SEPTEMBER, 1898.

AND RAILROAD JOURNAL.

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removers for street railways. Preparations for winter are
urged, and the fact of the great loss on account of a single
day’s sno-W blockade due to lack of efficient equipment of this
kind is pointed out. The illustrations and text give the infor-
mation necessary to order the snow sweepers, snow plows, nose
plows for single track, the Littell trarck scraper and the com-
bination snozw p10W and construction car. The- usefulness of
this last mentioned car is increased by its adaptability to con-
struction purposes when not n-eeded in snow serv.ice. These
builders have made a specialty of t'his work, and are prepared
to furnish equipment that is of great strength and power.

“Routes and Rates for Summer Tours Via New York Central &
Hudson River Railroad, Rome, Watertown & Ogden-sburg Di-
vision.”

This is an octave pamp-hlet of 228 pages and 150 excellent en-
gwra,Ving‘S of no-ted places and summer resorts. It gives a list of
800 hotels and -routes and rates for 600 combination excursion
tickets for Niagara Falls, Thousand Island -resorts, Saguenay
River, White Mountains, Green Mountains, Adirondack Moun-
tains, Halifax, Portland, Old Orchard Beach, and seat-oast re-
sorts of Maine, St. Jo-hn, N. B., St. Andrews, N. B., and the
Maritime Provinces. It contains seven excellent maps printed
in colors-. Those who contemplate visiting these places and
those who do not and would like to read about them will do
well to send to Mr. Geo. I-I. Daniels, General Passenger Agent,
for a copy, inclosing 10 cents for postage.

EQUIPMENT AND MANUFACTURING NOTES.

Bement, Miles & Co. are building several large machine tools
for export. Among them are eight gun lathes, which are to
go to England and Russia.

The Richmond Loco-motive & Machine Worlts have just closed
a contract with the Plant System for 12 locomotives, and with
the Georgia & Alabama for 4 locomotives-.

The new coaches for the Chicago Great Western’s new fast
train have been painted a dark green, which suggests that the
road is getting‘ tired of brick red as a -color for its passenger
equipment.

The Safety Car Heating & Lighting Company has contracted
with the New York Central & Hudson River R. R. for Pintsch
gas lighting equipment for 250 additional coaches, which will

bring the total number of Pintsch light coaches on that road up
to 807. , ‘

The Westinghouse Machine Company and the ‘Westinghouse
Electric & Manufacturinig Company have a combination order
for a complete steam plant for Santiago, Cuba. It consists of
a 100-H. P. Westinghouse engine and generator, with boiler, feed

.Dump~ and piping complete.

The Russell Snow Plow Company has recently received orders
for a Russell Wing Elevator Snow Plow, size No. 2, from each
Of the following railroads-: The Michigan Cen.tral, the Interco-
lonl-al Railway of Canada an.d the Flint & Perle Marquette.
The plow for this latter road is to belequipped with the Rus-
sell air flanger.

The Brooks Locomotive Works completed their 3,000th loco-
motive July 23 and held a. celebration in honor of the event.
The engine was another of the immense mastodons for the
Great Northern. The works were founded in 1869. The 1,000th
locomotive was completed in 1884 and the 2,000th in 1891.

Mr. G. Fred Collins, who, for a number of years has been
connected with Valentine &- C'om.p-any, has, in addition to con-
tinuing With them-, been appointed Eastern representative of
the Ewald Iron Company, St. Louis, manufacturers of Ten-
nessee Charcoal Bloom Stay Bolt Iron-, with headquarters at 57
Broadway, New York City.

Bement, Miles & Co. inform us that Mr. Charles E. Billin has
severed his connection with the concern: as representative in Ohi-
Oago. We understand that Mr. Billin will give his attention to
business under his own name, and that the firm of Bemenit,
Miles & Co. should be addressed asbefore, at 1534 Marquette
Building, Chicago. A

The Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company, Monadnock Building,
Chicago, received orders for 78 pneumatic machines in a single
day, July 25. Such an order received during the summer sea-
son is gratifying, as an example of the increasing popularity‘
of these tools. Four of these are for the Imperial Chinese Rail-
way, and the distribution among the different devices was as
follows:, 44 pneumatic hammers, 8 pneumatic holders on, 6
riveting machines,»4 Boyer piston air drills, 12 breast drills for
wood boring, 2 air hoists, 2 flue Welders.

The Sargent Comp~any’s open hearth steel plant has been
running for the past two months at its fullest capacity on sev-
eral large contracts, among which may be mentioned the cast-
ings for 10-in. gun carriages for the United States Government.
The company has been very successful in this class of work,
readily meeting the physical tests prescribed by the Govern-
ment, as Well as the prompt delivery which is usually demanded.
The good recondl that they have been making is taken as an in-
dication that they will obtain their full quota of this class of
work in the awarding of future contracts.

Baltimore & Ohio engine No. 99, which has just been lai.d
aside at G.ra.t‘ton, W. Va, and will be consigned to the scrap
pile, has quite a history. It is one of the Ross Winansn camel
engines and was built in 1851. There are only four of this class
now remaining. During the late war this engine was one of
several captured at Martinsburg by the Confederates, and
hauled across the country by pike to- Sltauniton, Va., under di-
rection of Col. Thomas_ R. Sharp. President John W. Garrett,
after the war was over, hunted up Col. Sharp and appointed
him Master of Transportation, in recognition of the ability
displayed in that unparalleled achievement.

Within the past 60 days the receivers of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad have ordered nearly 6,000 new freight cars, of which
the Pullma.n Company is building 1,000 box and 1,000 drop-end
gondolas; the Michigan Peninsular 3,000 box cars, and the South
Baltimore Car Works 200 box cars, 500 hopper coal cars and 15
four wheel cabooses, making a total of 22,735 freight cars or-
dered in less than two years. These cars are all of modern
construction, are fully equipped with air brakes and automatic
couplers and average 60,000 pounds capacity. It is estimated
that fully 85 per cent. of the B. & O. freight cars: have air
brakes and automatic couplers in aocor-dance with the Inter-
state Commerce Law.

American street cars are used in Manila, and when Admiral
Dewey and General Merritt and their men have occasion to ride
in that city they will feel “at home.” The entire equipment of
the “Tranvias de Filipinas” was furnished by Messrs. J. G. Brill
Co. of Philadelphia. These cars number about 25, and seat
20 passengers. They Weigh less than 2,700 pounds each, which
is very light considering their carrying capacity. They are
hauled by horses not much larger than Newfoundland dogs. The
gageof the road is 3 feet 6 inches, the width of the cars being
5 feet 6 inches and the length 17 feet 6 inches. The closed cars
have 21/i-inch steel axles, 21/3-inch journals.

Messrs. Neilson, Reid & Company of the Hyde Park Locomo-
tive Works, Glasgow, report to “The Railway World” that they

, have on hand a large amount of work for India,. aggregating

137 locomotives. These include 90 passenger engines for the
East India Railway, 34 for the Nizam State Railway, 10 for the
Indian State Railway and 2 for the Calcutta Port Commission-
ers. Messrs. Neilson, Reiid & Company have hitherto had fa-
cilities for the production of about 400 locomotives per annum,
but we understand that the works are to be greatly enlarged
and that the capacity will be nearly doubled.‘ It is satisfactory
to note this evidence of enterprise on the part of one of our
best-known locomotive makers. Competition from American:
manufacturers is constantly becoming keener, and during the
past year British builders have had several warnings as to what
may be expected in the near future if some special efforts are
not made to retain the Eastern trade. Quite recently orders
for 77 locomotives for China and 17 for Russia were given to
American builiders, one of the reaso-ns being that quicker deliv-
ery could be obtained from them than from British builders.