Electrical news and engineering . toba. George L. Guy, has been engaged by the City of FortWilliam to investigate and report on the construction, opera-tion, and management of the municipal Electric RailwaySystem. It has been showing a loss for a number of years,and it is hoped by reorganization and improved operatingmethods, to be able to better its standing. The investiga-tion is to start on the morning of October the 1st. and thereport will be available about three weeks later. The Canadian General Electric Co. Ltd., having re-cently absorbed the Canadian Edison Appliance Co., E, Bric


Electrical news and engineering . toba. George L. Guy, has been engaged by the City of FortWilliam to investigate and report on the construction, opera-tion, and management of the municipal Electric RailwaySystem. It has been showing a loss for a number of years,and it is hoped by reorganization and improved operatingmethods, to be able to better its standing. The investiga-tion is to start on the morning of October the 1st. and thereport will be available about three weeks later. The Canadian General Electric Co. Ltd., having re-cently absorbed the Canadian Edison Appliance Co., E, Brickenden, recently western representative of thelatter firm has joined the staff of the Canadian GeneralElectric Winnipeg. He will continue to look after theHotpoint lines in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and . will handle the jobbing end as in the past, includingthe branches. Mr. Cleveland, consulting engineer, was a recent visitorto Winnipeg where he investigated the operations of theWinnipeg Hydro-electric So many accidents happened afterthe severe storm that visted Winni-peg this year, when there were manyfallen wires, it was deemed neces-sary to use safety first accompanying cartoon was partof it. THE E L K (I R I C A 1. N F. W S A Brief Discussion of the Vacuum Tube asAdapted to Wireless Telephony Application First Made in Wired Telephony—TheWehnelt Cathode—Curves Obtained With Peanut Tube By W. B. CARTMEL, , * Tlu lecture that I am going to give you tliis afternoonco\crs the transmission of speech and music by radio. WhatI have in mind is a discussion of the finer points of receiv-ing and transmitting equipment which are necessary in or-der to satisfactorily transmit speech or music. Such trans-mission has only been rendered possible by the developmentof the vacuum tube, so that my paper will include a verybrief discussion of these tubes and especially of the peanuttube in which I believe you are all extremely


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