. The street railway review . and libels the business in a most reprehensible manneras illustrated. Guess their supply of free tickets hasbeen cut off. DISPOSING OF SNOW. The Commissioner of Public Works. Chicago, hasresurrected an old ordinance which provides that thestreet-car companies must remo\e the snow piles formedon the street by the use of plows. The order has prac-tically been a dead letter always, except in the businessdistrict. KUNTZ AND RAW GEARS. A new concern in the street railway trade is theKuntz-Raw Gear Company, of 508 Montgomery Build-ing, Milwaukee. Although the gears offe
. The street railway review . and libels the business in a most reprehensible manneras illustrated. Guess their supply of free tickets hasbeen cut off. DISPOSING OF SNOW. The Commissioner of Public Works. Chicago, hasresurrected an old ordinance which provides that thestreet-car companies must remo\e the snow piles formedon the street by the use of plows. The order has prac-tically been a dead letter always, except in the businessdistrict. KUNTZ AND RAW GEARS. A new concern in the street railway trade is theKuntz-Raw Gear Company, of 508 Montgomery Build-ing, Milwaukee. Although the gears offered by thiscompanv are very low in price they are claimed to be ofthe highest quality, the low price being accovmted forb\ the methods of manufacture employed by the com-. panv. The gear cutter used, we are told, is the in\en-tion of J. L. Kuntz and will cut and finish the teeth in agear in less than one-third the time required on othermachines. A further saving is said to be effected by aprocess of manufacture which saves nearly all of thematerial usually wasted in cutting gears from the solidblank. Semi-steel is employed in all this companyssteel gears. This material was chosen because of theremarkable results obtained from it under the most se-vere conditions by the E. P. Allis Company and becauseof its superiority to other metals for the gears and pinionson the rolls of the Illinois Steel Companys Works at Mil-waukee. A GOOD SIGN. One of the best signs of the times may be noted in thecars of the Cleveland City Railway, where very suc-cessful efforts are made to keep the rolling stock neat,clean and comfortable. The sign which shows con-spicuouslv in every car. has an exellent effect and reads: * * ; NOTICE. : : Conductors must notify any passenger s
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