. The Street railway journal . the GeneralElectric Company by the St. Louis Transit Company, and alsothe twenty-four Stirling boilers of 500 hp each that had beenordered. This relieves the St. Louis Transit Company fromthe necessity of building a station for several years at to the high price of labor and material at St. Louis justnow, previous to the Worlds Fair, and the necessity of greathaste in the building of a new power station, it would have beenexpensive work the coming six months, and it is felt that thedecision to rent power is a wise one. 232 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol
. The Street railway journal . the GeneralElectric Company by the St. Louis Transit Company, and alsothe twenty-four Stirling boilers of 500 hp each that had beenordered. This relieves the St. Louis Transit Company fromthe necessity of building a station for several years at to the high price of labor and material at St. Louis justnow, previous to the Worlds Fair, and the necessity of greathaste in the building of a new power station, it would have beenexpensive work the coming six months, and it is felt that thedecision to rent power is a wise one. 232 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 7. POWER STATION LOG OF THE INDIANA UNIONTRACTION COMPANY The Indiana Union Traction Company has adopted a powerstation log sheet which is of unusual form, as it contains the UNION TRACTION CO. OF IND. POWER STATION LOAD CURVE. Total Output, £&;.O .K. W. H. Average Load K. W Average Demand Factor (b /. / Maximum Demand Factor 93. 3 Maximum Load &£,<?....<?. K. W Average Load Fmrtnr . original record of the power station load made by a recordingwattmeter, and has information regarding the daily operationof the plant in condensed form. Several sheets of this log arereproduced herewith. The log sheet is cross-ruled for theplotting of the load curves of the station. The sheet is put in anew form of recording instrument designed byemployees of the company, and the load in kilo-watts is recorded by a dot once each minute, asthe log sheet passes through the sheet, therefore, contains a much more ac-curate record of the power station output thanis usually obtained by readings taken by switch-board attendants. The log sheet is printedupon tracing paper, so that after the other dataregarding the performance of the station forthe day are entered with the pen, blue printscan be made and sent to the various officers ofthe road. The log sheets reproduced here are of in-terest, not only for their form, but as showingthe regular daily performa
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