. The street railway review . the standard and capabilities of electric railwayappliances, and is entided to great credit and all the suc-cess it has attained. A NEW wrinkle has been worked of late on the unsus-pecting street railway public of Cleveland. A well-dressed young man would enter a crowded car and pushto the front, where he would rap smartly on the glass ofthe window of the door, and as one or more passengershanded back their various pieces of money the recipientwould quickly make his way out and leave the car. Adjustable Track Brush Holder. ONE of the neatest as it is among the sim
. The street railway review . the standard and capabilities of electric railwayappliances, and is entided to great credit and all the suc-cess it has attained. A NEW wrinkle has been worked of late on the unsus-pecting street railway public of Cleveland. A well-dressed young man would enter a crowded car and pushto the front, where he would rap smartly on the glass ofthe window of the door, and as one or more passengershanded back their various pieces of money the recipientwould quickly make his way out and leave the car. Adjustable Track Brush Holder. ONE of the neatest as it is among the simplest ofrecent inventions in railway appliances is that nowput on the market by the Northern Car Com-pany, of Minneapolis. Instead of the stationary castingfor holding the track broom which has been in generaluse, the adjustable holder goes farther and by a simpleclamp which can be set or loosened by the thumb andtinger allows the placing of the brush in any desired posi-tion. If a light snow or mud are on the rails when the. cars start out, the brush is turned down and clamped tosweep, but after one or two trips when the rail is cleanedit is unnecessary to remove the brush, as the driver canthrow it out of action in an instant. By this arrangement itis always ready and yet there is not an hours needlesswear. The brushes are set in rows sufficiently distant toinsure a clean broom and no clogging with snow or the brush becomes worn it may be let down byloosening a bolt shown in the engraving, by whicharrangement it is possible to use the brush until all wornaway. The device is the invention of SuperintendentWardwell, of the Duluth Street Railway, where it wasin use all last winter and proved perfectly satisfactory. Shaws Steel Spring. SUMMER and winter cars go and come in season,but S. H. Shaw, of Kansas, has constructed a springcar intended to go all the time. The springs, ofwhich there are eight in number, are wound in barrels 26inches in diameter, the outer edges of
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