. The street railway review . ns to zero. To take a statement of the register, insert a card in .slot,depress a lever and the number is embossed thereon andcannot be changed or tampered with. Every good thing has its drawbacks. Down in St. Louisthe other day a passenger leaned against the stove, whena box of matches in his pocket caught fire, which was notextinguished until the passenger was put out. It wouldnaturalK- put an^one out. Prices Railway Appliance Companys ImprovedStreet Railway Construction. THE Philadelphia rail has been not only well knownfor a long time, but very generalh used,
. The street railway review . ns to zero. To take a statement of the register, insert a card in .slot,depress a lever and the number is embossed thereon andcannot be changed or tampered with. Every good thing has its drawbacks. Down in St. Louisthe other day a passenger leaned against the stove, whena box of matches in his pocket caught fire, which was notextinguished until the passenger was put out. It wouldnaturalK- put an^one out. Prices Railway Appliance Companys ImprovedStreet Railway Construction. THE Philadelphia rail has been not only well knownfor a long time, but very generalh used, especialhin the east, and now an entirely new system oftrack building is offered to the street railwa\^vorld from this same city and is the inyention of thePrice Railway Appliance Company. The disadvantagesof the old tram rail which like horse cars were kept inuse so long because of the absence of anything better aretoo well understood to require any extended notice chief objections being decay of the wooden stringer. PRICES LIGHT on which they are laid, causing the spikes to loosen andpull out or the rail to turn on its side owing to the wear-ing away bv street traffic of the heads of the spikes, andbroken joints which can never be kept up: all of theabove causes unite to shorten the life of the rail. Neces-sity was the mother of the girder rail. To secure a bet-ter joint bv permitting the use of splice-bars, but particu-larly to meet the demand which then became most urgentfor a track which could carry not only the weight of
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