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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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nt are arranged in pairs.The entrance ways are arranged with the doors set back.This avoids the necessity for using a trap door. The venti-lating system is the same as that used on the cars forthe Boston Elevated, built by the J. G. Brill Company,and recently described in these columns. The seats inthe passenger compartment are upholstered in plush,and those in the smoking compartment in leather. The windows raise in the usual manner, the top sashes beingstationary. The inside finish is in mahogany. There aretrolley poles at either end, but the line, except where itpasses through the several towns between Albany and Hud-son, is operated by the third rail. Some dimensions are:Length over end posts, 43 ft.; over vestibules, 52 ft.; lengthof smoking compartment, 11 ft.; width over sills, 8 ft. 2 ins.;height from, track to under side of sills, 3 ft. 2 ins.; fromunder side of sills over trolley board, 9 ft. 2jHj ins.; size ofside sills, $l/2 ins. x 8y!> ins.; end sills, 6 ins. x 10 ins.
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EXTERIOR OF ALBANY & HUDSON CAR 232 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXX. No. 6. FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE Wall Street, Aug. 7, 1907. The Money Market The active demand for money both here and in Europe hasbeen reflected in a decided hardening of rates for practically allclasses of accommodation. Bankers and other large lenders ofmoney are not disposed to offer funds for fixed periods withany degree of freedom, and in consequence the asking chargestor time money are now at the highest of the year. It is truethat the demand for money from railroads and other corpora-tions, and from stock exchange houses, has been comparativelysmall, but there has been an increasing demand for accommoda-tions from commercial sources. Brokers making a specialty ofmercantile paper report an active demand for money on the partof merchants, and 6 per cent is now quoted as the minimum forprime paper. The demand is also urgent at all of the principalinterior points. It was generally believed that the demand for

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