. Electric railway gazette . erthe lines of other cable companies bysimply pressing forward the two levers O,and thereby disengaging the sheave wheelsfrom the cable and elevating the entiredevice above the obstructing cable. It is also easy on the gripman, as itrequires but a slight effort to engage the clutchwith either of the driving pulleys. The invention can be applied to any cable rail-way without change in construction of the roador cable. An illustrated description of the Isaacs sys-tem of cable railways will appear in our Septem-ber issue. » Joseph WlUlams, Jv-, Pjttaburgh, Pa., Invent
. Electric railway gazette . erthe lines of other cable companies bysimply pressing forward the two levers O,and thereby disengaging the sheave wheelsfrom the cable and elevating the entiredevice above the obstructing cable. It is also easy on the gripman, as itrequires but a slight effort to engage the clutchwith either of the driving pulleys. The invention can be applied to any cable rail-way without change in construction of the roador cable. An illustrated description of the Isaacs sys-tem of cable railways will appear in our Septem-ber issue. » Joseph WlUlams, Jv-, Pjttaburgh, Pa., Inventor, Rapid Transit. Referring to street railways in general andrapid transit in particular, Mr. Max J. Becker,pres. of the American Society of Civil Engineers,in his address, delivered at the Annual Conven-tion of the Society at Seabright, N. J., on June20th, said : The rapid growth of our cities graduallyforces the inhabitants to seek their homes in thesuburbs and surrounding country, more or less Fig 2. i^^^^^W: kVW-SSVWW^. distant from the business and manufacturingcentres where their employment lies. The desirefor economy of time, and the necessity of punctu-ality and prompt attendance, have led to the in-troduction of various modes of conveyance be-ginning with the street car tramways, propelledby horses, followed more recently by elevatedrailroads and cable car lines, and still morelately by the electric railroad ; which latter sys-tem has, within a few years, developed much
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