. The Street railway journal . ay & Light Company hasrecently placed an order with the General Electric Company,of Schenectady, N. Y., for a single-phase apparatus forthe equipment of two extensions which the company isbuilding. One of these extensions is from the present ter-minal of the Waukesha Beach line on Pewaukee Lake toOconomowoc, and the other is an extension of the MuskegoLakes line from Muskego Center to Mukwonago and EastTroy. The company has adopted single-phase electricalequipment for these outlying lines to avoid the necessity ofadditional power houses or sub-stations. ♦-♦* REPO
. The Street railway journal . ay & Light Company hasrecently placed an order with the General Electric Company,of Schenectady, N. Y., for a single-phase apparatus forthe equipment of two extensions which the company isbuilding. One of these extensions is from the present ter-minal of the Waukesha Beach line on Pewaukee Lake toOconomowoc, and the other is an extension of the MuskegoLakes line from Muskego Center to Mukwonago and EastTroy. The company has adopted single-phase electricalequipment for these outlying lines to avoid the necessity ofadditional power houses or sub-stations. ♦-♦* REPORT MADE ON THE SANITARY CONDITIONS OFTHE NEW YORK SUBWAY George A. Soper, Ph. D., consulting sanitary engineer ofthe Rapid Transit Commission, states that the average tem-perature in the Subway during last July and August degs. higher than in the streets, and that in the hottestweek it was about 10 degs. higher. He does not considerthis injurious to health, if the Subway is kept clean. There I <«■» 0 A 1/. SEMAPHORE AT STATION SIGNAL LANTERN AT STATION SIGNAL LANTERN IN TUNNEL error, on account of the actual working of the signals androad levers, being governed by the track circuit and the po-sition of the trains. The correct location of the trains en-ables the right apparatus to become free for operation. The is only a slight decrease in the average amount of oxygenand a slight increase in carbon-dioxide as compared with theoutside air, and of bacteria there were more than twice asmany in the streets as in the Subway. Recommendations signal can be put to danger at any time when desired, but are made for improving the sanitary conditions. March 3, 1906.] STREET RAIL-WAY JOURNAL. 365 CREO-RESINATE WOOD BLOCKS FOR PAVING The recent decision of the city of New York to have overa mile of the busiest part of Broadway—from the Battery
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