Show r A CUEAT I DUSTCV SIXJUSDRJ JLO DOLLARS I yrED iN ELECTKICAI Ei0TIt1t1B It teens sorntrsIatfor4idcbOd t style electricity a branch of science that Involves M > many interests sri Industry and Jt wo find I so con ftantlyulludal to In such terms that it acorns only natural for us to apply the cogccmrn generally to nl the ariouKUcaitmuiits of the mat Wonderful result of modem develop d1d 1 ment nud dlcavery In the United J States electricity has gone ahead of I almost everything eLss as a grand addition t the conreulences with which Invintlvu and muchanica Ingenuity has supplied uitnd some figures compilcU from reports ro ceutly pmentetl and from various imbUcaUon will tloubllees trove as InicrestlDf to cur readers us such fcUtbtics u ualy ar About SbOJOJOWJ represents the amount cf coital invented iu < 1e trical brnnchra of industry In tho Unle States and upwards 50 percent per-cent of this enormous mm has been contributed within the past five years in rplto of the fact tint the otT WbJ Western Union Telegraph Company Com-pany has announced Its I pastern the representative of not less I than 50 0000b3 during all this period At present this mammoth corporation Is 30000000 to be credited with a capital ol For the various telegraph companies com-panies Hot included In the Western union Astern tho telegraph establishments estab-lishments Of the various railway oompaniif the cable companies the electric alarm and messenger l systems and private lines an addition addi-tion to tills of Ull sum 0003000 would 0 within hoe mark The American Hell Telephone Company has a subscribed capital ofJi > OOJ000 on which I pays good dividends and under its system It Inxnscs other companies who total capital reaches an aggregate of SooOOUOOO The American legrapli and Telephone Tele-phone Companyowniiig patents unthH succu fui long distance do vic adds 5003000 t this sum making altogether 200DOO000 Invested In-vested in telegraph andtelcjJiouo companies alone rmJnll aou Xextinorderwe have floe electric elec-tric lighting interest which promises prom-ises Indeed to exceed those ALe described in importance Together with them wu class the electric lower companies wuesebusintEsb till in its Infancy and the tietrie railroad companies rd which there are about sixty In operation in all parts of the country The electric pr c1tre lighting companlw are of course the moit numerous In this division there being one at Ieal often ocr oralhis every city two or village of imforlance besides tlio great factories establUhed by ito Thom ionIIouaton thu WestlBghousc Edison Brush Jenney father Kxcelslor Consolidated Schuyler and many other concerns lu some of which millions dollars are Invested In-vested I would be a conservative estimate t place their combined capital actually employed at 500 OOOOW 00 Here then i a grand toLnl of i 5dO090OM but we have said nothing noth-ing of themanufacturersof electrical apparatus and supplier and they too belong itt the buines One cincern making instruments for tegraIa i and telephone companies tut bell ork elc has factories of largo tiro in sew York Chicago London and Antwerp and tilt re aro others of almost equal magnltuiie in every principal manufacturing center cen-ter lnrloldingwitb I tinis two corn lanes l manufacturing carbons and storage batteries and the extent to whIch great machine jliojf wireworks wire-works gUKS and rubber lactorira are engaged the manufacture of railroad implements 1 supplier it will readily bu seen that 100000 000 would be a moderate um for all these Industries to employ In coii nectlcp with electrical v orb This brings our total investment I uptoSSOOOOCWanirujnslngamount to be tniplo ul in a branch of Industry In-dustry that I ba < xi on a science that is I practically lees than half n Clnlul old Is there another that can make such n showing Safety IWrc |