. Electric railway journal . nally heavy on Sundays and holidays. Fre-quently the service on the Palms line, which carries the greaterportion of the holiday travel, is increased to one train of fourto five cars every 7^2 minutes regularly. Perhaps no otherroad in the West has undergone such a general reconstructionand thorough improvement as the Los Angeles. A detailed de-scription of the rehabilitation work of this company was pre-sented in the Electric Railway Journal for Oct. 30, 1909,page 930. FRICTIONLESS TROLLEY BASE FOR CITY CARS The Trolley Supply Company, Canton, Ohio, announces thats
. Electric railway journal . nally heavy on Sundays and holidays. Fre-quently the service on the Palms line, which carries the greaterportion of the holiday travel, is increased to one train of fourto five cars every 7^2 minutes regularly. Perhaps no otherroad in the West has undergone such a general reconstructionand thorough improvement as the Los Angeles. A detailed de-scription of the rehabilitation work of this company was pre-sented in the Electric Railway Journal for Oct. 30, 1909,page 930. FRICTIONLESS TROLLEY BASE FOR CITY CARS The Trolley Supply Company, Canton, Ohio, announces thatsince it placed on the market the Peerless roller-bearing fric-tionless trolley base for high-speed cars, it has had demandsfrom its customers for a similar frictionless base suitable forcity cars. The company has met these requests by its newStar trolley base shown in the accompanying illustration. Itscription of this rehabilitation work of this company waspresented in the Electric Railway Journal for Oct. 30, 1909,page Frictionless Trolley Base The new base is made to be absolutely frictionless in both thehorizontal and vertical planes. The same roller bearing is usedas in the companys other bases, the rolls being eight in num-ber and fully % in- in diameter, to insure long life. The prin-cipal advantages asserted for this base are that it maintainsabsolutely uniform tension against the wire, permits the wheelto adhere more closely to the wire, requires no oil, and is dustproof. REDUCING THE FIRE INSURANCE RATE During the last year the Coney Island & Brooklyn Railroadhas spent about $5,000 in improving the insurance risk on itsvarious properties. Most of this work consisted in the renewalof all lighting circuits in the car houses, conduit being installedwherever the wiring needed protection; the placing of lights inthe housings of the chemical extinguishers; the closing up ofpartition walls and walling up of unnecessary windows insome places, and last, but not least, the
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