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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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s shall be not less than five feet in width and of such construction and so attached that it will project from a puint (fourinches or thi*reabouts from the dashboard and six inches or there-abouts higher than the floor of said platform), outward not less thanfour feet and down to within eight inches or thereabouts of the rails,and the body of said fender shall consist of rope, wire, rubber orother flexible netting. And that on and after that date no surfacerailroad company in the City of Brooklyn so operating its cars byelectric power shall operate any of said cars upon any street oravenue in said city without a fender attached thereto in the mannerand of the kind and character above provided. INCREASING SEATING CAPACITY ATPITTSBURG. The Duquesne Traction Company of Pittsburg hasbeen experimenting with a device for increasing the seat-ing capacity of its closed cars. The accompanyingengraving shows the appearance of the car equippedwith these seats. The extra seats are put on spindles
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between the regular side seats and tilt up edgewaysautomatically when not being sat on. The seating capac-ity of the car which is usually 22 is increased by theseseats to 40. Although at first sight the scheme may notfavorably impress street railway men, E. McDowell,superintendent, reports that the patrons of the road seemhighly pleased as it is not only convenient but adds to theappearance of the car. It seems to work well in practice.In one respect it is certainly a direct benefit, viz:—itallows no passenger to take up more than his share of aseat. The Milner & Wolcott Company, of Canton,Ohio, exploits the device. (jteied/lf^mWa^S^yifiW 7.-);? STREET RAILWAY LAW. EDITED BY IRANK lIUMIiOI.DT CLARK, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CI1ICA(;(). Injury lo One Crozvdcd off the Platform of Car. In an action for personal injuries against a common carrier, whenthe plaintiffs injury does not result from any accident to the train, orfrom any defect in the means of transportation, the burden of proofis

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