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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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installed and maintained by the New York& New Jersey Fire Alarm Company, and operates as follows:Small fire alarm boxes are distributed in the buildings, onefor about every 10,000 sq. ft. of floor area. The auxiliaryboxes are electrically connected to main fire alarm box placedon a pole on Ferry Street. The main box in turn is wired upto the citys fire alarm circuit, and its location on record issimilar to any city station. In case of fire, if any auxiliary boxin the building is pulled, the effect is similar to that of turningthe alarm in at any of the citys fire stations. Two electric bells are to be situated in the office of the super-intendent of rolling equipment, one sounding in case any aux-iliary box is pulled and one will ring in case there is any de-fect in the entire auxiliary system. A sprinkling system is atpresent being considered and may be installed throughout thebuildings later on. The lighting of the paint shop and the entire plant and I38 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL.
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(Vol. XXVI. No. 4. grounds is to be accom-plished with no-volt al-ternating current suppliedby the lighting departmentof the Public Service Cor-poration. Both incandes-cent and arc lights will beused, and all wiring is tobe done in iron conduitand according to the Na-tional Electric Code. The paint shop is to beheated by direct steamheat. Wall radiators areto be placed under all thewindows and i)4-in. pipecoils are to be suspendedunder vertical skylightlegs in roof trusses, therebeing 14,000 sq. ft. ofradiating surface pro-vided, or about 1 sq. ft. ofradiating surface to each85 ft. of cubical contents.It is estimated that thissurface will heat thebuilding to 80 degs. F. inzero weather. The mainsteam pipe is 10 ins. indiameter and the main re-turn is 4 ins. in diameter. Steam will be distrib-uted from the centralboiler house at high pres-sure and sent through areducing valve at thebuilding, reducing thepressure to about 5 lbs.The radiators and coilsare to be equipped withspecial return

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