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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1924)
a. w. Y oung , i H. ALLEN YOUNG, Ì o•o e ae»« eaoonoeoeo« I boeeoeeepsoeoasoeoo WE USE THE BIGGER HALF Without electricity there could be no such thing as the modern Ameri can “skyscraper.” It could not bo lighted, nor even provided with ele vators. It would be a vast tower, flies - crawling up and it stairs, and, of course, far as concerned its utility for housing offices aad business places. Without electricity we. would i be without many »f cur convenient«» , . and comforts, ranging ffom electric i ■ mangle to radio. The total consumption of elhctricity 1 throughout the world is approximate- . I ly 125 thousand million kilowatt-hours , of electrical energy. Of that amount , from 15 to 20 per cent is used for . lighting purposes and.from 80 to 85 I per cent for power in industrial activ- . I ities. The United States uses more than one-half of the total, electrical | power ProJuced- ’ CHILDREN ARE DIFFERENT Applied aa Uaed oa the New York Central aina up the HUI la Mohawk Valley Nearly One Hundred Years Ago The senior editor of the Sentinel can well remember hearing his fa ther tali about hia experience eighty seven years ago, when the train on which he went from Albany, New York, to Schenectady waa helped up the hill a hundred feet or moee in height, out of the Mohawk Valley to the higher level to the west by a ttwin leaded with stone, which went down the hill on an adjoining track to furnish a part of the power to haul the train on which he waa rid- ing out of the Mohawk Valley to the higher level above. Wp’* This experience when the railroad was only a dosen years old was re- called when we road in the current issue of the Popular Mechanics the story H. E. Byram, president of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul railway, has to tall about the elec tric locomotives of that railroad gathering power as they run down bill to help haul another train up the mountain it is descending. We only hope it will interest the read ers as much as it did this writer: • Recently while enjoying the pass ing of a parade I became engaged >u conversation with a young lady. In the course of conversation it was brought out that she was a tear he i in a school where the children are largely of foreign extraction. She spoke of many of their customs, etc. Finally I asked whether these As the “Iron Horse" displaced the children were well clothed aad fed! “ Pony Express," so the new "King The simple and dirwet manner in of the Raila”—the electric locomo “since prohibition," should sound a tive, drawing its white coal from the note of gratitude to all who have trolley wire suspended overhead^- struggled po long and valiantly to re has sounded the death knell of the move the curse which would rob even steam railroad engine where elec the little ones of, proper food and rai tricity is available. In a single year, on two divisions ment.' She also remarked that before the prohibition law was enacted she of our road alone, forty-four elec had known of little children coming tries displaced 121 steam locomotives to school in an intoxicated condition. and moved the transcontinental traf I say all praise to the smallest fic at a cert for power of 3672,000, progress in prohibition, says E. C. as compared with, the 81,400,000 it M- of Philadelphia, in an eastern pa- would have required for steam. The actual saving was far greater than even these figures indicate, •• the cars that once hauled fuel from the mines to ths locomotives were re leased for revenue-paying service; the investment in coal docks and water tanks was eliminated, and that part of the motive power that was once used up in hauling around the engine's fuel and pater was released for other purposes. In the days of steam operation oa our mountain division the average' size of all trains was somewhat less than 1,800 tons. Today, with our motive power cut to one-third, a mile-long freight train of 110 oar*, with a total weight of 5,000 tons or better, is not the exception but the rule, while the average of all trains, passenger, freight, work and loco motives traveling “light* over the road, is around 3,000 tons. Then years ago it was not uncom mon to see three steam locomotives toiling up the hills toward the con tinental divide, dragging the twelve or thirteen can of the westward bound Olympian flyer. Ahead labor ed a Pacific-type engine, one of the monarchs of the road, and behind two helpers assisted in pushing the 1,500 ton train along* at a fifteen- mile-an-hour gait Today, the scene has changed. An electric locomotive purrs out of the east and pauses a moment at Three Forks, Mont., where the waters of the Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin river unite to fon^ the Missouri, which winds its way 2^51 miles to paptr before vs says the Mississippi. Along its banka, the falling waters, stored behind enormous dams, are turning the tur bines of many power houses, convert ing the snows and the rain into pow er that feeds, through the trolley wire above, the big electric locomo tive. A brief pause, and the long train of brilliantly lighted cars slips away into the west as silently as it It certainly reta ont of the 1 can«. There is no noise, no smoke; fog" class. no spinning of mighty drivewheels; no elanking of drawbars nor baching to take up the sleek. In the sleepers passengers are flrat aware that the train is under way when they, look up to And the station lights gliding past. results st sea- efforts spitel- »al ad- other te ex- t least ion, if devel- L sharper curves, with thirty-five on the stretches and forty up the straightaways. Twenty-five or thir ty-five or forty, it is all the same to the big electric with its inexhausti ble supply of white coai feeding si lently down from the wires above. On the instrument board, the am meters register a load of 200 am peres and the volt-meters show a working power of 3,000 volts. The bright, white light of Vendome block signal bores through the night the message of a clear track ahead for the three and seven-tenths mile climb to Cedric, Ml feet above. To the steady click of drivewhepls on steel rails another climb of 4M feet to Grace elips by, four and nine- tenths miles negotiated in ten min utas. Ahead looms the crest of the divide, bathed in the final glow of the sun, which set for folks below some three hours before. A elimb of 685 feet in the distance of only six and a half miles, and the flyer glides into the tunnel on the pass. Then the lights of Butte are in view and the train starts downgrade. The en gineer does not touch his brake valve. Instead he shuts off the power, pulls a lever, and then, apparently, turns■ the power oa again. What he has actually done is start the regenative motors, one of the most remarkable inventions in alii ■peed te twenty-thru miles ea the T • r railroad history. When he shut off ths power and pulled another switch I lever he changed the entire charae-| Two Stores tar of the big motors which drove the train up thé hill. By the act he I passed a powerful current through] the field of the motors—over’excited I them, the electricians say. As the] train gained momentum down the] mountainside, the motor armatures, I which "had turned the huge drive- wheels coming up, were themselves I turned by the drivers aad actually bo-1 gan to manufacture electricity and I return it to the trolley wire over-1 To Chevrolet Owners head. This also serves aa a brake.] and regulates the speed of the train. If a tan-car train starts down the I mountain and a six-ear train at the] same moment starts up, the down-1 train would pull the other up I » Let Us Recondition Your Motor • • 11 without any expense to the] d for power. The power gen-1 era tad is not the only saving going] downhill. Equally important is the absence of wear on brakes, wheels,] rails, and on the can. NEW PISTONS , NEW RINGS NEW PINS VALVES REGROUND RODS TIGHTENED . CYLINDERS REGROUND I AU for $68.75 Cash makes you a Naw Motor It win be noted that the principle is exactly the sane as used on the New York Central railroad almost a hundred years ago, gathering power aa a train goes down hill to haul an other train up. Driven Stromberg Windshield Wiper r-S Safety WARNING Away on the flat up the Jefferson activities. valley, the train gathers speed. Its single eleetrie locomotive, which has replaced the three engines of older days, drones contentedly along. In the operator’s cab the indicator of the speedometer climbs higher—for ty miles, fifty, sixty and then sixty- Ave. There is A world of power yet uncalled for, but the engineer, in obedience to strict operating rules, cheeks the train there. The lights of Piedmont, thirty-four aad a half miles west of the head waters of the Missouri, flash past, ending and the engineer eases his throttle laying back, while the hum of the motors ain on rises to the drone of a lasy bee aa feath- th long eliml to the roof of North I feed. America begins. The grade shifts found from one per eent to one and one- coed 5 half, then one and seven-tenths, and »flower fiinally two per cent, which moans aid to [a climb of 106 and six t en ths fleet to the mile. The engineer ehocks his Let us help you make your Selection Long’s Machine & Repair Shop 3 * • Wood, Coal and ■SfensfeSHB Bonded Carrier Pirone 108L- If the victims of C. W. HILL ,r • • tion is worth while. Such a policy is only in keeping with the work of all affiliated A. A. A. motor clubs. Beware of the "high-powered" salesman with a new proposition. Ask him to show an endorsement from four local chamber of commerce, the Bettor Business Bureau of the Oregon State Motof association, be fore you sign your name on the dotted line.—Oregon State Motor Associa- tion. walks back along the track to pro tect against a following train. Four or flye blasts of medium dura tion calls the flagman to the train. , Four short - whistles is the engin- **r’* vaay 8f asking for train order signal. Two shor| whistles mean “Thank Yqa” pr “I get foe.” . , One whistle of medium duration followed by two short blasts calls at tention to signals displayed for a following section. One long blast is given when train is approaching station, 'junctions, draw-bridges , and railroad crossings st grade. Twoeshort blasts given three times is signal to trainmen that airbrake« are sticking, g , Forger Coquille Resident The following dispatch from Eu- <«ne gives additional particular« about the suicide of Harold Hurd at Spring-field: »' ‘i othe?Hurt
