. The street railway review . 1,833,327—an increase of ; car milesrun 272,880. Postal letter boxes are attached toall cars. The manager is Dr. Tyrrell; secretary (^Stnhtj^^jih^)^^ 285 GATES FOR WALLABOUT DRAW ATBROOKLYN. The accompanying illustrations are of a new form ofgate used at the Washington avenue draw bridge overthe Wallabout canal at Brooklyn, N. Y. Although inits present form it is hardly- strong enough to be any \ J% A ^ mear-vm 1 7H ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^1 ^^S^B ^ *^- ■* W i ^^^^H -:■ ■ « i m !iM!iir •.;uiit:»»«i**a ^g|- diiyite^?-11 GATES OPEN. protection to street
. The street railway review . 1,833,327—an increase of ; car milesrun 272,880. Postal letter boxes are attached toall cars. The manager is Dr. Tyrrell; secretary (^Stnhtj^^jih^)^^ 285 GATES FOR WALLABOUT DRAW ATBROOKLYN. The accompanying illustrations are of a new form ofgate used at the Washington avenue draw bridge overthe Wallabout canal at Brooklyn, N. Y. Although inits present form it is hardly- strong enough to be any \ J% A ^ mear-vm 1 7H ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^1 ^^S^B ^ *^- ■* W i ^^^^H -:■ ■ « i m !iM!iir •.;uiit:»»«i**a ^g|- diiyite^?-11 GATES OPEN. protection to street cars it might be made so. The gateswere designed and erected by Augustus Smith, of Brook-lyn. They have great strength in a minimum of limited room at the approach made it very desirableto have a gate such as this which would fold up in linewith the central girder of the bridge. The gate properis in three parts. The main or central part is simply aniron frame turning on a central post. At each end are. GATES CLOSED. wings operated by a bevel gear as can be seen. Themotion of the main gate around the center post turnsthe gearing and swings the wings out. When the gate isclosed the wings are folded up against the gate as shown. When the gate is opened out across the street the outerends of the wings are against two posts which take thestrain and relieve the gears. The central post turns ona ball bearing and the central gear is protected with aniron case. TOO MANY ELECTRO MAGNETIC TRAC-TION COMPANIES. A bill in equity has been tiled in the United Statescircuit court at Philadelphia by the Electro-MagneticTraction Company, incorporated in West Virginia, andhaving its principal place of business in Washington, against the Electro-Magnetic Traction Company,incorporated in Pennsylvania and having its principalplace of business in Philadelphia, asking for an injunc-tion to enjoin the defendant companv from doing busi-ness under the name it has adopte
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