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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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e. •-»♦ An Exhibit of Exceptional Merit. The exhibit of the G. M. GesI, electrical subway contractor, whichoccupies a commanding location in the court of the ElectricityBuilding at the Worlds Fair, deserves more than the passingmention which was given it in The Daily Street Railway Reviewfor Wednesday, October 12th, it being a display of exceptional merit.As will be seen by the illustrations shown herewith, the exhibit inthe main consists of a manhole divided by a concrete wall, virtuallymaking two holes out of one, the front being open. Here are shown the following: Gest patent enamel terminalbrick, with rounded face, which protects the cable from injur.y;Gest patent frame and adjustable cable brackets, single, double andtriple, by means of which the cable can be adjusted and held at anyheight; Gest patent sewer trap and strainer, operated from aboveby means of a chain; Gest burlap machine, in which a roll of burlapthe right width can be pitched and cut oflf as wanted, and Gests
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WORLDS FAIR EXHIIIIT CK (;EST S CONDlIT SYSTEM. improved mandrels. On the walls of the manhole are displayedinteresting photographs of work done by the Gest forces in Spring-field, Cincinnati and Louisville. The Gest exhibit also includes, by utilizing two life-size waxfigures of workmen, demonstrations of how tile shouUl be laid inthe trench and also how cables are spliced. It is believed that Mr. Gest, whose principal offices are in Cin-cinnati and New York, is the only purely electrical subway con-tractor in the world having an exhibit at the Worlds Fair. Theexhibit is in charge of Mr. W. T. Jackson, of the Cincinnati office. The Indianapolis & Northwestern Traction Co. has recently issueda very attractive timetable with map of its road, views along its lineand general information regarding its service. In a recent publication compiled by a committee of the Board ofTrade, of Oxford, Pa., under the head of Transportation Facil-ities, it is noted that franchises have been granted

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