. The Street railway journal . not take many years to put the priceof fuel where it will have to be used very sparingly. It is,therefore, particularly interesting to record anything thatcan delay a day so uncompromisingly cheerless. With theOerlikon experiment going on, and with the tests withhigh voltages now being conducted for the Swedish Govern-ment, it looks as if the Continental engineers were keepingup their end of the good work. Another year will certainlybring a rich store of experience in the performance of singleand three phase locomotives. It has taken some years of ex-periment to
. The Street railway journal . not take many years to put the priceof fuel where it will have to be used very sparingly. It is,therefore, particularly interesting to record anything thatcan delay a day so uncompromisingly cheerless. With theOerlikon experiment going on, and with the tests withhigh voltages now being conducted for the Swedish Govern-ment, it looks as if the Continental engineers were keepingup their end of the good work. Another year will certainlybring a rich store of experience in the performance of singleand three phase locomotives. It has taken some years of ex-periment to work up to this point, but progress hereaftershould be more speedy. 414 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXVII. No. n. OAKLAND TRACTION CLUBROOMS The Oakland Traction Consolidated, of Oakland, Cal.,whose repair shops were described in the Street RailwayJournal for Feb. 3, has fitted up for its employees one of thehandsomest suites of clubrooms that is to be found anywherein the country. The rooms are for the exclusive use of em-. FIG. 1— OFFICE AND CLUB ROOMS IN THE GENERAL OFFICE BUILDING ployees of the company, as well as of its allied corporation,the San Francisco, Oakland & San Jose Railway (operatingthe Key Route System), and that they are appreciated andenjoyed by the men is shown by the successful club whichhas been formed to maintain the quarters and by the popularpatronage which the rooms receive. The clubrooms are located in the companys general officebuilding on San Pablo Avenue, Twenty-First Street andGrove Street, and occupy the entire second floor and a portionof the ground floor. This building, Fig 1,is of a substantial brick construction, andwas built and occupied for a number ofyears as a cable power house and carhouse. The cable plant was abandoned whenthe San Pablo road was changed to anelectric line. When the combined properties of the Oak-land Traction Consolidated required largeroffices, part of the ground floor of thisbuilding was fitted up for that purpos
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