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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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orld says that Madison Square Garden is awonderful spectacle, and looks as if a thousand trolley cars hadbeen dissected and the dismembered parts neatly classified andpartitioned off from one another. Mr. Peter Smith, of Detroit, president of the heater company thatbears his name, is here. Among the later arrivals at the Garden are Mr. George C.Lucas, general manager of the Cleveland Frog & Crossing Co.,and Mr. Frank J. Lewis, president of the Victor Electrical Co., bothof Cleveland, Ohio. Of the delegates from a distance we have noticed Mr. W. F.Kelly, general manager of the Oakland Transit Co., of Oakland,Cal., and Col. Fred. Fitch, of Denison, Texas. A large numberof delegates from across the water are also in attendance at thismeeting. The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Traction Co. is in the mar-ket for an auto car or any device that will give an independentmovement of a passenger car for suburban travel. Addless D. G.Edwards, C. H. & D. Traction Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.
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, PARK ROW NORTH FROM BROADWAY. This short street is known the world over as Newspaper Row andhereiwithin.hail.of.one another are published the Daily Tribune, Sun,Journal, World, Press, Times, News, Statts Zeitung and others. Thefirst tall building at the right is the St. Paul Building; the ne.xt onenorth is the Park Row Building, the highest business building inNew York. At the left- is the New York postoffice and in thedistance the approach to the Brooklyn Bridge. CORNING BRAKE SHOE. The Corning Brake Shoe Co., of Coming, N. Y., is representedby Mr. Jos. Turbell its president, who presides over an interestingexhibit in the annex. These shoes are extensively used on thestreet railways of New York, where they are giving excellent satis-faction. Tests of the Corning shoe made at Purdue University,La Fayette, Ind., show that the coefficient of friction of these shoesis such as to fill the requirements of street railway service.

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