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Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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125 volts, (of which one-half is normally consumed in field rheostat) so thatan induced field voltage of six times normal is a negli-gible increase on field coils which are normally designedto withstand a much higher voltage. The tests which have been described are only typicalof a large number that were made during the develop- McAdoo Travels via Electric North Shore Line Carries Secretary of Treasuryand His Party on Successful Excursion toGreat Lakes Naval Training Station ONE of the important features of the Liberty Loanvisit of William J. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treas-ury, to Chicago on April 28 and 29 was a trip to theNaval Training Station at Great Lakes, 111., via theChicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad. This isa high-speed electric line, under the management ofBritton I. Budd, president Chicago Elevated Railroad. The party consisted of Secretary and Mrs. McAdoo,E. B. McDotigal, Director of the Federal Reserve Bank;General Barry, commanding Central District, U. S. A.:
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MR. AND MRS. McADOO BOARDING THE McADOO SPECIAL AT GREAT LAKES ment of the flash suppressor. All of these tests, onmachines of widely different characteristics, point tothe fact that in the flash suppressor has been found areal and positive preventive of flashing of direct cur-rent railway generators. It has been designed directly to attack the cause offlashing and suppress it rather than to minimize theliability of flashing or to mitigate its effect more or lesscompletely. Illinois Governor Uses I. T. S. Private Car The private car of H. E. Chubbuck, vice-presidentexecutive of the Illinois Traction System, was used toconvey Governor Frank O. Lowden and a party of stateofficials from Springfield, 111., to Peoria, 111., to attendthe funeral of William H. Stead, formerly attorney-general of Illinois and a member of Governor Lowdenscabinet at the time of his death. The run was madein exactly two hours. The private car had the right-of-way, the trip beingplanned to meet cars bound in the

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