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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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14. ducts and space for auxiliary power in the power stations,is confidently expected to be sufficient for the supply ofthe companys lines until 1906. Brooklyn being primarily a borough of homes, the rail-way lines run through more than the usual proportion ofresidence streets. As most of these thoroughfares werenot laid out with the view of accommodating heavy ve-hicular traffic, to say nothing of the introduction of streetrailways, they are in the majority of cases narrow, allow- force has co-operated with the railway company in restrain-ing children of neighboring streets from playing on ornear the tracks, with a most gratifying result in cuttingdown the number of this class of accidents, although, ofcourse, it was impossible to restrict the use of the streets toany great extent. With the smaller children it is not anuncommon occurrence for the motorman to be obliged tostop his car in order to get down and remove some littletot who is sitting peacefully between the rails, and while
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THE RAILWAY TERMINAL AT BRIGHTON BEACH ing but a narrow margin between the tracks and sidewalks,and necessitating extra vigilance on the part ai the motor-man in avoiding collisions with trucks or carriages. Amuch greater tax on his ability, however, results from thegeneral use of the streets as a childrens playground. Thereseems to be either a peculiar fascination for the mostdangerous localities or a distorted conception of the relativerecreation advantages of the various streets in their vicin-ity existing in the youthful mind, for the younger popula-tion come from considerable distances to play on the streetstraversed by trolley cars. The records show that the largerpart of the children injured have resided at some distancefrom the tracks, those whose homes are on a street con-taining a railway line developing a faculty of self-preserva-tion that counteracts the contempt bred from their familiar-ity with the passing cars. For some months past the police the car is stopping for pas

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