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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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nring with their demands for cars. sioner of streets and was thoroughly acquainted with alJthe thoroughfares. With his assistance the lines weremarked out and the council readily granted the franchise.A power house and car barn were built on the corner ofCentral avenue and Wilde street, an entire block of landbeing purchased there for the site. The buildings arehandsome edifices of brick, fronting 150 feet on Centralavenue and 435 feet on Wilde street. The power houseis ornamented with Arizona brownstone, the whole struc-ture covered with an iron roof supported by a net workof iron beams and trusses, making the entire absolutelyfire proof and really one of the finest and most completepower houses in the country. This power house is orna-mented over the main entrance on the corner by a towerand is made one of the distinguishing land marks of thecity by a handsome chimney 154 feet high. This power house was equipped with two 700-horse-povver double engines triple expansion, built by the
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INTERIOR VIEW OF POWER STATION, LOS ANGELES CONSOLIDATED ELECTRIC RA1LWA\. Then there was the district along Maple avenue andSeventh street, tending westerly from the center of thecity. This, too, had been traversed by an electric rail-way operated under the Daft system; but this like theothers had disappeared, leaving its patrons to mourn itsloss. Besides these were numerous systems of horselines, whose patronage entirely justified the operationupon their routes of superior electric cars, and the absorb-tion by a large concern of the several companies was amatter, which as results have shown, would easily suc-cumb to an attempt. Accordingly a company was incorporated with a capi-tal stock of $3,000,000, and with Gen. M. H. Shermanpresident, E. P. Clark vice president and manager, F. V.McDonald treasurer, and A. W. Barratt superintendent.The company organized, it at once set to work. Lineswere built to reach the sections where roads were mostneeded and which are indicated above, all l

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