. The street railway review . n equipped with these wood-en carpets, in response to the question as to how he likedthem the conductor replied: ■- Say, these mats are dan-dies. .All you have to do is to raise them up, and givethem a shake, and the dirt falls out of them, and then putthem back and they are clean. Why, I have not had tosweep out mv car vet. As the car had been on theroad some time, probably three weeks, it gave even,- evi-dence that the parlA told the truth, and while it did notspeak very well for the conductor certainly was a goodsend off for the mat. 92 CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPME
. The street railway review . n equipped with these wood-en carpets, in response to the question as to how he likedthem the conductor replied: ■- Say, these mats are dan-dies. .All you have to do is to raise them up, and givethem a shake, and the dirt falls out of them, and then putthem back and they are clean. Why, I have not had tosweep out mv car vet. As the car had been on theroad some time, probably three weeks, it gave even,- evi-dence that the parlA told the truth, and while it did notspeak very well for the conductor certainly was a goodsend off for the mat. 92 CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT NOTES. New Cable Crossing. ANEW cable crossing has been patented by P. Orr, 638 Fifth Ave., Pittsburg, which isintended to reduce to a minimum the wear onropes at such points. By the use of this device the cablesare made to suffer only a slight deflection from naturallines, except at the moment when a grip is passing overthe intersection, which it does by momentum after throw-ing out the cable from the grip Having passed the crossing, the grip strikes a leverb} which the cable is lifted to a point directly oppositethe open grip-jaws, and a slight curve in the track andslot rail brings the grip where the cable can be cables then resume their normal position. One of thegreatest disadvantages at cable crossings has been theextreme wear on the ropes at such points by reason ofthe sharp depression which bends the wire in one direc-tion, onl}- to be followed a few feet distant by anotherequal but reverse bend, as it presses over the rising pul-ley. The inventor claims to overcome this unusual wearb\ his device, which is here illustrated. T. P. Bailey, the large sighted manager of the rail-way department of the Thomson-Houston Electric Co.,has an ofHce desk, built to order from his own design thatfor spacious compartments and elegance in material makesit a no small wonder. A few days ago a wealthy gen-tleman from Per land visited him and returning homew
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