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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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urac\ to most of thecities of Mexico, and conveys a whole \oluine of informa-tion regarding street railway management in our neighbor-ing republic. The Chihuahua Railway Companv, whichmav be taken as a fair illustration of the larger cities, for apopulation of 40,000 has about twent) street cars, but only blanket-like zerape and wearing the high sugar loaf hatuniversally used beyond the Rio Grande, the street car driverof Mexico is as little like an American motorman as can beimagined. The contluctor goes in pairs. One man sells you a ticketfor which he charges vou six centavos—or more if you areparticularlv unsophisticated Americans, as was the case withus in Aguas Calientes. The second man comes later andcollects the tickets, from which it w-ould seem that it ischeaper to have two men instead of one man with a bellpunch or register. The only exception to this rule is Mon-terey which is one of the most progressive cities in Mexicoand boasts the proud title of the Chicago of Mexico;
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SCENE AT GUANAJUATO.FREIGHT CAR, ZACATECAS. Il.AZA, VERA CRUZ..STRKET CAR OK CHIHUAHUA. A TANDEM TEAM, MONTEREY.POSTAL CAR, PUEBLA. has four cars in regular service. Ihe fare in a lirst-class caris six centavos and second-class three centavos ; the longestride is about four miles. The trollev cars of Mexico are all ilonkey cars. Thesepatient little animals are the universal motor and are drivenin every style, or lack of style. Sometimes they are seentandem a.s in Monterey, and frecjuently four, six and eight toa car, as in the steep and narrow streets of Guauahuato orjalapa. The Mexicans are a <)uiet people not given to loudnoises on the street, and instead of shouting, the drivirsurge their donkeys on t)y a sharp hissing soinid. The bell,as a signal, is universally supplanted by the horn. .\ .Mexi-can Jehu, therefore, urges his galloping burros to greaterspeed by hissing at them and announces his approach byblowing what seems like a toy tin horn; wrapped in his there, the collecto

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