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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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M.\P OF , *; STREET 11U1,W.VY.4 ? — ^ _ ^ .IN. .- . y tLSTERX .\LA5SACHU5K 1 IS s,-di«4M.I.-HtoOifL.c)v COPYRIGHT, 1896, BV R. H. DARRAH. n2() (^ti£d/5^ailwa)9\eylm^ CINCINNATI PLEASURE CARS. LOW OPERATING PER CENT. The Cincinnati Street Railway Company has recentlybuih four handsome pleasure cars and has put them intoactive service upon its lines. They are entirely open,handsomely finished and furnished with movable rattanchairs, having a seating capacity of twenty persons. Alarge number of incandescent lamps distributed over theinterior and exterior of the car furnish means for thoroughillumination and decoration. The accompanying engrav-
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ings give an excellent idea of the handsome appearanceof these cars. The motor cars have double trolleys. As the principal objective point for excursion partiesover these lines is Chester Park, the company hasarranged a schedule covering a number of routes bywhich this resort may be reached, and the time requiredfor completing the round trip, the return being over thesame or a different route. All parties taking the circuitspassing the park are entitled to free admission thereto,and by a carefully prepared system of menu cards mayorder at the time of chartering the cars a luncheon, din-ner or supper, for any number of people, to be in readi-ness at the park at the time of arrival. A crossing war at Bradford, Pa., between employes ofthe Bradford Electric Street Railway and of the WesternNew York & Pennsylvania Railroad, was ended by twocompanies of the fire department, who turned the waterupon the contesting parties by order of the mayor. The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company has f

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