THE

Street Railway

Journal.

INDEX TO VOLUME XXIII.

January to June, 1904.

McGraw Publishing Co.,

114 Liberty Street,

New York.

n rv Q m f 040 4 1 INDEX TO VOLUME XXIII.

tn (Abbreviations: * Illustrated, c Correspondence.;

A Bath, England, Tramway System *371 Traffic Conditions [Barnes] *291 -o t Bearings, Cyprus Bronze 424 Traffic Handling at Coney Island 582 Abbott, VV. H *186 Belfast Corporation Tramways Improvements. *10U Turbine Contract in 978 Acceleration: Recorder for [Ashe] "768 Berlin: Rail Joints in [Busse] *972 Buffalo: Car House burned 611 Js Accidents: [Nissley] AJv.-O---- 475 -r— Recent Elevated Railway Practice in Cars, New *147, *870 Auckland, New Zealand 270 // [Fox] *842 Buffalo-Depew Railway, Work on 490 the Bonus Plan 493 Grosse Berliner Annual Causes and Remedies, Strassenbahn Burlington, N. J., Semi-Convertible Cars *149 [Brooks] ^J^-, Report 544 Chicago Statistics 721 Berlin-Zossen Railway: High-Speed Tests Claim Department, Los Angeles Railway. *601 with Steam Locomotives 647, 914 c Discipline of Employees 273 Track and Guard Rails *140 Cable Incline Railway, Mount Vesuvius *692 Employees, Suspension for, discussed in Bismarck, N. D.; Cars *331 California, North Shore Railroad from San Germany 975 Electric Railway 263, *659 Francisco to San Rafael *4, *56 Frauds, Philadelphia 3U1, 3S7 Block Signal Systems: Alternating Current Camden Interstate Railway Strike over 611 Lake Shore Electric Railway Company... 913 North Shore Railroad, San Francisco. .*66, 893 Camden & Trenton Railway, Opening of 879 New York Elevated Railway 791 Track Circuits (U. S. S. Co.) 893 Canals: Electric Propulsion on Tetlow *378 Prevention of; Tail Lights 918 on Pacific Electric Railway *349 Miami & Erie Plans 792 Accountants' Association, Convention Pro- Automatic' (E-Uler) ..... *218 Canton & Akron Railway System *798 gramme 825 T-T^-'^BEtdrey )l 708 Car Construction: Convertible Car, Details Executive Committee Meeting 686 —^Srdecdve, Boston & VV orce stc - Street of Toronto *707

Report of 84, Railway Company * *866 Center Seats with Two Side-Aisles, Doors Accounting: Blanks and Forms in Los Bloomirgcb.n, ill.; Semi-Convertible Car, *178 Pneumatically Closed *661

«.'.'. Angeles 591, :. .. . U6, 579 Comments Strike' ;.jv.'v v 648

Repair Shop Report Blanks, Pacific Elec- , Boats, Motor, Gasoline (Lozier) *297 Floor Framing of Interurban Cars [Boyn- trie Railway Company's Shops **37 Boilers: Babcock & Wilcox Installations in ton] *766

.'.', ..'...<..'«...'.(..' Standard Form of Report 270, 303 Europe . i ...,>.; 612 Car Equipment, Inspection of 463

.', Adirondack Mountains, Electric Railway Scale Formation in < . . 545 Car Heating, New York 191,207 Projects 422 Water-Tube (Stirling) *219 Car Hoist (Pittsburg) *865 Advertising for Traffic: East St. Louis & and Superheaters (Milne) *710 San Diego Electric Company *856 Suburban Railway *730 Boston: East Boston Tunnel Completion 331 Car Houses: Canton & Akron Railway *804 Pacific Electric Railway Company *472 Elevated Railway Annual Report 112 Conneaut & Erie Interurban Railway *199

Alton, 111., Consolidation 791 Emergency Car 563 Construction and Fire Hazards [Swet- Air Compressors, Motor-Driven, Method of Examination and Engagement of Em- land] 772 making Tests of [Dewson] *324 ployees *588 Comments 938 Alexandria & Ramleh Railway, (Egypt) Elec- Station Masters 329 Fire Protection 760 tricity on *687, *725 Steel-Tired Wheels *464 Heating 647 Allan, John B *158, *825 Comments 463 Leicester *836 Allis-Chalmers Company; Electrical Develop- Third-Rail Shoe *204 —Pacific Electric Railway *403 ments 422 Third-Rail Sleet Brush 325 Schaffhausen, Switzerland *257 Plans 335 Subway, Manganese Steel Rails in 320 South Park, Los Angeles *557 Turbine, Sales of 978 Trolley Information Bureau 914 Car Jack (Duff) *180 Alternators, 1500-kw (National) *711 Boston & Maine Railroad: Cutting Rates on. 881 Car Journals, Lubrication for [Fowler] 442 Aluminum Feeders, Joints of, on North Boston & Northern Street Railway Em- Car Lighting, Equipment, Emergency (Fed- Shore Railroad, California *10 ployees' Instruction Meetings 909 eral) 821 American Railway Mechanical and Electrical Boston-Providence High-Speed Line 892 —System, Lackawanna &" Wyoming Valley Association, Track Work (sec Track Boston & Worcester Street Railway: Power Railroad Company (Kinsman) 939 Engineers, Organization of). Plant Enlargement, Extensive 932 Wiring Diagram "... *281 American Street Railway Association: Exec- Selective Signal System of *866 Car Resistances, Adjusting [Gough] *624 utive Committee Meeting 384 Snow Removal 136 Car Seats: Enamel for (Sherwin-Williams). 185 Manufacturers' Committee of 979 Traffic Circular 811 End-Seat Problem 951 St. Louis Convention Programme 643 Winter Traffic 421 Slideover (Heywood) *533 Appleyard Properties, Terms of Consolida- Bouncers for Summer Cars 942, 979 Car Signs; (Garton) *77 tion 671 Boynton, Edward C 826 Mersey Railway 847 Armature Horse and Band Winding Device Bracket Arm (Swazey) *640 Pneumatic (Adams) *381 used in Repair Shops, San Diego *856 Brakes, Air: (P. A. B. Company) *379 Car Steps, Carborundum Tread for (Em- Armature Truck used in Repair Shop, San Storage, Compressing Stations, St. Louis. *628 pire) *778 Diego *856 Storage System in Belgium 701 Car Ventilators 147 Ash Handling by Street Railways in Brook- in Newark, N. J *957 Car Wheels (see Wheels) lyn *618 in St. Louis *208 Car Works: Kuhlman Car Company. Re- Asia, Electric Railway Development in 630 Brakes, Combined Wheel and Rail (Fowler). *76 organization 490 Attleboro, Mass., Bristol County Street Rail- Brakes, Electric, Solenoid used in Vienna *202 Sale of 448 way, Park of 974 Brakes, Emergency (E. A. B. Company) *529 Southern Car Company 107 Auckland, N. Z., Tramway Accident 27ff and Sand-Box [Boynton] 27 Cars, Design of; Side-Entrance Steel, Illi- Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Railway, Annual Brakes, Hand: (National) *942 nois Central Railroad *661 Report 546 Quick-Action (Howland) 612 Comments 648 Austin, Tex., Convertible Cars *109 Vertical Wheel (St. Louis) *78 Single vs. Double Enders 685 Australia, Electric Railw-ay Extensions in 980 Braking, Development of Railroad [Parke]... 30 Cars: Closed, Berlin Elevated *846 Automobiles; as Auxiliaries to Electric Rail- Brill, John A., receives John Scott Medal 754 Bismarck, N. D *331 ways (Winton) 49 Brooklyn: Ash Handling by Street Railways. *618 Buffalo *147, *870 *223 Omnibusses vs. Street Railways 338, 829 Bridge Terminal Plans 270, 271, 336, 454 Coeur D'Alene & Spokane Railway . . [Gorman] c448 Car Checking System *175, 675, 698 Des Moines *820 Axle Testing Machine used in Boston *467 Dealing with the Rowdy in 942, 979 Detroit *383 Dekalb Avenue Car House destroyed by Fort Scott, Kansas *607 Fire *147 Grand Rapids 37 B Employees' Physical Examinations 387 for High-Speed Traction (Stephenson) *668 Feeder Conduit Construction in *72 Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway *173 Baltimore: Fire, Effect of 421 Freight Handling 154 Lewiston *487 Power Station, Pratt Street, saved... 301 Generating and Distributing System of... 859 Little Rock, Ark *534 Maryland Electric Railway Company, New Open Cars *640 Northern Texas Traction Company... *639 Organization of 977 Parkville Concrete Sub-Station *702 Pensacola *571 Water Power in 81 Rapid Transit Company, Annual Report.. 452 Rochester *330 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Control System, Subway, Contract for Removal of Soil... 713 Rutland, Vt *486 Motors and Shoes of *954 Terminal Station at Coney Island *884 San Jose *297 Band Saw (American) *575 Track Repairs 735 St. Louis *79, *206, "487 INDEX. iii

St. Louis Exposition (St. Louis) 927 Franchise Extension asked 681 Elevated Railways: Continuous Corridor Sterling, Dixon & Eastern Electric Express Transportation extended 14U Train *528 Railway *749 —Legislature to regulate Number of Pas- — Recent Practice in Berlin [Fox] *842 Trailers, Milwaukee *709 sengers in Cars 334 Starting Trains from Stations 811 Switzerland *535 Low Fares ...84, 115, *145, 183, 301, 724, 879, 912 Emergency Car Stop, Poughkeepsie *850 Cars, Combination, Austin, Tex *109 Passenger Station, Public Square 448 Emergency Car: Boston Elevated Railway.. 563 Coronado *974 Power Brakes in 50 Los Angeles *556 Santa Barbara, Cal *450 Statistics of Steam and Electric Traffic Employees: Accident Insurance, St. Louis.. 942 St. Louis Exposition (Brill) *74S near 978 Arranging Runs, Los Angeles Railway *596 South Africa *418 Transfers, Abuse of 546 Associations and Club Rooms, Hartford.. 755 Spokane, Wash *220 Waiting Station Project 85 Richmond, Va. [Huff] *848 Cars, Convertible, Meridian *973 & Southwestern Railway Improvements.. *162 Louisville Railway Association Annual

Toronto *416 Strike . 580 Report 155 Cars, Double-Deck, Great Grimsby Street, Coal Conveying Machinery [Hetzel] c*212 Disciple of, Merit System at Los Angeles 595 England *35 Providence Power Station *286 and Railway Accidents 273 Cars, Open, Brooklyn *640 Coal Conveyors, Modern British Power Sta- Engagement, Instruction and Wages, Jersey City *821 tions [Little] *28 Pacific Electric Railway Company *468 Northern Texas Traction Company... *639 Coal Scales, Automatic in Glasgow Power for Interurban Service 495 vs. Semi-Convertible 88, 462 House (Richardson) *259 —Examination and Engagement, Boston St. Louis Exposition (Brill; *777 Colorado Springs: Home-Made Lightning Elevated Railway *588

Cars, Semi-Convertible, Bloomirigton, 111 *178 Arresters [Macaffree] c*75 Brooklyn 387 Burlington, N. J *149 Columbus, Ohio, Merchants Trade Excur- [Rideout] 841 Chicago *174 sions 776, 852 Los Angeles Railway 591 Chicago & Indiana Air Line Railway.. *179 —Greensburg & Richmond Traction Com- Hours of Motormen in Germany 975 St. Louis Exposition (American) *868 pany Plans 240 Inspection of [Brown] 326 Kansas City-Leavenworth Railroad... *415 & Ohio Union Traction Company, Or- Conductors and Fare Registers

Michigan Traction Company *41t> ganization of 671 [Brown] 68 Montreal 382 Commutator Truing Device, Garr (Akron).. *77 Instruction of Los Angeles *592 • New Jersey *38 Concrete Substation in Brooklyn *703 —Instruction Meetings Boston & Northern Portland, Ore *777 Condensers, Providence Power Station *289 Street Railway 909 St. Louis Exposition (Brill) *708 Surface at Leicester *833 Labor Unions, Tyranny of 2

, Syracuse *295 Conduits, Electric; Construction in Vienna.. *201 Medical Department, San Bernardino, Trinidad, Col *382 Conneaut & Erie Interurban Railway *192 Cal 939 Wilkesbarre *532 Connecticut Railway & Lighting Company's Pensions for, on New York Elevated 581 Cars, Single vs. Double Truck, Relative Ad- Power Contract 388 Report Blanks, Los Angeles Railway *602 vantages 494 Connecticut Street Railways, Annual Report. 300 Rewards, Boston Elevated Railway 151 Cars, Sleeping, Holland, Officials' Trip on... 421 Control, Series-Parallel, with Four-Motor Trippers in St. Louis 189, 218 Indianapolis (Holland) *36, 913 Equipments [James] c34 Uniforms in Los Angeles 975 Cars, Steel, Interborough Rapid Transit Rail- Controllers: Air Blast for (Wellman) *323 Wages Increased, Seattle 156 way, New York 244, *260 [Sprague] *448 in St. Louis 50 used on Pacific Electric Railway *399 Electro-Pneumatic on Lansing, St. Johns Written Reports from 811 Carrousels (Herschell-Spillman) *573 & St. Louis Railway [Arnold] *39 Engineers, Wages of 275 Cattle Guards on Pacific Electric Railway *316 —G. E. C-15 for Type M. and Four Motors. *954 Engines, Gas; ( Allis-Chalmers) *224 Chase-Shawmut Company's New Factory 724 K-28 *355 Problem of 616, 827 Chesapeake Transit Company, Extensions and Handling [Flynn] c34 Engines, Steam: Cross-Compound Vertical Improvements 670 Conveyors, Two-Belt System *819 (Hamilton-Corliss) *940 Chicago: Accident Statistics 721 Coronado Railway Co., Combination Car *974 Reciprocating, Efficiencies 918 City Railway Company, Annual Report... 334 Council Bluffs, Tabor & Southern Railway Superheated Steam and Reheaters in Fire Extinguisher Car in *88S Statement 644 Large Compound [Marks] 889 Comments on 883 Crocker-Wheeler Company, Annual Report.. 238 Comments on 919 Franchises. .3, 114, 115, 156, 301, 333, 455, 461 Cuba, Electric Railway Projects in 545 Europe: Statistics on Wheel Cost in 605 581, 724, 823, 978 Culverts on Pacific Electric Railway *314 Evansville & Princeton Traction Company's Ninety-Nine-Year 269, 420, S78, 883 Current-Collector, Huber [Somach] *632 System *561 Comments on 391 Everett Railway & Electric Company, New & Indiana Air Line Railway, Semi-Con- Power Plant Equipment 3S7 vertible Cars *179 D Lake Street Elevated Railway Change of Name 580 Danforth, R. E *186 F Metropolitan Elevated Railway Improve- Dayton, Springfield & Urbana Railway Com- ments 749 pany, Remarkable Long-Distance Run.. 915 Fare Registers: Double Register Rods [Kelly] cl77 Comments 728 Denver & Northwestern Railway, Sub-Sta- and Indicators Combined (Ohmer) 546 Traffic Report 112 tion at Clear Creek Junction *812 Fares: Cleveland Low (see Cleveland.) West Side Annual Report 610 Depreciation Funds 760 Collection, Diagram for Interurban Line

—& Milwaukee Railroad: Annual Report .. 153 in Europe 696 [Morgan] c*329 —Municipal Ownership Vote in.. 580, 585, 615, 672 Des Moines City Railway Cars *820 Cutting Rates, Boston & Maine Railroad.. 881 & Northern Indiana Railroad Company, Des Moines-Colfax Railway, Remarkable Feeder Conduit, Construction in Brooklyn... *72 New Road Projected 755 Earnings 747 Feed-Water Heaters (International) *638 Northwestern Elevated; Annual Report.. 23S Despatching Cars: by Telephone, on Boston Feed-Wire for Polyphase Transmission, Com- Decision against Platform Extension. 303 & Worcester Street Railway *866 puting Size of [Davis] *967 —River Tunnels in 474 Canton & Akron Railway *801 Feeders; Cable Burn Out in St. Louis 908 & South Shore Railroad Company, Re- Pacific Electric Railway Company *405 Comments on 882 ceiver for 239 Rochester & Eastern Railway *762 Fenders: in Europe [Fox] c*818 South Side Elevated Annual Report 236 Destination Signs (see Car Signs.) on Interurban Railways 160 Traffic Report 112 Detroit: New Cars *383 Recommendations of Massachusetts Rail- Transportation Bureau 269 Snow Plows in *414 road Commissioners 135 Tunnels to be removed 649 United Railway, Annual Report 237 Ferry Depot, San Francisco, Oakland & San Union Loop Offer 547 Dittrick & Jordan Electric Company Repair Jose Railway *247 Union Traction Company's Appliance Ex- Shops 387 Field Winding Machine in Repair Shops, hibit Room 493, 510 Draw Bars (Van Dorn) *486 San Diego *855 Cars 148, *174 Drill, Electric Hand (Garton) 296 Finance: Berlin and Hamburg Annual Re- - — New Receivers for 333 Dubuque, Improvements in 956 ports 544 Six Months' Report 946 Duluth, Minn., Snow Removal in [Smith]... c*328 Boston Elevated Railway Annual Report. 112 — — Ten Months' Report 673 Dunedin, New Zealand Electric Tramway Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company An- Christchurch, New Zealand, Electric Traction 582 Opening 50 nual Report 452 Cincinnati: Car House, Fire in 523 System *514 Chicago, City Railway Company Annual Traction Company's Employees' Relief Report 334 Association 581 Metropolitan West Side Elevated Circuit Breakers for Cars: Oil (Hartman).. *532 E Annual Report 610 on Double End Cars [Gough] *814 Northwestern Elevated Annual Re- Clark, H. J 793 Edison Medal for Electrical Students 156 port 238 Cleveland: Car House Construction Change. 116 Egg Hunting Contest, Nashville 513 South Side Elevated Annual Report.. 236 Electric Club Meeting 179 Electric Haulage on Canals (see Canals.) Union Traction Company Six Months' Electric Package Company Changes 631 Electric Railway Development in the Far East 630 Report 946 Electric Railway Company, Annual Re- Electrolysis, Testing for and Avoiding [Her- Cleveland Electric Railway Company rick] *516 Annual Report 578 port ,,, , 578 iv INDEX.

Connecticut Street Railways Annual Hartford, Employees' Association Rooms, K Report 300 Opening of 755 Detroit United Railway Annual Report.. 237 Hartford-Springfield and Hartford- Worcester Kansas City: Improvements 299 ' Foreign Railway Reports, Some Recent.. 673 Projects 423 Leavenworth Railroad, Semi-Convertible Gross Receipts of American Street Rail- Hazleton, Weatherly & Mauch Chunk Rail- Cars *415 ways for 1903 872 way plans v.. 152 Repair Track Pits 701 Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Com- Headlight: Arc and Incandescent (Crouse- Knoxville Traction Company, Change of Con- pany 152 Hindsl *38 trol of 299 New York City Railway Company Annual (Duplex) *529 Report 947 Heaters, Stoves, Coke for 427 Pittsburg Railway Company Annual Re- Electric Cab (Consolidated) *640 port 722 Heavy Electric Railroading [Bennett] Lackawanna Valley Railroad — Results of Electric Railway Operation in Comments 462 & Wyoming Company; Car-Lighting System (Kins- Germany 704 — Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, Liver- man) 939 San Francisco, United Railways Invest- pool and Southport Division *172, *496 Improvements 84 ment Company and United Railroads New York Central (see New York Cen- Lake Shore Electric Railway Company, Ac- Annual Reports 754 tral.) cident 913 Single-Phase Railroads vs. Direct-Current 412 North Shore Railroad from San Francisco St. Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, Liverpool Louis Rapid Transit Company Annu- to San Rafael *4, *56 al Report and Southport division, Electrical 453 — Salt Lake & Ogden Kailroad 268 Equipment 172, *496 Toronto Railway Company Annual Report 236 Hereley, Millard B *547 Lansing, St. Johns & St. Louis Railway: Twin City Rapid Transit Company 267 High Speed: Cars for (Stephenson) *668 Washington Railway & Electric Company Arnold Electro-Pneumatic System on —Effect of Frequent Stops [Armstrong] . .*70, 89 Annual [Arnold] *39 Report 237 — Experiments on Pacific Electric Railway Fire Extinguisher Legal: Decision against Platform Extension, Car in Chicago *888 Company 404 Comments on Northwestern Elevated, Chicago 303 883 —Tests by Steam Locomotives 647, 914 Key Route Transfers on hew York City Interur- *283 Hoist Electric, used on Wharf at Redondo *657 Fire Insurance: Protection ban Street Railway 153 of Car Houses Hooven-Owens-Kentschler Company Plant... 154 Negligence Law of, Imputed 536 7C0, *938 Hudson River Trolley Tunnel, Completion of [Swetland] Overlapping of Railroad Platforms by 772 North Bore 456 Risks and Remedies Passing Cars 779 550 Huntington, H. E *186 Floods, in Indiana and Ohio Unwarranted Extension of Principle. 586 183 , 579, 604 in 1904 617 Notes 225, 536, 779 Fort Scott, Kansas, Closed Cars *607 Leicester Corporation Electric Tramways *830 Fort Wayne Traction Company, Change of I Oil Removal from Condenser Water *834 name 386 Letter Boxes on Cars c605 Illinois, Interurban *770 Franchises: Ohio Decision 185 Lines in [Warren] c746 Illinois Pittsburg Grants 423 Central Railroad, Side-Entrance Steel Lewistown, Closed Cars *487 *661 Frankfort-on-Main, Municipal Power Plant & Cars , Lightning Arresters: Colorado Springs, Railway, Annual Report 302 Comments 648 Home-Made [Macaffree] c*75 Freight Station, Jackson & Battle Creek Rail- Imposter, Another 625 Non-Arcing (Shaw) *748 way [Fargo] *13 Incline Plane Railway: Mendelbahn *511 Lisbon Electric Tramways, Annual Report... 945 Fuel Oil System in Power Stations, Pacific Pacific Electric Railway *351 Little Rock Railway, Closed Cars *534 Electric Railway *396 Indiana: Crawfordsville-Indianapolis Line... 387 Liverpool, Tramways, Annual Report 642 Fuse, Enclosed, Recommendations regarding. 615 Interurban Railway Practice in *934 Wheel Guards in [Fox] c*818 Traction Competition 85 Locomotives, Electric: B. & O *954 Union Traction Company Annual Report. 424 (Brill) *910 Indianapolis, Interurban Railways Freight Current Collector for [Somach] *632 c Transportation 153 (E. C. Co.) *530 Indianapolis & Cincinnati Traction Company New York Central Railroad *861 Gas Producer Plants (P. & M. Mchy. Co.).. *10S Contract for Single-Phase Motors 330 vs. Steam [Boynton] c746 Gasoline Motor Car, Double-Truck (Prouty- Indianapolis & Northwestern Traction Com- Switching, Los Angeles & Redondo Rail- Pierce) *943 — pany, System *126 way . *655 Gear Cases, Wooden, in Philadelphia 759 Inspection of Conductors for not Registering on Pacific Electric Railway *401 Gear Ratios, Effect on Power Consumption.. 759 Fares [Brown] 68 Locomotives, Steam; High-Speed Tests in Gearing, Effect on Power Consumption in Inspectors and Secret Service System, Los Germany .: 647, 914 Los Angeles 654 Angeles 601 Lodz, Poland Electric Railway Report 644 General Electric Company: Agreement with Insulators for *967 791 Allgemeine Electricitats High Voltages [Davis] Lonas, Clendenin & McCord, Organization of Gesellschaft. . . . 609 Trolley, High-Tension Requirements 615 London: Franchise Conditions in 947 Annual Report 720 International Electrical Congress, Programme Great Northern & City Railway *340 Exhibit at St. Louis *961 of Sections D and E 948 Letter 47, 233, 385, 543, 719, 875 Generators: Single vs. Multiphase, in Alter- International Engineering Congress, St. Traffic Congestion in 337 nating-Current Railway Work [Blanck] *569 Louis Programme 949 Underground Railway, Profit-Sharing German Engineers, Street Railway, in International Railway Employees' Association Notes 671 America 841 Annual Ball 154 Los Angeles: Pacific Electric Railway Com- German Steel Companies, Consolidation of.. 876 Interurban Railways: Benefit of, to Small pany's System Interurban lines, *308, *394, *430 Germany: Financial Results of Electric Rail- Cities 476 Standard Uniforms of 975 way Operation 704 *591 Cleveland & Toledo Through Service Re- Railway Company, Operating Features. . High-Speed Steam Locomotive Tests in sults 319, 467, 978 System of *552 647, 914 —Effect on Farm Life 428 & Redondo Railway *650 Notes from g77 Finances of 337 Louisville Railway Company Annual Report.. 388 Working Hours of Motormen in 975 Growth of Relief Association Annual Report 155 Grab Handles, Circular in Berlin Elevated 124 Hurried Locations 53 Lubrication, Street Car [Fowler] 442 Cars *846 Operation, Hints on [Herrick] Grade Crossings, Recommendations of New 764 Practice in Indiana *934 York State Railroad Commissioners 134 ! Right of Way, Importance of [Burch].... M Grades, Emergency Car Stop for *850 25 Steep, Private 795 Pacific Electric Railway *351 McCulloch, Robert *457 Grand Rapids: Terminal Changes in Ohio.. 713 Railway Paper in 934 McGuire-Cummings Manufacturing Company Single-Truck discussed by Ohio Interurban Railway Cars with Large Seating Organization 389 Capacity Association 863 McGuire, W. A 389 Great Britain, Board Through Car Arrangements, Columbus. of Trade Requirements McKinley Syndicate Operations 823 for Underground Ohio 881 Electric Railways 97S Management: Centralized, of Railway Prop- Great Grimsby Street, England, Tickets [White] c *211 Double-Deck erties 587 Cars Iowa, New Projects in 179 *35 of Electric Roads by Steam Railroad Isle of Man Electric Railway System *356 Companies 393 Policy towards the Public Press 307 H Manila, Contracts in 978, 979 Street Railway Equipment 50 Hamburger Strassen-Eisenbahn Railway An- Mansfield Railway, Light & Power Company's nual Report 545 Jackson & Battle Creek Railway [Fargo] *11 Improvements 948 Hamilton, Grimsby & Beamsville, Purchase Jim Crow Law in Columbus, Ga 849 Map: Alexandria & Ramleh Railway 687 of 977 Louisiana, Amending 948 Belfast, Ireland 100 Hand-Blowers (Sturtevant) *§7i in San Antonio 706 California, showing San Francisco, Oak- Harrington, William E * 758 Joliet, 111., Repair-Shop Kinks c*212 land & San Jose Railway 246 Harris, George H *gj Joliet, Plainfield & Aurora Railway Work 673 Canton & Akron Railway 798 .

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Cleveland & Southwestern Railway 162 Mundy, W. O »674 Northern Ohio Traction & Light Company Conneaut & Erie Interurban Railway 195 Municipal Ownership: State Road at Bis- own Coal Mine 270 Evansville & Princeton Traction Com- marck, No. Dakota »659 Northern Texas Traction Company, Open and pany's Territory 561 Vote in Chicago 580, 585, 615, 672 Closed Cars *639 Illinois 771 Warning against 160 Northwestern Traction Company, Decision on Indiana, showing Indianapolis & North- Right of Way 014 western Traction Company's lines 126 Nurnberg-Fiirther Strassenbahn, Annual Re- Isle of Man 356 N port of 980 Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway 496 London Great Northern & City Railway.. 340 Nashville Park Attractions 513 Los Angeles 552 National Electric Company: Air Brake Equip- o Interurban Lines radiating from 309 ment, Foreign orders 183 Offices 116 Pacific Electric Railway Transmission Change in Management and O'Hara, J. B *458 Lines 394 Near Corner Ordinance in New York (see Ohio Brass Company's Works *750 Los Angeles & Redondo Railway 650 New York.) Ohio Interurban Railway Association: Con- *957 New Jersey 603 Newark, N. J., Storage Air Brake System in. vention 478, 712, 863 Ohio 407 New England Street Railway Club, Annual Fare Coupon Book 642

Paris New North & South Underground Meeting ; *235 Legislative Committee's work 672 Railway 180 New Hampshire Traction Company, Snow Organization 421, *564 Rochester & Eastern Rapid Railway 90 Removal *481 Through Car Arrangements discussed 881 St. Louis 347 New Haven Consolidation 790, 878 Ohio: Appraisements, Trouble over 946 St. Louis Exposition Grounds 682 New Jersey: Electric Railways *602 Electric Railv/ays of 407

San Francisco 4 -Public Service Corporation, Changes in. 182, 189 Floods .• 183 Schenectady Railway and Extensions *697 Power Station, Cranford, N. J *439 Franchise Commission Bill 611

Massachusetts: Eminent Domain Bill 672 . Cars *38, *821 Franchise Decision 185 Railroad Commissioners Annual Report.. 459 Short Line Railroad, Charter granted 579 —Interurban Railways, Mileage Books for Railroad Commissioners Free Transfer New Orleans Railways Company, Power 71, 642, 1712 Decision 879 Plants *920 & Miami Canal Bills 303 Right to regulate Fares in 490 New Publications 157, 241, 583, 792, 949, 980 & Michigan Traction Company changes Steam and Electric Statistics 949 Newspapers, Daily, Policy toward 307 Hands 673 Master Car Builders, Relation to Electrified New York Central Railroad: Electric Equip- Public Service Corporations, State Com- Roads 953, 970 ment of 54 mission proposed 155 Saratoga Convention Papers 969, 970 Electric Locomotive *861 Snow Removal 116 Maumee Valley Railway, Freight Traffic con- Through Car Operation 729 Union Traction Company Incorporation.. 239 tinued [Beilstcin] cl34 New York City: Annual Traffic Statistics... 756 Oil Filter (Burt) *867 Mechanical Stokers vs. Hand 125 Bridge Plans 388 Oil for Motor Lubrication (see Motor Lubri- [Kerr] cl32 Elevated Railway, Accident 791 cation.) Comments 125 Bronx Certificate refused 50 Open Cars, End-Seat Problem 951 Mendelbahn Railway *511 Employees' Pension Plan 581 Organization Chart: Los Angeles Railway Meridian Light & Railway Company, New Employees vote against Pensions 645 Company *560 Cars for *973 March Report 790 Pacific Electric Railway Company *473 Metal Melting Furnace (Lunkenheimer) *109 -— Power Station Fifty-ninth Street *137 Ottawa & New York Railway, Electricity on.. 336 Mexico City, Traction Merger 577 Quarterly Report 299 Overhead Appliances, Switches, Automatic Mexico Electric Tramways, Personnel of 724 Traffic Statistics 159 (Dixon) *376 Mt. Vesuvius Electric Railway *691 Franchise Grants 84 Overhead Construction: Conneaut & Erie In- Michigan, New Projects 115 Valuations 583 terurban Railway *192 Michigan Traction Company, Semi-Converti- Interurban Street Railway Company Indiana Interurban Railways 935 ble Cars *416 Quarterly and Six Months' Report 335 Indianapolis & Northwestern Traction Milan-Gallarate-Porto Ceresio Railway Equip- Near Side Ordinance 99, 156, 160, 611 Company *127 ments 418 Transfer Decision 153, 239 Pacific Electric Railway *349 Mileage Book, Ohio 71, 642, 712 Petitions for Franchises in 326 San Francisco, Oakland & San Jose Rail- Milwaukee: Closed Trailer Cars *709 Policemen for Elevated Railway 645 way *248 Electric Railway & Light Company, An- Portchester and Westchester Companies' for Single-Phase Operation in Lansing nual Report 152 Applications 422 [Arnold] *40 Improvements 270 Power Consumption on Electric Railways Minneapolis-St. Paul New lines 84 in 106 Montreal; Semi-Convertible Cars for 382 Railroad Commission proposed 154 'Street Railways, Waiting Stations 892 Railway Company, Adoption of Name 303

Motor Bearings, Wear of, in Elevated Service 348 • Annual Report 947 Pacific Electric Railway Company; Freight Motor Cars, Independent, on Steam Rail- Rapid Transit Proposals *384 Handling by 945 roads, Uselessness of 796 Rapid Transit Act Amendments 300 Organization and Operating Features *46S Motor Generators: Vertical (Oerlikon) *377 Commission Plans 671 System *349

[Huber] c560 Bills , 490 Painting Street Railway Cars [Weaver] 966 Motor Lubrication, Oil Cup (Galena Signal "Rules of the Road" *82 Paris: Automobile Train (Renard) *149 Oil Company) *480 Snow Removal, Street Cars proposed for. 156 Letter 48, 234, 386, 578, 720, 876 Oil for, in East St. Louis *732 Subway Bids 240 Metropolitan Underground Railway Acci- Motors, Electric: Gearless, on New York Brake Orders of 979 dent. Report of Technical Commission.. 132

Central [Rosenbusch] c34 • Express *110 Annual Report 87S —G. E. 65-B *954 Extension Plans, Report of 723 New North & South Underground Rail- Life of Parts in Ontario 154 Inspection *75 way *1S0 *606 *260 Rebuilding G. E.-57 Coils at St. Louis... Steel Cars 244, Parks and Pleasure Resorts ; Attleboro, Mass. 974 Comments 586 Strike averted 155 Richmond, Va *23 Repulsion 190 Trip of Financiers through 149 Street Railway Companies as Operators [Hanchett] *815 Transfer Case Decision 153, 239 [Flynn] c213 [Slichter] *213 Union Engineering Building 455 Passenger Stations, Effect of Stops on Speed [Steinmetz] *215 Competition for Designs 721 *70, SO Single-Phase 428 Williamsburg Bridge (see Williamsburg.) Passes for Newspapers discussed by Ohio In- Arnold System of 1, *39 New York State: New Franchise Bills 2S5, 725 terurban Railway Association S63

• [Bell] 318, c560 Railroad Commissioners Annual Report. 118, 134 Patterson, G. S., Shop Kinks at Joliet c*212 British Patent of B. G. Lamme *212 Increase in Number of 489 Pavements, Relation of Rail Joints to [Van Comparison with Direct Current Office in New York City 764 Buskirk] 321 [Armstrong] *102 New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Pcckham Manufacturing Company, New to be used in Indiana 330 Purchase of Competing Electric Rail- Officers 156 Intcrworks Railway, Westinghouse ways 423, 878 Pennsylvania Rai.road Tunnel Contracts Electric & Manufacturing Company, E. New York & Portchester Railway Company awarded 456 Pittsburg *141 Franchise Question 828 Pennsylvania Street Railways, Annual Report 187 Motors, Electric; Types, Recent 274 Plans 235 Pensacola Electric Terminal Company, Closed G. E. 84- A *861 New York, Westchester & Boston Railway Car *571 Westinghouse No. 85 *636 Company's Grants 270, 302, 456 Peru, First Electric Railway in *S51 No. 91 *294 Niles Car. Manufacturing Company Reorgan- Opening 704 Moving Platforms, Continuous Corridor ization 153 Philadelphia-Atlantic City, Proposed Electric Trains *528 Noise Reduction on Berlin Elevated [Fox].. *845 Railway 386 Muir, J. A *186 Norfolk, Va., Dissolution of Combination 581 & Lehigh Traction Company Reorganiza- Multiple-Unit System on Liverpool & South- Northeastern Railway, Newcastle Branch, tion 913 port division (Dick, Kerr) *508 Opening of 602 New York Electric Railway Time-Table.. 821 vi INDEX.

Rapid Transit Company Repair Shop Transformers in, for Testing Armatures St. Louis: American Street Railway Associa- Notes 666 and Field Coils *409 tion Convention City 549, 571 Subway Construction 631 Return Circuit Fourth Rail, used on Lanca- Cable Burn-Out in 908 Track Construction in [Voynow] *523 shire & Yorkshire Railway *497 Comments on 882 Wooden Gear Cases in 759 Richmond, Va., "Jim Crow" Law in 611 Car License Law 51, 155 Photoscope *820 Plan to compel Double Trolley 271 Cast Welded Joints, Life of in 827 Piping: Different Systems, Comments on 677 Street Railway System *18 Compressing Stations for Storage Air Ferrosteel for Flanged Fittings (Crane).. 724 Roberts & Abbott Company 456 Brakes *628 in Power Station at Cranford, N. J *439 Rochester: Consolidation 753 East St. Louis & Suburban Railway *730 Union, Bronze (Williams) *865 & Eastern Rapid Railway; Train Des- Employees' Accident Insurance 942 Pittsburg: Franchise Grants 423 patching *762 Exposition: Electric Railway Features Laying Steel Track Structure in *572 Western Division *90 [Goldsborough] *678 Railways Company Annual Report 722 New Cars for *330 Electric Railway Tests 461, 477 Changes in Personnel 825 Railway & Light Company, Organization Commission, Plans of 184, 477, 622 Pole Bracket, Steel Center, on S. F., O. & of 979 Programme 776 *100 S. J. Railway *254 Repair Shops Intramural Railway *683 Poles, Tasteful Design, Leicester *84U Ross, W. G *158 Olive Street Terminal 971 Polyphase Railway proposed in Canada Rules, making Passengers move forward 590 Service Power plant *143 (Ganz) 523 [Bell] c625 Street Railway Exhibits, Important. Polyphase Transmission for Electric Railways [Brown] c747 714, *894, *926 [Davis] *967 Rutland, Vt., Closed Cars *486 Street Railway Interests *682 Portland, Ore., Semi-Convertible Cars *777 Transit Company: Terminals *346, *736 Poughkeepsie Emergency Car Stop, used in. *850 Transportation Facilities 727 ; Power Consumption on Electric Railways in s International Electrical Congress, For- New York 106 eign Invitations 115 Power Distribution: Energy Loss 245 Safes, Conductors' (Morris-Ireland) 35 International Engineering Congress 949 Indianapolis & Northern Traction Com- San Antonio, Tex., Race Separation on Cars 706 New Cars *79, *206, *487 pany *129 San Bernardino Valley Traction Company Power Station Explosion *69 Power Stations: Alton North Shore Railroad, Medical Department 939 Rapid Transit Company, Annual Report.. 453 San Francisco *56 San Diego & Coronado Railway Systems *852 Fair Earnings 756 Canton & Akron Railway *805 Sand Boxes: Pneumatic (American) *381 New Bonds 423 Cleveland & Southwestern Railway *162 (Ham) *222 Ticket Books 178 Conneaut & Erie Interurban Railway *195 and Sand 917 Trippers and Time-Tables 189, 218 Laxey, Isle of Man *357 (St. Louis) *450 -Rebuilding G. E.-57 Coils *606 Leicester *831 Sandal, Motorman's Spring (Bonney) *296 Comments 586 i^ist of Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. 859 Sanding, Sand Tubes for [Gorman] c746 Storage Air Brake System 208 New Orleans Railways Company *920 San Francisco: Employees' Demands 643 Standardization of Equipments [Flynn] 474 *276 New York City Interurban Rapid Transit Oakland & San Jose Railway 243, *246, Stanley, Albert H 241, *272 Company, Fifty-Ninth Street station... *137 Prophetic Chronology 140 Stanley, George A *389 Pacific Electric Railway *394 Railway Paper 824 Starring, M. B *793 Providence, R. I *286 Strike Settlement Terms 757 Statistics: Cleveland, Steam and Electric San Francisco, Oakland & San Jose Rail- United Railways Investment Company Traffic near 978 way *276 and United Railroads, Annual Reports.. 754 —English Records of Parsons' Steam Tur- St. Louis, Explosion *69 San Jose-Los Gatos Railway New Cars *297 bine 859 Pratt, Mason D 879 Santa Barbara, Cal., Combination Cars *450 —Massachusetts, Steam and Electric 949 *909 Providence, R. I., Power Station *286 Saw Bench, Universal (Oliver) New York City Traffic 756 Pump, High-Speed Motor-Driven (Blake & Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Street Railway.. *255 of Virginia Companies 722 Knowles) *910 Schedules, Checking Car Service, Brooklyn Steam Railroads vs. Electric 796 Rapid Transit Company 675, 698 Limits of 647, 746 Schenectady: Proposed High-Speed Experi- Sterling, Dixon & Eastern Electric Railway R ments 156 cars *749 — Railway System, Extension [Adams] *697 Stilwell-Bierce & Smith- Vaile Company's

Uack Railway, Mt. Vesuvius *693 Snow Removal in [Peck] c*327 Affairs ' 153 Rail Bender and Straightener (Buda Foundry Seattle; Electric Company, Earnings 240 Storage Batteries, in Key Route Power Sta- & Manufacturing Company) *531 Increase in Wages 156 tion *280 Rail Joints: in Berlin [Busse] *972 Shanghai Municipal Tramways 792 Street Traffic, Congestion in Chicago 88 Cast Welded [Herrick] 375 Single Phase Motors. (See Motors, Single New York Rules of the Road *82 Life, in St. Louis 827 Phase.) Streets, "Minimum Width for Tracks 337 Haarmann, Berlin Elevated *843 Single-Phase Railways: Current Collector for Strike: Bloomington, 111 116 Insulated, on Pacific Electric Railway.... *350 (Oerlikon) *178 Cleveland & Southwestern Railway 580 —and their Relation to Pavements [Van [Somach] *632 Sub-Stations: Concrete, of Brooklyn Rapid Buskirk] 321 vs. Direct-Current 412 Transit Company *702 Zinc, and Electric Welded in Brooklyn.. 735 Generators and Transmission Circuits for Denver & Northwestern Railway, Clear Zinc, in Philadelphia [Voynow] *524 551, *569 Creek Junction *812 Rail Welding by the Thermit Process 85 Single vs. Multiphase Generators Methods of Feeding [Davis] *967 Rails, Manganese Steel, in Boston Subway.. 320 [Blanck] *569 Summer Traffic, Preparations for 917 Randall, Frank C *118 System ( Westinghouse) *482 Superheated Steam in Large Engines Refuse, Handling by Street Railways in Sleeping Cars on Interurban Railways 161 [Marks] 890 Brooklyn *618 (See also Cars, Sleeping.) Comments on 919 Reichenberg (Austria) Power Plant 623 Sleet Brush on Boston Elevated Railway 325 Surface Contact System (Bourne, McElroy- Repair Shops: Albion, Mich. [Fargo] *17 Sleet Cutter (Porter- Berg) 219 Grounow) *263 Boston Elevated *464 (See also Track Sleet Cutters.) Surveying, Right of Way, Hurried Locations 53 Canton-Akron Railway *803 Snow Plows: in Detroit *414 Switchboards: in Alto Power Station, North Car Records, Pacific Electric Railway and Freight Combination Car, at Olean.. *76 Shore Railroad, San Francisco *56

Company's System *468 Snow Removal 124 , 305 Group-Switches in Large Power Plants Discussion on Practice c817 Duluth, Minn. [Smith] c*328 [Stillwell] *521 Heating 647 in New England *481 Comments 495 Hoisting Facilities in 675 New York City 241 Manx Railway Power Stations *361 Kinks *320 in Ohio 116 Switch and Signal Tower, Coney Island *S87

) . *37 East St. Louis & Suburban Railway.. *733 Schenectady [Peck] c*327 Switches, Oil, High-Potential (Hartman. . . Joliet [Patterson] c*212 South Africa, Convertible Cars in *418 Laxey Power Station *363 Western Ohio Railway Company *857 Southern Ohio Traction Company; Franchise Trolley (see Overhead Appliances.) Light in, Improvements in 951 Suit 515 Switzerland, Cars used in *535 Notes, Philadelphia 666 Southern Pacific Railway Electric Road to Syracuse, Semi-Convertible Cars *295 Practice of the Pacific Electric Railway cross the Sierras 124 Company *430 Southern Street Railway and Electric Asso- Record Cards, Rochester 100 ciations, Convention 756 T Records, Uniformity of, desirable 87 Southwestern Gas, Electric and Street Rail- Rochester 100 way Association Convention 490 Tacoma, Employees' Club Rooms at 335 Rochester & Eastern Rapid Railway *97 Special Work, with Inserted Hardened Cen- Tail Lights, Importance of 918 San Diego, Cal *853 ters (N. Y. S. & C. Co.) *667 Telephone Circuits on High-Tension Trans- for Small Roads [Daniell] *933 Speed-Time Curves: Manx Electric Railway *365 mission Line Poles 796 Track Pits 797 Tests [Ashe] *768 Telephones for Cars (Couch & Seeley) *534 Kansas City *701 Spokane & Coeur D'Alene Railway Cars *223 Railway (Mayer-Englund) *222 Transfer Tables for 759 Convertible Cars *220 Terminal Station: Coney Island *884 INDEX. vii

Com- Wheel Seats, Key Ways in c480 —St. Louis Exposition *346, *685, *737 Decision of Massachusetts Railroad 879 Wheels: Fused Steel-Tired *449 Testing Armatures by Transformers in St. missioners [Taylor] *374 Louis **09 European Statistics 735 City Interurban Street Railway Statistics on Cost of, in Europe 605 Testing Set, Portable (Nalder) *531 New York Steel- Tired, Boston Elevated Railway *464 Tests of Steam Turbines [Schmidt] *963 Company 153 Comments 463 Westinghouse-Parsons 400-kw 906 Tickets Defective, Decision 225 Cast Steel Centers, Specifications for Superheaters and Reheaters in Large Transformers, for Testing Armatures and in Europe 605 Compound Engines 890 Field Coils (see Testing Armatures.) Wood Filled, on Berlin Elevated *842 Thermometer-Thermostat (Bristol) *871 Trestles on Pacific Electric Railway *314 Whitney, William C 272 Third Rail: Construction, Jackson & Battle Trinidad, Colo., Semi-Convertible Cars *382 Wilkesbarre & Wyoming Valley Traction Creek Railway [Fargo] *13 Trolley Catcher: Pneumatic *402 Company, Semi-Convertible Cars *532 Liverpool & Southport Division of and Retriever Combined (Wilson) *533 Williamsburg Bridge: Elactric Railway plans 81 Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway *5Q4 (T. S. Co.) *415 Temporary Terminal 423 on North Shore Railroad, California. *7 Trolley Harp (Liberty Bell) *871 Terms for Operation of Cars on 915 Pennsylvania Railroad Exhibit at St. Trolley Wheels, Limitations of 391 Wilmington-Smyrna, Del. Electric Railway Louis *960 Trolley: Diamond shaped, in Key Route *281 Plans 116 Shoes, B. & O *954 for Single-Phase Railways (Oerlikon) *178 Woodworking Machine (Fay & Egan) *574 Boston Elevated *204 [Somach] *632 Worcester & Southbridge Railway Reorgan- used on Liverpool & Southport Divi- Trucks: Brill No. 27, G. E.-l *607 ization 51 sion *507 and Motor Repairs, Convenience in 797 Settlement of Claims Standard M.C. B. Location *969 Peckham, No. 14 D-5 *574 155 Ticket Booth, Novel, Coney Island *885 Price (S. S. C.) *972 Tickets: Books, St. Louis Transit Company.. 178 Standard P. E. with Electro-Magnetic Interchangeable, Ohio (see Mileage Book, Brakes, on Pacific Electric Railway *401 Y Ohio.) Tunnels; British Requirements for Electrical Y. M. C. A. Memphis 235 Interurban [White] c*211 Equipment : 978 Street Railway Branch, Work 116 Pacific Electric Railway Company *471 Hudson River Permit 791 Virginia Passenger & Power Company Ties: Cement (Affleck) *U0 Pennsylvania Railroad, Models of, at St. [Huff] *848 Preservative Treatment for 616 Louis *960 Youngstown & Sharon Railway; and Treating Plants [Curtis] 626 Turbines, Gas 550 Collection of Fares on [Morgan] c*329 and Rail Fasteners, Bureau of Forestry Turbines, Steam: Curtis, Development New Truck on »972 Bulletin 907 [Emmet] *742 Youngstown & Southern Railway, Sale of.. 913 Timber, Creosoted (Wyckoff) * 79 Comments 728 877, Time-Tables; New York-Philadelphia Elec- Step-Bearing and Governor 862 tric Railway 821 Economy Test of Westinghouse-Parsons.. 49 *471 Pacific Electric Railway Company -Efficiencies 918 Rochester & Eastern Rapid Railway *98 Elyria, Ohio, Power Station *164 Zanesville, Ohio, Reconstruction of Power Schedules, Los Angeles Railway *596 Parsons, English records of 859 Station »444 Toledo: Floods 269, 479 Principles of [Schmidt] *963 Ziffer, E. A *950 Railway & Light Co.: Annual Report.... 184 Report of, as used in Frankfort-on-Main Transfer Decision 824 Municipal Power Plant 302 Cars in *416 Westinghouse-Parsons 400-kw, Test of 906 Toronto: Convertible AUTHORS' INDEX FOR Construction Details of Convertible Cars. *707 5000-kw *73 VOLUME XXIII. Decision on City's Right to regulate Zanesville, Ohio, Power Station *466 Adams, Alton D.—Extension of the Schenec- Speed of Cars 90S Turner, William S *547 tady Railway System *697 Railway Company, Annual Report 236 Turn-Table, Roller-Bearing (N. Y. S. & C. Armstrong, A. H.—Some Possibilities of the Tower Car on Pacific Electric Railway *401 Co.) *778 Alternating-Current Single-Phase Track Brake, Electro-Magnetic (Thomson- Twin City Rapid Transit Company, Annual Rail- way Motor Houston) *530 Report 267 *102 The Effect of Frequent Stops in High- Track-Drilling Machine (Ludlow) *531 Traffic Increase, Stormy Days 245 Speed Railroading Track Construction, All Steel, in Pittsburg Tyler, C. C 916 *70 Arnold, B. The Arnold Electro-Pneumatic (Duff) *"2 J— Railway System as Employed on with Noiseless Joints on Berlin Elevated the *842 Lansing, St. Johns & St. Louis Railway *39 [Fox] • u Ashe, Sidney W.—Train Testing *768 Pacific Electric Railway *30S Barnes, C. R. Traffic Conditions Philadelphia Improvements [Voynow] *523 Underground Electric Railways; British — on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Rochester & Eastern Rapid Railway *92 Electrical Requirements for ... 978 System *291 Northern *341 Bell, Louis. Moving the Public Track Engineers: Organization of 87, 191, 273 Great & City Railway.. — Forward c625 A Single-Phase Railway [Lewis] c176 Motor c560, 318 Blanck, W. A.—Single vs. [Shaw] c177 Multiphase Gen- [Simmons] c205, c411 V erators in Alternating-Current Railway Work Comments on ^92 *569 Vacuum Augmentor for Turbines 859 Boynton, Edward C. Brakes and Track Oiling Attachment for Tank Cars; San — Sand 27 Valves, Encased Spring Pop Safety *868 Details of Floor or Francisco, Oakland & San Jose Railway *252 (Crane). Bottom Framing of Venezuela Electric Railway Projects 266 Modern Interurban Cars *766 Track Signs, Pacific Electric Railway *317 Vienna Electric Railway System *201 Electric versus Steam Locomotives Track Sleet Cutter, used on Detroit, Ypsi c746 Virginia, Statistics of different Companies.. 722 Brooks, Henry W., Jr.—Street Railway Acci- lanti, Ann Arbor & Jackson Railway... 264 Virginia Passenger & Power Company's Y. dents:' their Causes, Prevention Track Switch: Oil, in Los Angeles 554 and M. C. A. [Huff] *848 Adjustment Smith Automatic (A. A. S. Co.) 148 738 Brown, H. N.—The Inspection Trackless Trolley in Prussia 969 of Employees. 326 The Inspection of Conductors for Failing Traffic: Advertising for (see Advertising.) w to Register Brooklyn Rapid Transit Railway Condi- Cash Fares 68 Wabash Rochester Electric Railway 183, 665 Burch, Edward P.— Electric tions [Barnes] *291 & The Railway on Waiting Stations: [Fox] *844 Its Own Right Car Reporting System, Brooklyn *175 Berlin Elevated of Way 25 *802 Busse, Arthur—The Checking Car Service, Brooklyn Rapid Canton & Akron Railway Milaun Rail Joint *940 Battle Creek Railway [Fargo] *13 Curtis, Walter Timb'er Transit Company 675, 698 Jackson & W.— Treatment and Los Angeles Railway *650 Timber Treating Plants Chicago Northwestern Elevated Traffic & Redondo 626 Daniell, Francis Report 112 Montreal 892 G.—Repair Shops for Small and Sub-station, Victor, N. *95 Roads Congestion, caused by Omnibuses 337 Y *933 Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Traction Dewson, Edward H.—Method of making Remedy in Street Widening 429 Com- Plan to take out of Receiver's petitive Tests of Capacity, Notifying Passengers of Destination 625 Company Power Con- .' 51 sumption and Efficiency Schedule, Maintaining c480, 828 Hands of Motor- Electric Company, Driven Through Car Arrangement, Columbus, Washington Railway & Compressors for Brake Service *324 Annual Report 237 Emmet, L. R.— Ohio 881 W. New Steam Turbine De- Water Power Stations: (Oerlikon) Plants, velopment *742 Train Despatching (sec Despatching.) Recent 50 Fargo, Wm. G. Jackson Battle Creek Train Orders, Register for (Egry) *295 —The & Richmond, *19 Railway Train Resistance, Experiments with Steam Va *ll *444 Reconstruction Flynn, . Locomotives 761 Zanesville, Ohio, C. E.—Hints on Controller Handling. c34 Watt, James, Memorial to 422 Street Railway Companies as Park Train Service Diagram on Liverpool & South- Op- Wattmeter, Portable Polyphase (Westing- erators port division *497 c213 house *869 The Standardization Transfer Table: with Depressed Third Rail, of Equipment 474 Companies, St. Louis Exhibit.. *904 Fox, Philadelphia Repair Shops 666 Westinghouse John P.—Recent Elevated Practice in Wetzikon-Meilen Interurban Railway Sub- Berlin »842 used in Repair Shops of Western Ohio Apparatus 136 Railway Company 857 Station Wheel Guards in Europe c*818 Wheatley, W. 916 Fowler, George L. Street Lubrication.. 442 Transfers: Abuse of, in Cleveland 546 W — Car viii INDEX.

(Joldsborough, W. E.—Some of the Electric Macaffree, D. C.—Home-Made Lightning Ar- Slichter, Walter J.—Speed-Torque Character- Railway Features at the World's Fair, resters c*75 istics of the Single-Phase Repulsion St. Louis *678 Marks, Lionel S. —The Use of Superheated Motor *213

Gorman, R. P.—Sand Tubes for Sanding c746 Steam and of Reheaters in Compound Smith, Wm. J. —Handling Snow in the North- Gough, Cale—Adjusting Car Resistances *624 Engines of Large Size 889 west c*328 Circuit-Breakers on Double-End Cars *814 Morgan, Godfrey—The Collection of Fares on Somach, Henri—New System of Current Hanchett, George T.—The Principles of the the Youngstov. n & Sharon c*329 Collecting for Heavy Electric Traction Repulsion Motor *815 Nissley, Lincoln—Accidents 475 Lines *632

Herrick, Albert B.—Cast Welded Joints 375 Parke, R. A.—The Development of Railroad Sprague, Frank J. —Air Blast for Motors c448 Electrolysis as Caused by the Railway Braking 30 Steinmetz, Charles P.—The Alternating-Cur- Return Current *516 Peck, E. F. —Fighting Snow near Schenec- rent Railway Motor *215 Practical Hints on Interurban Railway tady c*327 Stillwell, L. B.—The Use of Group-Switches Operation 764 Rideout, Ray R.—Re-Examination of Street in Large Power Plants *521 Hetzel, F. V. Coal Conveying Machinery c*212 Railway Employees for Defective Senses 841 Swetland, Ralph Electric Railway — , — Car Huff, S. W.—Virginia Passenger & Power Rosenbusch, G.—Gearless Motors on the New Houses—Construction and Hazards 772 Company's Young Men's Christian Asso- York Central c34 Taylor, Knox—The Fused Steel-Tired Wheel. *374 ciation *848 Schmidt, H. F.—Notes on Steam Turbines.. *953 Van Buskirk, C. R. —Rail Joints and Their Kerr, Walter C.—Mechanical Stokers vs. Shaw, A. M.—The Position of the Track En- Relation to Pavements 321 Hand Firing cl32 gineers 177 Voynow, C. B. —Some Improvements in Track L-\vis, C. C.—The Position of the Track En- Simmons, Fred G.—Movement to organize Conctruction in Philadelphia *523 gineers cl76 Track Superintendents c205 Warren, Herbert—Letter Boxes on Cars c746

Little, Arch. J. S. B.—Conveyors in Modern A Suggested New Plan of Work for the White, Paul H.—Interurban Tickets c*211 British Power Houses *28 Street Railway Association c411