. American engineer and railroad journal . plers in conformity to law. It has been stated in several papers that the Richmond Loco-motive Works has received an order from the Chicago, Cleveland,Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway to convert 60 locomotives intocompounds. This is not true. They are to convert a few enginesonly at present, and if they are satisfactory others may be changedfrom time to time, as they require heavy repairs on the cylindersand attached parts. The Doherty Patent Combined Vise and Winch. Brown, Jaeger & Company, No. 919 Betz Building, Philadelphia,Pa., are the sole manufact
. American engineer and railroad journal . plers in conformity to law. It has been stated in several papers that the Richmond Loco-motive Works has received an order from the Chicago, Cleveland,Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway to convert 60 locomotives intocompounds. This is not true. They are to convert a few enginesonly at present, and if they are satisfactory others may be changedfrom time to time, as they require heavy repairs on the cylindersand attached parts. The Doherty Patent Combined Vise and Winch. Brown, Jaeger & Company, No. 919 Betz Building, Philadelphia,Pa., are the sole manufacturers of the Doherty combined vise andwinch, which is shown in the accompanying cut. The manner ofusing it is apparent at a glance. This tool will evidently in a shorttime replace the old-time strap and vise or block and fall usedat present in telegraph, telephone, trolley wiring, electric light linework, in tightening guy wires, in putting up suspension wires forserial cables, pulling up wires and in cutting out slack. In fact it. can be used for stringing wires of every description upon poles orfixtures of any kind and in tightening all gages of wire to anyadvisable degree of tension. It is available for use in making repairs to live wires withoutthe necessity of employing the usual cut outs thus preserving the linemen from the danger of the cut out falling off. The toolitself being entirely of metallic construction completes the electrical test it has been shown, that the Doherty combinedvise and winch shows no resistance. The usefulness and worth ofthe implement is summed up in the following statement: One mancan pull up two miles of wire at one time with greater ease, morequickly and more effectively, than the usual gang of four men canpull up two ordinary sections with the strap and vise or blockand fall in use at present. As an indication of its power, it is onlynecessary to state that it can pull apart a No. 8 iron wire in an ordi-nary section. Its merit lies
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