. Railway age . d has recently added Pennsylvania to the non-liquor list. Acetylene Insurance Rules. The rules forniulated by the National Hoard of Klre Inder-wrlters for the use of aicljlene have hitherto required outside in-stallation of acetylene generators. Although in most sections throughout the United States this rule has not been Insisted on. In certainlimited sections it has been rigidly enforced. At a meeting on January 30 the board, after considering reports submitted to it by itsvarious committees, amended these rules by striking out such vvordsas prohibited inside Installation and
. Railway age . d has recently added Pennsylvania to the non-liquor list. Acetylene Insurance Rules. The rules forniulated by the National Hoard of Klre Inder-wrlters for the use of aicljlene have hitherto required outside in-stallation of acetylene generators. Although in most sections throughout the United States this rule has not been Insisted on. In certainlimited sections it has been rigidly enforced. At a meeting on January 30 the board, after considering reports submitted to it by itsvarious committees, amended these rules by striking out such vvordsas prohibited inside Installation and sul>stltutlng the tnllowlng:Generators, especially In closely built ui> districts, should prefer-ably be placed outside of In-^ured bulbllngs In generator houses con-structed and located in compliance with Uuie 9. Where outsideinstallation Is preferred, as aliove. the rule regarding constrvictlonOf generator houses has been modified. Such houses formerly |iad Lift Bridge Foundation Work at Indiana ^ff/r. i^^/r: The new East Chicago canal empties Into Lake Michigan atIndiana Harbor, Ind., at the ore unloading slip of the Inland SteelCo. Lift bridges are to be built over the canal to carry th? tracluof all those railroads which skirt the lake shore on their way Pennsylvania, with two tracks, is farthest from the shore of th«lake; the Lake Shore & .Michigan Southern, with six tracks. Is next;then the Baltimore t Ohio, with two tracks: and nearest the lak« Is the Chicago, Lake Shoretc E^astern, with twotracks. The accompany-ing plan shows thetracks and the founda-tions for the bridges. The average amountof excavation for thepiers of these lift bridgesis about cu. yds. foreach two-track lift the Lake Shore threedouble-track bridges areLocation of Foundations for Lift Bridges t Ije l slile by New East Chicago Canal. so the excavation work Is obviously less for eachiiridge than in the case of the other three roads, which have onlyon
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