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Good Words for Mr. McLeod.
The New York World recently published the following in regard to A. A. McLeod of
the E. C. & N. road [preceded Lehigh Valley R. R.—CC editor]. Since
the ascendancy of Mr. Corbin to the presidency of the Philadelphia & Reading
railroad there has been considerable gossip as to who will be his right hand man
in management. It is predicted by those who claim to know that he will put on
his personal staff A. A. McLeod, who has been with him for many years, and who
is now the general manager of the Elmira, Cortland & Northern road. This
road was formerly known as the Utica, Ithaca & Elmira, and when Mr. Corbin
took hold of it, it was in a bad condition. It has become under his direction, aided
by the management of Mr. McLeod, a thoroughly well equipped line and is one of the
best short roads in this country. It connects with several of the roads
centering in Elmira, and is valuable feeder of the New York Central, which it meets
at Canastota, near Syracuse. Mr. McLeod has been associated with Mr. Corbin in the management of the Manhattan Beach
property, and also was an official of the Long Island road. Mr. Corbin, it is
said, places considerable reliance upon him, and fully appreciates what he has
done and is capable of doing.
ELECTRIC RAILROADING.
Motors That Successfully Haul Long Trains of
Cars.
About
a year ago the Ninth Avenue elevated railroad in New York was fitted with a motor
and appliances for hauling cars by electric force. The experiments at that time
were not entirely satisfactory and the motor was taken off. Mr.
Henry T. Buell, representing Mr. Daft, says:
"The motor was taken off the
road not because it was a failure—for it demonstrated that it was not by
running there 1,000 miles—but for the reason that it had been constructed under
a misconception as to the amount of work that was to be required of it, and was
found to be too light for that service. We were told that not more than
fifty-five to sixty horse power was required to take trains up that heavy grade
at Thirteenth street, but in actual practice we proved that to surmount that
grade with a loaded four-car train their engines were using 125 to 140 horsepower.
When we found that out we stopped trying to make a boy do a man's work. We took
off our light motor and went to work building a much more powerful one. The new
motor will go into the same cab that was used before, but will be capable of
developing all the power that may be required of it. It was built at our factory at Greenville, N. J., and
is now complete, but will not be put on the track before the first of next
month. There is a good deal to
be done before we will be ready to resume our experiments. We are going to have
a new engine at the station, which will be put in during the coming week. Then
we have to clean off thoroughly the third rail, which carries our current. It
is of iron, unfortunately, the putting down of which was a mistake, since we cannot
prevent it rusting. The rust breaks the current and that is the cause of the brilliant
sparks that are thrown off. But the iron rail will serve for all the purpose of
experiment, even if it does make the moving of the monitor look like a
torchlight procession. This time there will be no failure.
"The
Daft motor has been used for over a year on the Baltimore and Hampden street railway,
which is two miles in length and is one of the most difficult roads in the country
to operate. There is one grade of 353 feet to the mile on an 89-degree curve; another
of 319 feet to the mile on a 75-degree curve, and a third of 275 feet to the mile
on a 40-degree curve. With horses and mules they were able to make only four miles
an hour. With the electric motor eight are made. The cost of operating with
horses and mules during eight months and twenty days was between $4,700 and $4,800.
With the Daft motor during a like period 32,907 more passengers were carried,
and the cost was only $3,160. The motors that do that work weigh 5,000 pounds,
draw nine tons, and cost $2,500.
“We
are now fitting out two street rail roads at Los Angeles, Cal, and expect to shortly
build one at Pittsburgh.
"We
will use on the Ninth avenue rail road a low-tension current of about 185 volts,
which we find no difficulty in keeping on the track, and we recover from 60 to
65 per cent of the power of the engine."
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| Maj. Gen. and Congressman Daniel E. Sickles |
SIGHTS AT WASHINGTON.
The Chief Objects of Interest in the Capital
City.
The
White House is surrounded by large old forest trees and has a lawn of velvet.
It is a square, white building, copied after the palace of the Duke of
Leinster, at Dublin. An iron fence separates it from the street, and this fence
encloses a reservation of eighty-one acres.
The
Capitol on its big hill overlooks the country for miles around. It covers three
and a half acres of ground, and is the finest public building in the world. It
has cost over $13,000,000, and is in many respects the costliest and handsomest
building in the world.
Directly
opposite the White House is Lafayette Park. It used to be a graveyard, and it
is right near here where Philip Barton Key was killed by Dan Sickles when
Sickles was a member of Congress from New York. Key had been flirting with Sickles'
wife, who was a very pretty Italian girl, and Sickles, on finding it out, shot
him.
The
Corcoran Art Gallery is open to visitors on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays free,
and on other days a fee of twenty-five cents per person is charged. It has many
fine pictures and a few good pieces of statuary. Powers' Greek Slave is here in
all her beautiful nudity.
From
the Capitol to the White House it is just one mile. The straightest route is down
Pennsylvania avenue, which is the main business street of Washington. On each side
of the White House east and west lies a great department of the government. The
big Treasury, with its many columns and its wide porticoes, is at the east. It
is built partly of granite and partly of freestone, and it contains the great
surplus about which Congress is so continually howling. There are guides within
it to take you through, but you must get a permit from the Treasurer before you
can go down to the money vault and handle the greenbacks.
There
is a wide park extending from the White House to the Capitol, and in this is the
Agricultural Department, the Smithsonian Institute and the National Museum. One
can do the Agricultural Department in an hour, but a day or two ought to be
spent at the Smithsonian Institute and the Museum.
The
statues of Washington are scattered all over the city, and they cost as a rule about
$25,000 apiece, though some of them run as high as $50,000 and over.
Just
south of the White House, about a half-mile from it, is the Washington Monument.
It is over 500 feet high and cost over $1,800,000. It is surrounded by acres
upon acres of park, and a little fish pond lies near its base.
The
Department of Justice, where Attorney-General Garland holds forth, is a brown
stone building of five or six stories.
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LATE NEWS ITEMS.
The railroad
commission has issued a report of its investigation of the accident on the
Nickel Plate road at Silver Creek, [New York], September 14. No censure, the
report says, can attach to the road or its officials for this occurrence,
except the legal responsibility arising out of the negligent acts of the
conductor and engineer of the excursion train.
Three
men were released from the Auburn prison Monday morning and 1,080 were left.
Concerning
the proposed reorganization of the Remington armory, the Ilion Citizen says: "Not much noise has been made
about it and very little if any bluster has been heard, but we are assured by the
members of the committee on organization matters that already enough creditors—
or creditors representing enough stock—have sent in their contract blanks, filled
out and signed, to insure the complete success of the scheme adopted by the
creditors of the corporation of E. Remington & Sons at their meeting in the
opera house here some weeks since. This certainly means business and looks well."
Reference:
Daniel E. Sickles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Sickles
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