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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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ngers costs atleast a dollar to reach, and it is an excursion people thinkabout before taking, and they do not take it very often.With a nearb)- resort, reached by a trolley line, a man willmake up his mind on an instant, perhaps, on seeing anadvertisement. He can reach there in an hour or less, and POWER HOUSE OF THE MARKET STREETRAILWAY, SAN FRANCISCO. The Market Street Railway Company of San Franciscooperates by far the largest system in the far west. Itincludes twelve transportation companies, which were con-solidated under one management in 1893. At the presenttime the system comprises 190 miles of track, of which 26.9are operated by horses, 60.5 by cable, 19.7 by steam and83.9 by electricity. Prior to 1894 0e of the lines wereelectrically operated; the work of changing the motivepower began on the Metropolitan in that year and has beenextended to the other lines as rapidly as circumstanceswould permit, until now over ;o per cent of tlie total mile-age is operated by electricity.
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FU;. )—GRIJUNIJ FI.AN, IlKVANT STREET STATION, SAN KKANCIS it only costs 5 cents, and with a few mr)re nickels he canspend an enjoyable evening. There are thousands of peoplewho have a quarter, or 50 cents to spend who will go to anearby resort in the evening if they think they can have agood time, and many of them have families they will takewith them. It is my business to tell them where to go andwhat to do when they get there. For that purpose I keej)in touch with all the proprietors of the summer resortsaround the city, and just as soon as a novelty is introduced Ilet the people know of it, either by means of placards onthe cars or else I fix up some sort of an attractive circular,always striving to avoid the commonplace. Torquay held a public meeting recently to consider theelectric railway scheme. The electric power station, known as the Bryant streetpower house, occupies a block 165x199 ft., bounded byBryant, Alameda, York and Channel streets. Work wasbegun in 1893 and one-ha

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