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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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. Upon the wit-ness stand they could not deny they had so spoken.Technical testimony on the part of the defendant was in- in an absurdly short space, and it is this lesson as well asthe one in regard to inadvertent testimony that managersshould impress upon their men. FUNERAL CARS AT MILAN. Foreigners seem to take more kindly to special funeralcars than df) the Americans. In this country, except ina few localities the people prefer going to the cemeteriesin the good old fashioned way in carriages and buggies,preceded by the hearse, as their parents did. Themany obvious advantages of special funeral cars on elec-tric roads will bring them more into use as the yearsappear. The Milan Street Railway. Milan, Italy, has been ex-tended to a new cemetery at Musocco: and has con-structed special cars for funerals. They are of threestyles. Two are motor cars and the other a trailer.Special trailers are also used in this service, painted adark blue with tine lines of red at the top and bottom of
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MILAN FUNERAL CARS. troduced to show that their statements must have beenmistaken ones, but the jury preferred to believe the care-less answer they had given upon their cars. The attor-ney for the injured person maintained that had the motor-man used his brake proper!)- when he saw the person orhad the apparatus of the car been in good order, the carcould have been stopped in the 15 to 20 feet, which wit-nesses proved to be the space which intervened whenthe motorman saw the injured party. Were the motor-men technically right in their inadvertent testimony? Alittle thought would have shown them that they werenot. At 8 miles an hour a car travels 11.73 feet persecond. How long does it take to set the brake shoesafter a motorman knows he must make a quick stop.The eye or ear gets a signal. A fraction of a secondelapses while it is transmitted to the brain and from thereto the hand. Then the power must be shut off and thebrake lever turned, until the shoes are set. By this timeour fracti

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