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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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gymnasium occupies one-half of the base-ment floor. Parallel bars, vaulting horses, mats, dumb-bells,Indian clubs, boxing gloves, punching bags, a rowing machineand similar gymnasium apparatus are provided. The northhalf of the basement contains locker; bath and toilet rooms fortrainmen, the bath room containing both shower and tub baths.In addition to the indoor gymnasium, tennis courts, trapeze,horizontal and vaulting bars, and facilities for hammer throw-ing, and for carrying on other similar sports are provided out-side in the vicinity of the building. Fireproof vaults are constructed on all of the floors. In thevault in the basement, articles found on cars are stored. Thaton the first floor is adjacent to the cashiers office, and is usedlargely for the storage of tickets. The vault immediately aboveis equipped for the storage of tracings, field books and engi-neering data in general, while the vault on the top floor is forthe use of the claim aeent. The furniture, which includes
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INTERIOR OF GYMNASIUM Globe-Wernicke filing cabinets for each department, has beenobtained to match the interior finish of the building, which isof oak. TRACK IMPROVEMENTS AND EXTENSIONS. Although the road was originally organized to operate be-tween Chicago and Milwaukee, it has for several years pastextended only from Evanston on the south to Waukegan onthe north, a distance of about 25 miles. About two years ago January 20, 1906.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 103 an extension from Lake Bluff on the main line west to Rocke-feller was opened up. This extension, which is about 8 mileslong, penetrates a region where several small lakes are found.In addition to caring for the summer travel to and from thelake regions, this west branch was constructed partly with theidea of developing at some future time a heavy freight service,as the extension taps the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul andE., J. & E. Railroads at Rondout and the Wisconsin CentralRailway at Rockefeller. In order to afford

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