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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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extensions which willprove of great benefit to various sections of the city. It has justreceived 12 new cars for summer traffic and has given orders for20 more to be delivered as soon as possible. General Manager Stewart, of the Columbus Railway Co., hasreported to the county auditor the property of the road to be listedfor taxation. He places the trackage within the city at $6,500 permile, and that outside of the city at $2,000 per mile. This, togetherwith other property reported by the company amounting to $321,375,would give a total of $805,315. The board of equalization, however,last year raised the trackage valuation to $10,000 per mile. Thisappraisement was, however, enjoined and the suit is still pendingThis would have put the value for taxation purposes at $1,333,286.It is more tlian probable the trackage appraisement will stand at$6,500 per mile. The entrance of llic first interurban cars into Coluintnis, thoseof the Columbus, Grove City & Southwestern Ry., on June 29th,
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PLAN OF GKOIIND FLOOR. water connections for cleaning cars and steam coils for heating 111the winter. The general offices are on the main floor, the second story frontbeing for a motormcns and conductors waiting room. The re-mainder of the second floor is used as a storeroom. The car barn doors are all hung with Coburn track and hangersand may be moved from one end of the barn to the other withease. The company now operates thirteen motor cars and fivetrail cars. The plans for the new car house were prepared by II.J. Esser, architect, of Milwaukee. Five hundred trainmen of Metropolitan company, Kansas City,have asked for pcrmissifni to wear lighter iHiif^jrin blouses. was celebrated with considerable eclat. They made their firstappearance amid the plaudits of thousands of people along the lino,the firing of cannons and the waving of flags. There werethree cars in the train and each was filled with prominent cityofficials and officers of the road. The formal exercises commemo-rating th

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