. The Street railway journal . moved without disturbing the rest of the form is such as to allow plenty of air for good combustion,and the result is an almost perfect combustion with exceedinglylittle smoke. This claim of the makers is fully demonstrated bythe operation of the plants equipped with the grate. A seriousdrawback to automatic stoking when first introduced was thatthe repairs on the apparatus and the expense of throwing thestokers out of service for repairs almost amounted to more thanthe resultant saving in firemens wages. Since then marked im-provements in the lasting
. The Street railway journal . moved without disturbing the rest of the form is such as to allow plenty of air for good combustion,and the result is an almost perfect combustion with exceedinglylittle smoke. This claim of the makers is fully demonstrated bythe operation of the plants equipped with the grate. A seriousdrawback to automatic stoking when first introduced was thatthe repairs on the apparatus and the expense of throwing thestokers out of service for repairs almost amounted to more thanthe resultant saving in firemens wages. Since then marked im-provements in the lasting qualities of automatic stoker grates havebeen made, and in the present instance the repairs are compara-tively quickly and easily made, making an important step in ad-vance. As an illustration of the saving in labor effected by theuse of Green chain grate mechanical stokers, the case of theCincinnati Edison Company, where there are six 750-hp boilersand the boiler-room force is only four men in twenty-four hours,may be October 13, 1900.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. The Green Engineering Company now devotes its entire timeto making and selling grates. The main offices are in Chicagoand the officers are: W. M. Green, president; John R. Gent, vice-president; P. Albert Poppenhusen, treasurer; Herman A. Poppen-husen, secretary, all of whom, through previous experience, arefamiliar with steam engineering work. »♦♦ A Powerful Snow Plow A description was published last month of the new snow plowbrought out this season by the Taunton Locomotive Manufactur-ing Company, but the illustration given was of a plow built by thecompany for very heavy service. The accompanying engravingshows a correct view of the plow described last month. Forconvenience of reference some particulars of this plow are repub-lished from the last monthly issue. The plow weighs 5 tons without motors, and is thus somewhatlighter than the Taunton standard plow of last year. This reduc-tion in weight has been
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