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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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espatches that Mayor Schmitz, who was elected by union laborvotes, declared that it was no part of the duty of the police toassist the railroad company to move its cars. Then the companyasked permission to employ private armed guards on its cars, butthis, also, the Mayor refused. The strike made it impossible for the people of the city to enjoya Sunday outing. One result was that instead of 40,000 personsat Golden Gate Park and Ocean Beach, there were not over one-tenth that number. All the suburban pleasure resorts were empty,but the city theaters and saloons did a land office business. The working people who live in the suburbs were the greatestsufferers, however. All the district south of California Street, fromthe waterfront out to Ocean Beach, was without means of transit.This was a great hardship on clerks, and especially upon girls wholive in the suburbs. A few came in in express wagons, rigged upas carryalls, but the greater number had to walk. The Fender Question in St. Louis
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HEAD-ON AND INTERIOR VIEWS OF BIRMINGHAM CAR The cars are equipped with Christensen air brakes, and with thecar companys ratchet brake staff and wheel. Twelve electric heat-ers are arranged under the seats and each car is equipped with anenclosed arc headlight, and with four clusters of five lights each forinterior illumination. An interesting feature is the illuminated sign designator, placedjust under the bonnet in the vestibule, and comprising two in-candescent lamps back of a printed curtain on roller. These signsshow twenty-five different routes and can be changed at will. Notices have been sent out by the Board of Public Improvementsof St. Louis to the street railway companies ordering them to sub-mit fenders and wheel guards for approval. This action followedthe report of the fender committee drawn up by the Sewer Com-missioner and concurred in by the president of the board. It states that at the recent tests made inthe presence of the committee, A.B. Dupont, of the St. Louis T

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