. Railway mechanical engineer . aft gear. Both designs are covered by patentsissued to E. G. Chenoweth, J. J. Acker and G. A. Hull,all of tlic Rock Island. SiiiKRLAX One-Third EFiiciiiNT.—Inefficienttransportation service by the Trans-Sil)erian Railroad is re-sponsible for an immense congestion of traffic at Vladivostok,was the statement of S. R. Bertron, a member of the American( ommission to Russia, at the second conference of the Rus-sian-American Chamber of Commerce held recently in NewYork. The Trans-Siberian Railroad is only giving aboutthirty per cent efficiency, Mr. Bertron
. Railway mechanical engineer . aft gear. Both designs are covered by patentsissued to E. G. Chenoweth, J. J. Acker and G. A. Hull,all of tlic Rock Island. SiiiKRLAX One-Third EFiiciiiNT.—Inefficienttransportation service by the Trans-Sil)erian Railroad is re-sponsible for an immense congestion of traffic at Vladivostok,was the statement of S. R. Bertron, a member of the American( ommission to Russia, at the second conference of the Rus-sian-American Chamber of Commerce held recently in NewYork. The Trans-Siberian Railroad is only giving aboutthirty per cent efficiency, Mr. Bertron said. On the booksof the line are double the number of locomotives the Penn-sylvania Railroad has per mile. There are three times asmany men employed on the Trans-Siberian Railroad as thePennsylvania has, and yet the efficiency is only thirty percent. It is expected that our government will be able tointroduce a total of 75 locomotives and 1,000 cars in Rus-sia during the present year, but this is only a small fraction ^^^C^^. ■ JOT Details of Draft A of bolster and sills on the line of draft. The building of the of what Russia requires in the way of railroad equipment, reinforcing requires a comparatively small amount of labor [Press despatches October 16 said that the Stevens Com- and the application is very easy as the main member can mission had improved the situation at Vladivostok, increas- be jacked directly into position between the sills. ing the efficiency of the railroad 25 per cent.]
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