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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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ins.; height fromthe floor to the ceiling, 8 ft. 5 11-16 ins.; height from the trackto the under side of the sills, 2 ft. 8% ins.; height fromthe track to the platform step, i ft. 4 15-16 ins.; size of theside sills, 4 ins. x 7^ ins.; size of the center crossings, 4J/2ins. X ^yi ins.; size of the end sills, 5J4 ins. x 6% ins.; size With the purpose of taking advantage of the present oppor-tune time in San Francisco, Reed & Co., of 44 Market Street,have presented a plan to the Board of Supervisors for asubway under Market Street, from Third Street to the ferry.Such a construction would leave the street level free for aboulevard, and thus relieve the congestion on lower Market.The proposed plans include loops at the ferry with a specialdome-covered depot and ornamental stairway, stations, etc.,on the line of the subway. ♦^^ ELECTRIC INTERURBAN CAPTURES BIG EXCURSION E. V. McGrath, soliciting passenger agent of the Indiana,Columbus & Eastern Traction Company, has contracted to
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SEMI-CONVERTIBLE CAR EuR THE IADUCAH TRACTION CU.MP.ANV handle the annual picnic of the National Cash Register Com-pany, from Dayton to Tecumseh Park. This excursion an-nually brings out 10,000 people, and no traction line has everattempted to handle it heretofore. The new management ofthe former Appleyard lines is going after the long-distanceand special excursion business on an extensive scale. -►♦*- The electrification of the Para tramways, of Para, Brazil,is being carried out by J. G. White & Co., Ltd., of London,and not by the J. G. White Compan), of New York, as men-tioned in a recent issue of this paper. August 4, 1906.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 197 LEGAL DEPARTMENT* CONTIGENT FEES AND ATTORNEYS* LIENS It has been the law from time immemorial that an attorneyis entitled to a lien upon a judgment obtained for his clientfor compensation for legal services. The tendency of moderntimes has been to extend rather than curtail the attorneysrights by statute. In New York, for ex

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