. The street railway review . rack is being built from the works to power plant andspecial cars built for the purpose will haul the loads,electricity being the motive power. The generator willof course be direct connected. RAILWAY ELECTRICIAN A BALLOONIST. W. E. Tate, the electrician of the Piedmont & Moun-tain View, Cal., electric railway, has added to hisprevious title of E. E. that of B. P. J., which, inthe language of the profession, stands for Baloonistand Parachute Jumper. He is 32 years of age, mar-ried and greatly fascinated with the new work. Howhe came to take it up is told in his ow
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. The street railway review . rack is being built from the works to power plant andspecial cars built for the purpose will haul the loads, electricity being the motive power. The generator willof course be direct connected. RAILWAY ELECTRICIAN A BALLOONIST. W. E. Tate, the electrician of the Piedmont & Moun-tain View, Cal., electric railway, has added to hisprevious title of E. E. that of B. P. J., which, inthe language of the profession, stands for Baloonistand Parachute Jumper. He is 32 years of age, mar-ried and greatly fascinated with the new work. Howhe came to take it up is told in his own words, asfollows: The professional who was making the ascensions forthe company injured himself one Sunday in some man-ner and expressed his feelings in very profane words.Mrs. Bishop was present and heard him. Mr. Bishoplater told him that his services would not be needed anylonger. About two weeks later I remarked to thesuperintendent that it was about time we had anotherballoon ascension, He told me about Mr. Bishops. MONTREAL STREET RAILWAY S lilG CORLISS. MORE POWER FOR B. & O. TUNNEL. The power house supplying the Baltimore & OhioRailroad locomotives in the belt line tunnel at Baltimoreis being enlarged and improved. Two 250-horse-powerBabcock & Wilcox boilers are being added, also a 600-horse-power Green corliss engine direct connected to aGeneral Electric railway generator, besides some light-ing machinery. Hunt coal and ash conveying apparatusis being put in with a coal storage tank of 500 tonscapacity and automatic weighing apparatus. Automaticoiling pipes are also being run all over the station.When all these improvements are completed the ser-vices of quite a number of men can be dispensed with.A small lo-ton locomotive has been put at work in placeof the horses that formerly drew cars off the the bargeferry at Fells Point, action, and I then offered to make the trip if they wouldpay me the money they had paid him. We talked the matter over, and he and I decided t