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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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n-ing peak loads, which are very high compared to the middayload. The company has three-times the number of cars inservice during the rush hours that it has during the middle ofthe day, and this difference is likely, if anything, to be in-creased when the new Fifth Avenue terminal is established. Representatives of the Pavers Union called on General Man-ager Stanley, of the Cleveland Electric Railway Company, afew days ago, to remonstrate with him for employing Italians,who work for $1.65 to $2 a day on paving work, as comparedwith the union scale of 50 cents an hour. The union leadersclaimed the Italians were poor workmen, slow and wasteful,and that it would be cheaper in the long run to employ unionmen at the wage mentioned. Mr. Stanley stated that his com-pany was looking for results, and that he would try a gang ofunion men with a union foreman, and that if they could showthat union labor was cheaper the company would employ unionpavers in the future. The proposition was accepted.
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EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR VIEWS OF INTERURBAN CAR FOR STERLING, DIXON & 75o STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIII. No. 20. THE MANUFACTURE OF OVERHEAD APPLIANCES ATMANSFIELD. OHIO The importance to successful railway operation of high standardsof overhead insulation, and the probability of the use, through thedevelopment of the alternating current railway motor, of still highervoltages than those now employed, make a study of the methods of

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