. The Street railway journal . FIG. 12.—SECTION BOX WITH TWO WATT-METERS FOR MEASURING CURRENTFLOW FROM FEEDERS TO TROLLEY [From Our Regular Correspondent.]The Paris Exposition is divided, as most readers of thispaper know, into two sections, this arrangement being de-termined upon by reason of lack of available space withinthe city limits. The annex is situated at Vincennes, about6 miles distant from the main grounds, and is practicallyisolated, inasmuch as there is no adequate system of trans-portation between the two sections, and a single entrance. FIG. 2.—VIEW SHOWING POLES ticket will no
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 12.—SECTION BOX WITH TWO WATT-METERS FOR MEASURING CURRENTFLOW FROM FEEDERS TO TROLLEY [From Our Regular Correspondent.]The Paris Exposition is divided, as most readers of thispaper know, into two sections, this arrangement being de-termined upon by reason of lack of available space withinthe city limits. The annex is situated at Vincennes, about6 miles distant from the main grounds, and is practicallyisolated, inasmuch as there is no adequate system of trans-portation between the two sections, and a single entrance. FIG. 2.—VIEW SHOWING POLES ticket will not give admission to both. A partial solutionof the transportation problem has been secured by pro-viding a temporary double-track trolley road, which fol-lows the line of the fortifications past the Bois de Vin-cennes, branching out into a loop at the main entrance tothe Exposition grounds, and forming connection at oneend with the Nogentais tramway system and at the otherwith the river steamboats. This line has been constructedby the French Thomson-Houston Company, under thesupervision of its engineer, A. N. Connett, and was put in
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