. The street railway review . tions located in the city or also carries mail between Topeka and Oakland, a small cityreached by one of the suburban lines. The mail is carried on theregular passenger cars and is checked through by the several con-ductors handling it, by means of a pouch tag. Each conductorhandling a pouch, punches on the tag the point where the mail waspicked up and the point where it was delivered, together with thetime of each transaction. This system has been found very satis-factory and has greatly facilitated handling mail on passenger Station. Power


. The street railway review . tions located in the city or also carries mail between Topeka and Oakland, a small cityreached by one of the suburban lines. The mail is carried on theregular passenger cars and is checked through by the several con-ductors handling it, by means of a pouch tag. Each conductorhandling a pouch, punches on the tag the point where the mail waspicked up and the point where it was delivered, together with thetime of each transaction. This system has been found very satis-factory and has greatly facilitated handling mail on passenger Station. Power for the operation of the entire system and also for com-mercial lighting for the city is generated at the power house of theTopeka Edison Co., which is controlled by the same interests thatown the street raihvay. The site of the power house is four squaresfrom the business center of the city, which is also the approximatecenter of distribution for the street railway. This plant began operation in December, 1885, as the Edison. that the contents of one tank can be used to feed the boilers whilewater in the other tank is being chemically treated. The capacityof either of the tanks has been found sufficient to run the plantunder ordinary conditions for a period of 18 hours. The coal supply is brought to the outside of the boiler house bythe street railway company, and is handled by means of a Meadcoal and ash handling system. The conveyor of this system elevatesthe coal from the level of the street and deposits it in steel hopper-bottom bunkers extending under the roof between the boilers. Fromthe bottoms of these bunkers the coal is led by means of steel pipesto the Babcock & Wilcox stokers on the boiler fronts. ■ The con-


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