Electric railway gazette (1895) (14574725097)

Identifier: electricrailwayg11newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway gazette
Year: 1895 (1890s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: New York : (W.J. Johnston Co.)
Contributing Library: MIT Libraries
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s, couplings, etc. This conduit possesses allthe qualities of gas or water pipe, and by means ofthe tools furnished for cutting, threading, etc., canbe installed with equal ease. It is at once sosimple and durable that it can be used under con- City Railroad Company, at Third avenue andFIfty-eighlh street. The structure is the largestof Us kind in the country, and covers ablock 700 by 300 feet. Cars are stored on threefloors, and it contains several miles of tracks. Therate fixed for insurance on the building is 6 percent., and on the contents 5.55 per cent. For thelast three years the City Railroad Company hasinsured its own property, but six weeks ago it wasdecided to seek insurance from the regular com-panies. The rate expected was 1.5, which hadbeen what was charged when the company soughtinsurance before. But the advanced rate wasfixed by reason of the danger of fire from the useof electric traction in the building. At the ofliceot the Tariff Association, in New York, it was said
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NSULATING NIPPLE TO JUNCTION BOX. Crete, tiled or mosaic floors, etc., without the pre-cautions necessary with plain or brass armoredconduit; and at the same time, a great saving inlabor is due to the fact that it can be installed atan early stage in the construction of a new build-ing, without anxiety as to the rough usage it mayhave to sustain. We herewith illustrate some of the features ofthe iron armored insulating conduit. Fig. 1 showsthe actual size of three-eighths inch (inside diam-eter) iron conduit. Fig. 3 shows a coupling one-half size three-eighths inch. The threads are allstraight, so that the ends of lengths, etc., shallabut in the center^of the coupling, thus maintain- that the rate had not been advanced, for there hadbeen no rate for the building until the one recentlyfixed. It was decided upon from experience withlike property in other parts of the country. Therehad been large losses in the last few years whereelectricity was used as a motive power; The ratedecided up