. Railway and Locomotive Engineering . nited States began by slow degrees toadopt gas lighting for the streets, but insome quarters there was fierce oppositionand appalling prejudice. In 1833 severalhundred citizens of Philadelphia signed apetition to the common council protestingagainst the introduction of illuminatinggas into the city. They considered it, theysaid, a most inexpedient, offensive anddangerous mode of lighting. They mighthave tidded, in accordance with dis-tinguished opinion of today, that gas wasto be condemned because it was not usedby the revolutionary fathers. Our Debt to t
. Railway and Locomotive Engineering . nited States began by slow degrees toadopt gas lighting for the streets, but insome quarters there was fierce oppositionand appalling prejudice. In 1833 severalhundred citizens of Philadelphia signed apetition to the common council protestingagainst the introduction of illuminatinggas into the city. They considered it, theysaid, a most inexpedient, offensive anddangerous mode of lighting. They mighthave tidded, in accordance with dis-tinguished opinion of today, that gas wasto be condemned because it was not usedby the revolutionary fathers. Our Debt to the Horse. Indications are that in a few years me-chanical appliances will make the horse avery scarce animal. But the horse hasperformed services to man and to civil-ization greater than any other animal ex-cept perhaps the cow. The horse wasconnected with the ideals no less thanwith the realities of the phase in humanhistory that was called after him—the ageof chivalry. The mental consequences ofthe partnership betwien man and that. This is several thousand pounds heavierthan would ordinarily be necessary for aseventy-ton car of ample strength, butthese cars have been built t<j withstandvery severe service. The cars have acapacity level full of 2,840 cu. ft, and witli10-inch axerage iK-aj) of 3,157 cu. ft. Theratio of paying load to total weight ofloaded car is 72!^; per cent. The general dimensions of the car areas follows:Length over striking ! fi. 5 ins Length <-n(l sill 41 ft VA ins. ;.nL:ih iu-ide f car 40 ft U ins. Introduction of Illuminating Gas. lllnininaling gas was made byWilhain Murdock in 1792 and in 1802 heinstalled a gas plant for lighting thefoundry of Boulton & Watts engineworks. The introduction of gas for light-ing cities began sliortly afterward andmade steady pn^grcss in tlie British Islesand on the continent of Iurope. It wasextended very slowly to the United Melville, an enterprising Scot ofXewport, R. I., i
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