. The street railway review . voirs through a pressure ofeighty atmospheres, but it has been done at the expenseof weight, as the reservoirs are quite heavy. On theNotrentline in Paris, well known to Parisian Sunday of the rain and remove its tracks before the street wasrepaired and it was obliged to pay its share of the cost ofpaving. In other words the company did not think itsfranchise was valuable enough to make it worth the costof paving, so one morning a gang of employes removedthe tracks in question. Immediately there was a greathue and cry. The citizens along the line were out-raged at
. The street railway review . voirs through a pressure ofeighty atmospheres, but it has been done at the expenseof weight, as the reservoirs are quite heavy. On theNotrentline in Paris, well known to Parisian Sunday of the rain and remove its tracks before the street wasrepaired and it was obliged to pay its share of the cost ofpaving. In other words the company did not think itsfranchise was valuable enough to make it worth the costof paving, so one morning a gang of employes removedthe tracks in question. Immediately there was a greathue and cry. The citizens along the line were out-raged at the high-handed act of lawlessness. Arestraining order was issued against the company and ata sensational meeting of the council committee on elec-tric railways, resolutions were passed calling on the com-pany to replace the tracks within forty-eight hours underpenalty of being made defendants in a suit to forfeit thefranchises on the streets from which the tracks had beenremoved. To this the directors calmly replied by mak-. ) AIR SYSTEM, AT NANTKS, KKANCK. excursionists, the reservoirs are of wrought steel, ninein number, and weigh four tons. The cylinders areone-half inch in thickness and tested to 20,000 pounds tothe square inch, but require metal of exceptional high pressure system is used for the self containedcars that must carry sufficient to bring them back to thepower-house before recharging: but for the cars whichrun on such lines as are piped for supply at frequentintervals from eight to ten atmospheres is all that isattempted. The connection of the car with the under-ground pipe for drawing a supply of air is automatic andrequires but a few moments. ing a formal surrender of franchise to the ma\or, andasked permission to repair the paving left in bad shapeby the removal of the tracks. The latest news from theseat of war is that the city has begun a suit against thecompany on the grounds that by forfeiting its franchiseon part of a street i
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