. The Street railway journal . e Detroit United Railway, for the best catalogue list ofwild flowers to be found in these five counties. It is not neces-sary to designate the flowers by their scientific names. Thelist will be submitted to some well-known botanist who is to actas judge, and the prize will be given to the compiler of the listwhich is the most complete and accurate. Only the wild flowersnative in the counties surrounding Detroit will be accepted onthe list. 938 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. 21. THE CAMERA IN ELECTRIC RAILWAY WORK The possibilities of the camera as a valua
. The Street railway journal . e Detroit United Railway, for the best catalogue list ofwild flowers to be found in these five counties. It is not neces-sary to designate the flowers by their scientific names. Thelist will be submitted to some well-known botanist who is to actas judge, and the prize will be given to the compiler of the listwhich is the most complete and accurate. Only the wild flowersnative in the counties surrounding Detroit will be accepted onthe list. 938 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. 21. THE CAMERA IN ELECTRIC RAILWAY WORK The possibilities of the camera as a valuable adjunct, notonly to the claim department, but to the engineering depart-ments as well, have been emphasized in these columns. Per-haps the photographic department of the Boston ElevatedRailway Company presents as good an illustration as can befound of the value of systematically keeping photographicrecords. On the Boston Elevated the photographic work is organizedinto a distinct department in charge of P. W. Rowell, who is. J-iG. \ JK\V (It- l)\:i)\.E\ STKKET TKRMINAL, fSED IX AD-JUSTING A TIME-LIMIT CONTRACT an expert photographer, and who has also had an engineeringtraining. He is therefore not only qualified to take good photo-graphs, but is also able to tell what kind of pictures are wantedfrom an engineering standpoint. The photographic department has well-equipped rooms onthe top floor of the companys office l)uilding, and is suppliedwith all modern facilities for taking, developing, printing andenlarging work. Two sizes of photographs are taken as stand-ard—i. e., 8 ins. x 10 ins., and 11 ins. x 14 ins. For the refer-ence albums, blue i>rints are made from the negatives, as it is
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