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Title: Authentic guide to Chicago and the World's Columbian exposition
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Merchants' World's fair bureau of information company, Chicago. (from old catalog)
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: (The H. Sellschopp printing and publishing company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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re handsomely decorated inbronze color, and each bears in letters of gold with scarlettrimmings the single word Intramural. The cars comefrom the works of Jackson & Sharp, Wilmington, Delaware.They are 50 feet long, 8 feet wide and built to accommodate 98passengers each. The seats are arranged as in a summerstreet car, across the width. One lever only is used to openand shut all the doors, which are split in the middle andslide back instead of turning on a hinge. The peculiar feat-ure of the cars is the method of propulsion employed. In-stead of a detached locomotive each train of four or less carsis controlled from the front part of the first car where theengineer is stationed with his levers and air-brake. The mo-tors are placed on the axles of the cars and by a novelspool arrangement they are capable of taking enough elec-tricity to generate 400 horse power, from a wire which runsbetween the rails. A train crew consists of an engineer, con- 36 io8 AUTHENTIC GUIDE TO CHICAGO AND
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