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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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, shall go to theelectric company, the balance going to the society. Of coursethe ladies do not operate the machinery at the power housenor do they serve as motormen. but they serve in the capac-ity of conductors and han^e all the cash. A dozen or two of the prettiest young women of the city usually act as conduc-tors and from 6 oclock in the morning until 11 oclock atnight, all passengers will enjoy the pi esence of the fair ones.It will be giving away one of the secrets of the ladies, butthe men should be warned that the lady conductors are notexpected to know how to make change and the quarters,halves and dollars that fall into their hands will be quite aptto stay there. ♦-»* A RECORDING VOLTMETER. Recording electrical instruments are in common use butin the ammeters and voltmeters it is necessary to renew thechart each day, for which a record is kept. The figure showsa voltmeter which will keep a continuous record for sevendavs on one chart. The instrument ip the design of John
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RECORDING VOLTMETER. H. Barker, of Cambridge, England, and has been in servicefor some time. The chart is suitably plotted for time andvolts and placed around a drum which rotates at a prede-termined rate. I.y an arrangement of cams the drum isshifted each day and a record is made parallel to the pre-ceding. A pencil is held at the end of a lever arm whichis part of the link work operated from an electro-magnet. The attorneys who brought the foreclosure suit againstthe I^t. Wayne (Ind.) Consolidated Electric Railway haveasked the court to allow them fees amounting to $62,500.This allowance was contested and a number of witnessesexamined in an endeavor to show what would be a rea-sonable fee. ^1)M.%ilMi\%vicW* ;j77 RECENT STREET RAILWAY DECISIONS. EDITED BY J. L. ROSENBERGER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CHICAGO. Using Brake Instead of Electrical Apparatus to Stop Car. Stabeneau v. Atlantic Avenue Railroad Coinpany of Brooklyn(N. v.), 30 N. E. Rep. 2-/T. April 19, 1S98.Where a little girl, seven y

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