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Show Mi el (.Mrs. In nsnbnrbof Chluigocxtonive works aro lulng irected for tlve manufacture of passenger, mstal nud frtlght cars of steel instead of woo.1. Theso cart liave already been ina.lo tu some extent, lmt when the works nro fully comrlctod they will turn out fifteen stesl cars a day and gltn einrbjiueiit m -00 men. Tlioalrantigcsclalineil for the steel car aro lightness, suierlorstrena1li,rcon omy and indtstructlblllty by fire. A stcol null car In usa Is twseti Clilcago nnd lyKtisrllte has received rcn more than tho ordinary share of encounter with arcllent that fall to the, lot uf American railway trains, ytt It haastoud its ground without l-rlng smashed or oven damn-red by more tlutri mere snr fnco siratchen, Tlre woull ctrlalnly Ito one marked n It antago In tho tme of the strtlcnr for mall anl tuustugrrs. Tliat Is that it coal 1 not be detro ed by fire. The dituonlsh car stovo might upset nnl burn the unfortnnatet lu Its Immediate tldultr, or It might suffocate eople with lu smoke, but it could not st f.rv to tho whole car and roast a linn dml tuned down passengtrs alive. A woodenAar huts eight years. The still car lj "itimate.r to rndnre wear and tiarfur twenty tear, .'urtlirr, Hi" n iilr of wooden cart constitute 10 per cent, of the annual nitrating cxptn-a nf nil railroads. Hteel cart would save marly all this expense. In freight mr. rrii'g the steel car, vn account of Its greater strength, will hold twlco the weight tint tlio-Ay-lcu one v 111 convey, |
