. La revue de chemin de fer de rue. Chaque moteur est connecté à un condenseur de surface Wheeler. Douze générateurs multipolaires de 400 kw General Electric, par paires de courroies, aux moteurs Allis. Les boosters ont chacun une capacité de 1 000 ampères, l'un étant entraîné par courroie et l'autre connecté directement. Seize chaudières à tubes d'eau Babcock & Wilcox 2S0-h. p., équipées de feux automatiques Wilkinson. Il y a des quatre économiseurs de carburant ARC Green. Est ou Kent .vc. Station. En raison de l'emplacement favorable de l'usine de l'avenue Kent en ce qui concerne les centres de charge, et aussi à sa conception générale avec regardto la taille et les arrangements

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. The street railway review . Each engine is connectedto a Wheeler surface condenser. Twelve General Electric multipolar 400-kw. generators, belledin pairs to the Allis engines. The boosters are each ot 1, 000amperes capacity, one being belt driven and one direct connected. Sixteen Babcock & Wilcox 2S0-h. p. water tube boilers, eachequipped with Wilkinson automatic stokers. There arc fourGreen fuel economizers. Eastern or Kent .vc. Station. Owing to the favorable location of the Kent Ave. plant withrespect to load centers, and also to its general design with regardto the size and arrangements of its units, this station has had .imost advantageous load factor practically from the start and isnow running at a remarkable economy. It had the distinction ofcontaining the first direct-connected generator ot large size thatwas ever built, and in fact one of its units came from the WorldsFair in Chicago, where it supplied power to the Intramural Rail-way, and was exhibited as the first 1, 500-kw. railway generator in. STATUE OF UBliliTY. Bavtlioldis Statue of Liberty stands upon Bedloes I.shind about :imile off Battery Pari;. Tliis eolossal figure representing •I^il>erty Eu-iightening the ■Vorid, is made of liammered piates of copper, is lotft. in licigiit aud stands upon a podestai 155 ft. liigli. It was pre-sented to tbo peopie of the United States by the citizens of France. the world. The Kent station was erected in 1893. The equipmentcomprises: Six Allis 2, ooo-h. p. ci-oss-compouiul condensing engines, 32 and62.X60 in., running at 72 r. p. m. witli lOo lb. steam pressure. Four General Electric direct-connected 1.500-kw, and two Walkerdirect-connected i.6oo-kw. machine generators. The General Elec-tric generators were installed in 1893 and are rated at 2.500 amperesat 600 volts. The Walker machines were added in i8gS, and arerated at 2, 666 amperes at 600 volts. Thirty-four Cahall boilers of 250 h. p. each, arranged in twodecks. There are six Green fuel economizers

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