The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-09-05
TRACTION MEN MEET.
Mayor Nichols Makes the Openine Az
dress, and Mr. kenncy Responds.


Mavor Nichols Makes the Opcning Ad.
dress, and Mr. Kenncy Responds.
Yesterday morning the fourth annual
meeting of the Pennsylvania street
Railway association met in the Ninth
Regiment armory, and representatives
came from all over the state. Besides
the delegates representing the various
roads who We're present, there were IN
attendance representatives from every
company whose manufactures are used
by the railway companies, and the eN-
hibitS made are very complete. On the
left is the display of the IL. w. johns
Manufacturing company OF Philadei.
phia, represented by ]. w. Perry, ana
everything used in fitting up an cleo
trio road can be seen here.
The Atlantic Refining company has a
pretty display of oils used In connection
with street car service.
other which Is attracting considerable
attention.
The Quaker City Rubber company Is
among the largest exhibitors. Every
thing In the way of rubber goods used
In connection with trolley lines can be
seen in their booth. They are repre-
sented by c. A. Daniel.
A. Whitney & Sons, manufacturers OF
railway wheels and axies, have an at
tractive display. A pair of electric car
wheels of the latest pattern. and an-
other pair of self-oiling mine car wheels,
are worthy of special note
The Consolidated Car Heating COM
pany. of Buffalo. exhibits patents of
heating cars by electricity. They are
the same as used In some of the cars
. on the Wilkes-Barre land Wyoming
Valley Traction company's line last
winter
The Forest City Electric company. Of
New York. John c. Dolph, representa-
tive, exhibits commutator bars of the
latest design.
The Car. the leading street railway
journal of the country. has a little
table In the center of the room. and
delegates are supplied with copies as
they come in. f. B. Vandegrif. one of
the staff, is acting as representative
and making a full report of the con-
vention.
The morning session of the conven-
tlon was called to order by President
John A. Rigg, Of Reading. who intro
duced Mayor Nichols to the delegates.
The mayor made an excellent address.
in which he bade the traction men well
come to the city, and spoke Of the
many advantages which the local
Traction company had given to this
city. He made many amusing remarks
ut the expense of the prominent men
Of the Traction company, which were
heartily enjoyed by the delegates.
The response was made by James r.
Kenney. esq. of Berks county, who
thanked the mayor for the welcome to
the city. and said that they had
an1 an
tertained. He had enjoyed the hos
pitaiity Of the city before, and knew
we'll what was in store for them.
willxes-Barre has a generous and
courteous population, willing and
ready to entertain them heartily.
After the response. the president ap-
pointed Messrs. Ostrlm. MARBLE, Gra-
ham, Musser and Heweling. commit
tee to report officers for the ensuing
year, and the convention then ad-
journed until . o'clock.
II was nearly o'clock when the dele
gates got back to business again, and
after calling the meeting to order
President Rigg introduced A. X. Bay
lor, electrical engineer of the General
Electric company. of New York, VINO
spoke on Power Consumption by Elec-
trio Railways" He divided his talk
into different heads and expounded
thoroughly on each. He first considered
the efficiency of apparatus as relating
to cars, and particularly the belted and
direct coupled generators. The proper
division Of the power house into units
to give the best efficiency under differ
ent conditions of laws" was fully dis
cussed The "curves Of modern genera
tors" the power Of consumption, and
the training of men In the handling or
controllers was intelligently dealt with.
'"rhe use Of the Watt metres to check
the power Of control of Individual cars.
and the scheduling Of cars with refer
ence to grade" the matter of "insula-
ton" "ground return and feeder IA
cilities~ all received proper attention.
In regard to the cars he talked at some
length on the question of efficiency OF
the motors and the use of parallel con-
trollers.
The Watt metre was considered in
conjunction with the reading" In indi-
vidual cars, the establishment of stand
ard service curves and checks on the
power consumed: their use at stations
and also for recording volts.
Mr.. Baylor then spoke of operating
the cars and dwelt on the ignorance OF
motormen and the best way to teach
them. He spoke of the difficulties of
SWltCUeS, CuTNeS, ttc, anu f1due Ndlu-
able suggestions as to how to go around
them successfully by the momentum of
the cars. Mr.. Baylor strongly recon-
mended the use Of an anameter on the
car while teaching a new motorman
how to handle his car. so that they then
can see the violent fluctuations caused
by mishandling. etc. He spoke of car
inspection, overhauling. ETC.. and his
talk was pronounced one of the best
ever heard at any convention.
Following his address was a general
discussion by all who desired to speak.
points considered being 1.-The Law of
Street Railways and the Assessment of
Damages" ''Belt Lines in Inland
Cities" Estate and Municipal Taxation
Of Street Railways" etc.
Last evening a complimentary con-
cert was given the delegates and vis-
itors by the Ninth Regiment band al
Hanover park. There was big crowd
present and all seemed to enjoy the
music, which was unusually well rem
dered.
COMMISSIONERS MEET.