. Electric railway journal . -volt dis-tribution wire passing through the center of a limbof a tree. The wire was not deliberately placed inthat position, but is the result of the wire rubbingagainst the limb and of the limb eventually growingaround the wire. The limb appears to have a growthof approximately nine years. This unusual condition was found by the trouble gangof the British Columbia Electric Railway, Ltd., Van-couver, , wheninspecting the dis-tribution linesrecently. A prop-erty owner hadpruned the treeson the boulevardin front of hishouse on NicholaStreet and findingthe above
. Electric railway journal . -volt dis-tribution wire passing through the center of a limbof a tree. The wire was not deliberately placed inthat position, but is the result of the wire rubbingagainst the limb and of the limb eventually growingaround the wire. The limb appears to have a growthof approximately nine years. This unusual condition was found by the trouble gangof the British Columbia Electric Railway, Ltd., Van-couver, , wheninspecting the dis-tribution linesrecently. A prop-erty owner hadpruned the treeson the boulevardin front of hishouse on NicholaStreet and findingthe above condi-tion to exist hadsimply cut thelimb above and below the wire and left that portionof the limb shown in the illustration suspended in theair. When the trouble gang found it, it cut the wireon each side of the limb and turned the specimen in tothe office to confirm the necessity of its application foran appropriation to cover the cost of pruning treesthat were damaging or interfering with the companysdistribution UNUSUAL CONDITION FOUND ONDISTRIBUTION SYSTEM American Association News AS DATE OF MID-YEAR CONFERENCE DRAWS NIGH. ELECTRIC RAILWAY INTEREST ISFOCUSED ON FINANCE. THE TOPIC SELECTED FOR SPECIAL TREATMENT—PRESIDENT GADSDEN ALSO URGES SPECIAL ACTIONREGARDING F. E. R. C. REPORT Mid-Year Conference and Dinner at Chicago, 111., Feb. 10, 1921 Subject :Electric Railway Financing Papers at the Mid-Year Conference THE committee on subjects, of which J. D. Mortimeris chairman, has made public the following detailsof the subject matter to be treated in the papers at theChicago convention: Previous Methods of Electric Railway Finance, bjrJames F. Fogarty, secretary the North American Company,New York. This paper will give a summary of the changingmethods of financing capital improvements from the daysof early electrification down to the present, with reasonstherefor; influence of low rates of return on such methods,as disclosed by the large proportion of capital sec
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