. The street railway review . y^^== it without trouble, avoiding, of course, putting themselvesin direct contact with both service and third rails, but not infre-quently monkeying with the current in such a way as to getshocks ot more or less severity in a sort of horse play. On wetdays, they refer to the third rail as being lively, and areinclined to let it alone. Many of our employes have, however,received the heaviest shock possible to obtain, time after time,and care little about it. though those who are more influencedby electric shocks than others are sometimes thrown oft
. The street railway review . y^^== it without trouble, avoiding, of course, putting themselvesin direct contact with both service and third rails, but not infre-quently monkeying with the current in such a way as to getshocks ot more or less severity in a sort of horse play. On wetdays, they refer to the third rail as being lively, and areinclined to let it alone. Many of our employes have, however,received the heaviest shock possible to obtain, time after time,and care little about it. though those who are more influencedby electric shocks than others are sometimes thrown oft , but recover fully in a few minutes. We do not say that thethird rail has no dangers, but we do not consider the danger asbeing at all serious or one which should interfere with the exten-sion of the system. As a result of exceptional care which we have taken in bondingour third and service rails, we have found it unnecessary, in anythird rail work so far done, to use copper feeders, in spite of thefact that we are obliged
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