. The Street railway journal . STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. could otherwise be. The boilers which supply the steam forheating purposes are placed in the cellar of the office build-ing. The plant consists of two Bundy boilers, installed in aroom by themselves. The door of this room is heldopen by a fusible plug, which automatically causes it toclose in case of fire. The heating is done by radiators in theoffices, and the above mentioned coils in the car pits. Thereare also coils in the oil room, etc. The system has been de-signed so as to keep the temperature of the rooms, halls,etc., at 70 degs. F.
. The Street railway journal . STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. could otherwise be. The boilers which supply the steam forheating purposes are placed in the cellar of the office build-ing. The plant consists of two Bundy boilers, installed in aroom by themselves. The door of this room is heldopen by a fusible plug, which automatically causes it toclose in case of fire. The heating is done by radiators in theoffices, and the above mentioned coils in the car pits. Thereare also coils in the oil room, etc. The system has been de-signed so as to keep the temperature of the rooms, halls,etc., at 70 degs. F. when the outside temperature is at zero. The comfort of the motormen and conductors has re-ceived careful attention. In the cellar lockers are pro-vided, made of expanded metal, a kind of iron nettingstamped out of a single sheet. Each man has a locker tohimself, and, while insuring perfect ventilation, the nettingpermits inspection of the interior to be made without thenecessity of opening the lockers. As shown by the plan,. INTERIOR OF CAR HOUSE there are separate rooms for the motormen and con-ductors and a joint reading room. The walls of theserooms are provided with bulletin boards and blackboards,where time-tables, notices, etc., can be posted. The sani-tary arrangements are all of the best, the men beingallowed the use of the bath room upon application. Pro-vision has been made on the second floor for the accommo-dation of the officers in charge of the car house, so thatthey can find comfortable quarters within the building it-self. The front room is fitted up as a bedroom for theiruse. The lighting is done by incandescent lamps placedfive in series between the trolley wire and ground, thebuilding being also piped for gas, to be used in case ofemergency. The doors are made of horizontal wooden slats, rollingup on cylinders at their top. When open they permit thefree use of all the tracks, and are entirely out of the the inside and outside the trolley wire termina
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