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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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ays in the oldworld! It seems to have been mydestiny to introduce on land AND SEA, IN FOREIGN LANDS, new inventions promoting TRADE .\ N D CO M M E R C E everj-where! / Clipper shipped the Cosmos Sea, And iron railed the continent.To introduce Trade Industry From Occident to Orient. As agent for Queen Christiana I struck Philadelphia1857, to look after her Fortx Thousand acres of coal landat Farronsville. (relic of United States Bank investment),and launched Atlantic and Great Western, (middle linkbetween Erie and Ohio & Mississippi), and cash madethen was pint of water, on which I earned hundred millionsto build Union Pacific! (stole by Gould in Tzveed Ringthrough yudge Barnards order!) AMERICAN STREET RAILWAYS. New York had started first line on avenues and Phila-delphia was busy with new city locomotives! Easton,Charles Hathaway, Saunders, (my contractors), were pio-neers in the business when I launched my tirst tramway(the English call it), abroad, at Birkenhead, opposite Liv-
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erpool, England! John Laird, builder of the Alabama(Blockade Pirate), gave me contract; (I taking all risksand agreeing to remove it if failure!) That road was opened August. 1S59, and extended toadjoining towns! M) opening banquet had four hundredNotables, Prince Albert writing friendly letter! Jr>hnStephenson (the great Car Builder, still alive) sent mefirst car (in shooks) from shops opposite where I amwriting this (surrounded byTots, in Madison square)!My first London Road wasfrom Marble Arch (HydePark) to Bogswater! nextfrom Victoria Station toWestminister Abbev andParliament House! third,from Westminister Bridge toKensington Gate! Each line,(with lines promised in allleading parishes)! inaugu-rated with Banquets at Fen-tons, St. James street;Edwards Hotel. HanoverSquare, Westminister PalaceHotel; London Tavern andLast Road at St. James Hall,Regent street! (where 1 hadsix hundred guests and scoresof M. Ps!—) My patentswere made fast all overWorld and America: Minis-ters and

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