. The Street railway journal . mps, at 600 volts, built for the Metropolitan West SideElevated Railroad, of Chicago. This breaker had a large copperleaf area of contact, but made final break through carbon plates. THE SPEER CARBON COMPANY, of St. Marys, Pa., waswell represented by its exhibit with McGill, Porter & Berg, itsWestern agents, and by J. S. Speer. THE COMPRESSED AIR COMPANY, of New York, oc-cupied a large space at the Convention Hall, and was well repre-sented by H. D. Cooke, president of the company, well assisted byWilliam E. Selleck, general manager of the Western department,and
. The Street railway journal . mps, at 600 volts, built for the Metropolitan West SideElevated Railroad, of Chicago. This breaker had a large copperleaf area of contact, but made final break through carbon plates. THE SPEER CARBON COMPANY, of St. Marys, Pa., waswell represented by its exhibit with McGill, Porter & Berg, itsWestern agents, and by J. S. Speer. THE COMPRESSED AIR COMPANY, of New York, oc-cupied a large space at the Convention Hall, and was well repre-sented by H. D. Cooke, president of the company, well assisted byWilliam E. Selleck, general manager of the Western department,and H. A. Hudson, both of Chicago. The company had for distri-bution a quantity of interesting literature, relating to the use ofcompressed air for street railway service, and had many inquiriesto answer in regard to the operation of compressed air motors inNew York, Chicago and Rome, N. Y. It was easy to answer theseinquiries very satisfactorily, and much interest was expressed bythe delegates present in the new motive GENERAL VIEW OF CONVENTION HALL THE J. G. BRILL COMPANY, of Philadelphia, occupied oneof the large parlors on the mezzanine floor, in which were shownhandsome models of the companys several kinds of trucks, photo-graphs of cars and descriptive matter. The company intended, upto within a short period before the convention, to make a regularexhibit, as usual, at the Convention Hall. The works of the com-pany, however, at Philadelphia have been so full, during the pastmonths, with orders from all parts at the world, that it becameevident that a set of trucks could only be diverted to Kansas Cityfor exhibition purposes by delaying delivery on some importantorder. As the managers did not feel like disappointing any cus-tomer in this way, they finally decided to exhibit models andphotographs only. These answered very well, however, to illus-trate the principles underlying the Brill trucks, while the appear-ance of the latest cars built was full} shown by photograp
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