. The street railway review . 30 to 50 miles perhour, and not realized that the speed was greater than 16 miles;therefore, wo arc forced to the conclusion thai the lime and velocjlyrecords shown by the curves and tables of the report arc absolutelyworthless. .And the tact that this is true of one portion of the au-tomatic apparatus, throws serious doubt on the other results ob-tained with it,*and renders the table of the comparative standing ofthe several brakes of no value. The Board of Railroad Commissioners is composed of men whoarc not versed in technical matters and must therefore rely up
. The street railway review . 30 to 50 miles perhour, and not realized that the speed was greater than 16 miles;therefore, wo arc forced to the conclusion thai the lime and velocjlyrecords shown by the curves and tables of the report arc absolutelyworthless. .And the tact that this is true of one portion of the au-tomatic apparatus, throws serious doubt on the other results ob-tained with it,*and renders the table of the comparative standing ofthe several brakes of no value. The Board of Railroad Commissioners is composed of men whoarc not versed in technical matters and must therefore rely uponthe advice of their engineer, so thai the responsibility for this reportmust be borne by Mr. Barnes; wc consider it very remarkable thatan engineer should have submitted such results. Since the foregoing was written we have scanned with keeninterest the editorial pages of the technical papers and find thatMr. Barnes report must have been what Mr. Dooley would callvery imposing—to anyone who could be imposed upon. In this. DIAGR.\M NO. 21—TESTS OF STREET C.\R BR.\KES BY N. Y. K.\ COMMISSION. this speed show that in ,15 nut of 51 cases the car ran farther ft. in the first second; the maximum was ft. and the mini-mum ft., corresponding to and miies per hour. A speed of 15 miles per hour is 22 ft. ;~»r second. Curves for thisspeed show that in 30 out of the $2 cases the car traveled more than22 ft. per second; the maximum was 38 ft. and the minimum 12 second, corresponding to and miles per hour. .\ speed of 16 miles per hour is ft- P^r second. Curves forthis speed show that in 47 out of 72 cases a greater distance ft- wa* run in the first second; the maximum was 75 ft. and theminimum ft., corresponding to miles and miles per hour. In soine cases it was found that, according to the curves, the cartraveled farther during each of the second, third, fourth, and evenfifth seconds of the stop, than it
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