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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-
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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:
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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!
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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.
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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
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railroad history. When he shut off
ths power and pulled another switch I
lever he changed the entire charae-|
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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 ,
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The following dispatch from Eu-
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about the suicide of Harold Hurd at
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