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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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four boys crawled out froma temporary culvert beneath the tracks. Hully ge!puffed one of the rascals; we gub dem de shivers dattime. And then they acquired a Chicago move and gotahead of Philadelphia policemen by four laps and a fur-long, while the passengers tried to force their hearts backinto their accustomed places. The franchise for the road was obtained by J. K. Jolly,of Beaver Falls, Pa., who has, through his energy andability, consummated his labors by opening to the public,August 29, eleven miles of road through a densely popu-lated county centering at Wheeling. The franchise wasgranted March 22, 1893, and the road built in the follow-ing five months, in spite of the depression of business andgloomy prospects. On the opening day the two young sons of Mr. Jolly,Eugene and Erskine, aged respectively eleven and fiveyears, acted as motorman and conductor for the first car.Both were attired in uniform and we introduce them toour readers as future street railway men of prominence.
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A RrVER ROAD POWER HOUSE. In Boston, sacred Boston, Joseph Cook calls it,charitable people dispense street car tickets to poorinvalids, so that in lieu of carriage rides the afflicted mayride about the suburbs free. The privilege is abused.shamefully, however, and many able bodied rascals, whoprobably rol) the weak, present the tickets. The eleven miles of railway owned by the companyare laid with Johnson girder, 3^ miles of 83-poundand jj4 miles of 63-pound rail. The gauge is 5 feet 2inches. The maximum grade is 4)^ per cent. The rolling stock is built by the New Castle Car &Manufacturing Company and consists of twelve cars, 18 094 (ptlQjdJ^aih^i^^ foot body each, and 26 feet over all. These are equippedwith two Thomson-Houston i5-horse-po\ver motors each,and run on 33 inch wheels. The power station repre-sented in our engraving is a brick structure with stonetrimmings, with dimensions 85 by 60 feet. Here areenclosed three engines of the well-known Buckeye type.Two of them are of

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