Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-02-14

ground. A comrade in the force came to the
tackled and savagely kicked the latter con-
stable for his interference A desperate
struggle then ensued, to the great discomft-
ure of the police A third constable came
hastily to assist his fallen brethren. Upon
him the dwarf turned, butted and eventually
knocked him down. At length the three po-
lcemen together overpowered and arrested
the foe.
Sir Frederick Bramwell, the president of
the English Institute of Civil Engineer
ing, declares that for the large steel forgings
required in the present day for engine shafts
and for cannon the operations of light steam
hammers are positively hurtful, tending to
produce internal flaws, and that the blows of
even the heaviest hammers are less efica-
cious than pressure applied without a blow
He thinks the time is not far distant when
all steel in it's molten state will be subjected
to pressure with the object of diminishing
the size of any cavities containing impris-
oned gases, or else that the same result will
be obtained by other mechanical means, the
possible nature of which he does not specify
but by which casting may be obtained free
from all blow holes, SO that, when afterward
forged by pressure, and not by percussion, it
may be trusted to contain no local defect
A petition is before the Massachusetts leg
islature from the Highland Junction railroad
company of that State, asking for aid to era
BILE it to build bridge over the Hudson river
hat POINT o7,1 Ub11r0 Rv
bridging the river at this point and connect
ing with the New York and New England
road on the east, and the New York, Lake
Erie and Western railroad at the west Bos-
ton and all New England are brought hun
dred miles nearer Pennsylvania and the
southern States than by any of the present
lines 1t is estimated that route of this
kind would have the annual transportation
of 600, 900 OF 5000, 900 tons of coal alone,
besides large amounts of cotton and corn
the short cut enabling it to carry these arti-
cles at cheaper rates. In return for the aid
asked the company binds itself to be respon'
sible for the loan by annual sinking funds,
and allow the commonwealth to appoint
three of the thirteen directors.
Mr. Charles H Latrobe, the we'll known
civil engineer of Baltimore, has some views
on the subject of street railroads. He esti-
mates the increased wear and tear of every
kind of vehicle, due to the present form OF
track in Baltimore, at one hundred per cent.
over what it would be with untracked, OF
properly tracked streets. He adds that the
damage to vehicles is not the only trouble
the damage to streets is almost as great
1.-The most important factor in the durability
of paved surfaces is in the uniform distribu
ton of the traffic from curb to curb. With
the present character of our city tracks dis
tribution is impossible; every vehicle must
follow every other vehicle, the only sur
face unoccupied by the rails is the very side
ling space next the gutter" Mr.. Latrobe
thinks that horse car companies should be re
quirsd to use grooved rail, laid and kept
flush with the pavement, and that with this
simple device the wear and tear on the ageo
surface will be as well distributed as is pos
sible in tracked streets.