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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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ime with F. J. Sprague inconnection with his multiple unit work. For Mr. Sprague Mr.Shepard installed the multiple unit system on the South SideElevated Railway, of Chicago, and on the Boston ElevatedRailway. The Commissioners do not often have to secure theservices of outside experts, as Charles R. Barnes, the regula-expert of the Commission, is an exceedingly able engineer, andis also very well conversant with traffic methods. Mr. Barnestime, however, has been so fully occupied during the pastmonth in following up the investigations instituted by theCommission in Brooklyn, that it was thought advisable to as-sociate another engineer with him in the Manhattan surfaceinvestigation. After the hearing the Street Railway Journal interviewedseveral of the gentlemen most closely interested in the investi-gation as to the results secured at the meeting on Jan. 22.Their remarks are found below: William F. King, chairman of the committee on franchises ANUARY 31, 1903.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL.
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7 8 9 10 11 12 I 2 3 4 5 fIII iin s.SOUTH BOUND 7 8 9 lu 11 12 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II 12IIduiS. NORTHBOUND Stre.-t Ry,Jo„n>nl GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF CARS, PASSENGERS AND SEATS ON MAIN LONGITUDINALSURFACE LINES AND ON FORTY-SECOND STREET CROSSTOWNLINE IN NEW YORK, DEC. 29, 1902 The heavy solid line indicates the number of cars run and scats available. The blank spaces indicate the numberol standing passengers, and the shaded spaces the number of empty seats. 178 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXL No. 5. and transportation of the Merchants Association, said: Thepreliminary report of the special engineering and sanitationcommittee of the Merchants Association outlined in a generalway the position of the association on the seventeen topicsdiscussed at the hearing on Jan. 22. The committee, however,is continuing its investigations and will have further recom-mendations to make. While the hearing before the Commis-sioners was on the whole satisfactory we do not feel that

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