. The street railway review . as kept. Although his returns did not tally withthe count of the passengers on his car yet they always agreedwith the register and no one was ahle to detect the conductortampering vs-ith the register. One evening the detectivesnoticed the number of fares was less than a short time pre-vious and the conductor was arrested, also another man whohad been seen with him many times on the car. Upon beingsearched a number of small tools and several screws fromthe registers were found in their pockets. It is suspectedthat these men are a part of a gang of expert thieves wh
. The street railway review . as kept. Although his returns did not tally withthe count of the passengers on his car yet they always agreedwith the register and no one was ahle to detect the conductortampering vs-ith the register. One evening the detectivesnoticed the number of fares was less than a short time pre-vious and the conductor was arrested, also another man whohad been seen with him many times on the car. Upon beingsearched a number of small tools and several screws fromthe registers were found in their pockets. It is suspectedthat these men are a part of a gang of expert thieves whohave worked the fare registers on the Broadway cable, theBrooklyn trolley lines and the New Jersey roads. AN AID FOR THE BLACKSMITH SHOP. C. E. Moore, master mechanic of the Chicago Citv Rail-way, who has in years past acquired a very practical acquaint-ance with the needs of the blacksmith and tool maker,recently devised a very simple little appliance which is meet-inw with a ready sale, and which is a great time saver when. THE GARDEN CITY ARCH. it comes to heating iron. It is simply a small arch made offire brick which is put over the ordinary blacksmiths inside of the arch becomes white hot almost immedi-ately, so that heat is reflected back from the arch to the ironwhich is placed inside the arch over the fire. As a conse-quence the time required to heat the iron is much less thanwith an open fire, and less fire and therefore less fuel isneeded. This arch is being made under the name of the Garden City. The charter for the Ingersoll (Ont.) Radial Electric Rail-way has been granted and arrangements are being made forsubscriptions to the stock of the company. Penacook, X. II., July 19, Re\iew: I noted with interest your article in the current numberof the Review entitled The Telephone in Connectionwith Wheatstone Bridge for Shop Measurements, andwhile acknowledging the force of some of your argumentsagainst the laboratorj form of Wheatstone bridge for s
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