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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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e Holton ave-nue & Bay View line; Shooting park and Lake park. till December 28, by a horse barn and car barn combined.On this date the whole structure was destroyed. Theold building was 270 by 204 feet, and two stories high.Its value was $35,000, while the machine shops were worth$30,000, besides $70,0000 in tools, machinery and cars.The rapidity in which rebuilding was completed is notable.In the second story of the corner front, and extendingalong Maple street, are several suites of offices for thesuperintendent and electrical engineer (the office is acombined one), the car accountants and ticket men, the superintendents of operating departments and the servicegenerally, besides a waiting room for conductors andmotor-men, with every convenience of bath room, read-ing tables and clothes lockers. This front has bay win-dows commanding a full view of both streets for manyblocks. Beginning at the south end of the building, onthe Maple street front, a commodious otFice is placed for
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^BURNING OF THE OLD KINNIClvINNlCK BARXS, DECEMBER, iSyJ tapped by the Farwell avenue, North avenue, and Mit-chell street and Cambridge avenue lines, which alsolead to Ludermanns-on-the-River. Eight bridges are crossed bj the street railway, andseveral railroads offer first-class chances for bad accidents,were it not for the care Mr. Hommell takes of his pas-sengers. THE KINNICKINNIC .SHOPS AND BAKN will be an object of universal interest and should bethe subject of close study by the visitor. The structureis situated at the corner of Kinnickinnic avenue andMaple street, on the south side, and is 300 by 300 feet indimension. The corner front is three stories and basementin height, while the remainder is two stories iiigh and halfba.sement, for car pits. The present site of the repair shops was occupied up the use of the stock department. Harry de Steese is incharge and will take pleasure in showing the visitor theroom injmediately behind the office, which is a magnifi-cent store room,

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