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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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and marble. It is 325 feet long; 172 feet wide; to top of done, 237 feet high; top of figure of liberty, 257 feet; diameter of dome, 75 feet. It cost $1,006,000. THE EQUITABLE BUILDING is the Monadnock of Atlanta, being Atlantas electricacenter. It is a handsome affair of Milwaukee pressedbrick, tight stories high, with 285 offices. It cost $100,-000, and was planned by Burnham & Root, Chicago.The East Atlanta Land Ctfmpany owns the land andstructure. The Consolidated offices are on the thirdlloor, and President Hurts on the second. MONUMENTS. The Hill monument stands in the State Capitol, tocommemorate the life and work of the late U. S. SenatorBenjamin H. Hill. The McPherson monument commemorates the gallantfederal officer who fell in the battle of Atlanta. It con-sists of an inscribed base, supporting heavy cannon seton end. The railing about it consists of barrels of mus-kets. The Henry W. Grady monument, standing west ofthe special track work of the Consolidated, on Marietta
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DYNAMO ROOM. ENGINE ROOM. GEORGIA ELECTRIC LIGlir PLANT. 538 (^^tluAJr^aJld^ street, west of Broad, is the magnificent heroic statue ofthe brilliant young pacificator, Henry W. Grady, themost widely known man that Atlanta has placed beforethe world. His heroic efforts for the city, state andcounty at large, his wide charity and his earnest life isfitting!) honored in this grand piece of work. His othermonument is the greatest of southern papers, the worldfamous Atlanta Constitution, to whose staff Joel ChandlerHarris, Frank L. Stanton and other literary celebritiesbelong. City Editor Adamson has given distinguishedconsideration to the Street Railway Association. The fire department is magnificently organized andefficiently managed. Last year 289 alarms wereanswered, with a total risk of $1,777,000, and a totaldamage of only $96,000. The expenses for the yearwere $81,900. The public schools, the pride of Atlanta, are the bestmanaged and most complete in the south. Every oppor-tunit) is

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