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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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UR readers will recall our comments lastwinter on the law which passed the Ohiolegislature, requiring companies to vestibulethe front platforms of winter cars. Thatlaw goes into effect on November i, andrequires an inclosed platform with frontand sides of glass or other suitable material.It was an easy matter for the Ohio Solons to pass the bill,but as they knew nothing of the construction of streetcars, and, as was evidenced by their treatment of streetrailway managers at the time, cared less, and no allow-ance was made for the difficulty of so reconstructingmany cars now in use. Regarding the matter, Albion E.Lang, general manager of the Toledo Consolidated, says:
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GLIMPSES OF TRANSPORTATION—CHICAUO PAY. going to and returning from the Fair. The scenesaround the elevated railroad stations were fac-similes ona small scale of that at the Van Buren street viaduct. It was only by overloading a system of transportationsuch as was never before provided in the world that itwas made possible to reach the above astounding figures.The City Railway carried 500,000 people on DedicationDay, in 1892, and there was then only one other way ofgetting to Jackson park. Chicago Day it raised this figureby three-fifths, with four other faster lines paralleling it. The Crossley brake, of Cleveland, has been adoptedby the Chicago City Railwaj-, on its electric lines. Jos. A. Corby, having found that other business inter-ests require his attention, has resigned the presidencyof the Railway Equipment Company, Chicago, and W.R. Mason has again been elected as president. The last legislature did pass a law requiring streetrailways of the state to protect the motormen by

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