. The Street railway journal . , etc. Perhaps the reason for its tenacious grip on the thread of thebolt is due to the fact that the nut only touches the spiral for aboutone-third of its length, thus reducing the power which it wouldhave to turn the nut-lock. Opening of a New Electric Railway in Brazil The first section of the electric tramway system of the SaoPaulo Electric Railway, Light & Power Company, Ltd., whichwas described in the Street Railway Journal for July, 1899,was put in operation last May. As will be remembered, this line isbeing built by American engineers and American capital
. The Street railway journal . , etc. Perhaps the reason for its tenacious grip on the thread of thebolt is due to the fact that the nut only touches the spiral for aboutone-third of its length, thus reducing the power which it wouldhave to turn the nut-lock. Opening of a New Electric Railway in Brazil The first section of the electric tramway system of the SaoPaulo Electric Railway, Light & Power Company, Ltd., whichwas described in the Street Railway Journal for July, 1899,was put in operation last May. As will be remembered, this line isbeing built by American engineers and American capital, and theconstruction of the road was carried on largely under the per-sonal direction of F. S. Pearson, of New York, who is largely in-terested in the enterprise. The daily papers published in Sao Paulo immediately after theopening of the first section of the line, have just arrived in thiscountry, and announce the great interest taken in the electric cars,and the enthusiasm of the inhabitants over the inauguration of the. FIRST CAR ON BOM RETIRO LINE electric system. The following account of the opening of the lineis taken from one of the leading Sao Paulo papers. In the hurried lines of a notice which suffers from the hastewith which it is written it is impossible to give the exact measureof the intensity of joy and satisfaction which was visible in thelooks of all on account of the realization of so notable an improve-ment. The enthusiasm of the people crowding on the streetsthrough which the vehicles ran is indescribable, and when the carswere placed at the orders of the public after the inauguration, onecan hardly imagine the extent of the invasion that took made efforts to obtain seats in the cars, but in spite ofthe natural confusion of such occasions, not the slightest incidenttook place that might sound a discordant note in the great festival,in which the people took part with the highest demonstration ofjoy. - Having given in the beginning this salien
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