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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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e- CRUTCH LINE THE FASTER. It is related in Texas Siftings that in a certain citywhich still indulges in the time-honored horse car. acar driver was discharged for refusing to stop for acripple. The man who made the complaint had been inthe habit of riding on the street cars before he was laidup with paraljsis. The first time he was able to getout on crutches he signaled to the street car driver, butthe latter drove on. The car driver owned up that hesaw the man, but he didnt know that he wanted to ride. The cripple proceeded to the oflice of the companyand made complaint. The driver was ordered to appearbefore the president of the company. Did 3ou see that crippled man? Certainly, I saw him. Did he signal to you with his crutch to stop? I saw him shake his crutch at me, and holler some-thing or other. Why didnt you stop the car? Because I dont think he wanted to ride on the car,for he could go faster on his crutches than on the car.When he shook his crutch I thought he was making fun
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BENNINGTO.N A WOODFORD PARK. land roads and include suburban lines was defeated. Thepassage of the bill very materially increases the value offranchises granted under the long term, and will resultin making possible the placing of bonds, and the con-struction of lines in certain places much sooner thanwould otherwise have been possible. HONDURAS ELECTRIC RAILWAY SCHEME—VERY FISHY. The daily press throughout the country have hadlong stories of Fryer and Ritter, two Washingtonpromotors, who with sixty million dollars back of themannounce they will build an electric railway in Honduras,extending from Port Cortez back 250 miles into theinterior. The scheme has a very fishy appearance, andeven with abundant water power, it is impossible tobelieve that at the present time so long a line in such acountry could hope to compete with the steam locomo-tive. of me for going so slow. I thought he was banteringme for a race, so I put the whip to the horses and madethem go as fast as I could, and

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