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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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do so bytaking less pains in the selection and care of its stock ;and in no event would they be called upon to furnish alltheir live stock. But the companies generallv are very glad to secure the acceptance by the inspector of as largea luimber as possible ; and as the average cost per horsein nine of the larger cities in the Kingdom is less than£30 per head, the companies would, in event of compul-sory sale to the government, realize a profit of upwardsof £10 per horse. In Dublin, horses suitable for streetcar service are bought at an average of £28 per head.The horses used in England and Ireland for car serviceare greatly .superior to those employed in the same workin America. Hi:i)I)IN(; AND I-ICICD. In this citv tlie bedding used cou-sists in summer of amixture in equal proportions of sea-sand and sawdust; agreater amount of sawdust being added for the .wintermonths. This furnishes a very sweet, clean and healthfulbed, and is also inexpensive, and gives excellent satisfac-tion.
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OCONNELL MONUMENT—STARTING POINT FOR CARS. The feed is composed of cut hay and grain, this methodhaving been in use for many years, and is similar to themethod employed bv man)- companies in this country,though a larger proportion of grain is fed than is u.sualhere. The greatest care is taken to keep the stables neat andclean. They are floored with brick, which is constantlyswept, and the whole interior whitewashed at frequent in-tervals. The \entilation is also vastly superior to Ameri-can stables. The cheapness of labor for this work en-ables them to afford a large amount of labor, which whilemost desirable could hardlv be afforded here. 78 For the last six months of 1890, the car mileage was1,198,284, at a cost for all operating expenses of everynature, of 17.59 ^-ents of our money per car per mile.Advertisements in the cars yielded a revenue of $7,53°.The parcel delivery earned $4,240; sale of manure $730,and for carrying the mails $130. The entire revenue forsix months was $32

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