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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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. Among some of their late contracts are thefollowing: The New Orleans Sz Carrollton Street Rail-way Company, of New Orleans, La. The Steinway &Hunters Point Railway, at Long Island City. N. Y.The Lakeside Electric Railway, at Fort Wayne, Ind. Thenew Electric Railway, at Kansas Cit)-, Mo. The AtlanticAvenue Railway Co., of Brooklyn, N. Y. The RochesterRailway Company, of Rochester, N. Y., and the CamdenHorse Railway Co., of Camden, N. J, 266 PHILADELPHIA TRACTION COMPANYSLUCK. THE great Gilmore Central Theater fire at Phila-has left a number of mementos of its destructivecourse, and to-day we present, in our engraving,the share that the Philadelphia Traction Company tookin the orgies. As it is well known. $1,000,000 and several lives werelost by the burning of the theater, the Times building,
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Paulsons restaurant, and other places of note. Thefalling walls, however, of contiguous edifices, caused theruin we illustrate. At midnight of the night of the fire the workmen hadcleared away the debris from the machinery at theeastern end of the building and found that no vital part ofthe machinery had been injured, and that it would be buta question of a short time until the cables should againbetrin their travels. NEW PUBLICATIONS. Brick for Street Pavements is the title of aninteresting work recently issued by Robert Clarke &Co., Cincinnati, and edited by M. D. Burke, C. E. Itcontains tests of 15 different makes of brick, and is avaluable treatise on this subject, now attracting muchattention. Price 50 cents, prepaid. Leon Jewell, Superintendent of Time Tables, Chi-cago City Railway, sends us a copy of their new bookof rules for the government of drivers and conductors.It is a most complete compilation, and bears on the titlepage a blank in which to enter the date and name of

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