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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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As to the better method ofthe two there is room for discussion. The Youngstown O., Street Railway, are installing athird engine, giving them a total of 750-horse-power, andare constructing an extension of three and one-half miles.Eight new motor cars are on the way. ^ Is THERE anything the matter with your little boy,asked the inquisitive old lady of the young woman with asleeping haby, on the street car. Oh, no, was thereply, its simply a case of kidnapping. (^^ticct J\aiUv&j^ j^yicv\^ 311 PRATT PORTABLE REGISTER. IN the illustration below is shown the improved PrattPortable Register as manufactured by the Interna-tional Register Company, 302 Dearborn street, Chi-cago. The various improvements recentlj made in thismachine give it a place of high honor among portableregisters. The details of the mechanism have been soperfected as to be practically indestructible and thor-oughly reliable. One of the many merits of this machineis its lightness and compactness, the whole weighing but
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PKATT POKIAKLE REtilSTKR. eighteen ounces; making it very convenient for conduc-tors to carry during the hot summer months. That the register is a strictly first class and reliabledevice is demonstrated by the large number of street rail-way companies that have adopted it. While on themarket but a comparatively short time there are nowover fifty roads using the machine; among them theWest Chicago Street Railroad Company which has pur-chased 200 machines outright. The machines are soldoutright or leased on royalty. TiiK Alley L is experimenting with a high picketfence for platform protection. People still persist incrossing the tracks. THE GENETT FACTORY. THE accompanying illustration is a view taken fromthe machine room of the Genett Air Brake Com-pany, in this city. This factory was started lessthan ten months ago to manufacture a limited quantity ofair brakes for street railway service, but the phenom-enal success of their work has compelled the manage-ment to enlarge the plant, whi

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