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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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for 2,543 horse.s, in place of 1,500 tenyears before. The North Chicago still owns 1,300 iiorses, which areused on the State street, the Dearborn street, the Larabeestreet, the Sedgewick street and other branch lines con-necting with the cable or holding separate patronage. The last West Chicago horse is numbered 7,900.There are 250 animals on the wrecking service. TheOgden avenue and Twelfth street lines require 1,250hav-motors, the Blue Island 1,200, and the various otherlines from 400 to 600 animals. The car horses in Chicago ha\e an easy life comparedwith the restless, feedless existence of some hack anddray horses, and it is not infrequent that lots of real good)iit\- is wasted on the poor street car horse that would bebettir bestowed on some other lines of horse employ-ment. Streeters are usually bought from Missouri, Iowaand Illinois, and bring from $100 to $125 in a good mar-ket. Their life is from four to live \ears, but .some oldtimers ha\e seen Chicago rise from its ashes.
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IIOl bE — BROADW Al CAR HORSES IN CHICAGO. THERE is room, place and convenience for everys\stem of transportation ever yet devised. Thewheel did not put walking out of fashion andsteam roads have not divested horses of their place in theworlds economv. The trolley will probably never besuperceded for long distance transmission, and the under-ground electric and the storage battery in their mostUtopian excellence will only have their place and maketheir field. So, too, horses have still a niche in themethods of transportation, and it may yet be many yearsbefore the last car horse in the small towns has beenlost in the history of the past. Eor instance, the greatnumber of horses displaced ten years ago by the Chi-cago Cit\ iiave not been sold, except for other reasonsthan displacement, but have been made useful on exten-sive feeder Hues of this great system. The company MARRIED ON A STREET CAR. ANEW Lochnivar story from Indianapolis relatesthat R. B. M. Smith and Florence Abury hadres

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