. The Street railway journal . .SPECTAI, WORK INSTALLATION AT MAIN AND MADISON STREETS. MEMPIIIS kind has been effected by the street railway company withthe electric light and telephone companies. In these casesthe cost of the material and labor of the pole line withoutattachments is borne in proper proportion by thecompanies interested, but each company attaches itsown crossarms and brackets. In this kind of con-struction, wood poles only are used. Those used jointly. VIEW ON POPLAR STREET, ., DURING TR/VCKCONSTRUCTION by the lighting company are of chestnut, and have10 ft. of their
. The Street railway journal . .SPECTAI, WORK INSTALLATION AT MAIN AND MADISON STREETS. MEMPIIIS kind has been effected by the street railway company withthe electric light and telephone companies. In these casesthe cost of the material and labor of the pole line withoutattachments is borne in proper proportion by thecompanies interested, but each company attaches itsown crossarms and brackets. In this kind of con-struction, wood poles only are used. Those used jointly. VIEW ON POPLAR STREET, ., DURING TR/VCKCONSTRUCTION by the lighting company are of chestnut, and have10 ft. of their butts treated with three coats of acarbolineum compound. Poles used jointly with telephonecompanies and those used by the railway company only, areof long leaf yellow pine-heart timber, and are creosotedwith 12 lbs. of dead oil coal tar per cubic ft. Previous to telephone and railway companies. In such instances thelighting companies use the top of the pole, the telephonecompanies that portion innnediately underneath, and therailway company the lower portion. In the city limits allpoles used in joint construction are set with a rake of 12ins. from the top of the pole to the rail, the rake being
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