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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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badfortune were actually his own. PASSENGERS AS NEWSBOYS. A RATHER unique innovation has been introducedby the Newark, New Jersey, Street Railway,whereby they have placed in their cars neat boxes,which are filled each morning with copies of the dailypapers, and the passengers help themselves, dropping therequisite number of pennies back into the box, which isemptied at the close of the day. The arrangement is toavoid the nuisance of newsboys on the car, and at thesame time enable the passengers to be supplied with thedaily papers at all hours of the day. It is said the publicaccept the arrangement in good faith and the news com-pany operating the scheme is seldom defrauded. The lone passenger on a night car in this cityrecently, was held up and robbed, and the Daily Newsin speaking of the event, says that of all public con-veyances the average street car can be held up withthe least inconvenience to the passenger. Theyalready have their hands up holding to the straps. te^v^^U^.^^iew?^
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HON. G. HILTON SCRIBNER, President Belt Railioad Company,NEW YORK CITY, PARCELS EXPRESS IN DETROIT. 81 A FEW months ago The Street RailwayRi:\ii;w offered a prize for the best articleon tile operation of an express service by astreet railway company, and while the articlesjniblished at the time were all suggestive and interesting,the following description of the service as now in practi-cal daily operation in Detroit is more complete in detail.To Straithorn Hendrie, one of the brightest amongthe many bright young men in railway management,belongs the credit for working out and putting in opera-lion the express service. That the reader may the moreintelligently understand the situation, attention is firstdirected to the outline map, showing the line as extendingfrom near the Michigan Central depot and runing 8 milesto a summer resort along a thickly populated toll road.The train is drawn by a Healy Motor, and consists of themotor, the express car and the passenger car. The n>ailis c

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