Identifier: streetrailwayrev05amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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m all sources,$409,734; deductions from income as follows: interest,rentals, insurance and taxes, $540,863.88; and deficit forquarter, $131,129.88. SET THE CABLE ON FIRE. When a cable on the Baltimore City stranded theother day, one of the oilers in looking for the break thrusthis lighted torch into the conduit, and left it in there whilehe went elsewhere. The tar and oil coating on the ropesoon ignited and burst into some flame and a good dealof smoke, extending for some distance of track. The oilboxes of the carrying pulleys also joined in the demon-stration, until one of the iron manhole covers was red hot.A line of hose was lead from a corner hydrant and theunique conflagration extinguished. SELF-LIGHTING OIL-CAN. What seems a very useful addition to a common oilcan that has come to us from Germany, is a simple lamp,in which a wick feeds upon the oil in the can. Thisdoes not interfere in the least degree with the action ofthe oil-can, whether the lamp is burning or not, and should
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be extremely useful in many a badly lit and awkwardcorner. The workman being able to see what he isdoing will escape many of the serious accidents whichnow occur and as for the oil used in the lamp the savingof that which is ordinarily spilled and wasted in darkplaces, will more than fted the small flame of the lamp.The retail price of the oil-can, in Germany, is 35 cents. ELECTRIC PUMPS ON SPRINKLERS. A sprinkling car takes an immense amount of water inthe course of a day and it is not strange that the chargefor water from the city hydrants is a large item. Wherethere is a large body of water along the route which canbe freely drawn from, a good method of avoiding theexpense of buying water is to have an electric pump onthe sprinkler which can fill the tank wherever water hap-pens to be. This is to be tried by two roads that wehave heard of. The New Jersey Electric Railway, ofPaterson, has under construction two sprinkling cars withelectric pumps for use on long interurban lines wher

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