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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF ALL THE ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



Seventh Year. 

 Vol. XIII. No. 334, 



NEW YORK, June 28, li 



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A GOOD RECORD FROM ATLANTIC CITY. 



The road which has been running upon the Sprague electric 

 system at Atlantic City, N.J., continues to be visited by a large 

 number of street-railway men from all parts of the country, and 

 electricians and others interested in electric traction. A record of 

 the operation of this road since the first cars were started shows 

 that a grand total of 6,464 separate trips have been taken by the cars 

 in operation upon this road, During this time, and in spite of the 

 fact that the motors used upon this road were of the new Sprague 

 type, which had hitherto not been tried upon any road, not a single 



order has been increased to sixteen electric cars, each capable of 

 drawing an additional car. 



One noticeable characteristic of this road is the extremely light 

 and ornamental character of the overhead system. The poles are 

 of iron throughout the entire length of the line, and are placed be- 

 tween two tracks, using the double-bracket method of support for 

 the trolley-wire. These poles, which were put up by the Pennsyl- 

 vania Railroad Company, show how unobjectionable a system 

 using overhead wires may be when sufficient regard is paid to this 

 feature of the system. 



The accompanying engraving gives a view of one of the Sprague 



SPRAGUE ELECTRIC RAILWAY AT ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. 



trip was lost by the electric cars. This is a record which it would 

 be hard to duplicate in the records of any other machine used for 

 the first time, and it is only additional evidence toward showing 

 the superiority of the electric motor in simplicity, efficiency, and 

 durability to other types of machines, and the care with which the 

 leading electric supply companies are building their apparatus. 

 The original order of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, which 

 controls the system of street-railways at Atlantic City, was for six 

 cars, each to be equipped with two 1 5-horse-power Sprague motors, 

 and each to be capable of drawing an ordinary street-car. Since the 

 demonstration of its successful operation at Atlantic City, this 



electric cars in operation at Atlantic City, N.J., drawing one ordi- 

 nary car. 



At the annual meeting for the election of fellows of the Royal 

 Society, London, on June 6, the following were elected : John Ait- 

 ken, Dr. Edward Ballard, Alfred Barnard Basset, Horace T. 

 Brown, Latimer Clark, Professor David Douglas Cunningham, 

 Lazarus Fletcher, William Bolting Hemsley, Charles Thomas Hud- 

 son, Professor Thomas McKenny Hughes, Edward B. Poulton, 

 Professor William Johnson Sollas, Charles Todd, Herbert Tomlin- 

 son, Professor Gerald F. Yeo. 



