. The Street railway journal . ate, so as to disengagethe lower ratchet-pawl; a stop in the properposition automatically re-setting the indexand pencil at zero. The makers have another form of reg-ister, which marks continually, at a muchless price than the former; its constructionis substantially the same, so far as simplic-ity is concerned. This continuous record- pavements, macadamized roads, etc., andseems especially applicable to street carhorses. Mr. Gourdier says his inventionis the result of many years experience withhorses, and that it is based upon well-knownprinciples of veterinary
. The Street railway journal . ate, so as to disengagethe lower ratchet-pawl; a stop in the properposition automatically re-setting the indexand pencil at zero. The makers have another form of reg-ister, which marks continually, at a muchless price than the former; its constructionis substantially the same, so far as simplic-ity is concerned. This continuous record- pavements, macadamized roads, etc., andseems especially applicable to street carhorses. Mr. Gourdier says his inventionis the result of many years experience withhorses, and that it is based upon well-knownprinciples of veterinary science, and that hisshoes will cure any case of lameness due toquarter crack, contracted feet or corns, andmany other cases of lameness whose causeis obscure. He is prepared to guaranteefreedom from such equine pedal ailmentsas long as his shoes are worn. Its practicalefficiency is vouched for by numerous streetrailway men, among whom we note thename of Mr. Superintendent Wilson, of theEighth Avenue line, where these shoes ar. commencing his days work must sign thesheet, which will contain the permanent re-cord of each half trip for that day. The sheet or dial is turned in at the re-ceivers office at the end of the day, tocheck any errors made by the conductoriu his daily report. It must tally exactlywith the report, in order to relieve the con-ductor from all responsibility. Thissystem tends to make the conductor hisown detective. As will be seen by reference to the en-graving, the front of the case on being un-locked, can be hinged back, thus swingingclear of the inner paper dial, the frontdial and its index hand, as well as theactuating and the recording index hand is worked by an ordinaryratchet wheel and double pawled pencil borne on a threaded rod, travelsin unison with the index hand, being al-ways directly underneath it; so that ifthe zero radial line on the paper dialsheet is under O on the outer dial plate,the pencil will commence to record at
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