. The street railway review . ^ as desired,and moving the hands on the register far enough back tobalance the pieces taken out. Both the combination and the men are now chanwd. GALESBURG GETS ELECTRICITY. THE little bob-tail cars and the intensely patient anddocile mules which have constituted the rapid tran-sit of Galesburg, Illinois, ever since the road wasbuilt, will now fade into history. The College CitvStreet Railway Company has been sold to a new organ-ization, the Galesburg Electric Motor and Power Com-pany who have also secured new franchises and willequip eight miles this season. It
. The street railway review . ^ as desired,and moving the hands on the register far enough back tobalance the pieces taken out. Both the combination and the men are now chanwd. GALESBURG GETS ELECTRICITY. THE little bob-tail cars and the intensely patient anddocile mules which have constituted the rapid tran-sit of Galesburg, Illinois, ever since the road wasbuilt, will now fade into history. The College CitvStreet Railway Company has been sold to a new organ-ization, the Galesburg Electric Motor and Power Com-pany who have also secured new franchises and willequip eight miles this season. It has not yet been decided whose motors will beadopted. THE illustrations show a new method introduced byA. L. Ide & Son, the extensive engine builders ofSpringfield, Illinois, for transmitting power fromengines and dynamos. The apparatus is extremely sim-ple, consisting of a pulley supported by a stud, which issecured to the base of the engine and which requires nofoundation or On account of the small space required, it is especiallyadapted where space is limited. Two dj-namos may bedriven from one engine by placing a pulley on each sideof the base, and either d3namo may be stopped or startedwithout interfering with the operation of the othermachine, by sliding the dynamo on the base so as tobring the belt in contact with the lower surface of theengine pulley. EAL^ They have recently installed one of their 8x10, 35horse-power Ideal engines with this transmitting devicedriving a Thomson - Houston 250-light incandescentdynamo for lighting the Keeley Brewing Companysplant, Chicago. The engine and dynamo are placed on the floor, whichis composed of I-beams and brick arches, as shown bythe cut, having no foundation for support. The engineruns at 360 revolutions per minute, but is so perfectlybalanced that there is no perceptable vibration of thetloor or buildincr. Professor Short of Cleveland is figuring on a systemof electric traction for the New York elevated r
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