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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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f itsbroad acres is the enclos-ure for deer and elk. To provide for increasedtraffic the company hasadded a combination pas-senger and smoking carmade by the John Ste-phenson Company. Thenew car is similar to thetwo cars shown in theillustration, lately pur-chased from the J- G.Brill Company. Cars ofthe passenger and bag-gage type, of the latter companys manufacture, are also oper-ated. The latest car—like its predecessors—has the groove-less-post semi-convertible window system and is mounted onNo. 27-G1 trucks. The length over the end panels is 31 ft. 8ins., and over the vestibules 41 ft. 1 in.; width over the sills,including the sheathing, 8 ft. 6 ins.; size of the side sills, 4 ins. and thus facilitate the securing of an order the next time hecalled at railway headquarters. While this view has sometruth in it, at least one exhibitor found that large sales canhe made on the spot provided the devices offered for sale aredisplayed to show immediately the utility of the article and
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(NTERURBAN CARS IN SERVICE ON THE GRAYS HARBOR ELECTRIC RAILWAY convince the buyer then and there of his great need for it andthe money to be saved by its use. The example in mind isthat of W. N. Matthews & Brother, of St. Louis, who did nothave a very prominent space, but whose exhibit was so inter-esting that even the immediate financial results were entirelysatisfactory. November 24, 1906.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 1023 This exhibit covered 400 sq. ft. and contained four half-sizecorner poles installed with all of the appliances that make upa good linemans job. Four 600,000-circ-mil cables wereused, and the advantages of employing the Kearney cableclamp in preference to the old style cut and make up cornerwere very clearly shown. The plan, of the exhibit reproducedin the cut shows in the upper left-hand corner an old cutand make up corner with its great waste of expensive cable,labor and time. The money value of the copper wasted on acorner like this is said to outweigh the cost

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