. The street railway review . shops having an aggregate area of sq. ft., blacksmuh shop60 X 80 ft., machine shop, storerooiu, office building, and lumbersheds. .Ml the shops are equipped with the most improved typesof machinery, arranged for economy of time and labor. The shopsare lighted throughout with electricity, and the works have a com-plete water and sewer system. Thr Jewrit Car Co. has a most enviable reputation for lurningoul llu- best-built cars to be found on the market and has grown In these days of injunctions and sharp legal maneuvers the suc-cess or failure of a promising
. The street railway review . shops having an aggregate area of sq. ft., blacksmuh shop60 X 80 ft., machine shop, storerooiu, office building, and lumbersheds. .Ml the shops are equipped with the most improved typesof machinery, arranged for economy of time and labor. The shopsare lighted throughout with electricity, and the works have a com-plete water and sewer system. Thr Jewrit Car Co. has a most enviable reputation for lurningoul llu- best-built cars to be found on the market and has grown In these days of injunctions and sharp legal maneuvers the suc-cess or failure of a promising street railway enterprise sometimesdejiends on the ability of a company to get ahead of the other fel-low by buililing stretclus of track during the hours betwecTi sun-. SRWHITE LIGHT \ down and sun-rise, and il halso often necessary to makerepairs in the early hours otthe morning while cars are notoperating. To aid in this workthe White Manufacturing Co.,of Chicago, makes a blastlight that will illuminate for adistance of several hundredfeet and by which track andoverhead construction can becarried on during the darkesnight. The apparatus is sim-ple and durable and in cases olemergency the flame can beused as a source of heat forwelding, melting solder, etc. The tank is strongly built ofthe best materials but weighsso little that it can be carriedwithout dilTiculty by two men and its capacity is large enough tokeep the flame going for several hours without recharging. Ap<irtable blast light would seem to be an indispensable part of theequipment of an up-to-date road. f^._JL-™J!..^,.-Ji:.
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