. The Street Railway journal . r le dîner la fête a pris en compte la performance au Powers Theatre. Mardi après-midi, à la fin des travaux du comité, une visite a été effectuée au bureau de la North Chicago Street Railway Company, où le président Yerkes a reçu les messieurs. Par la suite, une visite a été effectuée à la centrale de Western Avenue et à d'autres points d'intérêt liés à la compagnie. ♦ ♦ ♦♦ la Brown Hoting & convoyage machine Company, de NewYork et Cleveland, Ohio, vient de recevoir un contrat du département de la Marine pour les machines de manutention du charbon de la station de chauffage à charbon
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. The Street railway journal . r the dinner the party attendedthe performance at Powers Theatre. On Tuesday afternoon, uponthe conclusion of the work of the committee, a visit was made tothe office of the North Chicago Street Railway Company, wherePresident Yerkes received the gentlemen. Subsequently a visitwas made to the Western Avenue power station and other pointsof interest connected with the company. ♦♦♦ The Brown Hoisting & Conveying Machine Company, of NewYork and Cleveland, Ohio, has just been awarded a contract bythe Navy Department for coal handling machinery for the coalingstation at Mare Island Navy Yard, California. This is the sixthcoaling station for the United States navy to be equipped with theBrown Companys machinery, and constitutes all the stations sofar awarded. The Brown Hoisting & Conveying Machine Com-pany has also been awarded a contract for a 100-ton steel floatingcrane for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This crane will weigh oyer1000 tons. STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XV., No. 3.. MHRCH, 1899 PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE STREET RAILWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY Main Office : NEW YORK, Havemeyer Building, 26 Cortlandt Street. the station becomes thus antiquated, either in equipmentor location, it is better to reconstruct or to continue theold equipment is a special problem of each situation. Thebest way is to carefully calculate the cost of operation ineach case, including that of depreciation and loss ofpower, and compare the possible saving with the inter-est on the cost of new investment required. The operatingexpenses of modern power-house machinery are now sowell known to engineers that, if the expenses of the exist-ing plan have been carefully kept, this comparison oughtnot to be a difficult one. In some cases the economy willbe considerable, as in that of the Consolidated TractionCompany of Pittsburgh, mentioned elsewhere, where itwas found a saving in cost of generating power of 56 percent could be made by the substitution of one modern sta-t
