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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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ntirely new indealing with street railway properties. Up to June I, more than 20,000 troops had been concen-trated at Tampa and as many more have been added sincethen. Sixteen thousand of these were sent to Santiago underGeneral Shatter about the middle of June and the later ex-peditions further reduced the number. But Tampa will nodoubt remain one of the most important camps until the waris over. Considerable delay in embarking troops at first resultedbecause there were not sufficient facilities for storing the pro-visions and other supplies, which had to be transferred fromthe railroad cars directly to the transports. The govern-ment, however, engaged all the store rooms and warehousesthat were available and the congested condition of the rail-road yards was much improved. 4;i<; ^t)M%\l)kviai\S\gvacW* The street railway system of Tampa comprises the Con-sumers Electric Light & Street Railroad Company and theTampa Siiburban Railroad Company which is closely con- ^^ xanMmar^Oom
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MAP OF TAMPA STREET RAILWAY LINES. nected with it, both companies being at present so unfor-tunate as to be in the hands of a receiver. For the last threemonths, however, the traffic has been more than doubledand we trust that this prosperity may continue long enoughfor the receiver, Chester W. Chapin, to resume the use of hisold title of president. Notwithstanding the popular impression that Florida isa low, flat country, the Consumers Company makes use ofwater power, having built a dam across the Hillsboroughriver at a point indicated in the accompanying map. Thismap shows the location of the street railway lines which ag-gregate 30 miles, all operated by electricity. The equipmentcomprises 27 motor and 3 trail cars, which have been severe- ly taxed to carry the traffic, especially in evenings, between5 and 8 p. m. By the courtesy of George D. Munsing, superintendent ofthe street railway companies, we have received the photo-graphs of the camp scenes and tiie map which are reproduce

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