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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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\ FROG PRESSURE is as important a factor to the health of the horses foot as air is to the lungs or food to the stomach. It is the KEY-STONE OF THE ARCH. The advantages of the Goodenough System are, first and foremost, SOUNDHORSES; Secondly, CHEAP HORSE-SHOEING. Horse railroads using the system in its entirety not only buy much less iron and pay for much less labor, buthave also much more serviceable stock. Said a horse railroad superintendent of now the largest road in the United States : We dont wear iron nowadays, we wear frogs and cobble stones; nature provides frrgs ard Boston finds cobblestones. To those who desire to read further upon the subject we will send upon application free of cost our pamphletsentitled, HORSE-SHOEING, and FACTS FOR HORSE-OWNERS. THE COODENOUCH COMPANY, 156 and 158 East Twenty-Fifth Street, 272 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (September, 1885. ANDREWS Ik, CLOONEY, F. H. ANDREWS. F. T. LERNED, Gen. Agent. B. A. CLOONEY. Snow Sweepers, Ploughs & Sand Cars
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THE STREET RAILROAD SNOW SWEEPER KNOWN AS THE f< White or New York Sweeper. MADE EITHER WITH SECTIONAL BROOMS, AS SHOWN IN THE ABOVE CUT, OR WITH CYLINDRICAL BROOMS. Sectional brooms are provided unless otherwise ordered, owing to their superiority in heavy snows. In localities having only light snows a cylindrical broomanswers the purpose. No patents on either kind, all having expired. No difference in price. We make two sizes: Full Size for 8 and 10 Horses; 3-4 Size for 6 and 8 Horses. Over One Hundred are in use in New York, Brooklyn and Philadelphia, And we are now building (August, 18851* sweepers lor Chicago, St. Louis, Boston, Salem, Mass., and six additional ones for roads in New York City. References canbe made to any or all of the roads in New York City or Brooklyn; Philadelphia City Pass. Ry. Co. (Chestnut & Walnut St.), Second and Third St. Pass. Ry. Co.,UnlonPass. Ry. Co.; Phlla. Traction Co., all of Philadelphia; Citizens Ry. Co., Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh & Birm

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