| Show experiments ahat promise to bung about the supplanting of steam by electricity as motive power on all railroads are being conducted by alie penn company for a num bar oc years practical of the new power have inada on the branch inee of that company with moet encouraging A new york paper says about three ears ago the pennsylvania company tried two electrical cui rines on the mount holly branch of the west jersey division of the road since tant time electricity has been exclusively used on this branch and bag been found to answer every requisite other experiments have been tried on various oarth of the road with the success and it is only a question 0 time now when electricity will supplant the presen motive power entirely when the experiments being made fully demonstrate the advantages of electric motive power ogdene great power will be aeed within a distance of milea to turn the of every ear coming in or going out of our city we will eee the age of electricity |
