. The Street railway journal . and RapidsRailway Company has the contract for sprinkling all of thestreets over which cars operate for a period of three years ona mileage basis for each sprinkling, all streets to be sprinkledtwice daily and as many more times as the city officials maydirect. The weight of this new centrifugal sprinkler withtrucks, including the entire equipment with the exception of INCREASE IN FARE ON THE COLUM-BUS, DELAWARE & MARION An advance in tare over certain por-tions of the line has been announced bythe Columbus, Delaware & MarionCompany, to take effect Aug. 31. Thech
. The Street railway journal . and RapidsRailway Company has the contract for sprinkling all of thestreets over which cars operate for a period of three years ona mileage basis for each sprinkling, all streets to be sprinkledtwice daily and as many more times as the city officials maydirect. The weight of this new centrifugal sprinkler withtrucks, including the entire equipment with the exception of INCREASE IN FARE ON THE COLUM-BUS, DELAWARE & MARION An advance in tare over certain por-tions of the line has been announced bythe Columbus, Delaware & MarionCompany, to take effect Aug. 31. Thechange will apply to points betweenColumbus and Glenmary. The fare be-tween Columbus and Worthing, whichhas been 10 cents, has been advancedto 15 cents, or the round trip for 25 cents. The management says that the Market Street linein Columbus receives 2Y/2 cents of each fare for carryingpassengers between North Columbus and the corner ofGay and High Streets, and that no money can be made at10 cents for the -trips Superintendent Akin, of the Los Angeles Railway Com-pany, has announced that hereafter no transfers are to beissued by the conductor unless they are asked for at thetime the fare is paid. Heretofore it has been customaryfor conductors to issue transfers whenever and whereverrequested. A SIDE VIEW OF THE SPRINKLER the truck and pump motors, is 30,600 lbs.; the Weight of4224 gals, of water is 35,150 lbs. The type of truck is theBrill No. 27-G2 with 4-ft. 6-in. wheel base; four motors of40-hp capacity each were installed. The York Street Rail-way and the Long Island Company have lately receiveddouble-truck centrifugal sprinklers of about the same capac-ity. The Lehigh Valley Traction Company and the Inter-borough Railway Company, of New York, also are amongthe users of these centrifugal sprinklers^ but the ones usedby these companies are of the single-truck type. Thissprinkler has also been successful abroad, especially inMilan and Malta. August 31, 1907.] STREET R
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