. Electric railway journal . nesses including mayors, railwaymanagers and public utility experts who were pre-vented from attending the August hearings. Followingtheir testimony, the labor program will be put on andthis will require three or four days for is expected that the Amalgamated Association ofStreet and Electric Railway Employees testimony willbe conducted by W. Jett Lauck of Washington andJames H. Vahey of Boston as counsel. The questionnaire which the commission expected tosend out to a great many persons closely allied to andinterested in the street railway industry
. Electric railway journal . nesses including mayors, railwaymanagers and public utility experts who were pre-vented from attending the August hearings. Followingtheir testimony, the labor program will be put on andthis will require three or four days for is expected that the Amalgamated Association ofStreet and Electric Railway Employees testimony willbe conducted by W. Jett Lauck of Washington andJames H. Vahey of Boston as counsel. The questionnaire which the commission expected tosend out to a great many persons closely allied to andinterested in the street railway industry was completedabout two weeks ago but has not as yet been approvedby the chairman of the commission. It is expected thatit may be made public some time next week. Convenient Method for Removing Arma-tures from Box-Frame Motors THE accompanying illustration shows a method usedby the Pennsylvania-New Jersey Railway for re-moving the armatures of box frame motors in the shopat Trenton, N. J. A piece of 4-in. pipe, approximately. REMOVING AN ARMATURE FROM A BOX-FRAME MOTORWITH SIMPLE APPARATUS 6 ft. long, is placed over the end of the armature shaftafter the end housing has been removed. A sheet steelhook, made of material 2 x 7 in., and with a surface forsurrounding the axle about 9 in. long, is placed aroundthe pipe close to the armature head and the hook froma crane or hoist is hooked into this. The hook of thecrane is adjusted so as to keep the armature shaft thedesired height and a man at the end of the 4-in. pipesteadies the armature and directs its removal or rein-stallation. A man at the opposite end of the motorguides the shaft from the commutator end, so that thereis no danger of interference. The Pennsylvania-NewJersey road has but few equipments of box-framemotors and the installation of an armature-removingpress would not be warranted as it would be used too in-frequently to pay the interest on the investment. Thismethod has worked out very satisfactorily, in view ofth
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