. The Street railway journal . perated over six routes. A. M. Halliday is president and general manager ofthe company and superintendent of the ferries; Pickles is vice-president, and Wm. Nagle, sec-retary. Louisiana Electric Light Company. The fact that this company is to furnish power tooperate the lines of the New Orleans Traction Company 3©8 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. X. No. 5. brings its operations into the street railway field, andmakes it of interest in connection with these notes. Theplant of this company is one of the largest lighting plantsin the country, the total
. The Street railway journal . perated over six routes. A. M. Halliday is president and general manager ofthe company and superintendent of the ferries; Pickles is vice-president, and Wm. Nagle, sec-retary. Louisiana Electric Light Company. The fact that this company is to furnish power tooperate the lines of the New Orleans Traction Company 3©8 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. X. No. 5. brings its operations into the street railway field, andmakes it of interest in connection with these notes. Theplant of this company is one of the largest lighting plantsin the country, the total capacity being 2,000 arc lightsand 21,000 incandescent, so that the city is one of thebest lighted in the South, if not in the whole country. shaft may be driven from either engine, the clutches beingof the Cuyahoga Falls and Beliot types. The belting wasmanufactured by Munson, Schieren and the ChicagoBelting Company. The lighting generators are located on the secondfloor, and consist of thirty-six sixty light wood machines,. FIG. 7.—EXTERIOR OF STATION—LOUISIANA ELECTRIC LIGHT CO. The station is located near the river, on South Peters Street,between Richards and Market Streets, and consists of atwo story brick building, the ground dimensions of whichare 320 X 130 ft. The building is divided lengthwise bya brick partition, and the boiler plant occupies the sidenext to the river. Water for condensing purposes is drawn from theriver, but for feedwater it is taken from artesian wells. The boilers are of the returntubular type, twenty-six of thembeing 72 ins. X 17 ft-, and ten ofthem, 60 ins. X 16 ft., and weremanufactured by the Bass Foun-dry & Machine Company, of FortWayne, Ind. A steam pressure of110 lbs. is carried, and Alabamacoal is employed as fuel; there areeight iron smokestacks, ninetyfeet in height, and sixty inches indiameter. The total engine capacity is6,000 h p., and is divided betweenfour engines, two of them beingcross compound, condensingHamilton-Corliss eng
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