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SCIENCE. 



[Vol. XIII. No. 326 



INDUSTRIAL NOTES. 



The Thomson^Houston Company has been obliged to greatly 

 increase their faciUties in order to handle their rapidly increasing 

 business in electric railways. In addition to the large contracts 

 which they closed some time ago, they have lately closed the fol- 

 lowing : Lynn and Boston Railroad Company, Nahant Line, which 

 has 4.300 feet of track, two turnouts, maximum gradient of four 

 per cent, the line extending from Central Square, Lynn, to Nahant 

 House, Nahant : one car will be put in operation at first, the power 

 for which will be obtained from the station of the Lynn Electric 

 Light Company. Newburyport and Amesbury Horse Railway 

 Company, Newburyport, Mass., which line is about six miles in 

 length, and will operate two cars : it is made up almost entirely of 

 curves and grades, the maximum of which is ten percent ; the cars 

 will be operated by a current from the Newburyport Electric Light 

 Company, Newburyport, Mass., and also from the Amesbury 

 Electric Light Company, Amesbury, Mass. The Newton Circuit 

 Line, Newton, Mass., which will operate ten cars, and is eight 

 miles in length : it will run from Newton to Watertown on the 

 West End track, and on new track from Watertown to West New- 

 ton and Newtonville. The Plymouth and Kingston Railway Com- 

 pany, Plymouth, Mass., which line is four miles in length, and will 

 operate three cars, the maximum gradient being six per cent : this 

 line will run from Chiltonville, through Plymouth, to Kingston, and 

 on nearly all of the line the bracket method will be used ; the track 

 is about laid. The Oaincy Street Railway, Ouincy, Mass., which 

 line will operate four cars, and is five miles in length, extending 

 from Quincy, through WoUaston Heights and Atlantic, to the Ne- 

 ponset River; the bracket method of overhead construction will 

 he used. The company has also received orders for nevvr cars 

 from the Wheeling Railway Company, Wheeling, W.Va. ; West 

 End Street Railway Company, Boston, Mass.; Topeka Rapid 

 Transit Company, Topeka, Kan. ; Omaha and Council Bluffs Rail- 

 way and Bridge Company, Omaha, Neb. ; Lynn and Boston Street 

 Railway Company, Lynn, Mass. The company has also con- 

 structed a track of about one mile for the Hillside Coal Company 

 of Scranton, Penn., on which a forty-horse-power locomotive is 

 used. This is used for carrying coal, and is capable of hauling 

 about twenty cars loaded with one ton each. 



— The Thomson-Houston Electric Company report the follow- 

 ing sales of stationary motors : 7.5 horse-power. Walker & Pratt 

 Manufacturing Company, Boston, Mass. ; I horse-power, J. R. 

 Kelly, Providence, R.I. ; 10 horse-power, Georgia Electric Light 

 Company, Atlanta, Ga. ; 10 horse-power, Master-Builders' Asso- 

 ciation, Boston, Mass. ; i horse-power, A. Harris, Providence, R.I.; 

 1.5 horse-power, Bonschur & Holmes, Philadelphia, Penn.; 3 horse- 



power, H. W. Ladd, Providence, R.I. ; 1.5 horse-power, W. Shed- 

 ley, Providence, R.I. ; lo horse-power, J.J. Hillman, Boston, Mass.; 

 15 horse-power, Garfield & Proctor Coal Company, Boston, Mass.; 

 I horse-power, Cambridge Shirt Company, Cambridgeport, Mass. ; 

 1.5 horse-power, A. C. Manchester, Providence, R.I. ; 1.5 horse- 

 power, New Bedford Gas Company, New Bedford, Mass. ; 3 horse- 

 power, C. F. Heptonstall, Providence, R.I. ; i horse-power, B. F. 

 Haley, Dover, N.H. ; 1.5 horse-power, John M. Sweeney, Wheel- 

 ing, W.Va. ; 3 horse-power, B. L. P. Martin, Providence, R.I. ; 5 

 horse-power, T. C. Entwistle, Lowell, Mass.; 15 horse-power, Mi- 

 not Estate, 30 Court Street, Boston, Mass. ; 20 horse-power, Whit- 

 tier Machine Company, Boston, two motors for elevators ; 5 horse- 

 power, Thomson-Houston Electric Light and Power Company, 

 Buffalo, N.Y. ; 10 horse-power, Wales Manufacturing Company, 

 Syracuse, N.Y. ; 5 horse-power, St. Catherines Electric Railway 

 Company, St. Catherines, Ont. 



— The Thomson-Houston Electric Company reports the follow- 

 ing sales of arc and incandescent lamps ; Adams, Mass., 45 arc ; 

 Falls City Jean and Woollen Mill, Louisville, Ky., 200 incandes- 

 cent ; Sanford Woollen Mills, Medway, Mass., 100 incandescent ; 

 Stearn & Silverman, Wheeling, W.Va., 20 arc ; Monroe County 

 Insane Asylum, Rochester, N.Y., 600 incandescent ; Moore Build- 

 ing, Syracuse, N.Y., 200 incandescent ; Saxon Woollen Mills, 

 Franklin, Mass., 200 incandescent ; New Haven, Conn., 45 arc ; 

 New England Company, Bath, Me., 300 incandescent ; Washing- 

 ton Court-House, O., 50 arc; Buffalo, N.Y., 190 arc; Cambridge, 

 Mass., 1,000 alternating ; Lowell, Mass., 1,000 alternating ; Hudson 

 River Street Hospital, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 800 incandescent ; 

 Leominster, Mass., 50 arc, 600 alternating ; Bedford, Penn., 50 arc, 

 600 alternating ; Leicester, Mass., 600 alternating ; Stamford, Conn., 

 1,500 alternating; Hudson, N.Y., 45 arc: Fernandina, Fla., 50 

 arc ; Portland, Me., 45 arc ; New Decatur, Ala., 50 arc ; Manches- 

 ter, N.H., 100 arc; Chester, Penn., 30 arc; Revere, Mass., 600 

 alternating ; H. W. Smith, Bangor, Me., 50 incandescent ; Findlay, 

 O., 1,000 alternating; T. J. Stewart, Milo, Me., 50 incandescent; 

 Woonsocket, R.I., 1,000 alternating; Riverside and Oswego Mills, 

 Providence, R.I., 400 incandescent ; Pitman, Mass., 500 alternating, 

 50 arc ; Morse Whyte, Cambridge, Mass., 200 incandescent ; Rock- 

 land, Me., 30 arc ; Jewell Milling Company, Brooklyn, N.Y., 200 

 incandescent ; Savannah, Ga., 250 arc ; James Walker & Co., Basin 

 Mill, Mo., 50 incandescent ; Maiden, Mass., 500 alternating ; Fort 

 Paine Coal and Iron Company, Fort Paine, Ala., 400 incandescent ; 

 Upper Sandusky, O., 60 arc ; J. B. Mason, Providence, R.I., 50 in- 

 candescent ; Columbus, Ga., 1,000 alternating, 100 arc ; Thomasville, 

 Ga., 50 arc ; Perry Paine Building, Cleveland, O., 1,000 incandes- 

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