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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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an be stopped when going at great speed. In Omaha, if we remember correctly, an ordinancewas introduced just about election time by an aspirant forre-election, who thought three miles an hour was fastenough for street cars to run. Next morning all the carswere running at the rate of three miles an hour. Gen-eral Manager Smith had been interviewed the nightbefore, and said the company was wilHng to adopt thenew rate of speed without an ordinance, and orderednotices in all the cars ordering the discharge of all con-ductors disobeying the rule. The public was furious,and steps were taken to compel the company to resumethe old rate of speed. The ordinance was never heardfrom again. ^^^ Cowboyed is a new word coined by a German mer-chant of Racine, Wis. Street car traffic was stopped bythe snow blockade, and the business man indignantljdeclared: It was a big shame de vay pisness vas run,and dem street car fellers ought to be cowboyed, den deywould learn someting. (jted.l%iWciy-9^A/tfiW 189
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This department is devoted to the const met ion and opera-tion of eleetric- railivay pozver houses Correspondencefrom practical men is specially invited. Both the usersand makers of pozver house appliances, arc expected togive their viczvs and experiences on subjects zvithin therange of the department. Recording wattmeters are beginning to find a placeon the switchboards of the most recently constructedrailway stations and ought to prove very valuable inkeeping records of the output. It would be interestingto know how the days output as measured by the watt-meter would compare with the average of readings takenat regular intervals from ammeter and voltmeter. *, ** It is a rather peculiar feature of electric railway stationbuilding in this country that the type of boiler know asthe Manning vertical fire tube is extensively used in theeast while in the west it is practically never found.Western stations almost without exception use eitherwater tube boilers or horizontal return flue boil

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