. Electric railway gazette . acrossthe river to Brewer. Water and electric railwayplants were run by the same company, and the re-turn was made by connecting with hydrants. Aftera few months of use the submerged main broke in35 feet of water. It was repaired, but broke againafter a few months, and later still again. Thebroken pipe was so badly decayed that a ringnearly around it could easily be broken out with ahammer. A new main was laid and about thesame time seven strands of No. 6 copper wire werecarried beneath the liver and connected with thepipe at each end. Since this was done there has
. Electric railway gazette . acrossthe river to Brewer. Water and electric railwayplants were run by the same company, and the re-turn was made by connecting with hydrants. Aftera few months of use the submerged main broke in35 feet of water. It was repaired, but broke againafter a few months, and later still again. Thebroken pipe was so badly decayed that a ringnearly around it could easily be broken out with ahammer. A new main was laid and about thesame time seven strands of No. 6 copper wire werecarried beneath the liver and connected with thepipe at each end. Since this was done there hasbeen no trouble. THE GIBBS SNAP SWITCH. CAED ELECTRIC COMPANYS RAILWAYAPPARATUS. The accompanying illustration represents a newswitch, designed to make and break 500vblt cir-cuits. It is particularly adapted for electric railwaycurrents, and is the only snap switch in the market,it is stated, that can be successfully used for thispurpose. The break is IJ inches long, or abouti inch longer than has ever been obtained in snap. The railway apparatus built by the Card Elec-tric Company, of Mansfield, O., recently The Gibbs Snap Switch. switches before. It will be known in the marketas the Gibbs 3-ampere oOO-voIt switch, and it ismanufaciured by the Perkins Electric Switch , Hartford. Conn. The western office is incharge of G. W. Conover, formerly purchasingagent for the late Ansonia Electric Company, andthe office is located at 1,.536 Monadnock Block Mr. Beecher listened to the request, thought a mo-ment and said, How about the other fellow J Hethen gave one of his characteristic talks about ourproneness to think of ourselves and not of theother fellow. In this matter of the speed of thetrolley cars every one seems to be thinking of thevictims cf accidents and of the rai road company,but no one pays any attention to the other fellowwho rides in the cars. The change of motive powervery naturally resulted in a large number of acci-dents, but there is no evidence that tliey hav
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