. Electric railway journal . ple for manufac-tured anchors although it resembles the dead-man inthat the anchor plate bears on undisturbed earth. Inorder to accomplish this, the new anchor, known as theNever Creep, was made in two pieces—a pull-rod andan anchor plate. The anchor hole in the earth is boredwith an ordinary 8-in. auger, and as near at right anglesto the line of strain as conditions will allow. The depthof the hole varies with the length of the rod used. Afterthe hole is dug, the pull-rod is driven through the un-disturbed earth to the center. The anchor plate is thenlowered into
. Electric railway journal . ple for manufac-tured anchors although it resembles the dead-man inthat the anchor plate bears on undisturbed earth. Inorder to accomplish this, the new anchor, known as theNever Creep, was made in two pieces—a pull-rod andan anchor plate. The anchor hole in the earth is boredwith an ordinary 8-in. auger, and as near at right anglesto the line of strain as conditions will allow. The depthof the hole varies with the length of the rod used. Afterthe hole is dug, the pull-rod is driven through the un-disturbed earth to the center. The anchor plate is thenlowered into the hole and set on the end of the pull-rodby means of a special hook casting fastened to the endof a tamping bar. The slot in the anchor plate istapered so that it will slip over the end of the pull-rodwithout difficulty. When the plate is released it assumesa position in which the anchor head socket engages thehead of the pull-rod, holding both securely in place. Itis asserted that this anchor has a greater holding power. than a dead-man of the same area, and at the same timeit is much more quickly and easily installed. It has anadvantage over other types in that the strain is againstundisturbed earth. The manner of attaching the pull-rod to the anchor plate is also considered advantageousbecause there are no threads, consequently the entirepull-rod section is available for anchor strains. W. B. Strang, Overland Park, Kan., president of theMissouri & Kansas Interurban Railway, has issued apamphlet The Benefit District Plan for Building In-terurban Railways. ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [VOL. XLIII, No. 20. News of Electric Railways Toledo Negotiations Abandoned Negotiations between the Council franchise committee atToledo, Ohio, and Henry L. Doherty, representing the ToledoRailways & Light Company, were abandoned on the eveningof May 12, when it was found that absolutely no progresshad been made toward an agreement on the rate of Doherty informed the committee that he
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