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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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way. Theysaw in the new electric interurbans a more frequent serviceand lower rates than the steam roads could or did give, andwhere an electric line did squeeze in it immediately becamepopular with the public, who saw and appreciated its possi-bilities, and so it came to pass when the people wearied of alesifislature devoted solely to the interests of the steam roads,that they gathered themselves together, held a caucus andelected a new legislature which will soon meet, and when itdoes the people will be likely to get a lot of trolley roads. PROGRESSING BACKWARDS. Several vears ago a charter was granted to a company toput down and operate street railway lines in Orlando, Flor-id;i. The road was built and afterward sold to a New Eng-land man, who made some improvements and additions. Itproved to be a financial failure and has been abandoned formore than a year. The city council ordered the marshal toremove the tracks, as they had been jjcrmitted through neg-lect to become a nuisance.
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VIEWS ON THE CARPENTERSVILLE, ELGIN i- AURORA RAILWAY. and if the steam roads in the nutmeg state want to do the localbusiness they will have to do as steam roads in other stateshave had to do, an<l that is increase the service and reducethe rates. If the steam roads cannot do both, then where istheir argument against the electric lines which have demon-strateil that they can. The public are playing a winninggame with nothing to lose, and in these days of progressand improvement the electric line, city and suburban, isdestined to prove the most important factor in modern life. HOLYOKE STREET RAILWAY RELIEFASSOCIATION. A verdict for $12,000 was given Ann McCormackrecently against the Nassau Electric Railroad, Hrooklyn, forthe death of her husband, who was killed li\ diu- of the cutii-paiivs cars. The IJuffalo it Niagara Ialls Electric Itailway reijorls forthe quarter ended September 30, 1896, gross earnings, $54,-527; operating expenses, .$18,591 ; i^ ^■h*gi^i $ l.^vS-.^ ;net inco

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