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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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ards entered the employ of the Detroit Electrical Works, having charge of the equipment of the Detroit Citizens Street Railway Companys lines. After the completion of some of the lines he accepted the position of superintendent of motive power, and remained in that capacity, doing all the electrical engineering, until August, 1895, when he resigned and went south to take the position he now holds with the Atlanta Railway Company. NO CONDUCTORS IN WINONA. The street railway business in Winona. Minn., has not been on a paying basis, and the railway company was con-fronted with the alternative of shutting up shop or reducing expenses by discharging the conductors. It has decided to try the latter plan and fare boxes have been placed in the cars. The motorman alone is in charge of the car. The Beaver Valley Traction Company, Beaver Falls, Pa.,has leased a tract of 60 acres at the northern terminus of its line and will convert it into a handsome park and picnic grounds at a cost of about $15,000.
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SIDE AND E.NU VIEWS OF TRUCK. 130 ^t)MS^M^S\g\^ACW- PERSONAL. A. P. Schoch has resigned as director and treasurer of the Ottawa (Canada) Electric Railway Company. Robert Gillman, of Kansas City, has been elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers of Great Britain. Alfred Wallace has resigned his position as superintendent of the Columbia (S. C.) Electric Street Railway, Light & Power Company. F. S. Given has assumed the management of the Pennsylvania Traction Company which operates the street railways of Lancaster, Pa. Edward Berry Kittle of the Sprague Electric Company, New York, was a Review caller while in Chicago on a few days business trip. I. W. Miller, superintendent of the Wilmington (Del.) & NewCastle Electric Railway, has resigned to accept a similar position with the new road at Olean, N. Y. F. S. Pearson, chief engineer of the Metropolitan Traction Company, of New York, has resigned because of ill health and will go to the south of France for a long rest. He

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