. The Street railway journal . d direct and alternating-current station atSalisbury Street, near North Broadway. About a year before the openingof the Fair the plans were drawn for a large alternating-current station tobe located in East St. Louis, where coal would be cheap and coal blockadesunlikely. This plan was not carried out, however, as a contract was madeto rent a certain amount of power during the Worlds Fair season from theUnion Electric Light &Power Company, whichwas building a large al-ternating-current stationon the river front, aboutone-third of a mile northof the Eads Bridge. Th
. The Street railway journal . d direct and alternating-current station atSalisbury Street, near North Broadway. About a year before the openingof the Fair the plans were drawn for a large alternating-current station tobe located in East St. Louis, where coal would be cheap and coal blockadesunlikely. This plan was not carried out, however, as a contract was madeto rent a certain amount of power during the Worlds Fair season from theUnion Electric Light &Power Company, whichwas building a large al-ternating-current stationon the river front, aboutone-third of a mile northof the Eads Bridge. Thesame c o m p a n y alsoagreed to sell a certainamount of power to theWorlds Fair, and feederswere installed for thatpurpose. The WorldsFair, however, did notrequire as much power asexpected, and the UnionLight & Power Com-panys plant, althoughcompleted, was not in thebest shape to furnishpower continuously, sothat the large 3500-kwAllis-Chalmers unit inthe Worlds Fair powerplant has been supplyingthe St. Louis Transit. TRANSFORMER TEST OF ARMATURE
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