. The Street railway journal . ering herhead, springs outward and downward, diving 40 ft. throughthe air into a shallow lake. As soon as the mare has left the water, her partner repeats the act. Although neither ofthese animals has been educated, in the usual sense of theword, they show a high degree of intelligence, and their evi-dent pleasure in diving is not the least interesting part oftheir remarkable performance. -♦♦*♦- RECENT CAR HOUSE FIRE IN NEW YORK Additional particulars are available concerning the destruc-tion by fire on Sunday, March 4, 1906, of the West Forty-Sec-ond Street car
. The Street railway journal . ering herhead, springs outward and downward, diving 40 ft. throughthe air into a shallow lake. As soon as the mare has left the water, her partner repeats the act. Although neither ofthese animals has been educated, in the usual sense of theword, they show a high degree of intelligence, and their evi-dent pleasure in diving is not the least interesting part oftheir remarkable performance. -♦♦*♦- RECENT CAR HOUSE FIRE IN NEW YORK Additional particulars are available concerning the destruc-tion by fire on Sunday, March 4, 1906, of the West Forty-Sec-ond Street car house, owned by the New York City Railway,brief announcement of which was made in a recent issue ofthe Street Railway Journal. The house, which was formerly a horse car barn, occupieda portion of the block fronting on the Hudson River, betweenForty-Second Street and Forty-Third Street. The building wasa three-story structure with brick walls and light joists. Theground floor was wood and the pits under all the tracks had. VIEW SHOWING ALL THAT REMAINED OF THE NEW YORK CITY RAILWAY CAR HOUSE AFTER THE FIRE, NAMELY, THE THREE-STORY OFFICE SECTION AND A PORTION OF THE WALLS wooden floors with wooden flooring between tracks. Thebuilding was totally destroyed, with the exception of a three-story office section on the Forty-Second Street side, which hadrecently been partially rebuilt with fire proof materials. Thissection, however, was badly damaged and will probablyhave to be rebuilt. The fire started at 7 145 p. m. in a car which was over oneof the repair pits on the most westerly track, about 100 in the house. Arrangements were being perfected to runthe car out when the shoe, or plow, which makes contactwith the underground conductors, in some way short circuitedthe two conductors, causing a blaze. The arc occasioned bythis short circuit immediately set fire to the car. It is asserted that not over a five-minute delay was occas-ioned between the time of the discovery
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