. Electrical news and engineering . chloride cells furnishing current for the transmitters andlamps, and twenty-four small cells operating the firealarm. The power switch-board is of polished slate, on whichare mounted all switches, lightning arresters, cut-outs,ammeters, etc., used in connection with the system. The lines were successfully transferred from the oldto the new oflfices on the evening of the 2Sth October,1896, the total time occupied in making the transferof the lines being about two minutes. The entire apparatus was manufactured for the BellTelephone Company by the Northern Elec
. Electrical news and engineering . chloride cells furnishing current for the transmitters andlamps, and twenty-four small cells operating the firealarm. The power switch-board is of polished slate, on whichare mounted all switches, lightning arresters, cut-outs,ammeters, etc., used in connection with the system. The lines were successfully transferred from the oldto the new oflfices on the evening of the 2Sth October,1896, the total time occupied in making the transferof the lines being about two minutes. The entire apparatus was manufactured for the BellTelephone Company by the Northern Electric & Manu-facturing Company, of 31 Aqueduct Street, F. G. Walsh, the district superintendent of thenorthwestern department of the Bell Telephone Co., hasalso the direct supervision of the Winnipeg office, withwhich he has been connected from the time of the firstintroduction of the telephone in the Northwest, and tohis ability, energy and good judgment much of thecompanys success in this section must be Rear \iew of Section of Switchboard, Showing Method ofWiring. The Winnipeg street railway system was recently tied up forseveral hours owing to a sudden thaw, followed by a is having an exceplional winter of sudden changes intemperature. The new electric light plant at St. Marys, Oni., was success-fully started on the first of December. It is composed of twenty-eight 2,000 c. p. Reliance arc lamps, supplied with currentfrom a Reliance dynamo, which is giving thorough was installed by Mr. H. H. Ingram, of Seaforth, and is now incharge of Mr. Jos. H. Ward, electrician, late of Toronto, who isalso installing a small incandescent plant to light Messrs. Weir &Weirs flax mills, which furnish the power for the arc plant. January, 1897 CANADIAN ELiEGTF^ICALi NEWS FIRST CANADIAN MOTOR CARRIAGE. The interest wliich has been taken of late in tiiehorseless vehicle in many parts of the world received alocal impetus by the appearance
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