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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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e sacred commou. Ruftis Clioate tluiiMlered forth in tlie fol-lowing words, now famous: Here you may go, when vernal breezes blow ami drink in .allthe charms of reawakiug nature, but grant the prayer of thepetitioners and what will you have? The roar of the railroadtrain, the rattle of machinery. Vesuvius, Stromboli, Cotopaxi,hell itself, gentlemen. The opening of the subway was felt b.v merchants on thestreet where formerly the cars travelled on the surface. Fewer I lie ferble e(dony :ilready stretching up tin- hill sidetile jilains. and over Church and state were evidently on an liarmnnimis looii(igin ITSl. for in that .year one of the churehtS borrowe<l tin- tubfrom the fire engine and brought it into the sanctuary to adnun-ister !i,-i!i!isni b.v immersion. The tirst jirinting press in America was set uj) at Candiridgein KinS) having Ijeen brought over from England and it was uiidirthe charge of the president for many years. The lirst thingjirinted upon it was the Freemans Oath.
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people on the street; less trade. On rainy days the subway isless patronized; the explanation being that people avoid walkingin the wet to the entrances. A local historian many years ago in recounting the trans-formation of the cit.v in its early days writes: Twenty years after its settlement Wonderful changes hadoccurred; tangled thickets had given place to pleasant streets,dark forests to smiling gardens, and barren wastes to fruitfulfields. Log cabins and tents of cU)th had been exchanged forlarge dwellings and convenient stores, some even of brick andtile and stone. Wharves stretched into the harbor, and shipsof various nations rode at anchor in the bay. The little clusterof buildings closely nestled between the three hills covered withforts and batteries of cannon, like overtopping towers guarded The first newspaper ever published on the American continent.The Boston Xews Letter. issued on April 24, 1704, was printedat Harvard College. The authorities of Denver, Colo., have aband

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