Levi P. Morton. |
Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Manufacturing Co. |
Caricature of Nicoli Tesla. |
ELECTRICAL WONDERS.
Exposition Opens Tonight in New
York.
GOVERNOR STARTS THE CURRENT.
Celebration of the Harnessing of
Niagara Falls—The Roar of the Cataract and Its Mighty Power Transmitted on the
Wires.
NEW YORK,
May 4.—Tonight Governor Morton will open the National Exposition of Electrical
Appliances in the Industrial Arts building in this city. Elaborate preparation
has been made for this event and it is expected that the attendance will be
large and include some of the most distinguished electricians in this country.
The convention is that of the National Electric Light association, to which
delegates have been sent representing more than 10,000 electric lighting plants
in the United States, whose aggregate capital is in excess of $750,000,000.
The
Industrial Arts building, which is located at the corner of Lexington avenue
and Forty-fourth street, has been the scene of great activity during the last
10 days and nights and an enormous force of electricians and mechanics have
been at work.
The
principal feature of the opening exercises will be the turning on of a current
of electricity generated by the waters of the Niagara river in the great power house
of the Niagara Power company, which current of electricity will be transmitted over
an ordinary telegraph wire of the Western Union company.
The
insulation of this line is such that no considerable amount of electrical
energy for power purposes can be transmitted. By the use of the recently
invented 2-phase Tesla system enough energy will be transmitted to establish
beyond question, it is claimed, the feasibility of long distance electric power
transmission upon a commercial basis. This line will be 463 miles in length.
The longest line heretofore ever established was from the falls of the Necker
to a point 110 miles distant.
The
governor will use upon this occasion the gold key with which President Cleveland put in motion the wheels of industry at
the World's fair. Governor Morton will also, at the declaration that the
exposition is open, discharge four pieces of artillery, one stationed in the public
square in San Francisco, one in front of the public buildings
of St. Paul and the other in a public park in New Orleans. This discharge is
also accomplished by a current of electricity generated in Niagara and transmitted
over the telegraph lines of the Postal Telegraph and Cable company. It is also
with the sanction of the secretary of war, the government artillery being brought
into requisition.
Cleveland put in motion the wheels of industry at
the World's fair. Governor Morton will also, at the declaration that the
exposition is open, discharge four pieces of artillery, one stationed in the public
square in San Francisco, one in front of the public buildings
of St. Paul and the other in a public park in New Orleans. This discharge is
also accomplished by a current of electricity generated in Niagara and transmitted
over the telegraph lines of the Postal Telegraph and Cable company. It is also
with the sanction of the secretary of war, the government artillery being brought
into requisition.
The current
of electricity which is transmitted from Niagara will be used in putting in
motion a model of the Niagara power plant recently constructed by a syndicate
at a cost of upwards of $5,000,000. This plant consists in a tunnel 8,000 feet
in length entered by a wheel-pit 186 feet in depth at the bottom of which are mammoth
turbine wheels, operating a shaft on the top of which are immense electrical
generators with a capacity of 6,000 horse power. The total weight of turbine
wheel, shaft and generator is upwards of 100 tons. This model which is shown and
operated with Niagara current, is a cross section view of the tunnel, wheel-pit
and machinery and also shows a section of the city of Niagara Falls, with the course
of the river and American falls, the islands and the Canadian frontier. Surrounding this model will be a series of telephones, which will be connected with receivers placed in Victoria park on the Canadian side of the Niagara river. All present as they witness the movement of the machinery by the current of Niagara can hear distinctly the roar of the cataract. There will also be exhibited and operated a miniature section of the Erie canal, showing the cable way system of electrical canal boat propulsion recently adopted by the state of New York and soon to be put in operation on the Erie canal. Floating upon this miniature canal will be a fleet of canal boats of recent design propelled by the electric motor, which travels upon the cable by means of the electric current.
Another
feature of unusual interest will be the closing of a circuit around the world
by which a cable message will be sent by Hon. Chauncey M. Depew over the cables
to Lisbon, through the Mediterranean and the Suez canal and the Red sea to
Aden, thence to Ceylon and Australia, returning by way of the Cape of Good
Hope, the African coast, the Brazilian cable, the land line to the City of Mexico;
thence by way of San Francisco to New York. This message Mr. Depew will send from
a table which will be placed in a gallery of the exposition building. It will
be addressed to and received by Edward D. Adams, the distinguished financier
and president of the Niagara Power company, whoso reply will be transmitted to
and read by Dr. Depew, who will follow with a brief address upon the electric
era.
There will
be in attendance besides Governor Morton and his staff a delegation of state
officers, representatives from neighboring states, a personal representative of
Secretary Lamont, Nicola Tesla, Thomas A. Edison, Professor A. A. Anthony, Dr.
Park Benjamin, Dr. T. B. Crocker of New York, Professor Elihu Thompson of Lynn,
Mass.; Herbert Lawes Webb, P. B. Delaney, Horace Leonard, Alex Graham Bell and
other distinguished guests.
1893 map of Cuba. |
EVENTS IN CUBA.
Reports of the Shooting of the
Competitor's Crew Denied.
HAVANA, May
4.—Reports of the execution of members of the crew of the schooner Competitor,
captured as a filibusterer, are untrue. Admiral Navarro, who must conduct the
trial, is still absent from here.
The
guerrilla captain, Peral, with three sections of the cavalry of Pizarro, left
Mardano, Havana province, in pursuit of the insurgents. He met a body of them
largely superior in numbers near Managua and promptly charged them. After a fight
they were dispersed, leaving 17 killed together with 17 firearms and some
machetes. The troops had one guerrilla killed and 11 wounded.
Reports
received from various points indicate that 17 insurgents have been surrendered to
the authorities.
As the
result of sundry skirmishes in Matanzas, Santa Clara and Havana provinces, the
insurgents have sustained a loss of 23 killed, three prisoners and four spies.
Pope's Mediation Declined.
LONDON, May
4.—A dispatch from Madrid says: The Spanish government has declined the pope's
mediation in Cuban affairs, on the ground that an acceptance would be
tantamount to recognizing America's right to interfere.
Hibernians Meet at Auburn.
AUBURN, N
Y., May 4.—The preparation for the annual convention of the Ancient Order of
Hibernians, which commences tomorrow, are now about completed. Thousands of
members of the order from all over the state are expected to participate in the
grand parade. There will be upward of 7,000 men in line in the parade. From
Rochester 1,000 members will be present in uniform, with three bands, arriving
on special trains. Buffalo will send 500 men, Syracuse 1,000, besides the large
divisions from every town and village in the state, including Corning, Utica, Canandaigua, Seneca Falls, Binghamton,
Elmira, Little Falls, Ithaca, Oswego and many other places.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Safety in Travel.
It long has
been maintained that the safest place in the world just now is on a first class
railroad train, traveling at a high rate of speed. This opinion has been
fortified in an official manner. The report of the Inter-State Commerce
committee for the year ending June 1, 1894, showed that one passenger was
killed for every 1,985,153 passengers carried, and one was injured for every
183,822 carried.
The report
further showed that a man's chances against injury were such that he would have
to travel 4,406,659 miles before getting hurt, and go 47,588,966 miles before
being killed. At the rate of thirty miles an hour a man could travel, if nature
permitted, on American railways for one hundred and eighty-one years, without
leaving the cars, before being killed, or with the same amount of security
against accident he could go round the earth nineteen hundred and three times
before meeting his death by accident, and one hundred and seventy-six times
before getting hurt.
This
information should be comforting to those timid persons whose fear of travel by
rail never has been allayed. The fact is, modern science and invention have
robbed travel of its greatest terrors. The pedestrian passing along the streets
of a city is in more danger to-day than he who goes down to the sea in ships.
The New
York Times.
The New
York Times has gone into the hands of receivers. The paper was started in 1851
as a Republican paper and had a excellent record until it bolted the nomination
of James O. Blaine for president in 1884. It is said that its circulation fell
off half then. In 1893 it was announced that a syndicate had purchased the
paper for $950,000 and from that time forward it has been a straight out
Democratic paper. It has had a hard road to hoe since that time and the result
is its present financial difficulty.
◘ They call a motor wagon an "autocar" in Great Britain. The
prospect is that it will come into general use in farming communities there for
heavy hauling. In taking milk and produce to the railway station or conveying
heavy loads of vegetables to market the motor wagon will be a vast improvement
on the horse wagon. The cost of the feed of the huge draft horses in use in
Great Britain and of the farm help required to take care of them is a burden
not easy to be borne. The "autocar" would save not only the keep of
the horse, but the keep and wages of at least one man to the farmer. These
horseless wagons are, however, very high in price thus far, which prevents
their coming into common use at once.
TEACHERS' INSTITUTE.
To be in Session at Homer all This Week.
The teachers' institute of the First and Second
commissioner districts of Cortland county convened to-day in Homer at the
Academy building. The school hall has been recently seated with light wood
opera chairs and last week equipped with handsome new gas chandeliers, furnishing
a pleasant room for the proceedings of the week.
The streets are full of teachers who are
being rapidly assigned to their respective boarding places.
The afternoon session will begin at 2 P. M.,
and after the opening exercises Conductor Sanford and Miss Eggleston are
announced to discussions.
This evening a reception will be extended to
the teachers of the institute by the academy teachers in the rooms of the
Columbia club kindly offered for the occasion. A brief literary and musical
program will be furnished and light refreshments served.
The corps of officers of the institute as announced
are:
Supt. of Public Instruction —Hon. Chas. R
Skinner.
Deputy Supt. of Public Instruction— Hon.
Danforth E. Ainsworth.
Supervisor of Institutes—Augustus S.
Downing, A. M.
Conductors—Henry R. Sanford, A. M., Ph. D.
and Welland Hendrick, A. M.
Assistants—Miss Anna K. Eggleston, state
primary instruction; Miss Gratia L. Rice, state drawing
instruction; J. E. Banta, A. M., Cortland Normal school; D. L. Birdwell, A. M.,
Cortland Normal school; Miss Ella Gale, Cortland Normal school; Miss Mina W.
Bishop, Cortland Normal school; L. H. Tuthill, A. M., Homer Union school; Supt.
C. V. Coon, Cortland village schools; Mrs. Warren Hunt, Homer Union
school; Principal Bierce, Truxton Union school.
Secretaries—Prin. J. L. Conrad, Miss Dora R.
Saunders.
School Commissioners —Nathen L. Miller, H.
I. Van Hoesen.
At 12 o'clock to-day the number registered was
132.
AT THE PARK.
New Restaurant and Dance Hall to be Built at Once.
Messrs. H. Berghotz and D. F. Van Vleet are
in town to-day arranging for improvements at the [Trolley Co.] park. A new
restaurant and dancing hall is to be built in the north grove which will be 70
by 110 feet in size and two stories high. It is the intention of having
it completed by June 1. This will afford shelter from rain to visitors at the
park in case of need. Local builders are figuring on the plans.
A SERIOUS CHARGE.
Elmer Card Charged with Abducting Eliza Willis.
Deputy Sheriff James E. Edwards was in
Mottville, Cayuga county, yesterday armed with a warrant for the arrest of Elmer
Card of that place on the charge of abducting fourteen-year-old Eliza Willis
of Cortland. The charge is brought by Mrs. Mary A. Willis, the girl's mother.
It is alleged that Card came to Cortland last Friday and induced the
girl to go with him to Scott, where they remained that night at a hotel, and
that next morning he sent her back to Homer on the stage and from there on a
car.
Card was brought to Cortland and placed in
jail for the night. This morning he was arraigned in police court, Thomas E.
Courtney appearing as his counsel and Edmond C. Alger as counsel for The
People. Upon application of the defendant, the examination was adjourned until
to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock. It is said that Card admits taking the girl to
Scott but that both he and the girl deny any improper conduct. He is a man
between thirty and thirty-five years of age, is married, his wife being a
sister of the girl Eliza.
Vital Statistics.
Health Officer W. J. Moore
gives the following record of vital statistics for
Cortland village for the
month of April:
Total deaths 12—males 4, females 8; social condition—single
3, married 5, widowed 4; nativity—United States, 9; England 1, Ireland 1,
unknown 1; ages—under five years 2, between twenty and thirty 1, thirty and
forty 1, fifty and sixty 2, sixty and seventy 1, seventy and eighty, 3; eighty
and ninety 2; causes of death—convulsions 1, consumption 3, cancer 1, Bright's
disease 1, hemorrhage 1, intestinal obstruction 1, old age 1, paralysis 2,
pneumonia 1; total births 15—males 8, females 7; marriages 9.
NORMALS VS. TRUXTON.
A Loose Game and a Tremendous Score—45 to 24.
The game of baseball played on the home
grounds between the Normal and Truxton nines on Saturday afternoon was won by
the Normal team by a score of 45 to 24. The game was poorly played, but the
Truxton's were at no time formidable. Errors were numerous and the playing of
the home team was disappointing because it lacked spirit and team work.
Van Vuyl played a strong and errorless game
at third with the exception of a low throw to first. He came to the bat seven
times and made six hits. House was hit freely and received poor support. Eight
men were struck out by him and his batting was effective. Matthewson fielded
well, but struck out twice. Buckley is always good behind the bat and hits
well. Givens, Boyd and Phillips in the outfield dropped almost every fly hit.
This was a great disappointment as they all
demonstrated in the game with Homer two weeks ago that they have the ability to
play a strong field game and were almost invincible in that game. It is hoped
that Saturday's game will teach a lesson that will not be forgotten during the
remainder of the season and that the boys will brace up and play better ball.
The next game will be played with the Ithaca High school team on their grounds next
Saturday.
BREVITIES.
—The
Ladies' Literary club will meet at Mrs. Rickard's this week Wednesday, May 6.
—Mr. Edward Keator, while in
Ithaca last week, purchased a pair of fine blooded coach horses.
—A regular meeting of the Y. M. C. A. Christian work committee will be
held to-night at 7:30 o'clock.
—The Woman's Relief Corps will
meet to-morrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. A full attendance is desired.
—The Ladies' Afternoon Whist
club was Saturday afternoon entertained by Mrs. N. H. Waters on West Court-st.
—Mr. Ephraim Fish died at his residence on South Main-st. in Homer
Saturday night, aged 52 years. The funeral was held at 9 o'clock this morning, Burial
in DeRuyter.
—The board fence on South Main-st.
along t h e meadows of Mr. W. R. Randall, which was removed last fall rather
the worse for use, is being replaced by a nine-strand wire fence without barbs.
—New advertisements to-day are—A.
S. Burgess, fine clothing, page 6;
Case, Ruggles & Bristol, thin dress stuffs, page 7; F. Daehler, a
great blow, page 5; Wesson-Nivison Mfg. Co., the editor's saddle, page 7.
—The ladies of the Universalist
church will hold an ice cream social Wednesday evening. There will be singing
by the old time choir and by the modern singers. Admission free. All are
cordially invited.
—There will be a regular meeting
of the C. A. A. to-night. A full attendance is desired as matters of importance
in connection with the coming bicycle tournament May 27 are to be considered.
—The Lehigh Valley car shops
which have been for several weeks running on eight-hour time, five days a week,
resumed full days and full weeks on May 1, and have a large force of men employed.
—An agent who visited Moravia
this week offered a farmer a $45 mowing machine in exchange of 550 bushels of potatoes.
The boldness of the offer put the farmer in a panic from which he had not
recovered at last accounts.—Moravia Register.
—The [trolley] park cars did
quite a flourishing business yesterday afternoon. It is the intention now to
run them every fair afternoon and early evening, but they will not be run in the
morning until the days are warmer. They start from the Messenger House.
—Mr. S. E. Curtis was in Cuyler
yesterday and drove back after the shower. He said that it rained very hard between Cuyler and Truxton, but between
Truxton and East Homer there had been no rain whatever. From East Homer to
Cortland it had rained.
—Fire was discovered on the
second floor of the farmhouse of Horace Felt on the back road between Cortland
and Homer Friday afternoon in a clothes-press. About a dozen pails of water put
it out, but not before $75 damage had been done. The origin of the fire is unknown.
—The Lehigh Valley railroad has
issued an order which gives the very generous transportation rate of one-half
cent per mile anywhere on the Lehigh system for the wives and unmarried
dependent children of all shop employees. Engineers, firemen and conductors
will be given quarterly passes and other minor employees will be granted trip
passes on application. The special rate tickets for families of shop employees
are for sale in Cortland only by Storekeeper James Walsh at his office in the yards.
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