. The street railway review . ELECTRIC HEAD LIGHT WITH REVOLVING SIGN. dient, an improved form of oil headlight is made by thesame company and illustrated above. Its catalog num-ber is 167, and it combines all the superior features of theelectric headlight with the oil luminant. It is easily trans-ferable to either end of the car and gives a steady pene-trating light. A cheaper article without the is numbered as 166, but is fitted with the mirrorplate or parabolic metal reflector, as is desired. Thewick turns down easily and is not affected by the joltingof the car. Its clear l
. The street railway review . ELECTRIC HEAD LIGHT WITH REVOLVING SIGN. dient, an improved form of oil headlight is made by thesame company and illustrated above. Its catalog num-ber is 167, and it combines all the superior features of theelectric headlight with the oil luminant. It is easily trans-ferable to either end of the car and gives a steady pene-trating light. A cheaper article without the is numbered as 166, but is fitted with the mirrorplate or parabolic metal reflector, as is desired. Thewick turns down easily and is not affected by the joltingof the car. Its clear light and freedom from objec- tionable odor gives it great advantage over ordinarycheap headlights. It is six dollars cheaper than the fore-going. The American Reflector Company is not new inthe business, as their factories at 215, 217, 219South Clinton street testify. The railway headlight. OIL HEAD LICHI WITH RE\OLVIXG SIGN. branch, however, is a later venture, which their wide ex-perience and large facilities justify. Their goods havethe backing of a fair fame and fortune and deserve a warmreception from the trade. Catalogs and information onapplication. THE COMBINED RAILWAY AND LIGHTPLANT AT ASHLAND. ANOTHER consolidation of electric light and rail-way work is found in a new plant at Ashland,Wisconsin. It is said to be one of the finest in thenorthwest. About 200-horse-power capacity is devotedto the railway department and 300 to the electric high speed engines are used with General ElectricCompanys electrical machinery. The question of plantsfor supplying both light and railway power has been fromtime to time discussed in conventions and in the technicalpress, but has never been agitated at length. If there iseconomy in large plants against small ones, there oughtto be economy in such combined plants. CONCORDS CASE. A BIG dam enterprise is on foot in and
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