. Electric railway review . have since given way tothe up-to-date appliances provided by the local telephone The dispatchers office is located in a company buildingsituated in a most convenient place at the central loop. Herealso are the headquarters of the superintendent, companyssurgeon, overhead line department, wrecking crew and gen-eral repairmen, with all of which the dispatcher has directconnection by telephone. Usefulness in Time of Fire. The dispatcher also receives all city fire alarms, andthe company thereby is enabled to learn the location of firesas soon as the fire department. Be
. Electric railway review . have since given way tothe up-to-date appliances provided by the local telephone The dispatchers office is located in a company buildingsituated in a most convenient place at the central loop. Herealso are the headquarters of the superintendent, companyssurgeon, overhead line department, wrecking crew and gen-eral repairmen, with all of which the dispatcher has directconnection by telephone. Usefulness in Time of Fire. The dispatcher also receives all city fire alarms, andthe company thereby is enabled to learn the location of firesas soon as the fire department. Being in close touch withthe working force mentioned above, the dispatcher at oncereports the location of a fire to the proper officials, togetherwith any information that may have come to him from train-men in close proximity. If there is danger that cars maybe blocked by lines of hose, the crew of the hose-bridgewagon is ordered to the scene. This wagon is constructedfor carrying a number of bridges, and as the wrecking de-. Dispatching Cars by Telephone—Office of Dispatcher, Denver City Tramway. company, the principles of directing the movements of carsby telephone have changed but little. With a small begin-ning of 5 lines, which have since grown to 30, the telephoneseems fully as adequate to meet the requirements as it wasat first. Naturally, some of the methods originally employedhave been modified in the light of later experience, and thetelephone lines extended and multiplied as new track wasbuilt, old lines carried farther into growing residence dis-tricts, and the car service increased to meet the demands ofDenvers rapidly increasing population. General Arrangement of lines of the Denver City Tramway Company areparticularly well adapted to being handled by a the business center of the city and adjoining each other aretwo small loops, which mark the down-town terminal ofnearly all the lines. A few long cross-town lines passthrough the city with
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