. Electric railway journal . Power Conveniences—Illumination of Log Table comparatively crude type count in the easier operation ofthe station. The following paragraphs give an outline of afew of these devices in use at the Manchester Street sta-tion of the Rhode Island Company at Providence, R. apparatus is of the home-made type and simple in itsconstruction, but it is of demonstrated usefulness in thehandling cf the station. The first illustration shows an effective means of lightingthe log table in the switchboard gallery so that the fifteen-minute instrumental readings may be put dow
. Electric railway journal . Power Conveniences—Illumination of Log Table comparatively crude type count in the easier operation ofthe station. The following paragraphs give an outline of afew of these devices in use at the Manchester Street sta-tion of the Rhode Island Company at Providence, R. apparatus is of the home-made type and simple in itsconstruction, but it is of demonstrated usefulness in thehandling cf the station. The first illustration shows an effective means of lightingthe log table in the switchboard gallery so that the fifteen-minute instrumental readings may be put down without theeye strain which so often accompanies this work, especiallywhen it is done under glaring lamps. The feature of thislighting arrangement is a semi-cylindrical copper reflector7 in. in diameter and 30 in. long, lined with tin on the in-side and containing two no-volt, 16-cp incandescent lamps,placed with their axes horizontal so as to throw the light. Power Conveniences—Kerosene Lamp for Emergency Use most effectively upon the table. The lower edge of the re-flector is carried about \2y2 in. above the table surface,and its dull outside surface is thoroughly satisfactory to theeye in a location where more or less light is transmitted toit from lamps on the nearby switchboard. The reflector isfastened to a bulletin board at the rear of the desk by ascrewed metal strap running from end to end, the whole device being hung on the pipe railing bordering the gallery. Even in the largest plant, the operators do not care totake chances with total darkness, and the second cut showshow the old-time kerosene lamp is kept at hand on theswitchboard gallery of a 25,000-kw station as a precaution-ary measure. This station has no storage battery of suffi-cient size to light it temporarily in emergencies, but in casethe generators are disabled, leaving the switchboard withoutlight, the operator simply turns to old-fashioned location of
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