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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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BUCKEYE LAKE, SHOWING BOAT LANDING the use of standard steam colored signals for day and coloredlamps for night, all cars are provided with fugees for useduring foggy weather or on dark nights. These are manufac-tured by the Consolidated Fireworks Company, of Chicago,and they burn for 15 minutes after being dropped from the car.A red light is a signal to stop, and a green light a warning thatthe car is not making standard time. THE TERRITORYThe present road draws from a population of about 250,000,including Columbus, and the extension to Zanesville will bringabout 50,000 more into the companys territory. Newark, theoperating headquarters of the road, is the seat of LickingCounty, one of the banner agricultural counties of Ohio. Thecity has a population of about 22,000, and within the last fewyears has made remarkable strides as a manufacturing city aswell as a distributing center. It has five prosperous banks, astove works that employes 500 men, glass plants giving work to
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PICNIC GROUND AT BUCKEYE LAKE PARK several hundred more, and is the home of the Jewett Car Com-pany. Although the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohiooperate between Columbus and Newark, the frequent service,high speed, comfortable cars and low rates of the electric linehave taken from the steam road the majority of the business,including the better class of traveling men, who, in other locali-ties, seldom take an electric car when they can catch a train.Zanesville has 35,000 inhabitants, and is a prosperous manufac-turing city. The electric road will undoubtedly capture thegreat majority of the passenger business between Zanesville, Newark and Columbus, since only a branch steam line, withinfrequent service, connects them. Granville is a college townof 1500. There is no direct steam route between Granville andColumbus, and the electric road furnishes the most desirableservice. The farming country along the national pike in thisdistrict is noted as being among the best in the Sta

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