. The Street railway journal . ative at Philadelphia. It also hada finely arranged exhibit of Kalamazoo trolley wheels and wheels are cast of pure copper by a patent process, and aresofter than the wire, though tough and ductile. They have a greasechamber around the graphite bushing, which does away with the 1098 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVI. No. 44. necessity of oiling, except at infrequent intervals. Records ofvarious wheels were shown, one 6-in. wheel running 35,000 miles,and one 4-in. wheel running 23,000 miles. The factory is now verymuch crowded, being 18,000 trolley whe
. The Street railway journal . ative at Philadelphia. It also hada finely arranged exhibit of Kalamazoo trolley wheels and wheels are cast of pure copper by a patent process, and aresofter than the wire, though tough and ductile. They have a greasechamber around the graphite bushing, which does away with the 1098 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVI. No. 44. necessity of oiling, except at infrequent intervals. Records ofvarious wheels were shown, one 6-in. wheel running 35,000 miles,and one 4-in. wheel running 23,000 miles. The factory is now verymuch crowded, being 18,000 trolley wheels behind orders. CHISHOLM & MOORE MANUFACTURING COM-PANY, Cleveland, Ohio, maker of the American standard rail-joint, exhibited samples of this well known and tried boltlessjoint, under charge of W. E. Ludlow, one of the directors of thecompany. This company is also one of the prominent makers ofchain hoists, traveling cranes and pneumatic tools, of which bad a number of photographs to show to those HEADQUARTERS OF THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL THE INTERNATIONAL REGISTER COMPANY, of Chi-cago, exhibited its well known stationary and portable fare reg-isters, also a new type double register, having separate trip reg-isters, as well as totalizers, and operated by a single rod. Themechanism of this machine is constructed almost wholly- of coldrolled steel, no cast iron parts whatever being used. The strikingfeature of this machine is the very large, distinct trip figures, whichmake it especially desirable for long cars, now so generally com-ing into use. The aluminum dials first introduced by this com-pany, are now recognized as the best material for register representatives report the factory filled up with orders forseveral months ahead, and the prospects for new business betterthan ever. They were represented by A. H. Woodward, president;W. H. Brown, secretary and treasurer, and Charles E. Pratt, su-perintendent. THE GRIFFIN WHEEL COMPANY, Chicago
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