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Show A Water Bun Street Car. A company of St. Louis men has just been formed for the purpose of manufacturing manu-facturing and introducing a hydraulic street car motor. The pumps with which the hydraulic pressure is exerted are to be operated by electricity, and the hydraulic engines are to be connected con-nected directly to the axles of the trucks of the car, thus obviating the heavy gearing that is usod in the electric motor. . Two tanks, each containing about one-half one-half barrel of water, will be UBed on each car. Two points of merit claimed for the invention over the regular electric elec-tric system are that it dispenses with the use of cog gearing,- which wears rapidly and requires frequent renewals, and that the same device can be operated with compressed air by placing receiving tanks for the air under the seats of the 3ar. New York Journal., ', s f |