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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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left the car works—thevarnish a little richer with age. The car was one of severalbuilt by the J. G. Brill Company for the Sprague Electric Com-pany in 1888. The following year other cars, similar to thatshown in Fig. 2, were purchased by the Tokyo Electric LightCompany, and have been in operation ever since. The photograph, which is reproduced, was sent from Tokyoby Mr. Wason. The gentleman whose hands are on the brakeand controller handles is Mr. Fujioka, electrical engineer ofthe new electric road being built in Tokyo; on the step is Mr.Arita, general manager of same road; standing at the side ofcar is Mr. Tachikawa, president of the Anamori Railway. Mr.Wason expects to return to this country in September. A REVERSIBLE SEAT WITH DOUBLE FOOT REST A new reversible seat in which the manufacturers take con-siderable pride, and which seems to be proving extremelypopular with street railway companies ordering new cars, isthe reversible seat with double foot rest, made by the St. Louis
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REVERSIBLE SEAT WITH DOUBLE FOOT REST Car Company. The accompanying engraving from a photo-graph gives a clear idea both of the arrangement and themechanism of this seat. The foot rest is connected by rack andpinion with movement of the back of the seat, so that the properfoot rest is always down and the other one lifted entirely clearof the floor, so that the floor is not unnecessarily obstructed.This has several advantages, among which may be mentionedthe much greater ease with which the car floor can be swept,and the fact that there is room under the seat for small pack-ages or baggage which a passenger may have, which roomwould not be available if the foot rests were fixed. ♦^♦^ On June 3 three masked men boarded a suburban car runningeast from East St. Louis, robbed the motorman and killed theconductor, who went to the motornians assistance. Therewere? only a few passengers in the car. The robbers escaped. IMPROVEMENTS ON THE PORTSMOUTH, KITTERY ANDYORK STREET RAILWAY In a fe

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