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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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in the best sense of the word. enterprise. That man was President Hurt, and the read-iness with which his company authorized this largeexpenditure, and the leaving to him for decision of somany important matters, are tributes of confidence ofwhich any man may justly feel proud. The improved English cable recently put in service onthe Kansas City Cable Road, stranded after running fiveweeks. American made cables usually last upwards ofnine months on the same line. A ladies seminary and the usual complement of prettygirls, that are to be found in all NewEngland towns, seemto have been too much for the boys operating the elec-tric road in Andover, Mass. Superintendent Norton hasbeen obliged to issue a special bulletin with Flirting forthe text and must be stopped for the application. In recommending steam trams for suburban andsmaller town uses, the Railway Times, of London, takesoccasion to defend their safe operation, as against thepresent means of conveyance in the places where severe
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VAULT AT CORNER PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE AND FOURTEENTH STREET FOR TURNING CABLE INTO POWER HOUSE.(now covered WITH ASPHALT PAVING.) and one whose sincerit), integrity and high sense of honorare beautifully blended with a genuine modesty, whichpersistently refuses to take any special credit to himself.He gallantly says: In a special way I would be grat-ified to see due credit for planning the road and buildings,and for superintending the construction and erectionthereof, given to our able engineers, architects and con-tractors, to whose skill and efficiency the company isindebted for a magnificent piece of work. Neverthetheless there was one man upon whom restedthe responsibility for recommending the expenditure ofthree millions of money, and the selection of plans andthe best men to carry them out to completion, all ofwhich involved the ultimate success or failure of the prejudice exists. It says— For, compared with a car-riers cart, such as it exists in the more remote parts ofthe Brit

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