, Sept 6.—Everybody hereabout HAS gone power mad, and DO woudr r, for each day as it passes but adds to the certainty that wealth far greater than auy to be wrested from the Klondike's frozen sands is to be got out of Niagara's green waters Uy 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 graystone 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.

Stupeii(Joan Figure#.

On both sides of the river men are steadily at work in the 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 will be got out of the rushing water to turn every wheel in every factory in every city of the Empire State, including the Greater New V'oik itself. When the work now in progress is done, the total output will

be

as follows:

Horsepower.

To bo developed in the prewnt tunnel.. 100,000 To he developed in the .-eeond tunnel (not yet built) 150,000 To tie developed in the threw Canadian tunnel* 850,000 To lx* developed by tho 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 because of its gigantic Souring mills, is only 25,000 that Buffalo, now a oity of nearly 400,000 inhabitants and ranking fifth or sixth among the cities of tho (jnited States, uses less than 50,000 horsepower, and that all the 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 planned enough hydraulic and electric installations at Niagara falls to furnish power for a city so vast in extent that Loudon. New York, Paris and Chicago would bo only villages in comparison.

Some there bo who predict that such a 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 iu existence. It matters little which of these are right. Tho electrical development of Niagara's power is ccrtaiu to bring about an entirely unprecedented and plrtMioiuenal state of thiugs, for beyond a doubt it is now possible to make power hero chenper 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 trans-

horsepower.

Tho Matter of Transmission.

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 curreut auy 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 euough of the metal to transmit

that, after spending millions on the

mit it: themselves for $20 a horsepower nntiiorify from the Dominion govern* per annum. It is delivered at the Buffa* t0 develop and use 850,000 horselo line ytu days in the year for $36 a

back of millious in hydraulic aud elec-' trie 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 de-

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 tbe right time came a way wonld be found.

Niagara Power In Buffalo.

And so it was. When tbe right time came, a way, and an extremely simple one, was found. At tbe 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 company 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 c$ed excepting simple porcelain pole insulators differing little in form from tbe ordinary glass ones in use by tbe telephone and 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, and, 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 tbe ground.

In a few mouths the Buffalo Street Railway company will take 2,000 additional horsepower, or 3,000 in all. Twelve hundred aud fifty horsepower has been contracted for by one great, new elevator now being erected in Buffalo, and 600 more will be taken by another. A little later tbe Buffalo Electric Light! ug company will receive 8,000, and it will not be Jong after tbe contracts for these deliveries batfe 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, Buffaloniaus are building the wildest hopes of unprece-

dented growth for their city, and he would be a daring man who should deolare these hopes unlikely of fulfillment. At tbe same time new factories of all sorts are being put up at Niagara Falls and at Echota. the new towu 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 tbe 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 5,000 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, and it is expected that it will come about as fast as the installations can bo made. According to the company's present charter another tunnel, with a capacity of 150,000 horsepower, may be put in, and, as shown by tbe table above, the Canadian company has

pjWer

more. It should be understood

whije

the American and Canadian

companies are distinct and separate or-

Tho most wonderful thing about this ganjssations, yfit the stock in both is great power development is the manner jjej^ ^y the same group of capitalists. There is another corporation at Niag-

ara Falls concerning which not much has been beard 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 1,625 horsepower direct from water wheels, 5,105 horsepower electrically developed and 860 horsepower from tbe main shaft of its electrio installation, or 12,990 altogether. As shown above, its eventual capacity will be 150,000 horse*

aud tllj8 amoont win

100,000 hor?Tpower as far as Buffalo, g^jly be developed as soon as the market Kveu as late as 1894 it was declared

rea(|y

nndoubt-

for it. At present, while all

watejr

ja jts canal is used, com para-

tively low heads only are utilised, and most of tbe water is allowed to waste away in a dosen or more picturesque cascades over tbe rocks of what is known as "tbe money making cliff." This cliff will not be so pretty when the poasibil ities of tbe hydraulic canal have

vice that would w«rp the intractable fnj|y realized, but there will be a agent iu cbwk. but in vain. Every now

QOtab}£

and then sensational stories appeared nrvryy MuftfiB"1in the scientific journals, later to be] copied in tbe daily pmss. to the effect Baldness is either hereditary or caused that at last a new aud wonderful plan by sickness, mental exhaustion, wearing bad been discovervd A sample story of

iucfeoae iu profits for its owner,

tigbt.fiuia«

this sort had it that I» .la had fmuid a trouble. Hall's Heoewer will prevent iu a to he by an a xi

tube with a mineral fluid of his own discovery that would carry an unlimit

hat*, and by overwork and

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FASHIONABLE ATTIRE FOR HOME AND CHURCH CEREMONIES

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

Covert Cloths For Outdoor Wear.

[Special Correspondence.]

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

FOR BRIDESMAID AND BRIDE.

ful consideration, and, as a general rnle, 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. Tbe peau de soie, being so rich in itself, requires absolutely no garniture. Demitrains for home weddings are tbe most fashionable, though not entirely obligatory. For a grand church wedding tbe 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.

Veils are not more than half as long as they were and are not hemmed, nor do they fall over the face. A small knot of orange blossoms fastens them, or perhaps a bit of a wreath. The most of the Redding gowns are high in tbe neck, 'he form of the bodice is a matter of aste. 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 stuffs 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 tbe 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 broadcloth gown, and who can blame them? A queer effeot is given to a tailor made broadcloth by having the blouse waist droop ail 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 gowns are made to fasten closely down the front with small silk buttons, and tbe 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 tho -vogue, however, and the beautiful new plaid and other silks will be called "shirt waists," 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 bad 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 the figaro. This means just only the heavy design without tbe net backing. & full white lace jabot aud frills at

FOB BRIDESMAID AND BRIDX.

wrists and collar finished tbe 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 fail and winter, and woolen stuffs 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 tbe bottom to within a few inches from the top. In some instances tbe stripes are in graduated widths, in others all alike and still others in clusters.

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

Covert cloths are made double faoed and in all the newest colorings, even deep red. The inner side is finished in plaids. Tbe coverts are for outdoor costumes entirely. Omm HAKPKK.

TERBE HATJTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, SEPTEMBER 11, 1897.

NEW WEDDING GOTO

Embalming Perfumes.

Myrrh, which was fabulously supposed to be tbe tears of Myrrba, who was turned 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 bad undergone much preparation, which, to spare your feelings, I will not describe, it was filled with powdered myrrb, cassia and other perfumes. It was then steeped in natron, a stroug solution of soda, for 70 days. After this it was wrapped in bands of fine perfumed linen, smeared with aromatic gums.

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 tbe Egyptians were embalmed with scrupulous and fanatical care. On days special to the memory of tbe 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

What Hood's Sarsaparilla has done for others it will also do for you. Hood's Sarsaparilla cures all blood diseases.

A View of the Saltan.

Here is a first view of tbe sultan aB Mrs. Max Moller sees him She describes it iu her "Letters From Constau tinople:" "The green enameled and richly gilded barouche comes in sight, drawn by two glorious black horses covered with golden barness, driven by a man in bright bJue aud gold livery, and on each side the grooms in blue and gold and every man in sight, naval, military, civil, master or servant, in the all pervading but all becoming fez. "Iu 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 re6t 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 his whole person has a swaying motion, so faint that it may only be caused by tbe swaying movement of the cariage Opposite his imperial majesty sits Osman Gbazi, the hero of Plevna, almost hiB only intimate friend, whom he trusts implicitly."

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There Is a Class of People

Who are injured by the use of cdffee. Recently there has been placed in all the grocery stores a ne.w preparation called GRAIN-O jnade of pure grains, that takes the place *f coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few^san tell it from coffee. It does not. ?ost over as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 cts. and 25 cts. per package. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O.

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Mother Goose.

most popular children's

The most popular children's book ever written was "Mother Godee'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 tury 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 bad 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 tbe title page was "two coppers. This account of tbe origin of "Mother Goose" is discrodited by some critics, who declare that iifyWi Perrault published "Contes de ma Men? 1'Oye," or "Stories of Motber Goose." The 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 sister came with bis motber to see tbe regiment.

On tbe march past Jock was out of step. "Look, mitber," said bis sister, "they're a' oot o' step bat oor Jock." —Glasgow Herald.

Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O! Ask your Grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, tbe new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it. like it. GRAIN-O has that seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and tbe most delicate stomach receives it without distress. tbe price of coffee. 15c, and 25 eta per package. Sold by all grocery

Even body Says So.

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^wy,5»^'f|:-*!Edlson,s Marriage.

j^Tbe idea of the great electrician Edilob marrying was first suggested by an intimate friend, who told him that his large house and numerous servants ought to have a mistress. Although a very shy man, he seemed pleased with the proposition aud timidly inquired whom he should marry. The friend 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 Ediscu 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 would like to marry yon." The young lady said she would consider the matter and talk it over with her mother. The result was that they were married a month later, and the union proved a very happy one.—San Francisco Argonaut

Those Love Letters.

Mra Newwed recently returned home to find her lord and master diligently tearing up the contents of a drawer. "Why, Herbert, whatever arc you doing," she exclaimed—"tearing up all our old love letters? The idea!" "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.

How to Keep Awake.

The American in England affords matter for much perplexity and astonishment to his English kinsmen.

Atypical Yankee was being shown over an old church wherein hundreds of people were buried. "A great many people sleep between these walls," said tbe guide, indicating tbe 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 preaoher?"— London Fun.

A Mathematical Wonder.

Jedediah Buxton was the greatest prodigy of mathematics that ever appeared in England. His eduoation was very limited, and be bad never been taught arithmetic or indeed any branch of mathematics, so that his abilities in this respect were peculiarly natural. He wonld walk over a piece of land and tell with exactness how many acres and square rods were contained in it. His memory was so great that while resolving a question he could leave off and resume the occupation again the next morning or at a week, a month or sev eral months later and proceed regulai till it was completed.

Lincoln's Sentiment.

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

DEAR MAOAM—When yon ask from a atran ger that which is of interest only to yourself, always Inclose a stamp There's your sent! ment, and here's yoar autograph

A. LIHCOLN

Women In West Africa.

Many times Vvben walking on Lembarene island have 1 seen a lady stand in the street aud let her husband, who had taken shelter inside the house, know what she thought of him in 4 way that reminded me of some London slum scenes. When the husband loses bis temper, as be snrely does sooner or later, being a man, he whacks hie wife —or wives.—"Travels In West Africa," by Mary Kingsley.

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