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Title: Fall River, Massachusetts, a publication of personal points pertaining to a city of opportunity
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Fall River trade and industry association. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Fall River (Mass.)
Publisher: (Fall river) Fall River trade and industry association
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Tvine are actually floating palaces.) It is a tw^o million dollarsteamer, which price may furnish to the reader some idea of themagnificence of this line of steamers which is of I*all Riv^erorigin; and some idea of the immense, nightly travel by thisline alone, when it is understood that to provision the Common-wealth for a single trip, requires a ton of roasts, steaks and chops,two hundred pounds of poultry, two hundred loaves of bread,three hundred pounds of butter, two hundred and forty dozen eggs,one hundred gallons of milk, three hundred pounds fresh fish, onehundred and fifty pounds of salt fish, one hundred pounds ofcoffee, and other varieties of food in like proj^ortion. All these Kail River Line steamers are equipped with search-lights, wareless telegraph and every up to date requirement andconvenience. During their nightly voyage on Long Island Soundthey are constantly in wireless touch with each other and infact with the world, for the wireless service on these steamers has
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proven a great convenience to the patrons of the line as it en-ables them even while in transit, to communicate with theirhomes and their business. STREET CAR SERVICE. Fall Rivers first street car line was built in the year 1880.George F. Mellen, its projector, formed a corporation known asthe Globe Street Railway Company, and its first tracks were laidin Main street and Pleasant street. Like the steamboat lines and the steam railroad service, thisstreet car service was a success from its beginning. It developedand expanded, and stimulated competing lines, until thecity became quite comfortably supplied with street car service.These competing lines were finally brought up and merged intothe Globe Street Railway Company. This service was furnished by horse power until September1892, in which month electric power was substituted. In 1899 the Globe Street Railway became merged with or intothe Old Colony Street Railway System, one of the largest electricsystems in New England, operating i

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