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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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o the proposed terms then they would have turned theirbonds into cash or held them as good investment securitiesas long as the interest was kept up. And now all these carefully laid plans which have at-tracted so much notice, and wliich must have cost somebody ELECTRIC LINE TO THE PYRAMIDS. In the Review for May, 1897, page 317, we published aletter from a correspondent in Cairo, Egypt, who gave someinteresting observations on the electric railway lines of thatcity, and the plans of the company for building an electricroad to the Pyramids. At that time it was expected to havethe road in operation before the close of the year, but dclavsof various kinds ensued and the line has but recontlv- beenopened for traffic. The Societe Anonyme des Tramways du Caire com-menced the operation of cars in 1896, having at that timeabout 18 miles of track, four separate branches divergingfrom the center of the city and going to Abbassiyeh, theEnglish cavalry barracks; to Bulak, to old Cairo, and to the
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ON THE ROAD TO THE PYRAMIDS. a pretty penny, have come to naught. A striking incon-sistency on the part of Pingree was the attempt to restore5-cent fares on the 3-cent lines, under the plea of temporaryadvisability of a uniform rate, with the promise to reduce onall lines on some rosy morning in the dim, undeterminedfuture. July nth the city council of Detroit took the municipalownership ordinance from the table, and after a prolongedstruggle passed it by a vote of 19 to 14. The securityfranchise provides for 5-cent fares in the event of the 3-centexperiment failing. It is stated in the press reports that themayor has announced his intention of vetoing this ordi-nance. This being the case. Governor Pingree has yet an-other victory to win before he can operate his road, that is,he must increase his majority in the council to two-thirds. The street car mail service in Rochester, N. Y., is a greatsuccess. It has only recently been adopted, but is provingvery satisfactory. Citadel, famili

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