. The Street railway journal . he was mechanical draughtsman in the locomotive departmentof the Wabash Railway Company, at Springfield, 111.; during thenext seven years he was engineer of the St. Louis divisionof the vSt. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway. From 1883to 18S5 he was a member of the contracting firm of S. W. Crawford& Company, and in 1S86 and 1887 was superintendent of the AllenGold Mining Company. vSince June, 1887, Mr. Bartlett has been almost exclusively in thestreet railway business, having been connected with the construct-ing and operating departments of vari
. The Street railway journal . he was mechanical draughtsman in the locomotive departmentof the Wabash Railway Company, at Springfield, 111.; during thenext seven years he was engineer of the St. Louis divisionof the vSt. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway. From 1883to 18S5 he was a member of the contracting firm of S. W. Crawford& Company, and in 1S86 and 1887 was superintendent of the AllenGold Mining Company. vSince June, 1887, Mr. Bartlett has been almost exclusively in thestreet railway business, having been connected with the construct-ing and operating departments of various roads, among the most im-portant in St. Louis are: the Olive vStreet Cable, the BroadwayCable, the Market .Street electric line, the Forest Iark, Laclede &Fourth Street, the Cass Avenue & Iair Grounds, the vSt. Louis &.Suburban, the Southern Railroad, the Benton & Bellefontaine, the. A. C. THOMPSON, T, F. SNEED, ELECTRICIAN, MISSOURI SUPERINTENDENT, ST. LOUIS RAILRO.\D CO. & SUBURBAN CO. Grand Avenue Railwa}-, the Midland electric, and the St. Louis andMeremec River. Mr. Bartlett is at present chief engineer of the St. Louis &vSiiburbaii and of the Meremec River Railway Companies. He alsohas a good practice as consulting engineer. Portable Rail Saws for Electric Railways. The use of portable rail saws, according to the O. & C. Com-pany, the manufacturer of the Brj-ant metal sawing machine, is in-creasing rapidly, and there are now 129 different roads using thismachine. One company, which had previously made its frogs,crossings, switches, etc., in its own shops without the aid of a metalsaw, installed one of these No. 10 saws last spring and is able to re-port, it is said, an actual saving of about $5 per day, obtaining thisresult with one-half the number of men previously employed to dothis work. Owing to the availibility of electric power 01
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