. The Street railway journal . wires. Eachtelephone is furnished with a holder, which is placed in the car inany convenient place. This holder is station-ary, but the telephone can be removedfiom the car, as shown in the secondillustration, where the line is too far from to be reached by the connecting cord, orwhere, for any reason, this method is thoughtpreferable, as, for example, in a crowded field box shown in this cut has a slopingroof protecting the terminals of the telephonecircuit, which receive the hooks on the portablepole, and, being much nearer the ground, doesn
. The Street railway journal . wires. Eachtelephone is furnished with a holder, which is placed in the car inany convenient place. This holder is station-ary, but the telephone can be removedfiom the car, as shown in the secondillustration, where the line is too far from to be reached by the connecting cord, orwhere, for any reason, this method is thoughtpreferable, as, for example, in a crowded field box shown in this cut has a slopingroof protecting the terminals of the telephonecircuit, which receive the hooks on the portablepole, and, being much nearer the ground, doesnot require the use of such a long pole It is evi-dent that with the telephone remaining in the car connection couldbe made to the field box in the same manner as to be the overheadwires themselves. This is of service where the wires are sus-pended at a distance above the track too great for the length ofthe pole, although the much simpler expedient of dropping wirehooks down from the line to the required level is adopted where. TELEPHONE IN USE ON CAR TELEPHONE TRANSFERRED TO POLE The brake is being manufactured by the Rote Track Brake Com-pany, Lancaster, Pa. ♦ ♦♦ A Portable Telephone for Trolley Cars The accompanying cuts illustrate a device by means of whichthe conductor of a car is at all times able to communicate withthe office or power station. The system comprises many in-genious features, as every precaution has been taken to make itthoroughly reliable, and its extreme simplicity, both of construc-tion and operation, will do much toward recommending it to themanagers of street railways in general, but especially of thoseroads which traverse long stretches of open country. The mode of application is well shown in the engravings. Ajointed pole, through the center of which passes the doubletelephone cord, is provided at one end with wide-spreading hooks,and at the other end with short-contact pins. The hooks are many of these cases occur. Cleats are provided on the p
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