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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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good advantage thedifferent patterns of curtain material and the different fixtures andholding devices. The Burrowes No. 3 curtain holding device isa very simple mechanism, and has a number of excellent features.A curtain equipped with it may be operated by pressing two smallhandles together, thus saving the bottom finish of the curtain fromthe wear of constant handling. The device is adjustable to vary-ing widths of window openings without the use of tools. Thespring tension on the bearing points may also be regulated bysimply screwing the tips in or out. The curtain material manu-factured by the E. T. Burrowes Company is known as Oakette,and is a durable material, which can be supplied at low cost, andpossesses unusual wearing qualities. It may be washed with waterand a sponge, and thus kept bright and new for years. THE GOLD STREET CAR HEATING COMPANY, ofNew York, had an attractive location in one corner of the build-ing and made a very interesting exhibit of its different types of
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EXHIBIT OF NEW HAVEN CAR REGISTER CO. electric heaters, the basis of which consisted of the Gold improvedsupport, which has been described in the Street Railway Jour-nal. Also shown was a large blower heater, using about 2500watts at the maximum heating point, it having three gradations ofheat. The air is forced through this heater by a Lundell motor,and the heater discharges about 300 cu. ft. of air per minuteheated 250 degs. It is adapted for heating waiting rooms, build-ings, etc. The company also showed its three degree panel heater,large and small sizes, and an assortment of Gold standard heatersfor cross seat and longitudinal seat cars, also a number of othertypes and ornamental heaters for room heating purposes. As asouvenir, the company presented a leather bound memorandumpocketbook. The interests of the company were well cared for byE. E. Gold, John E. Ward, H. E. Beach, E. H. Mossgrove andFred D. Wreston. THE COLUMBIA MACHINE WORKS, of Brooklyn, N. Y.,exhibited an extensive

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