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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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well-to-do classes of society, and whoused the cars, not because they needed to select acheaper method, but on account of its being so muchmore comfortable and convenient. The poorer classeshave also used the cars, but at first were influenced bj-the fear people would think they could not afford car-riages. This, ^ however, is rapidly disappearing, as theadvantages become better understood and appreciated.The company furnish a conductor for each car and oneman to oversee the movement of the train and superin-tend the service. The time saved in Erie, over carriages,is from one to three hours, depending on the condition ofthe roads, which are at times very heavy. In the few cities where street car funerals have beentried, the companies have taken steps to have a car built.The Erie cars were made by the J. G. Brill Company, ofPhiladelphia, to whom we are indebted for photographs.The funeral car problem is well worth considering and,we believe, can be made both acceptable and profitable.
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^d ^Uwliy ■ ^J^e«^ 449 ROCHESTER RAILWAY WRINKLE. A DECIDEDLY novel, and yet practical innovationin track placing, has been adopted on Lakeavenue, one of the most delightful residence streetsin the city of Rochester, N. Y. ^Die avenue has alwaysbeen a popular one for pleasure driving, and when thenecessity arose for a double track electric line on thestreet, the property owners proposed a plan which hasproved of equal satisfaction to them and to the company. The street measurements are as follows:Sidewalk to sidewalk - - - 7~ feet. Sidewalk to curb - - - i8 Curb to curb - - - - 36 A single track is laid on each side of the street bteweenthe walk and curband nearer the latter,leaving some threefeet between the curband the curbstone.The space betweencurb and walk, inclu-ding that betweenrails is nicely sodded,and as the avenue ishandsomely shaded,the cars have a routepractically through apark. The freedomfrom dust and thegreatly increasedspeed, owing to theabsence of \ehicleson the t

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