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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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-. In the language ofthe local papers, bands played, whistles blew, mencheered and women waved their parasols and handker-chiefs; the babies cried and the boys yelled, and every-body rode on the cars free of charge. The accompanying engraving represents a small partof the general jubilee that possessed the populace; andthe entire scene is one that is oft repeated as city aftercity hail rapid transit, not only as a harbinger of pleasure,but as the only escape from the inconveniences of citylife.
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STREET SCENE JAMESTOWN, N. V., RAILWAY COMPANY. THE BOGIE MAN. THE syndicate represented by Waller, Cook &Wagner, of New York City, has gathered into itsall-absorbing tentacles another street railway—theWinchester Avenue Road, at New Haven, Connecticut.The same powerful organization recently bought in theDetroit road for $7,000,000, and last May gathered upthe West Haven road at a less figure. They haveimproved the West Haven road to the extent of $50,000,and after getting control, the Fairhaven and Westvilleroad, and thus, with the Winchester franchise a completesystem of first-class rapid transit. No pains will bespared to make the system all that it ought to be, andalthough nothing has been said, not less than $300,000 isthe sum already involved in the transaction. The length of the entire line is 20 miles, built underthe severest conditions, which make construction difficult.The route is a succession of grades, running 10 per cent,in several places, and numerous sharp curves

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