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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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tsuch kind of work has to surmount in Yucatan, wherethe resources at command are so scarce and skilled labor POOR PRACTICE IN FINE PLANTS. What the Inspector Savr While on His Vacation. The night motor inspector on the Punkinville CityRailway took a lay-off last week and spent several dayslooking over some of the big city plants. They are not veryswift down at Punkinville, but they read the Street Rail-way Review and keep abreast of the times, and if theirapparatus is not up to the times it is because of the wantof the wherewithal to buy more, and not because theydont know any better. The inspector had been readingfor some time of the wonderful roads and the magnificentequipments going in up at the big city, and as soon as hegot a chance he went up to see them and learn whathe could. The power plants interested him, but thegreat attractions to him were, of course, the repair shopsand car barns. He was anxious to get pointers on thelittle things pertaining to his daily work. The 2,000-
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MEXICAN STREET RAILWAY PLEASURE RESORT—ENTRANCE. is not easily found. Mr. Escalante y Peon is only 28years old. He is a Yucatecan by birth but he hasEnglish blood on his fathers side and Spanish on hismothers. He is a graduate of Manhattan College, N.Y., and his ideas and business methods are entirelyAmerican. He is a great lover and admirer of every-thing that is American, and he declares frankly that hisbest, most agreeable and profitable time is that which hespends annually in the United States. SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER. The finest shooting grounds in the Northwest are onand tributary to the lines of the Chicago, Milwaukee &St. Paul Railway. The crop of prairie chickens promisesto be exceptionally good this year; also ducks and geese.In Northern Wisconsin and the Peninsula of Michigansplendid deer shooting is to be had. The game laws will be changed in several of theWestern States this year. Full information furnished free. Address F. A.Miller, Assistant General Passenger Agent,

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