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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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d cars passed with a few cars carrying passengersinterspersed. In each car was a band of music and the marshal and aidsof the different branches. Others had men attired in dis- included a large number of ladies, who had been invited bythe members. Secretary A. H. Ford, of the association, bade the guestsof Arabella branch a cordial welcome, and then called uponC. D. Wyman, general manager of the company, to addressthe employes. Mr. Wyman made a splendid address, whichconveyed expressions of congratulations and encourage-ment of the noble work. He showed that he was heart andsoul with them in their pleasures, as he was when their in-terests were at stake. His speech was received with cheers,and then the fun commenced. There are in the city seven different branches of the assoelation, one at the Arabella barn, one at the Magazine barn,one at the Prytania barn, one at Poland street station, oneat Esplanade street barn, one at the Tchoupitoulas bam,and one at the Canal street car station.
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CAR OF CANAL BRANCH, NEW ORLEANS TRACTION COMPANY S EMPLOYES AID ASSOCIATION. guises, which added to the enjoyment of the scene. They pro-ceeded down Rampart street to Esplanade, thence out toUauphine, and down to Poland street and out to the station.After remaining there a few moments to aflford the peoplean opportunity of closely examining each car, the proces-sion moved up Rampart street to Canal, thence to Campand up to Newspaper row, where each car stopped and ser-enaded the various newspaper offices. The approach of theprocession was heralded by the discharge of rockets, bombsand cannon crackers, while one of the delegations had asmall brass cannon. The cars proceeded to the Arabella barn which is the ter-minus of the route, and here the Arabella branch becamethe host, and entertained their brethren and gave them aglorious time. Refreshments of all kinds were served to theguests, and the members of the Arabella branch showedthemselves to be splendid hosts and entertainers. A fin

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