. The Street railway journal . ith a veryhandsome little catalogue describing his apparatus. H. J. Wightman & Co., of Scranton Pa., were represented byH. J. Wightman. This company showed an automatic block signalfor electric railways, and also a full line of overhead material. Thesignal exhibit was arranged and connected up electrically to work as ifin practical operation. The signal is operated by the passing of the trolley over a contact device which lights up or extinguishes lampsplaced in boxes for this purpose; the danger signal is red and the clearsignal white. This system is in operatio
. The Street railway journal . ith a veryhandsome little catalogue describing his apparatus. H. J. Wightman & Co., of Scranton Pa., were represented byH. J. Wightman. This company showed an automatic block signalfor electric railways, and also a full line of overhead material. Thesignal exhibit was arranged and connected up electrically to work as ifin practical operation. The signal is operated by the passing of the trolley over a contact device which lights up or extinguishes lampsplaced in boxes for this purpose; the danger signal is red and the clearsignal white. This system is in operation on the lines of the Middle-town & Goshen Traction Company, Middletown, N. Y. The Ohio Brass Co., of Mansfield, O., showed a full line of typeW overhead construction material, also the Jewell trolley sling, Spill-man trolley ear, the pneumatic quick-break switch, a full line of motorbearings, the reversible and adjustable track broom holder, the Ohiotrolley, Woods flexible pole bracket and other specialties. The large. THE CREAGHEAD ENGINEERING EXHIBIT. sample board on which was displayed many of the companys special-ties was tastefully and elegantly gotten up. The company distributeda magnificent souvenir, illustrating the various devices used in electricstreet railway work and manufactured solely by them. C. K. Kingofficiated. The Adams & Westlake Co., of Chicago, was represented by Gray, of Chicago, and Geo. A. Cushing, of New York. Sampleswere shown of Acme curtains for open street cars, shades for car win-dows, Bessemer sheet steel headlights and Emery platform gates Thecurtains for car windows and open cars attracted considerable was stated that, although the patent on this style of curtain wasgranted only about nine months ago, more than 10,000 of them havesince been sold. The principal feature of the platform gate is theease with which it can be operated by one man only. Various stylesof leather hand straps were also shown. The Sterling Supply &
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