Show I S S THE POWER POW R HOUSE H 5 1 The life ille of ot an nn In tho the elec electric I power house is 18 monotonous ex ox excepting I ting in the avont of storms or line Hue linet I t I interruptions or accidents The corn coin cornS S maget hum of i tho the dynamos soon tire tho the nerves which aro atO constantly listening for tor a change in ill the pitch or of tone as a piano tuner would say sa when tighten tightening lag ing or loosening a string and at the moment whenever tho magnet tone or orhum orhum orhum hum does docs change chanse the trained ears of or 1 the tho man In charge tolls them of ot Im Impending impending pending troubles It may mn bo be that a abolt abolt bolt of ot o lightning has struck tho the high power line and started on across Boross the th lightning arresters It the tho discharge Is heavy henY It may reach rench Into the station to the second arrangement of ol lightning arresters t which are usually placed back hack of the tho switch boards The Tho room may muy be filled with that well wen known bluish liquid fire but the mon men at tho the throttle wheels havo have suddenly thrown tho the load oft of of them This ThiD is in done to prevent the lightning from melting tho the wires on the dynamos dynamo Tho The water running through is b traveling at tho rate rote of ot two mUdo each minute of ot time Ume and ond unless It was quickly S turned off on of br ln the tho lie man milD at nt the wheel the tho ho big or armature of ot tho the dy dj namo would W be he running at a bustling S speed of oX two miles mUes per pet minute Then again there are ato times when no alec elec storms exist tho the weather Is clear and tho the tune tuno of the dynamo suddenly changes by what is called coiled 5 a 1 short on the Ule line l c which causes the tho current to suddenly Increase which In heats hents the th wire wiro coils colls In the tho dynamo to jo the th burning point Line Lino i i troubles are always a of or sax I I S lety let to the company and tho men in i charge 1 J 5 An extra machine can always he be I j started and cut In whenever another 1 1 i S one gives out but the lines of wires stretching far away over oer mountains and hills lulls are arc quite another matter whenever some unavoidable olda le accident happens About six year ago ngo two eagles were playing in iii the air ah about twenty miles from the ilie power house near Gal Cot They The struck a volt line their wings being at ut least leU l six feet teet across formed a short circuit from one omie of ol the wires to the lie other and amid nd about horse power passed through their bodies In less than the lie fraction of a one on of oC the trans formers at al the tho power house boiled holled the oil over Ocr and anti set sel It on oil fire and It was wn only on account of ot action that lint I the thc building was saved m II On another occasion a crew of or men between anti and Santa Rosa I were moving a tall hay wanted to pass under the high tension wires hut but found HIP thi derrick too high S I I One of the men said wald he knew all about boul electricity and amid ventured to raIse j the wires with Ith a pitchfork lie He had S I nearly completed his bis dangerous under I taking when one of thin bystanders tJ taking laking hold hoM of or n a loose guy u at it to lo the lie top lop of or time the derrick thought to assist the tho man upon tho I top tUII UI with tho th pitchfork The next mo imie moment moot meet the tho derrick had hind touched d tho is wires and the lie grass began to burn burr I under the thc wheels of o the wagon Thc Tho I current was grounded or shorted as a they call It and these two cities ex cx experienced what it means io 10 b pc ja ll without electrical service for tor a n few tew fe hours Tho The public of or today demand a n con and uninterrupted Tho Th success su of ot business 8 and use USI of t nd light rely reI largely upon this mOil mod melr r magic energy enerE UTAH LIGHT RAILWAY CO D 0 Decker Local Manager M Il i II S |