. The Street railway journal . L ROOM -VXD BOWLING Alliance,remaininitrip rate the cars running directly to the park, and ;■ until after the theater, giving a round- of 50 cents. There is a Canton city line run- ning to the park on a 12-minute headway all day, andthis is increased to 6 minutes in the evening and 3 September 22, 1906.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 429 minutes on Sundays and busy days. These cars run to thePublic Square, where they connect with all city and inter-urban lines. The park has a double system of illumination. There isone line running directly to the 500-volt direct-curren
. The Street railway journal . L ROOM -VXD BOWLING Alliance,remaininitrip rate the cars running directly to the park, and ;■ until after the theater, giving a round- of 50 cents. There is a Canton city line run- ning to the park on a 12-minute headway all day, andthis is increased to 6 minutes in the evening and 3 September 22, 1906.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 429 minutes on Sundays and busy days. These cars run to thePublic Square, where they connect with all city and inter-urban lines. The park has a double system of illumination. There isone line running directly to the 500-volt direct-current bus-bar in the power station and a 13,000-volt high-tention lineleading to a three-phase transformer, which reduces the cur-rent to no volts. The transformers and switching apparatusare contained in a small transformer station, and the lightingservice is in charge of an electrician in constant entrance to the park, several of the l)uildings, and thewalks to the theater and along the lake have arches outlined. engineer and master mechanic, who formerly occupied a simi-lar position with the Dayton & Troy Electric Railway. Thesegentlemen came, with the company the first of the year, andthey are responsible for many of the innovations which havelately been introduced. ♦-♦> HOLDING POWER OF RAILROAD SPIKES The Forest Service of the United States Government hascompleted a series of tests to determine the holding power ofdifferent forms of railroad spikes. The tests were made onordinary commercial ties of loblolly pine, oak, chestnut, andother woods. The spikes used were of four kinds: common
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