. The street railway review . d the road furnishing itstates that it is expected that a much more creditableshowing will be made for 1895. Equipment: Six Bab-cock & 278 horse-power boilers; economizer instack; three triple expansion corliss condensing enginesof 1,200 horse-power each belted to line shaft. Fuel iscrude oil, costing at the the power house $ 024 pergallon. Results: Fuel consumption per electrical horse-power-hour 24 gals. Cost fuel per electrical horse-power-hour S .0057 Water evaporated per electrical horse-power-hour 24 lbs. Water evaporated |ier gallon of oil 100 lbs.
. The street railway review . d the road furnishing itstates that it is expected that a much more creditableshowing will be made for 1895. Equipment: Six Bab-cock & 278 horse-power boilers; economizer instack; three triple expansion corliss condensing enginesof 1,200 horse-power each belted to line shaft. Fuel iscrude oil, costing at the the power house $ 024 pergallon. Results: Fuel consumption per electrical horse-power-hour 24 gals. Cost fuel per electrical horse-power-hour S .0057 Water evaporated per electrical horse-power-hour 24 lbs. Water evaporated |ier gallon of oil 100 lbs. Cost station labor per electrcial horse-power-houi S .0014 Interest on cost of station per day at 6 per cent S .45 Interest per electrical horse-power-hour .0032 Insurance and taxes per day S Insurance and taxes per electrical horse-power-liour 0003 Oil ami waste jier electrical horse-power-hour 0001 Total cost power per electrical horse-power-hour .0108 Cost motive power per jiiotor car mile 0286 788 ^ti^9\mWayj\eV^. KLY WllEKL ACCIPKNT. Another fly wheel accident! Electric railway plantsare becoming such sufferers from this source that everyengineer running a corliss engine in such plants may wellfeel apprehensive and take every available preventivemeasure. The last one happened at the Albany Railwaypower house, November 12. The story of the accidentas learned from the testimony in the investigation heldtwo days later is as follows: The first indication oftrouble was when John Herlihy, the engineer in charge, saw the commutator of generator No. i sparking generator is direct belted to a 750-horse-powerCorliss. He went to the switchboard and seeing that thegenerator had a heavy overload as compared to theothers that were running he opened the circuit breakerand switch to cut it out, thinking that there must be some-thing wrong with the generator. He then saw that theengine was beginning to race, and went over to close thethrottle. After the throttle was
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