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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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havemade use of the grounds for picnics, and the main cele-bration last 4th of July was held on these grounds. In addition to this park feature we have always triedto have visiting circuses pitch their tents at a point favor-able for our business, and seize every opportunit^• to proTmote and encourage gatherings of any kind that willbring our car service into demand. In conclusion we wish to commend your purpose ofcollecting and publishing communications of this kind,and shall take much pleasure in reading what our friendshave done, and will do. in this line. Another road which has a good man\- thousand dollarsinvested in a famous resort, states, that what provedmost successful last year was good vaudeville companies.The same plan will be followed this year, only the attrac-tions will be even still better and finer. Numerous hold-ups on the New Haven. Conn., subur-ban runs, have induced all employes to go armed. Thesuperintendent readily consented to the plan. (^mcd/J\miwa^j^y^ 189
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This dcfarlment is devoted to tlic cunitructlon inid opera-tion of electric railway -poivcr Iioitscs Currcspondcnecfrom practical men is specially invited. Both the usen,and makers of povjcr house appliances, are expected togive their views and experiences on subjects zvithin therange of the department. Another electric railway power plant has adoptedelectric motors for driving stokers, boiler feed pumps,and economizer cleaners, viz: that of the Southern Dis-trict Tramway Company of Dublin, Ireland. Still elec-tric railway people here in America do not seem to haverealized the advantages of this practice and yet adhereto the direct acting steam pump, one of the most waste-ful and troublesome appliances to be found around amodern electric railway station. * *A novel ash conveyor has been put in the powerhouse of the Atlanta Consolidated and is described to usb) Thomas Elliott, chief engineer. It might more prop-erly be called a sluice as water is the propelling power.The sluice was mad

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