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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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road six or seventimes its size, and every detail of workmanship, direction,superintendence and management has been carefully,judiciously and thoroughlj carried out. The General Electric Company is entirely responsiblefor the electric equipment, which was superintended byG. K. Wheeler, engineer of the railway department atthe Chicago office; B. J. Arnold, consultin gengineer. WAGES IN ENGLAND. THE new municipal arrangements in London, whichpoints to the absorption of the tramwaj- sjstem, hasone very bad feature easily recognized by thecapitalist as well as by the the labor leaders. This diffi-culty is the prefering of one laborer over another, and,^infact, making a preferred class of labor to the discontent ofthe other workers and the dismay of the capitalists in thesame and in other lines. Wherever the municipalizationof the tramway interests has been accomplished there hasbeen an eight hour law or custom inaugurated with full-time pay. The result is heavier expenses, the raising of
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THE STIRLING BOILERS WITH OIL BURNING ATTACHMENT. V. p. Briggs, of Beloit, represented the Eclipse Clutchworks in the work of superintending the installation ofthe clutches, line shafting and the engines. The present officers of the company are: W. W.Bean, president and general manager; H. C. Mason,superintendent: W. H. Hull, secretary. The directorsare: W. Worth Bean, Geo. M. Bell, Benton Harbor;Edward Bryant, H. C. Mason and W. H. Hull of St.Joseph. The management has already perfected arrangementsto increase its traffic by the construction of a pavilion atthe Benton Harbor terminus of the line, which has astage 25 feet by 30 feet, strong enough to support theleading lady of any amateur company that may ventureto perform there. The pavilion seats 2,000, and duringJune, July and August, comic opera and concerts, bothhome and foreign talent, will exercise its powers. unskilled labor to the pay of skilled workmen, and theconsequent dissatisfaction of both classes. On the Manchester tra

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