. The Street railway journal . is in reality only a curved shelf with upturned edges. Apaddle reciprocates over this shelf and each movement of it pushesthe sand over the upturned ends of the shelf to the feed spout whichleade to the track. It will be seen that the operation box reallyconsists of dipping the sand out of the top of the box and feedinga small quantity at a time. R. T. Ham was present. Limburg, Sickel & Company, sole agents for the Trentontrolley wagon for the patentees and manufacturers, McCardell,West & Company, exhibited one of their trolley wagons for overheadline constructio
. The Street railway journal . is in reality only a curved shelf with upturned edges. Apaddle reciprocates over this shelf and each movement of it pushesthe sand over the upturned ends of the shelf to the feed spout whichleade to the track. It will be seen that the operation box reallyconsists of dipping the sand out of the top of the box and feedinga small quantity at a time. R. T. Ham was present. Limburg, Sickel & Company, sole agents for the Trentontrolley wagon for the patentees and manufacturers, McCardell,West & Company, exhibited one of their trolley wagons for overheadline construction. The tower in this wagon is telescopic in con-struction and when lowered occupies but little room on the upper part is raised by a crank and windlass and can be lockedwith the tower at any height. When the desired height of thetower is reached, the platform can be revolved in any position de-sired and can then be set. The body of the wagon was painted arich maroon. J. R. McCardell represented the EXHIBIT OF ST. LOUIS CAR WHEEL CO. The Devlin Street Car Brake Company, of Memphis, Tenn.,was represented by A. S. Buchanan and E. Prouty. It had on ex-hibition a model of the Devlin brake and referred to cars on boththe Ivindell and the Suburban roads in St. Louis, where these brakeswere in practical operation. The principal points claimed for thisbrake are economy of construction, absolute prevention of flatwheels and quick stops. The company claims to be able to stop acar running at the rate of twenty miles an hour within the carslength. A novel feature of the brake is the combination of the railand wheel shoes, both acting together on the wheel and rail. The Electric Railwray Equipment Company, of Cincinnati, O.,was unable to make its intended exhibit, owing to sickness in thefamily of S. J. Wick. The company, however, was worthily repre-sented by E. P. Morris, New York agent, and by W. R. Mason, ofthe Mason Electric Equipment Company, Chicago agent. Thiscomp
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