. The street railway review . the receipt, issue and distributionof the general stores of material and supplies, shall make requisitionfor replenishment of stock and for such material and supplies as arcnot in stock, for which requisition is made upon him by the severaldepartments, shall specify upon requisitions the purposes for whichthe articles are required, shall certify all bills for goods receivedby him as to their quality and quantity, and shall be responsiblelor the custody and accounting for all material in his charge. Heshall keep such accounts and make such reports to the auditor an
. The street railway review . the receipt, issue and distributionof the general stores of material and supplies, shall make requisitionfor replenishment of stock and for such material and supplies as arcnot in stock, for which requisition is made upon him by the severaldepartments, shall specify upon requisitions the purposes for whichthe articles are required, shall certify all bills for goods receivedby him as to their quality and quantity, and shall be responsiblelor the custody and accounting for all material in his charge. Heshall keep such accounts and make such reports to the auditor andvice-president as may be re(iuired. OF ELECTRICAL The duties of the head of this department, now presided over byMr. Roger W. Conant, with the title of Electrical Engineer, areprescribed as follows: He shall have charge of all electrical engineering for surfacelines, shall prepare plans for the distribution of feeders and returns,shall investigate all special troubles with electric wires or genera-. FIG. 43-MOTOR TESTING ROOM. tors and report thereon: shall consult and advise with the superin-tendent of motive power and the superintendent of wires uponelectrical matters, and shall perform such other duties and makesuch report as may be required. The oftice of the electrical engineer is also in the .Mbany , and in one portion of the equipment shop are the motortesting stands, shown in Fig. 42. All motor testing is done in avery thorough manner. The method used is to couple two motorsin the manner shown, and one is run as a generator. The twomotors are placed in line, and to the ends of their respective shafts 192 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. disks are attached to whicli round, wooden or rubber blocks arebolted. The disks are brought close enough together (or theseblocks to overlap each other, so that power is transmitted from oneshaft to the other without any time being lost in getting a perfectalignment of the shafts, as the couplings work even i
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