. The Street railway journal . tion for twenty years ormore. Yet the strength of the same framemay be destroyed in five years if moisturefind access to it. By a few inexjiensive but very necessaryrepairs at the right time cais can be keptsound even when the panels appear to belaughing through paint whose originalcolor cannot be distinguished. Such carscan usually be stripped inside and out, andat a small expense converted into neat andseiwiceable stock, good for many yearswear. Similarly cars, if neglected, will befound too badly rotten in the frame to beworth new panels when only ten or eleve
. The Street railway journal . tion for twenty years ormore. Yet the strength of the same framemay be destroyed in five years if moisturefind access to it. By a few inexjiensive but very necessaryrepairs at the right time cais can be keptsound even when the panels appear to belaughing through paint whose originalcolor cannot be distinguished. Such carscan usually be stripped inside and out, andat a small expense converted into neat andseiwiceable stock, good for many yearswear. Similarly cars, if neglected, will befound too badly rotten in the frame to beworth new panels when only ten or elevenyears old. Bearing these facts in mind, rolling-stockin time of need may be subjected to longand severe usage with repairs occupyingbut little time and of insignificant expense.—American Railroad Journal. Street Car Seats. We illustrate a section of a street carseat,* made of three-ply veneer that iswell-known for its [)roperties of retainingits form under all conditions of climate andtemperature. Claims are made that these. ^-f*- veneers are stronger, less liable to split andwill hold their shape better than any classof solid work. The veneers are cut aboutthree sixty-fourths of an inch thick and laidcross grained three-ply, so that there is nopossibility of checking. •Gardner & Co., Mfrs, 183 Canal street. New York. «► We learn from a foreign exchange thatthe recent trial of the Reckenzaun electrictram car system in Berlin was highly satis-factory. Th ■ public trial was the first, asno private trial was allowed, and the cir-cumstances were very unfavorable to thecompany. The car was stopped, startedand speed varied on grades and curves atthe pleasure of the inspectors. The accu-mulators used in the ears are charged fromtbe central electric light station by aVictoria dynamo, at a distance of onequarter of a rnile from the starting station. Febkuaky, 1886.] THE STKEET RAILWAY JOUENAL. Corporations and Employees. Mordern journalism, or rather tlie daily-newspaper, i
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