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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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e, regularsand vdlunteers in the late war, the old soldiers and uniformedorganizations, numbering in all lO.CKJO. The Union Loop was adorned with bunting and rows ot elec-tric lights wherever the line of ni.ireh passed beneath the ele-vated structure. The city arc lamps were placed on the loopin time for the illumination. The elevated road rendered the oldarc lamps susjiended from poles of little use and the new lampshave been placed on the structure. They are suspended fromlirackets about 2\- ft. from the iron work. Two lights are ateach street crossing at opposite corners. The surface cars werealso decorated with the stars and stripes and red, white and bluebunting. In spite of the inclement weather the railroads brought over 200,-000 visitors into the city, and the trafJlc of the street railway com-panies was the heaviest in their history. This was especiallytrue of the elevated lines. On the day of the parade the Metro-politan West Side Elevated Company carried 162,000 passengers,
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SOME OF THE PEACE JUBILEE DECOEATIONS. The fronts of the buildings along the line of march were decor-ated with flags, bunting and illuminated signs. These were ofmany colors and designs. The Chicago Edison Compan.v sup-plied about 9,000 incandescent lamps for these extra illumina-tions. Strings of incandescent lamps overhung the principalthoroughfares along which the parade passed. No less than 10,-OOO lamps were used in this nnmner. Arches were constructedat the principal corners and suitably decorated with figures, in-scriptions and portiaits of the naval and military heroes. Some ofthese were brilliantly illuminated with incandescent lamps, anotable example being the municipal arch, shown in the illustra-tion, and erected by the Chicago Edison Company and two otherprivate concerns. the South Side Elevated Railroad Company, 129,415, and the LakeStreet Elevated Haihoad Company TS.it.vl, this being an Increaseof 167 per cent, IGO and 117 per cent, respectively, for the threecompanies

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