INSTALLATION OF WATER POWERS IN EUROPE.
Some of the water supply and power plants erected in Europe have recently been visited by W. H. Schuerman, president of the Engineering Association of the South, who relates the results of his tour as follows:
The hydraulic plants in Switzerland are of great engineering interest. The locomotives on the track railway from Zermatt to the Gornergrat are all operated by electricity generated by a waterpower plant at Findelenbach, a short distance above Zermatt, and consists of three high-pressure, Girard turbines (one a reserve plant) running at 400 revolutions per minute, each capable of developing 250-horsepower. The initial cost was higher than that of a steam plant, but it is less expensive to maintain. The plant is on the three-phase system, and the generators are coupled direct to the turbines.
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