Word: rails
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Another change was made in the order of the University eight this afternoon when Chanler went in at stroke, and Harwood went back to four where he displaced Meyer. In this order the crew was sent for a row over the four-mile course, starting at the rail-road bridge with a light favoring wind and also with the last of the flood tide in their favor. The first two and one-half miles were taken at an easy stroke, 28 to 30, but in the last mile and a half the stroke was raised to about 34. No attempt...
...Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company for the convenience of those who wish to attend the inauguration, the Woodrow Wilson Club has also been offered special rates by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. This offer is either to go to New York by boat or all the way by rail. A special train will leave the South Station today at 4.10 P. M., connecting with the Fall River boat "Plymouth," which will reach New York tomorrow morning at 6 o'clock. Connections are there made with two special trains from Jersey City reaching Washington about I P. M. In returning...
Good connections can also be made for those desiring to travel entirely by rail. This round trip fare will be $15.60. The charge for a parlor car seat between Boston and Washington is $2.25 in each direction...
...lecturer then began an explana- tion of the Interborough system feeder layout. He showed that it was designed especially to give the minimum variation of voltage on the third rail...
...expensive step. A number of these Tungsten lamps have already been tried out, but until they are used throughout, the present trouble will remain. The carbon filaments of the lamps grow dim and almost go out when the train starts, due to the excessive voltage drop in the third rail. The superiority of the Tungsten lamp lies in the fact that its candlepower varies considerably less in proportion to the change in the third rail voltage...