Show New Air Brake Tried The Hurst Improvement for air brakes was tested In the Rio Grande sh shops ps yesterday afternoon and its advantages advantages advantages ad ad- vantages over o the Westinghouse system tern tem em are said to be Ver very pronounced The entire train is 15 In control of the engineer and with the Hurst s system stem he heIs heis hes Is s enabled to set et the brakes gradually gl and apply any amount of power desired 1 This Insures a r uniform amount o of re re- re With the present systems the he air is applied and then released The Invention was patented In and SOS 1806 b by the late John M. M L Hurst a well- well known local mechanic |