. The Street railway journal . ie building on a structure 80 ft. in piping system is also connected to the tanks of the oldstation. FIRE PROTECTIONFrom the water system an 8-in. main leads to a14-in. X 75^-in. X i2-in. fire pump located in the boilerroom. This pump discharges into 4-in. fire mains whichextend under the main floor the full length of both theboiler and turbine rooms. Two risers in each room arefitted with fire hose. In the event of failure of either the 862 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIX. No. 20. well system or the city water, by closing one valve andopening anoth
. The Street railway journal . ie building on a structure 80 ft. in piping system is also connected to the tanks of the oldstation. FIRE PROTECTIONFrom the water system an 8-in. main leads to a14-in. X 75^-in. X i2-in. fire pump located in the boilerroom. This pump discharges into 4-in. fire mains whichextend under the main floor the full length of both theboiler and turbine rooms. Two risers in each room arefitted with fire hose. In the event of failure of either the 862 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIX. No. 20. well system or the city water, by closing one valve andopening another the fire pump and the boiler feed pumpsas well may be fed from either system. GENERALIn addition to the work done upon the main station, theconstruction company has installed in a sub-station locatedin the center of the business district of the city a 500-kwmotor generator. The installation of this machine neces-sitated the enlargement of the building. The station wasformerlv used only for lighting service and contained two. 50U-K\\ M( rj(iK-(,i:.\EKAT()K IX Till-: DALLAS .SUB-STATION 325-kw double motor generators connected to a 250-volt,three-wire system. The same company also made severalstructural improvements in the old power station. The Dallas Electric Corporation is managed by Stone &Webster, for whom M. M. Phinney is district manager inTexas. E. T. Moore is manager of the railway and light-ing properties in Dallas. The station was begun by theColumbia Improvement Company, who subsequently sub-let its completion to the Stone & Webster Engineering Cor-poration, constructing engineers. ♦-♦^ THE EFFECT OF THREE-WIRE OPERATION ONELECTROLYSIS IN BOSTON The publication of the April numl)er of the Proceedingsof the American Institute of Electrical Engineers has re-leased the interesting data on Boston electrical conditionspresented during the Institute discussion on electrolysis atthe March 1 meeting by Paul Winsor, chief engineer ofmotive power and rolling stock, and J
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