. The street railway review . tual practice within the next sixmonths. The West End road, of Boston, has welded astretch of track near the city hall in Cambridge. Thewelding machine has a motor transformer for giving theproper welding voltage from the current derived fromthe trolley wire. The clamps for holding the rail endsduring welding are swung from a crane at one end ofthe car. Emery wheels for cleaning the rails and watertanks for keeping the parts cool are also at hand. Inwelding a joint the paving is removed to make the jointeasily accessible to the depth of the rails. When the ironhas
. The street railway review . tual practice within the next sixmonths. The West End road, of Boston, has welded astretch of track near the city hall in Cambridge. Thewelding machine has a motor transformer for giving theproper welding voltage from the current derived fromthe trolley wire. The clamps for holding the rail endsduring welding are swung from a crane at one end ofthe car. Emery wheels for cleaning the rails and watertanks for keeping the parts cool are also at hand. Inwelding a joint the paving is removed to make the jointeasily accessible to the depth of the rails. When the ironhas been cleaned with the emery wheels the clamps arelowered and fastened and the current turned on. It takesfrom five to ten minutes to complete a weld. Beforecooling, the head of the rail at the joint is hit a fewblows with a sledge hammer to remove the burr. It is greatly to be hoped that this continuous track willnot assume a serpentine form, as is feared by many, but afew months trial will prove more than years of THE MOTORMANS DREAM AFTER THE FOURTH CONDUCTORS TRAFFIC IN TICKETS. WHERE tickets are sold in quantities at areduction there will always be the standingtemptation to the men to purchase in whole-sale on their own account and turn in more or less eachday in place of an equal number of cash fares manipulation has been recently discovered to havebeen extensively worked on the West Side lines in thiscity where the cash fare is five cents and 22 tickets aresold for one dollar. The ordinary collections per cablecar conductor are $35 per day and where the men cashedin extra tickets for say $5, the net profit was forty-fivecents, or about $125 per year. There seems to be noabsolute protection against this kind of imposition wherethe men are disposed to be dishonest, although it is notan out and out steal as in the case of a straight knock-down. As a result of the investigation quite a few newconductors have been required to fill sudden vacancies. (
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