Abstract :
The two hundred and thirty-second meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers will be held in the auditorium of the Engineers´ Building, 33 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York, on Friday, December 11, 1908, at eight o´clock p.m. A paper entitled, “The Log of the New Haven Electrification,” will be presented by Mr. W. S. Murray, electrical engineer of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company. The paper is printed in this issue of the Proceedings, pages 1609–1660. It contains much interesting and valuable data relating to the experience gained between April 1, 1905, and November 1, 1908, in equipping and operating the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad between New York and Stamford, Conn., with 11,000-volt, 25-cycle, single-phase alternating current. In advocating the use of high-voltage, low-cycle, single-phase alternating current for trunk line traction, Mr. Murray says: