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A point that may prove of special interest is the fact that last winter 

 was the first winter that the Ottawa Electric Eailway Company, whose 

 water wheels filled with frazil are shown in Eig. 8, have made use of a 

 small steam plant for fighting frazil. This last winter was tlie first 



Fig. 13. 



winter since this power plant was huilt that they did not have to chop 

 the crystallized frazil out of their wheels by hand. 



A more 'economical arrangement and one which may be incorpor- 

 ated in and provided for at new plants is along the lines illustrated in 

 Fig. 13. 



