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Vol. X. NEW YORK $ CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER. No. 9. Twelfth Annual Meeting of the New York State Association, and until recently secretary and treasurer of Street Railway Association. the Atlantic Avenue Railway Company, Brooklyn. Ex- ecutive Committee: John N. Beckley, president of the The twelfth Annual Meeting of the New York State Rochester Railway Company, Rochester; Daniel F. Lewis, Street Railway Association, as already announced, will be president of the Long Island Traction Company, Brook- held at Syracuse on Tuesday, September 18, 1894. The lyn; Charles Cleminshaw, president of the Troy City Rail- place of meeting is Yates Hotel, and the Association will way Company, Troy. be called to order at 10.30 a. m. A number of street rail- According to our custom, we take pleasure in pre- way and supply companies have signified their intention senting on this page a portrait of the president of the of being represented, and Association. Mr. Has- an excellent meeting may brouck is a veteran in be expected. street railway busi- Two papers are to be and few men are read at the meeting, both r known among the of which are by engineers t railway managers who are recognized as he State. He has authorities upon the sub- a regular attendant jects on which they will of the State Association treat, and both promise meetings, and has also to be very interesting. attended many meetings The first paper will be of the National Associa- by Maj. G. W. McNulty, tion, where his opinions at present chief engineer when expressed have of construction for the been listened to with work of the Metropolitan such attention and re- Traction Company, the spect that he has been subject being " Recent termed the Nestor of the Improvements in Cable street railway business in Traction." Major Mc- New York. He has served Nulty was for a long in a number of official period chief engineer of capacities with the New the Broadway & Seventh York State Street Rail- Avenue Railway, occupy- way Association during ing this position during its history, and last year the entire period of the when vice-president, act- the road's construction. ed as chairman of the We understand that meeting in the absence Major McNulty will de- of the president, C. Dens- scribe some of the new more Wyman. features in cable practice Daniel B. Hasbrouck which have been intro- is a native of New York duced on the Broadway State and a resident of the city of Brooklyn. system with excellent re- DANIEL B HASBROUCK, At sults. the organization of the PRESIDENT NEW YORK STATE STREET RAILWAY ASSOCIATION The second paper will Houston Street, West be upon " Economy in Street & Pavonia Ferry Electric Power Stations," Railroad Company, some by J. B. Craven, electrical engineer of the Buffalo Railway twenty years ago, Mr. Hasbrouck was elected secretary Company. Mr. Craven has been identified with the Buffalo and treasurer of the company, an office which he held Railway for several years, and is conversant with the continuously until the absorption of that company into problems of station economy and management. His the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, the operating paper will, undoubtedly, contain many valuable and inter- company of the Metropolitan Traction Company's street esting facts. railway system in New York. At the organization of the The officers of the New York State Street Railway Metropolitan Street Railway Company, Mr. Hasbrouck Association are: President, Daniel B. Hasbrouck, vice was elected its vice-president, which office he now holds. president of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, New York City; first vice-president, G. Tracy Rogers, president of the Binghamton Railroad Company, Bing- The South Jersey Street Railway Company, of Point in 21. hamton; second vice-president, James H. Moffitt, super- Pleasant, N. J., put its line operation August The intendent of the Syracuse Consolidated Street Railway work of track laying was accomplished, it is said, in nine Company, Syracuse; secretary and treasurer, William J. days. The line will connect with Bayhead and Lake- Richardson, secretary of the American Street Railway wood. — 542 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. X. No. 9. The New Electric Equipment of the Baltimore roof, the room is lighted on the sides by twelve large City Passenger Railway. windows and two semi-circular windows over the doors. On the Light Street front the engine room floor is elevated The Baltimore City Passenger Railway Company, about six feet above the street level, and is reached by a one of the oldest and most important lines in that city, double step. The side street gradually rises as it extends has recently completed an extensive electric equipment back to the level with the engine floor at the rear of the which has been installed under the direction and supervision of - the company's engineer, A. N. Connett. The electric cars take the place of horse cars on the old Green, Yellow and Hall Springs lines of the company. The latter two lines have been merged, and both run now to the ferry terminus in South Balti- more. The Green line has been extended via McCullough Street to Druid Hill Park, where its terminus is at the Madison Ave- nue gate. From this park it runs to Paterson Park and then on to Canton. The Yellow line runs from Clifton Park to Ferry Bar, the extreme limit of South Baltimore; a branch of this line also extends to Northeast Balti- more. Both lines use on Balti- more Street the cable tracks of the Red and White lines. The use of both motive powers on the main artery of the city, it is thought, might be found useful if anything should to happen FIG. 1. — LIGHT STREET ELECTRIC POWER STATION—BALTIMORE CITY PASSENGER RAILWAY CO. either motive power, as the operating cars can clear the street by pushing the dis- building. The engines are three in number, of the high abled cars. In this way a bvstander would hardly know pressure, non-condensing E. P. Allis, Corliss type, with that anything was the matter. cylinders thirty inches in diameter with sixty inch stroke. The power station, which is a very handsome struct- The flywheels are twenty-six feet in diameter and weigh ure of brick and iron with stone trimmings, is located at 70,000 lbs. each. Each of the engines is belted direct to a Westinghouse 500 k. w. generator by two-ply belts. These belts are fifty-four inches wide and 137 ft. long and were manufactured by the Bradford Belting Company. As will be seen in the illus- tration, the engine room presents a very neat appearance. The arrangement of the machinery is such as to utilize space and at the same time afford plenty of room on all sides for the at- tendants. All steam piping and wiring is under the floor, which greatly facilitates the moving of the machinery in case repairs are needed. The generators and en- gines are tastefully decorated and numbered, and each generator is provided with a handsome brass stand containing a group of in- candescent lamps. The rooms are also lighted by arc lamps. The switchboard, which is a very attractive affair, is shown in Fig. 3, and is located in the cen- ter of the Light Street end of the upper room between the doors. It is about ten feet in height, and fourteen feet in length, and is built of white marble with polish- FIG. 2.—BOILER ROOM—BALTIMORE CITY PASSENGER RAILWAY CO ed brass ends and panel divisions. The instruments are of the West- the corner of Light and Heath Streets, and is shown in inghouse make. There are six circuits, and each circuit is Fig. 1. The part of the building occupied by the engines provided with an ammeter, circuit breaker and lightning and generators is provided with a monitor roof supported arrester. An alarm gong is also provided, which sounds by iron trusses. In the roof are a number of large win- when any circuit breaker drops. The board is placed dows, which furnish plenty of light and ventilation. about three feet away from the wall of the building, which The engine room is shown in Fig. 4, and measures allows plenty of room for the examination of the con- 72 x 90 ft. In addition to the windows in the monitor nections. September, 1894. J THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 543 The engine room is spanned by a seventy-two foot traveling crane of ten tons capacity, manufactured by the Maryland Steel Company. In the large additional space unoccupied in the engine room the company has located a large number of modern machine tools, this portion being separated from the engine room by a partition; space is left, however, between the top of this partition and the roof to permit the passage of the crane so as to serve both engine and machine room. The boiler room is located in a one story building attached to the main power house. The room measures 112 X 46 ft. and is lighted by windows in the roof. The plant has a capacity of 2,000 h. p. and consists of eight 250 h. p. Campbell water tube boilers arranged in four batteries of two each. They are provided with Roney mechanical stokers which are operated by two West- inghouse engines. The front of the boiler room is on a level with the street, and as the ground gradually rises toward the rear of the building, the rear of the boiler room is considerably below the surface of the ground. Here is located the coal vault.