. The Street railway journal . and in Boston,and on the Versailles division of the Western Railway of France,has demonstrated the practicability of substituting electricity forsteam for all classes of congested railway service. The systemwas invented and named by Frank J. Sprague, who is well knownin the electric railway field, and a pioneer inventor of the trolleysystem, and is well covered by patents. The Sprague ElectricCompany was represented at the exhibit by Mr. Sprague, FrancisH. Shepard, George H. Hill, Henry G. Issertel, Alexander Hen-derson, S. H. Libby and H. M. Davis, and the appar
. The Street railway journal . and in Boston,and on the Versailles division of the Western Railway of France,has demonstrated the practicability of substituting electricity forsteam for all classes of congested railway service. The systemwas invented and named by Frank J. Sprague, who is well knownin the electric railway field, and a pioneer inventor of the trolleysystem, and is well covered by patents. The Sprague ElectricCompany was represented at the exhibit by Mr. Sprague, FrancisH. Shepard, George H. Hill, Henry G. Issertel, Alexander Hen-derson, S. H. Libby and H. M. Davis, and the apparatus was oftenoperated by the young son of Mr. Sprague, who takes a great in-terest in his fathers work. Through the courtesy of the Peckham 622 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XA^TT. No. 16. Truck Company, the Lorain Steel Company, and the Brooklyn at Chicago, and W. H. Fulton. The most prominent feature ofHeights Railway Company, the Spraguc Company was enabled to the exhibit, and one in which these gentlemen probably took the. EXHIBITS OF ROCHESTER CAR WHEEL WORKS, KNELL AIR BRAKE CO. AND HENR^ PELS & CO. arrange its exhibit at a late hour in the most satisfactory manner. greatest pride, was the sample heater which is to be supplied toTHE CONSOLIDATED CAR HEATING COMPANY, of tht Manhattan (elevated) Railway, of New York, for which the
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