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Title: Popular electricity magazine in plain English
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Electricity
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Popular Electricity Pub. Co.
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s to be included in theextension of the Capitol grounds. 881 882 POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE :., \ \ ^ ^^^^H iflBk ^^P%j»gg£: J \ 1 1 f _ j^~ i*^? ■ * V t -; ,^-: *.:.. 1. _. CLIMBING THE JUNGFRAU BY TROLLEY It is safe to say that in none of the countries of Europe has the mountain climbingelectric road proved such a success as in Switzerland and in this wonderful country-all the new electric methods for taking passengers up to high points are employed.Within a late period it is possible to reach the heights of the Jungfrau by electric cars,so that tourists are enabled to visit the famous peaks and enjoy the magnificentpanoramas from the snow covered summits without the fatigue of a mountain-climb,thanks to electricity. The photograph here reproduced shows a recent view of thiselectric road and the Oerlikon locomotives, taken at the Eiger glacier station lying atthe foot of the two principal peaks of Eiger and Rotstock. POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE 883
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Flight of Steps upon Which the Chorus Enters from the Fly Galleries FLIGHT OF STEPS WHICH GIVESTHRILLS Who would think that a flight of stepscould be thrilling? In every day life theyare commonplace enotigh but whenstaged, as they never have been before,at the Winter Garden, New York, thisseason, they are a sensation. In this production instead of utilizinga flat surface upon which to display thebeauty chorus and the dancing girls,they have built a flight of steps thatreaches from the footlights to the backwall as high as the fly galleries and aswide as the proscenium opening. Onthis precipitous incline the girls performevolutions that are kindred to the dailypranks of the fly. To date not a spanglehas been lost nor a shin skinned, but ateach performance the orchestra sitsbreathless, waiting for the first humantoboggan. One false step and bang!bing! bang! The manager has each girlprotected by insuring her. Its the first time in stage historythat actors have made their entrancefrom the

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