. The Street railway journal . etallic base having meansfor holding a block of wood at each end to which the rail isspiked. 853,618. Circuit-Closing Device; Rollin A. Baldwin, NewHaven, Conn. App. filed July ig, 1906. A circuit-closing devicefor trolle3S, adapted to complete a circuit through a magnet orother device when a trolley car passes a given point. Has twolong, flexible strips which engage the side of the wheel in pass-ing, whereby a good electrical circuit is made without any ten-dency to displace the wheel from the wire. 853741. Metallic Tie and Rail Fastener; La Verne Simpsonand Jac
. The Street railway journal . etallic base having meansfor holding a block of wood at each end to which the rail isspiked. 853,618. Circuit-Closing Device; Rollin A. Baldwin, NewHaven, Conn. App. filed July ig, 1906. A circuit-closing devicefor trolle3S, adapted to complete a circuit through a magnet orother device when a trolley car passes a given point. Has twolong, flexible strips which engage the side of the wheel in pass-ing, whereby a good electrical circuit is made without any ten-dency to displace the wheel from the wire. 853741. Metallic Tie and Rail Fastener; La Verne Simpsonand Jacob Stein, Pittsburg, Pa. App. filed Feb. 11, 1907. Rail-engaging lugs are cut from the body of the tie and suitably bent. 853,886. Safety Device for Railways; Otto F. Kloetzer andWilliain A. Borders, Washington, Ind. -App. filed Nov. 9, 1906. Conn. App. filed Oct. 24, 1905. A circular track inclosed ina building, the inner side of which consists of a screen on whichmoving pictures may be reproduced. ♦-♦^» PERSONAL MENTION. PATENT NO. 853,245 Comprises track rails divided into blocks, sectional conductorrails divided into blocks and connected to the track rails of ad-jacent blocks, and means carried by the train for delivering acurrent of electricity to the conductor rails and receiving a cur-rent from the track rails. 853,838. Current Collector; Samuel B. Stewart, Schenec-tady, N. Y. App. filed Aug. i, 1906. An overhead trolley col-lector or shoe which is impelled upward vertically by a spring-impelled lazy-tongs device. 853,898. Amusement Device; Robert F. Rice, Bridgeport, MR. WARREN S. HALL, general manager of the LehighValley Transit Company, of Allentown. Pa., has been electedvice-president of the company. MR. EDWARD W. i\IOORE, of the Everett-Moore syndicate,has been appointed president of the Cleveland, Painesville &Eastern Railway Company, of Cleveland, to succeed Mr. CharlesWason. resigned. MR. R. T. LAFFIN, who went to Manila in 1903 as generalmanager of the
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