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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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A VETERAN DRIVER. Tl 1 li patient figure fiend has compiled some interest-ing statistics in the case of William II. Bellows,the veteran car driver, who has been in the servicebetween Brookline and Boston for thirty-one years, andhas averaged not more than two weeks off duty in eachyear. For twenty-eight years he made seven round tripsdaily of 7 ^ miles each, the Tremont House and the localhorse car station being the objective points, but for thepast three years (except Sundays) his round trips havenumbered six, of 9 miles each, the car going to Cause-way street. According to these figures it will be seenthat Mr.. Bellows has traveled 570,175 miles, or morethan twenty-two times the distance around the earth. new reducing wheel, to reduce the motion of an enginecross-head to the required length on diagram drum of The Bangor Commercial is constrained to remark thatthe street car furnishes the only platform upon which menof every shade of political belief will stand.
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WEBSTER & PERK S REDICING WHEEL. indicator. It can be applied to any style or speed ofengine. The rim of the wheel being made of aluminum, weigh-ing about y^ ounce, the spokes of Stubs steel and turnedtaper, the spring and case not revolving, the momentumis reduced to the minimum, so much so that in indicating,an engine of 12-inch stroke running at 300 revolutions,the spring can be entirely removed from the reducingwheel, using only the spring in indicator drum to reversethe wheel. It will readily be seen since there are no joints to workloose and but the wheel proper revolving, the momentumis practicably reduced to nothing. The wheel is entirely separate from the indicator and THE ST. LOUIS FIRE. THE Missouri Railway Street Car Barn, on Cromp-ton avenue, near the Manchester road, St. Louis,has had a serious blaze during the past month.The repair department was the second floor of the build-ing. The fire started on this floor, and before the firedepartment responded the whole buil

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