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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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rable wrestling he got it in.Then he reached over for the blow-off cock and openedit gradually. As the pressure accumulated the tendencywas for the steam to force the cask off the pipe. Fritzresisted this, with all his weight lying upon the cask, andas he found that he could hold it in position he reachedover and opened the blow-off cock wider. Then therewas a struggle between the forces of fat and muscle andthe power of expanding steam. One end of the caskwould jerk out: then, under the weight of Fritz, itwould bound back, and the other end would plunge toescape from its moorings. There seemed to be nearlyan equal combat between the contending forces, when.all at once, cask staves, hoops and Fritz w ent into the airin a promiscuous mass! They all came down together,after having gone up about twenty feet, and I ran up,expecting to find Fritz dead. He looked up. a littledazed, and. lifting a stave and looking at it, he remarked.•By golly. I clean dat gask goot! 142 <^ftfihtJr(aiym
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ENGINK ROIJ.M OF HAWTHORNIC AVENUE STATION. CHICAGO. Hawthorne Avenue Station Chicago. The third great electric power house to be buih b_v theYerkes interests in Chicago is that of the North ChicagoStreet Raih-oad at Hawthorne avenue and Hobbie streets.The two previously completed plants were described inour issue of September. 1895. The Hawthorne avenuestation is situated on the North branch of the Chicagoriver about two miles from the heart of the city. It fur-nishes current for the North Chicago lines south of Nortliavenue, and on account of its pro.ximity to the businessdistrict and favorable conditions for current will for thelirst few months at least, furnish power to the dcjwn townend of the Lake street elevated road as soon as that roadis electrically equipped. It is without doubt the bestlocated of the large stations in Chicago. It is on theriver so that there is plenty of free water for feed andcondensing, and is on a railroad siding so as to get cheapcoal. It is also near t

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