. The Street railway journal . BOILERS AND UNDERFEED STOKER enough to double the capacity when needed in thefuture. The boilers are of the Stirling water-tube pattern, fittedwith the American under-feed stoker, which has provedvery satisfactory on other New England roads. The com-pany also uses mechanical draft, having installed a No. 9Sturtevant blower directly connected to a small steamengine. By this means no large stack is needed and the HEADERS AND MAIN economizing the exhaust steam from the pumps and con-densers. The steam piping is of bent pipe, all put in by the Car-man, Thompson Compa
. The Street railway journal . BOILERS AND UNDERFEED STOKER enough to double the capacity when needed in thefuture. The boilers are of the Stirling water-tube pattern, fittedwith the American under-feed stoker, which has provedvery satisfactory on other New England roads. The com-pany also uses mechanical draft, having installed a No. 9Sturtevant blower directly connected to a small steamengine. By this means no large stack is needed and the HEADERS AND MAIN economizing the exhaust steam from the pumps and con-densers. The steam piping is of bent pipe, all put in by the Car-man, Thompson Company, of Portland, Maine, and thereare three distinct ways of feeding the water to the boilers,so in case one should become defective there are two otherways of supplying water. The engine room is complete in every particular, fur- July 7, 1900.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 615 nished with two direct-connected, cross-compound Hamil-ton-Corliss engines of 600 hp each, of 120 r. p. m., and two275 kw direct-connected Westinghouse gener
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