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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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hand. The hand straps are carried on bronze hand rods sup-ported on solid bronze brackets of the latest design. The seating isof loose wicker chairs, finely upholstered. The floor is covered withthe Bigelow Wilton carpet. Each car is also supplied with two tables,which may be attached to the sides of the car at different places. The cars are painted a Marseilles royal blue, and ornamented in■gold leaf, as shown on the elevation. The cars are mounted on Barney & Smiths standard Class E suspension spring motor trucks, and are so arranged that the heightot the body is very little different from that of the ordinary fourwheel car, the wheels are 30 ins. in diameter. In addition to the seating capacity above mentioned, each car issupplied with twelve camp stools, carried in boxes on each platform,which may be used in case seats are desired on the platform. The cars have just been received by the railway company, andwill be leased for theatre and trolley parties and other excursions.
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Sprays shown byarrows. DETAILS ELECTRIC FOUNTAIN. a form of many jets using many gallons of water to one throwingnothing but a fine mist. The fountain had five rim fan jets, not shown, as well Fl-.l.RUA RY, I.S96.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. as two center drum jets. Each rim jet is provided with tliree colors.The lower central drum has lamps of three colors alternately aroundthe inside of the drum, and the top drum has four colors. By mak-ing suitable connections, the three rim colors may be revolved inone direction, the lower central drum colors may be revolved in theopposite direction and the central jet may bechanced independently,into any ot four or five colors, or the wliole fountain may be madeany one of the three colors. The alternations are made from a drumswitchboard to which the connections are run. With this simplicityof design and flexibility of manipulation it is easy to see that evenin the very simple form illustrated, what endless combinations andbeautiful effects are poss

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