. The street railway review . ed three quarters ofan inch per foot. The top of the timber grillage in all cases is nfoot and a half below extreme low water line. A bill has been introduced in the New York f^cgislature whichprovides that surface street railways may condemn rights of wayoutside of cities. A similar bill is pending in Connecticut. 130 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. [Vol. XI, No. 2. CURTAIN FIXTURE MATTERS. HEAVY LOSS BY FIRE IN BROOKLYN. The Supply Co, is now offering to tlie trade a new styleof cable fixtures which has been tested for about two years on sev-eral of th% large t
. The street railway review . ed three quarters ofan inch per foot. The top of the timber grillage in all cases is nfoot and a half below extreme low water line. A bill has been introduced in the New York f^cgislature whichprovides that surface street railways may condemn rights of wayoutside of cities. A similar bill is pending in Connecticut. 130 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. [Vol. XI, No. 2. CURTAIN FIXTURE MATTERS. HEAVY LOSS BY FIRE IN BROOKLYN. The Supply Co, is now offering to tlie trade a new styleof cable fixtures which has been tested for about two years on sev-eral of th% large traction companies of the country. The illustra-tion herewith shows a cross section of the tube, from which of the working of the fixture is apparent. Heretofore,cable fixtures have depended on the cable passing over the mouth-piece or around pulleys to obtain the necessary friction to preventthe curtain from running up. The Forsyth open car cable fixtureuses spring actuated heads with tilting shoes which are thrust. CAULE FIXTURE-CURTAIN SUPPLV CO. against the bottoms of the grooves by strong springs located ateach end of the tube. The squaring band is used for the purposeof preventing the curtain from getting out of line and coming outof the grooves, the friction resulting from the shoes being forcedagainst the bottom of the groove by the springs. Curtains equipped^ with these patent fixtures have been in use fortwo years by the Chicago City Railway Co. and others, and theCurtain Supply Co. reports that it has today a large number of or-ders on its books for this type of fixture. This fixture in no wayconflicts with the regular open car Acme or Climax fixtures,the patents for which are owned by the Curtain Supply Co., thesepatents covering broadly the idea of a squaring band as applied to acurtain. IMPROVED SAND BOX. Our illustration shows the latest design of sand box that has beendeveloped by the Ham Sand Box Co., of Troy, N. Y. This Isknown the Style 8 and like t
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