. The Street railway journal . ent, power transmission, and wascompleted in 1892, Ganz & Company, of Buda-Pesth, carr> -ing out the electrical portion of the work. It was erectedby the Roman Gas Company as a supplementary source ofcurrent in its central station in Rome. During the hoursof heaviest lighting load the Tivoli power does not suffice,and an auxilliary steam plant of 2000 h. p. capacity isoperated in parallel with it. The location of the Tivoli generating plant is on thesite of the old Villa Mecenate, where about 2000 h. p. isavailable from a fall of about 800 gals, per second adi
. The Street railway journal . ent, power transmission, and wascompleted in 1892, Ganz & Company, of Buda-Pesth, carr> -ing out the electrical portion of the work. It was erectedby the Roman Gas Company as a supplementary source ofcurrent in its central station in Rome. During the hoursof heaviest lighting load the Tivoli power does not suffice,and an auxilliary steam plant of 2000 h. p. capacity isoperated in parallel with it. The location of the Tivoli generating plant is on thesite of the old Villa Mecenate, where about 2000 h. p. isavailable from a fall of about 800 gals, per second adistance of 160 ft. The water passes through a canal onan old Roman viaduct to the wheel house. The station contains six 250 k. w., thirty pole, alter-nating generators directly coupled to Girard turbines run-ning at 170 r. p. m.; and three direct current, twenty-seven kilowatt exciters directly coupled to turbinesrunning at 370 revolutions. F^ach turbine is completelyenclosed and is furnished with Ganz automatic ELECTRIC RAILWAY TERMINUS AT RAILROAD STATION—ROME. those cities the superiority of electric traction over allknown methods for city The opinion of the above named municipalities wasrequested b} a Roman commission appointed in 1894 toexamine into the merits not only of tlie different systemsof traction, but also of the competing systems of electrictraction. The unanimous answer not only emphasized thesatisfaction of the citizens with the service rendered, butalso dwelt upon that question so much debated in Europe—the disfigurement of the streets by the overhead use of ornamental poles and brackets, and the frequentuse of insulated rosettes, fixed to the walls of the houses,instead of poles, had helped to render the overhead systemless obtrusive upon the eye; and, furthermore, in theopinion of the above municipalities, although the overheadsystem is not altogether a thing of beauty, its great advan-tages far outweighed any considerations o
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