. Electrical news and engineering. sire toavoid damage to business wherever possible. At the sametime it has rightly insisted upon economy in the use of fueland upon the elimination of waste. While it appears thatrather more attention has been devoted to the reduction offuel consumption through the curtailment of light than theimportance of this among the other means of saving coalwould warrant, yet the lighting industry, like other businessinterests, has manifested a desire to do its bit cheerfully, andhas sought to carry out the letter and the spirit of all regu-lations. The authors point of
. Electrical news and engineering. sire toavoid damage to business wherever possible. At the sametime it has rightly insisted upon economy in the use of fueland upon the elimination of waste. While it appears thatrather more attention has been devoted to the reduction offuel consumption through the curtailment of light than theimportance of this among the other means of saving coalwould warrant, yet the lighting industry, like other businessinterests, has manifested a desire to do its bit cheerfully, andhas sought to carry out the letter and the spirit of all regu-lations. The authors point of view, as stated in the intro-duction to this paper, is predicated upon the superlative im-portance of winning the war and upon the importance ofeconomy as a means to that end. Accordingly this discus-sion has sought to emphasize all methods of curtailing theuse of which are believed to be promotive of ultimateeconomy and to be free from consequences which are ofConcluded on page 40) Marcli 1. 1.)1S Till: ELECTRICAL NEWS 33. Steam Railways Use 25 Per Gent, of Total FuelMined—If Electrified This Gould be Reducedby Two-Thirds—Great Economies Possi-ble in This Direction Mr. E. W. Rice, president ii the (ieueral Electric Com-pany, and also of the American Institute of Electrical Engi-neers, speakng of the coal shortage of the last two monthsand its relation to the development of our water-powers andthe electrification of our railway systems, pointed not only tnthe saving that might be effected in coal consumption, butdwelt also on the greater capacity of our railways as at pres-ent equipped with rolling stock if they were operated by elec-tric power instead of by steam. Much has been said aboutthe saving to be made through cutting down our use oflights, which is responsible for something less than 2 per cent,of our total coal consumption, l)ut Mr. Rice pointed out tliatour railways are consuming about per cent, of the totalcoal mined, and that this is operating under
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