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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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hania Steel Company,Steelton, Pa. Second prize, $50, to D. B. Banks, Engineer, Baltimore Traction Com-pany, Baltimore, Md. Third )irize, $2^, to J. H. Bicliford, Salem, Mass. Fourth prize, I5. to F.J. Tone, Pittsburg, Pa Fifth prize, $5, to William P. Anderson, Baltimore, Md. Sixth prize, $5, to W. Nelson Smith, New Orleans, La. Seventh prize, $5, to A. .S Krotz, Springfield, Ohio. Eighth prize, ifs, to J S. Hill, Lafavelte Ind. The J. H. Bickford plans were given third place ongeneral merit, the design submitted by him being for amuch laroer car barn than the one called for. A FUNERAL CAR COMPANY. A new company in Buffalo has been organized to insti-tute a new cemetery of 200 acres. Adjacent land willbe made into a park with street railway connections. Afuneral car will be run to the cemetery. Chas. F. Molly,of Bethlehem, Pa., is president, and T. O. Frierson isgeneral manager of the company.
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RUINS 01? THE WELLS-KliENCH IOUNDiiV. 466 (^mcct J\aiUvia)J^yle^ ELECTRIC CAR HEATING. BY W. S. HADAWAV, JR. There are many theoretical and practical considerationsupon which electric car heating by electricity may beurged. Questions of economy are not the only consider-ations in the car heating problem, but sanitary reasons aswell. The price of electricity varies greatly in different local-ities, according to the size of the road, cost of coal, labor,etc., so that figures obtained from the cost of operatingone road cannot be used in figuring the cost of heatingby electricity in general. The only fair basis of compar-ison is from average figures, and not extreme figures.It has been found in actual practice, this practice includ-ing several hundred cars, that loo watts are sufiicient towarm 30 cubic feet of space in an average well builttwenty foot car, having from 100 to 125 square feet glassarea and a monitor roof with windows of moderate tight- vection from one point only, as the sp

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