. The Street railway journal . of applicationaround the storage battery installations, which are fast becominga necessary adjunct to the operation of street railway Black paint is made by James G. Conner & Co., ofPhiladelphia, who are the sole manufacturers. This firm has hada large experience in the production of fine varnishes and japansof all kinds, and in perfecting this insulating paint the experienceof years in the varnish business has been combined with a thor-ough knowledge of the requirements necessary to a first-class,long-lived insulating varnish. 296 STREET RAILWAY
. The Street railway journal . of applicationaround the storage battery installations, which are fast becominga necessary adjunct to the operation of street railway Black paint is made by James G. Conner & Co., ofPhiladelphia, who are the sole manufacturers. This firm has hada large experience in the production of fine varnishes and japansof all kinds, and in perfecting this insulating paint the experienceof years in the varnish business has been combined with a thor-ough knowledge of the requirements necessary to a first-class,long-lived insulating varnish. 296 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XIX. No. 9. Electric Sprinkling; Cars The use of an electric car for sprinkling the street throughwhich the tracks are laid was started some years ago and has any width of street, the range being from the width of the trackto a distance of fifty feet on each side. Another advantage 6fthe sprinkler is that by its peculiar arrangement it can spoutthe tracks and thus thoroughly wash the rails, a practice which. EXPRESS CAR TO BE USED AS A TRAILER been demonstrated to be a most advantageous arrangement forboth the railway company and the street cleaning much greater rapidity of sprinkling from the larger capacityof the tank and the higher speed at which an electrically operatedsprinkler can run as compared with a horse cart has made thepurchase of sprinklers by the trolley roads not only a necessitybut one of the best paying investments which the companies canmake. A well-sprinkled street increases the comforts of the pas-sengers by doing away with the dust and dirt raised by the car athigh speed, and by preventing this same dust and grit from gettinginto the wearing parts of the running gear of the car makes adecided saving in the cost of maintenance of equipment. Sprin-
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