The Biggest Whistle on Earth.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7702, 3 January 1905, Page 4

The Biggest Whistle on Earth.

t- IN THE LAND OP STABS AND STMPES. I--' . - ? A big triple whistle, the largest ever constructed, has recently been put into use by the East St< Louis lal Bailroad Company. Four & day this m&Dßnoth whistle n » and it can bo heard for es north, south, east, awl t being connected with an dock, irfcich is guaranteed vary five seconds in a year, thistle will prove the most o put lie time dispenser ever 1. Residents in the immediighbourhood of the power inticipated all sorts of trouble »o big whistle was first talked Thoy expected to hear only a nd objectionable sound every re enormously big affair was off. But no one has had an inrty to complain of discord is tie time.- To Mr L. C. , general manager of the East lectric system, is due the deconstructing this enormous At seven in the morning*, at oon, at one in the afternoon, six in the evening the great whistle announces the correct > all within ten miles' henrrhe clock with which it is consets off the blasts on the seind everyone within its sound he is paying hood to a reliable ■Per. Many plans were debeforo the development was d in this remarkable triple ', which is guaranteed to have cal tone registered at any key le to rim up and down a full Middle C was fixed upun, and he whistte was first tried it und ;the nolo 909 IUHi musical, and powerful, and t could be heard oven further he ten miles stipulated. The its of East St. Louis, who lmd t petitioned against this mamimcpiece, fearing that they be deafened by its blasts, have ;nt in a motion of thanks, exg themselves well pleased with lovation.