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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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t, and a Chicago office at8 and 10 South Canal street. Charles Babcock has charge of the Worlds Fairexhibit and will be pleased to see all his power and trans-mission friends at his office in the Machinery Hall exhibit.He is a pleasant gentleman, and is a walking encyclopediaon all that pertains to power transmission machinery. SCHICHAUS ENGINES. A TRIPLE expansion condensing vertical engine,measuring 2 2 3^ by 3^/2 by SVA^Y ^IA withthree cranks, built by F. Schichau, of Ebling,Prussia, is a feature of the German exhibit in MachineryHall. The engine is rated at 1,000-horse-power andruns at 100 revolutions. Steam is to be used at a pres-sure of 180 pounds per square inch. The engine can bespeeded up to iSo revolutions, and at which the powerruns to 2,500-horse-power. The engine is intended formarine service, but is connected direct to a Siemens-Halske dynamo. Mechanically and esthetically theengine is a beautiful piece of work, and in spite of itsgreat power weighs only 143,000 pounds.
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^ALI.^l KIVKI AND MACHINE COMrANY EXHIBIT IN ELtl-lKHIIY I;riLI.lN(.. 12-inch face, one 60 inches in diameter and lO-inch face,one .S3 by 10, one 40 by 10 and one 40 by 8. The pul-leys are of the steel rim and riveted type and the line ofshafting makes 365 revolutions per minute. Under thespeed, and on the bare floor, the action of the transmission One of the oldest street railway employes in the UnitedStates has just died. His name was W. H. Lehman andfor thirty-five years he collected fares on the German-town branch of the Peoples Passenger Railway ofPhiladelphia. His age was 73. 408 ^iJicctl^yailM^j^ylevv^ COSMOPOLITES ON THE INTRAMURAL. ON the invitation of General Manager Baker, thenations of the earth took a ride by representa-tion, on the Intramural railway at Jackson Park.The invitation was in courtesy of the friendliness shown To the left of the train, in the motor car, was seatedthe members of the band from the Albuquerque IndianSchool. They brought with them eight Samoans a

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