. The street railway review . lled by thesupreme court of Missouri upon quo warranto proceed-ings begun by the attorney general of the state at therequest of the minority stockholders in the Grand AvenueCompany. Since the quo warranto proceedings wereinstituted, several months ago, there has been a changeof sentiment on the part of the objectors and it is believedthat a new consolidation can be effected with satisfactionto aU parties. The ground upon which the consolidationwas set aside was that stockholders had not been giventhe notice required by law. PART II. Some of the best arguments we h
. The street railway review . lled by thesupreme court of Missouri upon quo warranto proceed-ings begun by the attorney general of the state at therequest of the minority stockholders in the Grand AvenueCompany. Since the quo warranto proceedings wereinstituted, several months ago, there has been a changeof sentiment on the part of the objectors and it is believedthat a new consolidation can be effected with satisfactionto aU parties. The ground upon which the consolidationwas set aside was that stockholders had not been giventhe notice required by law. PART II. Some of the best arguments we have heard in favorof a standard wheel come from manufacturers who donot express themselves as in favor of a standard, but whoincidentally remark that they have several dozen varietiesof chills. By multiplying the number of chills kept instock by each maker by the number of makers in the. FIGURE I. country, we find the number of different wheel treadsand flanges in use. We will leave this, however, to theimagination. It hardly seems necessary to go muchfurther to convince our readers of the divergence of prac-tice. We have a few more interesting letters, however,which we will publish. A. Whitney & Sons: We hand you herewith, blueprints showing some of the principal flanges used onwheels made by us for horse and cable cars and electricmotors. In further explanation, we would say that54-inch flange. No. 2, is our usual flange for horse cars;^-inch, No. 2A, ^-inch, No. 18B, andj^-inch, No. 73,
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