. The Street railway journal . location before erection. The towers were raisedand set, completely assembled, by the use of a tower erecting wagon had a boom 40 ft. long, which was firstraised by means of block and fall and a team of horses. Theboom was then guyed three ways and used as a gin pole forerecting the tower. On similar work the contractor with the Cleveland & Southwestern Traction Company took in$4,800, as compared with $3,800 for the previous Fourth. Inspite of record-breaking crowds, the cars were uniformly ontime and no accidents were reported on any of the numerouslin
. The Street railway journal . location before erection. The towers were raisedand set, completely assembled, by the use of a tower erecting wagon had a boom 40 ft. long, which was firstraised by means of block and fall and a team of horses. Theboom was then guyed three ways and used as a gin pole forerecting the tower. On similar work the contractor with the Cleveland & Southwestern Traction Company took in$4,800, as compared with $3,800 for the previous Fourth. Inspite of record-breaking crowds, the cars were uniformly ontime and no accidents were reported on any of the numerouslines in the State. ♦-♦^ ANNUAL SESSION OF SOCIETY OF RAILWAY CLUBSECRETARIES The Society of Railway Club Secretaries met in annualsession at the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel, Atlantic City,N. J., on June 15. After some discussion it was agreed thatthe society recommend to the various clubs that the proceed-ings of its annual meeting be published, with the officialproceedings of the first fall meeting of each club, for the. MAP SHOWING ROUTE OF HIGH-TENSION TRANSMISSION IN THE CITY OF SYRACUSE OWNED BY SYRACUSE RAPID TRANSIT COMPANY this apparatus, one team, and a gang of eight men has raisedas many as twenty towers in one day. The towers were given one shop coat of red lead and oiland one coat in the field of graphite paint. ■ ♦•♦^^ BIG DAY ON THE FOURTH FOR OHIO INTERURBANS The action of the steam roads of Ohio in refusing to grantthe usual cheap rates for July 4 turned a great mass of busi-ness to the interurban roads and furnished another exampleof how the two-cents-a-mile law is likely to prove a goodthing for the electrics rather than a detriment. Reports fromall parts of Ohio indicate that the traffic was the heaviest everexperienced, and in many cases it was simply a question ofhow many cars could be operated and how many the carswould accommodate. A large number of the lines annulledtheir freight and express runs and fitted up the express carsfor passenger
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