. The Street railway journal . ion to make on the franchise matterand that its proposition will embody something about thesubway. One point which might render it impossible for the companyto build and own the subway is the fact that the Public Squarewas deeded to the city for park purposes, and it was only re-cently that the street railway company was prevented frombuilding an interurban passenger station there, on the groundthat such action might forfeit the citys right to the Square. During the present week President Andrews and a party ofhis own engineers, city officials, newspaper men and
. The Street railway journal . ion to make on the franchise matterand that its proposition will embody something about thesubway. One point which might render it impossible for the companyto build and own the subway is the fact that the Public Squarewas deeded to the city for park purposes, and it was only re-cently that the street railway company was prevented frombuilding an interurban passenger station there, on the groundthat such action might forfeit the citys right to the Square. During the present week President Andrews and a party ofhis own engineers, city officials, newspaper men and repre-sentatives of the Chamber of Commerce, have visited Bostonand New York to study the subways in these centers. 528 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. n. THE AUTOMOTONEER IN ITS NEW FORM The automotoneer for preventing too rapid advancement ofthe controller handle, or, in the language of the shop, fastfeeding, was originally made to go inside the controller andthus be a part of the controller itself. The Garton-Daniels. FIG. 1.—IMPROVED FORM OF AUTOMOTONEER Company, of Keokuk, Iowa, which has been developing this ap-paratus for the past six years, has now worked out a new typeof apparatus intended to go on top of the controller. One ofthe new automotoneers, which is shown in Fig. i, is a simpleand compact piece of apparatus which is applied by simplyslipping it over the controller and fastening it by screws to thecontroller top. It is not necessary to alter the controller in anyway except to remove the pointer collar on top of the con-troller. There are two principal parts to this apparatus: the
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