. The Street railway journal . gs, one of jute and one of cotton,will be braided onto cables. The machine is being set up atPark and Vanderventer Avenues, in portion of a building de-voted to the line department. After being run through the in-sulating machine, the wire or cable is to be passed through in-sulating compound, which will saturate the insulation. Thecompany has considerable feed wire which has been up manyyears, and as the insulation is becoming frayed so that it looksbadly, it is the intention to take this wire down and put a new braided covering on it. Thereis also a lot of lead
. The Street railway journal . gs, one of jute and one of cotton,will be braided onto cables. The machine is being set up atPark and Vanderventer Avenues, in portion of a building de-voted to the line department. After being run through the in-sulating machine, the wire or cable is to be passed through in-sulating compound, which will saturate the insulation. Thecompany has considerable feed wire which has been up manyyears, and as the insulation is becoming frayed so that it looksbadly, it is the intention to take this wire down and put a new braided covering on it. Thereis also a lot of lead-coveredunderground cable, the insu-lation of which was ruinedin the big conduit burn-outlast June, which was full)described in these has been found that thelead covering can be strippedoff of these cables and abraided insulation put on topof the paper insulation of thecable so as to make verygood overhead feed amount realized fromthe sale of the scrap lead inthis case will be sufficient tofor overhead cable Power from the Kern River plant, in California, is now beingused to operate the Los Angeles, Pacific Electric and RedondoRailways, in Los Angeles, which is more than 125 miles fromthe source of generation. Power is transmitted into the cityover two-pole lines of three wires each. The difference of potential is 65,000 volts. The plant was three years building. 84 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol, XXV. No. 2. ** SPECIAL TRACK WORK AT THE NEW ENGLAND STREETRAILWAY CLUB A largely attended meeting of the New England Street Rail-way Club was held in Pierce Hall, Copley Square, Boston, onthe evening of Dec. 29, President Neal being in the chair. Anumber of members of the New England Railway Club werealso present. It was announced that the date of the annualbanquet would be Jan. 26, 1905, the place selected being theHotel Brunswick, Boston. The speaker of the evening wasVictor Angerer, vice-president and general manager of , Jr., & Co., Inc., Philade
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