. The street railway review . —FIG. 2. mules, thirteen horse cars, and twelve and one-halfequipments of motors. The loss is about $25,000, fullyinsured. The company will soon build an iron framebuilding, covered with corrugated iron, of about 180 feetby 70 feet, for a car shed. (^ticd/9\ailw^j\cylcW* (61 AN ILLUMINATED CAR SIGN. Superintendent T. M. Jenkins of the South Covington& Cincinnati Street Railway writes us that his companyhas for some time known of an almost general feeling onthe part of the public for the necessity of an adequateroute signal for cars, especially a
. The street railway review . —FIG. 2. mules, thirteen horse cars, and twelve and one-halfequipments of motors. The loss is about $25,000, fullyinsured. The company will soon build an iron framebuilding, covered with corrugated iron, of about 180 feetby 70 feet, for a car shed. (^ticd/9\ailw^j\cylcW* (61 AN ILLUMINATED CAR SIGN. Superintendent T. M. Jenkins of the South Covington& Cincinnati Street Railway writes us that his companyhas for some time known of an almost general feeling onthe part of the public for the necessity of an adequateroute signal for cars, especially at night. A sign whichis readable night or day, and which is changeable andinexpensive, best answers the requirements of the one which is being used on the South Covington &Cincinnati cars is the invention of Bradford McGregor,. ILLUMINATED CAR SIGN. a Covington man, and is proving very satisfactory. Adark stencil properly lettered is placed over translucentglass before the front and rear dome lights of the car orany other convenient place. In the day time the reflectedrays of light give a white letter in a dark night the light inside the dome gives the same effectexcept that the sign can be read from a greater important advantage of this plan over others, involv-ing lettering in the car dome, is that the stencils can beeasily changed when the car is put on a new route. Itis also much more distinct than ordinary methods of let-tering on the dome glass. The cost is merely nominalwith the simple stencil fastenings «sed. TO PRESERVE A BATTLEFIELD. Recently the U. S. government secured a decision in acondemnation suit against the Gettysburg Electric Rail-way Company, awarding the latter $30,000 compensationfor a strip of land 6,000 feet long. The object of thegovernment is to preserve
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