. The Street railway journal . th an internal diameter of 9 ft. 6 ins. 290 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVIIL No. id. Water will be obtained from an artesian well, 13^ ins. indiameter, which is being bored in the boiler room. It has reacheda depth of 500 ft., and when completed is expected to yield 12,000gals, of water per hour. Some particulars might now be given of the cost of construc-tion and the results secured in operation. The estimated ex-penditure for the first section of the combined schemes was, forthe tramways, £, and for the lighting, £41,428. A further estimated expenditur
. The Street railway journal . th an internal diameter of 9 ft. 6 ins. 290 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVIIL No. id. Water will be obtained from an artesian well, 13^ ins. indiameter, which is being bored in the boiler room. It has reacheda depth of 500 ft., and when completed is expected to yield 12,000gals, of water per hour. Some particulars might now be given of the cost of construc-tion and the results secured in operation. The estimated ex-penditure for the first section of the combined schemes was, forthe tramways, £, and for the lighting, £41,428. A further estimated expenditure in con-nection with the TramwaysExtension Order of 1900 tothe extent of £42,220 hassince been granted, togetherwith £6,540 for extensions oflighting cables, and £2,645for building extensions, mak-ing a total estimated expendi-ture of £ 140,593. The tramway system wasput in operation on Saturday,June 22. The service was be-gun at 3:30 p. m. and con-tinued until 11:30 p. m. Dur- Notes on Modern Electric Railway Practice*. POWbR STATION, EAST HAM CORPORATION ing this time only eight cars were used; but 13,660 passengers werecarried during the evening. The average results per day for thefirst complete weeks working, as given in the Tranizcay and Rail-way World, were as follows: Number of cars 11 Car miles 905 Units (kw-hour) supplied 718 Units per car miles .79 Receipts £67 13s. 6d. Receipts per car mile Passengers carried 20,149 Total number of passengers carried 141,140 Total mileage for the week 6,336 ♦>> A Complete Technolexicon The Society of German Engineers (Verein Deutscher Inge-nieure) has undertaken to compile and publish a complete tech-nical dictionary in German, English and French. Such a workwill be of great, and eventually of indispensable, value to all tech-nical trades and professions throughout the world. The Verein Deutscher Ingenieure invites the collaboration oftechnical societies, associations, colleges, industrial establishmentsand tr
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