. The Street railway journal . were brushed off to remove any accumulated rub-bish that would tend to clog the openings. It will be under-stood, the character of the sand used determines the construc-tion of this dryer. The writer has seen it dry fine, round sandwhich had a large quantity of soil with it, and do this perfectly,day after day, if the screens were brushed off once or twice aday. H. S. Cooper, Gen. Mgr., Galveston Elec. Co. Our sand is hauled in the summer and autumn and dried inthe sun; it is then stored in a house built for that purpose,where it keeps dry. John A. Beeler,
. The Street railway journal . were brushed off to remove any accumulated rub-bish that would tend to clog the openings. It will be under-stood, the character of the sand used determines the construc-tion of this dryer. The writer has seen it dry fine, round sandwhich had a large quantity of soil with it, and do this perfectly,day after day, if the screens were brushed off once or twice aday. H. S. Cooper, Gen. Mgr., Galveston Elec. Co. Our sand is hauled in the summer and autumn and dried inthe sun; it is then stored in a house built for that purpose,where it keeps dry. John A. Beeler, & Gen. Mgr., Denver City Tramway. Our sand is dried at the bank in a Howe sand dryer, madeby a local concern. E. D. Reed, Engr., Scranton Ry. Co. Our dryer is a high bin with a wide top and narrowing atthe bottom, which is open. It is set 3 ins. above the floor. Thebin is built against the wall of the car house and has a row ofsteam pipes, as shown in sketch. The green sand is shoveled EARNINGS OF OHIO ELECTRIC RAILWAYS. SAND DRYER USED BY TOLEDO, FOSTORIA & FINDLAYRAILWAY COMPANY into the bin from the outside of the car house through windowsleft for that purpose, and the dry sand runs out at the bottomas fast as it is used. Toledo, Fostoria & Findlay Ry. Co. *♦+ A recent issue of the Sunday Baltimore American had asa feature story anillustrated article dealing with the streetrailway accident fakir and the efforts of the Association ofClaim Agents to suppress this type of grafter. About a year ago a table of statistics was presented of earn-ings of Ohio properties for the year ending April 30, 1904. Itattracted a great deal of attention, as it was the first time thatan attempt was made to show the detailed earnings of all theproperties in a State, together with the earnings per capita ofpopulation tributary to the road and earnings per mile of requests have been received for a similar table forthe past year; accordingly it has been brought up to April 30,190
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