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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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ding them to the suburbs and keepingahead of the demands of the fast growing city of Port-land. The equipment is of the latest patterns and mostimproved designs in all cars and electrical appliances andfully up to any of the eastern cities. The ollicers of the compan\ are as follows: Henry J. M. MOAN. OX October 4, John M. Moan died in the city ofChicago, of heart failure. Mr. Moans long con-nection with street railway work deserves alonger account than our space allows, but a few incidentsfrom his busy life of 33 years will suffice to show what aself-made man with ability, energy, and honesty majaccomplish. J. M. Moan was born on a farm near Bel-videre, 111., and gained what he knew of books in acountry school, coming to Chicago he entered the em-ploy of the West Chicago Railway- in a humble position,but left for better prospects, to join the fortunes of theRobinson omibus and street car factory in Minneapolis.The young man readily showed his ability and was madea member of the firm.
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THK OLD AND THE NEW, OR, BEFORE AMI FEi; lAKl. Failing, president; Tyler Woodward, vice-president ; C.F. Swigert, secretary and treasurer ; H. C. Campbell,general manager ; J. W. Campbell, superintendent; L.Wheeler, electrician. The active management is almost wholly in the handsof the two Campbell Brothers, and the citizens of Port-land have nothing left to ask in their administration. Afew years ago, when a ferry boat was the only connectionover the great river, they came to Portland, saw its press-ing need, returned east, raised the money and built thebridge under the name of the Willamette Bridge Rail-way Company. As an accommodation to the residentsof East Portland they built the line there and this hasgrown in their hands to the dimensions already cited.They are both young, active, progressive, and very pop-ular, and have now long occupied a position among theleading citizens of that rich and strikingly beautifulcitv. From Minneapolis Mr. Moan removed to Nebraska,where he succes

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