. Electric railway journal . ith a metalsafety strap so that no one rack takes all of a mansweight. A fifth safety feature illustrated is the use of 0. No. 13 type of sash locks. Unless the sashequipped with the old-style locks was opened fully andthe locks properly latched, the sash would jar loose andcause the bruising of arms and fingers and even moreserious injuries. The Edwards lock prevents the sashfrom dropping, regardless of the height to which itmay have been raised. This lock is in use on 300 NewYork Municipal Subway cars in operation, on 200 ad-ditional New York Municipal
. Electric railway journal . ith a metalsafety strap so that no one rack takes all of a mansweight. A fifth safety feature illustrated is the use of 0. No. 13 type of sash locks. Unless the sashequipped with the old-style locks was opened fully andthe locks properly latched, the sash would jar loose andcause the bruising of arms and fingers and even moreserious injuries. The Edwards lock prevents the sashfrom dropping, regardless of the height to which itmay have been raised. This lock is in use on 300 NewYork Municipal Subway cars in operation, on 200 ad-ditional New York Municipal cars on order, and on 324elevated cars. The report also quotes many other equip-ment improvements, particularly on the latest center-en-trance and subway cars. Among the data presented on shop safety are suchpertinent items as the purchase in April, 1915, of 574pairs of safety goggles for shop men, followed by 177more in the first quarter of 1916. It is also stated thata total of $14, was spent up to April 1, 1916, for. ANTI-CLIMBER TO PREVENT TELESCOPING IN COLLISIONS various safety measures, many of them suggested bythe employees themselves. Each safety measure and itscost is fully described in each issue of these quarterlies,as distributed among the men of the department. The conclusion of this report states that during thelast three years the Brooklyn Rapid Transit System hasexpended about $50,000 for approximately 100,000 spe-cial General Electric locking lamp-socket receptacles, notonly to avoid fires where improper contact is made bythe lamp base but also to prevent the lamp from jarringloose. Decision of Commission on Dead MansButton The Public Service Commission for the Second Dis-trict of New York has settled the controversy raisedby the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and En-ginemen over the dead mans button on the Erie Rail-roads electric trains between Rochester and Avon byordering the Erie to make changes in operation in theinterest of public safety. The o
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