. The Street railway journal . the principalstreets. Three hundred steel tubular poles wereshipped from the United States for use inbracket construction on the principal thor-oughfares. The cost of a wood pole is ap-proximately three times that of a similarpole in this country. Two trolley wires are used over all sin-gle track, these being placed abt)ut 6 , separating at turn-outs and double track is used, or on adjacentparallel streets, one of the trolley wires iscarried over each track. No. 000 B. & is used. The lines have been sectioned by meansof trolley insu
. The Street railway journal . the principalstreets. Three hundred steel tubular poles wereshipped from the United States for use inbracket construction on the principal thor-oughfares. The cost of a wood pole is ap-proximately three times that of a similarpole in this country. Two trolley wires are used over all sin-gle track, these being placed abt)ut 6 , separating at turn-outs and double track is used, or on adjacentparallel streets, one of the trolley wires iscarried over each track. No. 000 B. & is used. The lines have been sectioned by meansof trolley insulators introduced at suitable points in such amanner as to reduce to a minimum possible interruption totraffic occasioned bv trouble on anv one section. Switches are also a factor in this problem. The feeder system contains theecjuivalent of 25 miles of No. 0000 cable. The rails taken fromthe old horse car line have been utilized as return circuits bybonding together and connecting the power house ground withload TEARING UP OLD T RAIL NATIVE LABORAt the beginning of construction work considerable troublewas experienced in dealing with the native workman. Thedemoralized state of labor made it impossible to secure reason-able results, and in order to bring about the best results, Mr.
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