. The street railway review . ,hard to insulate, and rust out quicker than a red cedarpole will rot. The value of different woods for street railw:i\ p(jlesis. in the order they are named, red cedar, white cedar,chestnut, heart pine (southern.) In conversation with a telephone manager recently,the writer was informed tliat the line men connectedwith the telephone oflice in a certain city, had beendoing a land office business charging storage batterieswith Stray current. as he expressed it. It seems thatthe iron waste pipe from the sink in the office passednear an iron pole belonging to the str
. The street railway review . ,hard to insulate, and rust out quicker than a red cedarpole will rot. The value of different woods for street railw:i\ p(jlesis. in the order they are named, red cedar, white cedar,chestnut, heart pine (southern.) In conversation with a telephone manager recently,the writer was informed tliat the line men connectedwith the telephone oflice in a certain city, had beendoing a land office business charging storage batterieswith Stray current. as he expressed it. It seems thatthe iron waste pipe from the sink in the office passednear an iron pole belonging to the street railway com-pany. The pipe was buried about two feet below thesurface, and did not touch the pole, although near day some one in the office attempted to turn thewater on froiu a faucet above the sink, while holding onto the sink with the other hand. A shock was theresult. Did this Sunday-school scholar hunt round tofind who was losing current r Well, hardh! Like aman who knows a good thing when he feels it, he pro-. FICUKK 13. ceeded to squat on the claim with the office testingset, and it proving to be pay dirt. lie straightwaybegan to work it, which, so the story goes, he continuesto do to this good day. Do not try to get the overhead system tight as a fiddlestring. Give the trolley wire a chance to wobble; youroverhead work will not look as well, but the trolley willkeep the wire better if it is flexible. One of the principal points in the maintenance of theoverhead system is to see that all the trolley poles areprecisely the same length, and exactly the same a good track, first, the trolley poles all of exactlength and tension, second, and a flexible cross suspen-si(jn overhead line, third, but little use will be found for ahurry up wagon. Say the pressure you desire thewheel to exert against the trolley wire is twelve a 12-pound weight, tie a cord to it with a hook inone end. hook the weight to the trolle\ fork, and screwup on the trolle
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