. The Street railway journal . intowhich are also connected telephones in the various offices inthat building. One of the two lines is used for despatching, and telephonesconnected to this are placed at frequent intervals along the linein large wood boxes on the poles. In the connection to eachtelephone and inside the box is a double knife switch, placed i November 7, 1903.] so that the door of the box will knock it open when the sameis shut, so that all these telephones are disconnected when notin actual use, which protects them from lightning and heavycurrent crosses and avoids overloading t
. The Street railway journal . intowhich are also connected telephones in the various offices inthat building. One of the two lines is used for despatching, and telephonesconnected to this are placed at frequent intervals along the linein large wood boxes on the poles. In the connection to eachtelephone and inside the box is a double knife switch, placed i November 7, 1903.] so that the door of the box will knock it open when the sameis shut, so that all these telephones are disconnected when notin actual use, which protects them from lightning and heavycurrent crosses and avoids overloading the line. Locomotivedrivers report to the despatcher at all such pole locomotive has also a portable telephone with a hook pole,which can be attached to the line anywhere in case of other telephone circuit is used by the freight offices andfor the general business of the company. At places about 6 miles apart both lines are looped to tele-phones with switches on both sides of each telephone, so that. FREIGHT HOUSE AT HAMILTON the lines may be opened in either direction and trouble locatedbetween two test stations. BOATS The standard boat is Soy2 ft. long exclusive of rudder, i^l/2ft. wide and 9 ft. high, measured over all. Most of them aredecked, leaving a clear height of 7 ft. 8 ins. in the hold. Thereare some open boats for coal, gravel, empty barrels and othercoarse and bulky freight. Loaded to a draft of 3 ft. such boats can carry about 65 tons,but in the present condition of the canal bed it is seldom prac-ticable to load deeper than 30 ins., at which they carry about50 tons of freight. The transportation company has now about twenty service-able boats, acquired with a canal packet company which waspurchased, and which also included a dry-dock and boat yardat Lockland, 12 miles north of Cincinnati, in which the com-pany now builds and repairs boats. There are now three boatson the stocks, and the yard is able to turn out about two boatsper month.
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