. The Street railway journal . base plate are 4in. apart, two sets of bolts going into eachend of the rail. The same is the case withthe splice-bar bolts. The nuts are lockedby uiakingthein very tight on the bolt. The West End Co. is becoming an im-mense institution. Eight miles of track,similar to above, are under contract paving blocks are being delivered onBeacon street. The contracts providedthat 785 gross tons of the imported steeltram rails, or about 5 miles, should be de-livered by Aug. 15, and the company has 3miles now on hand. The delay in gettingthe rails has been due to the
. The Street railway journal . base plate are 4in. apart, two sets of bolts going into eachend of the rail. The same is the case withthe splice-bar bolts. The nuts are lockedby uiakingthein very tight on the bolt. The West End Co. is becoming an im-mense institution. Eight miles of track,similar to above, are under contract paving blocks are being delivered onBeacon street. The contracts providedthat 785 gross tons of the imported steeltram rails, or about 5 miles, should be de-livered by Aug. 15, and the company has 3miles now on hand. The delay in gettingthe rails has been due to the adoption of awider tread for the top of the rail than thatof the Liverpool rail, which requirednew rolls to be made, to suit car wheels 3in. wide. The Boston & Albany Bailroadare filling the section of Beacon street be-ween St. Marys and St. Paul streets, af-ter which the track will be laid as rapidlyas possible. It is expected cars will berua as far as Howard street, Brookline, byJan. 1. The company expects to lay 10 or. FOWLERS CAR STOVE. FIG. 1. 12 miles this year. This is the secondrailway laid with the Liverpool rail in thiscountry; about 4,000 ft. having been laidin Baltimore, where it has given satisfac-tion.—Engineering News. Fowlers Car Stove and Coal Box. The cuts herewith show a new designof car stove,* combining a coal box as wellas ash pan, without increase of space. InFig. 1 the door A is made either sliding orswinging. B is the shaker and improvedgrate, and E E slides to regulate the coal box will hold one hod of coal withshaker and shovel. The coat is only slight-ly above the ordinary street car stove, and,as shown by the cut, the symmetry is notinterfered with. •Lewis & Fowler Manufacturing Co., 27 WalworthSt., Brooklyn, N. Y. The Prescott Truss Door Hanger. We illustrate in connection with this ar-ticle a truss door hanger* that is intendedfor use on sliding doors. It consists oftwo cross-pieces hinged together, so as toform an X. One of the upp
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