yO ISTew York at the World's Columbian Exposition. 



formed the current up to a very high pressure. It was then earned on 

 bare conductors across the space to another bank of transformers, and, 

 being there transformed down to a low pressure, was fed to a series of 

 incandescent lamps, arc lamps and motors. This system is the only one 

 in successful operation for power transmission purposes in the United 

 States. Tlie motor exhibit was scattered everywhere throughout the 

 exposition, nearly every motor used being of this company's manufacture. 



Other features of interest were the beautiful electric fountains, 

 designed by Luther S. Stieringer, which formed such a conspicuous 

 attraction in the G-rand Court at night, the thirty-ton electric locomotive, 

 the first ever on the steam railroads, and the small motors used to pro- 

 pel the electric launches on the canal and lagoons. 



The New York Central and Hudson River railroad exhibit, already 

 referred to under the transportation department, was replete with tech- 

 nical excellence and scientific devices and improvements. The famous 

 engine, " JS'o. 999," which had developed a hitherto unprecedented 

 speed of 112 miles an hour while attached to the regular '• Empire 

 State express " train, was the chief feature. The description and weight 

 of this engine is as follows : Weight of engine in working order, 121:,000 

 pounds ; weight on drivers, 84,000 pounds ; weight on truck, 40,000 

 pounds ; weight on tender, 80,000 pounds ; cylinders, 19x24 inches ; 

 flues (2-inch), 268; heating surface, 1,697 square feet; diameter of 

 driving wheels, 86 inches. The engine is equipped with air brakes, 

 whistle signal and steam heat. 



In addition there were also exhibited three standard passenger cars, 

 consisting of a combination smoking and buffet car and two epaches, all 

 similar to those running on the Empire State express train. These 

 cars were built at the West Albany shops, liaving six-wheel trucks with 

 steel-tired thirty-six-inch wheels. They were equipped with air brake, 

 whistle signal, steam heat and Pintsch gas. 



The tracks upon which the " exhibit cars " stood showed the ISTew 

 York Central standard double track roadbed, of eighty-pound steel 

 rail on yellow pine cross ties, laid on broken stone ballast, with its stand- 

 ard thirty-six inch angle plate splice joint, secured by six steel bolts 

 with cold rolled Harvey grip screws, and in connection with the same 

 an exhibit was made of a sample of an improved " screw and clip " 

 fastening, devised by its chief engineer, for securing the rails to cross 

 ties to take the place of the ordinary common track spike. There was 

 also displayed a single section of thirty feet in length of its standard 



