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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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,and to thoroughly flush the Milwaukee river there hasbeen built the largest individual pump in the world. Itdelivers each twenty-four hours 450,000,000 gallons,which are discharged into the river at a point three anda half miles from its mouth, thus effectually flushing it atall times. The largest days record for this work is520,000,000 gallons. the southwest, which joins the Milwaukee at its outlet.These afford 12 miles of navigable water, with a depthof 17 to 18 feet throughout the year, and lined with 22miles of docks. The rivers are spanned by 26 draw-bridges and three stationary bridges. Five are turnedbj electricity, furnished gratuitiously by the street rail-way company from their trolley circuit, and the otherswill be electrically equipped in the near future. It iscustomary to turn a bridge by electricity in one-fourththe time required by hand. Current is led to thebridge motors through a submarine cable. Severalare now turned by steam, but will soon be changed toelectricity.
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SCENES ALONG THE THREE RIVERS. CITY LIGHTING. The city is well lighted, by both gas and arc lights,the latter being furnished under yearly contract with thecity at a price of $110 per lamp per annum. Electricityfor business and residence purposes is chiefly furnishedby the Edison Electric Illuminating Company and theBadger Electric Light Company. There are many largeand interesting isolated plants in the big breweries, hotelsand manufactories. RIVER.S AND ISRIDGES. All Milwaukee is divided into three parts by its threerivers. The Milwaukee from the north; the Menomoneefrom the west, which joins the former a half mile fromthe mouth of the Milwaukee; and the Kinnickinnick from THE LAKE MARINE. As the lake provided the pathway which led the firstsettlers to Milwaukee, so that lake was naturally themeans of their communication with the older civilizationof the east, and later with the other cities which becameneighboring ports. For many years, in fact, until thesteel construction supplant

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