. The street railway review . way which has an existencepractically in name only. The amount is 8 centK The superior court at New Haven, Conn., has awarded judgmentfor $3,000 damages to the parents of a child killed by a car of theDerby (Conn.) Street Ry. The defendant at the trial made the fol- lowing argument, that as the statute authorizes the Railroad Com-misioners tti require street railways to place fenders on their carssvhenever public safety requires it, this authority in\csted in thecommissioners is exclusive and deprives the court of the power tofind negligence from their absenc
. The street railway review . way which has an existencepractically in name only. The amount is 8 centK The superior court at New Haven, Conn., has awarded judgmentfor $3,000 damages to the parents of a child killed by a car of theDerby (Conn.) Street Ry. The defendant at the trial made the fol- lowing argument, that as the statute authorizes the Railroad Com-misioners tti require street railways to place fenders on their carssvhenever public safety requires it, this authority in\csted in thecommissioners is exclusive and deprives the court of the power tofind negligence from their absence in cases where the commission-ers have failed to order their use. It is held, however, by the Hart-ford court that this is not goorl law ADDIS SINGLE RAIL TRAMWAY. The accompanying illustration is from Indian Engineering, in arecent issue of which is reprinted a letter, dated Nov. 2, 1891. fromthe invent(jr, W. J. Addis. The tramway consists of a single rail;the vehicles are any of those in ordinary use with the addition of. HAIL TRAMWAY. one or more centrally located wheels to bear on the rail. states that the road has been worked in Europe, India andBurma, and recommends it for feeder lines and famine roads. A CASE OF WORM EATEN PILES. Mr. Onward Bates, engineer and superintendent of bridges andbuildings of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, recently presentedbefore the Western Society of Engineers, of which he is president,an account of the experience of his road with worm eaten company uses Wisconsin oak for piling when this timber canbe secured, but on one occasion was obliged to get a lot of Ar-kansas oak piles. These were driven in various bridges on thecompanys lines; two years later it was discovered that worms wereeating the Arkansas piles in one of the bridges and 60 of themhad to be replaced. Within four years after being driven all ofthis lot of piles were found alive with worms. The worms attackedthe pile near the surface of the grou
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