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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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There are people in plenty, as the experience of every managershows, who in case of a 3-cent standing fare being established, wouldswear by their great-grandfathers thumbs that it did not agree with themto sit. In the absence of any standing room on the floor these peoplewould not hesitate to stand on the seats. At present these are the noseat-no fare howlers. over the seventy employes of the Bristol Road Tramway, who heldtheir annual dinner. Car service was entirely suspended during thisenjoyable event, and passengers walked while the bovs ate. The Arctic road is the latest crazy transportation scheme whichErastus Craw, New York, proposes. It contemplates tracks of iron
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Two thousand unemployed laborers of Montreal recently invaded thecity hall demanding that the street cars be allowed to run as it gave thememployment. The demonstration was occasioned by a petition ofcarters and others to stop the cars, as it was ruinous to their business.• The alderman were hissed and hooted, and the city government in gen-eral made very uncomfortable. pipes filled with a freezing mixture on which the moisture of the airwill congeal, forming a sheet of ice on which a car propelled byhydraulic jets will skate. He promises eighty miles an hour, but wepredict^^that if anybody buys stock in the scheme it will stick in his craw. Anotlier advantage of this system is free ice water for patronsof the line. 126 NEW PUBLICATIONS. BREVITIES, A Treatise on the Law of Street Railways, by Henry JBooth, of the Columbus, O., bar, 6x91^, XV, 749, law sheep, publishedbv T. & J. W. Johnson & Company, Philadelphia; price, $6. Without investigating the natural rights of man, wi

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