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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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feet.Elevators accommodating 100 people will be built ateach station. Trains on the rush trips will have a head-way of three minutes. The Minneapolis electric line recently hauled 20,000school children to a picnic, at the compains pleasuregrounds, at Lake Harriet. T LAKE ROLAND ROAD. HE traction boom in Baltimore is being rapidlyfollowed up by the building of the Lake RolandElevated Electric which will be put in commisionlabout Januarj^ i. The newDuplex side bearing rail, threeand a half inches in width, hasbeen adopted as best for thepurpose and every effort isstrained toward the comple-tion of the equipment. Thepower at Stony Run will soonbe in readiness and track lay-ing will begin shortly. JosephP. Smith has been appointedgeneral manager of the roadand L. N. Frederick, superin-tendent. S. M. Jarvis is thepresident. Trains will be run at highspeed, and equipment will befine.
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POWKR HOrSE—liKOOKLYN STREET R.MI.ROAD—CLEVELAND. CLEVELANDS STREET RAILWAY TAX. THE board of equalization and assessment added atotal of $279,070.86 to the street railway personalproperty for the past year, giving a present totalassessed value of $885,129.66. The present valuationsare distributed as follows : Returned,$150,540.00161,796.80 Road,East Cleveland,Cable Conqian)-,Brookljn Compan)-,Broadway and Nevvberg,Woodland Ave. and W. SSouth Side. 119,916.0072,295.0075,835-0025,676.00 Assessed.$250,730.00187,314.10142,404.00135,741.40109,922.9659,017.20 TuK board of surveyors, at Philadelphia, have ap-proved plans for three small parks, to be called thePleasant Hill, the Ontario and the E. E. Knight. DULUTH AMPERE CLUB. THE Ampere Club is the name of the socialand scientific association of electrical workers atDuluth. The club has over 100 members. Presi-dent Mendenhall recently addressed the members andpaid the club and General Manager Wardwell high com-pliments. Among other thi

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