Assistant Commissioner of Patents Greeley is quoted in the Washingter correspondence of the Boston Trunscript as saying that the age of electricity is only just dawning. Que advance in this direction which we are about to witness, said he, is the conversion of the steam railroads of this country into electric rai roads—a change that would have been accomplished already to a large extent but for the immense amount of mone; in locomotives and the first eny penses of installing an electric plant have already been run by electricity ata rate exceeding sixty miles an hour, electric locomo have proved themselves superior to those depending on steam power. One advant: of the electric locomotive engine is that it emits no smoke or cinders, and the water power of any river within a few miles of the me may be utilised instead of fuel to run it "<The first electric road for city or suburban traffic was put in operation a dozen years ago; at present there are in the United States more than 15,000 miles of such roads, representing a total investment of $90,000,000 and employing about 175,000 persons, In 1880 there were only three electric light and power establish-aments in this country; to-day there are more thin 10,000 such establishments, employing 50,000 men and $50,000,000 of capital The telephone in 1880 was just beginning to be commercially known; now there are over 1,000 exchanges, using 600,000 miles of wire. and employing 15,000 individuals and $35,000,000 of cay ital. To-day the support of considera) over 1,000,000 persons in this country is derived from enterprises which depend upon electricity, and to this number there will be an enormous addition whea electricity is substituted for steam as motive power on the railways.
"Electricity is invading all the arts atid industries, "The manufacturer finds it aeore economical to attach a moter to each Of Weis machines, distributing power through his factory by means of wires. Coal is now cut in the mines by electric power, carried to the ptt's mouth by the same agency and Joaded apon electric cars for transport tion. The demand for copper for electrical uses is wainly accountable for the fact tht the output of this metal in the United States has been multiplied by six since 1880. Already we have leartied how to send seventy-two messages simultaneously over some Kali; and all are entangled in the single wire. We can transmit the hand-doctrine of Atta. writing of an individual by telegraph, and There is also the great drawback of caste in the same way we can in Oar Lord Buddha preached equality and love, and taught, the people the doctrine of conduct. Najaccha vase typewritten paxes by te hoti, Not birth hut conduct makes w man. now send words on a paper For nearly a thousand yews the name of wireless telegraphy seems to be Buddha has been forgotten in this land, When the proposed Pacific cable Whatever hel we have received from it will he practicable to send a menage the Buddhists since 1891, it has been most around the world ce seconds, and it beneficially expended. The Mako Bodhi is promised that in its eighth year and its for telegraphing be as been admitted. Within sea, these nine years the Muhx Bodhi Society so very wonderful tle has carried the Divanma far and wide. button at the N: Our Bhikshus are now in Budh-Gaya ington each da and Kusinara; but wow ut help to have over the Unit d States should he set them stationed in Benares, at the true while tims balls We require a_ printing press to pri drop-d at the une Buddhist tracts in Bengal Urdu, Hindi ports on the Atlantic and Persian, There are mi ons who may for the benefit of be converted to our holy Religion if the teeth century wilh Dhammut ix preached to ti troduced in the kitchen in place of coal] Since 1893 I have visited England, and wood. In order this may be France, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy and accomplishd, it is only 1 the United States of Americs ax a Bud-fluid sh Ahist Missionary and preached the Kalrabetter for all na Dhamma to hundreds und thousands of Ary purposes, he e'eetric kitchen people who have never before heard it, I of the near future there will ben have also preached the Dhamme" to the ashes, and no smoke; the Hindu people in Punjab, N.W. Provinces fuel, and not even a ba and Bengal. [have carried on this work the it a labour of love and my travelling expenses and maintenance since 1891 have Electric boats are now ply been borne by my dear futher. canals of Venice, and launches similarly Buddhist pilgrims coming from Japan, propelled are being mile for Ameri Burma, China, Ceylon, Tibet have no warships, the power being derival from place to stay during their sojourn in Cal-storage batteries beneath the seats. The cutty, Benares, Kusindra and Gaya. trolley, meanwhile, threatens to supplant The house which is now occupied by the jain mule for the Society in Calcutta is so small that, when a propulsion In the cities number of pilgrims come, we cannot give canned electricity, as it mi lit he termed, them accommodation, They meet the same is now delivered to consumers, the emptied difficulties in Benares, Gaya and Kusinara. batteries being taken away every day A Rest House in Calcutta is essentially and replaced with full ones.
At. the necessary for our pilgrims, _Bhikshus who cultural machines ran by visit Caleuttis are put to the greatest trouble the and it pains me to see them living in dingy even a device for the hovels in the worst parts of Calcutta, Pro-weeds. Among perty in Calcutta is very dear. A decent -trie churn and house cannot be purchased at a lesser sum perts are ing of the ts and by currents put through wires underground."
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