. The Street railway journal . gnal. Thearm is operated by a Western Electric Companys16-in. fan motor, geared to a countershaft, which isconnected to the arm by a small crank and connecting crank is arranged to make a little more than half a acquired by purchase, and is used largely as an first, the Spring Street station, has two Buckeye tan-dem compound-condensing engines of 750-hp each, direct-connected to G. E. 500-kw generators. This station hasalso one cross-compound Green-Wheelock engine of 1200hp, direct connected to an 850-kw G. E. generator; threeMcintosh & Seym
. The Street railway journal . gnal. Thearm is operated by a Western Electric Companys16-in. fan motor, geared to a countershaft, which isconnected to the arm by a small crank and connecting crank is arranged to make a little more than half a acquired by purchase, and is used largely as an first, the Spring Street station, has two Buckeye tan-dem compound-condensing engines of 750-hp each, direct-connected to G. E. 500-kw generators. This station hasalso one cross-compound Green-Wheelock engine of 1200hp, direct connected to an 850-kw G. E. generator; threeMcintosh & Seymour tandem compound engines of 300 796 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVI. No. 35. hp each, belted to G. E. generators; Wheeler surface con-denser, Cockran oil separator and Babcock & Wilcox boil-ers. There is also an automatic gravity oiling system,which was installed several years ago, and was one of thefirst in the State; the drips all run back to the oil roomthrough a waste and sand filter, and from the storage tank. INTERIOR OF MILO POWER STATION the oil is pumped back to the pressure tanks located in theengine room. The Milo station is equipped with eight Stirling boilers,aggregating 2400 hp, Murphy furnaces, Green econo-mizer and three Westinghouse engines, aggregating 1100hp, direct-connected to Westinghouse generators. At thisstation there is installed a We Fu Go purifying system,which has given excellent satisfaction, having done awayentirely with the necessity of cleaning the boilers. The Columbus Railway Company has had no trouble Men who have served for five years receive each yearthereafter one free uniform, and as a mark of such serviceare allowed to wear a gold band upon the arm. After tenyears of service another gold band is added on the arm andthe company issues to the man without charge two uni-forms per year. Fifty per cent of the companys men haveone or more bands. The qualifications necessary to a suc-cessful application for the position of motorman or con-
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