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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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is distinctly stated that the railroad has nointention of putting on automobiles to do a general cab business,but that its busses will take the place of street cars, and willhave regular schedules and routes. Here, then, if this be true, theissue is joined, and while we have no doubt as to the result, itwill interest us greatly, as well as most of our readers, to see .theidea squarely tried. 738 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XVIH. No. 20. Electrical Displays at the Richmond Carnival Storage Batteries on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad On the occasion of the recent carnival at Richmond, Va., animportant feature of the celebration was the elaborate electricaldisplay and decorations employed in different parts of the city.The main decorative feature was an elaborate arch constructed ofwood and iron, and illustrated in the two accompanying engrav-ings, one of which showed the decorations by day and the other bynight. As will be seen, the outlines of the arch were shown by BY R. C. HULL
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VIEW OF TOWER BY DAY AND NIGHT .. . lines of incandescent lamps, while a star composed of clusters oflamps was placed at the top of the tower which surmounted thearch itself. The principal feature of street railway interest inconnection with the carnival was the fact that part of the illumina-tion of the tower was provided by electric railway headlights,which were also used to considerable extent in the city in con-nection with the other illuminations. The headlights on the towerwere the five lights seen in the night view just above the arch, andlocated one on each of the pilasters. They were loaned for theoccasion by F. Boykin Jacobs, Southern agent for the Syracusechangeable headlight of the Crouse-Hinds Electric Company, ofSyracuse. This is the first time, so far as known, that electric rail^way headlights have been used for decorative purposes, and theiremployment offers a suggestion in other cities where illuminationsform a prominent feature of a celebration. The Richmond Carniva

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