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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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rextends into the bulding. The sessions will he held on thesecond floor of this pavilion. In the arrest of Mrs. Ellen Seivert, the secret service de-partment of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Comiiany believethey have checked the career of another accident fakir. Mrs..^eivert is descril-ed as a grass widnw, thirty-five years old. Itis said that Mrs. Seivert is a sickly woman, and that this hasaided her materially in mulcting the Atlantic City Railway outof $200, the Reading Railroad and other companies. In January,1904, Mrs. Seivert had a claim of $25 allowed by the Philadel-))hia Coni))any in settlement of an accident said to have beenreceived at Fifteenth Street and Girard Avenue. On June 6of the same year she presented another claim, posing asMary King. Her claim this time was that she had beenthrown from a car al .Seveiileentli and Market .Streets. Onbeing visited at her home by an agent of the comi)any, she be-(.■ime suspicidus ;ind fled In Atlantic Citv. ller ;irrest followed.
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ST.MrnNG OFF THE FIRST ELECTRIC CAR IN MANILA io82 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXV. No. 24. FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE Wall Street^ June 14, 1905. The Money Market There was no appreciable change in the money market this week,rates and conditions remaining practically the same as those pre-vailing for some time past. In the early part of the week themarket displayed a firmer tendency, local bankers and individuallenders being disposed to advance the interest charges on timeloans in view of the heavy disbursements to be made on July i,but the liberal offerings of foreign money against the sale of longsterling bills, ^and the announcement from Washington that theSecretary of the Treasury had decided to postpone the payment ofthe remaining 25 per cent of Government deposits until July 15,caused a decline in rates for all maturities to the previous lowlevel. Money on call was in abundant supply throughout the week,at rates ranging from 3 to 2^4 per cent, the bulk of the businessbeing transa

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