. Electric railway journal . r brakes. These cars are the first street rail-way equipments in Melbourne to be fitted with pneu-matic brake equipment. One carhouse serves the entire property. This in-cludes under one roof storage for twenty cars, a work-shop fitted with a 200-ton wheel press, a wheel lathe, an 8- in. lathe, a radial drill press, a sensitive drill, an emeryand buffing wheel, and a wet emery stone. All of thesetools have individual direct motor drives from three-phase, 50-cycle, 415-volt induction motors. The samebuilding contains the substation, store, offices for staffand a mes
. Electric railway journal . r brakes. These cars are the first street rail-way equipments in Melbourne to be fitted with pneu-matic brake equipment. One carhouse serves the entire property. This in-cludes under one roof storage for twenty cars, a work-shop fitted with a 200-ton wheel press, a wheel lathe, an 8- in. lathe, a radial drill press, a sensitive drill, an emeryand buffing wheel, and a wet emery stone. All of thesetools have individual direct motor drives from three-phase, 50-cycle, 415-volt induction motors. The samebuilding contains the substation, store, offices for staffand a messroom for the men. The complete installation,which was designed by and constructed under the super-vision of the writer, was completed and placed in regularservice on Oct. 28, 1916. A Cartoon Summarizing CurrentConditions The accompanying drawing, made for this paper byJohn F. Burroughs of Baltimore, Md., tells its ownstory. As the readers of the Electric Railway Journalknow full well, the line which must operate on a 5-cent. HOW MUCH LONGER CAN A 5-CENT FARE LINE SURVIVE? fare is pitilessly bombarded by rising wages and costsof materials, well typified, as the artist has done here,by the dirigible and the airplane raining destructionfrom the clouds. The Librarians Real Duties President Brush Outlines the Value of a Company-Library and Competent Librarian to theExecutive and His Staff IN a comprehensive address delivered on June 25 byMatthew C. Brush, president of the Boston (Mass.)Elevated Railway, before the Special Libraries Asso-ciation at Louisville, the importance of the duties ofthe so-called librarian, properly executed, were pointedout. The address appears in full in the June issue ofSpecial Libraries, published by the association. It maybe said here that the Boston Elevated Railway has anextensive and up-to-date library, and President Brushis no doubt in a position to speak of its possibilitiesas an efficient information bureau. In his opinion, theemployees of the com
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