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papers at the same time on the same
subject. and the next morning the five
accounts were so different that no one
would have suspected that they We're
intended to be the same. and every one of
them. he claims. was a gross misrepre-
sentation Of what he said. lie declares
| that he will never again talk with
newspaper man on serious subject and
| if he has anything to say will dictate
a memorandum to his own StenoRrapher.
and give it to only such newspapers as
will agree to publish it precisely as it is
written.
Regarded rs National Vice.
Judge Gaynor is quite as severe in his
criticism Of campaign orators and the
public generally. He declares that in
accuracy of statement, loose talking and
careless writing have become a national
vice. more immoral and dangerous than
| intemperance. because the man who
drinks whisky hurts nobody but him
| SELF while loose talker Injuries the
community.
| Mayor Gaynor will not discuss his own
| eligibility as presidential candidate for
three years hence. He was suggested as
a suitable man for the second place on
the democratic ticket during the cam
paign of 1908, and in 1904 men
toned also. He has twice been offered
the democratic nomination for governor
of New York, and has refused 1t because
he preferred place on the bench. III
he continues in his present policy to meet
the public approval he will be available
for any honor at the end of his term as
mayor.
$1O,OOO,OOO Terminal Completed.
The new ten million dollar terminal of
| the Pennsylvania Railroad in the center
of Manhattan borough is practically com
pleted. The tunnels which connect it
with New Jersey the one side and
Long Island on the other are ready for
traffic and experimental trains have been
running daily for several weeks. The
new arrangement>will be open for traffic
in the spring, when 1t Is expected that
one thousand trains a day will arrive and
depart from the new station between 7th
and Sth avenues and 31st and Gd streets.
The new electric locomotives are arrfv-
ing and are of entirely new type
which is attracting great deal of inter-
est from electricians railway managers
and operators and others who are inter-
ested in locomotion. They were designed
by the company's own engineers, they
were built at the company's shops at
Altoona and the electric apparatus was
furnished by the Westinghouse company
There will be twenty-four of these mo-
tors, each weighing 1866 tons, with 4.OC0
horsepower; maximum drawbar pull OF
60 90 pounds. a maximum speed of sew
enty miles an hour with that load. which
is sufficient and necessary to overcome
the heavy grades in the river tunnels.
They are operated by the fhrd-rail SyS-
tenn there being four contact shoes on
each motor. and at certain points at the
terminals, where the great number of
switches will not permit third rail
power will be secured from an overhead
conductor through two overhead contact
shoes operated by compressed air
Resembles Telegraph Key.
The controller is like the key of a
telegraph instrument. and the engineer
with his little finger can control a cur
rent that will haul hundred loaded
cars. The new locomotives of steel
throughout and built in two sections
that is there are two cabs and duplicate
running gears joined at the middle. Ea ch
of the two sections has four driving
wheels sixty-eight inches in diameter and
four truck wheels thirty six inches in
diameter.
The sections are permanently coupled
back to back by distinctive arrange
ment of Westinghouse friction draft gear
and levers, so that the leading section
effectually pilots the rear one. This OBJ
viates all necessity of turning the en-
CINE. as it runs equally well in either
direction, and all manipulating levers
are duplicated in each section. SO the
Two pairs of drive wheels are coupled
not to the customary cross head and pis-
tons, but to a crank shaft, called jack
shaft in line with the driver axles.
which, in turn, is coupled TO a motor
crank shaft, 70 which single motor de-
lvers all its power. The crankS are nine
~ degrees apart so there can be no on
center" position. The motor crank re-
wolves uniformly and at constant effort
differing therein from steam practice
and while the pressure on the connecting
pins and rods varies throughout each
revolutions. the turning effort Of the
drive wheels is the same for the mo-
| tor. constant throughout each revolu-
| tion.>
Difference Noted.
Distinctive from steam practice, all
rods and moving parts have pure rota-
ton only. and are thus counterbalanced
for all speeds, thereby delivering no more
| shock to the track and roadbed than a
| passenger car of equal weight.
/ The motor and massive side frames,
| jack shaft and all other gear are spring
| supported from the driver and truck