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Identifier: pacificgaselectr61915paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific Gas and Electric magazine
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Public utilities
Publisher: (San Francisco, Calif.) : Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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all, acting chairman E. C.Johnson presiding. Mr. J. H. Godbold ofthe Steam Distribution Department gavea very interesting talk on steam as usedfor the heating of buildings. He showedthe difficulties that were encountered inproviding suitable insulation to conservethe heat and prevent radiation. He han-dled the subject in a very happy moodand simplified manv technical terms. W. Burwell of Berkeley entertainedwith a number of coniical stories, andother members volunteered. Mr. E. G. McCann of the Electric Dis-tribution Department gave a talk on mo-tors and dvnamos before a class of theBerkelev High School. Pacific Serviceis assisting in educational work. Hardlya week uasses but a class or two fromlocal schools are taken through ourworks. The interest seems to be so gen-eral in these subjects that, later on, ar-rangements will prohablv be made where-by the public will be given an opportunityto go tlirough our plants under the guid-ance of a trained lecturer. Pacific Service Mag.\zine 211
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And Jim Got It Word was passed to Jim that there wastrouble on the high line in Redwood Can-\on. There is only one Jim—Jim Gal-lagher. Jim was brought up in the schoolthat orders is orders. hence the wordtrouble landed him in his car and thenext move the gas was wide open. Thereis onlj- one thing to limit Jim on speedand that is the last notch on the throttle.He was there, both hand and foot. Some-times brakes are not needed; this wasojie of those sometimes. While the firedepartment would be counting the strokesof the gong and figuring out the combina-tion to make a start, Jim was clipping offthe miles. Jim can scent trouble. Justlet some electric juice singe the air on aburn ofi! Jim will locate it quicker thanthe bloodhounds tracked Eliza over theice in Uncle Toms Cabin. So on hesped. What matters it if the road bedark and lonely; if the way be throughspooky, overhanging trees and the roadfull of chuck holes? A body set in mo-tion takes a straight line; a kangaroo oc-casionally to

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