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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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is utterly im-possible for a motorman to anticipate what her intentions arc.This same indecision is seen in the drivers of vehicles. Theyfirst stop and then whip up the horse, and then they stop againright on the track and the car hits them. The judge says it isa question of due care and the jury must decide, and thejury does decide, and the company can usually forecast whatthat decision will be. A great many people (and this statement is not confined towomen) are so engrossed with their own thoughts that theybecome perfectly oblivious to the presence or existence ofothers, and while in this state of suspended animation under-take to perform the acts that call for conscious guidance. Inso doing they are sometimes hit by a trolley car and the com- 214 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXVI. No. 6. pany has to pay. It becomes a question of veracity, and noone is willing to confess to being a somnambulist, so he simplylies about it. There is a spirit born in each one of us and made manifest
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some of the energy and zeal which they exhibit in settling ac-cidents to means and methods and appliances for their pre-vention they would accomplish not such brilliant results per-haps, but they would gain the approbation of street railwaymen in general and the gratitude of amuch-abused and sometimes outragedpublic. THE TRAMWAY EXHIBITION INLONDON The most important street railwayevent in London last month was theopening of the third InternationalTramway Exhibition, which was heldat the Agricultural Hall, Islington,London, on July 3-14. The accom-panying illustrations give a good ideaof the appearance of the hall and thenature of the exhibition. It is threeyears since the last exhibition, butwith a few exceptions the characterof the exhibits is much the same asin previous years. Perhaps the chief new featurewhich stands out boldest is the intro-duction of the motor car, or more cor-rectly, the motor omnibus, to this ex-hibition, as represented by Wolseley,of Birmingham, and the Peebl

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