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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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the lower floors extend upward, thus making asmall third story. Here are located a dark room and blue printingroom for the drafting departments. The fittings here include a largesink, tables, blue printing frames and a Dietzgen cylindrical blueprinting machine. A large vault, 10 ft. 4 in. x 11 ft. 6 in., extends from the basementto the roof. That portion of the wall of the vault included in theexterior wall of the building is 20 in. thick, while the other wallsare 17 in. thick. The interior walls of the vault are lined with tilt-four inches thick. The basement vault is used for the storage ofarticles found on the cars; the first floor vault for the cashier, pas-senger and auditing departments; the second floor vault for the en-gineering department, and the third floor vault for the claim depart-ment. In addition to Babcock fire extinguishers placed in the building,the company has a complete water system of its own that servesthe group of buildings located at Highwood. A number of fire
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■?:; Xfi—►—I—— =j=2B=f PLAN AND FRONT ELEVATION OF THE NEW STATION AT ZION CITY. telephone booths, repeated to the dispatcher, and turned in withtheir daily reports at the end of the runs. The train mens rooms on the first floor consist of a library andreading room and a smoking room. A generous number of tablesand chairs, together with the library book cases make up the libraryfurniture, and several tables, chairs and a large desk furnish thesmoking room. The library consists of some five hundred volumesof standard works and fiction. These books are circulated amongemployes by the card system, the same as in any well regulatedlibrary. A librarian is in charge from 9 a. m. until 11130 a. m., andfrom I p. m. to 4 p. m.. During these hours practically all reliefsof trainmen are made. A complete supply of stationary, includ-ing trainmens reports, is provided at the desk in the smokingroom, where a majority of the employes find it convenient to pre-pare their various reports.

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