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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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is said to be so rapid that,when worked to its full capacity, the water will stand fromfour to seven inches higher at the front end of the drumthan at the rear end, as shown by glass gauges placed ateach end of the drum. Steam is taken from the rear end,assisting the circulation, and the water descending thecirculating tubes to the rear headers deposits in the muddrum much of its suspended impurities. The method of cleaning is satisfactory, and all togetherthe bciler is one of the best of its class. INTERURBAN CONNECTIONS. THE careful reader of the signs of the times and theStreet Railway Review can not but note theextensive use of electricity in short lines betweentowns and villages within the range of from two to tenmiles of each other. In fact the magnitude of these enter-prises begins to astonish the steam railroad people. The latest connection of this kind is between the townsof McConnellsville, New Haven and Leisenring, all inPennsylvania. The road is finished from New Haven to
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GILL WATER TUBE BOILER. WILL STAY AT HOME NOW. A CORRESPONDENT in the Atlanta, Ga., Heraldwrites: I boarded the electric car the other da)-,and what was my surprise to see beneath the capof the motorman the face of a friend from south Georgia,a well-to-do professional man, but one I knew to have astreak of eccentricity in his making up. What are you doing here, I exclaimed, at this sortof business? Well to tell you the truth, he replied, as he turned onthe current in answer to the double tap of the bell, Icame up here to get a job on the electric cars. I wanteda taste of real hard work so that I could better enjoy thecomforts I have at home. I secured a job and Ive beenworking at it a week. I think by the time one more weekhas passed Ill be ready to go home never to leave it One of the species of irrepressible small boy, rejoicingin the name of Charley Lamp was injured while hitch-ing on a Minneapolis car. His mama should trim thatLamp with a shingle, and not allow it to go out again.

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