. The Street railway journal . the machines in position in a skill-ful and workmanlike manner. two sections connected by an electric railroad. Thegenerating plant will be in the Palais des Machines, atthe Champs de Mars, while the different electrical plantaccessories will be shown in operation in the Palais de1 Industrie at the Champs-Elysees. July, 1894.] THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 459 Electric Conduit Road in New York. President Vreeland, of the Metropolitan Street Rail-way Company, in an interview last month stated that acontract had been given to the General Electric Companyto construct
. The Street railway journal . the machines in position in a skill-ful and workmanlike manner. two sections connected by an electric railroad. Thegenerating plant will be in the Palais des Machines, atthe Champs de Mars, while the different electrical plantaccessories will be shown in operation in the Palais de1 Industrie at the Champs-Elysees. July, 1894.] THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 459 Electric Conduit Road in New York. President Vreeland, of the Metropolitan Street Rail-way Company, in an interview last month stated that acontract had been given to the General Electric Companyto construct three miles of conduit road over a route notyet selected. The voltage used will be 300. The road-bed and conduit will be built precisely in the same man- conduit railway, and, as a result, patent litigation on thesubject is extremely possible in case the experiment issuccessful. Large Electrical Contract Awarded in Chicago. On June 22, the Metropolitan West Side ElevatedRailway Company let its contract for generators, switch-. FIG. 18.—SINGLE 10-INCH VICTOR TURBINE ON HORIZONTAL SHAFT. ner as if a cable were to be used, and the road can bechanged to a cable road later, if it should prove Siemens & Halske Company will not build a sectionof conduit track in New York, as was at first proposed. board, motors, line and construction work to the GeneralElectric Company. The amount of the contract issaid to be about $200,000. There will be two generatorsof 1,500 k. w. each and two 800 k. w. machines. At pres-
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