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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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he heavy loads, thus rendering the springs perfectlyflexible under all conditions. By this arrangement ofsprings every pound of weight of the car body, motors, SPEED REGULATING OBJECT LESSON. When an alderman or a town trustee realizes that histerm of office is about to expire, and the chances areslim that he v^ill be returned by his constituents, hestudies up some scheme of sand-bagging the street rail-way companies, or other semi-public corporation. Bythis means he hopes to cover up his misdeeds by posingas a reformer. A favorite resource by which he expectsto ride again to the halls of state, is an ordinance toregulate the speed of trolley cars. Ten miles an hourseems as fast as a mile a minute to one who doesnt knowanything about it, yet it is mighty slow to one who hashad experience. Such an ordinance is pending in New Haven, andPresident Bavid Corey and Secretary George A. W.Bodge, of the New Haven Street Railway Company,invited the mayor and city fathers to take a trip over the
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DORNER & DUTTON MANUFACTURING COMPANYS SOLID FORGED MOTOR TRUCK. and truck, excepting only the wheels and axles is sus-pended on springs, thus reducing to a minimum thesledge hammer blows to the rail joints. The brakesused on all trucks made by this company are of the latestapproved standard. Brake bars are of the truss type,giving great strength combined with lightness. Ends ofbars are round and fit into malleable iron brake heads,making them practically automatically adjustable andfitting to all four wheels alike. The brake soles are made of combined wrought and castiron. Levers are compound, vertical, and horizontal,giving the greatest amount of power with least amountof friction. The standing for high grade products which the Bor-ner & Button Company has fairly earned and so longenjoyed is well and favorably known to the trade as arethe gentlemen themselves. Suit for $10,000 damages for breach of promise hasbeen brought by a woman against a Chicago street carconductor. As

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