THE STATE REVIEW. 



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MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP ABROAD. 



, In an address iv;id before tin- Engineering So- 



ety of Columbia L'niversity recently by Arthur 



. president of the National Electric Light 



ion, the speaker made an analysis of 



nnieipal ownership as it exists in foreign conn- 



\part from the familiar criticisms of the 



i -nrlier shown. Mr. Williams has gone 



to the invc-tnicnl -ide of the proposition, and 



own that the Glasgow tramways have earned 



1 per cent upon the investment in them. 



the money necessary for the investment 



is borrowed at about one ami a half times 



at rate, lie show-, that in Freiburg, the Ger- 



which has been held to be the most per- 



mplc of foreign municipal management 



ice.-, the only profitable enterprises 



which the city is engaged are the water sup- 



i- and the municipal cemetery. The drinking 



id the graves of its citizens are the 



from which the revenue is derived to 



y the deficits growing out of the operation of 



iher municipal undertakings. 



ire many sides to this municipal admin- 



of public services. In Glasgow, for in- 



u: low rate of fare for very short dis- 



- led to congestion of the population. 



ere in T.POI in that city 91.20.") persons 



families of from one to twelve in single 



ements, and 194.289 persons living iu 



m tenement-. The results ,,f 



idiiions were that more than (iOO beds 



to lie provided in Glasgow's contagious 



';als. The single instance quoted 



of public transporta- 



ue to be regarded in con- 



tion willi -uch enterprises. 



illiams touches on a point which our 



rative honesty of Euro- 

 id our own." Fr. 



with 

 \mer- 



nrers \vji. en doing Imsi- 



ind and Scotland we do nol 



: man for man. and dollar for dol- 



there is no In j n )h e 



old countries than tliere 



rican pub- 



niily and : , n of 



it against these mu- 

 nckily, the men to whom we 

 derelict in their duty. 



BIGGEST POTATO MARKET. 



nd patent grate liars have made 



ighout tile world, but po~ 



ctor almost be- 



ate liars, says a correspondent 



hat thriving Michigan city. C. H. Wells, the 



'iidustry. who is per- 



nate than any other 



ays that Grcem illc's m irkel sends out 

 o'l worth of po- 



: r. The maximum is a trifle more 



but SSWUHIO is a conser- 



H. Wells Company itself 



per annum in pol 



began buying and selling po- 



most a f|unrtcr 



the market was in its infancy. In fact. 

 iy of office bmldiiiL'- and potato 

 is now known the 

 ivillc market Ind its in. . 

 ;ih the beginning of Mr. Wells' activity. 

 If gives him credit for the svstenui- 

 thc buying, storing and shipping meth- 

 :he rapid advancement and improvement 

 :rkel that long ago placed it at the head 

 "iintry's potato station-;. 



C. IT. Wells & Co. that experimented 

 i perfected the modern method of ship- 



: n refrigerator car-. 



Xorth Gri-enville markets there arc now 

 -'ii individual firms, each doing a rushing husi- 

 i. There i- storage facilities for almost 300,- 



Is of pot:. 



he Continental Starch Company factory, 

 iiit two miles from the Xorth Greenville mar- 

 utilizes the potatoes found too small for mar- 



ket uses, and thus there is no waste in the Green- 

 ville potato market. 



LOG LIFTING PROFITABLE. 



The Manistee Navigation Co. has closed its sea- ] 

 son of log lifting. Six outfits have been at work i 

 this year. Logs have also been taken out with 

 teams in some places where the stream is small, i 

 The total quantity of logs ' redeemed this year' 

 probably amount to about 10,000,000 feet. 



Next year the work will be started early and 1 

 the company will begin to deliver the logs to the j 

 mills at Manistee. Jt has been determined to i 

 give the logs a good opportunity to dry out thor- 

 oiigbly, and to this end the launching of them 

 into the river will not begin until about June, and 

 .then only those which have been on the skids 

 about a full year will be put in. 



The largest quantity of logs are piled in the big 

 -wamp a few miles above High Bridge. From 

 one point near the Old House, 2,000,000 feet of 

 decked logs can be seen. In fact, the banks are 

 lined almost continuously in places with logs piled [ 

 twelve to fifteen feet high. In this swamp, which 

 is miles in extent, the channel has occupied va- 

 rious routes in different years. Along all these 

 channels and cut-offs the logs are thick under wa- 

 ler and sometimes under mud. The swamp was 

 formed by the Hooding of Piue river years ago. 

 This stream was u-ed for getting out Canfield 

 logs. Several dams were built. The water in 

 behind the dams was released suddenly, pro- 

 ducing floods which swept down to the main 

 river. The banks were also swept away, produc- 

 ing 1 bars in the river, and ultimately changing its 

 icter all of the way to its mouth. Millions 

 of feet of logs became mired in the big swamp 

 \ the mouth of Pine river. A man who has 

 :.ing there says that a scow after work- 

 ;' the channels, can return and get just 

 as many logs the second time, and then not get 

 near all of them. Twenty years would not ex- 

 hau.-t the possibilities of this section of the river, 

 in his opinion. 



The entire river is expected to yield 100,000,000 



feet of logs. The Navigation companv has taken 



out this year about one-tenth of what it expects 



cure. The price to be received is $(i per 



and feet for hemlock and $7 for pine. 



LARGEST GAS ENGINE. 



The Olds Gas Power Co. now has in suc- 



-d operation at its plant at Lansing one of 



the largest single unit gas engines ever built 



by the company. It is a single cylinder engine 



developing \'i(> horse power, which, with an- 



de-ign and efficiency, is to 



be shipped to St. Stephens, X. I!., where it will 

 be u.-ed in the municipal electric light and 



r plant. 



The si/e and power of this engine marks a 

 p in advance in the application of the 

 or power purposes sixty-live to 

 seventy-live horse power having until very re- 

 cently been about the practical limit for single 

 e\ Under 



"Some idea of th' 1 si/c of this engine may be 

 d from ighs 



itv thousand pounds, and occupies a lloor 



. eleven leet wide. 



the cylinder .is twenty-three and 



quarter indies and the stroke twenty-eight 

 inches. The steel crank shaft is eleven inches 

 in diameter. To insure absolute regularity of 

 in and uniforniit} nires a fly 



wheel twelve feel in diameter with a fourteen 

 inch. face. The tly wheel alone weighs about 

 thin v-scven thou-and pounds, cast in two sec- 



' )m- other single casting, the en 

 weighs eighteen thousand pounds. The-e 

 dimen-ions and weights an 



cure freedom from vibration and the solidity 

 required to withstand the strains arising 

 from the enormous explosion pressure de- 

 veb iped. 



One of the interesting feature-- of i 

 is a centrifugal Or dri\en by gears from 



the lay shaft. It controls the pressure value 

 Of power of the explosion in the cylinder by 

 varying the lift of the inlake valve .thus per- 

 mitting the engine to take in only an amount 

 of gas proportionate to its load. 



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