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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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edge of the sill, andthe iron panel is so formed at the top as to fit the seat. Asthe seat end has the same curve as the seat back arm, the The annual meeting of the National Railway Company,which controls the Cass Avenue & Fair Grounds, the Citi-zens and the St. Louis roads of St. Louis, was held at Chi-cago on January 25. The report of President D. G. Hamil-ton shows the gross receipts for the year ending December31, 1897, to be $1,467,976; the current operating expenses,$879,940, which is 59.9 per cent of the receipts; the fixedcharges, $366,746; and the surplus gains, $221,290. Theproportion of the surplus gains which is applicable to thestock controlled by the National Railway Company is $189,-930, a decrease from 1896 of $19,163, but an increase over1895 of $10,788. The total earnings of the National Rail-way were 8.45 per cent on its outstanding stock, as against9.22 in 1896, 8.05 in 1895, 8.85 in 1894, and 9.08 in 1893.During the year $20,625 ^^s expended for betterments.
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SECTION OF CAR FITTED WITH ROUND-CORNER SEAT-END PANELS. capacity of the car is not decreased. At the same timethere are no square corners to catch clothing and bundleson entering or leaving the car, making entrance and egresseasier and saving time. Also, the round corners do notform such convenient foot-rests for passengers with muddyboots, neither do they catch and tear the curtains. Andthe man standing on the running board does not have tobend his body, and can stand erect without holding on.Iron panels have proved to be stronger for wear and in re-sisting accidents than wood panels, and the rounded formof panel has in addition the advantage that it tends todeflect anything striking it, and at the same time is lessliable to catch passing vehicles. It will be noticed in theillustration that the curtain grooves are carried down tothe floor, and the curtains can thus be lowered far enoughto afford real protection. This panel has been adopted by the Metropolitan StreetRailway Company,

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