. The Street railway journal . ue Railroad Company,as well as other purchasers. Change in the New York Offices of the GeneralElectric Company. It is reported that at a meeting of the executivecommittee of the General Electric Company, held Decem-ber 29, it was voted to remove the executive and engineer-ing offices of the company from New York to Sche-nectady, N. Y. The change will be made, it is said,February 1. ■ m The electric railway at Remscheid, Germany, whichwe described in our December issue, was installed by theUnion Electricitats Gesellschaft, of Berlin, and not by theAllgemeine Elect
. The Street railway journal . ue Railroad Company,as well as other purchasers. Change in the New York Offices of the GeneralElectric Company. It is reported that at a meeting of the executivecommittee of the General Electric Company, held Decem-ber 29, it was voted to remove the executive and engineer-ing offices of the company from New York to Sche-nectady, N. Y. The change will be made, it is said,February 1. ■ m The electric railway at Remscheid, Germany, whichwe described in our December issue, was installed by theUnion Electricitats Gesellschaft, of Berlin, and not by theAllgemeine Electricitats Gesellschaft of that city. 58 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. X. No. i. The Requirements of Safety Appliances ForStreet Railways. By R. A. Crawford. The frequency of accidents from rapid transit street railways, andan earnest desire for their abatement by the mutual interests of thepublic and railway companies, has created a demand for safety contriv-ances that American ingenuity has responded to; in fact, railway. FIG. 1.—CAR WITH FENDER RAISED officials have been overwhelmed by numerous diver-gent schemes which have been of educational ad-vantage, if not always of practical utility. Inventors and railway men coincide in workingupon two standard ideas for a safety device, viz.:First, a wheel guard fender board placed in front ofthe wheels underneath the car; second, a project-ing platform lender in front of the car. Regarding the first standard idea, the presenttype of rigid fender boards now in use is crudeand inflexible, affording no protection whatever,owing to the imperative height carried to avoidirregularities of the roadbed. Even at the presentunsafe height of four and a half, five and six inches,they are continually being destroyed or having theirends broken by unevenness of road, sunken rails,plunging of truck and immovable obstructions. Railway men demand a safety appliance pos-sessing all of the following qualifications: Light-ness, neatness, simplici
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