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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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led the subject with-out gloves. An Iowa paper trjing to boom a street railway in arural district closes its exordium with the tragic words, Drop a pound of butter or a cabbage in the slot to geta ride. Geo. H. Babcock says: Set down all claims to theevaporation of over twelve pounds water per pound ofcombustible (unless it be oil, gas or hvdrogen) under anyconditions, as made ignorantly or with an intention todeceive. 534 ELECTRIC CAR LIGHTING. LLUMINATION of street cars by a new system is the idea of the B. G. Electrical Supply Company of 401 Fore street, Portland, Me. We are able this month to explain to some degree their method. As electric lines gather importance the necessitj increases ticularly adapted for coupling the light wires betweenstreet railway cars, where the circuit is made by ground-ing on each car. The street railway electric cable guide herewith repre-sented, enables the connecting cable to travel at will fromside to side at the end of the car by means of the roll.
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DOUBLE POLE COUPLER. of operating cars in trains of two or more, and the desir-ability of electrically lighting each trail car is self evident.This is readily accomplished with but one trolley pole bythe Jordan double-pole electric light coupler which isadapted to all electric systems. This current can be con-ducted through any number of cars and returned through

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