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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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ll be controlled by the same gen-eral arrangement as those on a regular sweeper. Good stiff broomsset at an angle of 45° will be used and each broom may be operatedindependently, or both together. There will he a steel roof withventilators, and a framework on the outside of the tanks will cou-Ip.in windows, so that the car will have the appearance of an ordinary Tunnel System in Chicago. The Illinois Tunnel Co. was incorporated lastmonth with a capital of $30,000,000 to take over allthe property, franchises, etc., of the Illinois Icle-phnnc & Telegraph Co., of Chicago, and in additionto expend about $io.ooo.oco more in perfecting thesystem for underground transportation of merchan-dise in Chicago, as outlined in the Review forSeptember, 1903. The incorporators of the newcompany are Charles C. Wheeler, Henry A. Wilkcning and ThomasA. Moran, jr. The incorporation fee amounted to $30,045. Thesame interests arc behind the new company as tin- old and theofficials will remain the same.
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YARll nil-; McCtIRE MANIIlACTORINi; C(l. McCiuire Sweepers and Sprinklers. That the McGuire Manufacturing Co., of Chicago, is experiencinga busy season is evidenced by the accompanying view of a portionof its North Sangamon St. yard. Iherc, it will be noted, arc sev-eral of the snjw sweepers for which the company is so favorablyknown in pr<K:ess of manufacture and equipment, and these are buta small part of the sum total cither rcccnily finished and shipped,or waiting to Ik built. On October 20th last the company shipped12 completed sweepers in one train, the sweepers being loaded onflat freight cars, making an interesting spectacle. I he destinationsof the sweepers shipped on that date were as follows: Three to street car. Inside there will be a passageway between llic watertanks. The car will be mounted on Ihe McCiuire four-wheel loco-motive type truck. It is anticipated that not only will the car beused to clean the tracks of sand, which abounds in New Zealand,and to sprinkle ih

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