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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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rail, and the driving on and off of the joints always drewa crowd. THE DIAMOND STATE IRON COMPANY, of Wilming-ton, Del., exhibited samples of the Churchill rail joint, which itemployed on 40 miles of 9-in. girder rail construction made thisyear in Boston by the Boston Elevated Railroad. The joint isequally good on T-rail construction. THE JOSEPH DIXON CRUCIBLE COMPANY, of JerseyCity, was represented by Messrs. Baird, Haasis and St. John, whodistributed souvenir pencils to all visitors, and exhibited samplesof Dixons wood greese for gears, silica graphite paint for trucks,and graphited track greese for curves. THE CAHALL SALES DEPARTMENT, of Pittsburg, Pa.,exhibited a flowed steel header for boilers and a swinging manholeplate. This company has installed a large number of boilers inelectric railway and light stations, and much interest was ex-pressed by the delegates in its exhibit. THE AMERICAN ELECTRIC HEATING CORPORA-TION, of Cambridgeport, Mass., exhibited a full line of car heat-
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EXHIBIT OF McCARDELL, WEST & CO. ers and switches. The exhibit was made in connection with thatof Charles N. Wood, and the company was represented by JamesI. Ayer, general manager, and C. J. Mayer. THE ELECTRIC STORAGE BATTERY COMPANY wasrepresented in large force, although it made no regular exhibit.Those present in its interests were F. H. Clark, of Chicago; F. J.Stone, of Boston; Chas. Blizard, of New York; J. R. Williams,of Philadelphia, and J. L. Woodbridge, of Boston. THE CENTRAL UNION BRASS COMPANY, of St.Louis, was represented at the Convention in the person of T. C.White, who gave out a beautiful souvenir in the shape of a minia-ture overhead hanger. Mr. White said that this was a good con-vention for business, and that he picked up some fine orders. THE BALTIMORE CAR WHEEL COMPANY, of Balti-more, Md., was represented at the Convention by J. Paul Bakerand A. E. Baker. The company had at Boston one of its standardsingle trucks, as well as one of its standard double trucks.

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