. The Street railway journal . was read by the Committee on Brake Shoes under whose direction along series of tests, extending over two years or more, had been con-ducted. The test, which was carried on by practical railroad men,showed a very high efficiency for the Kinzer & Jones brake the report, S. P. Busch, superintendent of motive power of thePennsylvania Railroad and chairman of the committee, states thatthe life of the shoe compared with that of an ordinary cast ironshoe, is as three to one. The company was represented by of Pittsburgh. The Seamless Structural Compa
. The Street railway journal . was read by the Committee on Brake Shoes under whose direction along series of tests, extending over two years or more, had been con-ducted. The test, which was carried on by practical railroad men,showed a very high efficiency for the Kinzer & Jones brake the report, S. P. Busch, superintendent of motive power of thePennsylvania Railroad and chairman of the committee, states thatthe life of the shoe compared with that of an ordinary cast ironshoe, is as three to one. The company was represented by of Pittsburgh. The Seamless Structural Company, of Milwaukee, manufactur-ing the Christensen air brake and appliances, made no exhibit at theexposition. The companys brakes have been in continuous use onsome of the single and double truck cars of the Milwaukee ElectricRailway & Light Company for fourteen months and it was the in-tention to ship one or two of these cars to St. Louis to be run on thetracks during the convention, but the difference in gauge did not. EXHIBIT OF SCARRITT FURNITURE CO. admit of this being done without extensive changes. N. A. Chris-tensen, the mechanical engineer and representative of the companyat St. Louis, is one of the pioneers in the street car air brake field andclaims to be the first to construct a thoroughly dustproof, selfcontained air pump for this work. The company claims to havemade great advances in air brakes and appliances and believes thatit has a system that will meet every objection heretofore broughtup against the use of air brakes for street cars. It is now preparedto supply this apparatus under written guarantee both as to relia-bility and cost of repairs. The National Carbon Company, of Cleveland, O., had a veryattractive exhibit in the southeastern corner of the hall. Thecompany manufactures electric light carbons, battery carbons, car-bon brushes for dynamos and motors, smelting carbons, etc., andexhibited a wide variety of these different forms of carbons. Themotor and
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