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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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es,and the Spainard is certainly indolent enough to use sucharticles. Electricity has not yet made its advent, butwhen it does a grand stirring up of the dead past may beexpected and Spain will once more find herself a modernnation. To do this the governmental abuses must beabolished and the laborer taught to work while he works (^lA^*)\ailM^li^ytcW 72.) and play when he plays. The hours of labor now arefrom 6 a. m to 6 p. m, week in and week out, with twohours, from ii a. m. to i p. m., for breakfast and inter-vals to smoke. The Spanish laborer may forget to workor to eat, or to breathe, but never forgets to smoke.American manufacturers would find it difficult to build As AN illustration of the contortion which Americannews undergoes in trans-Atlantic cabling, note the fol-lowing from an English exchange, regarding the recentdisaster at Portland, Oregon, where a car went into theWillamette river,drowning seven persons: An electriccar on the Oregon City Tramway line, containing thirty
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TYPES OF SPANISH STREET CARS. cars in Spain, and perhaps as difficult to ship them thitherbut the time may come when some enterprising American,concern will open up in England or France and supply allEurope, Spain included, with modern street car. Streetcar interests abroad are on the verge of immense improve-ment and extensions. passengers, went through an open drawbridge in Madi-son-street last Wednesday and was plunged into Carpenriver. So far as can at present be ascertained, twenty-five of the occupants of the vehicle were drowned. Nowthe question is: Do cables from the other side come astruthfully to us? (24 (^l/i^j\atUa^j^A/l FARES OF THE FAIR. DURING the Columbian period proper, May i toNovember i, 1S93, all the local transportationlines did an abnormally large business. Theexpenses of course were increased, but not in proportionto the heavy traffic, except perhaps in the case of theIllinois Central. The extra expense incident to whoseWorlds Fair arrangements was unusual and n

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