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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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obtains employment or appoint-ment to any office or place of trust by color or aid ofany false or forged letter or certificate of recommenda-tion, or of any false statement in writing as to his nameresidence, previous employment or qualification is guiltyof a misdemeanor? At the annual meeting of the stockholders of theEnfield & Longmeadow, Mass., Electric Railway Com-pany, it was voted to increase the capital stock to$125,000, and to proceed with the building and equip-ping of the road at once. Officers were elected asfollows: Charles E. Graham, president; Charles H.Briscoe, vice-president; James B. Houston, secretaryand treasurer. A BERLIN CONDUIT SYSTEM. The Berlin exposition this year necessitated betterstreet car facilities for carrying people to and from theexposition, and the Great Berlin Horse Railway Com-pany saw fit to change part of its lines from horses to aconduit system. Dr. Kollman presented a paper beforethe German Street Railway Association, which gave an K<iti
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UNION CONDUIT SYSTEM AT BKRMN. account of tliis undertaking as well as some otherswhich the exposition made necessary. The system isput in by the Union Electric Company, which uses theapparatus and patents of the General Electric Companyin Germany. The conduit is somewhat similar to thatof the General Electric Company, laid on Lenox avenue,New York. We reproduce herewith sections of theconduit taken from the Zeitschrift fur Kleinbahnenwhich show the construction. The Oakwood Street Railway Company of Dayton,O.. has brought an action against the New EnglandEngineering Company for damages to the extent of$28,000 for failure to properh erect boilers and machin-ery to furnish power with which to run its cars. Thedefence is that the company refused to make the neces-sarv preparations to enable the work to be done. 532 ^ticct J\aiWa)^ j^eVlW* NEW ELECTRIC UNDERGROUND SYSTEMAT PARIS. J. Laffargue, in La Nature, gives a complete accountof a new system of electric traction, known as the Claret

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