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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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voir has a storage capacity of 100.000 gallons of water. Itis fed from the city mains and the supply is also augmented by the TENNESSEE NOTES. The Nashville Railway was sold at foreclosure sale on June ijlhto Col. A. M. Shook, the only bidder, at the upset price of $500,000.Colonel Shook represented the bondholders, Isidore Newman &Sons and Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., of New York and Now Or-leans, and John L. Williams & Sons, Richmond, \a., to whom theproperty has since been transferred. Practically the only changemade in the affairs of the Nashville Railway was to take it out ofthe hands of the receivers, Messrs. Percy Warner and E. C. Lewis,who had charge of the property and that of the Cumberland Elec-tric Light & Power Co. during the past two years. A decree con-firming the sale has been entered in the United States Circuit Courtat Nashville, and on June 26th a meeting of the purchasers was heldaiul the organization of the Nashville Railway & Light Co. effected,
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PL.\N Of OFFICES, STORE ROOMS. ETC., AT NEW CAR HOUSE. drainage from the entire roof area of the building. Fire pumps ofsufficient capacity are always connected with this reservoir storage<ind supply the automatic .-iprinkling system in the roof of the build-ing and also stand pipes at convenient locations. When this schemewas submitted to the fire underwriters, they immediately granted areduction in the fire insurance rate on this building, and alsogranted an additional reduction in consideration of permission todraw water from the storage reservoir when fighting fire in the vicin-ity of the car house property. The entire building is heated by hotft-ater. GAINS IN CHICAGO ELEVATED TRAFFIC. The largest comparative gains in elevated traffic in Chicago duringJune was that of the South Side Elevated Railroad Co., whichshowed a daily average gain of 8,813 passengers, or 11.53 per cent.The daily average for the month of June was 85,262, as against 76.44^1for June, 1902. Next in point of

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