. The Street railway journal . n the adverse side, it is not as reliable asthe other methods, and is liable to cause surging if provisionis not made to open the direct current -auxiliary supply cir-cuit just before the alternating current bus bars are con-nected with the rotary slip rings. This may be done auto-matically, but the apparatus requires very close the wisest plan in laying out arrangements forstarting rotaries in important stations is to equip the plantwith two methods. It should never be possible for a com-bination of circumstances to occur which will prevent t
. The Street railway journal . n the adverse side, it is not as reliable asthe other methods, and is liable to cause surging if provisionis not made to open the direct current -auxiliary supply cir-cuit just before the alternating current bus bars are con-nected with the rotary slip rings. This may be done auto-matically, but the apparatus requires very close the wisest plan in laying out arrangements forstarting rotaries in important stations is to equip the plantwith two methods. It should never be possible for a com-bination of circumstances to occur which will prevent thestarting of a rotary in normal condition when low-tensionalternating current power is available at normal voltage. 896 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIX. No. 21. AN INDIAN TERRITORY INTERURBAN SYSTEM With many people the idea prevails that Indian Terri-tory is a wild, unpopulated country and little more than arendezvous of outlaws and criminals. Such an idea, how-ever, is far from true, for within the last fifteen years the. way & Light Company, and extends southeast from SouthMcAlester to Hartshorne, 17 miles distant. South McAlester is one of the two larger cities in theTerritory and has a population of about 15,000 the city is not a cluster of temporary wood build-ings, such as is frequently found in a new country, is evi-denced by the fact that it has a hotel costing $200,000, aMasonic Temple built at a cost of $200,000, and that $175,-000 is being spent in the erection of public school addition, business blocks to cost $500,000 are at pres-ent under contract. The main business street of the cityis paved with brick manufactured in McAlester, and the
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