. The street railway review . HAULING AND SAFETY CABLES. a capacity of 400-horse-power. There are two windingdrums, each 8 feet diameter, weighing 10,300 pounds and from the regulation inclined plane cars, being mountedon two 4-wheel trucks in which the lower wheels of each 374 (^iyicd/9\aiiw^j^yievv^ truck are 42 inches diameter and the upper wheels 28inches. The distance from rails to car floor is 18 inchesat upper end and 6% feet at lower. The cars are 44feet long over all by 16 feet wide, and weigh 16 tonseach. The passenger room seats 15 persons with stand-ing room for an additional 25, w
. The street railway review . HAULING AND SAFETY CABLES. a capacity of 400-horse-power. There are two windingdrums, each 8 feet diameter, weighing 10,300 pounds and from the regulation inclined plane cars, being mountedon two 4-wheel trucks in which the lower wheels of each 374 (^iyicd/9\aiiw^j^yievv^ truck are 42 inches diameter and the upper wheels 28inches. The distance from rails to car floor is 18 inchesat upper end and 6% feet at lower. The cars are 44feet long over all by 16 feet wide, and weigh 16 tonseach. The passenger room seats 15 persons with stand-ing room for an additional 25, while the space for trans-porting vehicles is 10 by 44 feet. A neat, strong railing incloses the platform, and the cartravels at a speed of 750 feetper begin at 7oclock in the morning and continue until 7 p. in., but thehours will be lengthened soon. On Sundaj^, May 21st,5000 passengers were carried up the mountain, from thesummit of which a magnificent view is presented of thesurrounding country. MOSES G. IT is not probable that many street railway men, asindeed many electricians, have ever heard of MosesG. Farmer. This does not tend to prove the less ofimportance of Professor Farmers deeds and personalitj^,but rather shows that the intensely active growth of elec-trical science has madethe earlier efforts ofmen of mature ageread Hke the narra-tives of a century Farmer,whose very active andefficient life closedMay 25, 1893, at histemporary Chicagoresidence, was born atBoscawen, N. H.,Feb. 9, 1820, of Puri-tan parentage. His father was awell-to-do farmer andlumber dealer, so thatthe young mans scholastic tastes were gratified by athorough training at Andover academy and Dartmouthcollege, from which institution he was graduated with athorough scientific knowledge of all that was then knownof electricity. After teaching school and entering into various manu-facturing enterprises which yielded good profits, ProfessorFarmer began his best known wo
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