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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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e tenpublic school buildings with about 150 teachers and 5800pupils. Of churches of all denominations there are thirty.The police department consists of 100 members, the fire de- is owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, there arethree electric railway systems in and about Atlantic City. The Atlantic City Electric Railway extends the full lengthof the island on which Atlantic City is located, from the inlet- -on the north to the landing opposite Ocean City on the south.It is owned and operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad.There are seventeen miles of track and the passenger equipmentconsists of twenty semi-convertible and thirty-five open cars.The repair shops are at Main and Arctic Avenues. The Atlantic City & Shore Railroad extends from Vir-ginia and South Carolina Avenues across the Thoroughfare toPleasantville and thence to Somers Point. An extension un-der the name of the Atlantic City & Ocean City Railroad isbeing built across Egg Harbor to Ocean City. For a portion
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MAP OF THE HOTEL DISTRICT, ATLANTIC CITY partment of I 40 men and the city beach patrol or life savingcorps is composed of 55 guards. The citys water supply is obtained partly from fifteenartesian wells, which supply 4,000,000 gallons of water perday, and partly from a cedar-grown protected watershed onthe main land. In August the daily consumption is over10,000,000 gallons, exclusive of that of many of the largerhotels, which obtain their water from private artesian wells. Sixty miles of sewer pipes carry sewage to a common sta-tion, from which it is pumped up into the Thoroughfare sev-eral miles back of the city. By this method the water of thebathing beach is kept pure, as has been proven by repeatedanalyses. ELECTRIC RAILWAYSExclusive of the West Jersey & Seashore Railroad, which of the distance between Pleasantville and Atlantic City thecars are operated over the tracks of the West Jersey & Sea-shore Railroad, and for this reason the cars are equipped withthird-rail shoes

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