. Electric railway journal . St. Louis Car-Washing Plant—Rear View of Building,Showing Elevated Tank two-stage centrifugal pump, driven by a 7>4-hp motor,pumps the water from the cisterns back into the washingsystem. By means of valves either city hydrant water orwater pumped from the cisterns may be used. The filtersare about 18 in. in depth and are filled with fine gravelwhich has been screened through a Y\-. screen. Everymorning about 1 in. of the top of this filter is removed andthrown away, fresh gravel being put in its place. Once aweek the entire contents of the filter are removed an
. Electric railway journal . St. Louis Car-Washing Plant—Rear View of Building,Showing Elevated Tank two-stage centrifugal pump, driven by a 7>4-hp motor,pumps the water from the cisterns back into the washingsystem. By means of valves either city hydrant water orwater pumped from the cisterns may be used. The filtersare about 18 in. in depth and are filled with fine gravelwhich has been screened through a Y\-. screen. Everymorning about 1 in. of the top of this filter is removed andthrown away, fresh gravel being put in its place. Once aweek the entire contents of the filter are removed and re-placed with fresh gravel. The rainwater from the roof isintroduced below the water level in the cisterns so that theentering fresh water will float away into the sewer anyscum on top of the water in the cistern. The two cisternsempty into a pump pit and are controlled by valves so that. St. Louis Car-Washing Plant—Transverse Section, Show-ing Location of Sprinkler Pipes either cistern may be pumped out and cleaned whenevernecessary without interfering with the use of the othercistern. The washing crew consists of five men. One man washesthe outside of the car while four men wash the inside. The St. Louis Car-Washing Plant—Front View of Building,Showing Washing Platforms brought before the commission by the Western Union Tele-graph Company and involved a transmission line which hadbeen recently installed by the Cleveland, Painesville &Eastern Railroad on its own right-of-way. This, however,adjoined the right-of-way of the Lake Shore Railroad, andthe dispute was concerned with the character of construc-tion and location of the transmission line, which were heldto be such as to constitute a serious risk to the general pub-lic. The case aroused great interest as it opened up a largefield of possible interference with the progress of trans-mission line constructio
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