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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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s 60 by 100 ft., in the basement of which arc thestables; the offices have been enlarged by a new brick addition, andin the station much new machinery has been installed. The Montreal Street Railway Company has declared a dividendof 2^ per cent for the quarter ended Uecember 31. The total earn-ings for 1898 were $1,526,457. as against $1,397,383 for 1897. Application has been made to parliament for an act to amend andconsolidate the acts relating to the company; to authorize the in-crease from, time to time of its capital stock to such extent as maybe necessary for the purpose of its business; to ratify and confirmdivers contracts entered into by it with different municipal corpora-tions and railway companies; to authorize the extension of its lineto any point within a radius of 10 miles from Montreal, and theoperation of such lines, and for other purposes. The directors have decided to concentrate its shops at the Hoch-claga (a suburb) works. In the spring a brass foundry and an iron
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NI.\i;.\RA ICE BRIIMiES IN 18V>. Niagara has this year inaugurated a winter festival, one of themain attractions of which is an ice palace. This palace is located onthe rivervvay immediately opposite Prospect Park, within a few hun-dred feet of the stopping place of the cars of the Gorge road and theBuffalo & Niagara Falls line. It is but a short distance from theNew York end of the upper steel arch, over which the cars of theNiagara Falls Park & River Railway run, the cars of this line stop-ping in full view of the palace. The palace has a frontage of about120 ft. on the riverway and a depth of 50 ft. In the rear within anice wall a skating rink has been built. On the Canadian side of theriver close to the end of the steel arch a toboggan slide has beenerected and travel between the palace and slide has been brisk, thusincreasing the revenue of the electric car on the bridge and thebridge company. For the first time in the history of the Niagara region the icebridge has pr

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