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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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they come in the form of compact butpliable sheets, capable of being cut and moldedinto the various shapes employed in the con-struction of electrical machinery. The pro-ducts of the W. H. Sills Mica Co. are soldunder the trade name of Micabeston, In one of the accompanying views is showna shipment of mica of which the company isjustly proud, as it is probably the largest sin-gle shipment of this material ever made. Thetotal weight of this consignment was 400,-000 lb., requiring nine freight cars, run-ning as a special train to carry it from the companys St. .Vnthonymine, at Gracefield, to Ottawa. Two of the illustrations herewith show samples of mica jjroparedfor exhibit .it the Paris Exposition. LOW P^ARE BILL FOR WASHINGTON, D. C. A bill regulating the operating conditions of street railways inthe District of Columbia was introduced last month in the Houseof He;n-esentatives, and will shortly be brought up for action. Ihc bill provides that the rate of fare for a single ride for a
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1 ^ ^^ggi^^^i^^ W.H.IILLS MICA CO. )i^_ ., L SAMPLES OF UNITED STATES MICA.For Mines and Mining Section, Paris Exposition. The Supreme Court of New York has decided that the NewYork, Westchester & Connecticut Traction Co.. has no rights,in East Chester and Bronxvillc, and can, therefore, not preventthe Union Railway Co. from completing its road from Mount \cr-non to While Plains. LAROE (1R11ER OF MICA RINllS FOR fNIOX TRACTION CO.. PHILADELPHIA. continuous trip any distance in one direction over any 01 the streetrailway routes in the city of Washington, shall be five cents, and thepassenger shall also be entitled to a transfer ticket, good for a rideover any other line or route operated or controlled by the samecompany, provided that such transfer ispresented on the next regular car of suchother route within 15 minutes after thepassenger has left the first car. It is alsoprovided that there shall be kept on saleon all street cars in service, between thehours of 5:45 a. m. and 8 p.

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