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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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(NTERURBAN IWKI.nK CAR FOR DETROIT UNITED RY, 11 WETT 1 \K CO. and at night the light from the interioi of the car shining through the celluloid makes the individual lishable for a ditancc of several hundred fi In addition to the rolling stock mentioned, the company owns three line wagons, one fire hose wagon, . wagons, a 7-ton truck fitted with windlass for hauling I material, and vehicles. i*n tlwork. Pearson and Norton jacl F01 u 1 i ■■ reduction of tree! cai Fares from 5 cents to ,t cents. The citjattorney found thai the enabl ac! pa ed in 1890 gives municipal-ity 1! righl i provide E01 regulating and controlling any publich in. in 1 , init it 1 ercisi no powei to fix maximum rates. A longinn -I deci ions which have been rendered also give the CityCouncil the right to enter into contracts with corporations, butwhen the contracts have been once made the powers granted to1 ■ munii ipalil \ < ea e and the conti ai 1 musl stand
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R F<IR DETROIT UNI • I I rill Real Estate Department of the Detroit United Railway. 1:1 KOBER1 1KMI\. hi \l. ESI X I I. COMMISSIONER. - come to I- a necesasry adjunctto aJm team railroad system in thi but so Car ;^ the writer knows tin for such an officer bad never made itself fell with rce i lirm^ about the establish- ment by a street railway company of a separate department for thi-work until the Detroit United Railway, after acquiring the proper- i the various suburban roads centering in Detithe office of Real Estate and rax Commissioner of the ! I Railway.The duties of this off) Id and complex because the commissioner must have an acquaintance with all the departmentsof the railway and must be in close touch with all of them. HeniiM also liavi a thorough knowledge of the tax laws of the stateand tin- municipalities. The Detroit United Railway owns two million dollar- worth ofreal estate, within the city limits of Detroit, and the assi on a -ton,, running thence northerly abou

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