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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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paved. The driver instantly applied his brake, but withsuch force as to snap the chain. The car at once beganto slide backwards, down the hill, dragging the bodies ofthe unfortunate horses over the stones, until the carreached one of the levels of a cross street, where citi-zens succeeded in stopping it. As the young manassisted in releasing the bleeding, mutilated animals fromtheir traces, he decided that he would not rest until heshould have worked out a means which would render arepetition of such distressing scenes impossible. Mr. Hallidie, for he it was, had already successfullyinstalled a number af ropeways in the mining districtsof California, by means of which great iron buckets ofrock and ore were carried across deep chasms and upsteep mountain sides where it was impossible to buildbridges or roads. survey was made for a line up California street betweenKearney and Powell, a distance of 1,386 feet, and
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its fullest capacity,until there did not seem room even for the proverbialone more. Slowly and with the unmost difficulty didthe five horses start the car, and inch by inch ascend thesteep incline—so steep one could with difficulty mount iton foot. When half a block had been covered, one horseslipped on the smooth cobbles with which the street was He at once set to work to adapt the same system tothe propulsion of street cars up the scarcely less steephills of his city. The proposition called for an endlesswire rope, carried underground, but to which a car couldbe attached or disconnected at will. In one year Mr.Hallidie had worked out the problem to his own completesatisfaction. The next step was to secure the necessarycapital to demonstrate that system. As with so manyother great inventions, people laughed at the scheme, andnobody could be found who would put a dollar into it.These discouragements only served to made Mr. Hallidiemore determined than ever, and at his own expense a

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