MANUFACTURERS and
Business Firms are requested to send us copies of all Catalogues as soon as issued. These will be mentioned in the columns devoted to such information and then placed in our permanent file. Please address,
Catalogue File Dept.,
THE
AMERICAN ARCHITECT,
TIMES BUILDING, NEW YORK.
PENNSYLVANIA RUBBER TILING
Is suitable for floors of Office Buildings, Hotels, Libraries, Churches, Private Residences, Hospitals, Railroad Stations and Cars, Steamships and Private Yachts—in fact wherever a quiet, attractive and durable floor-covering is desired. Below is a partial list of buildings in which PENNSYLVANIA RUBBER TILING is used: Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, 108,000 square feet East End Library, Pittsburgh, 8,000 Five Staten Island Ferry Boats, 26,000 Farmers Deposit Nat’l Bank,Pittsburgh, 1,000 Diamond National Bank, Pittsburgh, 1,500 Rialto Building, Chicago, 1,000 New York Hippodrome, New York, 3,000 Hillman’s Department Store, Chicago, 750 St. Paul’s Cathedral, Pittsburg, Pa., 5,500 Real Estate Exchange Building,
Brooklyn, N. Y., 1,000 “
For Catalogu e and other Information address
PENNSYLVANIA RUBBER CO.
JEANNETTE, PA.
New York: 1665 Broadway Philadelphia : 615 N. Broad St. Chicago: 166 Lake St. St. Louis: 826 S. 18th St.
London: 4 Snow Hill
weight on the driving wheels. The twocylinder compound engines number 849, their tractive power averages 31,379 pounds, the average grate surface 37 square feet, and the average heating surface is 2,551 square feet. These engines weigh less than the four-cylinder compounds, the weight, exclusive of the tender, being 82 tons, and the weight on the driving wheels 68 tons.
Cars Used for the Passenger Service.—- These amount to 38,140. Reckoned per mile of line operated, they amount to 186. In regard to the number of passengers carried, there were 55 cars available for each 1,000,000 passengers who traveled by the trains. A division of the cars among their classes would show that 18,090 were graded as first-class cars, 3,602 as second-class cars, 4,837 as combination cars, 222 as emigrant care, 537 as dining cars, 534 as parlor cars, 421
as sleeping cars. For baggage, express and postal service 8,945 cars were used, and 952 cars for unspecified purposes are returned as “other cars.” Practically all the cars used for passenger service are fitted with train brakes and automatic couplingdevices, only 346 being without the former, and 572 without the latter.
Cars Used for Freight Service.—The total number of freight cars was 1,650,615, or an average of 8,055 per mile of line operated, having an average capacity of 29 short tons each. These are classed under the headings of box cars (which number 765,820), flat cars (which number 154,074), stock cars (which number 61,790), coal cars (which number 595,963), tank cars (which number 4,421), refrigerator cars (which number 21,454), and other cars (which account for the balance of 47,093). Of these the
tank cars have the greatest average carrying capacity, which is 35 short tons, and close behind these come the coal cars, which have an average capacity of 33 short tons. Train brakes are fitted to 1,352,123 freight cars, and 1,632,330 freight cars have automatic couplers.
Cars Used for Companies’ Services.— Every railway throughout the world has certain rolling stock used for its special needs, such as for break-down work, conveyance of coal, or cylinders of compressed gas for train lighting, or ballast, sleepers, rails, etc. In the United States 61,647 cars allocated to these special services, and are classed as officers’ and pay cars (numbering 648), gravel cars (numbering 14,267), derrick cars (numbering 1,263), caboose”1 cars
*The virtual equivalent of guards and brake
vans.
Business Firms are requested to send us copies of all Catalogues as soon as issued. These will be mentioned in the columns devoted to such information and then placed in our permanent file. Please address,
Catalogue File Dept.,
THE
AMERICAN ARCHITECT,
TIMES BUILDING, NEW YORK.
PENNSYLVANIA RUBBER TILING
Is suitable for floors of Office Buildings, Hotels, Libraries, Churches, Private Residences, Hospitals, Railroad Stations and Cars, Steamships and Private Yachts—in fact wherever a quiet, attractive and durable floor-covering is desired. Below is a partial list of buildings in which PENNSYLVANIA RUBBER TILING is used: Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, 108,000 square feet East End Library, Pittsburgh, 8,000 Five Staten Island Ferry Boats, 26,000 Farmers Deposit Nat’l Bank,Pittsburgh, 1,000 Diamond National Bank, Pittsburgh, 1,500 Rialto Building, Chicago, 1,000 New York Hippodrome, New York, 3,000 Hillman’s Department Store, Chicago, 750 St. Paul’s Cathedral, Pittsburg, Pa., 5,500 Real Estate Exchange Building,
Brooklyn, N. Y., 1,000 “
For Catalogu e and other Information address
PENNSYLVANIA RUBBER CO.
JEANNETTE, PA.
New York: 1665 Broadway Philadelphia : 615 N. Broad St. Chicago: 166 Lake St. St. Louis: 826 S. 18th St.
London: 4 Snow Hill
weight on the driving wheels. The twocylinder compound engines number 849, their tractive power averages 31,379 pounds, the average grate surface 37 square feet, and the average heating surface is 2,551 square feet. These engines weigh less than the four-cylinder compounds, the weight, exclusive of the tender, being 82 tons, and the weight on the driving wheels 68 tons.
Cars Used for the Passenger Service.—- These amount to 38,140. Reckoned per mile of line operated, they amount to 186. In regard to the number of passengers carried, there were 55 cars available for each 1,000,000 passengers who traveled by the trains. A division of the cars among their classes would show that 18,090 were graded as first-class cars, 3,602 as second-class cars, 4,837 as combination cars, 222 as emigrant care, 537 as dining cars, 534 as parlor cars, 421
as sleeping cars. For baggage, express and postal service 8,945 cars were used, and 952 cars for unspecified purposes are returned as “other cars.” Practically all the cars used for passenger service are fitted with train brakes and automatic couplingdevices, only 346 being without the former, and 572 without the latter.
Cars Used for Freight Service.—The total number of freight cars was 1,650,615, or an average of 8,055 per mile of line operated, having an average capacity of 29 short tons each. These are classed under the headings of box cars (which number 765,820), flat cars (which number 154,074), stock cars (which number 61,790), coal cars (which number 595,963), tank cars (which number 4,421), refrigerator cars (which number 21,454), and other cars (which account for the balance of 47,093). Of these the
tank cars have the greatest average carrying capacity, which is 35 short tons, and close behind these come the coal cars, which have an average capacity of 33 short tons. Train brakes are fitted to 1,352,123 freight cars, and 1,632,330 freight cars have automatic couplers.
Cars Used for Companies’ Services.— Every railway throughout the world has certain rolling stock used for its special needs, such as for break-down work, conveyance of coal, or cylinders of compressed gas for train lighting, or ballast, sleepers, rails, etc. In the United States 61,647 cars allocated to these special services, and are classed as officers’ and pay cars (numbering 648), gravel cars (numbering 14,267), derrick cars (numbering 1,263), caboose”1 cars
*The virtual equivalent of guards and brake
vans.