Ohio Brass display at street railway convention

THE EXHIBITION.

Large and Varied Display of Apparatus

at Street-railway Convention.

Next in importance to the gathering of the association itself was the exhibition at Tattersall's, by manufacturers and dealers from all over the country, of nearly everything needed for the construction, equipment and operation of the modern electric railway. The whole main floor of the hall was filled with exhibition booths, the aggregate amount of space devoted exclusively to the exhibitors being over 12,000 square feet, while a few exhibits were placed in the gallery and on the curb in Dearborn street, west of the building. Among the exhibits were displays of car motors and trucks, fenders and gates, fare registers, seat and curtain furnishings, headlights and lamps, generators and switchboards, telephones, line and track material; in fact, about everything needed for the equipment of street cars and power houses. The largest exhibits were those of the General Electric company and the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing company. They occupied prominent positions in the center of the hall. Considering the short time for which the goods were displayed, the exhibition was certainly a very good one, and it was not alone instructive to the delegates and supply men in attendance, as a large number of spectators visited the hall and were well repaid. From the local street-railway companies, too, delegations of employes marched to the hall and inspected the exhibits, to their instruction and profit.

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Ohio Brass Company. — A pyramid displayed the products of the Ohio Brass company of Mansfield, O. The firm was well represented by the secretary, C. K. King, A. L. Wilkinson, from the Ohio territory, R. A. Byrns of the New York office and George A. Mead, engineer of the company. These were assisted by J. H. McGill of the Chicago office and Mr. Scudder from the St. Louis branch. Mrs. C. K. King assisted in distributing souvenirs, which were very popular and consisted of small side-bearing feed-wire insulators, filled with Dirigo insulation, and supplied with a bit of ribbon, so that it could be fastened in a button-hole. The exhibit consisted of a full line of flexible pole brackets, genuine bell-metal bearings, linemen's tools, adjustable track brush holders and brush brooms, knife switches, and, as a special feature, Monarch track scrapers.

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1. Harold P. Brown Badt.-Goltz Engineering Co. 2. Creaghead Engineering Co. 3. Falk & Co. 4. Ohio Brass Co. 5. Electric Railway Equipment Co. W. R. Garton Co. Exhibits at the Chicago Street-Railway Convention.

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