. The Street railway journal . steam locomoti\-e and cars equipped withGeneral Electric train ccnlrol apparatus was made on the experi-mental railway of the General Electric Company and on the trackof the New Vork Central Railroad the latter part of last weekand the first of this week. The test was made under the directionof Bicn J. Arnold, recently of Chicago, but at present of NewYork, and W. B. Potter, of the General Electric Company. The duced to $2,264,000. The city appealed to the Supreme Coui t, andthat body rendered judgir,ent in favor of Newark, upholding thatcitys contention that rig
. The Street railway journal . steam locomoti\-e and cars equipped withGeneral Electric train ccnlrol apparatus was made on the experi-mental railway of the General Electric Company and on the trackof the New Vork Central Railroad the latter part of last weekand the first of this week. The test was made under the directionof Bicn J. Arnold, recently of Chicago, but at present of NewYork, and W. B. Potter, of the General Electric Company. The duced to $2,264,000. The city appealed to the Supreme Coui t, andthat body rendered judgir,ent in favor of Newark, upholding thatcitys contention that rights of way in public thoroughfares wereeasements, and as such constituted real property and were tax-able as such. Attorney-General Grey was called into the case by GovernorVorhees, calling his attention to the fact that two or three mu-nicipal corporations have assessed real estate of street-using cor-porations under the franchise tax law of 1900, and will, therefore,receive an enormous proportion of the franchise tax, while. SPECIAL TESTING TRAIN FOR COMPARING STEAM AND ELECTRICAL OPERATION connection of Mr. Arnold with the New York Central Railroadmakes this test of particular interest. In the making of the test the special dynamometer car No. 17, ofthe University of. Illinois, and the Illinois Central Railroad, oper-ated by Professor Edward C. Schmidt and John N. Snodgrass, wasused to take readings on the draw-bar pull, speed, accelerationand distance traveled by the train whendrawn by the locomotiveand when drawn by the General Electric cars. Readings were alsotaken in the motor cars on the speed, time of acceleration, , voltage and current, and at the power station the watt con-sumption of the line was recorded. As it is obvious that recordingpotential at the power station would not be satisfactory, the actualvoltage of the car under diiTerent conditions was obtained by run-ning potential wires back to the wattmeter from the end of theline. A train was made up \
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