. The Street railway journal . J. BAGNALL, of the Adams-Bagnall Company, was inChicago during two days of the convention, and visited the ex-hibit at Tattersalls. The Adams-Bagnall Company is just put-ting upon the market a new arc lamp, which it believes is thefirst satisfactory lamp of this kind yet put out. THOMAS AHEARN, of Ottawa, one of the best knownengineers and contractors, of Canada, was present at the Chicagoconvention on Wednesday and Thursday, and will come to NewYork before returning home. L. A. SAYRE & COMPANY, makers of punches, Newark,N. J., were represented by Mr. Sayre, who
. The Street railway journal . J. BAGNALL, of the Adams-Bagnall Company, was inChicago during two days of the convention, and visited the ex-hibit at Tattersalls. The Adams-Bagnall Company is just put-ting upon the market a new arc lamp, which it believes is thefirst satisfactory lamp of this kind yet put out. THOMAS AHEARN, of Ottawa, one of the best knownengineers and contractors, of Canada, was present at the Chicagoconvention on Wednesday and Thursday, and will come to NewYork before returning home. L. A. SAYRE & COMPANY, makers of punches, Newark,N. J., were represented by Mr. Sayre, who showed their No. 428punch, which is especially adapted to street railway service and which is in use ona large numberof railways. presented tothe street railwaypeople present oneof the most uniqueand handsomesouvenirs that wasshown. It con-sisted of one oftheir No. 428punches in minia-ture size and a handsome deck of playing cards, both enclosed in a handsomecase. An illustration of this punch is shown MINIATURE PUNCH Exhibit of the Christensen Engineering Company The Christensen Engineering Companys exhibit at the con-vention consisted of— —A complete air-brake instruction stand showing theoperation of the independent motor compressor air brake. Thisinstruction equipment is more particularly described in the Chris-tensen Engineering Companys catalogue B, page 37. Second.—An installation of a five-car equipment, with auto-matic air brakes complete and in operation, with air gages show-ing the pressure in each cylinder on application of the triple valves are the Christensen quick-acting type, suitablefor steam railway practice. This is the device on which the Courtof Appeals for the District of Columbia recently rendered a favor-able decision. The engineers valves in this five-car equipmentare of the automatic train pipe feed type, giving excess pressure inthe main reservoir. Third.—An exhibit of a special high-pressure air compresso
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