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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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d a ground occur ona trolley inside a building, it will resultin the immediate throwing of the cor-responding circuit breaker. As transfertables between Ijuildings the trolleycomes out of one structure and issnubbed or dead-ended at the oppositeone. wdiich makes it possible to keep thecurrent away from a particular buildingand still have power on the wires overthe transfer tables for shifting cars. THE FIRE-ALARM SYSTEM\^hen a fire is discovered it is, ofcourse, important to turn in an alarm tothe citys fire department, besides takingimmediate steps to extinguish the blazewith the local apparatus. Where the fig. facilities for turning in an alarm quicklyare combined with fire-fighting means, there is very lit-tle chance for a bad fire. The Gamewell auxiliary firealarm system installed in these premises by the New York &New Jersey Fire Alarm Company seems to meet every re-quirement for which it is intended. Fig. 7, which showsa fire alarm box conveniently located on the wall of the
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SOME OF THE FIREPROOF METAL LOCKERS FOR THE SHOFMEN accessible to those interested in its proper operation.All of the alarm boxes are connected to a box on theoutside wall of the main shop. This box will be removedto a street pole, the present location being only temporary.This box is wired in turn to the nearest fire station, which,fortunately, is only 3000 ft. distant. In reality, turning in June i, 1907.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 939 an alarm from any of the auxiliary boxes is equivalent toone from a regular city box. To make the apparatus moreeffective, a return signal is given the operator to assurehim the desired result has been attained. Hence, if thealarm is not in working order, something very unlikely, heknows that he must go at once to the nearest city station.Repeated tests have demonstrated that an alarm can beturned in from any of these boxes to the city fire stationwithin twenty seconds. In the boiler house there is a cabinet containing bat-teries and two gongs, this arr

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