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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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. The rolling stock is by nomeans as elegant as in many American cities, but the carsare substantially constructed and answer all practical pur-poses. The tracks reach out in every direction and convergeinto the heart of the business district. While no transfersare allowed, the fares are uniformly 2 cents, with the ex-ception of one circular excursion route along the sea front,upon which 3 cents are collected. Very general use ismade of the service and owing to the low fares cars aretaken for distances so short that otherwise they would becovered on foot. Electricity replaced horse cars and om-nibuses in 1900, but the new system was not completed until 1902. A table of .statistics ispublished showing the length ofthe lines, number of employees,mileage traveled, number ofpassengers carried and the gro.^sreceipts since 1900, when the2-cent service was partially in-augurated. 654 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIX. No. 15. INTERPOLE MOTORS FOR BOSTON DISASTROUS CAR HOUSE FIRE IN NEW YORK
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A riCTUKE TAKEN AT CLOSE RANGE, SHOWING THE DAMAGE DONE The Boston Elevated Railway Company, which has Fire, which broke out at 2 oclock a. m., Monday, April been a pioneer in so many departments of the transporta- 8, in the combined power and car houses of the Xewtion business, will l)e the first to employ on a large York Railway Company, at Seventh Avenue and 145th Street, completely destroyed the struc-ture and its contents. The fire started inthe end of the building used for the stor-age of cars at Lenox Avenue. In theSeventh Avenue end of the building wasthe power plant. It was by far the most disastrous fireand heaviest loss the company has eversuffered. The north and west wings ofthe plant, which occupied the entiresquare block liounded by 145th and 146thStreets, Lenox and Seventh Avenues,with the exception of a strip 100 ft. deepon Seventh Avenue, are completelywrecked. General Manager Root, aftera careful examination of the ruins, or-dered the power plant shut down, andpower

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