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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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30 pounds to the yard.The rail was made in Leeds, England. The cars begin their trips in the beautiful early morn-ing at 5145 and run up to i r .-47 p. m. The heaviest part of the day is in the afternoon and at5 oclock in the evening, when the day and walkingare most oppressive. At these hours trippers are put onto relieve the pressure of traffic. From June to October the traffic is heaviest. A license of $10 per car per year is paid to theHawaiian government, and in turn the company is pro-tected in its rights. THE CHARTER of the company runs 30 years, from September 15, 1S86,at the expiring of which term the government may pur-chase or grant a longer lease by arbitration. Conductors are emploved on the King street line, whichis 5 miles long, but the remaining lines put up with money 300 boxes made by Landgrove & Wills, and by Beaman, ofTennessee, the latter being preferred. The conductors and drivers usually work lo hours,except under press, when thej labor as long as is neces-
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AN AFTERNOON LOAD, HAWAIIAN TKAMWAYS, HONOLULU, S. I. sary. Their wages are 20 cents per hour, straight,so that if 8 hours are made $1.60 is drawn, and if 12hours are required $2.40 is the remuneration. The cars are run by schedule, at the rateof 5 miles per hour, with an average of 6,and a legal right to 8 miles. The cars stopanywhere for passengers, and the rates offare are 5, 10 and 15 cents, according to dis-tance. Altogether the line is a model onefor all tropical countries, and comparesfavorably with the ordinary tramway ofEngland. France or German^-. The islands are fast becoming the mostpleasant and popular tropical resorts in theworld, and well may it be, for almost everyvisitor can say, with Mark Twain: No alien land in all the world has anvdeep, strong charm for me but that one; noother land could so longingly and beseech-ingly haunt me. sleeping and waking, throughhalf a lifetime, as that one has done. Otherthings change, but it remains the same. Forme its balmy airs are a

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