. The street railway review . quantity of tools,belonging to this company were destroyed and also three cars be-longing to the Brockton. Bridgewater & Taunton Street RailwayCompany, which were in the barn. The loss was estimated at over$23,000. There is a city ordinance in East St. Louis compelling all streetcars to be equipped with fenders, but the St. Louis. Belleville &Suburban Electric Railway Company has not yet complied with Mayo and eight of the employes were served withsummonses to appear for trial in a justice court for violating thelaw. 180 ^t)iedS(culM%\%lcw* CAR T
. The street railway review . quantity of tools,belonging to this company were destroyed and also three cars be-longing to the Brockton. Bridgewater & Taunton Street RailwayCompany, which were in the barn. The loss was estimated at over$23,000. There is a city ordinance in East St. Louis compelling all streetcars to be equipped with fenders, but the St. Louis. Belleville &Suburban Electric Railway Company has not yet complied with Mayo and eight of the employes were served withsummonses to appear for trial in a justice court for violating thelaw. 180 ^t)iedS(culM%\%lcw* CAR TIMING SYSTEM FOR TROLLEY CARS. The timing mechanism for trolley cars described below was pat-ented last month by Henry Garrett after it had been in successfuloperation for several months. Although not suited to the shortheadway of cars on the large city lines, it is applicable to suburbanand interurban routes. It is essentially an ordinary clock for auto-matically keeping check on the cars and indicating at the office. Fig. 3(lAKRETT CAK TIMING SYSTEM. whether cars are on time in passing a particular point on the line,and, if not, to indicate how late they may be. There is an indicating hand for each line, and while only two areshown in the figure any number of hands may be grouped aroundthe gear, one for each branch line operated. At the extremity ofeach hand is a split hub having a frictional slip fitted on the spindleof the gear which is sufficiently tight so that the rotation of thegear will swing the hand in one direction, while at the same timepermitting it to be swung back automatically. The latter move-ment of the oscillatory pointer is effected by the action of an elec-tro-magnet. The bell circuit is open, but is closed by any abnormalmovement of the pointer and the bell rings as a warning. The electrical connections and the arrangement of the mechan-ism are shown in the diagram. At certain intervals along the lineare trip-arms, Fig. i, an enlarged cross section being
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