. The street railway review . The company also shuwb the Webtnighouse magnetic brake andcar heating apparatus, installed on a Brill double-truck closed visiting street railway men thoroughly inspected the brake,which was mounted on a car traveling over a section of track in thecenter of the hall. Many of the companies representatives areassembled here. ROBBINS CONVEYING BELT CO. Tliis exhibit consists of a working model on a scale of 3 in. tothe foot, representing two 20-in. patent belt conveyors 100 The company is represented at the convention by Presi-dent Thomas Robins, Jr
. The street railway review . The company also shuwb the Webtnighouse magnetic brake andcar heating apparatus, installed on a Brill double-truck closed visiting street railway men thoroughly inspected the brake,which was mounted on a car traveling over a section of track in thecenter of the hall. Many of the companies representatives areassembled here. ROBBINS CONVEYING BELT CO. Tliis exhibit consists of a working model on a scale of 3 in. tothe foot, representing two 20-in. patent belt conveyors 100 The company is represented at the convention by Presi-dent Thomas Robins, Jr., Treasurer Pierre Jay, and Chief Engi-neer C. Kemble Baldwin. The exhibit is in charge of Mr. J. UNITED STATES ELECTRIC SIGNAL CO. This company has on exhibition a complete block system, con-sisting of two signal boxes and two trolley switches in exhibit is in the west part of the gallery, and is represented. by J. H. Nickerson and J. J. Ruddick. They state that the signalis becoming very popular among the suburban roads, they havingin actual operation at the present time signals on fifty differentroads. The company also exhibits a Henderson car signilluminator. On the principle that it is impossible to get all the virtues onearth for two dollars a day, the Ohmer Car Registering Co. hasinvented a machine which prints in duplicate the record of thetotal number of passengers carried on each half trip, the amountand class of fare paid by each, and the conductor who made thecollections is charged for the same by his badge number, whichis also recorded on the register. The appliance has to be openedby a conductors key, on which is stamped the number of hisbadge, and also by a lock key. If this will not prevent any possibledishonesty, the Ohmer Car Registering Co. believes that it will takenothing more or less than a miracle to do so. This mode of regis-tration certainly seems to be a safe metho
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