. The Street railway journal . ghth floor of the RialtoBuilding. All the gold coin in the treasurers ofiice, containedin a separate safe, escaped unharmed, but the silver is un-recognizable. It consists of a small truckload of blackenedmasses of metal of irregular shape. Various metals are fused inthe melted masses of coin, so that the company will probably beput to the expense of having them melted and refined. Treas-urer Starr says that silver, nickel, copper and iron in unknownquantities are present in the big chunks of metal, the coppercoming from melted one-cent pieces and the iron from t
. The Street railway journal . ghth floor of the RialtoBuilding. All the gold coin in the treasurers ofiice, containedin a separate safe, escaped unharmed, but the silver is un-recognizable. It consists of a small truckload of blackenedmasses of metal of irregular shape. Various metals are fused inthe melted masses of coin, so that the company will probably beput to the expense of having them melted and refined. Treas-urer Starr says that silver, nickel, copper and iron in unknownquantities are present in the big chunks of metal, the coppercoming from melted one-cent pieces and the iron from theboxes in which the rolls of coin were packed. 76 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXVIIL No. 2. TWO FORMS OF TRANSMISSION TOWERS IN NEWYORK STATE In the Street Railway Journal for Nov. 18, 1895, anillustration was published of the steel tower adopted by theNew York Central & Hudson River Railroad for carryingtransmission wires, signal wires, telephone and telegraphlines, etc., within its electrical zone in and near New York. The general conditions in installing the line are as follows:Distance from the center to center of poles on tangents is150 ft., sag 30 ins.; distance on i deg. curve is 141 ft., sag 27ins.; on 2 deg. curve 133 ft., sag 24 ins.; on 3 deg. curve 125ft., sag 21 ins.; on 4 deg. curve, 118 ft., sag 183^ ins.; on 5deg. curve 112 ft., sag 163/2 ins.; on 6 deg. curve 107 ft., sag15 ins. The sag of wires for all spans is computed at 70 with no wind. Load on poles: Six-wire circuit No. i,each ins. diameter, area 400,000 cm., weight lbs.
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