. Electric railway journal . e to its advan-tage^—with the tremendous increase in traffic in thecoming years in a city physically ill-adapted to digestit, with the necessary high standard of safe operationand an ever-exacting traveling public, it appears thatthe Legal Department has some difficulties to face inthe future. J. H. Wheelwright, president of the ConsolidationCoal Company, has offered prizes of $1000, $750 and$300 to boards of trade of cities and towns in territoryserved by the Monongahela Valley Traction Company,Fairmont, W. Va., for securing during the comingyear new industrial es


. Electric railway journal . e to its advan-tage^—with the tremendous increase in traffic in thecoming years in a city physically ill-adapted to digestit, with the necessary high standard of safe operationand an ever-exacting traveling public, it appears thatthe Legal Department has some difficulties to face inthe future. J. H. Wheelwright, president of the ConsolidationCoal Company, has offered prizes of $1000, $750 and$300 to boards of trade of cities and towns in territoryserved by the Monongahela Valley Traction Company,Fairmont, W. Va., for securing during the comingyear new industrial establishments. Home-Made Sprinkler for PowerStation Lawn At the Millbury (Mass.) plant of the Worcester Con-solidated Street Railway, a convenient lawn sprinklerhas been assembled by mounting a number of sectionsof 114-in. pipe on wooden posts about 3 ft. above theground, connecting the pipe with a pump discharge inthe adjacent plant and drilling needle orifices in smallbrass plugs inserted in the pipe every 30 in. Water is. HOME-MADE LAWN SPRINKLER MADE OF 1%-IN. PIPE SECTIONS supplied at a pressure of 80 lb. per square inch, and a2-ft. pipe-handle at one end of the line, which is about125 ft. long, enables the nozzles to be rotated throughan arc of over 180 deg. As shown in the accompanyingphotographs of the pipe line, the resulting sprays can


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