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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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y, of Philadelphia,and Metropolitan Railway, of Chicago. The representative of thecompany in charge of the exhibit was Chas. P. Piatt. Ford & Bacon, of New York, Philadelphia and New Orleans,exhibited in connection with the American Car Company, one of NOV^MBKR, 1896.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 723 a lot of twenty cars recently built by the latter company for theCanal & Claiborne Railway Company, of New Orleans, of whichMessrs. Vord & Bacon were the engineers. The car is more partic-ularly referred to in the description of the exhibit of the AmericanCar Company. It was built from specifications drawn up by Messrs.Ford & Racon. Much attention was also attracted by a pamphlet re-cently written and published by Mr. Ford on the effect of the freesilver movement upon the condition of street railway employes. Anumber of these iiamphlets were at the convention. The Manhattan General Construction Company, of New York,was represented by the Creaghead Kngineering Company which ex-
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EXHIBIT OF HEINE SAFETY BOILER CO. hibited a number of the Manhattan lamps in various types and pat-terns. There were shown in continuous operation five of theselamps in series on the regular street railway circuit, the lamps beingan enclosed arc, and one pair of )4 in. carbons will burn 150 hours.These lamps were all of the nominal 2000 c. p. type. The companyalso showed a standard lamp for 110 volt direct current and itsJunior lamp for the same voltage, also its new alternating currentlamp which attracted more than usual attention. Its souvenir,which was a warranted cure for snake bites, proved very popular. The Standard Underground Cable Company, of Pittsburgh,Pa., was well represented by J. R. Wiley, manager of the Chicagooffice, and Frank Clark Crosby, superintendent of construction. Thecompany had an attractive exhibit, showing principally samples ofits cables and feeder wires for both electric light and railway serv-ice. The insulation used was paper, rubber andfibre. The sampl

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