Show ELECTRO NOTES one of the most up to date cotton mills in the world Is located in kyoto japan employing 2000 hands representatives of tho japanese government scoured tho world to secure tho lest machinery for tho plant and it is a credit to the industrials of america to note that nearly all the equipment was secured in this country the motive power and lighting is by electricity to be obtained rom general electric companas Comp anys equipment to facilitate the collection and delivery ot letters and packages in vienna the ministry of commerce is engaged upon a plan for an underground electric railway to link together the chief district of the city sixty four in all the line will be built twenty five feet below the surface and the trains will run at twenty miles an hour battleship no 29 now in course of construction in the boston shipbuilding yard will be the first battleship to be propelled by steam turbines and startling results are expected curels steam turbines with a capacity of horsepower will be used four other small curels turbine units of kilowatts capacity will be used to furnish electricity for the eight large searchlights the electric motors and other electrical apparatus aboard electricity Is being widely used for such purposes as the drying of photographic plates prints blue prints negatives etc the electric fa no quickly dry the negatives and prints enabling the photographer to complete work in short order in 1869 japan had no telegraph today there are miles of alro and offices the telephone service covers miles of wire with offices of which are automatic in the illumination of niagara falls just accomplished by the general electric company vari colored shafts of light representing candle power are thrown on the falling water the combined lights from the efty large projectors thrown info the air are visible or miles halt a mllton square feet of tumbling roar ing water are illuminated for the crimping of ladles hair it is no longer necessary to use the dangerous hot iron and there is no longer fear that the capillary artist will forget and leave the iron in the heating apparatus too long the new electric curling irons heat themselves when they are brought to the proper temperature they will stay there indefinitely in the white house at washington the electric plate warmers recently installed have a capacity of to plates electrical heating devices have also been applied in other ways to insure good service at the imp ant state functions it Is expected that the total of alio general electric company in current fiscal year will run close thereby establishing a n high record the electric portable sawmill 3 latent in lumbering circles the elp trie hilll Is not unlike the portal steam sawmill except the ib motor driven tho power ig E plied by cable and the mill ig moved from place to place by adar additional transmission lines a the oliver chilled plow works south bend ind boast of an electr sign feet long the letters in word oliver are 81 feet high an 14 feet wide A total of lamps required to illuminate this sign the gap between kansas city ap denver has been closed by a lop distance phone mis completes a in distance telephone service between t eastern and western telephone region A telephone communication boston and omaha Is no occurrence and it is predicted that a few years it will bo possible to 00 oo phone from boston or new boric san francisco or seattle plans have been completed for i 0 erection of a power piar on the headwaters of the sandy alro a few miles east of portland oreg |