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 the pleasure of doing a short time ago with others, and consider all these problems carefully, and then examine & station similar to the Brooklyn one. I think he will be forced to admit this fact. We want to obtain our power as direct from the engine to the dynamo as possible, and at the same time as cheaply, and obtain the best economy under the variable loads we are going to have. We cannot design our plant for that capacity which is reached as shown on our load diagram, for only a short time in the twenty-four hours, but we must so design it to give this result for the average that we have during the twenty-four hours. Even where we have a more constant load, as iii exclusive arc lighting on municipal circuits. I think even here we need to carefully consider the problem as well.

High-speed engines, so called, although they are not in piston speed any higher than the Corliss, but merely in rotative speed, have shown a considerable development and marked advance in the past