. The Street railway journal . itt springs. Canechairs for parlor cars, longitudinal spring seats, settees of variouskinds for railroad .stations and waiting rooms were also shown. Thereversible seats were fitted up in different ways to show the variety 736 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XIL No. II. in which they can be supplied. Some were iipholstered in plainrattan, others in figured rattan, still others in leather, imitationleather and plush. The seat supports were also of various forms,to show the variety in which the seats can be supplied by the Scar-ritt Company. The Scarritt Company was
. The Street railway journal . itt springs. Canechairs for parlor cars, longitudinal spring seats, settees of variouskinds for railroad .stations and waiting rooms were also shown. Thereversible seats were fitted up in different ways to show the variety 736 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XIL No. II. in which they can be supplied. Some were iipholstered in plainrattan, others in figured rattan, still others in leather, imitationleather and plush. The seat supports were also of various forms,to show the variety in which the seats can be supplied by the Scar-ritt Company. The Scarritt Company was early in the car seatingbusiness, and furnished a great many steam railroad cars with theseats before engaging in the street car business about three yearsago. Since that time the company has installed over 10,000 of itsseats on the street railways of St. I,ouis alone, and has also suppliedcar seats to forty other cities in twenty different states. The visitorto the convention was not confined to the space of the Scarritt Com-. 800 K. W. WALKER GENERATOR ARMATURE pany to inspect Scarritt seats. The 25 ft, 18 bench, American CarCompanys closed car and the open car of the same companys man-ufacture were fitted with Scarritt rattan seats, the former withspring backs and the latter with spindle backs. In the exhibit ofthe Consolidated Car Heating Company six Scarritt seats were alsoshown, fitted with electric heaters. In the space occupied by theStreet Railway Journai< one of the Scarritt settees occupied aprominent position and seemed a favorite resting place for the manyvisitors to that space. In the exhibit of Clarence Whitman & Com-pany another Scarritt seat was shown, covered with Pantasote. Harold P. Brown, of New York, the well known inventor of theBdison-Brown plastic bond had, from an engineering standpoint,one of the most interesting exhibits at the convention. Mr. Brownhas devoted a great deal of attention to the question of bonding therails of an electric railway, an
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