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Show mi. Titoii.n MUsr i.o. It T, Woom name Pgurr uu the llrst of the I.thloplun race u hone Li arer HguruH high utuoDK the list of electrical Inwutor. Others of that nteor di scent have dchldned nnl ivun per f.ctod tnvvnllous, sumoof themipiHu useful, tut nono before In n depvtt men ol cluiice olstruioand lu tlJlou us vli cult Hy. OnHaturdtiy last An expuluuntal trial uf n new thing lit cltttrlo ralUj wa male at Coney Isltnd, New Verk, by thi AmerleHU Lngtneerlng Joni any, Mid It pit ins to l)Qtttci.n In tvr-ry w.iy SAtlsfactory to t.11 (.onurncd and the tputatortt. A clrcuhrtrack hut bten Uld, am), tinllkulhu Keelvy motir, the mvt In tentlon wusacclun the triukai i it lapibliltkavtom douwuttrj'ud tti Ik ly, nnl In tho most practical niauner. The rail were UI4 on blook at regular distance and these were counvcted ty ft wire running underground to ft iiif j ly station neir at lnod. These stations are to be simply Itbllow posts, each having several batteries, each of which li connected with a separate "head" and arranged o that but one at time cau supply a current. The car la bum lied with copper wire brushes," and the current I transmitted by contact through thu brushes paesln, over the hfads. The rear truh strike a hi ad just aa the front of. I leaving another, thu during the current, ft It lasses, In each one, turning all the voltage In to thu heal Immediately Uneath the car. There nru no oh those named, and these, compatel nlth thoro at pre Kulln u-v, ftreUlle unottrmlve aud out of the way, snl tiooverhiad wire and In fau no wliea are visible anywhere. any-where. Ah allltloml advantage la that the Mine motor and generator now ustd by the elet ttio car (.onijaulcs can bo mtf I an th new system with no other change than mirely a J oj ting thtm. Kevursl trip were maJe at the time tixikenof find tbey were described by the New York 1 tovnl'r as intlrely MicecMful. The s.aviI wasllyad Justed, tho car ran backward nr for uardandsldedncki-d without trouble, and, In short, we tnvy say the foun la tlon for If not luie Hon of a revulutlun In electrical transit Is concluded. Fam the sium source tto gleiu the follow ing account! "Tho ItiTontlon Is the result of - i-orle nf experiments male by Uraitvlllo T. .lods, a young color.! mm, lu faH th only colored elertrlclan who has come forward prointnentlyut an Inventor, Ha made aomo arrnngf mint with lb Amerl ran I riglncerlng cimtny to workout hi schema enl put It Into practical u Tbey hl a mlaundtr-land Ing about tho transfer uf some plan and Wood svervd hi connection con-nection with the lompany. Now thttlt hu Iwen praetlrally demon-trateil tbat bla Invention Is of some valuu, Mr. Wood, through his oounset. lUhn and Meyer or XXI ltroalwav, Is almut to bring suit agilntt the cviupny fir the recovery of Id projwrty, or that M,rlIuit et It tu whloli ho ilalius he Is entitled "C, C, Ibiwtu.thn prral lent of tho com pany, ssye that oods ba no claim whatever to the atenl; thai he sold his Interei-taoiiirlitbtlrC'for the sihemo ttus fully developed, Wo-hjoj, uu thu other haul, dcclarei that he was unfairly treated, and that while tho com piny Is In poaieasloti of the txitoiit uu his lnun lion, they wore obtained lhronh fraud and connlvaiicu on lb part of some of those lnler?atei. lie also aer1 that bo hn uvpr rufelvtsluu poouy in comp4n sit Ion fir Iho work done, whllo the com pany Is jiow prt arlug lo rosp a rich bar-.esU" bar-.esU" . |