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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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icable purposes at a much less cost thana sweeper. Summarizing the data and expense of a hardwinter, with plenty of snow and ice, and studying the con-dition of road-bed, we come to these points: 1st. Have one plow for each three miles of double track. 2nd. Do not let the snow get ahead of you. 3rd. Have a watchful level-headed man, who is notafraid to act, stationed with all snow implements ready;who is versed in all details of how to handle his plow.Also have him well acquainted with the roadbed he isinstructed to keep clean, and men in his charge who willact according to his instructions. FOREIGN FACTS. The Matlock Cable Railway reports a net profit of$1,522 from March to December, 1893; passengers car-ried, 255,000. The Leeds, England, tramways will be leased andoperated by the city. Existing horse lines, it is reported,will be electrified. Adrianople, Turkey, is also discussing the advisa-bility of a street railway between suburban stations, andthe city. Plans are being prepared.
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CoREA, Asia, is to have a line of tramway betweenRiougsau and Soul. The city of Soul has 250,000inhabitants, without any means of transporting freight,except ponies. The Liverpool Overhead Railway reports for the half-year to December 31: Passengers carried, 2,475,-639. The gross receipts from traffic were $90,-014.22 and the working expenses $68,660.85. Plans for the utilization of windmill power forgenerating electricity are asked by the Hollandgovernment. Schemes of methods should beto F. W. Van Eeden, Haarlam, Holland, beforeJuly I- Bagdads Caliph has granted a tramway con-cession for the narrow crooked streets of thattown of the Arabian Nights. The genii of prog-ress will now take Bagdads future into hand anddo their best to rehabilitate departed glory. Last year 600,000,000 tramwa) passengers were carried in Great Britain and Ireland, or something less than twice the number carried by Chicagos roads alone. Thirty-five cities own their own lines, and nobody wants to ride on the s

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