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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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ill not be as great as it otherwise would. Thecompany has already an extensive express and bus ser-vice in the city, and the bus service will be still moreenlarged so as to seriously compete with the tram lines.It is paying a dividend of five per cent. The city hasbuilt its own barns and shops to the number of eleven,and starts out with 250 cars and 3,000 horses. The city guard the spot where one short year ago the earth andthe inhabitants thereof gathered in the White City by theinland ocean. The fire originated in the terminal station and spreadto the Administration building, whose magnificent towerand sculptures, as if unable to bear the sight of destruction,leaped inwardly upon the fiery mass, falling in twelveminutes after igniting. The Mining and Electricity build-ings and the Machinery Hall by this time were seethingmasses of flames, followed by Liberal Arts, and beforethe material gave out all that was left of the White Citywere the buildings mentioned. The fire department was
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Machinery Hall. Looking East.Liberal Arts, Looking North tGovernment Building in Distance). will make its own cars and do all its own repair work.Some of the barns were built with a view of changing tomechanical traction soon. THE LAST GLIMPSE OF THE WORLDSFAIR. Liberal Arts, Looking Southeast (Hide and Leather in Distance).Agricultural Building (Colonade in Background). powerless and could only devote its attention to savingthe Art building, now the Field Columbian Museum.While all mourn the loss of these relics, none can feelother than that the end, though awful in its grandeur,was far more fitting and appropriate than the work ofvandal wreckers. Just after the general pyrotechnic display of July 4, theWorlds Fair buildings at Jackson Park, Chicago, took itupon themselves to furnish further e.xcitement. So onJuly 5, at six oclock in the evening, the lonely relicts ofthe greatest of expositions bade a fiery farewell to thescene of their former grandeur, and before the sunrose next mo

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