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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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be coaxedfrom its retreat by a judicious process of shaking, such aswe used to practice on the little savings banks of ourchildhood. After the company had noticed a falling off of $5 to $6per day, detective work was begun and Henry Koeblerwas caught in the act. Hangue was immediately jailedand will probably reside in states prison in the future. Tl IK Cross-Town Street Railway Company bid inall Cross-town franchises in the city. The linesare all connections with the present system. Thefranchises include: Broadway, Bailey avenue to city line;Genesee street, Belt-line tracks to city line; Hertelavenue, Dearborn street to Niagara street; Huron street,from Pearl to Main; Huron street, from Prospect avenueto Niagara street; Pearl street from Seneca to the Ter-race, and through the Terrrace to the junction of Mainand Exchange streets. The bid put in by Manager H. H. Littell was on thejiercentage plan approved by the special citizens com-mittee, and adopted for the whole system: Two percent.
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THOMSON-HOUSTON GENERATOR AND SWITCHBOAK D.—BIRMINGHAM ELECTRIC RAILWAY. THE POLICE AND FIREMEN FREE. THE Buffalo Street Railway Company through Gen-eral Manager Littell has ordered that conductorswill pass free (not to exceed two at one time) theregular policemen and firemen of the City of Buffalo,provided the said policemen and firemen are in full regu-lation uniform, and wear their badges in plain view onthe breast of their coats while they remain on the car. Mr. Littell says that he thinks the presence of a uni-formed policeman on a street car is often a good thing.The business of a policeman is to enforce law and order,that the company will lose nothing by this concession tothe police force. As to the firemen, it is mainly from areturn of favors and a spirit of gratefulness tor past ser-vices and future possibilities of usefulness. The greatest satisfaction is expressed by the city papersand the public in general. of annual gross earnings upon less than $1,500,000; 2>^per ce

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