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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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Ectlf^aiWa^j^y^ one end to the pumps piston and at the other end to theslotted arm with suitable means to elevate and depressthe end of the rod in the slotted arm by means of a crankon the platform, thereby lengthening or shortening thestroke of the pumps piston or stopping the pistonaltogether. By this simple means the motorman hasentire control of the action of the pump and all parts ofthe machine from his position on the platform of the car.Both sprays are subject to control by suitable valves andstops operated from tlie platform. There are no projec-tions from either side of the car. The car may be oper- extras, swings and trippers, in talking over their exper-iences, as if they had been brought up in the atmosphereof the car barns. It was a paying idea, which is practical in most places. THE MICHIGAN ELECTRIC COMPANYSCHANGE. The Michigan Electric Company, of Detroit, has be-come the selling agent of General Electric machinery forthe state of Michigan. The General Electric Company
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CONTROLLING MECHANISM — NEW IDEA IN SPRINKLERS. ated by one man. Any number of trail cars may beattached to the main car by hose connections. The jetsor sprays are thrown so near the surface that there canbe no interference with passing teams and vehicles. WOMEN TOOK THE FARES. Joseph B. Marvin, general manager of the City ElectricRailway Company, Rome, Ga., hit on a novel plan as arevenue producer, and turned all the cars of his companyover to the women for a day, who were given one-thirdof the net proceeds for the building fund of St.Peters church. All the regular conductors were givena day off and a new extra list consisting of ladies, tookthe place of the regular list. There were so many womeninterested that there were three to each car, one marriedlady and two unmarried. It would hardly have beensafe to put the women on the front platform, so the regu-lar motormen were at their posts. The girls put on their best gowns and sewed bands ofribbon on their most becoming hats with th

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