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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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ENUE TERMINAL HOUSE inclosed arc lamps especially designed to meet the cityspecifications. The above described improvements in New Orleans havebeen designed and executed by tie engineering and con-struction organization of Sanderson & Porter, New York.Their New Orleans office—W. A. Haller, resident engineer—has substantially completed all the work herein describedin such manner as will readily permit enlargements fromtime to time. The work has benefited greatly by the cordial co-opera-tion which has existed between the representatives of theconstructors and the officials of the New Orleans Railway& Light Company, the latter, particularly, including E. C.Foster, president; J. H. DeGrange, vice-president; A. L.Black, engineer, and E. B. McKinney, supt. of power. Supplement (December 7, 1907. MAIN POWER STATION OF EW ORLEANS RAILWAY & LIGHT CO. NEW ORLEANS, LA. DESIGNED & BUILT BY SANDERSON & PORTER NEW YORK cl lie--y ■> Supplement to STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL.)
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December y, 1907.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 1095 THE TOKIO ELECTRIC STREET RAILWAY COMPANY BY HENRY K. BRENT The deepest impression acquired from reading about thisnew-old country, Japan, is that, in all phases of its social,civil and economic life, it is undergoing a rapid and won-derful transition. Actual observation transforms the im-pression into conviction, for on every hand are mingledtraces of the old and evidences of the new, made possibleby and after the visit of Commodore Perry in 1853. Thenext fifteen years, though replete with important treatieswith foreign nations, were marked primarily by internalupheavals, and it was not until 1868, when the Shogunatewas overthrown and the Mikado became Emperor in factas well as in name, that the seeds were planted from whichhave been reaped year by year Japans rich harvest of so- Street cars drawn by horses were introduced in Tokio inJ882, but, although there were several companies, only asmall part of the city was covered. In 1903 the

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