. Electric railway gazette . crosses the streetand may break and fall upon such a conductor,it would be necessary to have one or two guardwires above it. • These guard wires can be very properly car-ried from the span wires themselves. Further-more, if desired, the stretches between the spanwires where the guard wires are used can be verymuch longer than 125 feet; they can be even aslong as 500 or 600 feet—that is, two or three cityblocks—in which case the two guard wires forma light, suspending structure from which, at in-tervals of a hundred feet, the middle wire iscarried in a straight line
. Electric railway gazette . crosses the streetand may break and fall upon such a conductor,it would be necessary to have one or two guardwires above it. • These guard wires can be very properly car-ried from the span wires themselves. Further-more, if desired, the stretches between the spanwires where the guard wires are used can be verymuch longer than 125 feet; they can be even aslong as 500 or 600 feet—that is, two or three cityblocks—in which case the two guard wires forma light, suspending structure from which, at in-tervals of a hundred feet, the middle wire iscarried in a straight line. In very many cases it is unnecessary to haveany span wires whatsoever. In those streetswhere the track runs near the curb a light polewith an ornamental bracket is all that is neces-sary. In a broad street where the tracks occupyonly a small portion of the street, and are neartogether, a line of poles of ornate design withlight arms projecting on either side, can followthe center of the street. Oftentimes there is a. —-SLM J, iif miT— l]r4UTri it. J^ Tj-—— SS-bK !)■ i?_ilmlcl 14 U Sr . hvHihlin 37 an fl 1;i 4u t>( 51 6 11 8 5 ■^ 07 7-A 57 8 0 ijl,^ n ■4-;i uy^ pSdvrt 1. Sm ?+* . m-oHci -11 6^ 46 •;* ^ill-jHjl 17- ?7 ■ ■..* ^.^^
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