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Show Electricity on Canals. A canal boat offers a very Blow U steady mode of conveying goods from place to place, but electricity is waking up even the sleepy canal and the ill-used ill-used tow-horse may soon pass to a sphere where his woes will be unknown. un-known. In France a system of electrical electri-cal hauling has been successfully adopted for canals. The current is conveyed con-veyed by wires to a trolley which runs on rails along the banks. On an English Eng-lish stream, the River Lea where Izaak Walton used to fish, this scheme is to be tried experimentally, and it is said that a speed of four miles an hour is capable of being obtained, while the expense is under that of horse trac- tion. A system of propellers for barges has also been invented. Chicago News. |