To the right of the long, rambling structure he could see the occasional glare of switch engines and track-walkers' lanterns in the railroad yards.

"It's fine," muttered Dan, as he stared about him at the bright metal work, the switch-board and the revolving machines.

They are coiled in cables from which wires are led to the switch room, and thence to all parts of the ship.

The curiously shaped iron lamp had concealed an electric bulb, and Rann had turned off the switch-key under the table.

The Cortlandt Street operator goes through the operation of testing to see if 1748 is busy, and if not she assigns a wire connecting the two exchanges, whereupon in Eighteenth Street one plug is put in 4341 switch hole; the twin plug is put into the switch hole connecting with the wire to Cortlandt Street; at Cortlandt Street the same thing is done with No. 1748 pair of plugs.

* Con by a Switch-tender.

The switch arms, pivoting shafts and attachments for same, the contact points and binding posts were home-made.

In the West he has learnt that men of every language and religion can live in the same city and work at the same shops and sheds and mills and switch-yards without desecrating each other's churches or even suppressing each other's newspapers, not to speak of cutting each other's throats; and when next he meets Albanian or Bulgar on Balkan ground, he may remember that he has once dwelt with him in fraternity at Omaha or St. Louis or Chicago.

Can't you give us a switch-tail one, that will hang on so as to touch next December?

And indeed I pulled a small branch from a tree that did be near, to be for a switch as you shall whip a boy with; and I held her with my left hand, and in verity I laid the switch thrice very sharp across her pretty shoulders, that she know all that she did need to know.

Planed switch tongues are also used, having the shape of those employed on the normal tracks, especially for the passage of small engines; the switches are, in this case, completed by the application of a hand lever.

A telephone system may be likened, in a measure, to a complicated railroad line: the trunk wires to subscribers are like the tracks of the railroad, and the central station may be compared to the switch tower, while the central operators are like the switchmen.

" The locomotive whistle was droning again, and a dodging procession of red-eyed switch-lights flicked past the windows.

The road is a narrow zigzag, making an ascent of 4000 feet in a distance of from ten to twelve miles of switch-backing around the face of a steep rock-ribbed mountain.

After that my uncle brushed me with a switch bundle, and not lightly, for his arm is strong.

The strings of brilliants that led from it were arc lights at switch crossings where the great railway lines rayed out.

I went down, and fixed upon a generating setthere were threethat would give a decent load, and then saw that the switch-gear belonging to this particular generator was in order.

But the switch apparatus used in the American central offices is infinitely superior to anything that I have ever seen over here, excepting at Liverpool.

Péronne has been recovered, the famous Drocourt-Quéant switch-line has been breached, the Americans have flattened out the St. Mihiel salient.

Mr. Driggs believed in the switch system which prevails in our railroading.