. Electrical world. uld perhaps be qualified by saying, the things that some ofus did not know, etc. There were those who knew all about every-thing; moreover, they wrote about it in the papers, whereat we ofthe working force marvelled. Some of these things, re-read to-day, would make most anyone marvel: but one of the real scientificfacts that some chap wrote at the Philadelphia Exposition in 84looms up like the shadow of a great rock in a desert, and has beena daily help and guide. He said: A dynamo machine may bepainted any color without affecting its efficiency. This is as trueto-day as wh
. Electrical world. uld perhaps be qualified by saying, the things that some ofus did not know, etc. There were those who knew all about every-thing; moreover, they wrote about it in the papers, whereat we ofthe working force marvelled. Some of these things, re-read to-day, would make most anyone marvel: but one of the real scientificfacts that some chap wrote at the Philadelphia Exposition in 84looms up like the shadow of a great rock in a desert, and has beena daily help and guide. He said: A dynamo machine may bepainted any color without affecting its efficiency. This is as trueto-day as when it was written, twenty years ago, which is more thancan be said of some of the other stuff. The first electric railway company in this country, organized toconstruct and equip electric roads, was, I believe, the Electric Rail-way Company of the United States, with offices in the Mills Build-ing, New York. This company acquired, or expected to acquire,the railway patents of Thos. A. Edison and Stephen D. Field. It. FIG. 2.—THE FIELD ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE THE JUDGE. was backed by Cyrus W. Field and his associates, with Mr. S. , president, C. W. Rogers, vice-president, and Chas. Dimon,secretary and treasurer. Rogers was the active man, and his activitywas of the brand that eboluted a lot but resulted mostly in hot traveled in a stateroom with a typewriter and a hard-workingyoung chap that was referred to frequently as my secretary. Let-ters were mailed at every stop, and confirmed by telegraph. Theend came before any real business happened, probably due to thepreliminary funds having been used up in postage and telegraphtolls. The company did, however, equip one road, not a very longone, it is true, but it was as broad as some of them, and has thedistinction of being the first electric road for business purposes inthe United States. One night in March or April of 1883, there wasa meeting at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, attended by Edison, Field,Prof. Morton, the enginee
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